Mental health program evaluation: Where you start?

Seduced by the elegance, sophistication and jargon characteristic of new developments in applied research, practicing evaluators are in danger of becoming distracted from achievement of their evaluative goal: that of providing timely, reliable and useful data to program management to facilitate rational data-based decision-making. To avoid such seduction, the author advocates adaptation of simple, inexpensive and efficient evaluative methods tailored to organizational needs and presentation of findings in language readily understood by constituent groups. Likewise, insistance by evaluators upon maintenance of a strict role boundary — that is, limiting role functioning exclusively to those tasks considered evaluation — may be dysfunctional. Rather than detract from accomplishment of his goals, the author maintains that such participation allows development of skills, insights and staff relationships which enhance the evaluator's effective functioning within the organizational context and contribute to organizational acceptance and use of his evaluative results.     

Behavioral evaluation of a state program of deinstitutionalization of the developmentally disabled

The purpose of this study was to evaluate one phase of a statewide program of deinstitutionalizing developmentally disabled individuals. Forty adults who had spent a minimum of six months in community placements were evaluated with respect to changes in behavior associated with movement out of state institutions and into community settings such as group homes and day activity centers. Pre- and post-deinstitutionalization measures were taken with the Behavior Development Survey. Post-deinstitutionalization measures on Cataldo and Risley's Resident Activity Manifest were compared to the same measures obtained on 159 developmentally disabled individuals scheduled for deinstitutionalization. A consistent pattern of positive changes on both instruments favored deinstitutionalization, but changes could not be unequivocally attributed to movement out of the institutions per se.     

我国制造业产能利用率测度与影响因素研究——基于十个重点行业

选取制造业的十个重点行业,使用2001-2014年的面板数据,运用数据包络分析法(DEA)对其产能利用率、技术效率和设备利用率进行了测算,结果显示:我国制造业的部分行业存在严重的产能过剩问题;非金属矿物制品业、黑色金属冶炼和压延加工业等传统行业的产能利用率较低;通信设备、计算机及其他电子设备制造业等新兴行业的产能利用率相对较高.剖析制造业产能过剩的影响因素,发现市场需求与产能利用率存在显著的正相关关系,资本密集度、就业水平、开放度、金融支持与产能利用率有显著的负相关关系.     

《阿Q正传》艺术谱系析解

《阿Q正传》的艺术谱系可从叙事与形象两方面采用作品细读的方法来查考。《阿Q正传》的叙事手法与中国小说的史传式叙事手法恰相反对,而与《红楼梦》紧密相承;阿Q的精神气质是《庄子》“圣人”形象经历史积淀后的粗卑化呈现。     

费孝通的甘肃实践

费孝通教授为了重建他一生"志在富民"的学科,躬身来到"陇中苦甲天下"的甘肃定西,来到黄河上游,来到丝绸之路民族走廊的"小民族"中间。他在中央实施西部大开发伊始,又及时提出"西部大开发中人文资源的保护、利用和开发"的问题……。他想到,他说到,他身体力行,在实践中,他重建着中国的社会学、人类学学科。     

近年《二十四诗品》真伪讨论综述

《二十四诗品》一般认为是晚唐司空图所撰,近年来其真伪问题引起学界热烈讨论,争论的焦点主要集中在对有关《诗品》文献的辨析、《诗品》的版本源流、司空图与《诗品》诗学思想的异同这三个方面,由《诗品》真伪的讨论还引起对相关问题的关注,如对古籍版本的重视,对《诗家一指》的研究等。本文综述了这场讨论中正反两方的意见,以见这场讨论的概况和意义。     

Estimating chance reproducibility in Guttman Scaling

A definition of reproducibility in Guttman Scaling and two chance measures of reproducibility are suggested. The first measure assumes that the items are independent. The second method assumes nonindependent items and fits respondent and item margins by an iterative method used in fitting log-linear models. Chance reproducibility is conceptualized in terms of assumptions about respondent variability.     

What types of occupations are women entering? : Determinants of changes in female representation: 1970–2000

Although a consistent body of research has demonstrated that occupational segregation is highly consequential for women's economic standing, we know little about the processes that contribute to changes in levels of sex segregation. In this study, we examine those factors that contribute to changes in the percent of women in detailed occupational categories in the United States. Since we are most concerned with the economic consequences of this type of segregation, we analyze a group of high-paying, male-dominated occupations that, if better integrated, would contribute most to earnings equality. We find that occupations to which relatively high percentages of women aspired and occupations that are growing have been experiencing above-average increases in the percentage of women, while occupations characterized by male-stereotyped task profiles have been witnessing below-average increases. Additionally, our results suggest the presence of a ceiling effect: it is easier for women to break into male-dominated occupations initially than to sustain growth. Our analysis suggests that both supply and demand-side explanations provide insight into the processes contributing to increases in the occupations that we examine, although it can be very difficult to distinguish between supply and demand-side elements; indeed they may occur simultaneously.     

胡仔《苕溪渔隐丛话》的用事论

胡仔《苕溪渔隐丛话》对用事的探讨是构建其独特诗学理论体系的一个重要组成部分。主要体现在三个方面:首先,他从诗人诗作的用事实例着手,分析诗词用事的偏差与失误;其次,他提出了《苕溪渔隐丛话》用事的标尺———“合理”;最后,表达了他的用事理想———精切。《苕溪渔隐丛话》这种独特用事论无论是在广度还是在深度上,都为后世用事理论的发展奠定了坚实的基础。