Verbal Short‐term Memory Performance in Pupils with Down Syndrome     

Hala Abdelhameed  Jill Porter 《International Journal of Disability, Development & Education》2010,57(4):427-438

Research has shown that verbal short‐term memory span is shorter in individuals with Down syndrome than in typically developing individuals of equivalent mental age, but little attention has been given to variations within or across groups. Differences in the environment and in particular educational experiences may play a part in the relative ease or difficulty with which children remember verbal material. This article explores the performance of 26 Egyptian pupils with Down syndrome and 26 Egyptian typically developing children on two verbal short‐term memory tests: digit recall and non‐word repetition tasks. The findings of the study revealed that typically developing children showed superior performance on these tasks to that of pupils with Down syndrome, whose performance was both lower and revealed a narrower range of attainment. Comparisons with the performance of children with Down syndrome in this study suggested that not only did the children with Down syndrome perform more poorly than the typically developing children, their profile also appeared worse than the results of studies of children with a similar mental age with Down syndrome carried out in western countries. The results from this study suggested that, while deficits in verbal short‐term memory in Down syndrome may well be universal, it is important to recognise that performances may vary as a consequence of culture and educational experiences. The significance of these findings is explored with reference to approaches to education and how these are conceptualised in relation to children with disabilities.  相似文献   

Boyer in the Middle: Second Generation Challenges to Emerging Scholarship     

Robert Crow  Laura Cruz  Jill Ellern  George Ford  Hollye Moss  Barbara Jo White 《Innovative Higher Education》2018,43(2):107-123

This article reports on an examination of the distinctive second-generation challenges and opportunities faced by an early institutional adopter of the Boyer model of scholarship. Following the first cohort of faculty to be reviewed for tenure and promotion based on these criteria, we report the results of a survey designed to determine the perceptions of faculty and administrators of the degree to which emerging forms of scholarship had been integrated into the university culture including factors such as institutional identity, support structures, and faculty participation. This case study sheds light on the process of adaptation at this single institution and provides glimpses of how cultural change might occur across higher education.  相似文献   

Satisfying psychological needs on the high seas: explaining increases self-esteem following an Adventure Education Programme     

Damian Scarf  Sarah Kafka  Jill Hayhurst  Kyungho Jang  Mike Boyes  Ruth Thomson 《Journal of Adventure Education & Outdoor Learning》2018,18(2):165-175

A number of recent studies have revealed that taking part in a sail-training-based Adventure Education Programme elevates youths’ self-esteem. Across two studies, we sought to examine the extent to which youths’ sense of belonging contributed to this increase in self-esteem. Study 1 revealed that participants who completed the voyage showed an increase in self-esteem from the first to the last day of the voyage. Partial correlation revealed that group belonging made a unique contribution to this change. Study 2 replicated Study 1 and, further, demonstrated that the relationship between group belonging and self-esteem was not a function of self-efficacy or group esteem. Such findings suggest that an important contributing factor to the benefits of sail-training interventions is their potential to satisfy psychological needs, in this case the need to belong.  相似文献   

Towards a general modeling framework of resource competition in cognitive development     

Jill de Ron  Marie Deserno  Donald Robinaugh  Denny Borsboom  Han L. J. van der Maas 《Child development》2023,94(6):1432-1453

The current paper presents an integrated formal model of typical and atypical development based on the mechanisms of mutualism and resource competition. The mutualistic network model is extended with the dynamics of competition for limited resources, such as time and environmental factors. The proposed model generates patterns that resemble established phenomena in cognitive development: the positive manifold, developmental phases, developmental delays and lack of early indicators in atypical development, developmental regression, and “quasi-autism” caused by extreme environmental deprivation. The presented modeling framework fits a general movement towards formal theory construction in psychology. The model is easy to replicate and develop further, and we offer several avenues for future work.  相似文献   

The Handbook of Job Aids     

Allison Rossett  Jeannette Gautier-Downes  Jill A. Steward 《Performance Improvement》1999,38(2):57-59

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Training,organizational culture,and job performance     

Karen Shader  John Fox 《Performance Improvement》1992,31(10):26-28

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