A survey of practices for the in-service guidance training of secondary school personnel

Thesis (M.A.)--Boston University, 1948. This item was digitized by the Internet Archive

An Occupational Therapy Guide to Regulation and Resilience in the Classroom

An occupational therapy educational program that focuses on increasing teachers\u27 knowledge surrounding childhood trauma as well as promoting regulation and resilience in the classroom.https://soar.usa.edu/otdcapstonesspring2023/1035/thumbnail.jp

Getting Unstuck: A Collaborative Approach to Getting Started with Digital Preservation

How can we collaborate across our institutions to preserve the digital objects we\u27re responsible for creating and collecting in our libraries? That’s the question five small liberal arts college libraries asked themselves that sparked a collaborative digital preservation initiative. The diversity of our institutions’ missions and collections present challenges to collaboration, particularly in the areas of records management and born-digital materials for which heightened security concerns and a greater risk of loss are paramount. Those challenges may not only prevent collaboration. They may also prevent institutions from taking action to address them on their own campuses, partially due to the relatively high cost of the more comprehensive digital preservation software solutions on the market, or the lack of technical expertise to implement and support sustainable open source solutions. Acknowledging our diversity, we discovered that while it was unlikely we would be able to collaboratively address all of our individual digital preservation challenges, we found that we could get started on developing digital preservation plans and expertise by shifting a large volume of digitized content with an inherently lower risk of permanent loss to a shared storage service and distribute the cost of hosting that content, allowing those institutions with mandates to preserve their campus’ digital legacies, manifested in personal, born-digital files, to experiment more readily with all-in-one preservation systems at a lower price point. In this session, we will describe how we came to select a shared cloud-based solution to serve as a collaborative platform on which to cut our teeth on digital preservation practices, learn from each other about best practices, and most importantly, to simply get started on developing realistic digital preservation strategies based on direct experience

A new survey tool for evaluating pandemic preparedness in health services

BACKGROUND: Rapid decision-making with limited resources and prior research to draw upon posed challenges for health service leaders globally when preparing for COVID-19. How do health services prepare for a pandemic and evaluate if the preparation has been effective? This study aimed to explore health workers’ perceptions and knowledge regarding preparedness for COVID-19 at a regional health service in Australia. METHODS: A 32-item online survey was developed to evaluate preparedness across five scales: 1) Clinical, 2) Communication, 3) Environment, 4) Human Resources, and 5) General Preparedness. Data were analyzed using parametric and non-parametric statistics and qualitative content analysis. RESULTS: Ninety-three employees completed the survey, with most working in clinical roles (58.1%). Respondents largely felt the health service was well-prepared (84.0%) and they were personally prepared (74.4%) to respond to COVID-19. Clinical and communication scale scores varied by role type. Respondents faced personal risk and resource shortages impacted their sense of safety; others felt adequately supported. CONCLUSIONS: A coordinated “whole hospital response”, accessible and inclusive communication, education, adequate resourcing, and employee wellbeing supports are necessary when preparing health services for sentinel events. This survey tool offers health services an approach to evaluating pandemic preparation. Continued advocacy for resources and wellbeing needs of health workers is paramount in future preparations

The relation of perceptual factors and speed of handwriting to spelling ability.

Thesis (Ed.M.)--Boston Universit

Finding Access and Digital Preservation Solutions for a Digitized Oral History Project: A Case Study

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to examine affordable access and digital preservation solutions for digital collections developed by under-resourced small and mid-size cultural heritage organizations. Design/methodology/approach – The paper presents a case study of Jeffco Stories, a collection of digitized oral histories created by the Jefferson County Public Library in Colorado. Findings – This paper describes how the Jefferson County Public Library undertook a migration project of its oral history digital collection into an open access platform, Omeka and selected DuraCloud as a hosted digital preservation service. Research limitations/implications – As a case study, this paper is limited to one institution’s experience with selecting access and digital preservation solutions. Practical implications – This paper is relevant to librarians and archivists who are exploring access and preservation solutions for digital collections and to those who are considering migrating to open access content management systems and cloud-based digital preservation solutions. Originality/value – This paper presents a case of a public library and the challenges in finding affordable access and digital preservation solutions for small digital collections

Strategically using public housing assets could transform our middle suburbs

‘Greyfields’ in the Australian context have been defined as those ageing but occupied tracts of inner and middle ring suburbia that are physically, technologically and environmentally failing. The research sought to test the potential of an innovative design based approach to create coordinated precincts in these suburbs involving the coordinated redevelopment of multiple, non-contiguous public housing lots (rather than relying on the ‘default’ option of incremental market based development of in-fill housing and piecemeal selling off of public housing properties). Recent public housing investments (under the Social Housing Initiative) were typically planned with job creation in mind rather than innovative housing outcomes, but innovations were still apparent. Innovations were generally simple such as improvements to parking arrangements and interfaces of private dwellings with common areas and public spaces and arrangements for tenancy mix and social diversity. Innovations were often more apparent when governments partnered with Community Housing Organisations who could access alternative land and funding sources, offer design and delivery expertise and facilitate mixed tenancy outcomes. Innovation also was more likely when there was a ‘champion’ for design quality, relaxation of selected planning controls, and project alignment with existing urban renewal strategies. The Department of Human Services (Victorian Government) was found to have existing housing assets in sufficient number (more than 6500 DHS properties) in well-located areas of Melbourne’s middle suburbs that were clustered in ways broadly suitable for coordinated precinct redevelopment. Preliminary investigations suggest the same in Sydney and Brisbane. The coordinated precinct approach could offer an effective model for redeveloping dispersed public housing assets. Integrated redevelopment can achieve substantial increases in dwelling yield—design scenarios developed in this study delivered two to four times the number of dwellings when compared to business-as-usual dual occupancy outcomes. A precinct design approach is potentially more efficient because it allows for non-uniform, flexible siting of higher density buildings, effective program mixes, efficient parking arrangements and a variety of households and tenure types to be accommodated across a neighbourhood. Preliminary discussions with key stakeholders—municipal authorities, community housing organisations and local community members—showed real interest in the benefits of a coordinated precinct-based development approach. - See more at: http://www.ahuri.edu.au/publications/projects/p52012#sthash.wTtz4itu.dpu