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Optimizing Leadership to Promote Social/Cultural Responsibility through CIO Recruitment in an ABA Clinic
No full textOptimizing Leadership to Promote Social/Cultural Responsibility through CIO Recruitment in an ABA Clinic. Tina Sears, 2024: Strategic Research Project, Nova Southeastern University, Abraham S. Fischler College of Education and School of Criminal Justice. Keywords: applied behavior analysis (ABA), autism spectrum disorder (ASD), Behavior Analysis Certification Board (BACB), Chief Information Officer (CIO) digital tools, and stakeholders
This Strategic Research Project (SRP) was designed to address service delivery gaps in an ABA clinic post the COVID-19 pandemic by hiring a Chief Information Officer (CIO). Clinics require increased security measures and expedited service delivery in response to external threats presented by the pandemic and customer demands. The ABA clinic referenced in the SRP was created in 2007 to provide ABA services that increase the quality of life for clients suffering from maladaptive behaviors associated with autism spectrum disorder. The services are provided by the BACB approved providers who have a passion for assisting those with autism spectrum disorder. The internal and external factor evaluation in the SWOT analysis revealed that the clinic’s problem to be addressed was corporate social responsibility (CSR). To address this problem, hiring a CIO was the selected solution for increasing corporate social responsibility within the organization. The two strategies to implement the CIO initiative were: e-leadership and traditional CIO leadership. The strategies were analyzed by the QSPM tool that revealed the traditional CIO leadership strategy was the better strategy. The total attractiveness score of 6.29 for traditional CIO leadership was based on the utilization of the Internal Factor Evaluation (IFE) and External Factor Evaluation (EFE) generated from the SWOT analysis which extended the broader discussion toward this strategy. This project includes an action plan to implement this strategy. The action plan steps are: (a) assessing the current performance of the organization during the first 90 days, (b) assessing current leadership interventions in improving healthcare outcomes during the first 90 days, (c) assessing guidelines adherence in the first 90 days, (d) establishing more digital services for evidence-based ABA services, (e) establishing more digital services for tracking outcomes and client access to records, and (f) establishing more digital services for training and credentialing of employees.
The literary analysis revealed support for the three selected solutions that included: changing policies within the company, increasing direct acts of community service, and creating more webinars. However, not only had these solutions already been implemented effectively, the COVID-19 pandemic presented new challenges in upholding corporate social responsibility to the ASD community. The SWOT analysis and the QSPM model thus reflected stronger support for CIO leadership in the traditional sense. The traditional role of the CIO was the chosen strategy over e-leadership due to the demands of cybersecurity, awareness of clinical practices, and upholding regulatory board demands for reporting and initiating insurance claims. Ongoing studies of the effects of globalized management versus total quality management in tracking CIO leadership outcomes are encouraged in maintaining CSR initiatives in healthcare
On Restorative Validity: Reorienting Inquiry Toward Peace, Justice, and Healing
Full text linkThis work begins with a simple premise: (re)imagining a healing and restorative space for inquiry. Drawing on the work of John H. Stanfield II (2006), who first suggested the restorative functions of qualitative inquiry, this manuscript forms the basis for an axiologically-actuated conceptual model, restorative validity, which asks what it would take to (re)humanize researcher and researched alike. Beginning with the knowledge of co-researchers in our collective, the formulation of this framework was organized to understand the importance of orienting our research and ourselves toward relationships, justice, and liberation. After this review, I discuss a series of reflexive questions, rooted in the trans-disciplinarity of restorative justice, which researchers and practitioners can use to consider the potential and real harms in/from inquiry. By unsettling expertise and examining the implicit intersection of validity and ethics, I question: What would it take to be part of a research project that leaves those involved feeling greater than how we have all been defined? What happens when we do not question what our research does for/to us and our participants, especially when it spurs intellectual debate with little benefit in the way of peace, justice, or healing of past traumas and loss
Strategies for Educators to Teach Mixed Methods Research: A Discussion
No full textMixed methods research has become increasingly popular in multiple disciplines. Teaching mixed methods is critical to prepare students for using and evaluating the quality of published mixed methods research to inform practice. However, there is limited knowledge about instructional and pedagogical approaches to teaching mixed methods. The purpose of this paper is to outline strategies for educators on how to effectively teach mixed methods research. Teaching mixed methods requires educators to use multifaceted teaching and learning strategies targeting reflective, experiential, collaborative, and inquiry-based learning domains. Including case studies, games, and critical appraisal exercises can result in a more engaging and riveting learning experience for students. A combination of activities targeting varied teaching and learning domains, along with hands-on and student-centered teaching assignments, can be valuable to facilitate student learning of interrelated concepts of mixed methods research
The Scholarly Communications Landscape at Nova Southeastern University
No full textThe scholarly publishing landscape has always evolved and changed over time to adjust to changes in technology or policy. Today\u27s focus on accessibility, selfmarketing of research, and the cost of publishing in an openly accessible format shapes and moves this landscape as new policies are enacted, budgets are reduced or flattened, and researchers are finding that there is more to do post-publication to disseminate their work. Join Keri Baker, NSU\u27s Scholarly Communications Librarian, as she introduces her new role on campus, discusses the different types of open access and what they mean, and how her department can help you with discoverability of your work, defining copyright and open access types as it pertains to the NSU research landscape, and discussing how to navigate the world of Article Processing Charges {APCs) to understand ways you can make affordable decisions on making your research open
Motivación de los Estudiantes en los Escenarios Virtuales de Aprendizaje en el Programa de Educación Especial en una Institución Educativa Pública en Puerto Rico
No full textEste proyecto de investigación estratégica fue diseñado para analizar el plan, la problemática, las soluciones, las estrategias, centradas en la falta de motivación de los estudiantes de educación especial en los escenarios virtuales de aprendizaje en post pandemia. Para abordar el problema de la escuela superior pública en el programa de educación especial sobre la falta de motivación de los estudiantes en los escenarios virtuales de aprendizaje en post pandemia se describió el entorno de la institución. Se identificaron las Posibles Brechas de Crecimiento a través de los 40 factores entre Fortalezas, Debilidades, Oportunidades y Amenazas, mediante la evaluación de los Factores Internos en la Matriz EFI y la Evaluación de los Factores Externos en la Matriz EFE, la Síntesis de la Literatura Relacionada con el Problema que abordó cuatro posibles soluciones y se seleccionó la tercera solución encaminada a preparar y ejecutar un programa de capacitación en línea a los maestros sobre la enseñanza en escenarios virtuales de aprendizaje centrado en la educación especial.
Para ejecutar esa solución se identificaron dos estrategias. Luego de un análisis mediante una matriz de valoración de los factores internos y externos se seleccionó la que obtuvo una mayor cantidad de puntuación total de atractivo. La estrategia que destacó fue el desarrollar e implementar un programa de capacitación en línea para los maestros sobre la enseñanza en escenarios virtuales de aprendizaje centrado en la educación especial. Para poder implementar esa estrategia se desarrolló un plan de acción. Con ese plan se creará un comité que tendrá a su cargo la presentación de la estrategia al consejo escolar, adiestrar a los maestros, desarrollar el contenido adaptado, monitorear la implementación y analizar los resultados. Este plan está diseñado para que el SRP sea implementado desde el mes de agosto de 2024 hasta mayo de 2025. El comité comenzará a adaptar el contenido a utilizarse en línea. Luego, comenzarán a adiestrar a los maestros sobre la tecnología básica y la educación en línea. Los maestros seleccionados estarán aplicando lo aprendido con sus estudiantes. Mientras el comité estará realizando evaluaciones para recolectar datos para mejorar o darle continuidad a lo establecido en el plan.
Para la ejecución de este SRP se recomienda comenzar a adaptar los contenidos de la clase de español. Debido a que este es el lenguaje principal de la comunidad escolar identificada. En adición, que se seleccione un grado escolar del nivel superior para la implementación del SRP. De esta manera minimizar la complejidad del tema a investigar. Finalmente, que se aumente el tiempo de creación y adaptación del material educativo para la educación en línea. Esto permitirá un mejor proceso de diseño y selección del contenido a implementarse
Demystifying the Notion of Charisma: Micro-Ethnography on a Veteran-Teacher’s Classroom Practices
No full textThis IRB-approved and grounded in social semiotics theory micro-ethnographic case study was conducted within a longitudinal ethnography project and is focused on the teaching style of one veteran teacher in a public urban elementary school in the North-Eastern United States. The data in this qualitative micro-ethnographic case study were collected from multiple sources (e.g., field notes, observations, interviews, audio- and video-recordings). The interview data were analyzed using Saldaña’s (2013) thematic and value coding. The focus research participants’ verbal and non-verbal behaviors during her interactions with her students were analyzed in accordance with the micro-ethnographic research traditions. The above data were triangulated with the ones from the multimodal language analysis. This research found that teachers may set the goal and develop in themselves highly attractive for students so-called charismatic professional qualities