Professional Development: Critiquing Research The ability to critique (critically analyse and evaluate) research from both the qualitative and quantitative paradigms is an essential skill for occupational therapists. It is this skill, integrated with expertise gained from clinical practice that underpins evidence based practice (EBP). Although there are many definitions of EBP, Muir Gray (1997) defines it as “an approach to decision making in which the clinician uses the best
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Course Syllabus COUN 601 Marriage & Family Counseling I Course Description A consideration of the dynamics of marriage and family relationships is given. The emphasis is on under-standing the structure and function of marriage, the various aspects of the marital relationship, family systems, and ways the counselor may approach marriage and family counseling as a creative, preventative, and healing ministry. Rationale This course is designed to cover the numerous and varied marriage
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rfJOURNAL 1: The Emerald Research Register for this journal is available at http://www.emeraldinsight.com/researchregister The current issue and full text archive of this journal is available at http://www.emeraldinsight.com/0957-8234.htm JEA 41,1 The ethics of zero tolerance Kevin Gorman Sylvania Northview High School, Sylvania Public Schools, Sylvania, Ohio, USA, and 24 Patrick Pauken Bowling Green State University, Bowling Green, Ohio, USA Received May 2002 Revised September
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DATE STAMP | A S S I G N M E N T C O V E R S H E E TPlease complete all fields below. | PART A – to be completed by Student (please print clearly) | PART B – For Lecturer use | Surname: Thamilselvan | Date received | Date returned to PVC Office | First Name: Gayatri Pravina | | | Student I D:15481483 | | Unit Name: Evidence Informed Clinical Practice | Unit Number:5005 | Assignment Number:1 | Assignment Title: Evidence | Due Date: 08 April 2016 | | | Lecturer’s Name: Professor Gavin
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recommendation that the affected student(s) be dropped from the program. Also citations, where appropriate, are encouraged. Good luck! ********************************************************************************* Part One.Thirty Points. Use the scenario below to answer the following. 1. 3 points. Identify the problem? Provide a brief summary to justify your conclusion. This goes beyond just a late package but has implicit impacts on the lives of the families involved as well as future generations
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technology application: the CriterionSM Online Essay Evaluation Service, a web-based system that provides automated scoring and evaluation of student essays. Criterion has two complementary applications: E-rater®, an automated essay scoring system and Critique Writing Analysis Tools, a suite of programs that detect errors in grammar, usage, and mechanics, that identify discourse elements in the essay, and that recognize elements of undesirable style. These evaluation capabilities provide students with
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Putting aside your entire life and giving up everything to satisfy the needs of your baby is not an easy or painless task. The immense pressure to do the best you possibly can for your child poses a huge responsibility on parents. In my opinion, the critiques condemnation of attachment parenting is not fair. I believe that the concept of attachment is reasonable and infact necessary for infants to develop into skilled, independent and mature individuals who share a strong emotional bond with their parents
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and university teachers can do (legitimately) do two things: (1) introduce students to bodies of knowledge and traditions of inquiry that had not previously been part of their experience; and (2) equip those same students with the analytical skills – of argument, statistical modeling, laboratory procedure – that will enable them to move confidently within those traditions and to engage in independent research after a course is over.1 Fish rejects the notion that university aids in the creation
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he will insist that there is another level of reality to be investigated in the particular system of power. (Berger 1963) My suggestion is that when we experience fully the contradiction, conflict, and pain of engaging with our own teaching and research, we can’t help but be transformed into nepantleras. Not only do we routinely disrupt the status quo, we become uniquely practiced, through our critical engagement with the complex processes underlying the appearance of a stable social reality, in
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Running Head: AUTISM, ATTACHMENT AND PARENTING 1 Article Critique on Autism, Attachment and Parenting Jennifer L. York Liberty University AUTISM, ATTACHMENT AND PARENTING 2 Abstract This paper examines Rutgers et al.’s research article regarding autism, attachment and parenting. It is a comparison of children with Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD), Mental Retardation (MR), Language Disorder (LD), and non-clinical children. This article addressed
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