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Olson, Curtis A.; Tooman, Tricia R.; Alvarado, Carla J. – Advances in Health Sciences Education, 2010
Clinical teams are of growing importance to healthcare delivery, but little is known about how teams learn and change their clinical practice. We examined how teams in three US hospitals succeeded in making significant practice improvements in the area of antimicrobial resistance. This was a qualitative cross-case study employing Soft Knowledge…
Descriptors: Physicians, Hospitals, Continuing Education, Educational Change
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Reese, Elaine; Haden, Catherine A.; Baker-Ward, Lynne; Bauer, Patricia; Fivush, Robyn; Ornstein, Peter A. – Journal of Cognition and Development, 2011
Personal narratives are integral to autobiographical memory and to identity, with coherent personal narratives being linked to positive developmental outcomes across the lifespan. In this article, we review the theoretical and empirical literature that sets the stage for a new lifespan model of personal narrative coherence. This new model…
Descriptors: Rhetoric, Laboratories, Personal Narratives, Memory
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Adair, Jennifer Keys; Pastori, Giulia – International Journal of Research & Method in Education, 2011
The Children Crossing Borders (CCB) study is a polyvocal, multi-sited project on immigration and early childhood education and care in five countries: Italy, Germany, France, England and the USA. The complicated nature of the data pushed us as a group to expand our methodological resources to not only organize the data but also to make it…
Descriptors: Qualitative Research, Educational Research, Early Childhood Education, Research Methodology
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Sibley, Daragh E.; Kello, Christopher T.; Plaut, David C.; Elman, Jeffrey L. – Cognitive Science, 2008
The forms of words as they appear in text and speech are central to theories and models of lexical processing. Nonetheless, current methods for simulating their learning and representation fail to approach the scale and heterogeneity of real wordform lexicons. A connectionist architecture termed the "sequence encoder" is used to learn…
Descriptors: Phonemes, Measures (Individuals), Language Processing, Word Recognition