Elementary Teachers\u27 Perceptions on How Positive Behavioral Interventions and Supports (PBIS) Relate to Academic Achievement

This phenomenological research study reviews elementary teachers’ perceptions on how Positive Behavioral Interventions and Supports (PBIS) relate to academic achievement. Researchers have identified the need for effective behavioral management plans to assist teachers with student discipline concerns and academic achievement. PBIS provides an effective framework for accomplishing these outcomes. Purposeful sampling identified 10 participants for individual interviews and completing a Qualtrics survey. During the 1:1 interviews, participants expressed their perceived ideas and experiences with PBIS as a behavioral management framework that was used to manage behavior and improve student academic achievement. The surveys provided an additional analysis of the participants’ perceptions of PBIS and academic achievement. The findings indicated a strong correlation between PBIS and academic achievement. The study concluded that elementary teachers perceived PBIS to be an effective behavioral management resource for student discipline and achievement when supported by administrators or the PBIS team, used consistently, and with fidelity. However, the study reveals that many of the participants believed PBIS does not provide effective strategies to improve achievement to assist with severely behaved or non-compliant students. With more training, guidance, and assistance from the PBIS team, teachers may be able to create a strategic plan to improve the achievement levels of non-compliant students

Finding Sanjo Genshi: Women's Visibility in Late Medieval Japanese Aristocratic Journals

This study examines women’s visibility in journals composed by Japanese male aristocrats in the late fourteenth and early fifteenth centuries. This was a turbulent era for the imperial court, which suffered a dynastic split, warfare, political challenges by warriors, and a devastating decline in revenues from imperial and aristocratic estates. The late medieval period has been seen as a point of decline for aristocratic women due to several matters, such as the disappearance of formally appointed imperial consorts and the solidification of patrilocal marriage. However, assessing how women were affected by the era’s vicissitudes is challenging due to transformations in the historical record in the disappearance of women’s memoirs in this period. This dissertation seeks to reveal hitherto little known aspects of this period’s highly gendered court life through close analysis of events in the lives of women, with a focus on Sanjō Genshi, mother of Emperor Go-Komatsu (1377-1433). It examines how women were visible in the contexts of ceremonies, wealth, and politics in three journals written by men: Gogumaiki, by Genshi’s father Sanjō Kintada (1324-1383), Sanefuyu-kō ki, by his son Sanefuyu (1354-1411), and Hirohashi Kanenobu’s (1366-1429) Kanenobu kō ki. These journals depicted women as participants in ceremonies that traditionally displayed households’ and the court’s prestige and significant social connections. Furthermore, in this period of economic decline, they emerged as continuing to possess their own economic resources, which enabled participation in court activities. They were also depicted as relying on male kin’s assistance for material aid and, to a limited extent, as providing financial resources. Lastly, in the continual competition for social capital, women appeared as a means through which warriors and courtiers acquired and displayed prestige and influence. Women rose to discursive visibility in these contexts because the ways that they participated in court life comprised important knowledge that men needed in their enterprise of perpetuating the medieval household, which was the traditional purpose of these journals. This was an asymmetrically gendered society in which, despite women’s marginal participation in official governing apparatuses, women remained integral in the court’s daily operation and as resources in social and political competition through their sexuality, kinship, and service as attendants. Thus, in the course of recording matters important to the household, such as court service or ambitions for wealth and prestige, men included information and suggestive details about women whom they interacted with, relied on, or observed. Although largely absent in studies of this period, women continued to play vital roles in the personal networks that courtiers used and adapted in order to survive their increasing impoverishment and political marginalization by warriors.PHDHistoryUniversity of Michigan, Horace H. Rackham School of Graduate Studieshttps://deepblue.lib.umich.edu/bitstream/2027.42/137031/1/sfunches_1.pd

The role of female's alcohol consumption and clothing on attitudes towards date rape

Both alcohol consumption and clothing that is labeled provocative have been shown to increase people’s negative judgment towards women in a sexual aggression situation. Two experiments assessed the role that these two factors play in conjunction with one another. Experiment One assessed the types of women’s clothing that college students consider provocative or conservative, as well as an independent rating of how fashionable students consider the clothing. The photographs rated as most provocative, conservative and fashionable were used in Experiment Two. In Experiment Two, participants read an incident/police report, accompanied by the photograph of a woman wearing either a provocative outfit or a conservative outfit, as determined by Experiment One. The incident/police report is about a woman who reported a sexual assault. In one report, she reported drinking beforehand; in the alternate version, she reported being completely sober. Participants will then make judgments of the man’s versus the woman’s responsibility. The Attitudes towards Women Scale (AWS) (Spence, Helmreich, & Stapp, 1973) and the Revised Alcohol Expectancy Questionnaire will also be completed. Results will be analyzed using a repeated measures analysis of variance in Experiment One and in Experiment Two, a between subjects 2 x 2 factorial analysis of variance. Expected results are a main effect for clothing type and for alcohol. Further, an interaction is expected with a woman dressed provocatively and consuming alcohol on a date viewed as much more responsible for sexual assault (a synergistic versus an additive effect)

An Extended Model of Moral Outrage at Corporate Social Irresponsibility

The final publication is available at Springer via http://dx.doi.org/ 10.1007/s10551-014-2487-

The consumer anger phenomena: causes and consequences

PurposeThe purpose of this paper is to explore consumer anger phenomena.Design/methodology/approachThe research utilized the critical incident technique and three different samples to thoroughly explore the consumer anger phenomena.FindingsThe research identified three causes of consumer anger: broken promises, unfair treatment and expressed hostility, and detailed the effects of consumer anger beyond decisions to continue or terminate service provider relationships.Research limitations/implicationsFuture research could examine the role switching barriers play in consumer anger episodes.Practical implicationsAngering consumers comes with an array of damaging consequences that extend beyond the decision to continue or terminate the service provider relationship. As a result, managers must realize that the absence of switching behavior does not necessarily constitute success.Originality/valueThis study extends previous research by using a grounded theory approach to uncover three broad causes of consumer anger. In addition, this study reveals consumer use of additional consequences (i.e. reducing patronage, changing locations, avoiding certain employees) in response to anger evoking encounters.</jats:sec

Service recovery following dysfunctional consumer participation

This article introduces the notion of dysfunctional consumer participation. It advances a theoretical model of service recovery for contexts in which the smooth functioning of a service has been disrupted by consumers’ dysfunctional contributions, founded on justice theory and cognitive appraisal theory. The model presents perceived justice as the core element of the evaluation of service recovery encounters. Stressful appraisal evokes emotions in consumers and influences the cooperative or resistant nature of consumer participation in service recovery processes directly and indirectly via its impact on consumers’ emotions. Dysfunctional consumer participation is represented as an interactional process in which resistant consumer participation in service recovery provokes an adaptive response from service providers. Outcomes of the service recovery process for consumers and organisations are outlined. The contribution of this work lies in the domain of transformative consumer research, and our proposed framework enables managers with commercial (e.g., customer retention, sales) and social responsibilities (e.g., staff stress, consumer welfare) to analyse situations in which consumers’ actions have disrupted the smooth functioning of services and consider strategies to restore workable relationships with them

The inner experience of leading transformation : a study in the use of self as an instrument.

EducationDoctor of Education (Ed.D.