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Ryan, Christian; Stafford, Martina; King, Robert James – Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders, 2016
Faces are one of the most socially significant visual stimuli encountered in the environment, whereas pareidolias are illusions of faces arising from ambiguous stimuli in the environment. Autism spectrum disorder (ASD) is characterised by deficits in response to social stimuli. We found that children with ASD (n = 60) identify significantly fewer…
Descriptors: Autism, Pervasive Developmental Disorders, Visual Stimuli, Interpersonal Competence
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Howard, Tyriesa – Journal of Social Work Education, 2016
Social work educators are in a phase of reintroducing the doctor of social work (DSW) degree and refining distinctions between PhD and DSW doctoral programs. This article examines how the two options have been prey to a noticeable "seesaw of precedence", resulting in a debatable history of social work's approach to doctoral education…
Descriptors: Doctoral Programs, Social Work, Educational History, Educational Trends
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Urquhart, Sarah; Franco, Joana – AERA Online Paper Repository, 2016
Design education exists to prepare students for design practice. Yet the goal state, design expertise, remains poorly defined. This paper presents a critical cross disciplinary literature synthesizing literature across design, engineering, expertise, creativity, and new evidence from a cognitive task analysis of expert designers to explore…
Descriptors: Design, Expertise, Novices, Instructional Design
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Banbury, Samantha; Lusher, Joanne; Guedelha, Francisco – Journal of Alcohol and Drug Education, 2018
The Misuse of Drugs Act (1971) and the Psychoactive Substances Act (2016) both reinforce the criminalisation of drug use in the UK. The Psychoactive Substances Act (2016) has been developed to control and monitor the use of legal highs, particularly in institutions. This study aimed to establish drug service providers' viewpoints on how effective…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Substance Abuse, Drug Use, Crime Prevention
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Hills, John; Lees, John; Freshwater, Dawn; Cahill, Jane – British Journal of Guidance & Counselling, 2018
In this study, we examine autoethnographic data from three critical incidents as experienced by the first author demonstrating the importance of context in understanding medically unexplained symptoms, their incidence and underlying patterns. We make the case for ethnographies as a crucial research strand in discerning the finer aspects of the…
Descriptors: Psychosomatic Disorders, Symptoms (Individual Disorders), Autobiographies, Ethnography
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Paniagua, Alejandro – Anthropology & Education Quarterly, 2017
Drawing on ethnographic data collected in two primary schools, this paper examines the nature of the exclusion experienced by three children of linguistically, culturally, and socioeconomically diverse families labeled as having special education needs. Ambiguities and dilemmas surrounding the intersection of cultural diversity and special…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Elementary School Students, Primary Education, Language Minorities
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Banda, Rosa Maria; Flowers, Alonzo M.; Robinson, Petra – Journal for Multicultural Education, 2017
Purpose: Hispanic-serving institutions (HSIs), like other universities, are faced with challenges related to faculty diversity. The literature related to faculty at HSIs is scant and so this paper aims to address this gap by problematizing faculty diversity at these institutions. Design/methodology/approach: By means of a document analysis, the…
Descriptors: Diversity (Faculty), Higher Education, Institutional Characteristics, Demography
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Coleman, Sandra Lee; Skidmore, Susan Troncoso; Martirosyan, Nara M. – Community College Enterprise, 2017
In this review of literature, the efficacy of online instruction for developmental mathematics students was explored. Current peer-reviewed articles, representing research from community college settings and written between 1996 and 2015, were reviewed. Based on those studies, several recommendations are offered regarding the online delivery of…
Descriptors: Mathematics Instruction, Developmental Programs, Literature Reviews, Online Courses
Smith, Mary E. – ProQuest LLC, 2017
The purpose of this qualitative study was to explore the behaviors indicative of professional thinking in entry-level occupational therapists and the teaching methodologies used to facilitate professional thinking during education as described by a sample of experienced occupational therapy educators. The researcher used The Model of Professional…
Descriptors: Occupational Therapy, Allied Health Occupations Education, Thinking Skills, Qualitative Research
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Pickett, Justin T.; Loughran, Thomas A.; Bushway, Shawn – Sociological Methods & Research, 2015
Survey respondents' probabilistic expectations are now widely used in many fields to study risk perceptions, decision-making processes, and behavior. Researchers have developed several methods to account for the fact that the probability of an event may be more ambiguous for some respondents than others, but few prior studies have empirically…
Descriptors: Surveys, Probability, Risk, Decision Making
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Adorno, Gail; Cronley, Courtney; Smith, Kenneth Scott – Innovations in Education and Teaching International, 2015
Evidence suggests that social and academic integration is a vital factor in doctoral student retention. This paper describes findings from a qualitative study which explored the experiences of a cohort of social work doctoral students during the first year in their programme of study. We used the anthropological concept of liminality which…
Descriptors: Graduate Students, Academic Persistence, Qualitative Research, Social Work
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Osterhaus, Christopher; Koerber, Susanne – European Journal of Developmental Psychology, 2021
First-order and advanced theory of mind (ToM and AToM), and their structures and relations were investigated in 229 children aged 5-8 years. ToM was assessed using 6 tasks from the first-order ToM scale, while AToM was measured using an 18-item battery (higher-order false-belief understanding; strange stories; faux pas test; eyes test;…
Descriptors: Social Cognition, Kindergarten, Theory of Mind, Task Analysis
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Dean, Evan E.; Fisher, Kim W.; Shogren, Karrie A.; Wehmeyer, Michael L. – Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities, 2016
Participation is a central aspect of human functioning and a key focus of research and practice in the intellectual disability field. However, there is not an accepted definition of participation that guides research and practice. To inform the development of a definition, a scoping review of the intellectual disability literature from 2001-2015…
Descriptors: Intellectual Disability, Literature Reviews, Definitions, Participation
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Bar-On, Amalia; Dattner, Elitzur; Ravid, Dorit – Reading and Writing: An Interdisciplinary Journal, 2017
The paper examines the role of context in reading unpointed Hebrew, demonstrating the changing nature of reliance on context during the course of reading acquisition. We analyze the reading-aloud of sentences with heterographic-homographic ambiguity, aiming to shed light on the development of ambiguity resolution processes in typically developing…
Descriptors: Semitic Languages, Context Effect, Ambiguity (Context), Reading Aloud to Others
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Çebi, Ayça; Karal, Hasan – Educational Research and Reviews, 2017
In recent years, artificial intelligence applications for understanding the human thinking process and transferring it to virtual environments come into prominence. The fuzzy logic which paves the way for modeling human behaviors and expressing even vague concepts mathematically, and is also regarded as an artificial intelligence technique has…
Descriptors: Artificial Intelligence, Logical Thinking, Decision Making, Mathematical Applications
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