Selecting Socio-scientific Issues for Teaching     

Hancock  Tamara S.  Friedrichsen  Patricia J.  Kinslow  Andrew T.  Sadler  Troy D. 《Science & Education》2019,28(6-7):639-667

Science & Education - Currently there is little guidance given to teachers in selecting focal issues for socio-scientific issues (SSI)-based teaching and learning. As a majority of teachers...  相似文献   

The Effects of Parent-Implemented Enhanced Milieu Teaching on the Social Communication of Children Who Have Autism     

Ann P. Kaiser  Terry B. Hancock  Jennifer P. Nietfeld 《Early education and development》2000,11(4):423-446

This study examined the effects of training six parents to use Enhanced Milieu Teaching (EMT) with their preschool children with autism or pervasive development disabilities. A modified single subject design across the six families was used to assess the parents' acquisition and generalized use of the EMT strategies. The parents learned to use the naturalistic language intervention strategies during 24 individual training sessions in the clinic and generalized their use of the strategies to home interactions at the end of the intervention. Follow- up observations in the clinic and home observations six months after the intervention indicated that parents maintained their use of the newly-learned procedures throughout the follow-up period but at levels lower than those achieved during the clinic training. Positive effects were observed on the use of communication targets for all children and on the complexity and diversity of productive language for most children. Child effects generalized and maintained for four of six children and there was evidence of change on developmental assessments of language for five of six children. Parent satisfaction with the intervention procedures and child outcomes was high.  相似文献   

‘They’re True Stories? Yeah,No They’re Not’ Questions of Authenticity and Authority Raised by the Use of Comic Books to Represent Biblical Narratives in Religious Education     

Rae Hancock 《Changing English: An International Journal of English Teaching》2019,26(4):367-382

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The affordances of the comic book medium facilitate individual, interpretive readings of narrative and as such challenge the notion of a single message or meaning. This article explores how secondary school students encounter and re-orientate themselves to personal concepts of religious and educational authority and authenticity as a consequence of reading a comic book biblical narrative in a Religious Education lesson. Through this encounter and dialogue with one another, they negotiate these concepts, the meanings of which are necessarily embedded in the social and are thus enabled to take a stance on competing truth claims. This article also considers the implications of rendering sacred texts as comic books.  相似文献   

Digital citizenship within global contexts     

Michael Searson  Marsali Hancock  Nusrat Soheil  Gregory Shepherd 《Education and Information Technologies》2015,20(4):729-741

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Is undergraduate debt an impediment to postgraduate enrolment in England?          下载免费PDF全文

Paul Wakeling  Gillian Hampden‐Thompson  Sally Hancock 《British Educational Research Journal》2017,43(6):1149-1167

Changes to undergraduate student funding arrangements in England have prompted concerns that increased indebtedness will deter graduates from postgraduate study. While it is clear that student debt has increased substantially in recent years, international evidence is equivocal on whether such debt is a deterrent to further study and there is hardly any prior research on this topic in the UK context. Using a large‐scale survey of 2009 and 2012 graduates from six selective English universities, we investigate the association between undergraduate debt, other graduate characteristics and progression to postgraduate study. We find some association of higher debt levels with lower rates of progression to postgraduate study, although this reduces when controlling for other factors, such as degree‐level attainment and subject discipline. Within a multivariate logistic regression model predicting progression to postgraduate study we find that debt is not a statistically significant predictor, although other characteristics are important. This indicates, we suggest, that underlying financial resources, rather than debt per se, are critical in enabling access to postgraduate study. We consider the implications of recently announced loans for postgraduate study in England given these findings.  相似文献   

Proper and paradigmatic metonymy as a lens for characterizing student conceptions of distributions and sampling     

Jennifer Noll  Stacey Hancock 《Educational Studies in Mathematics》2015,88(3):361-383

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Bootstrapping and the identification of exogenous latent variables within structural equation models     

Gregory R. Hancock  Jonathan Nevitt 《Structural equation modeling》2013,20(4):394-399

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Strategic Responses to Accountability Demands: A Case Study of Three Community Colleges     

John B. Lattimore  Mark M. D'Amico  Dawson R. Hancock 《Community College Journal of Research & Practice》2013,37(12):928-940

As community colleges receive attention focused on their role in addressing postsecondary needs, they are subject to varying levels of accountability, which necessitates the development of strategic approaches to leading institutions. Burke (2005 Burke , J. ( 2005 ). The many faces of accountability . In J. Burke & Associates (Eds.), Achieving accountability in higher education: Balancing public, academic and market demands (pp. 1 – 24 ). San Francisco , CA : Wiley . [Google Scholar]) recognizes three accountability perspectives that higher education institutions must consider: market, political, and academic. The strategic planning processes used at three North Carolina community colleges reflect a balanced approach to responding to the accountability requirements of all three perspectives. Using a qualitative multisite case study of the colleges, five themes emerge as implications for practice: (a) Involve stakeholders in strategic planning and implementation; (b) Create a student-centered culture; (c) Provide fiscal accountability with data-driven decision making; (d) Develop a balanced strategic approach to all accountability perspectives; and (e) Integrate regional accreditation principles into strategies. By applying the convergent practices of the three successful colleges, community colleges can create strategic plans to meet the needs of a variety of stakeholders, assert fiscal management, and encourage continuous improvement of programs and processes.  相似文献   

Using Fixed Thresholds with Grouped Data in Structural Equation Modeling     

Jennifer Koran  Gregory R. Hancock 《Structural equation modeling》2013,20(4):590-604

Valuable methods have been developed for incorporating ordinal variables into structural equation models using a latent response variable formulation. However, some model parameters, such as the means and variances of latent factors, can be quite difficult to interpret because the latent response variables have an arbitrary metric. This limitation can be particularly problematic in growth models, where the means and variances of the latent growth parameters typically have important substantive meaning when continuous measures are used. However, these methods are often applied to grouped data, where the ordered categories actually represent an interval-level variable that has been measured on an ordinal scale for convenience. The method illustrated in this article shows how category threshold values can be incorporated into the model so that interpretation is more meaningful, with particular emphasis given to the application of this technique with latent growth models.  相似文献   

Racism and Stereotypes in Electronic Media     

Quentin Hancock  Peter Jolls 《Public Library Quarterly》2013,32(4):333-344

This article discusses how racial, ethnic, and sexual stereotypes find their way into electronic media, both television and games. This article is presented here to help librarians understand the ethnic, racial, and sexual biases that are built into electronic communication and the importance of thoughtful media literacy analysis in watching over the electronic media that come into their collections and programs.  相似文献