Social support has been identified as an important component of planning for careers among high school students. Lent, Brown, and Hackett (2000) advocated for the importance of this support within Social Cognitive Career Theory (SCCT). These authors identified a need for further research with better measurement for examining contextual support and its connection to career decision-making. Ali et al. (2011) developed a set of measures to address this need for better measurement, but identified the need for more nuanced examination of specific types of contextual support. The current study was designed to assess the importance of nuanced measuring of different types of support in career-decision making. Specifically, two scales, School Personnel and Community, from the Contextual Support of Post Secondary Planning Scales (CSPSPS) are analyzed using confirmatory factor analysis to force the scales into the factor structures proposed by Ali et al. (2011). Additionally, exploratory factor analysis was used to further examine the school personnel scale. Finally, interventions to aid School Personnel and Community in ways to support students in career decision-making are considered.

Memory dysfunction is common in association with the course of normal aging. Memory dysfunction is also obligatory in age-associated neurological disorders, such as Alzheimer’s disease. However, despite the ubiquitousness of age-related memory decline, several basic questions regarding this entity remain unanswered. The present investigation addressed two such questions: (1) Can individuals suffering from memory dysfunction due to aging and amnesia due to Alzheimer’s disease improve memory performance if contextual support is provided at the time of acquisition of to-be- remembered material or reproduction of to-be-remembered material? (2) Are memory deficits observed in ‘younger’ older adults similar to the deficits observed in ‘older’ elderly subjects, Alzheimer’s disease, and memory dysfunction in younger subjects? The outcome of this investigation suggests an affirmative answer to the first question. Given appropriate support at encoding and retrieval, even densely amnesic patients can improve their memory performance. As to the second question, a more complex pattern emerges. When attentional demands are varied, subjects of varying ages perform qualitatively similar. However, when semantic aspects of the to-be- remembered material are manipulated, age-associated qualitative differences are observed. These qualitative differences show up between older and younger adults, as well as between ‘younger’ and ‘older’ elderly subjects. / <p>Diss. (sammanfattning) Umeå : Univ., 1992, härtill 6 uppsatser</p> / digitalisering@umu

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Det nu föreliggande examensarbetet har haft som syfte att undersöka och bidra med kunskap om hur några lärare beskriver språkutvecklande undervisning för elever inom SFI-undervisningen spår 1 och hur de beskriver att specialläraren med språk-, skriv- och läsutveckling kan fungera som stöd i det språkutvecklande arbetet. Undersökningen genomfördes på en SFI-utbildning på spår 1, med fyra lärare och fem undervisningsgrupper i kurserna A-D. Undersökningens empiri baseras på fem observationer, en Diamond ranking och en fokusgruppsintervju. Undersökningen har haft en kvalitativ ansats och sociokulturell teori och en modell "SFI-undervisningens ABC" som stöd och grund för empirins analys. Lärarna beskriver att de i sin språkutvecklande undervisning utgår från elevernas kunskaper och att de genom att träna tala, lyssna, skriva, läsa och förstå arbetar för en språkutvecklande undervisning. Resultatet visar också att det finns behov av att få tillgång till en speciallärare språk-, skriv- och läsutveckling på SFI eftersom det är en komplex undervisningssituation för både lärare och elever inom SFI-utbildningen. Resultatet visar att elevernas heterogena språkbakgrund ställer stora krav på den undervisande läraren som måste förhålla sig till många modersmål och dess inverkan på språkinlärningen i svenska som andraspråk. Ett resultat visar också att modellen "SFI-undervisningens ABC" som stöd används i den observerade undervisningen till viss del, men det finns behov att arbeta för att implementera den ytterligare. I undersökningens resultat framkommer att både lärare, språkstödjare och speciallärare tillsammans kan bidra till att öka kunskapen om och motverka risken för att både elever och lärare hamnar i språklig och pedagogisk sårbarhet. / The purpose of this survey has been to investigate and contribute knowledge about how a few teachers describe language development teaching for students in SFI teaching track 1 and how they believe that the special needs teacher with language, writing and reading development can function as support in that work. The survey was conducted on an SFI education on track 1, with four teachers and five teaching groups in courses A-D. The survey empirics are based on five observations, a Diamond ranking and a focus group interview. The survey has had a qualitative approach with a sociocultural theory and a teaching model of The ABC of SFI teaching as support and basis for the empirical analysis. The teachers describe that their language development teaching is based on the students' knowledge and that by practicing speaking, listening, writing, reading and understanding in a multimodal and translanguaging way, they work for a language development teaching. The results also show that there is a need to have access to a special needs teacher of language, writing and reading development at SFI, as this is a complex teaching situation for both teachers and students in the SFI education. It also shows that the students' heterogeneous language background calls for a high level of proficiency in teaching on the teacher, who must relate to many native languages and its impact on language acquisition in Swedish as a second language. The result also shows that the teaching model of The ABC of SFI teaching as support is used in the observed teaching to some extent, but there is a need to work to implement it further. The results of the survey show that both teachers, language supporters and special teachers together can contribute to increasing knowledge about and counteracting the risk that both students and teachers end up in linguistic and pedagogical vulnerability.