A model plan for coordination and management of child abuse services

There are few reports concerning an overall management plan for child abuse services throughout an entire county. This paper describes the different components of child abuse services including child advocacy/legislation, prediction and prevention, detection and diagnosis, intervention and treatment, and education and training, within a California county and includes a discussion of each component, with an assessment of needs and a delineation of gaps in service. The necessity of overall goal setting is defined and various management techniques are discussed. The county selected for the study was San Mateo County with a population of approximately 500,000. Results indicate agreement as to the comprehensiveness of the plan and the need for further coordination. The favored management scheme called for the hiring of a “Director of Child Protection Services” at the county management level. Subsequent to the completion of this child abuse and neglect project, a task force was appointed by the Board of Supervisors and is now in the process of making recommendations regarding priorities and a course of action to follow to ensure that coordinated services are available throughout the county.     

Addressing the complexity of writing development: Toward an ecological model of assessment

This article offers one potential response to Yancey's (1999) call for a fourth wave of writing assessment able to capture writing development in all of its complexity. Based on an ecological perspective of literate development that situates students’ growth as writers across multiple engagements with writing, including those outside of school, the ecological model of writing assessment described in this article seeks to provide students, teachers, departments, and institutions with fuller, richer accounts of the breadth of students’ literate experiences and how those experiences impact their abilities to accomplish academic tasks throughout the undergraduate years and beyond. Using the University of Central Florida's recent efforts to develop and employ an ecological assessment model as one of many potential examples, this article argues that an ecological model of writing assessment enables institutions to make visible the multiple sites where writing takes place, strengthen the affordances for student learning and writing in these sites, and also respond effectively to the multiple stakeholders invested in understanding writing development, what it involves, and how it might best be supported.     

Computer-based course evaluation: an extended technology acceptance model

This study explored the antecedents of students’ intention to participate in computer-based course evaluation. The study proposed an extended Technology Acceptance Model (TAM) that integrated subjective norm and perceived relevance into TAM. Based on the responses from 149 business school students in Macao, the study identified the direct and indirect effects of subjective norm and perceived relevance on perceived ease of use, perceived usefulness and students’ intention to participate in computer-based course evaluation. The results of structural equation modelling showed that subjective norm had a positive, strong and significant effect on perceived relevance that in turn affected perceived ease of use and perceived usefulness. Besides, subjective norm and perceived usefulness had direct effects on students’ intention to participate in computer-based course evaluation. Thus, subjective norm played a major role in affecting Chinese students’ participation in course evaluation.     

民族地区生态环境与绿色发展测度及耦合协调性分析

文章基于2005—2019年民族地区8个省(区)的实际数据,构建了生态环境与绿色发展的综合评价指标体系,结合耦合度分析两个系统间的耦合与互动发展。结果表明:第一,2005—2019年,民族地区生态环境指数由2005年的0.809曲折上升至2019年的0.962,年均增长2.64%;其绿色发展指数由2005年的0.535逐步上升至2019年的0.726,年均增长9.05%;民族地区生态环境指数和绿色发展指数整体呈现波动上升态势,生态环境和绿色发展态势均为良好,民族地区生态环境指数和绿色发展指数均高于全国整体水平。第二,民族地区生态环境与绿色发展耦合协调度由2005年的0.574增长至2019年的0.646,在2005—2019年间整体上呈现稳定上升态势,略高于全国整体水平;民族地区耦合协调度基础尚可,但其耦合协调水平的提升较为缓慢,且绿色发展一直较为滞后,还需要进一步协调生态环境和绿色发展系统之间的关系;从耦合协调关系演变上看,民族地区8个省(区)耦合协调关系变化规律较为相似,除西藏外,其余省区都经历了勉强协调—勉强协调—初级协调的发展过程,西藏则一直处于勉强协调状态,大部分民族地区生态环境与绿色发展的耦合协调关系都有一定进步。据此,文章提出民族地区关于生态环境可持续和经济社会高质量发展的政策建议。     

Risk pre-warning of tender evaluation for civil projects:an outlier detection model

The marking scheme method removes the low scores of the contractor‘s attributes given by experts when the overall score is calculated, which may result in that a contractor with some latent risks will win the project. In order to remedy the above defect of the marking scheme method, an outlier detection model, which is one mission of knowledge discovery in data, is established on the basis of the sum of similar coefficients. Then, the model is applied to the historical score data of tender evaluation for ci...     

An ecological perspective of teacher retention: An emergent model

The aim of this study is to examine the characteristics of an ecological school culture conducive to the retention of novice teachers. Twenty novice teachers were selected randomly from 20 different schools in Israel. The qualitative research findings revealed that an ecological school culture conducive to the retention of novice teachers possesses a multi-dimensional framework characterized by categories such as organizational practices, peer communication, individual aspects, community, working conditions and teacher status. The research findings can contribute to reshaping guidance procedures and practices best-suited to novice teachers, which will ultimately aid in the retention of quality teachers.     

The rise and fall of an allocation model: An evaluation of its role as an instrument for policy decisions

The article evaluates the history of the present allocation model of a Dutch university. This model was widely accepted at the start. As the decrease of budgets continued, the model was more and more criticized. At this moment it is no longer accepted as an instrument for policy decisions. The details of the model itself have become issues of political interest and discussion. The article stresses the need for timely adjustment of allocation models and analyzes the circumstances that influence the lifespan of such models. Some general conclusions and implications for financial planning and budgeting will be drawn.Presented at the 29th Annual Forum of the Association of Institutional Research, Baltimore, April 30–May 3, 1989.     

Participatory action research and impact: an ecological ripples perspective

Assessment of the impact of varied forms of participatory research is enhanced by specific attention to the ripples, such work initiates in the social context. Ripples are defined as consequences either unintended or unanticipated by those carrying out the participatory research. Following a brief documentation of the range of reported ripples in reports describing participatory research, an ecological perspective drawing on the interdependence principle of ecological systems theory is presented as a framework for assessing impact by attending to ripples in the local context. Community asset mapping and social network analysis are described as examples of ways of describing and documenting environmental ripples, and strategies for both anticipating and reviewing ripples post hoc are discussed. The importance of developing cognitive maps of local ecology is stressed as critical to the assessment of the multiple potential impacts of participatory research.     

Integrating and partnering services in schools – an emerging model in Northern Ireland

In this paper Caroline Karayiannis provides an account of recent developments regarding the links between services in schools. She presents an overview of practices in Northern Ireland, particularly illustrating these with ‘snapshot’ voices of some of the key sectors in these endeavours.     

G.1070视频质量评估改进模型的实现与评估

传统的G.1070模型在评估视频质量时,未考虑视频内容的差异性对用户感受质量的影响,当视频编码比特率较低时,评价结果与用户主观感受有较大差距。为了实现对视频质量的准确评估,在G.1070改进模型的基础上,考虑视频内容的影响,减少模型参数,提出了更精简的评价模型,利用运动复杂度表征视频内容特性,依据视频内容对模型分类,将视频分辨率作为评估因素加入到G.1070模型中;采用线性函数拟合参数关系,精简模型。实验结果表明,所提出的模型计算得到的客观分数与主观测试分数的均方误差为0.338 1,能够准确评价不同视频的质量。     

Community response in disasters: an ecological learning framework

Natural disasters are frequently exacerbated by anthropogenic mechanisms and have social and political consequences for communities. The role of community learning in disasters is seen to be increasingly important. However, the ways in which such learning unfolds in a disaster can differ substantially from case to case. This article uses a comparative case study methodology to examine catastrophes and major disasters from five countries (Japan, New Zealand, the UK, the USA and Germany) to consider how community learning and adaptation occurs. An ecological model of learning is considered, where community learning is of small loop (adaptive, incremental, experimental) type or large loop (paradigm changing) type. Using this model, we consider that there are three types of community learning that occur in disasters (navigation, organization, reframing). The type of community learning that actually develops in a disaster depends upon a range of social factors such as stress and trauma, civic innovation and coercion.     

Mathematics motivation and engagement: an independent evaluation of a complex model with Australian rural high school students

Most traditional models of academic motivation focus on a small number of specific factors. However, the Student Motivation and Engagement Scale (MES) (Martin, 2007b Martin, A.J. 2007b. The motivation and engagement scale, Sydney, , Australia: Lifelong Achievement Group.  [Google Scholar]) includes a fairly comprehensive range of perspectives on general student motivation. The current study set out (a) to provide an independent test of the proposed 11-factor structure of the MES for boys and girls when (b) applied to high school mathematics in Australia (N = 1014; Years 7 to 11). It also examined (c) the covariation of different facets of motivation and engagement with gender, year level, and scholastic achievement. The hypothesised 11-factor model fit reasonably well across gender, and there was clear evidence of specificity to maths compared to English achievement. Some gender and grade effects were observed as well. The study provides support for the value of the Martin model and its instrument. It also extends our knowledge of student motivation to mathematics in Australian rural high schools.