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Student satisfaction with models of field placement supervision
No full textField placements provide social work students with the opportunity to integrate their classroom learning with the knowledge and skills used in various human service programs. The supervision structure that has most commonly been used is the intensive one-to-one, clinical teaching model. However, this model is being challenged by significant changes in educational and industry sectors, which have led to an increased use of alternative fieldwork structures and supervision arrangements, including task supervision, group supervision, external supervision, and shared supervisory arrangements. This study focuses on identifying models of supervision and student satisfaction with their learning experiences and the supervision received on placement. The study analysed responses to a questionnaire administered to 263 undergraduate social work students enrolled in three different campuses in Australia after they had completed their first or final field placement. The study identified that just over half of the placements used the traditional one student to one social work supervisor model. A number of “emerging” models were also identified, where two or more social workers were involved in the professional supervision of the student. High levels of dissatisfaction were reported by those students who received external social work supervision. Results suggest that students are more satisfied across all aspects of the placement where there is a strong on-site social work presence
Going Beyond Counting First Authors in Author Co-citation Analysis
Get PDFThe present study examines one of the fundamental aspects of author co-citation analysis (ACA) - the way co-citation
counts are defined. Co-citation counting provides the data on which all subsequent statistical analyses and mappings
are based, and we compare ACA results based on two different types of co-citation counting - the traditional type that
only counts the first one among a cited work's authors on the one hand and a non-traditional type that takes into
account the first 5 authors of a cited work on the other hand. Results indicate that the picture produced through this non-traditional author co-citation counting contains more coherent author groups and is therefore considerably clearer. However, this picture represents fewer specialties in the research field being studied than that produced through the traditional first-author co-citation counting when the same number of top-ranked authors is selected and analyzed. Reasons for these effects are discussed
Variations on the Author
Get PDF“Variations on the Author” discusses two of Eduardo Coutinho’s recent films (Um Dia na Vida, from 2010, and Últimas Conversas, posthumously released in 2015) and their contribution to the general question of documentary authorship. The director’s filmography is characterized by a consistent yet self-effacing form of authorial self-inscription: Coutinho often features as an interviewer that rather than express opinions propels discourses; an interviewer that is good at listening. This mode of self-inscription characterizes him as an author who is not expressive but who is nonetheless markedly present on the screen. In Um Dia na Vida, however, Coutinho is completely absent form the image, while Últimas Conversas, on the contrary, includes a confessional prologue that moves the director from the margins to the center of his films. This article examines the ways in which these works stand out in the filmography of a director who offers new insights into the notion of cinematic authorship
Appropriate Similarity Measures for Author Cocitation Analysis
Get PDFWe provide a number of new insights into the methodological discussion about author cocitation analysis. We first argue that the use of the Pearson correlation for measuring the similarity between authors’ cocitation profiles is not very satisfactory. We then discuss what kind of similarity measures may be used as an alternative to the Pearson correlation. We consider three similarity measures in particular. One is the well-known cosine. The other two similarity measures have not been used before in the bibliometric literature. Finally, we show by means of an example that our findings have a high practical relevance.information science;Pearson correlation;cosine;similarity measure;author cocitation analysis
Professional supervision as continuing professional education: Recent community probation service experience in a turbulent environment
No full textProfessional supervision is an important component of professional development in the human services. This paper examines the provision of supervision in the New Zealand Community Probation Service (CPS). Since major restructuring in 1997 a managerialist philosophy, with the coexistence of transformational and transactional leadership, has transformed the Service's model of practice, information technology and human resource management systems. This conceptual paper analyses the provision of clinical supervision in the organisation's new environment from three perspectives: the sociology of professions; as a key function of continuing professional education (CPE) in a 'turbulent environment;' and as a theoretical and methodological approach to assess Community Probation's relationship with the emerging social work profession in Aotearoa New Zealand. The author argues that the components of professional supervision in Community Probation provide a useful linkage to the social work profession. These components are expressed in identified strategies found in three distinct fields. First, through the social work literature relating to Community Probation's Cognitive Behavioural Therapy practice model; second, via Aotearoa New Zealand Association of Social Workers (ANZASW), social work's professional body and the new system of registration of social workers; and third, graduate level supervision education. The author proposes that the components of these three fields provide 'building blocks' which demonstrate the linkage of professional supervision as practiced in Community Probation with the discipline of social wor
Dispelling the Myths Behind First-author Citation Counts
Get PDFWe conducted a full-scale evaluative citation analysis study of scholars in the XML research field to explore just how different from each other author rankings resulting from different citation counting methods actually are, and to demonstrate the capability of emerging data and tools on the Web in supporting more realistic citation counting methods. Our results contest some common arguments for the continued
use of first-author citation counts in the evaluation of scholars, such as high correlations between author rankings by first-author citation counts and other citation
counting methods, and high costs of using more realistic citation counting methods that are not well-supported by the ISI databases. It is argued that increasingly available digital full text research papers make it possible for citation analysis studies to go beyond what the ISI databases have directly supported and to employ more
sophisticated methods
koamabayili/VECTRON-author-checklist: VECTRON author checklist
No full textWe have done our best to complete the author checklist relating to the use of animals in the hut study. Note that the objective for the hut study was to evaluate the IRS treatment applications for residual efficacy against Anopheles mosquitoes, including the local An. coluzzii mosquito population. Cows were only used to attract mosquitoes into the huts and no tests were carried out directly on the cows. The author checklist is intended for use with studies where experiments are carried out on animals, which is why we have had such difficulty in completing this for the hut study, as many of the questions do not relate to how the cows were used
Social workers’ experiences with whistleblowing: To speak or not to speak?
No full textFull text is available to authenticated members of The University of Auckland only.In professional practice social workers have a responsibility to uphold ethical standards. Reporting on poor or dangerous practice has become known internationally as whistleblowing. My thesis reports on a small-scale study that explored the experiences of social workers who observed poor or unsafe practice and considered reporting this to supervisors, managers and professional bodies. Having experienced retaliation after speaking out, becoming a whistleblower, the decision was made by the author to research this subject and discover what other social workers had experienced as a consequence of deciding to speak out. This study provides a brief overview of the literature on whistleblowing in social work and related professions and reports on a qualitative study in which ten social workers participated in semi-structured interviews. All the participants in this study had identified unsafe practice and had tried to have their concerns addressed. The interview data revealed common experiences of a lack of support for those who speak out, retaliation from both colleagues and organisations and inadequate professional supervision. There were both personal and professional impacts suffered by the participants in this study, some of which are ongoing. The thesis identifies issues for consideration regarding the education, registration, employment and supervision of social workers. The thesis further identifies the need for an effective accountability framework for both social workers and their employing agencies
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