Boston College

About: Boston College is a education organization based out in Boston, Massachusetts, United States. It is known for research contribution in the topics: Population & Poison control. The organization has 9749 authors who have published 25406 publications receiving 1105145 citations. The organization is also known as: BC.

Measuring Teachers' Technology Uses: Why Multiple-Measures Are More Revealing

Abstract: In the last 20 years, substantial investments have been made in educational technology. Not surprisingly, in today’s zeitgeist of educational accountability there have been increasing calls for empirical, research-based evidence that these investments are affecting the lives of teachers and students. This paper examines the ways in which teachers use technology, with a specific emphasis on the measurement of teachers’ technology use. Specifically, the survey responses of approximately 3,000 K–12 teachers are analyzed to examine the multidimensional nature of teachers’ technology use. The findings provide insight into improved strategies for conceiving of and measuring teacher technology use.

Some Sources of Residential Satisfaction in an Urban Slum

Abstract: Urban renewal planning has assumed that social benefits would accrue to the former residents of slums. But the meanings that the slum areas have for their residents and the consequent effects that relocation would have for them have not been adequately understood. Prior to being located from Boston's West End redevelopment area, most residents experienced profound satisfaction from living in the area. Their satisfaction derived, in large part, from the close associations maintained among the local people and from their strong sense of identity to the local places. In turn, people and places provided a framework for personal and social integration.

Reconstructing the Past: A Century of Ideas About Emotion in Psychology

Abstract: Within the discipline of psychology, the conventional history outlines the development of two fundamental approaches to the scientific study of emotion—“basic emotion” and “appraisal” traditions. In this article, we outline the development of a third approach to emotion that exists in the psychological literature—the “psychological constructionist” tradition. In the process, we discuss a number of works that have virtually disappeared from the citation trail in psychological discussions of emotion. We also correct some misconceptions about early sources, such as work by Darwin and James. Taken together, these three contributions make for a fuller and more accurate account of ideas about emotion during the century stretching from 1855 to just before 1960.

Choice and Chance: A Conceptual Model of Paths to Information Security Compromise

Abstract: No longer the exclusive domain of technology experts, information security is now a management issue. Through a grounded approach using interviews, observations, and secondary data, we advance a model of the information security compromise process from the perspective of the attacked organization. We distinguish between deliberate and opportunistic paths of compromise through the Internet, labeled choice and chance, and include the role of countermeasures, the Internet presence of the firm, and the attractiveness of the firm for information security compromise. Further, using one year of alert data from intrusion detection devices, we find empirical support for the key contributions of the model. We discuss the implications of the model for the emerging research stream on information security in the information systems literature.

Brand‐consumer storytelling theory and research: Introduction to a Psychology & Marketing special issue

Abstract: This introduction reviews core principles of storytelling theory. The article explains basic propositions of good storytelling. A brief summary of each of the six articles that follow appears. The article extends a note of appreciation to the members of the special editorial board for this issue and to Rajan Nataraajan. © 2010 Wiley Periodicals, Inc.