Mastery Motivation in Children with Intellectual Disability: Is there Evidence for a Down Syndrome Behavioural Phenotype?     

Linda Gilmore  Monica Cuskelly  Melissa Browning 《International Journal of Disability, Development & Education》2015,62(3):265-275

The main purpose of the current study was to provide empirical evidence to support or refute assumptions of phenotypic deficits in motivation for children with Down syndrome (DS). Children with moderate intellectual disability (MID) associated with etiologies other than DS were recruited in an extension of a previous study that involved children with DS and typically developing children. The participants were 29 children with MID and 33 children with DS who were matched on mental age to 33 typically developing children, aged 3–8 years. Mastery motivation was assessed on task measures of curiosity, preference for challenge and persistence, as well as parental reports. There were no significant group differences on the mastery motivation tasks. Parental ratings of mastery motivation differed, with typically developing children generally being rated more highly than each of the disability groups. The view that motivational deficits are part of the DS behavioural phenotype was not supported.  相似文献   

The Tech Trajectory: Examining the Role of College Environments in Shaping Students’ Interest in Computing Careers     

George  Kari L.  Sax  Linda J.  Wofford  Annie M.  Sundar  Sarayu 《Research in higher education》2022,63(5):871-898

Research in Higher Education - Computing career opportunities are increasing across all sectors of the U.S. economy, yet there remains a serious shortage of college graduates to fill these jobs....  相似文献   

Teaching Science as a Process,Not a Set of Facts     

Öberg  Gunilla  Campbell  Alice  Fox  Joanne  Graves  Marcia  Ivanochko  Tara  Matsuchi  Linda  Mouat  Isobel  Welsh  Ashley 《Science & Education》2022,31(3):787-817

Science & Education - The widespread misperception of science as a deliverer of irrefutable facts, rather than a deliberative process, is undermining public trust in science. Science education...  相似文献   

Promoting basic arithmetic competence in early school years–using a response to intervention model     

Helena Roos  Linda Fälth  Lena Karlsson  Camilla Nilvius  Heidi Selenius  Idor Svensson 《Journal of Research in Special Educational Needs》2023,23(4):313-322

This study investigated whether mathematics education based on a multi-tiered response to intervention (RTI) model can support students' arithmetic competence in primary schools in Sweden. The intent was to identify and support students at risk of failure. In this study, 113 students participated in the intervention, and 30 students participated in the control group. Both groups were followed from Grade 1 to the end of Grade 2 and compared. During the first semester in Grade 1, all students were taught basic addition and subtraction with explicit instructions in Tier 1. Those who did not respond to Tier 1 after one semester were provided support within Tier 2 during the second semester. The same was repeated in grade 2 and the students that did not respond to Tier 2 were supported within Tier 3. At the end of Grade 2, students in the intervention group performed significantly higher on the basic arithmetic competence in the number range 1–9 than the control group. No significant difference was found in a test measuring basic arithmetic competence in the number range 10–19. This study shows that using multi-tiered RTI might be sufficient to identify and support students at risk in early arithmetic competence.  相似文献   

Enabling integrated knowledge acquisition and management in health care teams     

Duncan Pentland  Kirsty Forsyth  Donald Maciver  Mike Walsh  Richard Murray  Linda Irvine 《知识管理研究与实践》2014,12(4):362-374

Basing treatment, policy and planning decisions on the best available research knowledge remains a central principle in modern health care around the world, yet many health professionals find acquiring and managing published research knowledge challenging. In this paper, we report on a Soft Systems Methodology-based collaborative action research initiative with a specialist mental health service from the United Kingdom's National Health Service. Our objective was to design and implement improvements to their knowledge acquisition and management activities in order to facilitate sustained and effective evidence-based practices. We report on both the factors found to impede effective research knowledge acquisition and management and the development of more integrated knowledge management processes designed to improve the situation.  相似文献   

Implementing a Constructivist Approach in Higher Education with Early Childhood Educators     

Linda J. Bufkin  Suzanne Bryde 《Journal of Early Childhood Teacher Education》2013,34(2):58-65

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Playing Around: Benefits,Assessments, and Guidelines for Adolescents' Educational Games     

Dr. Linda Nielsen Clark 《Clearing house (Menasha, Wis.)》2013,86(3):107-110

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Population differences in constructive memory     

Daniel W. Kee  Susan Nakayama Siaw  Linda Carter 《Contemporary educational psychology》1985,10(3):268-274

An experiment was conducted to evaluate constructive memory in fourth-grade low-SES black and middle-SES white children. The children were read nine short passages; each passage was composed of two premise statements and a filler sentence. The children were tested by a recognition procedure. Thirty-six test sentences were presented randomly. Four sentences were associated with each passage (true premise, false premise, true inference, and false inference). Subjects were asked to make yes/no recognition decisions based on whether the test sentence was identical to a sentence presented at study. Middle-SES white children made few errors, except to true inference test sentences. This pattern of performance is consistent with the constructive view of memory. Low-SES black children also had a high error rate to true inference items. However, this outcome may not reflect constructive memory because they also had a high error rate to some of the other types of test sentences.  相似文献   

Book reviews     

Linda Scovill  Estelle Jobson  Daniel Chebutuk Rotich 《Publishing Research Quarterly》2003,19(1):73-76

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Stakeholders in Comprehensive Validation of Standards-Based Assessments: A Commentary     

Linda Crocker 《Educational Measurement》2002,21(1):5-6

Linda Cracker is a Professor of Educational Psychology, University ofFlorida, P.O. Box 11 7047 Gainesville, FL 32611-7043. Her areas of specialization are assessment development, validation, and test-taking behavior.  相似文献