San Diego State University

About: San Diego State University is a education organization based out in San Diego, California, United States. It is known for research contribution in the topics: Population & Poison control. The organization has 12418 authors who have published 27950 publications receiving 1192375 citations. The organization is also known as: SDSU & San Diego State College.

Effects of a foster parent training intervention on placement changes of children in foster care.

Abstract: Placement disruptions undermine efforts of child welfare agencies to promote safety, permanency, and child well-being. Child behavior problems significantly contribute to placement changes. The aims of this investigation were to examine the impact of a foster parent training and support intervention (KEEP) on placement changes and to determine whether the intervention mitigates placement disruption risks associated with children's placement histories. The sample included 700 families with children between ages 5 and 12 years, from a variety of ethnic backgrounds. Families were randomly assigned to the intervention or control condition. The number of prior placements was predictive of negative exits from current foster placements. The intervention increased chances of a positive exit (e.g., parent/child reunification) and mitigated the risk-enhancing effect of a history of multiple placements. Incorporating intervention approaches based on a parent management training model into child welfare services may improve placement outcomes for children in foster care.

Verbal Learning and Memory in Children with Fetal Alcohol Syndrome

Abstract: Children with fetal alcohol syndrome (FAS) were administered the California Verbal Learning Test-Children's Version, a word list learning task that assesses immediate and delayed recall and recognition memory. When compared with matched control children, the children with FAS had difficulty learning and recalling the words after a delay period and tended to make an increased number of intrusion and perseverative errors. In addition, they had difficulty discriminating target words from distracter words and made more false-positive errors on recognition testing. Some of these deficits persisted even when mental age was controlled. The results suggest that children with FAS have profound verbal learning and memory deficits, and that some of these deficits cannot be accounted for even when mental age is considered. Furthermore, the results are consistent with deficits in encoding verbal information and impairment in response inhibition capabilities.

The Effect Of Individual Perceptions of Deadlines on Team Performance

Abstract: Based on a review of existing literature, we propose that two time-oriented individual differences—time urgency and time perspective—influence team members' perceptions of deadlines. We present propositions describing how time urgency and time perspective affect individuals' deadline perceptions and subsequent deadline-oriented behaviors and how different deadline perceptions and behaviors among team members affect the ability of teams to meet deadlines. We end with implications for existing theory and future research.

Student evaluations of teachers.

Abstract: Rodin and Rodin point out that there are two ways of judging teaching through students—ascertaining how much students have learned and obtaining student evaluations of teacher effectiveness. Some commonly accepted notions regarding student evaluations are challenged in this article, which comments on the results obtained in a number of studies. The authors suggest that “students are less than perfect judges of teaching effectiveness”—at least if teaching effectiveness is measured by how much students learn. This paper, reprinted from Science, helps to set the stage for the remaining articles in this issue.

The Interactions between the Investment, Financing, and Dividend Decisions of Major U.S. Firms

Abstract: This paper uses 114 responses to a June 1988 mail questionnaire survey of the financial managers of the 1,000 largest U.S. firms to examine Modigliani and Miller's “separation principle”. The opinions of practicing financial managers were found to be consistent with Modigliani and Miller as well as with the work of other empirical researchers. Almost without exception, the direction of causality between investment and financing decisions was found to run from the former to the latter, and dividend decisions were found to be driven by profits and prior year's dividends rather than by the firm's investment and financing actions. Clearly, the beliefs of practicing financial managers seem to reflect acceptance of Modigliani and Miller's “separation principle.”