Transfer Student Success: Exploring Community College,University, and Individual Predictors     

Paul D. Umbach  Jeremy B. Tuchmayer  Ashley B. Clayton  Kathleen N. Smith 《Community College Journal of Research & Practice》2013,37(9):599-617

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This paper investigates community college transfer success by exploring the relationship between individual and institutional-level characteristics at students’ two- and four-year institutions. Using statewide administrative data from North Carolina, this study employs a cross-classified multilevel model to investigate the impact that a student’s community college and four-year transfer institution have on post-transfer success. Our findings offer important and compelling insights into the relationship between transfer students, the community college they attended, the four-year transfer institution, and educational outcomes. While individual effects were small, we find several institutional factors associated with student success. Attendance at a large community college or having a public university in the same county as their community college is positively associated with student success, whereas size of the university is negatively related to grades during the first year and persistence to the second year. While the four-year institution’s selectivity is negatively related to many of our outcomes, transferring to a Historically Black College or University is positively associated with GPA, college persistence, and degree completion.  相似文献   

Metaphorical and Non-Metaphorical Meaning in Ideological Discourses: an Examination of Technocratic Discourses and Counter-Discourses from the Progressive Era     

Jeremy Schulz 《Culture, Theory & Critique》2013,54(2):101-121

Two contrasting visions of ideological discourse populate sociological treatments of culture. In the work of the British social theorist Margaret Archer, we find a conception of ideological discourse as essentially dialectical and reliant on logically compelling argument. In American sociology of culture, conversely, we find an implicit understanding of ideological discourse as a ‘performative’ mode of discourse built around emotionally resonant symbols, image, and metaphors. If we take either of these categorical conceptualisations of ideological discourse seriously, then the only discourses which can qualify as ideological are those discourses which are either fully metaphorical or entirely dialectical. In fact, many ideological discourses make use of imagery and metaphors and at the same time feature propositions meant to be interpreted as part of a logically compelling argument. As the paper demonstrates through a detailed examination of the discourses produced by the American technocrats of the 1920s and 1930s, elaborate ideological productions often include both metaphorical propositions and logically compelling argument. Moreover, metaphorical constructions and literal propositions often function as complements in effective ideological discourses. This is especially true when the discourses are addressed to knowledgeable and economically privileged audiences, such as the ‘new class’ of the pre-depression United States.  相似文献   

If a Student Learns and There's No One Around to Assess It,Does It Make a Sound? Reframing Assessment as Meaning Making          下载免费PDF全文

Jeremy D. Penn 《Assessment Update》2018,30(3):5-11

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Sound and unsound options for reform     

Chester E. Finn 《Academic Questions》2004,18(1):79-86

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Computer-mediated instruction: a comparison of online and face-to-face collaboration     

Jeremy I. Tutty  James D. Klein 《Educational technology research and development : ETR & D》2008,56(4):507-507

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Frontiers Of Education: Japan As “Global Model” Or “Nation At Risk”?   总被引：1，自引：0，他引：1  

David Blake Willis  Satoshi Yamamura  Jeremy Rappleye 《International Review of Education/Internationale Zeitschrift für Erziehungswissenschaft/Revue internationale l'éducation》2008,6(3):493-515

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Disconnections Between Teacher Expectations and Student Confidence in Bioethics     

Nikki L. Hanegan  Laura Price  Jeremy Peterson 《Science & Education》2008,17(8-9):921-940

This study examines how student practice of scientific argumentation using socioscientific bioethics issues affects both teacher expectations of students’ general performance and student confidence in their own work. When teachers use bioethical issues in the classroom students can gain not only biology content knowledge but also important decision-making skills. Learning bioethics through scientific argumentation gives students opportunities to express their ideas, formulate educated opinions and value others’ viewpoints. Research has shown that science teachers’ expectations of student success and knowledge directly influence student achievement and confidence levels. Our study analyzes pre-course and post-course surveys completed by students enrolled in a university level bioethics course (n = 111) and by faculty in the College of Biology and Agriculture faculty (n = 34) based on their perceptions of student confidence. Additionally, student data were collected from classroom observations and interviews. Data analysis showed a disconnect between faculty and students perceptions of confidence for both knowledge and the use of science argumentation. Student reports of their confidence levels regarding various bioethical issues were higher than faculty reports. A further disconnect showed up between students’ preferred learning styles and the general faculty’s common teaching methods; students learned more by practicing scientific argumentation than listening to traditional lectures. Students who completed a bioethics course that included practice in scientific argumentation, significantly increased their confidence levels. This study suggests that professors’ expectations and teaching styles influence student confidence levels in both knowledge and scientific argumentation.  相似文献   

Characterizing eParticipation     

Clive  Jeremy   《International Journal of Information Management》2007,27(6):406-421

eParticipation is an emerging research area which, like most emerging areas, lacks a clear literature base or research approach. This study maps out some of the academic theories and disciplines that the new area addresses, using conventional literature study techniques. We identify 99 articles that are considered to be highly relevant to eParticipation. We develop a definitional schema that suggests different ways of understanding an emerging research area, and use this schema to identify key academic articles that help to define eParticipation. We adapt Deetz's [(1996). Describing differences in approaches to organization science: Rethinking Burrell and Morgan and their legacy. Organization Science, 7(2), 191–207] taxonomy of discourses in organizational science to provide an overall categorization scheme for research in the area, and map the literature. The article thus contributes to a developing picture which will help future researchers both to understand and to navigate the research area.  相似文献   

Silver Foils: a reply     

Steve Baron  Dan Finn  Neil Grant  Michael Green  Richard Johnson 《British Journal of Sociology of Education》1982,3(2):189-197

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Did the shift to computer-based testing in PISA 2015 affect reading scores? A View from East Asia     

Hikaru Komatsu  Jeremy Rappleye 《Compare》2017,47(4):616-623

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