Manifestation Determination Decisions and Students With Emotional/Behavioral Disorders

2016 ◽  
Vol 25 (2) ◽  
pp. 107-118 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jennifer D. Walker ◽  
Frederick J. Brigham
Keyword(s):  
Special Education Teachers ◽  
Student Behavior ◽  
Relevant Information ◽  
The Other ◽  
Future Research ◽  
Team Members ◽  
Manifestation Determination ◽  
Determination Process ◽  
And Behavior

Sixteen general and special education teachers were randomly assigned to one of four teams that were to make manifestation determinations using two different “hidden profiles” case studies based on students with an emotional behavioral disability. One case study was constructed to support a decision of the behavior not being a manifestation of the disability and the other case study was constructed to support a conclusion that the behavior of concern was a manifestation of the disability. To fully understand the student and behavior of concern, team members were required to actively share and discuss all of the relevant information they possessed. Both the teams working with profiles supporting the manifestation of the disability reached that conclusion; however, the two teams working with profiles that supported a non-manifestation of disability conclusion reached different conclusions, one declaring the behavior to be a non-manifestation and the other declaring it to be a manifestation of the disability. Overall, participants found the manifestation determination process to be an effective way to discuss student behavior, but special and general educators approached the determination process differently. Discussion of the manifestation determination review (MDR) process is presented along with implications for practice, limitations, and future research.

Patterns in (in)directness

Target ◽  
2012 ◽  
Vol 24 (2) ◽  
pp. 310-337 ◽  
Author(s):  
Hanna Pięta
Keyword(s):  
Relevant Information ◽  
Time Variable ◽  
Future Research ◽  
Literary Genre ◽  
Methodological Issues ◽  
Independent Variables ◽  
Dependent Variables

The goal of this descriptive, exploratory paper is to identify and analyse patterns in a case study of direct and indirect literary transfer from Poland to Portugal between 1855 and 2010. By doing so, the paper intends to contribute to a deeper understanding of indirect translation. Firstly, relevant information concerning the corpus is presented. Secondly, the methodological issues are elucidated. Thirdly, the results of the study are discussed in detail. More specifically, the correlations between the dependent variables (directness and indirectness) and the independent variables (author profile, translator profile, publisher profile and target text literary genre) are examined. In addition, the correlation between the occurrence of the label ‘(in)direct’ is tested against the independent time variable. Finally, the preliminary conclusions and future research avenues are presented.

Examining the Role of Paraeducators When Supporting Children With Complex Communication Needs: A Multiple Case Study

2019 ◽  
Vol 43 (2) ◽  
pp. 144-161
Author(s):  
Gretchen M. Cole-Lade ◽  
Lucy E. Bailey
Keyword(s):  
Special Education Teachers ◽  
Multiple Case Study ◽  
Complex Communication Needs ◽  
Team Members ◽  
Fully Integrated ◽  
Qualitative Research Design ◽  
Multiple Case ◽  
Speech And Language Pathologists ◽  
Communication Needs

The purpose of this study was to examine the roles of paraeducators in educational teams who supported young children with complex communication needs (CCNs). Participants included members of three teams which included general and special education teachers, paraeducators, speech and language pathologists (SLPs), and parents. An instrumental, multiple case study, qualitative research design was used to better understand paraeducators’ distinct roles and their varying levels of participation as members of their educational teams. Emergent cross-case themes included, first, the varying degrees to which teams worked collaboratively with the paraeducator and, second, the different roles the paraeducators fulfilled based on team members’ expectations. Findings indicated that the degree to which the three teams included the paraeducator as an integral team member varied from minimal to fully integrated. The fully integrated team worked collaboratively to best support the child. The paraeducator’s role and experience on each team was based on the educational team member’s expectations and the support the paraeducator received from the team.

scholarly journals Kinematic Pattern of the Drag-Flick: a Case Study

2012 ◽  
Vol 35 (1) ◽  
pp. 27-33 ◽  
Author(s):  
María Gómez ◽  
Cristina López De Subijana ◽  
Raquel Antonio ◽  
Enrique Navarro
Keyword(s):  
Individual Differences ◽  
Angular Velocity ◽  
Relevant Information ◽  
The Other ◽  
Field Hockey ◽  
Optoelectronic System ◽  
Kinematic Pattern ◽  
The Individual ◽  
Minimum Velocity

The drag-flick is more efficient than hits or pushes when a penalty corner situation is in effect in field hockey. Previous research has studied the biomechanical pattern of the drag-flick, trying to find the cues for an optimal performance. On the other hand, some other studies have examined the most effective visual pick-up of relevant information in shots and goalkeeper anticipation. The aim of this study was to analyse the individual differences in the drag-flick pattern in order to provide relevant information for goalkeepers. One female skilled drag-flicker participated in the study. A VICON optoelectronic system (Oxford Metrics, Oxford, UK) was used to capture the drag-flicks with six cameras. The results showed that the main significant differences between right and left shots (p<0.05) in the stick angles, stick minimum angular velocity and front foot-ball distance were when the front foot heel contacted the floor (T1) and at the minimum velocity of the stick, before the dragging action (T3). The findings showed that the most relevant information might be picked up at the ball-and-stick location before the dragging action.

Music Therapy with Addiction and Co-Occurring Disorders

2017 ◽  
Vol 9 (1) ◽  
pp. 45 ◽  
Author(s):  
Victoria Policastro Vega
Keyword(s):  
Mental Health ◽  
Music Therapy ◽  
Mental Health Practitioners ◽  
Future Research ◽  
Treatment Goals ◽  
Social Emotion ◽  
Health Practitioners ◽  
High Incidence ◽  
And Behavior

The purpose of this paper is to define addiction and co-occurring disorders, review the current music therapy literature with regard to techniques and treatment goals and finally to accentuate gaps in research for future investigation. Mental health practitioners have been becoming increasing more aware that persons with addiction disorders have a high incidence of co-occurring mental health disorders. The term “comorbidity” is defined by the National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIH) as a person who exhibits more than one disorder or illness concurrently or sequentially, one after the other (NIH, 2011). The most common music therapy techniques is music songwriting and music improvisation. Most goals focus on the domains of education, social, emotion and behavior. The music therapy literature contains only seven studies, four quantitative, one case study and one descriptive study.  With the exception of one study, the research reflects finding in an eight-year time span with the most recent study being 3 years old. Future research needs to be reported with persons with addiction and co-occurring disorders. 

Communication and Awareness Patterns of Distributed Agile Teams

2015 ◽  
pp. 1-16
Author(s):  
Irum Inayat ◽  
Siti Salwah Salim ◽  
Sabrina Marczak
Keyword(s):  
Information Exchange ◽  
Future Research ◽  
Case Study Method ◽  
Team Members ◽  
Geographically Distributed ◽  
Multiple Case ◽  
Future Research Directions ◽  
Collaboration Patterns ◽  
Agile Teams

Agile methods emphasize on team's collaboration and so does the requirements engineering process. But how do agile teams collaborate with their geographically distributed counter parts to accomplish requirements related activities? Although, proved to be flexible and dynamic it needs to conduct more empirical investigation to identify the collaboration patterns of distributed agile teams. Therefore, in this chapter collaboration patterns of geographically distributed agile teams are identified in terms of reported communication (defined as information exchange) among team members and their awareness (defined as knowledge about each other) of each other. A multiple case study method is used in this chapter to study the geographically distributed agile teams in four IT organizations. Though, some of the findings revealed several patterns are corroborating the previous results available in literature. However, some of the patterns identified in this chapter are specific to distributed agile teams. For instance, the chapter identifies that high awareness among agile teams leads to more communication. Implications for research and software industry are discussed and future research directions are also provided.

scholarly journals The interplay of managerial and non-managerial controls, institutional work, and the coordination of laterally dependent hospital activities

2017 ◽  
Vol 14 (4) ◽  
pp. 467-495 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kari Nyland ◽  
Charlotte Morland ◽  
John Burns
Keyword(s):  
Design Methodology ◽  
The Other ◽  
Future Research ◽  
Structured Interviews ◽  
Institutional Work ◽  
Senior Managers ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Per Se ◽  
Complex Settings

Purpose The purpose of this paper is to explore two hospital departments, one of which is laterally dependent on the other to function, but which are subject to distinct vertical managerial controls. This complexity in vertical–lateral relations generates tension amongst the hospital’s senior managers and a perception of coordination difficulties. However, this paper shows how the interplay between managerial and non-managerial controls, plus important employee “work”, moderates tension and facilitates day-to-day lateral coordination at the patient-facing level. Design/methodology/approach This is a case-study, relying mostly on the findings of semi-structured interviews. Theoretically, the paper draws from previous insights on inter-organisational relations (but informing the focus on intra-organisational coordination) and an “institutional work” perspective. Findings Consistent with much extant literature, this paper reveals how non-managerial controls help to moderate tensions that could emerge from the coercive use of managerial controls. However, the authors also show a maintained influence and flexibility in the managerial controls at patient-facing levels, as new circumstances unfold. Research limitations/implications The findings of this paper could generalise neither all laterally dependent spaces in hospitals nor patterns across different hospitals. The authors recommend future research into the dynamics and interaction of managerial and non-managerial controls in other complex settings, plus focus on the purposeful work of influential agents. Originality/value The paper has two primary contributions: extending our knowledge of the interplay between managerial and non-managerial controls inside complex organisations, where non-managerial controls reinforce rather than displace managerial controls, and highlighting that it is seldom just controls per se which “matter”, but also agents’ purposeful actions that facilitate coordination in complex organisations.

scholarly journals Competition and the evolution of imperfect mimicry

2012 ◽  
Vol 58 (4) ◽  
pp. 608-619 ◽  
Author(s):  
David W. Pfennig ◽  
David W. Kikuchi
Keyword(s):  
Adaptive Response ◽  
Evolutionary Process ◽  
Character Displacement ◽  
The Other ◽  
Batesian Mimicry ◽  
Future Research ◽  
Interacting Species ◽  
The One ◽  
Imperfect Mimicry

Abstract Mimicry is widely used to exemplify natural selection’s power in promoting adaptation. Nonetheless, it has become increasingly clear that mimicry is frequently imprecise. Indeed, the phenotypic match is often poor between mimics and models in many Batesian mimicry complexes and among co-mimics in many Müllerian mimicry complexes. Here, we consider whether such imperfect mimicry represents an evolutionary compromise between predator-mediated selection favoring mimetic convergence on the one hand and competitively mediated selection favoring divergence on the other hand. Specifically, for mimicry to be effective, mimics and their models/co-mimics should occur together. Yet, co-occurring species that are phenotypically similar often compete for resources, successful reproduction, or both. As an adaptive response to minimize such costly interactions, interacting species may diverge phenotypically through an evolutionary process known as character displacement. Such divergence between mimics and their models/co-mimics may thereby result in imperfect mimicry. We review the various ways in which character displacement could promote imprecise mimicry, describe the conditions under which this process may be especially likely to produce imperfect mimicry, examine a possible case study, and discuss avenues for future research. Generally, character displacement may play an underappreciated role in fostering inexact mimicry.

scholarly journals Living Arrangement Pattern Nursing Home Occupants Based Activities and Behavior

2016 ◽  
Vol 1 (1) ◽  
pp. 31-48
Author(s):  
Evian Devi
Keyword(s):  
Nursing Home ◽  
Nursing Homes ◽  
Architectural Design ◽  
Living Arrangement ◽  
The Elderly ◽  
Design Criterion ◽  
The Other ◽  
Physical Comfort ◽  
And Behavior

Physical comfort in a building can give an effect to the psychological inhabitans. In the design of nursing homes, where the residents are elderly, certainly they have a different physical comfort with a younger people. The degenerative disease on elderly cause the need for special attention in architecture, especially on safety and comfort. Currently the nursing homes, mostly do not noticed it well, so still discovered lots of the elderlies got an accident and depressed in a nursing home. This research purpose to know the relationship between the aspects of both comfort and safety for elderly in nursing home that can make the elderly feel comfortable and happy living in their residence. The methods of this research are as follows: first, understand the criteria of elderly in related literatures and observations regarding to the elderly and other related literatures that subscribe with safety and comfort. Second, the literatures study was used to analyze the case study such as Nursing Home Wisma Mulia (Jakarta), Nursing Home Senjarawi (Bandung), and Nursing Home Muara Kasih (Bogor). The results of analysis from the case studies based on the literature, produce an architectural design criterion for the review occupancy elderly. The results of this research concluded that the design of the comfortable and safe against risk of any accident that may occur to the elderly, provided a circulation which can be passes by two wheelchairs at once and freeway, provided handrail in the circulation, provided ramp in any difference level of floor, and using a contrast color but dominant in light and warm color. The other considerations are the availability nostalgic room, playroom for children and the other facility that make the frequency of their families, visiting more often.

Articulating Tacit Knowledge in Multinational E-Collaboration on New Product Designs

2011 ◽  
pp. 2298-2330
Author(s):  
Kenneth David Strang
Keyword(s):  
Tacit Knowledge ◽  
New Product Development ◽  
Mobile Communications ◽  
New Product ◽  
Future Research ◽  
Team Members ◽  
Knowledge Innovation ◽  
Communications Services ◽  
Knowledge Articulation

An e-business new product development (NPD) knowledge articulation model is built from the interdisciplinary empirical and theoretical literature. The model is intended to facilitate a case study of a large multinational mobile communications services/products company (with team members in Europe, Asia and Australia). The NPD teams include subject matter experts that function as a community of practice, electronically collaborating in a virtual context. The knowledge created and shared in the NPD teams involve various unknown levels of tacit and explicit ideas, which are difficult to understand or assess. The goal of the research is to build a tacit knowledge articulation framework and measurement construct that can be used to understand how a successful (or unsuccessful) NPD team operates, in terms of knowledge innovation and productivity. Complex issues and controversies in knowledge management are examined to clarify terminology for future research.

Change Management

2021 ◽  
pp. 261-292
Author(s):  
Ricardo Jorge Travassos ◽  
Nuno Sérgio Martins ◽  
João Pedro Sousa ◽  
Ricardo Barata Mota
Keyword(s):  
Knowledge Management ◽  
Change Management ◽  
Critical Analysis ◽  
Relevant Information ◽  
Decision Makers ◽  
Strategic Decision ◽  
Team Members ◽  
Technical Simplicity ◽  
Future Work

The present markets affect organizations by triggering the need for change. However, in addition to flexibility, it is considered the implementation of procedures to alleviate the ‘weather'. So, change management is fundamental in organizations that move in innovative and disruptive environments. The present work seeks to provide a tool that will allow the collection and structuring of the constituent data necessary for the management of new projects/products, creating relevant information to strategic decision makers, stating that the exploratory cycle of the process intends to create organizational knowledge that will 'situate' all team members within the various projects. It will consist of a literary review followed by the presentation of a case study, which can be applied in an SME due to its technical simplicity. The objective is to support the proposal as a promoter of information and knowledge management. The work ends with a critical analysis of the contents, exposure of limitations, and suggestions for possible future work associated with the current theme.

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