Teaching Intelligence Testing in APA-Accredited Programs: A National Survey

We surveyed instructors at APA-accredited clinical and school psychology programs across the United States and Canada to determine typical teaching practices in individual intelligence testing courses. The most recent versions of the Wechsler scales (Wechsler, 1989, 1991, 1997) and the Stanford-Binet (Thorndike, Hagan & Sattler, 1986) remain the primary tests taught in this course. Course instructors emphasized having students administer intelligence tests; however, relatively few instructors reported assessing students' final level of competence with regard to their test administration skills. The intelligence testing course appears quite time-intensive for instructors, and many teach the course with the aid of a teaching assistant. When compared with previous findings, current results suggest a good measure of stability over time regarding the core issues addressed and skills taught in the intelligence testing course.

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Issues and trends in the accreditation of school psychology programs in the United States

Psychology in the Schools ◽

10.1002/pits.20600 ◽

2011 ◽

Vol 48 (9) ◽

pp. 887-900 ◽

Cited By ~ 3

Author(s):

Joseph S. Prus ◽

William Strein

Keyword(s):

United States ◽

School Psychology ◽

The United States ◽

Psychology Programs

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Congressional Capitulation: War Power and the United States Congress

Journal of Politics and Law ◽

10.5539/jpl.v9n9p162 ◽

2016 ◽

Vol 9 (9) ◽

pp. 162

Author(s):

Ryan M. Yonk

Keyword(s):

United States ◽

The United States ◽

Fundamental Question ◽

United States Congress ◽

War Powers ◽

Policy Perspective ◽

The Core ◽

The Republic ◽

War Power ◽

Core Issues

The question of who should utilize the war power has been debated from the founding of the republic and the core issues while couched in different terms, and while war has become much more technologically advanced, remain the same. The fundamental question is one of what the President can do, and what Congress should do. I attempt to primarily address the question of what Congress should do with regard to the war powers rather than what the President can do because the scope of presidential war powers has been extensively researched and written about in the scholarly literature. Instead I address what from an institutional structure and policy perspective Congress ought to do with relation to the war powers and their execution.

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3. Conservatism

Political Ideologies ◽

10.1093/hepl/9780198727859.003.0003 ◽

2017 ◽

Author(s):

Mark Garnett

Keyword(s):

United States ◽

United Kingdom ◽

Case Studies ◽

The United States ◽

The Core ◽

Winston Churchill ◽

The United Kingdom ◽

Basic Features ◽

The Relationship ◽

Over Time

This chapter examines the basic features of conservative ideology, with particular emphasis on its strongly contested nature. It begins with a discussion of two major issues: whether conservatism is distinctive ideology and whether the core ideas of conservatism have changed over time. It then shows how conservatism differs from varieties of liberalism and goes on to explore ‘conservatism’ in the United States, along with some apparent manifestations of conservatism in political parties and movements outside the United Kingdom. Finally, it looks at the relationship between conservatism and religion. Case studies on the ideas of Edmund Burke, Winston Churchill, Barry Goldwater, and Friedrich von Hayek are presented.

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Effects of the Core Functions of Government on the Diversity of Executive Agendas

Comparative Political Studies ◽

10.1177/0010414011405165 ◽

2011 ◽

Vol 44 (8) ◽

pp. 1001-1030 ◽

Cited By ~ 64

Author(s):

Will Jennings ◽

Shaun Bevan ◽

Arco Timmermans ◽

Gerard Breeman ◽

Sylvain Brouard ◽

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Keyword(s):

United States ◽

Rule Of Law ◽

The United States ◽

Political Agenda ◽

The Political ◽

Postwar Period ◽

International Affairs ◽

The Rule Of Law ◽

The Core ◽

Core Issues

The distribution of attention across issues is of fundamental importance to the political agenda and outputs of government. This article presents an issue-based theory of the diversity of governing agendas where the core functions of government—defense, international affairs, the economy, government operations, and the rule of law—are prioritized ahead of all other issues. It undertakes comparative analysis of issue diversity of the executive agenda of several European countries and the United States over the postwar period. The results offer strong evidence of the limiting effect of core issues—the economy, government operations, defense, and international affairs—on agenda diversity. This suggests not only that some issues receive more attention than others but also that some issues are attended to only at times when the agenda is more diverse. When core functions of government are high on the agenda, executives pursue a less diverse agenda—focusing the majority of their attention on fewer issues. Some issues are more equal than others in executive agenda setting.

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Infertility and Self-identification: The Indeterminacy of the Illness-self Relationship

Sociological Perspectives ◽

10.1177/0731121419867691 ◽

2019 ◽

Vol 63 (3) ◽

pp. 388-405 ◽

Cited By ~ 1

Author(s):

Katherine M. Johnson ◽

Arthur L. Greil ◽

Julia McQuillan ◽

Ophra Leyser-Whalen ◽

Karina M. Shreffler

Keyword(s):

United States ◽

Logistic Regression ◽

National Survey ◽

Multinomial Logistic Regression ◽

The United States ◽

The Self ◽

Symbolic Interactionist ◽

Fertility Problem ◽

Over Time

Nearly one-third to one-half of U.S. women meets the medical criteria for infertility at some point in their reproductive lives. Yet many do not view lack of conception as problematic. Why might some women self-identify as having a fertility problem but others do not? Using two waves of the National Survey of Fertility Barriers, we conducted binary and longitudinal multinomial logistic regression to answer this question. Results suggest that only a portion of women actually experience infertility as a “spoiled identity” or as disruptive to their lives. Rather, consistent with symbolic interactionist perspectives, there is evidence that infertility symptoms (i.e., not conceiving) depend upon interpretations and definitions of the situation. Multiple patterns of self-identification over time (identity non-adopters, maintainers, adopters, and relinquishers) suggest an indeterminate association between illness and impacts on the self, even for a condition that is highly medicalized in the United States.

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