Some factors affecting the education of teachers in the state of Victoria,Australia     

R. Selby Smith 《International Review of Education/Internationale Zeitschrift für Erziehungswissenschaft/Revue internationale l'éducation》1969,15(1):74-83

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Staffing policies in a college of education     

R. F. Smith  K. G. Collier 《Higher Education Quarterly》1972,27(1):90-101

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Children's Use of Metaphorical Language: an experimental study of the technique of guided fantasy in the secondary school English classroom     

Marc Chevreau  Leslie Smith 《教育心理学》1989,9(2):89-97

The technique of guided fantasy is being used in schools to stimulate creative writing. Children are given a planned opportunity to imagine a particular scene and then to use this experience as a stimulus for related imaginative writing. This study attempts to examine the apparent superiority of this technique over more conventional methods. Thirty third‐year pupils produced work under two contrasting conditions and the compositions were then assessed against a range of linguistic criteria, including the number and novelty of images produced, the number of words per essay, absolute vocabulary, unusual vocabulary, unspecific vocabulary and the degree of adverbial and adjectival modification and repetition. Additional criteria were time spent on the task and the number and quality of statements of feeling. The guided‐fantasy stimulus, however, did not produce the expected results. Possible explanations of this are discussed through the literature on children's learning.  相似文献   

Prediction of development outcome at seven years from prenatal, perinatal, and postnatal events     

A C Smith  G L Flick  G S Ferriss  A H Sellmann 《Child development》1972,43(2):495-507

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Information: public or private?     

Smith J 《Special libraries》1984,75(4):275-282

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Marcia Crocker Noyes, medical librarian: the shaping of a career     

B T Smith 《Bulletin of the Medical Library Association》1974,62(3):314-324

This study explores the accomplishments of Marcia Crocker Noyes (1869-1946) in depth and examines how her unobtrusive, yet extremely influential, personality contributed to success in medical librarianship.In the library of the state medical society of Maryland and in the Medical Library Association, this pioneer medical librarian acted as a revitalizing force, and thus was in part responsible for the survival and subsequent growth of both institutions. Perhaps as important as her concrete contributions to medical libraries was the legacy which Miss Noyes bequeathed to her colleagues. She not only shaped the vocation of medical librarianship, but also by her example, stressed the dedication to the future necessary for one to be termed a professional.  相似文献   

Preservice Teachers' Beliefs About Using Maker Activities in Formal K-12 Educational Settings: A Multi-Institutional Study     

W. Monty Jones  Shaunna Smith  Jonathan Cohen 《Journal of Research on Technology in Education》2017,49(3-4):134-148

This qualitative study examined preservice teachers' beliefs about using maker activities in formal educational settings. Eighty-two preservice and early-career teachers at three different universities in the United States took part in one-time workshops designed to introduce them to various maker tools and activities applicable to K–12 educational environments. Data were collected from 16 focus groups conducted during the workshops in spring 2016. Researchers analyzed the data using the Theory of Planned Behavior (Ajzen, 1985, 1991) to better understand the teachers' attitudes, subjective norms, and perceived behavioral control related to making activities, with the ultimate goal of using this information to assist teacher preparation programs in preparing their students to implement maker tools and strategies in their future classrooms. Participants expressed favorable attitudes toward implementing maker activities in their future classrooms and noted these tools and activities aligned with instructional strategies encouraged in their teacher preparation programs, including problem-based learning, inquiry learning, and hands-on learning activities, but noted several perceived barriers such as access to resources and working with reluctant peers and administrators.  相似文献   

Contraceptive use among high-risk adolescents     

Smith PB  Beck JG  Davies D 《Journal of sex education and therapy》1987,13(2):52-57

Despite awareness of the growing number of pregnant teens in the US, little information has been published concerning factors that predict early childbirth among individual girls. To begin to address this issue, the influence of specific life and social factors was examined in 50 adolescent girls with documented histories of good and poor contraception use. Patients selected for participation were 50 indigent nulliparous adolescent and young adult females from 14-22 years old receiving health care at the Teen Health Clinic at the Jefferson Davis Hospital in Houston, Texas. 25 adolescents who indicated that they had been able to use oral contraception prescribed by the clinic for at least 6 months without major problems or complaints were classified as good contraceptors. 25 adolescents assigned to the poor contraceptors group were those who missed 2 or more appointments in a 6-month interval, experienced at least one suspected pregnancy during this time, and indicated verbally that they had not been completely compliant. Each subject was assessed with a structured interview consisting of 25 questions on the patient's past history of contraception, school performance, family birth, employment, residence patterns, and accessibility to contraceptive services. Data from each of the 25 questions of the interview were pooled for the good and poor contraceptors. Where applicable, Chi-square frequency tests and t-tests were used to determine whether differences were statistically significant. Some of the results follow. 1) Reasons for occasional nonuse of oral contraception in the 12 months prior to the interview were assessed in both samples; no statistical differences were observed. The majority of nonusers attributed it to a random event, such as a memory lapse. 2) Sources of birth control education were equivalent in the 2 groups. 3) Good contraceptors reported intercourse 2.6 times/month, as compared to 4.7 times/month for poor contraceptors. 4) 3 of 25 good contraceptors had dropped out of school, while 9 out of 25 poor contraceptors had left school. 5) 72% of the good contraceptors intended to complete at least 2 years of college, but only 52% of the poor contraceptors did. 6) Poor contraceptors had a greater frequency of sisters who had become pregnant relative to good contraceptors. 7) Good contraceptors were more likely to be employed either part- or full-time (52%) than were the poor contraceptors (28%). 8) Good contraceptors reported fewer changes in residence relative to the poor contraceptors in the preceding 5 years. 9) Poor contraceptors had significantly longer travel times to the clinic (mean of 54.5 minutes) relative to good contraceptors (mean of 33 minutes).  相似文献   

Creating family-centered services in early intervention: perceptions of professionals in four states.     

D B Bailey  V Buysse  R Edmondson  T M Smith 《Exceptional children》1992,58(4):298-309

This article describes professional perceptions of the current status of family involvement in early intervention programs in four states. Significant discrepancies between current and ideal practices were found in four dimensions: parent involvement in decisions about child assessment, parent participation in assessment, parent participation in the team meeting and decision making, and the provision of family goals and services. In identifying barriers to ideal programs, professionals most frequently mentioned family barriers (35.8%) and system barriers (35.1%). Professional barriers, or those related to a lack of skill, accounted for only 14.8% of the barriers mentioned.  相似文献   

An Integrated Analysis of School Students’ Aspirations for STEM Careers: Which Student and School Factors Are Most Predictive?     

Kathryn Holmes  Jennifer Gore  Max Smith  Adam Lloyd 《International Journal of Science and Mathematics Education》2018,16(4):655-675

Declining enrolments in science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM) disciplines and a lack of interest in STEM careers are concerning at a time when society is becoming more reliant on complex technologies. We examine student aspirations for STEM careers by drawing on surveys conducted annually from 2012 to 2015. School students in years 3 to 12 (n?=?6492) were asked to indicate their occupational choices. A logistic regression analysis showed that being in the older cohorts, possessing high cultural capital, being male, having a parent in a STEM occupation and high prior achievement in reading and numeracy, were significant. This analysis provides a strong empirical basis for school-based initiatives to improve STEM participation. In particular, strategies should target the following: the persistent lack of interest by females in some careers, improving student academic achievement in both literacy and numeracy and expanding knowledge of STEM careers, especially for students without familial STEM connections.  相似文献