An Adaptive Role Strategy: one technique for studying participants' role in educational organizations

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The Adaptive Role Strategy is intended to improve and expand the operation and implementation of role studies. The five stages of the strategy are Generation of an Idealized Model, Adaptation of the Model, Revision of the Model, Assessment of the Perceived Role Performance of an Innovation, Service or Institutional Activity, and Utilization of Assessment Results. The examination of roles has been used extensively in the study of organizational health, but it has recently been extended through use in the investigation of program implementation and the conduct of program evaluation. Here it is applied to the examination of the roles of personnel in educational organizations, with each of the five stages investigated in relation to the results of a wide variety of role studies.

Social aspects, Research, Methods, Analysis, Educational research, Organizational research, Methodology, Research methods, Educational sociology, Role expectation, Role expectations

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Model mental health programs and educational reform: introduction

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Efforts to integrate mental health programs and educational reform are, once again, at the top of the agenda of the federal government. Despite the failures in the 1960s and the 1970s, there are now reasons to be optimistic about the present reform initiatives, such as the passage of Goals 2000: Educate America Act of 1994 and Improving America's Schools Act of 1994. Models of health and educational reform such as J.P. Comer's School Development Program, the National Commission on Education's study, 'A Nation at Risk: The Imperative for Educational Reform,' the Kentucky Education Reform Act and the School of the Future project are evaluated.

Planning, Educational innovations, Mental health policy

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Alternative adaptive models of rape

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The Thornhills fail to operationalize sexual coercion or rape thus, they can not validate their hypotheses satisfactorily. Data that the Thornhills cite suggest that rape can be explained by sexual strategies generated by less specific yet adaptive rules. The Thornhills' prediction that 'achieving sexual control over a woman by force will be sexually arousing to men,' do not find any support with cited studies. Malamuth and others show that male sexual arousal decreases as female disgust increases. Lastly, there seems to be few support for their psychological mechanism model.

Models, Rape

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