Young people’s civic attitudes and practices: England’s outcomes from the IEA International Civic and Citizenship Education Study (ICCS) - Research Report DFE-RR060

"ICCS is a large-scale study of pupil knowledge and understanding, dispositions and attitudes, which is administered across 38 countries worldwide. The results presented in this summary are based upon England’s national dataset, with reference to international- and European-level findings, and to findings from the IEA Civic Education Study (CIVED), which took place in 1999." - Background

Parents' perspectives of cleft lip and/or palate services: A qualitative interview

The study aimed to explore in depth the perspectives of parents about their child's cleft services. Purposive and theoretical sampling produced a diverse sample of mothers and fathers with children aged 20 weeks to 21 years. Parents were recruited from a specialist cleft center in the U.K. Qualitative, in-depth, face-to-face interviews were carried out with 35 parents. Interviews were audio-recorded, transcribed, and analyzed using grounded theory to identify salient data categories. Findings revealed that parents' positive views about services rested on their perceptions of cleft-care practitioners as competent and trustworthy, possessing highly developed communication skills and the ability to provide continuity of care to families. At the same time, some mothers and fathers identified unmet support needs relating to information delivery and content as well as the coordination of services across the treatment course. More individualized information about treatment was desired; in particular, some parents had incomplete information about their child's surgical procedures, associated risks, and postsurgical recovery. Parents wanted better coordination of services with regard to communication about surgical cancellations, a child's transition to adult services, and having a key professional to link with throughout their child's treatment course. Routine assessments to gauge parents' needs could be built into cleft-care pathways so that more individualized information and support might be delivered to families in more consistent ways over long-term treatment.</jats:p

Attitudes of High School and College Females Toward Family Life and Children

The purpose of this study was to investigate the degree of similarity or differences between the attitudes of high school and college females toward family life and children. Data for this study were collected by administering a standardized questionnaire with 35 items to both groups of students. The students\u27 responses were evaluated and each question analyzed separately. The findings of this study indicate that the responses of the college sample were more realistic than for the high school sample. Also the high school sample appeared to have more glamorous expectations of marriage than did the college sample

Impact of the English Directly Enhanced Service (DES) for Learning Disability

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Memorial: Albert O. Brecht (1946-2012)

Albert Brecht was born in Dallas, Texas, in 1946. He attended the University of North Texas, where he had a double major in government and sociology. His interest in government led him to the University of Houston College of Law. It was there that Albert found his calling in life. He worked part-time as a student assistant in the law library. After graduating from Houston, he enrolled in the Master of Law Librarianship program at the University of Washington