An observational study was conducted examining the social and cognitive play of young children with hearing-impairment playing in small groups composed of both hearing and hearing-impaired peers. The questions addressed the effects of the hearing status of the play partner upon the social/cognitive play patterns of children with hearing-impairment, and the relationship between their play patterns and their communicative competence, social competence and speech intelligibility. Forty-eight hearing-impaired subjects ranging in age from 3-6 to 6-1 were observed playing with partners of same and different hearing status during integrated play sessions at 13 school sites. The social play categories included solitary, parallel and group play, while the cognitive play categories included functional, constructive and dramatic play. Results of the study showed that the play patterns of the hearing-impaired children differed significantly for each group of partners. When playing with hearing-impaired partners, subjects engaged in group functional and constructive play more frequently than parallel functional and constructive play, and with equal frequency in parallel dramatic and group dramatic play. When playing with hearing partners, subjects engaged with equal frequency in group and parallel play. When playing with mixed groups of hearing and hearing-impaired partners, subjects engaged in group dramatic play more frequently than parallel dramatic play, and with equal frequency in group functional and constructive play, and parallel functional and constructive play. Communicative competence was negatively correlated to functional play. A positive correlation was found between social competence and constructive play, and between speech intelligibility and dramatic play. These correlations remained significant when age was partialed out. The hearing-impaired subjects spent similar percentages of time in social/cognitive play as those reported for hearing children. The study supports the premise that the play of young hearing-impaired children varies according to the hearing status of the play partner and is neither delayed nor deficient.

The purpose of this study was to determine the effectiveness of the guided daydream technique as a method for selection of a vocation and major area of study by college students seeking vocational counseling. Choices made by each student were rated by three judges relative to their degree of correspondence with the results of a specific battery of vocational tests which that student had taken. The ratings of these students' choices were compared with similar ratings made by the same judges on a control group of students who had also made choices of vocation and college major but had not participated in the guided daydream session.

Killeen's (2005) Prep is an estimator of the replicability of an experiment. It is specifically defined as the probability of obtaining an effect of the same sign as that found in original experiment. Nevertheless, since it was announced, the validity and reliabliltiy of Prep has been challenged by a number of researchers. The present study aims at improving the performance of Prep by applying the nonparametric bootstrap method in its computation, and this bootstrap replication estimator is denoted as PBrep . A simulation study was carried out to compare the performance of Killeen's Prep and the proposed PBrep under different conditions. As expected, PBrep gives a more accurate estimation than Prep. However, PBrep occasionally fails to work properly when there is a zero population effect size, so there is still a room for improvement. / Killeen (2005) 發明的Prep是一種實驗重複估計量，它是指能夠獲得與最初實驗效應量一致方向的可能性。但自其發表以來，該系數的信度及效度仍受到不少學者的質疑。是次研究嘗試通過使用自助抽樣法以改善此系數的效能，並將改良的新系數命名為PBrep。不同環境下對兩個系數準確度的模擬測試結果顯示，PBrep比Prep能達到更準確的估計值。然而當目標總體不存在差別效應時，PBrep偶爾會出現較大的偏差，因此未來研究仍需在此方向作出改善。 / Chan, Man Lok. / Thesis M.Phil. Chinese University of Hong Kong 2014. / Includes bibliographical references (leaves 37-40). / Title from PDF title page (viewed on 14, September, 2016).

Orientador: Lígia Márcia Martins / Banca: Juliana Campregher Pasqualini / Banca: Tiago Nicola Lavoura / Banca: Renato Eugênio da Silva Diniz / Banca: Luiz Bezerra Neto / Resumo: A Pedagogia Histórico-Crítica estabelece algumas premissas que se colocam como ponto de partida para o estudo aqui apresentado, entre elas: a relação entre o trabalho educativo e a formação/transformação na concepção de mundo de alunos e professores é uma das preocupações centrais desta teoria pedagógica; o papel do conhecimento sistematizado se efetiva de maneira mais consistente quanto mais o ensino se aproxime de uma concepção materialista, histórica e dialética de mundo; ensinar conteúdos escolares é ensinar concepções de mundo veiculadas por eles. Desta forma, o presente trabalho, situado nas interfaces entre a Pedagogia Histórico-Crítica, a Psicologia Histórico-Cultural e a Filosofia da Biologia, pretende explicitar a relação entre a educação escolar e a formação da concepção de mundo, particularizada na mediação de conteúdos de ensino a partir da teoria evolucionista. Tomando como unidade de análise o trabalho pedagógico, buscou-se examinar os principais elementos da teoria da evolução como contribuições para a formação, por meio da educação escolar, de uma concepção objetiva de natureza; bem como elucidar as relações entre a construção de uma concepção objetiva de natureza e a elaboração de uma concepção científico-filosófica de mundo, tendo em vista apontar o potencial desenvolvente do ensino de Biologia para a edificação da mesma. O primeiro capítulo destinou-se a esclarecer as origens da concepção de mundo e a unidade de análise do objeto desta pesquisa (ambos fund... (Resumo completo, clicar acesso eletrônico abaixo) / Abstract: The Critical-Historical Pedagogy establishes some premises that stand as a starting point for the study presented here, among them: the relation between education and the formation / transformation of the worldview of students and teachers is one of the central concerns of that pedagogical theory; the role of scientific knowledge is more consistently effective the more teaching approaches a materialist, historical, and dialectical worldview; teaching school content is to teach worldviews conveyed by them. The present study is based on Critical-Historical Pedagogy, Cultural-Historical Psychology and the Philosophy of Biology and aims to clarify the relation between school education and the formation of the worldview, through the mediation of the school content "evolution". We take as unit of analysis the pedagogical work and sought to examine the main elements of the theory of evolution as contributions to the formation, through school education, of an objective conception of nature; as well as to elucidate the relations between the construction of an objective conception of nature and the elaboration of a scientific-philosophical worldview, in order to point out the developmental potential of Biology teaching for its construction. The first chapter was intended to clarify the origins of the worldview and the unit of analysis of this research (both based on the human work). In the second chapter three different dimensions of the worldview (philosophical-scientific, psychologic... (Complete abstract click electronic access below) / Doutor

In two experiments, I arranged the environment to determine if a relation existed between the social setting, which was defined by the presence of a peer or multiple peers and measured by the participants’ verbal behavior, and the learning of new reinforcers for the participants and the confederate peers. The peers were used to establish an intervention setting that fostered interaction between individuals but did not require it. In both experiments, two pre- and post- intervention tests of the dependent variables were used to measure the learning of new reinforcers. In Experiment 1, two intervention conditions were counterbalanced across participants to identify if a neutral stimulus would attain reinforcing value by observation if it was simultaneously delivered to both participant and peer for responding to previously learned math equations (Condition 1) or if the conditioning phenomenon was only observed when the neutral item was delivered to the peer (while the participant was present but denied access to the stimulus) for responding to previously learned math equations (Condition 2). Participant behavior was measured for all variables across all phases of the experiment and peer behavior was measured during the pre- and post-intervention screening test. The results from Experiment 1 showed that the participants did not learn new reinforcers when the neutral stimulus (NS) was delivered simultaneously to both participant and peer as they completed math worksheets. However, the previously neutral stimulus did become a reinforcer when the participant did not receive the NS but observed the peer receive the NS as they completed the math worksheets. Peer behavior was also measured during the pre- and post-intervention screening test and was consistent with the participants’ results; peers acquired new reinforcers during Condition 2 but not Condition 1, even though they were never denied access to the stimulus. In Experiment 2, I tested whether reinforcers would be conditioned through observation regardless of the role that the participant was assigned during the intervention. Pre- and post-intervention tests for the dependent variables measured the behaviors of all nine participants regardless of the participant’s intervention role (e.g. peer, recipient). In Experiment 2, participants were randomly put in groups of three that included two participants (peers) who observed the third participant (recipient) receive the NS as a reinforcement operation as all three were completing math worksheets. The setting was arranged in this manner to test the effect of the reinforcement operation when two peers observed one recipient receive the stimulus. The results are discussed as an analysis of social contingencies, reinforcement operations including deprivation and other implications that can be drawn from the changes in the participants’ and confederates’ behavior during the pre-and post-intervention measures.

A research report submitted to the Faculty of Commerce, Law and Management, University of the Witwatersrand, in partial fulfilment of the requirements for the degree of Master of Management in Business Executive Coaching Johannesburg, 2017 / A flow experience is described by Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi, the founding thought leader of the experience, as “the holistic sensation present when we act with total involvement” (1975, p.43). Flow experiences have been linked to positive outcomes for individuals and organisations (Csikszentmihalyi & LeFevre, 1989; Engeser & Rheinberg, 2008; Privette, 1983; Salanova, Bakker, & Llorens, 2006) suggesting that this is a desirable experience to facilitate in the workplace. Csikszentmihalyi states that there is much that can be done to introduce more flow to the day-to-day experiences of life, including at work (1999), yet, despite the documented role of organisational leaders as “climate engineers” (Linley, Woolston, & Biswas-Diener, 2009, p. 37) there has been no specific consideration of the flow experiences of executives as leaders. The possible relationship between coaching and flow experiences has to date received attention in mainstream literary circles, and superficial attention in academic literature (Britton, 2008; Wesson & Boniwell, 2007). Coaching executives to achieve flow has not been considered in existing literature in the Executive Coaching domain, but since Executive Coaching is still viewed as emerging (Hamlin, Ellinger, & Beattie, 2008), a confirmation that Executive Coaching can be applied to foster flow experiences in the workplace would add to the credibility of this field. The purpose of this study has been to identify how the emerging discipline of Executive Coaching can facilitate the creation of flow experiences in executive workplaces. The answer to this question has been sought through building an understanding of how flow is experienced by executives in the workplace, and then investigating how flow experiences can be facilitated in executive workplaces. The research study adopted a qualitative approach due to the known suitability of this method to consider the life experiences of participants. Face- to-face, semi-structured interviews were used as the core data collection method addressing a sample size of 16 respondents, made up of 13 executives and three executive coaches. This approach has previously been applied to collect rich narrative data on flow experiences. The study found that whilst executive flow experiences show some commonalities with the existing literature on flow and flow experiences at work, several distinct antecedents for and characteristics of executive flow were identifiable. These precursors and features of executive flow were attributed at three levels: a) at the level of the organisation; b) through the type of work, and c) at the individual level. Executive experiences of anti-flow, the opposite of flow, were also identified. These were typically characterised and initiated by opposite factors to those linked to flow experiences. The study outcomes identified the ability of executives to proactively pursue flow experiences, and further showed that self-awareness and an awareness and use of one’s strengths increase the likelihood of flow experiences. The study thus found that there clear focus areas exist which can be manipulated through interventions to increase likelihood of executive flow experiences. The study outcome that the three areas that impact executive flow experiences correlate to Executive Coaching focus areas introduces the possibility that coaching may be a suitable intervention to increase the likelihood of executive flow experiences. This developing hypothesis is subsequently supported by the final research theme that Executive Coaching may be able to support the executive in cultivating the respective individual, organisational and work conditions to increase the likelihood of flow experiences at work. / MT2017

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Section A is a literature review focused on critically evaluating theory and research relating to three variables commonly experienced by vulnerable pregnant women. These pose a ‘risk’ to unborn babies and include: social exclusion, stress and poor attachment (NICE, 2010). Selected interventions for reducing the known ‘risks’ are critically evaluated, as well as qualitative studies into the experiences of pregnancy for vulnerable women. Gaps in existing theory and research are discussed, leading to suggestions for future research, including further qualitative study of vulnerable women’s experiences of pregnancy. Section B presents a study into eight vulnerable women’s experiences of pregnancy and the Mellow Bumps antenatal intervention. Interpretative Phenomenological Analysis was used to make sense of participants’ experiences. The analysis revealed pregnancy was a time of reflection, when participants felt their bodies were being taken over, they felt more emotional than usual, relationships were important, and new identities developed. Pregnancy was a “normalising” experience, which provided an opportunity to build positive representations of the self. Mellow Bumps supported this. Implications for clinical practice and future research are discussed.