Assessing the impact of football-based health improvement programmes: stay onside,avoid own goals and score with the evaluation!     

Andy Pringle  Jackie Hargreaves  Lorena Lozano  Jim McKenna  Stephen Zwolinsky 《Soccer & Society》2014,15(6):970-987

Health improvement is an important strand of the Premier League’s ‘Creating Chances’ strategy. Through community programmes, professional football clubs offer health-enhancing interventions for a number of different priority groups at risk from a range of lifestyle-related health conditions. However, while national guidance recommends evaluating health improvement interventions, concerns remain about how to do this most effectively. This study aims to investigate the popularity of football-based health improvement schemes and assess the challenges associated with their evaluation. Adapted from existing methodologies, a semi-structured questionnaire was administered to an ‘expert’ sample (n?=?3) of football-led health evaluators. The sample was selected because of their experience and knowledge of performing evaluations of football-led health improvement programmes. Our ‘experts’ offered reasons for the popularity of football settings as channels for health improvement (including the reach of the club badge and the popularity of football), the justification for evaluating such schemes (including confirming effectiveness and efficiency) and the challenges of implementing evaluations (capacity, commitment and capability). Finally, a selection of key considerations for the evaluation of the impact of football-led health improvement programmes (obtaining expert guidance, building capacity and planning for evaluations) are discussed.  相似文献   

When and how to push: providing the most current information about second-stage labor to women during childbirth education     

Simpson KR 《The Journal of perinatal education》2006,15(4):6-9

Childbirth educators can have a significant impact on safe care for mothers and babies during the second stage of labor. In this guest editorial, educators are encouraged to make sure they are knowledgeable about the latest evidence for best second-stage-care practices so they can adequately prepare women to advocate for themselves during this time.  相似文献   

Solving arithmetic word problems: an analysis of classification as a function of difficulty in children with and without arithmetic LD     

García AI  Jiménez JE  Hess S 《Journal of learning disabilities》2006,39(3):270-281

This study was designed to determine a word problem difficulty classification in children with arithmetic learning disabilities (ALD; n = 104) in comparison with typically achieving students (n = 44). We tested variables such as (a) semantic structure (Change, Combine, Compare, and Equalize), (b) operation (subtraction and addition), and (c) position of the unknown quantity in the problem. Facet theory with multidimensional scaling techniques (MINISSA) was used to analyze the underlying dimensions in the responses of each group of participants. Our results indicate that although the word problem difficulty classifications for the 2 groups of children were different, the position of the unknown quantity had a greater influence on the level of difficulty of story problems than other variables. The noncanonical problems--specifically, those with the unknown term in the first place--although difficult for both groups of children, were the most difficult problems for children with ALD.  相似文献   

Sign language Web pages   总被引：2，自引：0，他引：2  

Fels DI  Richards J  Hardman J  Lee DG 《American annals of the deaf》2006,151(4):423-433

The WORLD WIDE WEB has changed the way people interact. It has also become an important equalizer of information access for many social sectors. However, for many people, including some sign language users, Web accessing can be difficult. For some, it not only presents another barrier to overcome but has left them without cultural equality. The present article describes a system that allows sign language-only Web pages to be created and linked through a video-based technique called sign-linking. In two studies, 14 Deaf participants examined two iterations of signlinked Web pages to gauge the usability and learnability of a signing Web page interface. The first study indicated that signing Web pages were usable by sign language users but that some interface features required improvement. The second study showed increased usability for those features; users consequently couldnavigate sign language information with ease and pleasure.  相似文献   

Breaking the ice: HPT challenges in the acquisition of a New Heavy icebreaker     

Commander Don Triner  Lieutenant Commander Jim Morrison 《Performance Improvement》2005,44(6):14-19

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The Meaning of the Web     

Jim Falk 《The Information Society》1998,14(4):285-293

Speculation about the meaning of the Net (the Internet and potentially associated networks) and its most rapidly developing dimension, the Web (the World Wide Web), are both symptoms and components of a broader reshaping of world politics, economy, and culture. These changes challenge many of the categories within which we have grown used to thinking about the shape and meaning of society and its future. For individuals and local communities, the promises, hopes, and fears associated with the growth of the Web have particular poignancy as they face the challenge of establishing and asserting their identity in a ever more complicated and interdependent world and, through that, finding a strategy for achieving the sort of future they would like to live. The Net and the Web are technologies that promise us access to the world, but they and their associated social and economic trends challenge many of the premises upon which our identity is forged. The Net facilitates the development of new forms of transnational community organization, opening up the promise of more effective ways of acting as citizens across the broader social terrains in which it must be expressed. This article reconsiders the traditional theoretical tools that we have available to understand these issues. It addresses some of the central difficulties and possibilities available to us in rethinking identity, exploring the new promising cultural potential of the Web and Net in a more integrated and simultaneously fragmenting world.  相似文献   

How to keep e‐learners from e‐scaping     

Jim Moshinskie 《Performance Improvement》2001,40(6):30-37

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Managing performance improvement projects     

Jim Fuller  James A. Gottlieb 《Performance Improvement》1998,37(4):41-42

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Job aids in the technology age     

Jim Elsenheimer 《Performance Improvement》1998,37(8):32-35

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Performance improvement interventions series. Instructional design and training (volume 2) performance technologies in the workplace (volume 3) culture and systems change (volume 4)     

Peter Dean  David Ripley  Jim Russell  Renee L. Loth Cali 《Performance Improvement》1999,38(8):40-43

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