Peer development as an alternative to peer observation: a tool to enhance professional development     

Jenny Byrne  Hazel Brown  Doreen Challen 《International Journal for Academic Development》2013,18(3):215-228

Many higher education institutions worldwide require that all academic staff undergo a peer observation of teaching each academic year. Within one department in a university in the South of England, questions have arisen about the value and purpose of the traditional ‘peer observation’ process, and as a result a new voluntary system of ‘peer development’ has been introduced. This paper explains the rationale underpinning the new peer development process, and explores its worth and value to those who have participated in it as a mechanism for professional development. Reflections on the process are considered, along with what can be done to improve the new system.  相似文献   

Tackling the remaining attainment gap between students with and without immigrant background: an investigation into the equivalence of SES constructs     

Jenny Lenkeit  Daniel H. Caro  Steve Strand 《Educational Research and Evaluation》2013,19(1):60-83

In England, students with immigrant background exhibit lower educational attainment than those without immigrant background. Family socioeconomic status (SES) helps explain differences in educational attainment, but a gap remains that differs in size for students with different immigrant backgrounds. While the explanatory repertoire for the remaining gap is broad, it has been neglected to comprehensively investigate whether family SES constructs are equivalent across students with different immigrant backgrounds. Using data from the first wave of the Children of Immigrants Longitudinal Survey in Four European Countries (CILS4EU) for England (n = 4,315), the paper applies exploratory structural equation modelling (ESEM) to evaluate measurement invariance of family background constructs across students without and with immigrant background, specifically Pakistani/Bangladeshi immigrant background. Results suggest differences in the structure of family SES indicators across groups and in their association with educational attainment. Complementary variables are suggested to enhance family SES indicators. Findings are relevant to researchers investigating educational inequalities related to immigrant background.  相似文献   

Women's human rights: seeking gender justice in a globalising age     

Jenny Parkes 《Sex education》2013,13(4):501-502

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The medline UK filter: development and validation of a geographic search filter to retrieve research about the UK from OVID medline          下载免费PDF全文

Lynda Ayiku  Paul Levay  Tom Hudson  Jenny Craven  Elizabeth Barrett  Amy Finnegan  Rachel Adams 《Health information and libraries journal》2017,34(3):200-216

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Developing Teaching Best Practice—Pedagogy,Preferences, and Professional Development     

Jenny Hall 《International Information and Library Review》2017,49(1):59-64

This column examines advances in public services internal and external to libraries. The focus is on how public services, such as instruction and education, programming, research consulting, and circulation evolve and impact users. The strength of the column is its broad, international focus and contributors are encouraged to explore issues and recent advances in public services relevant to their geographical region, as well as the larger, global audience. Interested authors are invited to submit proposals and articles to the column editor at andrea.falcone@ucdenver.edu  相似文献   

Open access megajournals: The publisher perspective (Part 1: Motivations)          下载免费PDF全文

Simon Wakeling  Valérie Spezi  Jenny Fry  Claire Creaser  Stephen Pinfield  Peter Willett 《Learned Publishing》2017,30(4):301-311

This paper is the first of two Learned Publishing articles in which we report the results of a series of interviews with senior publishers and editors exploring open access megajournals (OAMJs). Megajournals (of which PLoS One is the best known example) represent a relatively new approach to scholarly communication and can be characterized as large, broad‐scope, open access journals that take an innovative approach to peer review, basing acceptance decisions solely on the technical or scientific soundness of the article. This model is often said to support the broader goals of the open science movement. Based on in‐depth interviews with 31 publishers and editors representing 16 different organizations (10 of which publish a megajournal), this paper reports how the term ‘megajournal’ is understood and publishers’ rationale and motivations for launching (or not launching) an OAMJ. We find that while there is general agreement on the common characteristics of megajournals, there is not yet a consensus on their relative importance. We also find seven motivating factors that were said to drive the launch of an OAMJ and link each of these factors to potential societal and business benefits. These results suggest that the often polarized debate surrounding OAMJs is a consequence of the extent to which observers perceive publishers to be motivated by these societal or business benefits.  相似文献   

文化遗产旅游吸引物的意境空间研究——为文化遗产旅游者创造适宜的旅游环境     

Mark A. Bonn  Mo Dai  Steve Hayes  Jenny Cave  严伟  张维亚  汤澍  俞世海 《金陵科技学院学报(社会科学版)》2008,22(4)

近来,各种公众媒体的版面充斥着对世界各地著名遗产旅游景点更新改造的报道。文化遗产旅游目的地管理者也承认良好的外部环境在提升旅游者总体满意程度方面发挥着重要作用。阐明了遗产吸引物的自然环境在决定旅游者对景点的态度和未来再次购买意向方面有重要作用．同时影响着他们对亲朋好友的传播意愿。研究表明环境因素在面对顾客塑造永久性的独特品牌形象时可被作为一种差异化工具,并以此创造一种竞争优势。  相似文献   

Book reviews     

Lucy Robertson  Jenny Feinmenn  Amanda Claydon  Martin Miles  Lyndsey Blair  Naomi Burgess 《Educational Psychology in Practice》2008,24(3):269-278

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Beware of Stereotypes: Are Classmates’ Stereotypes Associated With Students’ Reading Outcomes?     

Francesca Muntoni  Jenny Wagner  Jan Retelsdorf 《Child development》2021,92(1):189-204

This study examined the associations between classmates’ reading-related gender stereotypes and students’ reading self-efficacy, self-concept, motivation, and achievement. Our sample consisted of 1,508 fifth-grade students (49% girls; age: 10.89 years); data were collected at two time points. Multilevel analyses yielded two main results: First, there was a relation between students’ individual reading-related gender stereotypes and their reading self-concept, self-efficacy, and motivation with boys experiencing negative and girls experiencing positive effects. Second, a contextual effect was found: after controlling for students’ individual reading-related gender stereotypes, classmates’ gender stereotypes were negatively related to all of the boys’ reading outcomes. The results provide evidence for the assumption that classmates are important communicators of gender stereotypes and that they reinforce conforming behaviors.  相似文献   

PDAs as lifelong learning tools: an activity theory based analysis     

Jenny Waycott  Eileen Scanlon 《Learning, Media and Technology》2005,30(2):107-130

This paper describes the use of an activity theory (AT) framework to analyze the ways that distance part time learners and mobile workers adapted and appropriated mobile devices for their activities and in turn how their use of these new tools changed the ways that they carried out their learning or their work. It is argued that there are two key strengths in using an activity theory framework in this context. The first strength is the emphasis activity theory places on tools, including computer artefacts, as mediators of activity. This emphasis focuses attention on the activity itself rather than, for example, simply the interaction between the human and the computer. The focus is on the learner or user’s objectives and activities and the computer is the tool through which the user achieves her objectives. The second strength was referred to briefly above. The AT perspective also enabled analysis of an interactive dynamic process of users or learners and their tools—in this case personal digital assistants (PDAs). It revealed a two way process in which the user adapts the tools they use according to their everyday practice and preferences in order to carry out their activities; and how, in turn, the tools themselves also modify the activities that the user is engaged in. Three case studies illustrate these processes. The first case study is of distance learners’ use of e‐books on PDAs, to supplement their access to other static media such as books and computers. The second case study investigated how mobile workers in the energy industry used mobile devices to access information when away from the office. The third and final case study investigated the use of mobile devices in an art gallery. The paper concludes with a discussion of the information access needs that are apparent in each of these learning contexts, and highlights the pertinent issues in the use of mobile technologies to support lifelong learners’ information needs.  相似文献