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John, Aesha; Montgomery, Diane – International Journal of Disability, Development and Education, 2016
This study with families caring for an individual with an intellectual disability in a mid-sized Indian city explored the diverse explanatory models that parents constructed of causes, preferred treatment approaches and perceived social effects of their child's intellectual disability. Seventeen mothers and three fathers rank ordered 48 disability…
Descriptors: Intellectual Disability, Parent Attitudes, Child Rearing, Foreign Countries
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Mckenzie, J. A. – Journal of Intellectual Disability Research, 2013
Background: The social and medical models of disability configure the relationship between disability and impairment differently. Neither of these models has provided a comprehensive theoretical or practical basis for talking about intellectual disability (ID). Models that emphasise the interactive nature of disability appear to be more promising.…
Descriptors: Q Methodology, Mental Retardation, Discourse Analysis, Foreign Countries
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Tendeiro, Jorge N.; Meijer, Rob R. – Applied Psychological Measurement, 2012
This article extends the work by Armstrong and Shi on CUmulative SUM (CUSUM) person-fit methodology. The authors present new theoretical considerations concerning the use of CUSUM person-fit statistics based on likelihood ratios for the purpose of detecting cheating and random guessing by individual test takers. According to the Neyman-Pearson…
Descriptors: Cheating, Individual Testing, Adaptive Testing, Statistics
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Liston, Vanessa; Harris, Clodagh; O'Toole, Mark; Liston, Margaret – Research-publishing.net, 2013
In this chapter we show how a new type of political knowledge can be harnessed from everyday communication flows between citizens to support community and policy development processes. The emergence of this new knowledge will be enabled by an e-supported deliberation process (SOWIT) that aims to improve political communication and deliberation…
Descriptors: Humanities, Technology Uses in Education, Community Development, Policy Formation
Hwang, Woosang – ProQuest LLC, 2011
In a constantly changing global business environment, firms have no other choice but to continually expand their capabilities and sharpen their competitive edge. Toward this goal, an increasing number of organizations are turning to Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) systems. An ERP system utilizes various kinds of information processing…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Organizational Effectiveness, Business Administration, Information Processing
Broberg, Anders G.; Wiberg, Charlotta; Gyland, Patrik; Ramsby, Louise; Bohlin, Gunilla; Rydell, Ann-Margret – 1999
Noting that gender may be an important issue when studying relations between attachment and social functioning, four studies explored whether the relationship between children's internal working models of attachment and their general functioning was gender specific. A total of 246 children, ages 5 to 10 years, were given the Separation Anxiety…
Descriptors: Age Differences, Attachment Behavior, Children, Cognitive Development
van Aken, Marcel A. G.; van Lieshout, Cornelis F. M.; Scholte, Ron H. J. – 1998
Most studies of child and adolescent personality have identified three main types (resilients, overcontrollers, and undercontrollers) and further subtypes using Q sort methodology. This study investigated the generalizability of a personality typology by using cluster analysis on the Big-Five scale with adolescents between 12 and 16 years of age.…
Descriptors: Adjustment (to Environment), Adolescent Development, Adolescents, Bullying
Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication. – 1992
The Miscellaneous Studies section of the proceedings contains the following 16 papers: "Mickey Mouse and Bugs Bunny: Iconography of Two Corporate Stars" (William A. Mikulak); "We Know Who You Are: A Niche Communications Explication and Model" (Jana Frederick-Collins); "The Ways They Get Their Stories: Is Utilitarianism the…
Descriptors: Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome, American Indians, Animation, Birth Order