Who benefits from mastery-approach and performance-approach goals in college? Students’ social class as a moderator of the link between goals and grade     

Céline Darnon  Mickaël Jury  Cristina Aelenei 《European Journal of Psychology of Education - EJPE》2018,33(4):713-726

Although approach forms of achievement goals (mastery and performance goals) have been shown to predict academic achievement in college, recent research underscores that these associations are rather weak and not consistently observed. The present study tests students’ social class (in the present research, generational status) as a moderator of the relationships between both mastery-approach goals and performance-approach goals and final grade. One hundred students (45 first-generation students and 55 continuing-generation students, M _age = 18.9, SD = 1.52) answered an achievement goal scale related to one of their classes at the beginning of the year. Their final grade for this class was obtained three months later. As expected, performance-approach goals positively predicted final grade only for upper-class students, while mastery-approach goals tend to do so for lower-class students, supporting the idea that different kinds of motivation could predict students’ achievement depending on their social class.  相似文献   

Effective practices in leadership for social justice. Evolution of successful secondary school principalship in disadvantaged contexts     

Cristina Moral  Lina Higueras-Rodríguez  Ana Martín-Romera  Estefanía Martínez- Valdivia  Amelia Morales-Ocaña 《International Journal of Leadership in Education》2020,23(2):107-130

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This paper investigates the evolution of leadership for learning that has occurred in four secondary schools located in disadvantaged contexts in the province of Granada (Spain) over a period of 2 years, performing a comparative analysis on the values, qualities and strategies that characterize their principals during the academic years 2013–2014 and 2015–2016. The investigation uses case studies and conducts interviews with principals, teachers and education administrators. It is supported by the group-case method, as well as the longitudinal prospective method. The results show that only one of these principals has maintained a leadership aimed at learning and achievement of all students in the school, at the same time as students’ academic results have been improving. This paper concludes by providing information on values, qualities and strategies of successful leadership in disadvantaged contexts in Spain that distinguish them from other less successful leaders.  相似文献   

Community universities in the South of Brazil: prospects and challenges of a model of non-state public higher education     

Cristina Fioreze  Tristan McCowan 《比较教育学》2018,54(3):370-389

In recent years, higher education institutions have been encouraged to engage more strongly with their local communities, and address their historically weak links with their surrounding populations. In the latter part of the twentieth century, a number of community universities were established in the South of Brazil, characterised by democratic local community involvement, expansion of access in non-metropolitan regions, and close ties with local industry. This article analyses these innovative institutions in relation to the complex demands of the so-called knowledge economy and multifaceted relationships between public and private, exploring the ways in which the public good role of universities manifests itself in relation to the local. Given their hybrid nature – independent from the state but with a public good mission – these institutions can be seen to represent a new model of non-state public higher education. Implications are drawn out for the potential role of these institutions in the current policy context of Brazil, and internationally, in light of their context-specificity and the significant challenges from the highly commercialised for-profit sector.  相似文献   

The impact of programme accreditation on Portuguese higher education provision   总被引：1，自引：0，他引：1  

Cristina Sin  Orlanda Tavares  Alberto Amaral 《Assessment & Evaluation in Higher Education》2017,42(6):860-871

The paper analyses the impact of programme accreditation in Portugal further to the operations of the Agency for Assessment and Accreditation of Higher Education, which were initiated in 2009. Tracking the evolution of study programmes, the paper found that, out of the initial 5262 programmes on offer in 2009/2010, 40% have been either discontinued or not accredited as of July 2015. The analysis revealed differences between the private and the public sectors, with higher proportions of discontinuations and closures in the former. For the discipline with the highest percentage of non-accredited programmes (Law), the main reasons for denied accreditation were analysed. The identified reasons were related to a lack of academic quality, for example, the programmes’ lack of compliance with legal requirements regarding teaching staff qualifications and full-time employment, the blurred identity of programmes, undifferentiated between university and polytechnic sectors, or curricular inconsistencies. The paper suggests that the identified reasons are likely to be symptomatic of the quality shortcomings in the provision of higher education programmes in Portugal. The data provide evidence that programme accreditation has had a powerful impact, reducing the number of programmes, increasing the number of PhD holders among teaching staff and raising institutional awareness of quality.  相似文献   

READING MATHEMATICS REPRESENTATIONS: AN EYE-TRACKING STUDY     

Andr&#;  Chiara  Lindstr&#;m  Paulina  Arzarello  Ferdinando  Holmqvist  Kenneth  Robutti  Ornella  Sabena  Cristina 《International Journal of Science and Mathematics Education》2013,13(2):237-259

We use eye tracking as a method to examine how different mathematical representations of the same mathematical object are attended to by students. The results of this study show that there is a meaningful difference in the eye movements between formulas and graphs. This difference can be understood in terms of the cultural and social shaping of human perception, as well as in terms of differences between the symbolic and graphical registers.

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Assessing the effectiveness of the Eureka Program     

Cristina Bayona-Sáez  Teresa García-Marco 《Research Policy》2010,39(10):1375-1386

The aim of this paper is to test whether participation in a European public initiative to support market-oriented R&D, such as the Eureka Program, has a positive impact on the performance of participating firms and, if so, how long it is before the impact becomes apparent. These issues are explored using a dynamic panel data model covering the period 1994–2003, for a sample of 866 European firms, 284 of which completed a Eureka project during the period of analysis. The results show how the completion of a Eureka project has a positive influence over firm performance measured as return over assets (ROA), although the effect does not manifest itself until a year after project completion. Nevertheless, when the sample is divided by sector, it is obtained that, while manufacturing firms follow the general pattern of a positive effect appearing a year after project completion, the effect in non-manufacturing firms is already apparent during the year of completion.  相似文献   

On‐line Terminologia Anatomica: A proposal     

Maria‐Cristina Manzanares‐Céspedes M.D.  Ph.D. 《Anatomical sciences education》2010,3(3):154-155

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Introduction to the Non-Cooperative Approach to Coalition Formation: The Case of the Blu-Ray/HD-DVD Standards' War     

Nabyla Daidj  Cristina Grazia  Abdelhakim Hammoudi 《Journal of Media Economics》2013,26(4):192-215

The concepts of the theory of endogenous coalition formation have not been utilized much to analyze issues in the field of applied economics. In this paper, we show how these concepts make a relevant and innovative contribution to these issues. We first illustrate the fundamentals of this theory and we present the concept of internal and external cartel stability. We provide an illustration of this concept through a basic example of an oligopoly in a cartelization situation. Then, we show the relevance of these concepts by analyzing the battle between the high-definition DVD-player standards: Sony's Blu-Ray and NEC/Toshiba's HD-DVD.  相似文献   

Critical Pedagogy in HIV-AIDS Education for a Maya Immigrant Community     

Dilys Schoorman  Maria Cristina Acosta  Sister Rachel Sena  Traci Baxley 《Multicultural Perspectives》2013,15(4):194-200

In this article the authors discuss how the perspectives of Paulo Freire were instructive in addressing the challenges of HIV-AIDS education in Guatemalan Maya immigrant communities with minimal formal education and literacy. The forging of a community-based, collaborative, educational program offers several implications for effective teaching and learning among marginalized communities.  相似文献   

eap essentials – By Olwyn Alexander et al     

Cristina Oddone 《British journal of educational technology : journal of the Council for Educational Technology》2012,43(3):E93-E93

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