This study examined whether the disproportionality of African American children referred to special education is influenced by the level of implicit racial bias among teachers, using the aversive racism theory. Data were collected from teachers of kindergarten through sixth grade in the Iowa City Community School District through email recruitment. Using a factorial survey design, teachers evaluated five vignettes, each with five questions mirroring the referral process to special education, an implicit and explicit racial bias measure, and demographics. Of the 307 teachers emailed, only 21 completed the full survey. The small sample size hindered the analysis due to violations of two of the major assumptions of linear regression: normality and constant variance. Due to these violations, only limited interpretations can be concluded from the linear models. A logistic regression was also completed on the referral for special education dependent variable and yielded the following significant results: The teachers who scored high on the explicit racism measure were more likely to refer a child to a special education assessment and other results revealed associations between certain characteristics and behaviors of the children and their likelihood of referral. The majority of teachers in the sample (67%) scored high in implicit racial bias but none of the models indicates a relationship between the child's race and referral to special education. The study suggests there is some connection between implicit racial bias and referrals to special education but not due to race. However, the complexity of relationships among these and other factors in both interpersonal relationships and classroom dynamics makes it necessary to further investigate this question and potentially remedy the problem of disproportionality in special education.

<p>Den interaktiva tavlan, som är en dyr investering, återfinns i allt fler klassrum i Sverige. Forskning har gjorts på flera håll i världen angående olika aspekter av tavlans användning och vilka konsekvenser dessa kan få. I Sverige har det ännu inte gjorts så mycket inom det här forskningsområdet. Genom observationer och spontana intervjuer har jag velat ta reda på hur lärare i en svensk skola använder tavlan och hur de ser på behovet av utbildning på området. De olika användningssätten har jag kategoriserat som <em>Användning av tavlan som Whiteboard, Användning av tavlan som datorskärm och Användning av tavlan som interaktiv tavla,</em> där den andra kategorin var vanligast. Jag har i mina studier sett att lärare är mycket positiva till tavlan och också använder många funktioner den har. Dock skulle lärarnas användning av tavlan även vara möjlig med en dator kopplad till en projektor. Behovet av utbildning är stort enligt lärarna själva och även enligt mina slutsatser. Jag anser att utbildning eller fortbildning bör röra både det tekniska, praktiska och det pedagogiska planet. Det är viktigt att man diskuterar och reflekterar över sin egen undervisning med tavlan i klassrummet och hur man med hjälp av tavlans alla möjligheter kan involvera eleverna mer och arbeta mot en god lärande miljö.</p>

Den interaktiva tavlan, som är en dyr investering, återfinns i allt fler klassrum i Sverige. Forskning har gjorts på flera håll i världen angående olika aspekter av tavlans användning och vilka konsekvenser dessa kan få. I Sverige har det ännu inte gjorts så mycket inom det här forskningsområdet. Genom observationer och spontana intervjuer har jag velat ta reda på hur lärare i en svensk skola använder tavlan och hur de ser på behovet av utbildning på området. De olika användningssätten har jag kategoriserat som Användning av tavlan som Whiteboard, Användning av tavlan som datorskärm och Användning av tavlan som interaktiv tavla, där den andra kategorin var vanligast. Jag har i mina studier sett att lärare är mycket positiva till tavlan och också använder många funktioner den har. Dock skulle lärarnas användning av tavlan även vara möjlig med en dator kopplad till en projektor. Behovet av utbildning är stort enligt lärarna själva och även enligt mina slutsatser. Jag anser att utbildning eller fortbildning bör röra både det tekniska, praktiska och det pedagogiska planet. Det är viktigt att man diskuterar och reflekterar över sin egen undervisning med tavlan i klassrummet och hur man med hjälp av tavlans alla möjligheter kan involvera eleverna mer och arbeta mot en god lärande miljö.

Tidigare forskning har visat att implicita och explicita attityder formas och förändras oberoende av varandra, samt att allt fler politiker använder sig av sociala medier för att nå ut till sina väljare. Denna studie syftade till att undersöka hur deltagarnas implicita och explicita attityder, gentemot två fiktiva politiker, påverkas av traditionella och sociala medier. I studien användes en experimentell mellangruppsdesign där deltagarna slumpmässigt fördelades till olika betingelser. Dessa bestod av positiva och negativa nyhetsitems från dels traditionella dels sociala medier. I undersökningen, som genomfördes på internet, deltog 126 personer. För att mäta deltagarnas attitydförändringar användes dels ett Implicit Association Test (IAT), dels ett explicit frågeformulär. Traditionella media påverkade explicita attityder signifikant.

This report describes a method of incorporating decision analysis principles to enhance a simulation being created by The University of Texas at Austin’s Institute for Advanced Technology (IAT). The simulation is called Virtual Simulation Learning Platform (VSLP) and the scenario created to test the platform is called Virtual Platoon Leader (VPL). Recommendations include a method of implementing value-focused decision making, the implementation of decision tools to build a scenario within the simulation, a dialogue process between the developer and the subject matter expert, a design for the implementation of graphical user interfaces for the decision tools used to build a scenario and a user scoring methodology. / text

Die Bindungstheorie und daraus resultierende Annahmen und Diagnostika haben aufgrund ihrer breiten empirischen Absicherung auch weit über die Tradition der Psychoanalyse hinaus ihren Platz in Theorie und Praxis gefunden. Im Bereich der Bindungsdiagnostik sind gegenwärtig vermehrt projektive Verfahren, Interviewverfahren oder Fragebogenverfahren im Einsatz, die entweder zeit- und kostenintensiv in der Durchführung sind oder den Gegenstand Bindung nur unzureichend abbilden. Die hier vorgestellte Untersuchung begegnet dem Forschungsfeld der Bindungsdiagnostik durch die Nutzung impliziter Verfahren. An 15 Kindern aus dem Förderschwerpunkt Lernen und 70 einer Regelgrundschule wurden implizite Einstellungen zu Mutter und Vater, sowie zur Präferenz von Nähe und Spiel erhoben und in Zusammenhang zur Bindungsorganisation gesetzt. Dabei wird aufgezeigt, dass implizite Einstellungen, gemessen durch den Impliziten Assoziationstest (IAT), in einem engen Zusammenhang mit der Bindungsorganisation stehen und deshalb auch für bindungsdiagnostische Prozesse von Relevanz sein können. / Attachment theory and the resulting assumptions and measurements have had a huge impact on theory and practice of many domains far beyond psychoanalytic tradition. In the field of attachment diagnostics there are projective measurements, interviews or questionnaires which all show different advantages and problems. Interviews and projective measurements are known as “gold standard” in identifying attachment patterns but show huge economically problems because of the necessary manpower. Also, as in all projective measurements, reliability is a problem because everything depends on the coder and his or her interpretation of what is said by the subject. Questionnaires, in contrast, usually do not have problems with reliability, are fast and easy to use, but usually fail to identify attachment patterns. This project tries to identify attachment by using implicit measurements. It could be shown that implicit attitudes measured by several Implicit Association Tests (for example mother vs. others, closeness vs. play) relate to attachment patterns of school-age-children (N=70, primary school). Results are being discussed.

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Japan has been seen as a safe country in the world. Previous studies that show societal and cultural characteristics have contributed to the comparative low crime rates. Also, the roles of criminal justice system are critical. Today, Japanese society favors a more punitive approach towards offenders. The present study examined which variables of economic factors, socio-structural factors, and deterrence factors affected Japanese crime rates (i.e., homicide, robbery, and larceny), testing for Institutional anomie theory (IAT) and deterrence theory. I conducted visual examination of co-variation with Z-scores and an ARIMA (autoregressive integrated moving average), with Japanese governmental data from 1955 to 2012. The results indicated homicide rates were explained by neither IAT nor deterrence variables. Robbery rates were significantly related with unemployment rates and divorce rates, supporting IAT. Larceny rates were strongly associated with clearance rates, giving support to deterrence theory. Based on the results, practical implications and limitations were discussed.

Made available in DSpace on 2014-06-11T19:31:37Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 0 Previous issue date: 2007-06-29Bitstream added on 2014-06-13T19:02:02Z : No. of bitstreams: 1 held_amg_dr_botfca.pdf: 4163192 bytes, checksum: db80ee83ff94cbb037cbf6cd62d8a9f0 (MD5) / Foi realizada uma análise para se obter a caracterização das tempestades sob o aspecto climatológico para a área central do Estado de São Paulo cujos parâmetros foram obtidos com o software TITAN, desenvolvido no NCAR e implementado nos computadores do IPMet. Os parâmetros que caracterizam as propriedades das tempestades tais como volume médio, área média, altura dos topos dos ecos, refletividade máxima e média bem como velocidade e deslocamento dos sistemas precipitantes foram determinados considerando o limiar de refletividade>30 dBZ, e volume>30 km3. A distribuição espacial de parâmetros tais como volume médio, área média, refletividade média e máxima mostrou, pela primeira vez para a área central do Estado de São Paulo, como os mesmos se distribuíram pela área monitorada pelo radar de Bauru e também a existência de regiões preferenciais onde se concentra a maior atividade convectiva, durante os verões analisados. Todas as varreduras observadas pelo radar de Bauru foram também processadas para se determinar as áreas de tempestades definidas pelo limiar de refletividade maior que 25 dBZ, para a partir daí obter a integração dessas áreas para o tempo de duração de cada tempestade e calcular a IAT, que é a integral área-tempo. O método da Integral-Área-Tempo (IAT), para se medir precipitação volumétrica baseada na informação de cobertura da precipitação em área foi aplicado aos dados de radar meteorológico de Bauru, para dois períodos de verão, o de 1998-1999 e 1999-2000. A premissa de que a porção crescente do conglomerado convectivo seria suficiente para calcular uma IAT que ainda seria altamente correlacionada com o volume total de chuva resultando, portanto numa técnica para o nowcasting é testada e verificada para os dois períodos analisados. Os resultados das análises mostraram que as células de tempestade... / A climatological characterization of storm properties during two summer seasons, viz. 1998-1999 and 1999-2000, based on observations from the Bauru S-band Doppler radar, was obtained with the TITAN Software of NCAR, implemented at IPMet. Parameters, such as mean volume, mean area, mean and maximum echo tops, mean and maximum reflectivity, as well as speed and direction of precipitating systems were determined using the reflectivity> 30 dBZ and a volume> 30 km3 as a threshold for storm identification. The spatial distribution for parameters such as mean volume, mean area, mean and maximum reflectivity, mean and maximum echo top, etc, were determined for the first time in the central State of São Paulo, based on radar data information. It has shown some preferential areas where most of the convective activity was concentrated during the study period. The Area Time-Integration (ATI) method was then applied to these observations using the 25 dBZ thresholds, to determine the rainfall volume in the central area of the State of São Paulo, taking into account the entire lifetime of all observed storms that exceeded the threshold considered. Furthermore, it was also investigated, if it would be possible to estimate the ATIs only for the growth period of a convective storm and still obtain a good correlation. This method could then be applied to obtain the total rain volume of a convective system at the stage of its maximum development, which could be considered as a nowcasting tool to be explored in subsequent studies. The time span for the storms reaching their maximum area was found to be about 2 hours on average and this was reached within...(Complete abstract, click electronic access below)

Background: Childhood sexual abuse (CSA) has the potential to compromise the socioemotional development of the victim resulting in an increased vulnerability to difficulties regulating emotions and one’s sense of self. Emotion is thought to play a key part in a number of psychological disorders which CSA survivors are at increased risk of developing. A better understanding of the basic emotions experienced in this population and emotion regulation will inform current treatment. Aims: This research aimed to develop a better understanding of the emotions experienced by survivors of CSA and the relationship between “implicit” and explicit emotions and psychopathology. Method: Two empirical studies were conducted. Study 1 employed a cross-sectional consecutive case series design involving 109 survivors of CSA. Participants completed a set of measures relating to basic emotions, emotion regulation and symptoms. Exploratory factor analyses were conducted on the Basic Emotions scale (BES). Regression analyses were used to explore the relationship between emotions experienced, emotion regulation strategies and psychological symptoms. Study 2 examined basic emotions, “implicit disgust self-concept” and psychopathology in a population of CSA survivors (n=26) and a group of individuals currently receiving psychological therapy who reported that they had not experienced childhood trauma (n=25). Participants completed self-report measures pertaining to emotion, emotion regulation, symptoms and cognitive fusion. Participants also completed an implicit association test. Results: Exploratory factor analyses supported the structure of three versions of the BESWeekly, General, and Coping in a sample of survivors of childhood sexual abuse. In all three versions of the scale, disgust explained the largest proportion of variance. The basic emotions of sadness, fear and disgust as well as external dysfunctional coping strategies appear to predict PTSD symptomatology in this sample. The results of Study 2 also support the finding that self-reported disgust is prominent in the emotion profile of CSA survivors. Implicit disgust self-concept was not significantly correlated with other emotions or psychopathology. However, implicit disgust self-concept was found to be significantly associated with cognitive fusion. Discussion: Psychotherapeutic approaches for survivors of childhood sexual abuse should address the emotional experience of this population. In particular, these findings suggest that sadness and disgust should be targeted in therapy.