Measuring twenty-first century skills: development and validation of a scale for in-service and pre-service teachers     

Yueming Jia  Youn Joo Oh  Bernadette Sibuma  Frank LaBanca  Mhora Lorentson 《Teacher Development》2016,20(2):229-252

A self-report scale that measures teachers’ confidence in teaching students about twenty-first century skills was developed and validated with pre-service and in-service teachers. First, 16 items were created to measure teaching confidence in six areas: information literacy, collaboration, communication, innovation and creativity, problem solving, and responsible citizenship. Then, the items were tested in two groups of pre-service teachers and two groups of in-service teachers respectively. Exploratory factor analyses and confirmatory factor analyses were conducted to examine the scale’s validity and reliability. The analyses identified a three-construct scale including innovation and problem solving, collaboration, and utility of technology for pre-service teachers and a one-dimension scale, cross-functional skills, for in-service teachers. This study suggests that different scales should be used to measure in-service teachers’ and pre-service teachers’ confidence in teaching twenty-first century skills.  相似文献   

Privacy Problems for Public Schools     

Bernadette Marczely  Frank O'Dell 《Clearing house (Menasha, Wis.)》2013,86(3):203-206

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The existence of school‐related stress in two grammar schools in Northern Ireland: contributing factors and moderation     

Lindsey Finch  Bernadette McCreight 《Pastoral Care in Education》2013,31(4):311-329

Recent educational policies have altered scholastic experience. It is the contention of the authors that contemporary school experience may therefore, for some individuals, be distressing. This study is concerned with the identification of stress‐related behaviours of sixth‐form pupils within female single‐sex, selective, scholastic environments. The sample consisted of 420 girls drawn from two comparable schools. The study was conducted using qualitative and quantitative methods. Administration of a questionnaire at three intervals within one academic year permitted sustained reflection upon responses. The qualitative questionnaire findings permitted generation of themes, later investigated through focus groups. SPSS was used to analyse responses to scaled questions. The keeping of a research diary served to illuminate meaning and to capture anecdotal evidence, which is so easily lost within a busy school environment. In addition, the opinions of a number of relevant professionals were sought. The study concluded that some members of the sample population encounter demands emanating not only from assessment incidents, but also from a range of other sources inherent to the system of sufficient magnitude, duration and intensity to engender school‐related stress. Within the study the ways in which school‐related stress may present are identified; these include, for example, physical effects, subjective effects, effects upon work and effects upon relationships. An evaluation of current relevant support mechanisms is offered and recommendations for change are made.  相似文献   

Carolyn Bronstein. Battling Pornography: The American Feminist Anti-Pornography Movement, 1976–1986     

Bernadette Barker-Plummer 《Mass Communication and Society》2013,16(4):608-611

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An animated dictionary for hearing‐impaired students in Thailand     

Santichai Wicha  Bernadette Sharp  Pradorn Sureephong  Nopasit Chakpitak  Anthony Atkins 《Journal of Research in Special Educational Needs》2012,12(4):234-244

As English increasingly becomes the international language, many ministerial and educational organisations have identified the need to improve the competence of Thai students in speaking English. While there is significant research devoted to developing software tools to support the teaching of English as a second language, they are mostly concerned with adult learners. This project focuses on addressing the need to improve the teaching of English as a second language to primary school children with hearing impairments. This paper presents the development of an educational software tool referred to as the Total Communication with Animation Dictionary (TCAD), which supports learners in the acquisition and retention of new English lexical knowledge and is based on the theoretical approaches of Total Communication and situated learning. A series of experiments was undertaken to evaluate the effectiveness of the TCAD in improving vocabulary acquisition and retention. Early results are promising with increased learner engagement and performance compared with traditional approaches.  相似文献   

Professionalization as an advocacy strategy: a content analysis of Canadian child care social movement organizations’ 2008 discursive resources     

Rachel Langford  Susan Prentice  Patrizia Albanese  Bernadette Summers  Brianne Messina-Goertzen  Brooke Richardson 《Early Years: An International Journal of Research and Development》2013,33(3):302-317

Do early childhood education and care (ECEC) professionals make good advocates? Canadian advocates have fought for better child care policies since the mid-1940s. What has happened to this advocacy with the recent increased professionalization of the ECEC sector? How does increased professionalization limit, innovate or expand advocacy strategies? This content analysis of seven Canadian child care social movement organizations’ discursive resources in 2008 examines how different types of child care social movement organizations communicated their positions to their members and the public to manage a changing economic and political climate. Preliminary findings indicate that both ECEC workforce sector associations and grassroots organizations shared common advocacy messages, played down problems associated with a market approach to child care, and framed child care as a business case in their messaging. The authors suggest this reflects a nascent discursive move towards the professionalization of Canadian child care movement advocacy messages.  相似文献   

(AP)POINTING THE CANON ROUSSEAU'S ÉMILE, VISIONS OF THE STATE, AND EDUCATION     

Bernadette Baker 《Educational theory》2001,51(1):1-43

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Education as a mechanism for conflict resolution in Northern Ireland     

Bernadette C. Hayes  Ian McAllister 《牛津教育评论》2013,39(4):437-450

How education systems operate in divided societies is an increasingly important question for academics and educational practitioners as well as for governments. The question is particularly pertinent in post‐conflict societies, where education is a key mechanism for resolving conflict between divided communities. Using Northern Ireland as a case study, this article sheds new light on the role of education in conflict resolution by examining the long‐term impact of segregated and integrated education on attitudes towards community relations and levels of contact between the Protestant and Catholic communities. The results suggest that individuals who had attended an integrated school are significantly more likely to have friends and neighbours from across the religious divide and that these friendship networks translate into a more optimistic view of future community relations. This is not the case, however, when kinship networks are considered. The evidence from Northern Ireland suggests that the education system can be a source of both conflict and cohesion depending on the nature of the school system as well as the particular source of division to be addressed.  相似文献   

The Growth of International Student Enrollment at Community Colleges and Implications     

Bernadette Anayah 《Community College Journal of Research & Practice》2013,37(12):1099-1110

An emerging trend today is the increased enrollment of international students at community colleges. International students look to American community colleges as a steppingstone to achieving an education that might otherwise be beyond their reach. They are attracted to the community college by the lower tuition costs, opportunities for guaranteed transfer to a four-year university, and the opportunity to study at a variety of geographical locations throughout the United States. The purpose of this qualitative study was to examine the reasons that international students choose to study at community colleges and to consider the implications for community colleges at a time when funding, services, and growth opportunities have been severely restricted. Suggestions for further research are also included.  相似文献   

Disciplining the Devil: a rhetorical history of Tod Browning’s The Devil Doll (1936)     

Bernadette Marie Calafell 《Critical Studies in Media Communication》2019,36(1):18-34

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