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About: Social change is a research topic. Over the lifetime, 61197 publications have been published within this topic receiving 1797013 citations.


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TL;DR: This paper argues that current applications of social validity assessments are straying from the point originally proposed for them, and several suggestions for improving current social validity assessment are proposed.
Abstract: The use of evaluative feedback from consumers to guide program planning and evaluation is often referred to as the assessment of social validity. Differing views of its role and value in applied behavior analysis have emerged, and increasingly stereotyped assessments of social validity are becoming commonplace. This paper argues that current applications of social validity assessments are straying from the point originally proposed for them. Thus, several suggestions for improving current social validity assessment are proposed, including (a) expanding the definition of consumers to acknowledge the variety of community members able and likely to affect a program's survival, (b) increasing the psychometric rigor of social validity assessments, (c) extending assessment to heretofore underrepresented populations, (d) implementing widespread application of well-designed social validity assessments, (e) increasing meaningful consumer involvement in the planning and evaluation of behavioral programs, and (f) educating consumers to make better informed programming decisions.

658 citations

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01 Jan 1997
TL;DR: In this article, a structural analysis of the world economy is presented, from method to metaphor to theory and substance, with a focus on simple social structure - kinship units and ties, Nancy Howell the duality of persons and groups, Ronald L.Briger the ralational basis of attitudes.
Abstract: Part 1 Thinking structurally: structural analysis - from method to metaphor to theory and substance, Barry Wellman understanding simple social structure - kinship units and ties, Nancy Howell the duality of persons and groups, Ronald L.Briger the ralational basis of attitudes, Bonnie Erickson. Part 2 Communities: Networks as personal communities, Barry Wellman, Peter Carrington and Alan Hall work and community in industrializing India, Leslie Howard relations of production and class rule - the hidden basis of patron-clientage, Y.Michal Bodemann. Part 3 Markets: varieties of markets, Harrison White markets and market-areas - some preliminary formulations, S.D.Berkowitz form and substance in the analysis of the world economy, Harriet Friedmann. Part 4 Social change: misreading, then re-reading, 19th-century social change, Charles Tilly structural location and ideological divergence - Jewish Marxist intellectuals in turn-of-the-century Russia, Robert J.Bryam cities and fights - material entailment analysis of the 18th-century chemical revolution, Douglas R.White and H.Gilman McCann. Part 5 Social mobility: collectivity mobility and the persistence of dynasties, Lorne Tepperman social networks and efficient resource allocation - computer models of job vacancy allocation through contacts, John Delany occupational mobility - a structural model, Joel H.Levine and John Spadaro toward a formal structural sociology, S.D.Berkowitz.

653 citations

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TL;DR: The overall issue of assessment during early childhood, and its relation to school readiness and other decisions, is currently widely debated as mentioned in this paper, and the disconnection between the importance of social and emotional domains of development and their status within educational programming and assessment, has long been lamented.
Abstract: The overall issue of assessment during early childhood, and its relation to school readiness and other decisions, is currently widely debated. Expanding early childhood education and child care enrollments, better scientific knowledge about early childhood development, and decisions about public spending, necessitate careful consideration of which assessment tools to use, as well as why and when to use them. More specifically, the disconnection between the importance of social and emotional domains of development, and their status within educational programming and assessment, has long been lamented. The last several years have, however, witnessed a blossoming of attention to these areas during early childhood, as crucial for both concurrent and later well-being and mental health, as well as learning and academic success. Teachers view children's "readiness to learn" and "teachability" as marked by positive emotional expressiveness, enthusiasm, and ability to regulate emotions and behaviors. Based on thes...

651 citations

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01 Dec 1997

650 citations


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No. of papers in the topic in previous years
YearPapers
2023115
2022303
20211,155
20201,678
20191,734
20181,858