Ethics education and the drive to produce ethical professional engineers is an important focus of one body of research on engineering education. This research often defines the positive outcome of ethics education as students and professional engineers choosing not to engage in unethical behavior. This paper discusses a portion of a larger research project and details efforts to identify and va...

Little is known about cyber harassment in general, and in order to understand more about online harassment among intimate partners, it is important to examine people's perceptions of this new form of aggression. Using Johnson's typology of relationship violence as a guiding framework, the role of technology in partner violence was explored using data from five focus group interviews. Six themes...

[This paper is part of the Focused Collection on Gender in Physics.] This study examined the perceptions of 6th grade middle school students regarding physics and physics-related careers. The overarching goal of this work was to understand similarities and differences between girls’ and boys’ perceptions surrounding physics and physics-related careers as part of a long-term effort to increase f...

Young, low-income, African American fathers have been at the center of research, practice, and policy on families over the past decade. This article uses a "voicing" analytic technique to examine identities among young, low-income, African American fathers living in an urban setting; the intersections of these identities; and the fathers' perceptions of the influences of familial, peer, and leg...

This article describes the planning and implementation of a mixed-method community needs assessment with the intent of cre­ ating a system of care for gay, lesbian, bisexual, transgender, and questioning (GLBTQ) youths in an urban area. Flowing from qualitative to quantitative research strategies, this needs assess­ ment utilized key informant interviews, focus groups, and survey research in a ...

In the Republic of Trinidad and Tobago the full range of physical, mental, psychological, and socially derived problems of occupational engagement exist. Occupational therapy is often a part of the health care team to address these challenges; however, the profession is at an emergent stage in the country. This paper describes a process used for the development of an indigenous entry-level mast...

The Thailand Major Overseas Programme coordinates large multi-center studies in tropical medicine and generates vast amounts of data. As the data sharing movement gains momentum, we wanted to understand attitudes and experiences of relevant stakeholders about what constitutes good data sharing practice. We conducted 15 interviews and three focus groups discussions involving 25 participants and ...

Recently, we have been examining how experienced teachers in well-regarded subject departments approach the use of ICT in secondary mathematics. Drawing on multiple sources, we identified 11 departments considered to be successful in terms of the quality both of the education that they provided, and of their integration of ICT into classroom practice. Next, we conducted focus group interviews w...

In this research the concept of mixed embeddedness is used to analyze how economic and political opportunity structures and the group characteristics of Ethiopian and Bolivian immigrants have affected the establishment and development of their businesses in metropolitan Washington, DC. The study relies upon interviews, focus groups, census data, and mapping to assess the entrepreneurial activit...

5 ORIGINAL PAPERS 6 INTRODUCTION 7 BACKGROUND 10 The historical development of hospitals and hospices in Sweden 10 Concepts for studying atmosphere in care settings 12 Place 15 Space 16 Ward atmosphere 17 Enriched environments 18 Supportive environments/design 20 Caring culture 21 Healing environments 22 People’s doing and being in creating an atmosphere 23 RATIONALE FOR THE STUDY 24 AIM OF THE...