Assessment of Early Developing Phonological Awareness Skills: A Comparison of the Preschool Individual Growth and Development Indicators and the Phonological Awareness and Literacy Screening–PreK     

Maura Jones Moyle  John Heilmann  S. Sue Berman 《Early education and development》2013,24(5):668-686

Research Findings: Assessing the development of early literacy skills is necessary in order to identify children with delays, provide appropriate intervention, and monitor progress. The purpose of the current study was to compare the data obtained from 2 curriculum-based assessments of phonological awareness skills in a sample of low-income, urban preschoolers. Participants included 227 children from Head Start and other community-based preschool classrooms located in a midwestern city. The Preschool Individual Growth and Development Indicators (IGDIs) and the Phonological Awareness and Literacy Screening–PreK (PALS-PreK) were administered in the fall and spring of the year. Results suggested that the PALS-PreK was more advantageous than the IGDIs in terms of providing meaningful data for this group of children. The IGDIs appeared to be more appropriate for developmentally advanced preschoolers in this population. Practice or Policy: There remains a critical need for assessments of emergent literacy that are appropriate for diverse groups of preschool children and can feasibly be used for monitoring development.  相似文献   

Developing a tobacco survey for deaf youth     

Berman BA  Eckhardt EA  Kleiger HB  Wong G  Lipton DS  Bastani R  Barkin S 《American annals of the deaf》2000,145(3):245-255

Formidable barriers hinder use of standard data collection methods among deaf youth. Culturally and linguistically sensitive data collection strategies are needed to identify the unmet health and programming needs of this population. Unfortunately, researchers often fail to describe the issues involved in developing such targeted methods. The authors describe development of a culturally appropriate data collection instrument for a study of tobacco-related knowledge, attitudes, and practices among deaf youth. The instrument uses interactive multimedia technology to administer a questionnaire translated into the primary languages used by the Deaf. The procedures taken to accommodate this technology to these languages and to Deaf culture are described. This process yielded useful insights with respect to data collection not only among the Deaf, but among other frequently overlooked and underserved populations as well.  相似文献   

UPE in Tanzania: SWAP‐ing quality for quantity—again?     

Jeanette Kuder 《Globalisation, Societies & Education》2005,3(2):165-181

In 2002, Tanzania renewed its 1974 commitment to universal primary education. This paper explores differences in the current policy‐formulation context, examining how development discourse and aid practice have shifted the space and scale of public governance in Tanzania, legitimising international agendas and the participation of non‐Tanzanians in the domestic policy process. The analysis suggests that the influence of a highly co‐ordinated transnational aid community and the package of aid mechanisms that are being deployed with considerable effect in Tanzania are likely to replicate a situation in which access has been prioritised once more at the expense of improving the quality of primary education.  相似文献   

Consistencies and inconsistencies in nurses' ethical reasoning     

Lawrence JA  Helm A 《Journal of moral education》1987,16(3):167-176

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Examining the Etiology of Reading Disability as Conceptualized by the Hybrid Model     

Florina Erbeli  Sara A. Hart  Richard K. Wagner  Jeanette Taylor 《Scientific Studies of Reading》2018,22(2):167-180

A fairly recent definition of reading disability (RD) is that in the form of a hybrid model. The model views RD as a latent construct that is manifested through various observable unexpected impairments in reading-related skills and through inadequate response to intervention. The current report evaluated this new conceptualization of RD from an etiological perspective. The sample consisted of 2,737 twin pairs in 1st through 4th grade (M_age = 8.52) from the Florida Twin Project on Reading. Using twin analyses, results showed that a substantial proportion of genetic variance, a small proportion of shared environmental, and a small proportion of nonshared environmental variance was attributed to the RD factor. Findings suggest that the etiological architecture of RD closely mirrors the structure of the hybrid model of RD.  相似文献   

An integrated approach to crisis management in wilderness settings     

Dene Berman  Jennifer Davis-Berman 《Journal of Adventure Education & Outdoor Learning》2002,2(1):9-17

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Responses of Free-ranging Rhesus Monkeys to a Natural Form of Social Separation. I. Parallels with Mother-Infant Separation in Captivity     

C. M. Berman  K. L. R. Rasmussen  Stephen J. Suomi 《Child development》1994,65(4):1028-1041

Observations of 23 free-ranging rhesus monkey infants on Cayo Santiago, Puerto Rico, indicated that mothers' first postpartum estrous periods were marked by large increases in the amount of time infants were separated from their mothers, by disturbances in mother-infant relationships, and by increases in infant distress behavior. When their mothers resumed mating, most infants showed signs of agitation; a few briefly showed indications of depression. Male infants responded to their mothers' resumption of mating by playing more, whereas females engaged in less play and more allogrooming. The results suggest ( a ) that basic parallels exist between the behavioral responses of rhesus infants to their mothers' resumption of mating in the field and to forcible separation from their mothers in captivity and ( b ) that early separation experiences may play a role in the normal development or manifestation of sex differences in behavior.  相似文献   

Managing Women: Secondary school principals in Trinidad and Tobago     

Jeanette Morris 《Gender and education》1999,11(3):343-355

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Beyond the Rhetoric: A framework for evaluating improvements to the student experience     

Baird  Jeanette  Gordon  George 《Tertiary Education and Management》2009,15(3):193-207

Tertiary Education and Management - A framework is described to assist institutions in evaluating the extent to which activities described as “quality improvements” or “quality...  相似文献   

A Study of the spontaneous oral language of Down's syndrome children     

R.J. Andrews  Jeanette G. Andrews 《International Journal of Disability, Development & Education》1977,24(2):86-94

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