Quality improvement in early years settings in Hong Kong and England     

Dora Ho  Verity Campbell-Barr  Caroline Leeson 《International Journal of Early Years Education》2010,18(3):243-258

With a growing awareness of the importance of early childhood education, the governments of Hong Kong and England have both increased investment through providing fee assistance to parents for buying services and providing funding to providers for offering ‘free’ places, respectively. Alongside the increased funding of early childhood education, a heightened interest in the quality of early years settings has arisen. This paper aims to develop a framework for comparative studies by addressing the similarities and differences in quality improvement of both systems. Three key issues are discussed: relevance of the quality criteria for assessment, interpretations of the quality improvement mechanism and its use in guiding practice, and the influence of contextual factors in terms of stakeholders' views of the quality process. It is argued that these key issues are fundamental to a framework for understanding different sociocultural contexts and dynamics in shaping the quality improvement of early childhood education.  相似文献   

Restructuring teachers’ work‐lives and knowledge in England and Spain     

Jörg Müller  Caroline Norrie  Fernando Hernández  Ivor Goodson 《Compare》2010,40(3):265-277

This article explores the restructuring of education in England and Spain. Against a presumably homogeneous global streamlining of educational systems according to competition‐driven goals, the comparison of teachers’ work‐lives and professional knowledge evidences a variety of experiences under‐represented in discourses on global restructuring. Our argument highlights how in England political reforms have worked their way deep into the working lives of professionals, giving rise to a ‘managerial’ model of professionalism, whereas in Spain reforms are more loosely coupled with teachers’ work, favoring a ‘social service’‐oriented model. However, despite the different professional ideals, teachers uniformly stressed the challenges they face were predominantly due to broader social transformations for which policy reforms provided few if any remedies. Our study emphasizes the variety of educational reforms and teachers’ experiences in the European context and argues further educational change should be bound to the historical trajectory and the concrete needs of the professionals in question.  相似文献   

Stereotype threat among students with disabilities: the importance of the evaluative context on their cognitive performance     

Desombre  Caroline  Anegmar  Souad  Delelis  Gérald 《European Journal of Psychology of Education - EJPE》2018,33(2):201-214

European Journal of Psychology of Education - This study investigated the hypothesis that cognitive performance of students with physical disabilities may be influenced by the evaluators’...  相似文献   

Effect of surrogate design on the measured stiffness of snowboarding wrist protectors     

Caroline Adams  David James  Terry Senior  Tom Allen  Nick Hamilton 《Sports Engineering》2018,21(3):217-225

In snowboarding, the wrist is the most common injury site, as snowboarders often put their arms out to cushion a fall. This can result in a compressive load through the carpals coupled with wrist hyperextension, leading to ligament sprains or carpal and forearm bone fractures. Wrist protectors are worn by snowboarders in an effort to reduce injury risk, by decreasing peak impact forces and limiting wrist extension to prevent hyperextension during falls. There is no international standard or universally accepted performance specification that snowboarding wrist protectors should conform to, resulting in an inability to judge which designs offer the best protection. This study investigated how surrogate arm design affected the stiffness of wrist protectors during quasi-static mechanical testing. Three surrogate arms with increasing design complexity were used to test three wrist protectors. The results show that surrogate design does influence the stiffness of snowboarding wrist protectors. Given that the surrogate does influence protector performance, it is recommended that a standard surrogate design is established for research and product testing.  相似文献   

The role of the referee in physical education lessons: student experience and motivation     

David Adé  Caroline Ganière  Benoît Louvet 《Physical Education & Sport Pedagogy》2018,23(4):418-430

Introduction: Social roles in physical education (PE) classes have been much studied, especially mentoring and coaching roles. The studies have shown that mentoring and coaching are beneficial not only for motor learning, but also for methodological and social learning. To our knowledge, the role of the student referee in PE lessons has never been specifically studied. Yet refereeing is essential in many sports, including team sports, and provides an experience of responsibility that many teachers want to offer their students. Encouraging students to take on this role can nevertheless be difficult.

Objective: The objective of the present study was to gain access to students’ lived experiences as referees in order to determine their strategies for being effective. We particularly wanted to determine which concerns organized their activity so that we could identify a refereeing typology that would be useful for PE teaching. Our study is original in that we did not rely exclusively on experiential data to understand student refereeing activity. We also collected data on the students’ motivation in order to better understand their experiences. For this purpose, the study was conducted within the methodological framework of course-of-action theory and self-determination theory.

Method: Seventy-four students from three classes in the third year of middle school (about 13 years old) participated in the study. Among them, four (two girls and two boys and not experts in the sports in which they were going to referee) had volunteered to be filmed and to participate in self-confrontation interviews. The other students completed two questionnaires to provide information on their motivation for refereeing. The situations studied were basketball and handball matches held at the end of the lessons.

Two categories of data were collected: qualitative and quantitative. The qualitative data were based on audiovisual recordings of the students as they refereed matches and verbalization data from self-confrontation interviews; these data were used to document the students’ courses of experience during the activity period under study. The quantitative data were collected using two questionnaires, one to assess the determinants of motivation and the other to assess self-determined motivation.

Results and discussion: The qualitative analysis highlighted three typical student involvements: fulfilling the role of referee, getting help, and occasionally dropping out of the role. The quantitative analysis revealed that the students in the social role of referee mainly expressed amotivation, external regulation, and intrinsic motivation toward knowledge and accomplishment.

The results are discussed around two major points: (1) the students’ strategies of alternation from which their refereeing activity emerged and (2) proposals for PE teacher interventions.  相似文献   

Ethics of social networks for special needs users     

Caroline Rizza  Ângela Guimarães Pereira 《Ethics and Information Technology》2013,15(4):249-251

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Developments in Educational Assessment: what makes a good test?     

Caroline Gipps 《Assessment in Education: Principles, Policy & Practice》1994,1(3):283-292

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Beginning Statistics with Cuisenaire Rods     

Caroline Hollingsworth 《Teaching Statistics》1995,17(2):38-39

Cuisenaire Rods provide a concrete embodiment for teaching mean, median, and mode to middle schoolers. These statistical concepts are traditionally only taught abstractly, but may be better understood via manipulatives.  相似文献   

Defining and navigating ‘action’ in a Participatory Action Research project     

Batsheva Guy  Tziporah Feldman  Caroline Cain  Lauren Leesman  Chara Hood 《Educational Action Research》2020,28(1):142-153

ABSTRACT

While the ‘action’ portion of a Participatory Action Research (PAR) project is a crucial component of the process, action tends to be challenging to define, achieve, and measure. The current paper both defines and describes action within the context of a particular PAR collaboration and explores the process and challenges of navigating and implementing action in a PAR project. The specific PAR project detailed in this paper was executed within a higher education setting and involves a group of undergraduate women co-researchers studying their experiences in STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics) fields.  相似文献   

Providing Structure for Research Students Coming and Going     

A. Malcolm Campbell  Meredith J. Nakano  Caroline J. Vrana  Todd T. Eckdahl  Jeffrey L. Poet  Laurie J. Heyer 《CBE life sciences education》2012,11(4):337-338

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