FUSE: People with Frequent Utilization of Public Services in Clackamas County, Oregon: Potential Service Enhancements

The goal of this study was to answer five very specific questions about individuals with high service utilization and the systems that serve them. The data for this study comes from administrative system data, informational conversations and meetings with community partners, formal interviews with service providers, and interviews with consumers with frequent service utilization. Limitations: The rates of mental illness, addiction and homelessness are likely to be higher than they appear in this report due to the way these characteristics were gathered or recorded in system databases. Historically marginalized populations are increasingly underrepresented in datasets

An examination of selection bias in the Florida College Level Academic Skills Test

The purpose of this study was to examine the extent to which selection bias is present in the use of the Florida College Level Academic Skills Test (CLAST), given three different perspectives and three sets of passing standards. Although the CLAST is not designed to be a predictor of future performance, students in the state of Florida are required to pass all four CLAST subtests in order to receive an Associate in Arts degree or to be admitted into upperclass standing. Analyses were based on separate regressions of first term state university system GPA on CLAST subtest scores. The sample consisted of 6330 students who enrolled in or graduated from Miami-Dade Community College between 1980 and 1984. White Non-Hispanics accounted for 32.58% of the students, while 7.95% were Black Non-Hispanic, 57.69% were Hispanic, and 1.79% were Foreign Nationals.Cleary's regression model revealed selection bias (unequal intercepts) in all analyses but one. Use of the overall regression equations overpredicted Black Non-Hispanic GPA by 0.20-0.47 points, underpredicted White Non-Hispanic GPA by 0.03-0.07 points, and underpredicted Hispanic GPA by 0.01-0.07 points. Prediction was improved by the inclusion of lowerclass GPA in the regression equation. Thorndike's constant ratio model showed that the proportion of students successful on the exam to the proportion with successful upperclass performance was not equal across ethnic groups. Bias was indicated in favor of Black Non-Hispanics at the 1984 and 1986 standards, and against this group at the 1989 standards. Bias was indicated against Hispanics on the reading and essay subtests given 1984 and 1986 standards, and on all four subtests given 1989 standards. Einhorn and Bass's equal risk model showed significantly fewer (10 to 14 percent) White Non-Hispanics than Black Non-Hispanics predicted to have unsuccessful upperclass performance given performance at all cutscores on all subtests. Similarly, significantly fewer (2-4 percent) White Non-Hispanics than Hispanics were predicted to have unsuccessful upperclass performance given performance at the cutscore on the computation, writing, and essay subtests at 1984 and 1986 standards, and on the writing and essay subtests at the 1989 standards.</p

Separating the Wheat from the Weeds: Resilience Fixes and Transformative Resilience in Response to Climate Disasters AND Resilience: An Evaluation Thinking Perspective

This recording includes two presentations. Dr. Ajibade\u27s talk engages with the all-too-easily-taken-for granted separation between resilience as stability and resilience as transformation after disasters. It examines whether strategies adopted after mega-disasters are transforming cities in ways that foster egalitarian urbanism or reinforce capitalist urbanization. To address this issue, she mobilizes the notion of ‘a resilience fix’, returning to Harvey’s influential thesis on spatial fix which describes the intrinsic need of capital to overcome its crisis of overaccumulation by deepening its spread through the production of spaces and the built environment. She combines this thesis with an interrogation of metabolic circulations and the governmentality of space to advance a robust understanding of a resilience fix and its recursive relations with urban transformations. A case study of a ten-year post-disaster reconstruction in Metro-Manila is used to provide empirical context of how resilience fixes operate through political economy structures, land use planning, technology adoption, and risk management regimes, to decenter those who experience the double violence of capitalist urbanization and disaster capitalism while naturalizes utopian-development, citizen surveillance, and the retreat of the poor from the city. This paper challenges resilience fixes as solutions to climatic disasters and calls attention to new resistance politics and counter-strategies aimed at transformative resilience. Dr. Einspruch\u27s talk examines how evaluation may be seen as a transdiscipline that provides services and tools to other disciplines, as well as a discipline in its own right. This talk explores some fundamental evaluation concepts and contemporary developments in the field of evaluation, as they relate to an evaluation thinking perspective, with consideration of diverse points of view and the importance of thinking about thinking. This evaluation thinking perspective will be brought to the critically important topic of resilience, with reflection on how resilience may be expressed at different levels of organization (for example, the individual level and the community level), and set within the context of the current state of the environment.https://pdxscholar.library.pdx.edu/toward-resilient-futures/1005/thumbnail.jp