USING FOCUS GROUPS AS AN EDUCATIONAL METHODOLOGY: DECONSTRUCTING STEREOTYPES AND SOCIAL WORK PRACTICE MISCONCEPTIONS CONCERNING AGING AND OLDER ADULTS     

Harriet L. Cohen  Mark H. Sandel  Cecilia L. Thomas  Thomas R. Barton 《Educational gerontology》2013,39(4):329-346

During the coming years the number of older adults will increase dramatically, which will require a corresponding increase in the number of social workers who have accurate knowledge of this population. This article reports the impact focus groups with older adults and with service providers who work with older adults and their families have on baccalaureate social work (BSW) students. We find that BSW students exposed to focus groups have their negative attitudes about older adults and service providers deconstructed and replaced with more positive and accurate information about older adults. When students' misconceptions about older adults are confronted, they become more interested in choosing geriatric social work as a career option.  相似文献   

The Scientific Productivity of Nations     

Cole  Stephen  Phelan  Thomas J. 《Minerva》1999,37(1):1-23

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Book reviews     

Leonard Shatzkin  Arthur P. Young  William Holtz  J. Kendrick Noble  David A. Kronick Ph.D.  Thomas L. Bonn  Thomas L. Bonn 《Publishing Research Quarterly》1996,12(1):86-97

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Slogans, amens, and speech codes     

Thomas C. Grey 《Academic Questions》1997,10(3):18-24

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Test Fairness: Internal and External Investigations of Gender Bias in Mathematics Testing     

Thomas E. Langenfeld 《Educational Measurement》1997,16(1):20-26

What two major approaches have been used to study gender bias in test scores? How do statistical DIF detection methods differ? How does DIF screening of items affect mean score differences?  相似文献   

Educational Attainments of Spina Bifida Children attending Ordinary or Special Schools     

Janet Carr  M.D. Halliwell  Thomas Coram  A.M. Pearson 《British Journal of Special Education》1983,10(3):22-24

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Emotionally disturbed children and their school related perceptions     

E C Thomas 《Exceptional children》1970,36(8):623-624

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Extinction and retraining of simultaneous and successive flavor conditioning     

Higgins T  Rescorla RA 《Learning & behavior》2004,32(2):213-219

In three experiments, rats received pairings of flavor conditioned stimuli with polycose unconditioned stimuli, in either a simultaneous or a sequential relation. Both temporal relations produced excellent conditioned increases in consumption of the flavors. Separate presentation of the flavors resulted in extinction in both cases. However, restoring the pairing of the flavor with polycose resulted in reconditioning only with the sequential, not with the simultaneous, relation.  相似文献   

The influence of moment of inertia on baseball/softball bat swing speed   总被引：1，自引：1，他引：0  

Keith?KoenigEmail author  Nan?Davis?Mitchell  Thomas?E.?Hannigan  J.?Keith?Clutter 《Sports Engineering》2004,7(2):105-117

The speed at which a player can swing a bat is central to the games of baseball and softball, determining, to a large extent, the hit speed of the ball. Experimental and analytical studies of bat swing speed were conducted with particular emphasis on the influence of bat moment of inertia on swing speed. Two distinct sets of experiments measured the swing speed of colege baseball and fast-pitch softball players using weighted rods and modified bats. The swing targets included flexible targets, balls on a tee and machine pitched balls. Internal mass alterations provided a range of inertial properties. The average measured speeds, from 22 to 31 m s⁻¹, are consistent with previous studies. Bat speed approximately correlates with the moment of inertia of the bat about a vertical axis of rotation through the batter's body, the speed generally decreasing as this moment of inertia increases. The analytical model assumes pure rotation of the batter/bat system about a vertical axis through the batter's body. Aerodynamic drag of the batter's arms and the bat is included in the model. The independent variable is bat moment of inertia about the rotation axis. There is reasonable agreement between the model and the measured speeds. Detailed differences between the two suggest the importance of additional degrees of freedom in determining swing speed.  相似文献   

CERN document server: Document management system for grey literature in a networked environment     

Martin?VeselyEmail author  Thomas?Baron  Jean-Yves?Le?Meur  Tibor?Simko 《Publishing Research Quarterly》2004,20(1):77-83

Conclusion In this paper we briefly described the current status of research in the field of digital libraries interoperability, mainly with respect to federated data processing such as permitted within the Open Archive Initiative framework. We then presented the CERN Document Server Software suite that is a free software package main-tained by CERN providing an online digital library solution for mid- to large-sized document repositories. The set of CDSware modules was described and the differ-ences with other existing tools briefly mentioned. Finally we have mentioned a typical usage statistics illustrating the scope of grey literature and networked con-ditions of the CERN Document Server. We pointed out that the current trend in grey literature management goes toward institutional repositories build upon the distributed and federated model. Further research is going on within the CDS collaboration in this area, focused particularly on (i) semantic interoperability using ontologies in distributed and federated data processing and (ii) ranking technologies when searching grey literature in OAI compliant repositories.  相似文献