Myth and Reality: A review of empirical studies on giftedness     

Albert Ziegler  Thomas Raul 《High Ability Studies》2000,11(2):113-136

In this review all empirically based articles published in the years 1997 and 1998 in five acclaimed journals in the field of research of high ability and talent will be compared. For this purpose several questions will be taken into consideration, including the problems of the identification procedures used, the predominating research questions and the quality of the methodological standards. The results show that it is difficult to compare the studies due to the various procedures used to identify giftedness. In contrast, regarding the thematic orientation of the research studies themselves, the existence of a virulent problem in gifted research could be confirmed. The methodological standards adhered to in the studies give rise to troubling thoughts, possibly the most worrisome outcome being that the integration of a control group occurred in less than one-quarter of the studies. A definitive result of the study is the confirmation that gifted research is conducted within the framework of a fragmented research community where studies are performed under various methodological viewpoints, which are often unsatisfactory. The appearance of approximately one new publication per day is accompanied by the dangers of a metamorphosis of quality into pure quantity and the loss of any sort of conceptual overview. The aim of this article is, therefore, to determine whether these suspicions can be substantiated specifically regarding theoretical and methodological aspects of empirical studies in giftedness research.  相似文献   

Letters to the Editor     

Hugh Jones  Albert Henderson  Hazel Bell 《Learned Publishing》2000,13(3):197-201

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Normal Science Education and its Dangers: The Case of School Chemistry   总被引：1，自引：0，他引：1  

Van Berkel  Berry  De Vos  Wobbe  Verdonk  Adri H.  Pilot  Albert 《Science & Education》2000,9(1-2):123-159

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Editorial: What is on the research agenda?     

Albert Henderson 《Publishing Research Quarterly》1994,10(4):3-4

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A National Teacher Examination     

Albert Shanker 《Educational Measurement》1985,4(3):28-31

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Tests of the synchronograph on the telegraph lines of the British Government: The wheatstone receiver operated by the alternating current in transmitting intelligence     

Albert Cushing Crehore  George Owen Squier 《Journal of The Franklin Institute》1898,145(4):294-308

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University presses and the trade book market: Managing in turbulent times     

Albert N. Greco 《Publishing Research Quarterly》1988,3(4):34-53

In this article the author addresses the abandonment of the mid-list trade book market by commercial publishing houses and the development of that market niche by entrepreneurially oriented but beleagured university press directors in the 1970s. How many presses are issuing trade books? Hard statistical data is difficult to obtain. Yet a review of university press catalogues reveals a surge of interest in this book area. However, this niche does not belong exclusively to university presses. Intense competition is now surfacing from new, small but aggressive publishing houses interested in this market. This means that university press directors will be compelled to develop and utilize sophisticated marketing strategies if they plan to remain active and successful in this potentially lucrative but hotly contested market.  相似文献   

Who Publishes More Books in U.S. English Departments,Men or Women?     

Nicole Benevento  Albert N. Greco  Toniann Pasqueralle  Clara Rodriguez  Francesca Russo  Alana M. Spendley  Kelly Sullivan  Yiming Sun  Robert M. Wharton 《Publishing Research Quarterly》2017,33(4):357-372

The “gender gap” in the U.S. publication of English language and literature scholarly books has not been fully investigated. In order to investigate gender disparity, we collected, aggregated, and analyzed data on 1633 faculty members who authored or edited 4835 scholarly books at the top 50 U.S. English Ph.D. departments. Despite the fact that more women than men have received Ph.D.s in English since 1987, the top 50 departments are predominantly male, and male faculty members publish more books on a per capita basis. However, who publishes more books in these departments varies: (1) with the department that the faculty member is in (with grater parity in the middle 30 departments); and (2) when the faculty member published their first book, with female faculty who published their first book after 1998 publishing as many books on a per person basis as male faculty. This paper also offers recommendations on how marketing strategies can be used to ameliorate the “gender gap” in this academic field.  相似文献   

Causal modeling for indirect cost management at universities and colleges     

Albert E. Muir 《Research in higher education》1980,12(4):291-300

Faculty applications for nonuniversity project funding, relative support requested for research, and the indirect cost rate negotiated for federal research projects are used to forecast overhead one year in advance. They are also used to project the ratio of awarded indirect cost to awarded direct cost. The role of the latter variable in mediating changes in subsequent indirect cost reimbursement is described, as well. By using multiple regression and path analysis, the study demonstrates one way of bridging the gap between theories on indirect cost recovery and statistical methodology. It should be of particular interest to the administrator who seeks to integrate variables which precede overhead reimbursement in time with the university budget process.  相似文献   

Dilemmas of open admissions policy: quality and efficiency in Swedish higher education     

Albert Tuijnman 《Higher Education》1990,20(4):443-457

This paper is concerned with the critical question as to whether the performance of the Swedish system of higher education can be considered satisfactory in a general sense and in comparison with other countries. Different efficiency and quality criteria are used in identifying central problems besetting higher education in Sweden. It is concluded that a liberal, unified system with generous admission principles such as that of Sweden, despite its apparently low efficiency, nevertheless would seem to reach an internationally acceptable standard of yield relative to costs. Thus, it is suggested that the improved democratization of higher education in this Nordic country has not been bought at the general expense of quality, as is often claimed by people critical of progressive higher education.  相似文献