Using an action research approach to involving service users in the assessment of professional competence

This paper reports on a piece of action research that has involved people who use mental health services in systematically providing feedback from a user perspective on participants’ assessed work completed for one module of a masters’ training programme in mental health. In an attempt to improve professional practice and include people who were accessing mental health services in so doing, it outlines how users were trained to provide feedback and the training methods employed. The findings summarise the kind of issues users raised in their feedback to participants about the evidence professionals provided to demonstrate their learning from the training programme. A focus group interview with professionals provides a contrasting insight into the participants’ experience of having their work commented upon from a user perspective. The paper draws on the experience of a five-year external evaluation of an interdisciplinary programme in community mental health at Birmingham University in the UK which has highlighted the involvement of people who use mental health services as a particular innovation in the design, delivery and evaluation of the curriculum.     

“心理社会治疗模式”介入老年个案社会工作

该个案运用心理社会治疗模式和技巧,帮助案主认清自己的状况,消除疑病症的困扰。案主通过加强身体锻炼和心理辅导,有了较好的精神状态,达到了预期的治疗效果。     

Toward an Understanding of the Behavioral Intention to Use an Information System

Organizational investment in information systems is often large and risky given the variety of information requirements placed on systems today. To make more informed decisions and to meet the challenge of developing systems that satisfy these demands, system developers need to achieve a better understanding of factors that ultimately lead to system usage. To enhance this understanding, we posit a holistic framework to examine several constructs suggested in the literature that lead to the behavioral intention to use an information system. Our framework includes situational involvement, intrinsic involvement, argument for change, perceived usefulness, ease of use, prior usage, and attitude constructs. We extend the Davis, Bagozzi, and Warshaw Technology Acceptance Model (TAM), which is founded on the Theory of Reasoned Action. A diverse sample from industry is used to test our model. Structural equation modeling is used to examine the entire pattern of intercorrelations among the constructs and to test related propositions. A hierarchical structure is used to compare the explanatory ability of TAM with our extension. Our model explains a large portion of the covariance among the constructs that lead to a user's behavioral intention to use an information system and compares favorably with TAM. The results indicate that (1) the direct effect of situational involvement on behavioral intention as well as attitude is significant in the negative direction, (2) attitude seems to play a mediating role, and (3) intrinsic involvement plays a significant role in shaping perceptions. Finally, we conclude that the user involvement construct needs to be separated into its psychological as well as its participative components for developers to understand its impact on the systems development process.     

分级教学模式下任务投入量对英语词汇附带习得影响研究

基于 “投入量假设” 研究,分析了在大学英语分级教学模式下,非英语专业基础班的学习者通过完成不同投入量的阅读任务附带习得词汇效果。试验结果仅部分支持 “投入量假设”,即投入量大的阅读任务一般比投入量小的任务更有利于词汇知识的习得和保持,但是并不必然有更好的效果。输出型任务比输入型任务能更好地促进词汇的习得和保持效果。一周后投入量较高的填空任务没能产生持久性的词汇保持效果。鉴于有限的英语课堂教学时间,提出几点相应的建议和措施以期在分级模式教学中提高词汇附带学习效率。     

“心理社会治疗模式”介入老年个案社会工作

该个案运用心理社会治疗模式和技巧,帮助案主认清自己的状况,消除疑病症的困扰。案主通过加强身体锻炼和心理辅导,有了较好的精神状态,达到了预期的治疗效果。     

论二语词汇附带习得与阅读任务设计改革

从Laufer和Hulstijn的“投入量假说”所研究的二语学习者在阅读过程中词汇附带习得的认知机制及量化标准．着手分析论证阅读任务设计的改革对发展学习者的读写能力及语言交际能力的作用,认为设计中参照“投入量假说”的量化标准而导入有效策略与学习者自主发展更高层次阅读能力正相关。     

关于阅读任务对词汇附带习得影响的实证研究

本研究旨在测试不同阅读任务对学生词汇附带习得的影响,以及相同投入量,但阅读任务不同会产生什么效果来检验“投入量假设”。实验证明,词汇习得结果不仅受阅读任务影响,也受学生自身水平的影响,并且相同的投入量也会产生不同的效果,并同文章中是否出现目标词的注释有关。本文最后讨论了实验结果对词汇学习的意义。     

The double-edge sword effect of interorganizational trust on involvement in interorganizational networks: The mediator role of affective commitment

Some organizations collaborate with other partner organizations to reach common goals, establishing interorganizational networks. The governance of the network is often enacted by an interorganizational governing team composed of the directors or top managers of the partner firms. This team plans, manages, and supervises the advancement of the network’s common goals. The success of the network depends, to a large extent, on the involvement of the members of the governing team. In this study, we tested a multilevel model of the antecedents of the involvement of governing team members in the management activities of interorganizational networks. We examined whether the relationship between team interorganizational trust, as a team level construct, and individual involvement in management activities is partially mediated by individual affective commitment. Using a sample of 101 respondents belonging to 28 interorganizational governing teams, we tested a multilevel mediation model. Results showed, as expected, a positive indirect effect of team interorganizational trust on individual involvement through individual affective commitment. However, unexpectedly, team interorganizational trust also showed a negative direct relationship with individual involvement. Based on our findings, we highlight the need to also consider the “dark side” of interorganizational trust, and we propose potential mediators to explain the unexpected negative relationship.     

任务投入量对词汇附带习得影响的实证研究

为进一步检验"投入量假设"理论,本文比较了不同投入量的三项阅读任务对词汇附带学习的总体成效,并深入调查了任务投入量促发的目标词习得程度上的差异。实验结果显示,任务投入量既对词汇的即时和延时总体学习效果起显著作用,也对目标词的习得程度产生不同的影响。在此基础上笔者提出了将投入量理论应用于国内二语词汇习得与教学的几点建议。     

B2C中网络信任与消费者涉入关系的实证研究

本文以消费者信任为基础,从网购消费者涉入、消费者个性特征关系上,深入探究影响网购消费者再惠顾意愿的驱动因素.实证研究结果显示:消费者对卖方的信任态度对其再惠顾意愿的影响最为显著,其次为消费者对产品与服务的涉入态度.这意味着卖方必须注重自身的信用累积,通过提供良好的产品与服务品质,并在安全性上塑造良好的购物环境,以促成消费者网上交易的意愿,增强消费者进行网络购物时的正向体验及涉入.