Educators’ Experiences Identifying Pain Among Students in Special Education Settings

2017 ◽  
Vol 35 (3) ◽  
pp. 210-220 ◽  
Author(s):  
Brenna L. Quinn ◽  
Richard W. Serna
Keyword(s):  
Decision Making ◽  
Intellectual Disability ◽  
Focus Groups ◽  
Special Educators ◽  
School Setting ◽  
Opportunities To Learn ◽  
Child Behaviors ◽  
Personal Experiences ◽  
Student Safety ◽  
Decision Making Processes

If special educators cannot identify pain in students with intellectual disability (ID), students cannot be referred to the school nurse for assessment and management. The purpose of this study was to examine how special educators identify pain in the school setting. Twenty-four special educators participated in focus groups aiming to (1) identify educators’ observations and perceptions of pain in students with ID and (2) determine the decision-making processes educators use to determine the need for student presentation or referral to the health office. Overall, special educators know students well enough to differentiate pain-related behaviors from normal well-child behaviors, prioritize student safety, and draw on personal experiences with pain when addressing pain in students with ID. Special educators welcome opportunities to learn more about pain in children with ID. Teachers, nurses, and other professionals should share knowledge about and experiences of working with students in pain to improve practices.

How to Thrive in the Changing Landscape of Teacher Education

2018 ◽  
pp. 1389-1404
Author(s):  
Holly Henderson Pinter ◽  
Kim K. Winter ◽  
Myra K. Watson
Keyword(s):  
Professional Development ◽  
Decision Making ◽  
Teacher Candidates ◽  
Comprehensive University ◽  
Personal Experiences ◽  
Performance Based Assessment ◽  
Decision Making Processes ◽  
In The Beginning ◽  
Preservice Teacher Candidate ◽  
And Training

This chapter explores a number of issues for consideration when adopting and implementing edTPA as a summative performance-based assessment of preservice teacher candidate tasks. This chapter aims to offer guidance and support for programs in the beginning stages of implementation of edTPA. Each of the considerations includes a vignette from personal experiences at a regional comprehensive university in the southeast. Issues discussed include timeline for implementation, buy-in, decision-making processes, professional development and training, mapping, and next steps. The vignettes detail particular issues or concerns and include faculty, staff, and/or teacher candidates. Data used to develop the vignettes was collected via interviews, surveys, and reflections.

How to Thrive in the Changing Landscape of Teacher Education

2016 ◽  
pp. 18-33 ◽  
Author(s):  
Holly Henderson Pinter ◽  
Kim K. Winter ◽  
Myra K. Watson
Keyword(s):  
Professional Development ◽  
Decision Making ◽  
Teacher Candidates ◽  
Comprehensive University ◽  
Personal Experiences ◽  
Performance Based Assessment ◽  
Decision Making Processes ◽  
In The Beginning ◽  
Preservice Teacher Candidate ◽  
And Training

This chapter explores a number of issues for consideration when adopting and implementing edTPA as a summative performance-based assessment of preservice teacher candidate tasks. This chapter aims to offer guidance and support for programs in the beginning stages of implementation of edTPA. Each of the considerations includes a vignette from personal experiences at a regional comprehensive university in the southeast. Issues discussed include timeline for implementation, buy-in, decision-making processes, professional development and training, mapping, and next steps. The vignettes detail particular issues or concerns and include faculty, staff, and/or teacher candidates. Data used to develop the vignettes was collected via interviews, surveys, and reflections.

Fostering Together–The Why and How of Involving and Supporting Biological Children of Foster Carers

2015 ◽  
Vol 41 (1) ◽  
pp. 29-38 ◽  
Author(s):  
Anna Targowska ◽  
Tara Cavazzi ◽  
Stephan Lund
Keyword(s):  
Decision Making ◽  
Focus Groups ◽  
Western Australia ◽  
Service Providers ◽  
Family Services ◽  
Relative Lack ◽  
Potential Value ◽  
Biological Children ◽  
Decision Making Processes ◽  
Interactive Resources

This article discusses the outcomes of a research project undertaken in 2011/2013 by a team of researchers from Edith Cowan University (ECU) in collaboration with Wanslea Family Services. The project aimed to address the relative lack of voice of biological children in the fostering task, despite the increasing acknowledgement of children's rights and their capability to be involved in decision-making processes. Data was collected through the use of focus groups and interviews with a small number of biological children, foster carers and service providers in Western Australia (WA). The data indicated the necessity to reconsider the rights of biological children in the fostering task and the need for specific strategies to address these rights. The findings of the study informed the development of a set of interactive resources for supporting biological children of foster carers during all stages of the fostering process in Australia. The resources also have potential value for use in overseas jurisdictions.

scholarly journals Recall to prison in Belgium: Back-end sentencing in search of reintegration

2020 ◽  
Vol 67 (1) ◽  
pp. 6-25
Author(s):  
Kristel Beyens ◽  
Lars Breuls ◽  
Lana De Pelecijn ◽  
Marijke Roosen ◽  
Veerle Scheirs
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Decision Making ◽  
Focus Groups ◽  
The United States ◽  
Decision Makers ◽  
European Countries ◽  
Early Release ◽  
Technical Violations ◽  
Front End ◽  
Decision Making Processes

In recent years, the United States and England and Wales have witnessed growing re-incarceration rates. This growth is not only due to the courts sending more people to prison (‘front-end sentencing’), but also due to an increasing number of revocations of early release measures, mainly following technical violations of licence conditions (so called ‘back-end sentencing’). However, it is unclear whether the same phenomenon exists in other (European) countries. Therefore, we empirically studied prison recall decision-making processes in Belgium by file analysis, complemented with focus groups with the decision makers involved in the recall process of prisoners with a sentence of more than three years. We found that the recall process in Belgium is embedded in a strong narrative of ‘giving chances’ and that all decision makers deploy a large amount of discretion, which they use to make deliberate decisions in an attempt to facilitate parolees’ reintegration process. Non-compliance with imposed conditions does not automatically lead to recall and even when a parolee is sent back to prison, recall is framed by the decision makers as a step in the reintegration process, not the end of it.

How to Thrive in the Changing Landscape of Teacher Education

2018 ◽  
pp. 1528-1543
Author(s):  
Holly Henderson Pinter ◽  
Kim K. Winter ◽  
Myra K. Watson
Keyword(s):  
Professional Development ◽  
Decision Making ◽  
Teacher Candidates ◽  
Comprehensive University ◽  
Personal Experiences ◽  
Performance Based Assessment ◽  
Decision Making Processes ◽  
In The Beginning ◽  
Preservice Teacher Candidate ◽  
And Training

This chapter explores a number of issues for consideration when adopting and implementing edTPA as a summative performance-based assessment of preservice teacher candidate tasks. This chapter aims to offer guidance and support for programs in the beginning stages of implementation of edTPA. Each of the considerations includes a vignette from personal experiences at a regional comprehensive university in the southeast. Issues discussed include timeline for implementation, buy-in, decision-making processes, professional development and training, mapping, and next steps. The vignettes detail particular issues or concerns and include faculty, staff, and/or teacher candidates. Data used to develop the vignettes was collected via interviews, surveys, and reflections.

What Are Student Loan Borrowers Thinking? Insights From Focus Groups on College Selection and Student Loan Decision Making

2016 ◽  
Vol 27 (2) ◽  
pp. 184-198 ◽  
Author(s):  
Carrie L. Johnson ◽  
Barbara O’Neill ◽  
Sheri Lokken Worthy ◽  
Jean M. Lown ◽  
Cathy F. Bowen
Keyword(s):  
Decision Making ◽  
Focus Groups ◽  
Student Loans ◽  
Student Loan ◽  
Guidance Counselors ◽  
Online Course ◽  
College Selection ◽  
Online Focus Groups ◽  
Education Data ◽  
Decision Making Processes

This study used data from online focus groups collected from November 2014 to April 2015 to understand college students’ decision-making processes when borrowing money to finance their education. Data were collected using an online course management system. Results suggest that (a) students relied heavily on advice from parents, guidance counselors, and friends; (b) attending college was not possible without student loans; and (c) students knew very little about the loans they would be responsible for repaying. Recommendations for financial educators and counselors to help student borrowers make prudent decisions about education debt are presented.

scholarly journals Managing alternative sports: new organisational spaces for the diffusion of Italian parkour

Modern Italy ◽  
2015 ◽  
Vol 20 (3) ◽  
pp. 307-319 ◽  
Author(s):  
Raffaella Ferrero Camoletto ◽  
Davide Sterchele ◽  
Carlo Genova
Keyword(s):  
Decision Making ◽  
Focus Groups ◽  
Qualitative Approach ◽  
The Other ◽  
Innovative Practice ◽  
Decision Making Processes ◽  
The One ◽  
Italian Context

This article explores the encounter between parkour as an unstructured and culturally innovative practice, challenging both physical as well as organisational spaces, and UISP (Unione Italiana Sport per Tutti/Italian Union of Sport for All) as a sport-promotion body open to organisational and cultural experimentation. Drawing on a multi-method qualitative approach (analysis of documentary material, interviews and focus groups), it looks at the role of UISP in the diffusion and legitimisation of parkour within the Italian context, investigating the interplay between the cultural and organisational logics of both this new practice itself on the one hand, and the organisations that are trying to accommodate it on the other. The incorporation in a sport-for-all organisation like UISP provides traceurs with a safe and legitimised space, which is, however, ‘loose' enough to maintain the fluidity of the practice. Nonetheless, by enabling the coexistence of different and competing definitions and uses of parkour, this fluid organisational space reproduces tensions among traceurs and weakens their voice in UISP's decision-making processes.

Cognitive Processing of Miscommunication in Interactive Listening: An Evaluation of Listener Indecision and Cognitive Effort

2021 ◽  
pp. 1-17
Author(s):  
Jennifer M. Roche ◽  
Arkady Zgonnikov ◽  
Laura M. Morett
Keyword(s):  
Decision Making ◽  
Cognitive Processing ◽  
Language Processing ◽  
Cognitive Effort ◽  
Mouse Tracking ◽  
Computer Mouse ◽  
Decision Making Processes ◽  
Computer Mouse Tracking ◽  
Listening Task ◽  
Processing Effort

Purpose The purpose of the current study was to evaluate the social and cognitive underpinnings of miscommunication during an interactive listening task. Method An eye and computer mouse–tracking visual-world paradigm was used to investigate how a listener's cognitive effort (local and global) and decision-making processes were affected by a speaker's use of ambiguity that led to a miscommunication. Results Experiments 1 and 2 found that an environmental cue that made a miscommunication more or less salient impacted listener language processing effort (eye-tracking). Experiment 2 also indicated that listeners may develop different processing heuristics dependent upon the speaker's use of ambiguity that led to a miscommunication, exerting a significant impact on cognition and decision making. We also found that perspective-taking effort and decision-making complexity metrics (computer mouse tracking) predict language processing effort, indicating that instances of miscommunication produced cognitive consequences of indecision, thinking, and cognitive pull. Conclusion Together, these results indicate that listeners behave both reciprocally and adaptively when miscommunications occur, but the way they respond is largely dependent upon the type of ambiguity and how often it is produced by the speaker.

“It's Not Humanly Possible to Do Everything”: Perspectives on Intervention Decision-Making Processes of Parents of Children with Autism Spectrum Disorders

2015 ◽  
Vol 22 (1) ◽  
pp. 13-21 ◽  
Author(s):  
Erinn Finke ◽  
Kathryn Drager ◽  
Elizabeth C. Serpentine
Keyword(s):  
Decision Making ◽  
Individualized Education Program ◽  
Children With Autism ◽  
Autism Spectrum ◽  
Sources Of Information ◽  
Individual Decision ◽  
Decision Making Processes ◽  
Spectrum Disorders ◽  
Interview Methodology ◽  
Communication Interventions

Purpose The purpose of this investigation was to understand the decision-making processes used by parents of children with autism spectrum disorder (ASD) related to communication-based interventions. Method Qualitative interview methodology was used. Data were gathered through interviews. Each parent had a child with ASD who was at least four-years-old; lived with their child with ASD; had a child with ASD without functional speech for communication; and used at least two different communication interventions. Results Parents considered several sources of information for learning about interventions and provided various reasons to initiate and discontinue a communication intervention. Parents also discussed challenges introduced once opinions of the school individualized education program (IEP) team had to be considered. Conclusions Parents of children with ASD primarily use individual decision-making processes to select interventions. This discrepancy speaks to the need for parents and professionals to share a common “language” about interventions and the decision-making process.

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