An analysis of the treatment of New England in eight fifth grade geography textbooks

Thesis (Ed.M.)--Boston Universit

Early diversion and empowerment policing : evaluating an adult female offender triage project

This paper provides an evaluation of a police pilot early-diversion scheme for adult females who were arrested for low-severity offences using a natural experiment design. The intervention is novel in that it diverts arrestees to a women’s centre for assistance to address their criminogenic needs rather than process them through the criminal justice system. The intervention is timely and attractive given its rehabilitative features and its potential for reducing demand on the criminal justice system through community resolution. The study found a promising effect of the intervention on rates of rearrest and daily risk of rearrest over a twelve month follow-up period, but a higher frequency of rearrest among those of the intervention group who were rearrested. The findings are discussed in relation to the political context, theoretical background and police performance and the gendered dynamics of offending

SESE quiz

A short, introductory quiz activity for a staff development event on the Brookes Graduate attributes

New observations on the stratigraphy and radiocarbon dates at the Cross Creek site, Opito, Coromandel Peninsula

This paper re-examines stratigraphy and radiocarbon dates at Cross Creek in Sarah's Gully. Three new radiocarbon dates are presented for Layer 9, the earliest, and previously undated, occupation. This investigation is part of a programme of archaeological work being carried out on the Coromandel Peninsula. Although there are several individual research projects underway, they have a common theme related to the Polynesian settlement period on the Coromandel Peninsula. The two seasons of excavation at Tairua are being written up by Matthew Campbell of CFG Heritage on behalf of Roger Green. Louise Furey, also CFG Heritage, is researching a thematic study on early sites for the Department of Conservation, Archaeological research in the Opito area includes documenting a pollen sequence for Opito under a grant obtained from the Green Foundation for Polynesian Research: Pam Chester, Louise Furey and Brenda Sewell are participants. In addition, positively identifying the Kaharoa Ash in the Opito-Sarah's Gully area is a priority

THE MEASUREMENT OF THE INSTRUCTOR VARIABLE IN THE INSTRUCTIONAL PROCESS BY A RANK ORDER, FORCED CHOICE PROCEDURE ALONG FIVE BASIC DIMENSIONS

In the present study, a rating of professors as a variable in the learning process through a dimension rank order technique was made by 316 undergraduate students. An instructor evaluation instrument was used. This instrument was administered to students who were asked to rank order their professors on five basic dimensions of instruction. The rank ordering demonstrated meaning in standard scores among instructors by a paired comparison transformation, and since parameters (a complete department) were used, absolute values were obtained. There was clear evidence to indicate that students could reliably and significantly discriminate between instructors on five basic dimensions of instruction. IT was shown that students could significantly differentiate between instructors, revealing consistent preferences, i.e., rater agreement on the rank order of an instructor on a given dimension. Profiles of instructors were derived from the constructed tables, thus it was determined that instructors could be assessed by this technique providing feedback to the instructor of his relative strengths and presenting objective data which could be used as a vital part of evaluation instructors on their teaching ability and in assessing the overall functioning of the instructional process in the University

On the "Poisson Trick" and its Extensions for Fitting Multinomial Regression Models

This article is concerned with the fitting of multinomial regression models using the so-called "Poisson Trick". The work is motivated by Chen & Kuo (2001) and Malchow-M{\o}ller & Svarer (2003) which have been criticized for being computationally inefficient and sometimes producing nonsense results. We first discuss the case of independent data and offer a parsimonious fitting strategy when all covariates are categorical. We then propose a new approach for modelling correlated responses based on an extension of the Gamma-Poisson model, where the likelihood can be expressed in closed-form. The parameters are estimated via an Expectation/Conditional Maximization (ECM) algorithm, which can be implemented using functions for fitting generalized linear models readily available in standard statistical software packages. Compared to existing methods, our approach avoids the need to approximate the intractable integrals and thus the inference is exact with respect to the approximating Gamma-Poisson model. The proposed method is illustrated via a reanalysis of the yogurt data discussed by Chen & Kuo (2001)