Can’t get there from here: The decision to apply to a selective college     

Amanda L. Griffith  Donna S. Rothstein 《Economics of Education Review》2009,28(5):620-628

In an attempt to increase applications from low-income students, some selective 4-year colleges are developing programs to target and attract low-income students. However, relatively little research has looked at factors important in the college application process, and in particular, how these factors differ for low-income students. This paper uses data from the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth 1997 (NLSY97) to analyze factors influencing students’ college application decisions, with a focus on the decision to apply to a selective 4-year college. We hypothesize that distance from a student's home to selective colleges may play a role in the application decision and differentially impact low-income students. Our results suggest that distance does matter, although the effects do not vary by family income level.  相似文献   

Preparing teachers for inclusive classrooms   总被引：2，自引：0，他引：2  

Anne Jordan  Eileen Schwartz  Donna McGhie-Richmond 《Teaching and Teacher Education》2009

Effective teaching skills consist of high levels of student engagement based on good classroom and time management skills; the ability to scaffold learning that is adapted to students' current levels of understanding; cognitively engaging students in higher-order thinking; and encouraging and supporting success. The research reported here suggests that in elementary classrooms, effective teaching skills are effective for all students, both with and without special education needs.  相似文献   

Swapping documents and terms     

Charles L. A. Clarke  Gordon V. Cormack  Thomas R. Lynam  Chris Buckley  Donna Harman 《Information Retrieval》2009,12(6):680-694

Experiments were conducted to explore the impact of combining various components of eight leading information retrieval systems. Each system demonstrated improved effectiveness through the use of blind feedback, also known as pseudo-relevance feedback, a form of query expansion. Blind feedback uses the results of a preliminary retrieval step to augment the efficacy of a secondary retrieval step. The hybrid combination of primary and secondary retrieval steps from different systems in a number of cases yielded better effectiveness than either of the constituent systems alone. This positive combining effect was observed when entire documents were passed between the two retrieval steps, but not when only the expansion terms were passed. Several combinations of primary and secondary retrieval steps were fused using the CombMNZ algorithm; all yielded significant effectiveness improvement over the individual systems, with the best yielding an improvement of 13% (p = 10⁻⁶) over the best individual system and an improvement of 4% (p = 10⁻⁵) over a simple fusion of the eight systems.  相似文献   

Transparency and social responsibility issues for Wikipedia     

Adele Santana  Donna J. Wood 《Ethics and Information Technology》2009,11(2):133-144

Wikipedia is known as a free online encyclopedia. Wikipedia uses largely transparent writing and editing processes, which aim at providing the user with quality information through a democratic collaborative system. However, one aspect of these processes is not transparent—the identity of contributors, editors, and administrators. We argue that this particular lack of transparency jeopardizes the validity of the information being produced by Wikipedia. We analyze the social and ethical consequences of this lack of transparency in Wikipedia for all users, but especially students; we assess the corporate social performance issues involved, and we propose courses of action to compensate for the potential problems. We show that Wikipedia has the appearance, but not the reality, of responsible, transparent information production. This paper’s authors are the same as those who authored Wood, D. J. and Queiroz, A. 2008. Information versus. knowledge: Transparency and social responsibility issues for Wikipedia. In Antonino Vaccaro, Hugo Horta, and Peter Madsen (Eds.), Transparency, Information, and Communication Technology (pp. 261–283). Charlottesville, VA: Philosophy Documentation Center. Adele has changed her surname from Queiroz to Santana  相似文献   

Caregivers' Beliefs about Practice in Infant Child Care Programmes     

Joanne Brownlee  Donna Berthelsen  Kim Irving  Gillian Boulton-Lewis  Andrea McCrindle 《International Journal of Early Years Education》2000,8(2):155-165

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An online, interactive approach to teaching neuroscience to adolescents   总被引：1，自引：0，他引：1  

Miller L  Moreno J  Willcockson I  Smith D  Mayes J 《CBE life sciences education》2006,5(2):137-143

Most of today's students are skilled in instant messaging, Web browsing, online games, and blogs. These have become part of the social landscape and have changed how we learn and where we learn. The question becomes how to harness the attractiveness and ubiquity of electronic venues toward the goal of teaching neuroscience. At the Rice University Center for Technology in Teaching and Learning, a central focus is the creation of innovative materials that appeal to middle school students. A recent project was undertaken through a Science Education Drug Abuse Partnership Award (R25 DA15063) from the National Institute on Drug Abuse to inform adolescents about the neurobiology of substance abuse and the current research dealing with a class of drugs known as club drugs. Problem-based learning, multimedia pedagogy, and the National Science Content Standards were integrated to produce The Reconstructors, an episodic series available via the World Wide Web at http://reconstructors.rice.edu. A field test of students from five schools assessed the retention of content after "playing" The Reconstructors series titled Nothing to Rave About. Gain scores indicated that middle school students' knowledge about club drugs and the basic neuroscience concepts that explain their effects improved significantly.  相似文献   

Cyber libraries: building the perfect beast     

Beales DI 《Medical reference services quarterly》2002,21(4):49-56

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Turning the library upside down: Reorganization using total quality management principles     

Donna K. Fitch  Unit Coordinator  Jean Thomason  Associate Director  Elizabeth Crabtree Wells  Special Collection Coordinator 《The Journal of Academic Librarianship》1993,19(5)

Professional staff at Samford University's Davis Library began to plan for vast organizational changes in the summer of 1990. This article describes their application of TQM principles to preparing for and implementing a restructuring of the Library and discusses the results of this reorganization.  相似文献   

Urban schools and immigrant families: Gougeon reinterpreted     

Donna Hurst Tatsuki  Marshall R. Childs  H. Roderick Rossell 《The Urban Review》1995,27(3):263-266

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Desktop publishing     

Donna J. Baumbach 《TechTrends》1987,32(5):13-15

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