research
FSU Faculty on Child Welfare Employee Retention Rates
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Four faculty members from the College of Social Work co-authored an article, “What Else is There to Say? Reflections of Newly-Hired Child Welfare Workers by Retention Status," published by Children and Youth Services Review. In it, they attempt to identify factors that cause up to 40% of child welfare workers to leave their positions each year. While some turnover can be good for those who realize that social work is not for them, such high rates put a strain on social work agencies and workers who do stay in their positions. Lower retention rates can also have a negative impact on the people that need social work services. These effects motivated the authors to investigate the causes of high turnover to identify changes that can be made.
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Co-authors Callie Little, Ph.D. and Yaacov Petscher, Ph.D. published by Scientific Reports
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Callie Little and Yaacov Petscher of the Florida Center for Reading Research co-authored "Developmental Trajectories of Eye Movements in Oral and Silent reading for Beginning Readers: A Longitudinal Investigation" along with Young-Suk Grace Kim and Christian Vorstius. Their study followed the reading patterns of 363 English-speaking children from 1st to 3rd grade to identify the "temporal and spatial measures of eye movements." They compared these measures between silent and oral reading and across each year of the longitudinal study.
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College of Medicine’s Michael Blaber, Ph.D. on 3D Protein Models
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Michael Blaber, Ph.D. in FSU’s College of Medicine recently published his manuscript in the Journal of Proteins and Proteomics. This article, titled “Evaluation of steric entanglement in coiled-coil and domain-swapped protein interfaces using 3D printed models,” looks at protein models in a new way. These models could not previously be studied because the technology did not yet exist. Blaber references Crick’s proposed model called “Knobs in Holes” which has since been modified.
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