Health education and reading skills of lower SES students     

Kerry J. Redican Ph.D.  Larry K. Olsen Ph.D.  Donald B. Stone Ed.D. 《The Urban Review》1979,11(4):215-221

Conclusions Students exposed to the SHCP did not achieve significantly different (p=.01) reading comprehension mean scores than students not exposed to the program. However, the gains measured in this research covered only a nine week period, and if the reading comprehension mean score gains were projected over the academic year, the difference would be significant.The experimental students achieved significantly higher posttest vocabulary mean scores than students receiving their regular health instruction. Since there was no difference in mean scores by sex, it was concluded that the special prototype health-education curriculum in combination with the process used by the teachers appeared to have some impact on the experimental students' vocabulary mean scores.Since the total sample used in this study was small, there is a need for further studies with larger samples to further investigate the effects of the SHCP, as well as other prototype programs on the basic skill development of lower SES students.  相似文献   

Temporal analysis of multimodal data to predict collaborative learning outcomes     

Jennifer K. Olsen  Kshitij Sharma  Nikol Rummel  Vincent Aleven 《British journal of educational technology : journal of the Council for Educational Technology》2020,51(5):1527-1547

The analysis of multiple data streams is a long-standing practice within educational research. Both multimodal data analysis and temporal analysis have been applied successfully, but in the area of collaborative learning, very few studies have investigated specific advantages of multiple modalities versus a single modality, especially combined with temporal analysis. In this paper, we investigate how both the use of multimodal data and moving from averages and counts to temporal aspects in a collaborative setting provides a better prediction of learning gains. To address these questions, we analyze multimodal data collected from 25 9–11-year-old dyads using a fractions intelligent tutoring system. Assessing the relation of dual gaze, tutor log, audio and dialog data to students' learning gains, we find that a combination of modalities, especially those at a smaller time scale, such as gaze and audio, provides a more accurate prediction of learning gains than models with a single modality. Our work contributes to the understanding of how analyzing multimodal data in temporal manner provides additional information around the collaborative learning process.  相似文献   

Finding (More) Fruit on the Vines: Using Higher Education Research and Institutional Research to Guide Institutional Policies and Strategies (Part II)     

Hossler  Don  Kuh  George D.  Olsen  Deborah 《Research in higher education》2001,42(2):223-235

This article is the second of a two-part series that examines the utility of higher education research to help guide campus-based interventions to enhance institutional effectiveness. This second article outlines programmatic efforts undertaken to enhance the quality of the first-year experience for new students. It also describes the impact of these interventions on the first-year student experience. The article closes with a summary of the lessons learned from these efforts and delineates a series of recommendations for higher education administrators interested in using the research literature to enhance institutional effectiveness.  相似文献   

Determinants of professionally autonomous end user acceptance in an enterprise resource planning system environment     

Elaine Youngberg  David Olsen  Karina Hauser 《International Journal of Information Management》2009

To fully exploit the capabilities of complex technologies, businesses must deliberately foster technology acceptance by end users. This deliberate activity must recognize the complexity of factors that influence individuals’ perceptions, intentions, and usage of information technology. This study surveyed 66 professionally autonomous end users and gathered information on their perceptions related to several technology acceptance factors for a newly installed enterprise resource planning (ERP) system component. Study analyses focused on end user perceptions of ERP component usefulness, their intention to use the system, and self-reported usage of a system component. Valuable insights into the perceptions of professional end users toward a component of a complex technology were gained. Recommendations based upon the results of this study include: (a) clearly describe, early in the implementation process, an overall picture of the ERP system flow and visually show end users how the components they use “fit” into the whole system; (b) convert ERP-related “tech talk” to common end user language by either clear explanation of unique terms or associations of new terms to ones commonly understood by end users, and (c) provide adequate resources (financial, physical, human, etc.) to ensure that end users have access to timely support.  相似文献   

Journals Pricing     

Kraig Adler  Wally Olsen 《Learned Publishing》1999,12(2):137-139

A significant new study has been conducted at Cornell University. The Mann Library surveyed several hundred titles in Agriculture and Biology, in order to analyse their prices (per page and per thousand characters) over time, comparing university presses, commercial publishers, society publishers and government agencies. They aimed to develop a methodology, using Optical Character Recognition (OCR) technology, which could be used elsewhere, and to use their findings to examine the patterns of article ownership and pricing of published scientific research.  相似文献   

Books in review     

Paul Westbrook Book/Media Reviews Editor  Daniel J. Perkins  Ingrid Olsen‐Tjensvold  Carolyn Gilbert 《Journal of Applied Communication Research》2013,41(2):72-74

THROUGH NAVAJO EYES: AN EXPLORATION IN FILM COMMUNICATION AND ANTHROPOLOGY. By Sol Worth and John Adair. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1972; pp. 286. $12.50.

VAGINAL POLITICS. By Ellen Frankfort. New York: Quandrangle Books, Inc., 1973; pp. 250. $6.95.

POWER AND INTERPERSONAL RELATIONS. By Wally D. Jacobson. Belmont, California: Wadsworth Publishing Company, 1972; pp. 190. (paper) $3.50.  相似文献   

Print Media     

Bernard M. Fry  Herbert S. White  Karl I.R. Arndt  May E. Olsen  Donald McQuade  Robert Atwan 《Communication Booknotes Quarterly》2013,44(7):77-79

Bernard M. Fry and Herbert S. White's Publishers and Libraries: A Study of Scholarly and Research Journals (Lexington, Mass.: Lexington Books/D.C. Heath, 1976—price not given, but about $15.00)

Karl I.R. Arndt and May E. Olsen's The German Language Press of the Americas, Volume I: History and Bibliography 1732-1968, United States of America (Munich: Verlag Dokumentation [New York: Unipub] , 1976—DM 148, or $52.00)

The Reader's Advisor: A Layman's Guide to Literature, 12th Edition (New York: R.R. Bowker, 1977—three volumes for $69.95 per set, or $25.00 per volume if purchased separately)

Donald McQuade and Robert Atwan (eds.) Popular Writing in America: The Interaction of Style and Audience, Shorter, Alternate Edition (New York: Oxford University Press, 1977—$5.00, paper)  相似文献   

Minimum competency testing and the IEP process     

K R Olsen 《Exceptional children》1980,47(3):176-183

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Electronic journals: implications for scholars     

Jan Olsen 《Learned Publishing》1994,7(3):167-176

Describes the CORE project which examined the viability for research chemists of replacing their use of printed journals with electronic equivalents, considering the requirements of users, the attributes of print, and ease and speed of access to the literature.  相似文献   

工学结合人才培养模式下高职思政教育刍议     

贾涛 《宁波职业技术学院学报》2011,(4):20-23

工学结合人才培养模式下的高职思想政治教育工作既有许多有利因素,又充满挑战。有利因素是：理论与实践相融,有利于增强教育效果;校企文化对接,有利于提高学生的职业素养;工学结合,有利于增强学生的社会适应能力。面临的挑战有：教育者、受教育者、教育环境、教育内容和方法等发生了变化。因此,要转变观念、更新内容、采取适当方法,以适应这种新型人才培养模式下的思想政治教育工作。  相似文献