Environmental Support and Physical Education Teacher Self-Efficacy: A Test of Social Cognitive Theory

There is a need for sound self-efficacy measures in education that are based on Social Cognitive Theory. Physical education benefits public health by addressing physical inactivity and obesity. The purpose of this study was to develop and test a standards-based training program and virtual blog on self-efficacy. Participants were 60 physical education teachers recruited from 16 school districts. Three self-efficacy scales were administered at the beginning of a workshop and after a six-week collaborative blog. The major finding is that the intervention enhanced self-efficacy to a much greater extent than the control group. The average experimental group effect size for ESBI was .97 compared to .19 for the control group. This work supports the notion that self-efficacy is specific to context and content and could serve as a guide for future professional development opportunities

Wound Management Practices and Perceived Barriers to the Performance of Wound Management by Nurses Who Practice in Rural Mid West Hospitals

This non-experimental exploratory descriptive study investigated the management practices and perceived barriers to wound management by nurses practicing in rural mid west hospitals. One hundred thirty female registered nurses participated in the study and completed The Wound Assessment and Management Questionnaire. Data were analyzed using descriptive and inferential statistics. Findings revealed that nurses in this study were older and had more years of nursing practice experience compared to participants from three other international wound management studies. There were no statistically significant differences between Total Knowledge Scores and demographics or continuing professional development. There were statistical differences between some inservice attendance and Total Practice Scores of Preventive Strategies and basic nursing education and one work-related barrier to good practice. Qualitative data revealed six new themes related to barriers to good practice. The results of this study can be used by nurse leaders to improve nursing practice and for nurse educators to design educational programs related to wound management educators to design educational programs related to wound management

Environmental Support and Physical Education Teacher Self-Efficacy: A Test of Social Cognitive Theory

There is a need for sound self-efficacy measures in education that are based on Social Cognitive Theory. Physical education benefits public health by addressing physical inactivity and obesity. The purpose of this study was to develop and test a standards-based training program and virtual blog on self-efficacy. Participants were 60 physical education teachers recruited from 16 school districts. Three self-efficacy scales were administered at the beginning of a workshop and after a six-week collaborative blog. The major finding is that the intervention enhanced self-efficacy to a much greater extent than the control group. The average experimental group effect size for ESBI was .97 compared to .19 for the control group. This work supports the notion that self-efficacy is specific to context and content and could serve as a guide for future professional development opportunities.</p

Green states in a dirty world : 1975 and the performance of Nordic green modern

This chapter examines the 1975 Nordic Council conference at Frostavallen in Sweden as a transnational media event which specifically sought to articulate a green modernity to the outside world. It argues that the Nordic countries used Frostavallen to perform and formulate a green modernity based around international cooperation and progressive solutions blending policy and technology. This performance allowed the Nordics to not only claim and legitimize environmental leadership to domestic and international audiences, but also place brand themselves as an environmentally progressive region. Facilitated by institutionalized Nordic cooperation, the conference can be regarded as the progenitor of contemporary Nordic environment and climate change campaigns, whereby the Nordic states communicate a uniform Nordic sustainable modernity to the world as a political strategy.publishedVersio

Making a model: the 1974 Nordic Environmental Protection Convention and Nordic attempts to form international environmental law

This article investigates the 1974 Nordic Environmental Protection Convention. It shows that the ulterior motives for such a convention were Nordic ambitions to regulate and reduce transboundary pollution originating outside of the Nordic region. Emphasizing the inter-organizational dynamics between institutionalized Nordic cooperation and international organizations, it examines how the Nordics drew on developments within international organizations and how they pursued their agenda of shaping international environmental law within the OECD. Ultimately, the article argues that the Nordic countries tried to create a model convention to be exported to and implemented at the international level with the aim of reducing transboundary pollution and establishing transnational responsibilities and accountabilities. By setting out this argument and shedding light on the first legally binding international convention to address transboundary pollution with procedural principles, the article breaks new ground on the history of Nordic environmental cooperation as well as on the development of international environmental law.publishedVersio

Validation of the Physical Education Teacher's Efficacy for Standards-Based Instruction (ESBI) Scale

This article studies the validity and reliability of the Efficacy for Standards-Based Instruction (ESBI) scale, developed by the current investigators, and to compare the ESBI with two other self-efficacy scales that had been used in physical education