Movement planning reflects skill level and age changes in toddlers     

Chen YP  Keen R  Rosander K  von Hofsten C 《Child development》2010,81(6):1846-1858

Kinematic measures of children's reaching were found to reflect stable differences in skill level for planning for future actions. Thirty-five toddlers (18-21 months) were engaged in building block towers (precise task) and in placing blocks into an open container (imprecise task). Sixteen children were retested on the same tasks a year later. Longer deceleration as the hand approached the block for pickup was found in the tower task compared with the imprecise task, indicating planning for the second movement. More skillful toddlers who could build high towers had a longer deceleration phase when placing blocks on the tower than toddlers who built low towers. Kinematic differences between the groups remained a year later when all children could build high towers.  相似文献   

Critically reviewing globalization     

Ergin Bulut  Rachel Dane  Majhon Phillips  Jodi Rund  Brian Sutliff 《Discourse: Studies in the Cultural Politics of Education》2010,31(1):149-163

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You’re doing what? Students’ experiences of advice from a New Zealand university     

Nell Buissink‐Smith  Rachel Spronken‐Smith  Rebecca Walker 《高等教育研究与发展》2010,29(4):357-371

This case study explores student perceptions and experiences of advising at a New Zealand university. It considers the implications arising from the students’ responses and also investigates the influence of students’ demographic characteristics on perceptions of advice. Both first‐ (n = 191) and final‐ (n = 171) year cohorts of students were surveyed to determine why they chose particular courses, what advice they received and how aware they were of various support services. Although students were happy overall with the advice received, many had little or no expectations of the type of advice they should be receiving. The main sources of advice were the University enrolment pack, family and University School’s Liaison Officers. Academic advisers were less well used as a source of advice, even during later years of study. Advisers need to be educated about particular advising issues related to first‐generation students, part‐time students and international students. Many students had a career path in mind so it is important to provide holistic developmental academic advice that includes future career options.  相似文献   

“Relocating the Personal” to engender critically reflective practice in pre-service literacy teachers     

Rachel Heydon  Kathy Hibbert 《Teaching and Teacher Education》2010

This case study mapped candidates' responses to a pre-service literacy course designed to relocate teacher candidates' literacy histories and beliefs from a personal to political frame with the intent of promoting critical reflection and complex understandings of literacy, teaching, and learning. As part of a broader qualitative case study including 71 participants over 8 months, this paper focuses on data gathered from 7 candidates. Through a modified constant comparative method, the analysis confirmed the effectiveness of certain conditions created in the course while pointing to a need for further attention to issues of power and the unconscious in learning to teach literacy.  相似文献   

Accidental achievers? International higher education,class reproduction and privilege in the experiences of UK students overseas     

Johanna Waters  Rachel Brooks 《British Journal of Sociology of Education》2010,31(2):217-228

To date, scholarship on international students has generally focused on flows from non‐western economies to the main English‐speaking destination countries (such as the United States, the United Kingdom and Australia). In contrast, we draw on a qualitative study of 85 UK students who have either completed or are considering undertaking a degree programme overseas. We found that, in opposition to a common image of ‘international students’, UK students are not overtly motivated by ‘strategic’ concerns. Instead, they are seeking ‘excitement’ and ‘adventure’ from overseas study and often use the opportunity to delay the onset of a career and prolong a relatively carefree student lifestyle. Despite these ostensibly ‘disinterested’ objectives, however, UK students remain a highly privileged group and their experiences serve only to facilitate the reproduction of their privilege. The paper calls for a more critical analysis of the spatially uneven and socially exclusive nature of international higher education.  相似文献   

Experienced Junior-High-School Teachers’ PCK in Light of a Curriculum Change: “The Cell is to be Studied Longitudinally”     

Rachel Cohen  Anat Yarden 《Research in Science Education》2009,39(1):131-155

In the new science and technology junior-high-school curriculum in Israel, it is recommended that the cell topic be taught “longitudinally in conjunction with other study contents”. This recommendation confers a change in teaching the cell topic and provides an opportunity to form meaningful relationships between biological phenomena at the macro-level and their cellular explanations. Here, we examine junior-high-school science and technology teachers’ pedagogical content knowledge (PCK) with regard to the cell topic and the formation of macro-micro relations, ten years following the publication of the change in the curriculum. Teachers in this study participated in three focus groups (n = 59) and one workshop (n = 12). In addition, six experienced teachers were interviewed in the course of this study. Specific tools were developed to capture the teachers’ PCK. We found that the teachers had changed their way of teaching the cell topic only superficially: they did not undergo any deep change. Despite the importance the teachers placed on teaching and learning the cell topic, their concerns about their students’ comprehension difficulties reduced the time they devoted to teaching the topic in class. The teachers were also found to have no PCK capacity to integrate biological phenomena at the macro-level with their cellular explanations. In addition, a duality was identified among the teachers with regards to relating macro- and micro-levels in biology and in chemistry.  相似文献   

Education management and performance after rural education finance reform: Evidence from Western China     

Mingxing Liu  Rachel Murphy  Ran Tao  Xuehui An 《International Journal of Educational Development》2009

Based on a survey of rural school districts in Western China, this essay explores the effects of fiscal centralisation on the relationship between local governance and school district management, most particularly on how managerial power is distributed in the rural education sector. The essay also examines some of the possible effects that changes in managerial arrangements may have on teacher incentives and on educational quality as measured by student test scores. Our analysis suggests that teachers’ incentives and students’ education performance are unlikely to benefit from the excessive centralisation of decision-making power or from incessant horizontal level power struggles among different government bodies.  相似文献   

Lexical expertise and reading skill: bottom-up and top-down processing of lexical ambiguity     

Sally Andrews  Rachel Bond 《Reading and writing》2009,22(6):687-711

The lexical quality hypothesis assumes that skilled readers rely on high quality lexical representations that afford autonomous lexical retrieval and reduce the need to rely on top-down context. This experiment investigated this hypothesis by comparing the performance of adults classified on reading comprehension and spelling performance. ‘Lexical experts’, defined by above average performance on both measures, were compared with individuals who are good readers/poor spellers, poor readers/good spellers, or poor on both measures. Sentences finishing with a homograph (e.g., She danced all night at the ball) were followed by a probe word and participants had to decide whether it had occurred in the sentence. Critical probe words were related to either the sentence-congruous or the sentence-incongruous meaning of the homograph (e.g., waltz vs. throw). Lexical experts showed less interference from related probes than the other groups. When the sentences were presented at fast rates, poorer spellers showed interference for sentence-congruous but not sentence-incongruous probes. However, at slower presentation rates, all groups showed equivalent interference for both types of probes. The results support the lexical quality hypothesis by showing that high quality lexical representations, indexed by better spelling, are associated with reduced reliance on sentence context.

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Clarity, charity and criticism, wit, wisdom and worldliness: Avoiding intellectual impositions     

David Turnbull  Henry Krips  Val Dusek  Steve Fuller  Alan Sokal  Jean Bricmont  Alan Frost  Alan Chalmers  Anna Salleh  Alfred I. Tauber  Yvonne Luxford  Nicolaas Rupke  Steven French  Peter G. Brown  Hugh LaFollette  Peter Machamer  Nicolas Rasmussen  Andy J. Miller  Marya Schechtman  Ross S. West  John Forge  David Oldroyd  Nancy Demand  Darrin W. Belousek  Warren Schmaus  Sungook Hong  Alan Chalmers  Rachel A. Ankeny  Peter Anstey  Jeremy Butterfield  Harshi Gunawardena 《Metascience》2000,9(3):347-498

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The Library Is for Studying: Student Preferences for Study Space     

Rachel Applegate   《The Journal of Academic Librarianship》2009,35(4):341-346

Systematic observation of non-computer seating areas in library and non-library spaces on an urban campus showed an important role for the library in individual and group study area choices. The study provides data on important points to consider in library design, including laptop needs and gender preferences.  相似文献