Modeling undergraduate STEM students’ satisfaction with their programs in China: an empirical study     

Zhuang  Tengteng  Cheung  Alan C. K.  Tam  Winnie 《Asia Pacific Education Review》2020,21(2):211-225

Asia Pacific Education Review - Several major reform areas attempted by ‘New Engineering Education’ (NEE), China’s most recent engineering education reform initiative at...  相似文献   

Teaching Plan‐Do‐Study‐Act (PDSA) in a Supply Chain Context: A Paper Football In‐Class Activity     

Rebekah Inez Brau  John W. Gardner  G. Scott Webb  Jason K. McDonald 《Decision Sciences Journal of Innovative Education》2019,17(1):6-32

We develop a single‐class period learning game for the Plan‐Do‐Study‐Act (PDSA) improvement cycle. The experiential activity walks teams through the PDSA problem‐solving process as they create paper American footballs and improve their performance using each step of the cycle. The game is one of the first to focus on PDSA. Key benefits include increased student attention, engagement, and learning. Empirical tests show that participant pre‐ and post‐test scores regarding their understanding of each phase of PDSA improved 21.2% after completing the game. Additionally, the treatment group performed 16.6% higher than the control group. In participant perception questions, 85% of participants felt the game was more effective than lecture or reading, 93% felt the game was fun, 95% felt the game improved their understanding of PDSA, and 98% felt the game was engaging.  相似文献   

Bullies and victims in schools in central and southern Italy     

Maria Luisa Genta  Ersilia Menesini  Ada Fonzi  Angela Costabile  Peter K. Smith 《European Journal of Psychology of Education - EJPE》1996,11(1):97-110

Anonymous questionnaires assessing the amount and nature of bullying/victimization were given to 1379 primary and middle school pupils (8–11; 11–14yrs) in two towns of Central and Southern Italy, Florence and Cosenza. The questionnaire closely followed the design of Olweus (1991) and Whitney and Smith (1993). Results were analysed in terms of percentages of bullying others and being bullied, types of bullying behaviour, where it occurred and who were the perpretators. Bullying was reported in both Italian areas at a more substantial level than found in other countries, including Norway, England, Spain and Japan, although it presented similar structural features to those reported elsewhere: being bullied decreased in older pupils, bullying others was most likely to be admitted by boys, the perpetretators were in the same class as the victims. Considering direct and indirect forms of bullying, year and gender differences are discussed for the two Italian areas and in cross-national perspective.  相似文献   

Innovation: Criteria of Judgment   总被引：1，自引：0，他引：1  

K. G. Collier 《British journal of educational technology : journal of the Council for Educational Technology》1972,3(3):175-186

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School libraries fostering children's literacy and literature learning: mitigating the barriers     

Margaret K. Merga 《Literacy》2020,54(1):70-78

While qualified school librarians can have a positive influence on children's literacy attainment, very little consideration is given to the educative role of librarians in schools. Lack of attention on these librarians' educative capacity may be due to a devaluing of the educational contribution of school librarians, and it can be argued that school libraries are poorly valued in current times, as evidenced in cuts to budgets and staffing. While school librarians may foster literacy and literature learning through a range of strategies, and for diverse purposes, perhaps their most expected contribution relates to the fostering of literacy and literature learning through wide reading and reading engagement in students. However, little is known about the specific barriers that librarians in schools may encounter in achieving these goals in the current school environment. Research from teacher librarians at 30 Australian schools is drawn upon to explore barriers to children's literacy and literature learning in school libraries. Recurring barriers were limited time and competing demands, crowded curriculum, low teacher valuing, low student engagement, skills and motivation, issues with parental support, limited space and constrained budget. These findings provide a valuable foundation for future inquiry in this under‐researched space.  相似文献   

An evaluation of secondary school studies as predictors of performance for accounting majors     

Pak K. Auyeung  John S. Sands 《The Australian Educational Researcher》1993,20(3):51-61

This study examines the impact that secondary school studies have on university accounting courses. Multiple regression analysis has been used to determine the significance of various academic factors. Secondary school accounting and mathematics were found to have far greater effectiveness in predicting results in the initial university accounting course than did other variables, but this benefit diminished in the second year and vanished in the third year of the accounting programme.  相似文献   

Trade-offs in the study of culture and development: theories, methods, and values     

Rothbaum F  Pott M  Azuma H  Miyake K  Weisz J 《Child development》2000,71(5):1159-1161

The commentators are unanimous in their support for our general orientation to culture and development, and for the pathways we have identified, and they suggest ways to enrich our approach to theory, methods, and values. We view their main suggestions as relating to trade-offs: between theories that highlight generalizations or exceptions; between methods that rely on one-, two-, or multiculture studies; and between values involving individuation or accommodation. Here, we describe ways to find an optimal balance in each instance.  相似文献   

The social and psychological development of the deaf child: problems, their treatment and prevention   总被引：1，自引：0，他引：1  

K Z Altshuler 《American annals of the deaf》1974,119(4):365-376

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Unraveling the Slut Narrative: Gender Constraints on Adolescent Girls' Sexual Decision-Making     

Aleza K. Summit  Jenifer DeAtley  Andrew Levack 《American journal of sexuality education》2016,11(2):113-128

Limited research exists on the slut labeling process, a key means of enforcing rules around appropriate female sexuality. This study explores that process through qualitative interviews with 44 adolescent girls in Travis County, Texas. Labeling girls as sluts or hos was pervasive and was based on a number of factors beyond sexual behavior, including dress, friendships with boys, or jealousy from other girls. Responses depicted a narrow space in which girls functioned, bound at one end by limited agency and at the other by pervasive vulnerability. There was consensus about the negative consequences of being labeled. Most girls held mixed opinions about the slut labeling process: this may reflect their attempts to push back against a system that entraps them. These findings suggest that prevention and sex education programs must explicitly address slut labeling as well as other gender narratives that impede healthy sexual development.  相似文献   

High stakes testing: what is at stake?     

Randall K  McAnally P  Rittenhouse B  Russell D  Sorensen G 《American annals of the deaf》2000,145(5):390-393

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