Concept mapping for planning and evaluation of a big brother/big sister program

Galvin, Patrick

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“…This method has been used in several domains, including the implementation of family‐based intensive in‐home services for the elderly ( 29 ) and evaluation of a Big Brothers/Big Sisters program. ( 62 ) Computer programs for mental model diagramming based on this method are currently available, and several more are under development. ( 61 , 63–68 )…”

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Cognitive Mapping Tools: Review and Risk Management Needs

Wood

Bostrom²,

Bridges³

et al. 2012

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Risk managers are increasingly interested in incorporating stakeholder beliefs and other human factors into the planning process. Effective risk assessment and management requires understanding perceptions and beliefs of involved stakeholders, and how these beliefs give rise to actions that influence risk management decisions. Formal analyses of risk manager and stakeholder cognitions represent an important first step. Techniques for diagramming stakeholder mental models provide one tool for risk managers to better understand stakeholder beliefs and perceptions concerning risk, and to leverage this new understanding in developing risk management strategies. This article reviews three methodologies for assessing and diagramming stakeholder mental models--decision-analysis-based mental modeling, concept mapping, and semantic web analysis--and assesses them with regard to their ability to address risk manager needs.

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Cognitive Mapping Tools: Review and Risk Management Needs

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“…social, career, or personal goals" (Nettles, 1991, p. 139). To date, the literature on youth mentoring has focused on how to develop a mentoring program (Bryant & Wierick, 1983;Sapone, 1989), descriptions of existing programs (Education Commission of the States, 1989;Project Literacy U.S., 1990), examination of mentor characteristics (Hendry, Roberts, Glendinning, & Coleman, 1992) and, in a few instances, the psychosocial and academic adjustment outcomes of youth who participate in mentoring programs (Galvin, 1989;McParland & Nettles, 1991). With notable exceptions (e.g., Furano, Roaf, Styles, & Branch, 1993), investigations have not focused on issues pertaining to the characteristics of mentoring relationships themselves, such as the frequency of mentor-youth contact and feelings of closeness in relationships.…”

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Youth mentoring: Investigation of relationship characteristics and perceived benefits

DuBois

Neville

1997

J. Community Psychol.

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This research examined associations among characteristics of relationships formed in two community‐based mentoring programs and their linkages with ratings of perceived benefits for youth. Volunteer mentors in a Big Brothers/Big Sisters program completed a questionnaire on a monthly basis for a period of six months, whereas undergraduate students serving as mentors through a service‐learning course completed a questionnaire on one occasion only. Mentors' ratings of emotional closeness with youth were found to be associated with reports of fewer contacts with program staff and relationship obstacles in each program. Reports of more extensive amounts of mentor‐youth contact and feelings of closeness were, in turn, each associated with ratings of greater benefits for youth. Findings also indicated a tendency for mentors in longer term relationships in the Big Brothers/Big Sisters program to perceive greater benefits for youth, but this was evident only after controlling for a countervailing tendency of mentors in these relationships to report spending less time with youth. Implications for the design and evaluation of youth mentoring programs are discussed. © 1997 John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

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“…Concept mapping is "an integrated approach whose steps include brainstorming, statement analysis and synthesis, unstructured sorting of statements, multidimensional scaling and cluster analysis, and the generation of numerous interpretable maps and data displays" (Concept Systems, 2006;Kane & Trochim, 2007, p. 1). It has been used for a variety of purposes, including survey design and analysis (Jackson & Trochim, 2002), program planning, development, and needs assessment (Trochim, Cook, & Setze, 1994), community building (Davis, 2007), and constructing evaluation tools and protocols (Galvin, 1989;Rosas & Camphausen, 2007;Stokols et al, 2003). Recently, it has been used in aging to identify key components for developing quality report cards for geriatric care (Groenewoud, van Exel, Berg, & Huijsman, 2008).…”

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Conceptual Model and Map of Financial Exploitation of Older Adults

Conrad

Iris

Ridings

et al. 2011

Journal of Elder Abuse & Neglect

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This article describes the processes and outcomes of three-dimensional concept mapping to conceptualize financial exploitation of older adults. Statements were generated from a literature review and by local and national panels consisting of 16 experts in the field of financial exploitation. These statements were sorted and rated using Concept Systems software, which grouped the statements into clusters and depicted them as a map. Statements were grouped into six clusters, and ranked by the experts as follows in descending severity: (a) theft and scams, (b) financial victimization, (c) financial entitlement, (d) coercion, (e) signs of possible financial exploitation, and (f) money management difficulties. The hierarchical model can be used to identify elder financial exploitation and differentiate it from related but distinct areas of victimization. The severity hierarchy may be used to develop measures that will enable more precise screening for triage of clients into appropriate interventions.

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Concept mapping for planning and evaluation of a big brother/big sister program

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Cognitive Mapping Tools: Review and Risk Management Needs

Cognitive Mapping Tools: Review and Risk Management Needs

Youth mentoring: Investigation of relationship characteristics and perceived benefits

Conceptual Model and Map of Financial Exploitation of Older Adults

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