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A case study of the process of formulating a strategic plan for the delivery of mental health services in an urban school district
No full textA mental health committee was formed in an urban public school district to formulate and conduct a district-wide needs assessment in order to provide school district administrators and board of education members with a set of guidelines for improving the delivery of mental health services. A total of 962 school district employees completed the district-wide needs assessment survey. Participants consisted of regular, bilingual and special education teachers, school support staff, and administrators throughout the district. The purpose of this project was threefold: (1) to identify the needs of students, parents, and staff within the school district as they relate to the delivery of mental health programs and services, (2) to determine the extent of interest and readiness in improving the delivery of these programs and services, and (3) to understand the relevant context of the school district in which the target population and their needs are embedded. Through this case study, the process of forming a committee, utilizing a program planning framework, conducting a needs assessment, and developing a comprehensive mental health plan was examined. Results indicated an interest to design programs that address student needs at the multiple service delivery levels, as well as parent and staff programs. Program development areas identified included: (a) school-wide positive behavior support; (b) character education; (c)anti-harassment and bullying programs; (d) increasing the availability of individual and group counseling services for regular education students; (e) coordinating comprehensive services for high-risk students; and (f) parent training and staff development programs. Areas for school and district-wide improvement prior to engaging in program design, implementation, and evaluation activities included securing financial resources, identifying locations to carry out programs, and gauging the impact of New Jersey State directed budget cuts on personnel, district finances, and the development of new programs. The comprehensive mental health plan also is presented. Results from this project highlight the importance of school-based mental health services and the value for school districts in assessment of the delivery of these services. Future research should include the direct assessment of student and parent opinions as well as including these populations in the program planning process.Psy.DIncludes bibliographical references (p. 166-170)by Jennifer FosterIncludes abstrac
Going Beyond Counting First Authors in Author Co-citation Analysis
Full text linkThe 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
Full text link“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
Full text linkWe 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
Dispelling the Myths Behind First-author Citation Counts
Full text linkWe 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
Real bad grammar: realistic grammatical description with grammaticality
Full text linkSampson (this issue) argues for a concept of “realistic grammatical description” in which the distinction between grammatical and ungrammatical sentences is irrelevant. In this article I also argue for a concept of “realistic grammatical description” but one in which a binary distinction between grammatical and ungrammatical sentences is maintained. In distinguishing between the grammatical and ungrammatical, this kind of grammar differs from that proposed by Sampson, but it does share the important property that invented sentences have no role to play, either as positive or negative evidence
Similarity rules! Exploring methods for ad-hoc rule detection
Full text linkWe examine the role of similarity in ad hoc rule detection and show how previous methods can be made more corpus independent and more generally applicable. Specifically, we show that the similarity of a rule to others in the grammar is a crucial factor in determining the reliability of a rule, providing information unavailable in frequency. We also include a way to score rules which are not in the training data, thereby providing a platform for grammar generalization
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
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