Writing Workshop in Kindergarten: A Multiple-Case Study Investigating the Nature of Engagement and the Quality of Students’ Writing Composition

The purpose of this study was to investigate the nature of engagement and the quality of my students’ writing composition when I implement a writing workshop. To facilitate both specific and in-depth data collection and analysis, I conducted a multiple-case study, examining three of my kindergarten students with a spectrum of literacy skills (Mertler, 2019). The multiple-case study lasted 11 weeks and contained three phases of data collection. Data showed that the participants were most engaged in elements of the writing process that corresponded to their viewed strengths as a writer and preferences. For the participants’ writing composition, data showed the participants had more similarities than differences in their writing processes. They could all apply different levels of conventions when writing independently and succeeded in creating more than one book with clear ideas

Toxicity Spectacle

Landfills are locations designated for waste materials. Waste materials are collections of both sentimental and random objects. Objects can be fragile like paper napkins. Paper napkins collect marks and stains like notes and pen drawings. Notes and pen drawings usually feature scribbled words. Words gather together to tell stories. Stories are embedded in the objects discarded in Landfills. Landfills are locations designated for waste materials

An Investigation of Peer Accountability in Healthcare

Peer accountability is the practice of providing feedback to, and receiving feedback from, one’s colleagues (Lockett et al., 2015)—both for the purposes of recognizing good work when it happens, and correcting risky behaviors in the moment. The concept of peer accountability has been overshadowed by research focusing on teamwork, which tends to focus on reducing the power distance among team members and increasing an individual’s ability to speak up the hierarchy. Our next opportunity for achieving safety and reliability in healthcare will come from peers monitoring one another’s actions. This study analyzes the untapped links between peer accountability behaviors, psychological safety (Edmondson, 1999), and engagement (Schaufeli et al., 2002) to better understand how organizations can foster this behavior in the workplace. To achieve this, a 76-person sample of front line safety coaches were surveyed over a year and a half to assess their peer accountability behaviors over time. The results reveal a two-factor structure underlying peer accountability behaviors (i.e., safe and risky peer accountability behaviors) wherein engagement and psychological safety serve to explain variation in safe accountability behaviors, but not risky accountability behaviors. This suggests that our existing knowledge of psychological safety and engagement cannot fully explain the entire spectrum of an individual’s peer accountability behaviors in healthcare. These implications are discussed, and future directions for peer accountability research are presented

Sex differences in reading readiness

Thesis (M.A.)--Boston University, 1949. This item was digitized by the Internet Archive

THREE WORLDS OF WESTERN PUNISHMENT: A REGIME THEORY OF CROSS-NATIONAL INCARCERATION RATE VARIATION, 1960-2002

This dissertation offers an explanation of cross national incarceration rate variation for 17 industrialized countries for the second half of the 20th century. Both historical case studies and time-series cross-section analyses are used to provide an institutional explanation of incarceration rate differences. Borrowing from Weber’s Sociology of Law and comparative legal scholarship, it is suggested that three types of legal thinking exist among western democracies—Common, Romano-Germanic, and Nordic law. A regime approach commonly applied in political economic explanations of welfare state development is used to quantify the legal and criminal justice institutional differences between 1960 and 2002 to assert that there are ‘three worlds of western punishment’ in the post-War period. The countries used in this analysis are similar in numerous ways, but historically embedded legal differences have resulted in different trial structures, judge-attorney relationships, rules of criminal evidence, and lay participation that influence the amount of incarceration in each country. The historical case studies demonstrate how important events set countries on particular developmental paths such as the power of defense attorneys in common law, despite their original exclusion from trials; the choice of scientific legal principles as a basis for an objective law blending Roman and Germanic legal principles; and the Nordic’s amalgamation of common and Romano-Germanic legal principles. These legal institutions are complimented by political economic variables that suggest that the presence of more left leaning political parties, centralization of wage bargaining, and labor organization provide a further break on the drive to incarcerate. The quantitative findings support the legal regime approach as well as political economic variables while controlling for crime and homicide rates

The Secret Life of a Sugar Baby

Cash-strapped college students seem to be seeking arrangements

Probation and Parole Officers Speak Out--Caseload and Workload Allocation

The article deals with the perceptions of the Probation and Parole Officers on making case load and workload decisions. Caseload is the number of offenders an officer supervised while the workload is the amount of time needed to accomplish a task. The American Probation and Parole Association (APPA) provides baseline data in assisting policy-makers to resolve caseload and workload allocation issues. According to the article, officials should establish a definite goal to diminish recidivism through research-based processes

The Role of Probation and Parole Officers in the Collaborative Response to Sex Offenders

The article presents the curriculum for training community corrections professionals on how to deal with low-level/low-risk sex offenders, with emphasis on the role of various agencies in the collaborative response system. The role of probation and parole officers as the sex offender\u27s external conscience is explained as well as the duties of law enforcement officers in responding to sex offenses. Jail staff may become involved by being court staff, prison staff and treatment staff

Warning: Sex Offenders Need to be Supervised in the Community

The article explains the need for the training of officers so that they may properly supervise sex offenders returning to a community. It is suggested that officers need to be objective, be informed of laws against sexual offending and aware of common characteristics of sex offenders. It is inferred that a combined effort from different government agencies is needed to be able to effectively supervise sex offenders. Several steps to ensure the safety of the supervisors are also discussed