The Advocacy Portfolio

The Psychology of Advocacy and the Advocacy of Psychology

This article addresses needs and opportunities for advocacy for the science, education and practice of psychology from the perspectives of three leaders within organized psychology, academia, and hospital practice. The authors make distinctions between knowledge transfer and knowledge translation as well as between lobbying and advocacy. They define proactive and reactive advocacy and draw atte...

Advocacy.

Cover’s Universal Portfolio, Stochastic Portfolio Theory and the Numéraire Portfolio

Cover’s celebrated theorem states that the long run yield of a properly chosen “universal” portfolio is as good as the long run yield of the best retrospectively chosen constant rebalanced portfolio. The “universality” pertains to the fact that this result is model-free, i.e., not dependent on an underlying stochastic process. We extend Cover’s theorem to the setting of stochastic portfolio the...

the impact of portfolio assessment on iranian efl students essay writing: a process-oriented approach

this study was conducted to investigate the impact of portfolio assessment as a process-oriented assessment mechanism on iranian efl students’ english writing and its subskills of focus, elaboration, organization, conventions, and vocabulary. out of ninety juniors majoring in english literature and translation at the university of isfahan, sixty one of them who were at the same level of writing...

Advocacy--the power to influence.

August 2005 • Volume 9, Number 4 • CliNiCAl JourNAl of oNCology NursiNg Do you have questions on how to improve your leadership skills? Do you have a management or administrative problem that stumps you? Have you developed unique insights that helped you improve your leadership skills? If so, consider writing for this column dedicated to improvement of leadership skills at all levels. For more ...