The attitude of civil engineering students towards health and safety risk management: a case study     

A. K. Petersen  J. H. Reynolds  L. W.T. Ng 《European Journal of Engineering Education》2008,33(5-6):499-510

The highest rate of accidents and injuries in British industries has been reported by the construction industry during the past decade. Since then stakeholders have recognised that a possible solution would be to inculcate a good attitude towards health and safety risk management in undergraduate civil engineering students and construction professionals. Consequently, the four accreditation bodies that accredit construction degrees have improved coverage of health and safety risk management. The key issue has now shifted to ensure that Higher Education Centres deliver these requirements. This paper demonstrates innovative assessment methods that have been used to inculcate a safety conscious attitude into undergraduate civil engineering students, and to improve their knowledge of health and safety risk management. Surveys were administered to the students before and after they were subjected to innovative assessment techniques over two semesters in the construction management units. The analyses of the results of the surveys are provided to demonstrate the degree of improvement in the attitude of the students towards, and their knowledge of, health and safety risk management.  相似文献   

Development and Field Test of an Employment Selection Instrument for Teachers in Urban School Districts     

Howard Ebmeier  Jennifer Ng 《Journal of Personnel Evaluation in Education》2005,18(3):201-218

Employment interviews are widely used in the selection of quality teachers, and indeed research confirms administrators’ belief in the validity of the procedure. However, many key recommendations for improving the general reliability of interviews including selecting questions that are job-related and research grounded, including well designed scoring rubrics, and incorporating adaptive variable-length interview designs are generally not well implemented in currently available instruments. Furthermore, emerging research suggests the need for specially tailored interviews that assess attitudes and pre-dispositions deemed essential to teachers’ effectiveness in certain high attrition environments like urban schools. This study describes the development and initial field-test results of a computer based, adaptive interview with an additional domain included for teachers in urban areas. The instrument is based on careful analysis of the suggestions from the extant literature base about effective employment interview techniques, effective general teaching practices, and sound teaching strategies in urban schools. By comparing the interview scores of 30 teachers with varying effectiveness ratings provided by administrators in one urban district, significant correlations were found. Regression analysis indicated a significant amount of variance in teachers’ effectiveness ratings could be predicted from their scores on the interview instrument.

Howard EbmeierEmail: Phone: +1-785-8649728

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Some Reflections on the Coming of an American Fascism     

Clarence J. Karier 《Educational theory》1987,37(3):251-263

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The prevalence and severity of injuries in field hockey drag flickers: a retrospective cross-sectional study     

Leo Ng  Dorianne Sherry  Wei Bing Loh  Andreas Myhre Sjurseth  Shrikant Iyengar  Catherine Wild 《Journal of sports sciences》2016,34(18):1746-1751

The drag flick is the preferred method of scoring during a penalty corner in field hockey. Performing the drag flick requires a combination of strength, coordination and timing, which may increase susceptibility to injuries. However, injury prevalence in drag flickers has not previously been investigated. Therefore, this study compared the injury prevalence and severity of lower limb and lower back injuries between drag flickers and non-drag flickers in field hockey. A total of 432 local, national and international adult field hockey players (242 males, 188 females) completed an online questionnaire to retrospectively determine the 3-month prevalence and severity of ankle, knee, hip and lower back injuries. Of this group, 140 self-identified as drag flickers and 292 as non-drag flickers. The results showed that drag flickers had significantly higher prevalence of hip (OR: 1.541; 95% CI: 1.014, 2.343) and lower back injury (OR: 1.564; 95% CI: 1.034, 2.365) compared to non-drag flickers. No significant differences were observed between drag flickers and non-drag flickers in injury prevalence at the ankle and knee. There were no significant between-group differences in injury severity scores. Overall, the prevalence of hip and lower back injuries was significantly higher in drag flickers compared to non-drag flickers.  相似文献   

Information literacy supporting student motivation and performance: Course-level analyses     

Michael Flierl  Emily Bonem  Clarence Maybee  Rachel Fundator 《Library & information science research》2018,40(1):30-37

Examining data from over 3000 students in 102 course sections across seven colleges of a large, public, research intensive university in the United States, this study investigates the relationships between information literacy (IL) and course-level academic performance and student perceptions of their learning environments. The results provide evidence of the following: 1) students who synthesize information and communicate the results tend to perceive higher levels of motivation than students who do so less often; 2) there is a significant positive relationship between synthesizing information and communicating the results and course level learning gains. The results point to the efficacy of IL being integrated into learning disciplinary course content, as well as the benefit of prioritizing high-order IL activities, such as synthesizing information, over other the aspects of IL, such as searching or formatting citations.  相似文献   

Reading comprehension,working memory and higher-level language skills in children with SLI and/or dyslexia     

Anita M.-Y. Wong  Connie S.-H. Ho  Terry K.-F. Au  Catherine McBride  Ashley K.-H. Ng  Lesley P.-W. Yip  Catherine C.-C. Lam 《Reading and writing》2017,30(2):337-361

This study examined (1) whether working memory and higher-level languages skills—inferencing and comprehension monitoring—accounted for individual differences among Chinese children in Chinese reading comprehension, after controlling for age, Chinese word reading and oral language skills, and (2) whether children with specific language impairment (SLI) or dyslexia showed deficits in these skills. Eighty-two Cantonese Chinese-speaking children between the age of 7; 8–9; 5 were assessed. Regression analyses on the full sample offered support for the first question. The children were also classified into four groups: Typically-developing (TD; N = 34), specific language impairment-only (SLI-only; N = 18), SLI-dyslexia comorbid (SLI-D; N = 22) and dyslexia-only (D-only; N = 8). Pair-wise comparisons focusing on the second question revealed that both the SLI-only and the D-only group performed worse than the TD group in reading comprehension after controlling for age and nonverbal intelligence. The SLI-only and the D-only group showed a different profile of deficits: only the SLI-only group performed worse than the TD group in working memory, comprehension monitoring, and inferencing. The SLI-D comorbid group did worse than the SLI-only, but not the D-only group, in reading comprehension. The SLI-D comorbid group did not do worse than either single diagnosis group in the higher-level language skills associated with reading comprehension. These findings suggested adopting different intervention approaches for reading comprehension difficulties in children with SLI versus children with dyslexia.  相似文献   

Environmental Information: A Review and Appraisal     

David M. Rubin  Thomas H. Harris  David W. Jones Jr.  David Peter Sachs  Clarence A. Schoenfeld 《The Journal of environmental education》2013,44(1):61-63

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Individual uniqueness: The key to survival for the private college?     

Clarence Hughes 《Peabody Journal of Education》2013,88(3):241-244

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Experiences of Counselor Education Doctoral Student Mothers With Young Children     

Brooke Lundquist  Deborah Rubel  Kok-Mun Ng 《Counselor Education & Supervision》2020,59(4):267-282

We explored the mothering experiences of 11 counselor education doctoral student mothers who have at least one young child under the age of 5. Six themes emerged from the study, including ambivalence, increased use of coping mechanisms, striving for balance, “superwoman syndrome,” indistinguishable roles, and leading by example.  相似文献   

Puff versus overtone     

Clarence Simon 《Quarterly Journal of Speech》2013,99(3):214-220

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