Thesis (Ph.D)--University of Tasmania, 2003. / "The prints of Jeffrey Smart's paintings included within this thesis ... are not available for reproduction."--P. iii. Includes bibliographical references.

Thesis (Ed.D.) in Individualized in Girls / Includes vita. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 138-147).

Disp. Stockholm : Stockholms universitet, 2006.

Thesis (Ed. D.)--Illinois State University, 1995. / Title from title page screen, viewed April 24, 2006. Dissertation Committee: John T. Goeldi (chair), Kenneth F. Jerich, Patricia H. Klass, Margarat Shaw-Baker. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 178-185) and abstract. Also available in print.

The World Federation of Occupational Therapists (WFOT) requires occupational therapy (OT) students to successfully complete 1,000 hours of clinical practice experience (ENOTHE, 2000). To fulfill this requirement is a challenge for OT education programs, which are in their pioneering stage of development. A limited number of qualified occupational therapists poses a problem for the supervision of OT students during their practice placement service. This doctoral project proposes a training program for on-site health and education professionals who will mentor OT students. The training program can be applied to any role-emerging fieldwork sites for occupational therapy and other health professions. The contents of the training program are based on the needs of the environment. Evidence indicates that there is a lack of understanding of OT by the general and professional public in Kosovo (Bllaca, 2015; Krasniqi, 2016; Jakupi, 2017). Based on the review of evidence-based research, it is difficult to place students in role-emerging placements because of a lack of qualified direct on-site supervisors (Vermeulen, de Jongh and Hess, 2012); and that there is a need to develop on-site placement mentor training programs (Cooper & Raine, 2009). With adequate training, on-site placement supervisors can assess the professional development of OT students (Levy et al., 2009; Allison & Turpin, 2004). Based on the needs in Kosovo, the mentor training program will include education about occupational therapy, placement mentoring, OT practice competencies, communication strategies and documentation methods. The goals of the mentor training program are: 1. to qualify on-site practice mentors to assess the professional skills and behaviors of the OT student, 2. to provide students with effective direct guidance from a mentor during their fieldwork experience, 3. to raise awareness of the OT profession within the health and education professions, and 4. to increase the quality of health care services for individuals in the community through the provision of OT services by the students.

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Master of Agribusiness / Department of Agricultural Economics / Terry Griffin / Weather uncertainty plays a large role in farm management decisions. Changes in weather trends or increased variability during the growing season may alter the optimal farm management choices regarding machinery purchases, crop allocation to available acreage, varietal trait selection, and crop management practices. These farm management decisions impact the expected length of time available from planting to harvest. The dates that farmers most actively plant and harvest crops changes from year to year based on annual weather patterns that affect the number of days suitable to conduct fieldwork. This research analyzed corn planting and harvest progress, as well as the number of days suitable for fieldwork in Iowa, Kansas, and Missouri. Variability of days suitable for fieldwork across crop reporting districts within each state was reported. The total number of days suitable for fieldwork during the ‘most active’ planting and harvest weeks in each state were then analyzed to determine if increasing or decreasing trends exist and estimated as ordinary least squares (OLS) regression. The outcomes presented in this research indicated a statistically significant decreasing trend in days suitable for spring planting in Iowa, and positive trend in Missouri during fall harvest. However, no statistically significant trends were observed in Kansas for either time period. Farm management implications were examined in relation to the results of the days suitable for fieldwork analysis, specifically regarding machinery sizing decisions. Profit maximizing producers must manage machinery such that they are not over-equipped, but have adequate equipment capacity to plant and harvest all acreage within the available days suitable for fieldwork. Results of these analyses are directly of interest to farmers desiring to optimally equip their farms, agricultural lenders providing farmers with financing of equipment, and equipment manufacturers.

Through an examination of the processes and influences on the character of grey literature and its producers, this thesis explores the nature of archaeological investigation, how it is reported and the creation of archaeological data in England from 1990 to 2010 and the implications for future understanding of the English archaeological record. I intend to address broad research questions regarding grey literature and archaeology: What is grey literature? Who creates it and why? What is it meant for? Is it fit-for-purpose? My research objectives in studying grey literature reporting and archaeological fieldwork investigation in England are: •To explore the nature of archaeological grey literature reporting and its producers, the framework of its production and communication, and its impact on archaeological research and knowledge production; •To capture the developments and changes in English archaeological practice between 1990 and 2010 and their implications for the creation and understanding of the archaeological record; and •To consider potential future directions for archaeological fieldwork and reporting. I propose to achieve this using a combination of both quantitative and qualitative approaches including spatial analysis techniques, comparative analysis at a range of scales from England-wide to individual case study areas, and detailed analysis of the nature and actual content of grey literature reports alongside a characterisation of the many creators of grey literature reporting. This study will illustrate and explore the process of producing grey literature reporting as well as examining the end product itself - grey literature reports. This European Research Council funded DPhil research was undertaken within the context of the English Landscapes and Identities Project, which analyses change and continuity in the English Landscape from the middle Bronze Age (c.1500 BC) to the Domesday survey (c. AD 1086).

Magister Scientiae (Occupational Therapy) - MSc(OT) / Fieldwork is seen to be an essential component in the curriculum of an undergraduate occupational therapy (OT) program through which students develop their professional behavior and apply theoretical education to clinical practice. Students in their final year of the undergraduate OT program at the University of the Western Cape (UWC) use the UWC Community Process as a guide to community fieldwork in community settings. This process follows a community development approach to allow students to focus on the needs of the community. The community fieldwork placement is compulsory for all final year OT students. The main aims of the placement are for students to develop their understanding of the role of an occupational therapist in a community setting and to enhance their understanding of the occupational nature of communities. This study focuses on final year UWC OT students' experiences of the supervision they received while following the steps of the Community Process as well as their perceptions of the relationship between their supervision and their learning about occupation based community practice. The aim of the study was to explore how the 2009 final year OT students experienced fieldwork supervision during their community fieldwork placement. The study followed an interpretivist paradigm with a qualitative research methodological approach and a phenomenological design. Purposeful sampling was used to select participants from the UWC OT department who undertook their community fieldwork placement in 2009. All the data utilized in this study was directly linked to the students' experiences of supervision during their learning of the Community Process. Therefore, the methods of data collection that were used included the students' daily reflective journals, their portfolio files and an evaluative focus group held at the end of the year 2009. All data was critically analyzed through a process of thematic analysis in order to meet the research objectives. The techniques of triangulation and a detailed description of the research process were employed to ensure trustworthiness of the study. The ethical principles of autonomy, nonmaleficence, beneficence as well as informed written consent were adhered to in the study. The findings of the study highlighted the emotions that the students experienced, the development of their professional judgement and the challenges and experiences they encountered in their personal and professional development. The findings further showed that the process of becoming a part of the community allowed the students to define their role as an OT in a community setting and to increase their understanding of community development in the context of their role within the community. The findings also emphasized the students' experiences with regards to various teaching and learning techniques and approaches used within the supervision of their community fieldwork placement. The significance of this study lies in its contribution to the generation of an understanding of how supervision influences students' understanding of occupation-based community practice in occupational therapy.