Let's Talk About Maths: The Role of Observed “Maths‐Talk” and Maths Provisions in Preschoolers' Numeracy     

Megan von Spreckelsen  Emma Dove  Ilse Coolen  Annelot Mills  Ann Dowker  Kathy Sylva  Daniel Ansari  Rebecca Merkley  Victoria Murphy  Gaia Scerif 《Mind, Brain, and Education》2019,13(4):326-340

Developmental cognitive neuroscience highlights the importance of interactions between children and their environment. As young children spend increasing time in childcare, it is key to investigate the impact of “maths‐talk” and maths provisions in preschools. Qualitative insights from early educators indicate a greater bias toward counting activities than would be expected given the Early Years curriculum. In addition, we quantified the observed breadth of preschool practitioners' maths language (e.g., place‐value language), setting‐based maths provisions (e.g., quality of maths‐related activities), and their relation with children's early numeracy skills. In settings with greater practitioners' breadth of maths language, children display greater cardinality skills although our data call for the further investigation of parental socioeconomic status and education. We conclude with a discussion on the need to operationalize children's maths learning environments as diversely as possible. Enriching practitioners' skill sets may be an effective and needed way of improving early maths outcomes.  相似文献   

Advocacy is all of us: recommendations to enhance the Medical Library Association's advocacy initiatives     

JJ Pionke  Kathleen Phillips  Alyssa Migdalski  Erin M. Smith 《Journal of the Medical Library Association》2022,110(1):5

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Handsome Heroes and Vile Villains: Men in Disney's Feature Animation Amy M. Davis. New Barnet,Herts, UK: John Libby Publishing, 2013.          下载免费PDF全文

Kathy Merlock Jackson 《Journal of American culture (Malden, Mass. : 2003)》2016,39(3):365-365

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Relationships between scores on Stanford-Binet IV and Wechsler preschool and primary scale of intelligence     

Howard Carvajal  Kathleen Hardy  Kathy L. Smith  Kenneth A. Weaver 《Psychology in the schools》1988,25(2):129-131

A kindergarten class of 9 boys and 11 girls took the 1986 Stanford-Binet Intelligence Scale (Fourth Edition) and the Wechsler Preschool and Primary Scale of Intelligence. Of 6 correlations of total scores and subtest pairs, only the correlation of total scores was statistically significant (p<.01).  相似文献   

Experiences of teacher evaluation systems on high school physical education programs     

Sharon R. Phillips  Kevin Mercier  Sarah Doolittle 《Physical Education & Sport Pedagogy》2017,22(4):364-377

Primary objective: Teacher evaluation is being revamped by policy-makers. The marginalized status of physical education has protected this subject area from reform for many decades, but in our current era of system-wide, data-based decision-making, physical education is no longer immune. Standardized and local testing, together with structured observation measures, are swiftly being mandated in the USA as required elements of teacher evaluation systems in an effort to improve school programs and student achievement. The purpose of this investigation was to document how this reform was initiated and the experiences of teachers, students and administrators, from three high school physical education programs, during initiation of this reform. Documenting how physical education programs respond to such reforms develops our understanding of top-down reform efforts and helps to identify conditions under which such reforms have the intended effect on physical education teachers and student learning in physical education.

Theoretical framework: Fullan’s three phases of school change has been used to analyze and guide school change efforts in several subject areas including physical education. The phases are initiation, implementation and institutionalization. This study is situated primarily within the first phase of school change, the initiation phase.

Methods and procedures: This study took place over a 21-month period in 3 suburban school districts in a northeast metropolitan area of the USA. Interviews with district physical education administrators, high school physical education teachers and students were conducted. Field notes of physical education classes, informal interviews and related artifacts including pre- and post-physical education assessments were collected. To ensure trustworthiness, several steps were taken including member checks, triangulation and peer review. The data were analyzed to find common themes and patterns using the constant comparative method.

Results: Several themes emerged: (1) changes in curriculum and assessment; (2) effect on administrators; (3) stakeholder apathy and (4) department collaboration.

Conclusion: Changes, although minor, did take place in the wake of this top-down teacher reform; however, additional research needs to be completed to determine whether or not these changes are meaningful or long lasting.  相似文献   

Power and Paradise in Walt Disney's World Cher Krause Knight. Gainesville: University Press of Florida, 2014.          下载免费PDF全文

Kathy Merlock Jackson 《Journal of American culture (Malden, Mass. : 2003)》2015,38(3):307-308

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Pink and Blue: Telling the Boys from the Girls in America. Jo B. Paoletti. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2012.     

Kathy Merlock Jackson 《Journal of American culture (Malden, Mass. : 2003)》2012,35(3):280-282

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Locavores, feminism, and the question of meat     

Rudy K 《Journal of American culture (Malden, Mass. : 2003)》2012,35(1):26-36

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It's All for the Kids: Gender,Families, and Youth Sports by Michael A. Messner     

Kathy Merlock Jackson 《Journal of American culture (Malden, Mass. : 2003)》2010,33(4):346-347

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Betty Bumpers: Champion of Childhood Immunization and Peace Anna L. Eblen and Martha Jane Eblen,Editors. Lanham,MD: Rowman and Littlefield, 2013.     

Kathy Merlock Jackson 《Journal of American culture (Malden, Mass. : 2003)》2014,37(3):337-338

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