Creating a Climate of Self-Awareness in Early Childhood Teacher Preparation Programs   总被引：1，自引：0，他引：1  

Angela C. Baum  Margaret A. King 《Early Childhood Education Journal》2006,33(4):217-222

This article discusses the importance of helping preservice teachers develop a sense of self-awareness. This involves, in part, helping preservice teachers develop an ability to examine and identify the personal characteristics, beliefs and attitudes that make them who they are and influence the way they think about teaching and learning. The authors offer several suggestions for creating a climate in teacher education programs that will promote a developing sense of self-awareness in preservice teachers.  相似文献   

The conceptual change approach to improving teaching and learning: An evaluation of a Hong Kong staff development programme   总被引：2，自引：0，他引：2  

Angela Ho  David Watkins  Mavis Kelly 《Higher Education》2001,42(2):143-169

This paper reports a study ofthe effectiveness of an innovative approach tostaff development, the conceptual changeapproach, which attempts to change teachers'frameworks for conceptualising teaching andlearning. The evaluation investigated theprogramme at three levels: the impact on theconceptions of teaching of the participants,the resultant impact on teaching practices, andthe consequential effect on student learning.Encouraging results were obtained. Theprogramme brought about detectable conceptualchange or conceptual development in two-thirdsof the sample group. Subsequently, all the`changed' teachers received better ratings ontheir teaching practices from their students inthe following academic year while none of thosewho did not change their conceptions showedsimilar gains in student rating scores. Aresultant positive impact on their students'studying approaches was observed for half ofthe teachers who changed their conceptions.  相似文献   

Comparison of deficits in cognitive and motor skills among children with dyslexia   总被引：4，自引：2，他引：4  

Roderick I. Nicolson  Angela J. Fawcett 《Annals of dyslexia》1994,44(1):147-164

There is a growing body of evidence that children with dyslexia have problems not just in reading but in a range of skills including several unrelated to reading. In an attempt to compare the severity and incidence of deficits across these varied domains, children with dyslexia (mean ages 8, 12, and 16 years), and control groups of normally achieving children matched for IQ and for age or reading age, were tested on a range of primitive (basic) skills. The children with dyslexia performed significantly worse than the same-age controls on most tasks, and significantly worse even than the reading-age controls on phoneme segmentation, picture naming speed, word tachistoscopic word recognition, speeded bead threading and some balance tasks. The overall performance of the children with dyslexia is interpreted as showing less complete automatization than normal.  相似文献   

Effects of Web-based Support for the Construction of Competence Maps     

Angela Stoof  Rob L. Martens  Jeroen J. G. van Merriënboer 《Instructional Science》2006,34(3):189-211

Educationalists experience difficulties with the construction of competence maps that describe final attainment levels of educational programs. Web-based support was developed with three supportive aids: A construction kit, a phenomenarium, and an information bank. Each supportive aid was expected to improve perceived process and product quality as well as learning. In a full factorial experiment, 266 educational science students constructed a competence map, whether or not supported by different combinations of the three supportive aids. The availability of the construction kit and the phenomenarium had positive effects on perceived process quality and learning. Furthermore, if there was no phenomenarium with example materials, the absence of the construction kit greatly diminished experienced support (i.e., one aspect of process quality); if a phenomenarium was present, the availability of the construction kit had relatively little effect on perceived support. In general, this study indicates that well-designed Web-based support helps to construct competence maps. in final form: 2 February 2006  相似文献   

What Teachers Think     

Angela Thomas 《Assessment & Evaluation in Higher Education》1989,14(3):149-157

The present study examined Further Education Teachers’ opinions on the introduction of a formal appraisal system into their colleges. Data were obtained from two sources: (a) a one‐day workshop (N = 72), and (b) a survey questionnaire (N = 60). Findings showed that generally teachers did not welcome a formal appraisal system but felt that any system should offer encouragement and help to improve performance in the classroom, though most felt that time and money would need to be spent to enable Colleges to do the job properly.  相似文献   

Multigrade teaching: towards an international research and policy agenda   总被引：2，自引：0，他引：2  

Angela W. Little   《International Journal of Educational Development》2001,21(6):121

Despite its prevalence in many educational systems, multigrade teaching remains invisible. In the global effort to achieve education for all in the post-Dakar decade the needs of multigrade teachers, classes and schools must be addressed. The paper (i) explores the meaning of the term multigrade teaching in developing and industrialised countries and identifies a range of conditions under which it arises; (ii) synthesises knowledge of the practice of and research on multigrade teaching; and (iii) proposes an international agenda for future research on and dissemination of policy and practice. The agenda underlines the need for context-specific questions and comparisons, more awareness of the prevalence and challenges of multigrade teaching, more research on the practices and training needs of multigrade teaching and the exploration of synergies between teachers, curriculum, assessment and classroom organisation. It is suggested that knowledge of multigrade teaching strategies is needed by all teachers and not simply those in classes designated as ‘multigrade’.  相似文献   

Childhood adversity, educational trajectories, and self-reported health in later life among U.S. women and men at the turn of the century     

Prof. Angela M. O’Rand Ph.D.  Prof. Jenifer Hamil-Luker Ph.D.  Prof. Cheryl Elman Ph.D. 《Zeitschrift für Erziehungswissenschaft》2009,12(3):409-436

A major objective of current life course research is to specify the processes linking early childhood conditions to subsequent life course statuses that span educational, occupational, familial, and health domains across the life span. This study confronts at least two persistent challenges to the rigorous specification of the relationships among these variables. The first is that the point-in-time measurement of education as “years of schooling” masks considerable heterogeneity in the timing and curricular tracks of schooling and obscures our understanding of how and when education matters for life-course inequality. The second challenge involves interdependencies between aspects of life-course inequality, including educational achievement and health. The intertwining of these variables across the life course, and their usual conceptualization and measurement, limit the interpretation of their relationship and its generalizability across studies. We use data from three waves of the National Survey of Families and Households between 1987–1988 and 2001–2002 to explore trajectories of self-reported health, applying latent class cluster analysis (finite mixture models) to deal directly with these measurement and specification issues. Generally, we find mediating effects of education in mid- to late-life health demonstrating the pivotal role of education in life course processes. Women’s childhood backgrounds are more heterogeneous and temporally complex educational careers affect their self-assessed health more than men’s. Late degrees are linked to poor health trajectories among women, but not men. Also, marital history, number of births and health behaviors are associated in expected ways with women’s and men’s health trajectories at midlife.  相似文献   

Developing a framework for critical science agency through case study in a conceptual physics context     

Sreyashi Jhumki Basu  Angela Calabrese Barton  Neil Clairmont  Donya Locke 《Cultural Studies of Science Education》2009,4(2):345-371

  相似文献   

Critical physics agency: further unraveling the intersections of subject matter knowledge, learning, and taking action     

Sreyashi Jhumki Basu  Angela Calabrese Barton 《Cultural Studies of Science Education》2009,4(2):387-392

In this rejoinder to Bryan Brown and John Reveles, we highlight the facts that (a) sociocultural theories of learning do not go far enough because they fail to address a number of issues and (b) we require concepts such as power and positionality to understand science learning.

Angela Calabrese BartonEmail:

  相似文献   

Interindividual Differences in Neonatal Imitation and the Development of Action Chains in Rhesus Macaques   总被引：1，自引：0，他引：1  

Pier Francesco Ferrari  Annika Paukner  Angela Ruggiero  Lisa Darcey  Sarah Unbehagen  Stephen J. Suomi 《Child development》2009,80(4):1057-1068

The capacity to imitate facial gestures is highly variable in rhesus macaques and this variability may be related to differences in specific neurobehavioral patterns of development. This study evaluated the differential neonatal imitative response of 41 macaques in relation to the development of sensory, motor, and cognitive skills throughout the 1st month of life. The results show that infants who imitate facial gestures display more developed skills in goal-directed movements (reaching–grasping and fine hand motor control) than nonimitators. These differences might reflect, at least in part, the differential maturation of motor chains in the parietal and motor cortices, which partly overlap with those of the mirror neuron system. Thus, neonatal imitation appears to be a predictor of future neurobehavioral development.  相似文献