Undergraduate students' ability to revise text effectively: relationships with topic knowledge and working memory     

Anne-Marie Adams  Fiona Simmons  Catherine Willis  Ralph Pawling 《Journal of Research in Reading》2010,33(1):54-76

In order to communicate understanding, students are often required to produce texts which present an explicit, coherent argument. This study examined the extent to which individual differences in undergraduates' topic knowledge and working memory skills were related to their ability to revise texts to better fulfil these goals. Forty-seven students revised texts containing three types of error: language, structure and argument. Topic knowledge was indexed by multiple choice test performance. Verbal short-term and working memory were measured using forward and backward digit recall and reading span. Rates of identification, diagnosis and correction of errors were generally poor. Contrary to expectations neither topic knowledge nor verbal working memory was associated with text revision although significant associations were identified with verbal short-term memory. When revising texts students may focus on the surface features of the text rather than addressing issues of structure and argument. Possible accounts of this tendency are considered.  相似文献   

Monitoring child abuse and neglect at a population level: patterns of hospital admissions for maltreatment and assault     

O'Donnell M  Nassar N  Leonard H  Mathews R  Patterson Y  Stanley F 《Child abuse & neglect》2010,34(11):823-832

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Editorial     

Graham Hallett  Fiona Hallett 《British Journal of Special Education》2012,39(3):108-109

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Raymond Chandler: The Detections of Totality     

Fiona Allen 《Parallax》2017,23(2):240-243

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Small Firms and the University for Industry: An appraisal     

Harry Matlay  Terry Hyland 《Educational studies》1999,25(3):253-267

The University for Industry (UfI) is set to become the chief vehicle and change mechanism for the government's new policies for vocational education and training (VET) and lifelong learning. A principal target and priority for the UfI will be the small and medium-sized enterprise (SME) sector, which has traditionally had a poor record of investment in education and training. We examine the chances of success for the UfI in this important sector of VET activity against the background of our recent national survey of firms, which specifically addressed the views of SME owner-managers, in particular, in terms of awareness of attitudes to and expectations of the new organisation. Given that the UfI is still in its pilot stage-with the official national launch not due until the year 2000-the general 54% awareness amongst the 6000 firms contacted may be described as modestly optimistic. We conclude by offering a number of general recommendations based on the emerging picture and on the basis of matching owner-manager expectations against UfI priorities and strategies.  相似文献   

Adolescent racial prejudice development: The role of friendship quality and interracial contact     

Fiona A. White  Bethany Wootton  Joyce Man  Hernan Diaz  Jana Rasiah  Emily Swift  Amanda Wilkinson 《Int J Intercult Relat》2009,33(6):524-534

There is a limited theoretical and empirical literature on the role of friendship quality and interracial contact on adolescent racial prejudice development. To address this gap, the present study examined the relationship between these factors amongst an Australian sample of 89 school-aged adolescent friendship dyads and 80 university-aged adolescent friendship dyads. All participants were administered questionnaires measuring prejudice towards Asian and Arab Australians, friendship quality and interracial contact. Overall, the results revealed that all adolescents reported significantly higher levels of subtle prejudice than blatant prejudice. As predicted, university-aged adolescents reported significantly lower levels of both subtle and blatant prejudice towards Asian and Arab Australians than school-aged adolescents. Importantly, adolescents who had contact with Asian (outgroup) friends reported significantly lower levels of subtle and blatant prejudice towards Asian Australians than adolescents with no Asian friends. Interestingly, friendship quality was not found to moderate the similarity of prejudice levels within friendship dyads. Together, these findings indicate that in developing subtle prejudice-reduction programs research should focus on increasing interracial cooperative contact, particularly amongst school-aged adolescents.  相似文献   

2008年的世界     

Chris Giles  Martin Wolf  Fiona Harvey 《海外英语》2008,(4)

2008年,世界会怎样?经济、军事、政治、环境等,无一不关系到整个世界的生存环境与发展.著名报纸<金融时报>近期推出了特别报道--2008年的世界,我们特意选取部分具有代表性的文章,其中对中国在未来世界的地位和作用也有所涉及,在此与大家一起分享.  相似文献   

SCISTER act: delivering training in information skills for social-care professionals     

White C  Booth A  Cooke J  Addison F 《Health information and libraries journal》2005,22(1):54-62

PURPOSE: To develop and evaluate a programme of information skills training for social-care practitioners and health-care librarians. SETTING: Two one-day training courses run separately for 13 social-care practitioners and 10 health-care librarians in the Trent geographic region within Northern England. METHODOLOGY: Qualitative and quantitative feedback collected through questionnaires supplemented by participant observation. RESULTS: While generally feedback was favourable, the courses were overly ambitious. More training sessions of shorter duration would offer participants opportunities to practise and use the skills they have acquired. Social-care practitioners responded more positively to skills associated with appraising qualitative research than with randomised controlled trials. Librarians appreciated the opportunity to learn about unfamiliar social-care resources. Both practitioners and health-care librarians reported that they acquired skills to support evidence-based social care as a result of the training intervention. DISCUSSION/CONCLUSION: Involvement of a multi-disciplinary team and support from a social-care information provider maximized the impact of this experimental training intervention.  相似文献   

Editorial     

Rosemary Preston  Fiona Leach 《Compare》2001,31(1):3-5

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Surfing for health: user evaluation of a health information website. Part one: Background and literature review     

Williams P  Nicholas D  Huntington P  McLean F 《Health information and libraries journal》2002,19(2):98-108

The Government in Britain is set on using the Internet to expand the provision of health information to the general public. Concerns over the quality of the health information have preoccupied commentators and organizations rather than the way users interact with health information systems. This report examines the issues surrounding the provision of electronic health information, and describes an evaluation undertaken of a commercial health website-that of Surgerydoor (http://www.surgerydoor.co.uk/), and comprises two parts. Part one outlines the literature on electronic health information evaluation. It discusses quality issues, but also redresses the imbalance by exploring other evaluative perspectives. Part two describes an evaluation of a health information Internet site in terms of its usability and appeal, undertaken as part of a Department of Health funded study on the impact of such systems.  相似文献