Tea Room Class     

Grace Kratz 《Clearing house (Menasha, Wis.)》2013,86(1):50-51

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Book Review     

Brett Nielsen  Steve Badgley  Sharon Hay  Peter Nayler  Daryl Whitney  Mark Sheridan 《Education and Information Technologies》2000,5(2):143-145

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Admission path,family structure and outcomes in Ghana’s public universities: evidence from KNUST students enrolled in the social sciences     

Hadrat Yusif  Grace Ofori-Abebrese 《Higher Education》2017,74(6):1069-1089

At the Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology (KNUST) in Ghana, first year enrolment increased by 1466.81% from 708 in 1961/1962 to 11,093 in 2011. In the 2013/2014 academic year, the total student population was 45,897. There are now five main admission paths, comprising regular, mature, fee paying, less endowed, and protocol/staff admissions. The number of dropouts and fails has risen steeply, for example, at the end of the 2013/2014 academic year, roughly 22.11% of the 1239 students were either withdrawn or repeated at the Faculty of Social Sciences due to non-performance. This paper examined the impact of the admission path and family structure on university students’ academic outcomes. A logistic model was applied to individual-level data obtained from 1000 students enrolled at the Faculty of Social Sciences in the university. The results indicated that the regular and mature admission paths have a positive impact on performance whilst the fee-paying admission path has a significant negative influence on academic performance. It was also found that the family structure (living with the father and mother and the mother only) has a significant positive influence on performance. The study recommended that lecturers should be motivated to conduct additional classes for academically weak students. Counselling units should also identify students who experienced disruption in home life and raise their aspirations.  相似文献   

About cooperative engineering: theory and emblematic examples     

Grace Morales  Dominique Forest 《Educational Action Research》2017,25(1):128-139

In this article we focus on ‘cooperative engineering’, in which teachers and researchers co-design didactic sequences. In the first part of the article, we present cooperative engineering by describing some of the main principles on which it is grounded. The second part is dedicated to a case study, which enables us to illustrate some elements of the collective work in a specific cooperative design in kindergarten. The designed learning game, the ‘Treasure Game’, aimed to assist kindergarten students to build a system of graphical representations, which was implemented in a series of phases in which students were asked to memorise a series of items with increasing levels of difficulty. The game demonstrated the students’ growing competence in recalling items using strategies such as making lists and working collaboratively to collectively recall items through a ‘treasure box’. In the third part of the article, we show how this case study embodies some of the main principles put forward in the first part.  相似文献   

Discrimination and representation of relative numerosity in a bisection task by pigeons     

Tan L  Grace RC 《Learning & behavior》2010,38(4):408-417

We trained 4 pigeons in a numerical bisection task to discriminate between pairs of keylight flashes with a ratio of 1∶3 (2 vs. 6, 4 vs. 12, and 8 vs. 24) that were presented in a sample phase. Responses to the blue key were reinforced after a sequence of a larger number of flashes, and responses to the white key were reinforced after a sequence of a smaller number of flashes. The intervals between flashes in the sample phase were randomized to attenuate the covariation of temporal cues with flash number. Pigeons responded accurately in each of the discriminations, with typically 85%–90% correct responses. Transfer tests showed that the proportion of large responses increased with number and performance generalized to larger values outside the training ranges. Psychometric functions superposed when plotted on a relative scale, and estimates of Weber fractions were approximately constant, suggesting that variability was scalar. However, contrary to previous research in nonhumans, bisection points were located at the arithmetic, not geometric, mean. Hierarchical logistic regressions confirmed significant control over responding by number beyond that attributable to temporal cues. These results show that pigeons are able to respond accurately in a relative numerosity discrimination with successively presented visual stimuli, although the nature of the numerical representation and response rule remains unclear.  相似文献   

Teachers' Perspectives on Working with Children Experiencing Loss     

Bob Spall  & Grace Jordan 《Pastoral Care in Education》1999,17(3):3-7

This paper investigates one aspect of the teacher's role which is likely to cause stress and in many cases some personal grief. A significant number of teachers at some point in their career find themselves offering support to pupils who have experienced loss. Using a small-scale questionnaire, the writers investigate teachers' personal perspectives on this work. The results showed the personal distress that teachers can experience and the high self-expectations they are likely to have of themselves. The kind of support that the teachers felt they needed is described, as is the proactive work which teachers might undertake.  相似文献   

Headteachers in a New Context: integrated schools in Northern Ireland     

Valerie Morgan  Seamus Dunn  Grace Fraser  Ed Cairns 《Cambridge Journal of Education》1992,22(2):215-226

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Investigating the Circle of Friends Approach: Adaptations and Implications for Practice     

Whitney Barrett  Leisa Randall 《Educational Psychology in Practice》2004,20(4):353-368

Circle of Friends is a recent intervention used to tackle social isolation in childhood. Its aim is to promote social inclusion by establishing a friendship group for an isolated child. Although there is some literature relating to the development and implementation of this approach, there is relatively little evidence regarding its effectiveness. Two evaluation studies of the Circle of Friends approach are discussed in this paper. Both studies involve adaptations of the traditional model. Consideration of these models and an evaluation of their relative effectiveness in promoting social inclusion is made. Implications for educational psychology practice are explored.  相似文献   

An Exploratory Examination and Critique of Academic Law Librarian Blogs: A Look into an Evolving Reference Communication Practice     

Grace M. Jackson-Brown 《The Reference Librarian》2017,58(2):136-151

This study is an exploratory qualitative investigation of academic library blogs with the purpose of examining how the technology of blogging is evolving for reference and research purposes at particular academic law libraries. This study uses anthropological archive research methods to study the blogs’ posts and triangulates the study with librarian blogger interviews. It provides a look into possible future directions for blogging in academic law libraries that may serve as a model for other academic libraries.  相似文献   

The importance of European standards and a human rights-based approach in strengthening the implementation of sexuality education in Ireland     

Grace Wilentz 《Sex education》2016,16(4):439-445

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