Utility of school psychologists' recommendations: Perception of elementary teachers

This study was designed to investigate perceptions by elementary school teachers of the usefulness and ease of implementation of traditional recommendations that attribute the cause of referral problems to the individual student's characteristics or environmental conditions, as compared to recommendations that address a student's problem with varying degrees of specificity. Teachers rated recommendations that contained specifics for implementation as being more useful than those that attributed the cause of the problem to individual characteristics or environmental conditions. In spite of their high ratings on usefulness, the most specific recommendations, written in contract form, were rated as being difficult to implement, as were the recommendations that mentioned individual characteristics or nonspecific environmental condition as causes of the problem.     

Acute Exposure of College Basketball Players to Moderate Altitude: Selected Physiological Responses

Ten basketball players and two coaches ([Vdot]O₂ max = 51.08 ml/kg · min) were studied at their place of residence in Chadron, Nebraska (1,000 m, P_B = 661 mm Hg), and 6 days later in Laramie, Wyoming (2,200 m, P_B = 584 mm Hg). Subjects rode the bicycle ergometer through several submaximal workloads until voluntary exhaustion. Laramie tests took place within 8 hours after arrival and at the same time of day as the Chadron tests. Submaximal heart rate, oxygen consumption, pulmonary ventilation, carbon dioxide production, respiratory quotient, and perceived exertion were not significantly altered by the altitude change; however, ventilatory equivalent was significantly higher in Laramie (p < .05). The hypoxia-induced decrease in the anaerobic threshold ( workload = 906 kpm/min at both sites) which was hypothesized was not observed. Likewise, resting hematocrit and hemoglobin were not affected by the 1,200 m altitude increment (44.88 vs. 44.53% and 15.39 vs. 15.01 gm%, respectively). Maximum aerobic power, heart rate, and ventilation were not statistically significant. Maximum ventilatory equivalent increased and vital capacity decreased significantly in Laramie. In general, basketball players with moderately high aerobic power who reside at an altitude of 1,000 m do not display the hypoxic response to an altitude of 2,200 m expected of sea level residents and aerobically trained athletes.     

NEWS AND NOTES

The purpose of this column is to keep religious educators abreast of the relevant significant research in the general field of psychology. Its implications for methods and materials in religious education are clear. Religious educators may well take advantage of every new finding in scientific research.

Bach abstract or group is preceded by an evaluation and interpretative comment, which aims to guide the reader in understanding the research reported.

All of these abstracts are from PSYCHOLOGICAL ABSTRACTS, and used by permission of that periodical. The abstract number is Volume 29, Number 1, February, 1955.     

The Douglas County Model in Western Colorado

ABSTRACT

In 2012 the Marmot Library Network implemented the Douglas County Library Model of ebook collection and circulation. By 2014 Marmot had loaded 838 ebooks purchased direct from publishers and independent authors to an Adobe Content Server, and made them available in an open source discovery layer based on VuFind. In late 2015, after 3 years of disappointing circulation and tedious acquisition processes, Marmot decided to move some of this collection to OverDrive and abandon the local ACS. This article reports lessons learned from that experiment.

Column Editor’s Note This column focuses on formal collaboration and networking among libraries through consortia. It offers in-depth examinations of issues facing modern library consortia including (but not limited to) e-resource licensing, ebooks, next generation integrated library systems, shared print programs, shared digital repositories, governance, cooperative services and other relevant topics. Contributions are accepted for this column and must be submitted to George Machovec (george@coalliance.org). Contact the column editor for suggested topics, deadlines and formatting.     

Multidimensional Perfectionism,Depression, and Satisfaction With Life: Differences Among Perfectionists and Tests of a Stress‐Mediation Model

This study examined the relationship between adaptive and maladaptive perfectionism, stress, depression, and satisfaction with life in a sample of undergraduate women. The authors found that maladaptive perfectionists had lower satisfaction with life and higher stress and depression scores compared with adaptive perfectionists. Results also indicated that stress mediated the relationship between maladaptive perfectionism and depression and between both maladaptive and adaptive perfectionism and satisfaction with life. Implications for college counselors are discussed.