Writing4practice in engineering courses: Implementation and assessment approaches     

Sibylle Gruber  Debra Larson  David Scott  Melvin Neville 《Technical Communication Quarterly》2013,22(4):419-440

In this article, we analyze a two‐semester effort to integrate writing instruction into a multi‐disciplinary sophomore engineering design course in Northern Arizona University's College of Engineering and Technology. Specifically, we describe the programmatic implementation and assessment approach to evaluate whether student writing improved over the course of the semester. After discussing the reasons for taking a writing‐intensive approach to engineering, we analyze the results of a pre‐and post‐test administered over the span of an academic semester. Although the outcome of our assessment did not show significant improvement, we argue that writing instruction is important for increasing students’ overall learning skills. We conclude by pointing out several benefits and disadvantages of trying to assess writing improvement over two one‐semester periods.  相似文献   

Telecommunications and Cable     

Ken Marsh  Richard H. Davis  Allen E. Edwards  Irving W. Larson  Kendall Webster Sessions  Mary Louise Hollowell 《Communication Booknotes Quarterly》2013,44(11):130-133

Ken Marsh's Independent Video (San Francisco: Straight Arrow Books, 1974—$7.95, paper)

Richard H. Davis and Allen E. Edwards' Television: A Therapeutic Tool for the Aged (Publication and Media Projects, Andrus Gerontology Center, University Park, Los Angeles, Calif. 90007—$2.25, paper)

Irving W. Larson (ed.) EIA Electronics Multimedia Handbook (Indianapolis: Howard W. Sams, 1975—price not known, paper)

Kendall Webster Sessions' 2nd Class FCC Encyclopedia (Blue Ridge Summit, Pa.: TAB Books, 1975—$10.95/7.95)

Mary Louise Hollowell (ed.) Cable Handbook: 1975-1976—A Guide to Cable and New Communications Technologies (Communications Press, 1346 Connecticutt Ave., N.W., Washington, D.C. 20036—$7.35, including postage, paper)

Gilbert Gillespie's Public Access Cable Television in the United States and Canada (New York: Praeger Special Studies, 1975—price not given, but likely around $12.00 or so)  相似文献   

Tensions in Community Health Improvement Initiatives: Communication and Collaboration in a Managed Care Environment     

Caryn Medved  Kelly Morrison  James Dearing  Sam Larson  Greg Cline  Boris Brummans 《Journal of Applied Communication Research》2013,41(2):137-152

Between the years 1993 and 2000, the W. K. Kellogg Foundation sponsored the Comprehensive Community Health Models (CCHMs) Initiative in three Michigan counties. CCHMs was comprised of three closely related community initiatives carried out in the midst of a failed national health care reform effort and the continued penetration of managed care arrangements into many health care systems. This experimental initiative set out to test the hypothesis that traditional healthcare system animosities and exclusionary practices could be overcome by stakeholder participation in an ongoing, structured, collaborative dialogue about improving access to health services. In the process of collecting data through surveys, interviews, content analysis, and observation, we were struck by the occurrence of several overarching tensions that we perceive to exist in our data. The present article elucidates five such tensions and suggests how third parties such as communication researchers, evaluators, and practitioners can facilitate community health improvement initiatives and better their own data interpretation by acknowledging and understanding these tensions.  相似文献   

The meaning of “power”     

Alvin A. Goldberg    Carl E. Larson 《Journal of Applied Communication Research》2013,41(2):89-108

This investigation attempted to (a) determine how individuals in positions of status and authority respond to the concept of power, and (b) develop an instrument that could be used to measure an individual's power orientation. The inquiry represented a preliminary step toward explorations of the theoretical proposition that there is a relationship between power orientation and overt communication behavior. The responses of over 500 individuals in supervisory positions in business, industry, government, and law enforcement to items reflecting thirty‐seven possible “meanings” of power were factor analyzed. The following six power orientations explain much of the variance in the way individuals are oriented toward the concept of powers (a) power as good; (b) power as resource dependency; (c) pofer as instinctive drive; (d) power as political; (e) power as charisma; and (f) power as control and autonomy. A forty‐item Power Orientation Scale was developed to measure these orientations.  相似文献   

This Just Makes Sense: Yearlong Experiences in a High School Professional Development School     

John Fischetti  Lisa Garrett  Jim Gilbert  Steve Johnson  Phil Johnston  Ann Larson 《Peabody Journal of Education》2013,88(3-4):310-318

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模糊控制在火灾试验炉中的应用     

李明弟  李强  孙一民  刘学亭 《实验技术与管理》2009,26(2)

火灾试验炉是建筑防火实验室的主要设备,可以模拟实际火灾,对建筑构件进行耐火试验.为了适应建筑行业防火工作需要,借鉴国内外火灾试验炉的建设经验,采用模糊控制技术,研制了大型水平与垂直火灾试验炉各一台.经使用与检测,其技术水平达到或超过ISO834和GB9978-88标准要求,为大型建筑构件耐火性能与机理研究提供了可靠的技术支撑.  相似文献   

A job performance aid evaluation tool     

James L. Moseley  Steven Larson 《Performance Improvement》1992,31(8):24-26

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An Editorial Note     

Kay Larson 《Curator: The Museum Journal》2003,46(3):261-262

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Specialist-level preparation in school violence and youth gang intervention     

Jim Larson  R. T. Busse 《Psychology in the schools》1998,35(4):373-379

Surveys regarding the level and scope of training provided in both traditional child and youth issues and that of school violence and youth gang prevention were sent to 213 school psychology training programs. Ninety specialist-level programs were included in the final study. Results indicated the majority of programs provided substantial intervention training for more traditional behavioral concerns (e.g., ADHD, conduct problems). Training in school violence prevention and, in particular, youth gang prevention/intervention, were lower priorities for training. The hypothesis was not supported that programs located in or near metropolitan areas are more likely to offer training in school violence and gang interventions. These results are discussed within the context of practitioner preparation for violence intervention. © 1998 John Wiley & Sons, Inc.  相似文献   

Child maltreatment among U.S. East Coast migrant farm workers   总被引：1，自引：0，他引：1  

O W Larson  J Doris  W F Alvarez 《Child abuse & neglect》1987,11(2):281-291

This paper reports findings from a study that was conducted in 1983 to determine the incidence and patterns of child maltreatment among migrant farm worker families who reside in or travel through the Atlantic coastal region known as the Eastern Stream. These results are based on responses to a multipurpose mailed questionnaire that was administered to a sample of 2,207 migrant educators. Educational personnel from 14 of the 22 Eastern Stream states participated in this survey, which was designed to elicit information on the incidence of maltreatment in this population. The survey considered 13 different indicators of child abuse and neglect and six maltreatment forms. Another segment of the instrumentation secured information on the migrant population with which the respondents had direct contact so that an incidence rate could be formulated. The study conclusively established that the incidence of child maltreatment rate among migrant farm worker families, as perceived by migrant educators, was substantially higher than the rate observed for the population as a whole or even for families with approximately the same socioeconomic status. Comparative data are presented to place this primary research result in perspective and a more precise overall incidence estimate is derived. Differential rates of abuse and neglect within the migrant population and the factors that contribute to them are also considered.  相似文献