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Purpose
– The purpose of this paper is to contribute to understanding of different ways that parents and schools develop and maintain working partnerships to improve outcomes for children by focusing on quantitative evidence about parental involvement (PI). The key questions for this synthesis are: what is the evidence about the extent of impact of PI on cognitive or academic outcomes for children, and how consistent and reliable is this evidence?


Design/methodology/approach
– This is an "umbrella" review comparing and contrasting findings from 13 meta-analyses across three areas of PI and home/school partnerships: first, general approaches; second, home and family literacy programmes; and finally, targeted interventions focused on individual or specific family need.


Findings
– There is consistent evidence about the extent of impact from general approaches (three to six months average additional gain for children's educational outcomes) and for targeted intervention (four to six months), but with a wider range of estimates for family literacy (two to eight months average gain). Variation in approaches and evaluation quality make specific recommendations for practice challenging, though some consistent patterns of findings indicate strategies that are likely to be "good bets" to explore and evaluate.


Research limitations/implications
– The quality of the underlying studies makes drawing secure implications for practice difficult. The nature of the review means that it does not capture the most recent studies.


Originality/value
– The paper provides a synthesis of quantitative evidence from 13 meta-analyses to identify where there is consistency in estimates of impact and what is associated with systematic variation in this impact.

PurposeThe purpose of this paper is to examine the link between service specialization and operational performance in hospitals. Existing literature has mostly been concerned with the performance effects of operational focus, which can be seen as an extreme form of specialization. It is not clear, however, whether an effect similar to the focus effect can be observed also in cases where specialization takes on less extreme forms. The authors analyze this effect up to and above the effects of volume, learning and patient selection.Design/methodology/approachOrdinary least squares (OLS) and two‐stage regression models were used to analyze patient data from 142 Austrian hospitals over the 2002‐2006 period. The sample contains 322,193 patient groups (841,687 patient group‐year observations).FindingsThe authors find that increased specialization in a service leads to a more efficient provision of this service in terms of shorter length of stay. The analysis shows that this effect holds even after controlling for volume, learning, and patient selection effects. The authors suggest that the pure specialization effect is due to the increased administrative and medical attention that is given to a service when the relative importance of that service increases.Practical implicationsThe paper's results indicate hospital managers should pay attention to the impact of specialization when making service‐mix decisions. If two services have the same or a similar level of operational performance, then this does not mean that hospital managers should be indifferent as to the relative volume of these services.Originality/valueThe paper provides additional insights into the impact of service‐level specialization not examined in prior literature.

The paper reports the outcomes of one module of a collaborative learning project aimed at the development of leadership capacity in district health management teams in the East Cape province of South Africa. A work‐based learning methodology was selected for the module with the intention of developing strategic and procedural knowledge bases within these teams as a way of addressing the complex problems of policy implementation in South African state organisations. The paper demonstrates the effectiveness of collaborative work‐based projects in developing team members' capacity to solve difficult workplace problems and to implement strategy in a challenging operational environment. It endorses the role of leadership coaching in the development of, and ability to leverage, important strategic knowledge resources that reside within and between team members. The paper concludes with an example that demonstrates the developing ability of team members to initiate successful collaboration around the resolution of complex service delivery problems.

Military Veterans seek healthcare in many settings. Some qualified for services may use Veterans Administration hospitals and clinics, but many receive care in other private sector offices and facilities. In 2012, the White House's Joining Forces initiative to support service members, veterans, and their families was extended to include education for nursing students. The National League for Nursing (NLN) with the support from the Laerdal Medical Corporation commissioned the development of four sets of simulation scenarios to help educate nursing students about the culture and needs of Veterans from certain eras.

Contents -- Introduction -- Emerging Protocols of Post-Fordist Flow -- Lessons -- 1. Site. Urbanism After Geography: The Network is Context -- 2. Plan. Double Vision: Total Design, Total Choice -- 3. Zone. Split Second City: Time as Vehicle for Urbanism -- 4. Circulation. Urbanism On Demand: The City as Service Platform -- 5. Architecture. Smart Landscape, Dumb Building: Ground Rules -- Apply -- Conclusion: Logistical Narratives -- Logistical Players -- Appendix -- Acknowledgements -- Image Credits -- Index -- About the Author

Distance education (DE) is one of the most important ways in which future social workers can complete their MSW degree. With a reach to multiple populations, DE is especially suited to the field of social work, allowing rural, working, and financially-strained individuals to complete degrees and provide important services to underserved communities. In this comprehensive and well-organized guide to understanding and implementing distance education components into social work, pioneering professo

The overspread of the novel coronavirus—SARS-CoV-2—over the globe has caused significant damage to manufacturing and service businesses, regardless of whether they are commercial, public, or not-for-profit sectors. While both the short-term and long-term impacts of most companies can be approximately measured or estimated, it is challenging to address the enduring effects of COVID-19 on teaching and learning activities. The target of this research is to investigate students' manners of studying at home during the school suspension time as a result of COVID-19. Through analyzing original survey data from 420 K6–12 students in Hanoi, Vietnam, this work demonstrates the different learning habits of students with different socioeconomic statuses and occupational aspirations during the disease's outbreak. In particular, we featured the differences in students' learning behaviors between private schools and public schools, as well as between students who plan to follow STEM-related careers and those who intend to engage in social science-related careers. The empirical evidence of this study can be used for the consideration of the local government to increase the sustainability of coming policies and regulations to boost students' self-efficacy, as it will affect 1.4 million students in Hanoi, as well as the larger population of nearly 10 million Vietnamese students. These results can also be the foundation for future investigations on how to elevate students' learning habits toward Sustainable Development Goal 4 (SDG4)—Quality Education—especially in fanciful situations in which the regular school operation has been disrupted, counting with limited observation and support from teachers and parents.

У статті проаналізовано особливості взаємодії університетів та громадських організацій у системі вищої освіти США. Розкрито суть поняття академічно-громадського навчання. Зосереджено увагу на партнерстві вищих навчальних закладів з громадськими організаціями як важливій складовій організації програм академічно-громадського навчання. Подано дефініції понять «неприбуткові організації», «недержавні організації», «громадські організації», діяльність яких сприяє розвитку демократичного суспільства. Наведено приклади конкретних американських організацій, які взаємодіють з університетами та різносторонньо допомагають застосовувати академічно-громадське навчання у системі вищої освіти. Визначено переваги взаємодії університетів з громадськими організаціями у системі вищої освіти США. ; The article is devoted to the peculiarities of cooperation between universities and community organizations in the system of higher education of the USA. The essence of the concept of academic service-learning as an innovative pedagogical strategy which involves students into meaningful social activities during learning process is studied. The emphasis is given to a partnership between universities and community organizations as an integral element of academic service-learning programs. Advantages of such partnership for universities, students, and communities are determined. Students receive an opportunity to improve critical thinking skills, integrate theory and practice, improve communication skills, be involved in the problems of their communities. Community organizations help students in learning and cultivate conscious and responsible young people who contribute to the development of civil society; as well as those who can do various kinds of work on the proper level without a payment. Community organizations are motivated by the desire to provide a valuable learning experience for students and benefit from the students. Accordingly, during creating programs of academic service-learning the needs of both students and community organizations must be taken into account. In the article such notions as nonprofit organization, non-governmental organizations, community organizations, whose work contributes to the development of a democratic society, are examined. In the USA there are a lot of nonprofit and non-governmental organizations which support students' learning in communities, such as Youth Service America, Campus Compact, American Association for Higher Education and Accreditation, The Council of Independent Colleges, National Youth Leadership Council, National Service-Learning Clearinghouse. These organizations support programs of academic service-learning providing necessary technical and electronic learning resources; giving financial grants; participating in national conferences and helping in publishing research articles; conducting conferences, seminars and workshops; assisting in the creating academic service-learning programs.

201 223 16 2 ; S ; Norms are used in open Multi-Agent Systems asa formal specification of deontic statements aimed at regulating the actions of agents and the interactions among them. In this paper, we propose a set of services facilitating the development of both non-normative and normative agents for norm-governed MAS. Specifically, we propose to provide agents with norm reasoning services. These services will help agent designers/developers to programme agents that consider norm reasoning without having to implement the needed mechanisms to reason about norms by themselves. This article shows how these services perform as well as the results of the experiments that we conducted to evaluate their performance. Natalia Criado was awarded a FPU scholarship AP-2007-01256 by the spanish government. This work has also been partially funded by grants CONSOLIDER-INGENIO 2010 CSD2007-00022, TIN2009-13839-C03-01. This research has also been partially funded by Valencian Prometeo project 2008/051. Criado Pacheco, N.; Such Aparicio, JM.; Botti Navarro, VJ. (2014). Norm reasoning services. Information Systems Frontiers. 16(2):201-223. doi:10.1007/s10796-013-9444-7 Artikis A., & Pitt J. (2001). A formal model of open agent societies. In Proceeding of the international conference on autonomous agents and multiagent systems (AAMAS) (pp. 192–193). Bordini R., Hübner J., Wooldridge M. (2008). Programming multi-agent systems in AgentSpeak using Jason (Vol. 8). Wiley-Interscience. Broersen J., Dastani M., Hulstijn J., Huang Z., van der Torre, L (2001). The boid architecture: conflicts between beliefs, obligations, intentions and desires. In Proceedings of the fifth international conference on autonomous agents (pp. 9–16). ACM. Burdalo L., Garcia-Fornes A., Julian V., Terrasa A. (2011). TRAMMAS: a tracing model for multiagent systems. Engineering Applications of Artificial Intelligence , 24(7), 1110–1119. Conte R., Andrighetto G., Campenní M., Paolucci M. (2007). Emergent and immergent effects in complex social systems. In ...