The Values in Action Inventory of Strengths: A Test Summary and Critique

The Values in Action Inventory of Strengths (VIA-IS) is a self-report assessment intended to measure an individual’s possession of 24 character strengths. Since the test’s development in 2004, one million people have taken the VIA-IS and it has been translated into ten languages. The test shows good reliability on measures of internal consistency and test-retest correlations and correlates substantially with self-nominations of strengths. Though the test shows few psychometric differences among the major U.S. census groups, culture-bound virtues that the VIA-IS does not assess for should also be taken into consideration. The VIA-IS allows counselors to gain a more comprehensive view of clients by providing a common language for discussing strengths

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Closing Argument for Prosecution

Charles M. LaFollette Robert D. King For Brig. Gen. Telford Taylor, Chief of Counsel for War Crimes of Counsel: Alfred M. Wooleyhan Sadie B. Arbuthnot Arnold Buchthal Rudolph Auerbach - - - - - - - - - - Peter Beauvais Henry Einstein Expert Assistant

Assessing the Status of Environmental Education in Illinois Elementary Schools

One-thousand Illinois elementary teachers received a survey intended to assess the amount and manner in which they included environmental education in the classroom during the 2005 academic year. Over 91% of respondents (n = 234) said that they taught about the environment at least once during the school year, yet most students were only exposed to 22 to 100 minutes during that year. Of the teachers that included environmental education, 49% said they did so because of personal interest in the environment; 47% of the teachers that excluded it said the reason was because of a lack of class time

An exploratory interview study of researchers’ and technicians’ perceptions of rat tickling

This paper highlights the main themes which emerged from a study carried out with Animal Technicians and researchers to better understand:• perceptions of rat tickling• potential drivers and barriers to the uptake of ticklingin a laboratory environmentThe interviewees indicated they had positive attitudes towards rats and the idea of rat tickling with positive comments about rats’ social behaviour, their intelligence and their capacity to interact with Animal Technicians andresearchers.The participants indicated that barriers to wider uptake of rat tickling including time constraints, a lack of training in the specifics of rat tickling and how to interpret rat responses to tickling. In addition, there was mention of concerns over tickling affecting experimental integrity and the need to maintain professional detachment from rats as experimental animals

An exploratory interview study of researchers’ and technicians’ perceptions of rat tickling

This paper highlights the main themes which emerged from a study carried out with Animal Technicians and researchers to better understand:• perceptions of rat tickling• potential drivers and barriers to the uptake of ticklingin a laboratory environmentThe interviewees indicated they had positive attitudes towards rats and the idea of rat tickling with positive comments about rats’ social behaviour, their intelligence and their capacity to interact with Animal Technicians andresearchers.The participants indicated that barriers to wider uptake of rat tickling including time constraints, a lack of training in the specifics of rat tickling and how to interpret rat responses to tickling. In addition, there was mention of concerns over tickling affecting experimental integrity and the need to maintain professional detachment from rats as experimental animals

The holy blood and the holy grail: Myths of scientific racism and the pursuit of excellence in sport

Despite the continuing publication of research that suggests there is no scientific basis to 'race' as a biological category, theories of racial difference continue to be invoked within sport to explain the perceived dominance of black athletes. In the case of John Entine's controversial 'Taboo: why black athletes dominate sports and why we are afraid to talk about it' or undergraduate textbooks that suggest 'racial differences' in physique may significantly affect athletic performance, scientific racism is normalised in sport. In this article, the relationship between scientific racism and sport will be examined. Qualitative research with current sport scientists is used to investigate the socio-ethical tensions within the subject field of sport science between professionalism, scientism and the demand from external interests to produce results that help people in sport win medals. It will be shown that these tensions, combined with the history of race as a category in sport science, combine to create the discourse of scientific knowledge that reflects, rather than challenges, folk genetics of black athletic physicality

Global citizenship as the completion of cosmopolitanism

A conception of global citizenship should not be viewed as separate from, or synonymous with, the cosmopolitan moral orientation, but as a primary component of it. Global citizenship is fundamentally concerned with individual moral requirements in the global frame. Such requirements, framed here as belonging to the category of individual cosmopolitanism, offer guidelines on right action in the context of global human community. They are complementary to the principles of moral cosmopolitanism – those to be used in assessing the justice of global institutions and practices – that have been emphasised by cosmopolitan political theorists. Considering principles of individual and moral cosmopolitanism together can help to provide greater clarity concerning individual duties in the absence of fully global institutions, as well as clarity on individual obligations of justice in relation to emerging and still-developing trans-state institutions