The effect of additional testing on conservation of number performance     

Rhoda McShane Becher 《Psychology in the schools》1977,14(2):225-229

The purpose of this study was to assess the effects of response climate, by examining the effects of an additional testing experience, on the conservation of number performance of 4- and 5-year-old lower socioeconomic status children. A second purpose was to determine if there is a differential effect of response climate for children at various stages of development and/or for each sex. Results indicated that when compared with a control group, participation in an additional testing session resulted in significantly higher conservation of number performance scores for both male and female 4- and 5-year-old lower socioeconomic children at Level III of development. The greatest difference in this performance, however, was exhibited by males. Additional testing did not significantly affect the performance of males and females at Levels I and II of development.  相似文献   

Making Research Relevant in Preservice Early Childhood Teacher Education     

Linda J. Harrison  Myra Dunn  Kennece Coombe 《Journal of Early Childhood Teacher Education》2013,34(3):217-229

Increasingly, researchers, teacher educators and governmental agencies underline the need for early childhood professionals to be able to conduct and use relevant research in their practice. In contrast, early childhood teachers tend to draw exclusively on practical advice rather than research evidence to evaluate and develop their teaching. To address these contradictions in expectations, recently developed preservice early childhood teacher education programs have included a core research subject that aims to foster an appreciation of the value of research and its contributions to professional practice. This study examines the effectiveness of teaching and learning approaches designed to make research relevant to undergraduates at an Australian regional university by tracking students' changing views about research during a one-semester teaching period. The findings of this study show that relevant learning experiences, such as designing and conducting a simple research project, modeling research, collaborative inquiry, focused reading, and organizing a research conference, significantly changed student perceptions of the relevance of research to their teaching and their future role as early childhood professionals.  相似文献   

Mentorship Developments in the Primary Phase of Initial Teacher Education at the University of Reading     

Myra McCulloch  Norman D. Lock 《Mentoring & Tutoring: Partnership in Learning》2013,21(3):21-28

This paper seeks to describe and explore some of the concepts underpinning the development of Mentorship at the University of Reading in relation to Primary Initial Teacher Education (PITE). The research and development phase of this project has been carried out over the past three years and the first set of pilot studies have just been concluded. The current phase of research and development involves an entire cohort of students in the second year of their BA(Ed) degree who will be in school in the Summer term of 1994. Preparation activities and events have been organised with university tutors and teachers in associated schools — all teachers in associated schools; a key and distinctive feature of this scheme. The first part of the paper discusses the particular features of the Reading Primary Mentorship programme and some of the hazards faced when developing such an extensive scheme. The second part of the paper analyses some of the difficulties faced within Higher Education Institutions, for whom, it is argued, the transformation of role is equally as great as the transformed school teachers’ role and the associated difficulties as great yet less well documented and discussed.  相似文献   

Effects of active,passive or no warm-up on metabolism and performance during high-intensity exercise     

Susan Gray  Myra Nimmo 《Journal of sports sciences》2013,31(9):693-700

The aim of this study was to determine the influence of type of warm-up on metabolism and performance during high-intensity exercise. Eight males performed 30 s of intense exercise at 120% of their maximal power output followed, 1 min later, by a performance cycle to exhaustion, again at 120% of maximal power output. Exercise was preceded by active, passive or no warm-up (control). Muscle temperature, immediately before exercise, was significantly elevated after active and passive warm-ups compared to the control condition (36.9 - 0.18°C, 36.8 - 0.18°C and 33.6 - 0.25°C respectively; mean - sx ) ( P ? 0.05). Total oxygen consumption during the 30 s exercise bout was significantly greater in the active and passive warm-up trials than in the control trial (1017 - 22, 943 - 53 and 838 - 45 ml O 2 respectively). Active warm-up resulted in a blunted blood lactate response during high-intensity exercise compared to the passive and control trials (change = 5.53 - 0.52, 8.09 - 0.57 and 7.90 - 0.38 mmol· l -1 respectively) ( P ? 0.05). There was no difference in exercise time to exhaustion between the active, passive and control trials (43.9 - 4.1, 48.3 - 2.7 and 46.9 - 6.2 s respectively) ( P = 0.69). These results indicate that, although the mechanism by which muscle temperature is elevated influences certain metabolic responses during subsequent high-intensity exercise, cycling performance is not significantly affected.  相似文献   

Encyclopedia of Gender and Information Technology,edited by Eileen M. Trauth. 2 vols. Hershey,PA: The Idea Group, 2006. 1451 pp. $525.00 cloth. ISBN: 1-59140-815-6     

Rhoda Reddock  Deborah McFee  Cathy Ann Radix 《The Information Society》2013,29(2):128-131

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Perceived Family Influences in Talent Development Among Artistically Talented Teenagers in Singapore     

Rhoda Myra Garces-Bacsal 《Roeper Review》2013,35(1):7-17

Though there have been quite a number of research studies focusing on how Singaporean families promote literacy and instill values of academic excellence inside the home, little has been written about how families nurture the gifts of teenagers talented in the arts in the Singaporean context. This article highlights how the family influences the talent development of teacher-nominated teenagers who are identified to be among the top in visual arts, dance, theater, music, and academics. Through in-depth interviews conducted with the 14 talented teenagers, the researcher highlights their family's involvement and interest in the arts, their parents' occupational backgrounds, as well as family values and activities that the young artists-in-training perceive to be influential in shaping the development of their artistic talents. Reflections on patterns of childrearing in the Asian context are likewise discussed.  相似文献   

Ruffling the calm of the ocean floor: merging practice,policy and research in assessment in Scotland   总被引：1，自引：0，他引：1  

Louise Hayward  Myra Young 《牛津教育评论》2013,39(3):397-415

The formative Assessment for Learning proposals outlined by Black and Wiliam (e.g. Black et al., 2002 Black P Harrison C Lee C Marshall B Wiliam D 2002 Working inside the black box: assessment for learning in the classroom (London, King's College)  [Google Scholar]) have been well publicised. Since 2002, in its Assessment is for Learning programme, the Scottish Executive Education Department (SEED) has been exploring ways of bringing research, policy and practice in assessment into closer alignment using research on both assessment and transformational change. This paper focuses on one project within Assessment Is for Learning, in which pilot primary and secondary schools across Scotland were encouraged to develop formative assessment approaches in classrooms. They were supported in this by researchers, curriculum developers and local and national policy‐makers. The paper examines the rationale and methods behind the enactment of formative assessment in these schools. It draws upon evidence provided by the interim and final reports of participating schools to draw conclusions about areas of success within the project and potential barriers to the project's future in its evolution from pilot to national programme.  相似文献   

A structured analysis of e-government studies: Trends and opportunities     

Rhoda C. Joseph 《Government Information Quarterly》2013

E-government involves the use of information and communications technology to facilitate government interaction with citizens, employees, businesses and other governments. E-government studies provide a platform to examine prior developments, and explore future opportunities in the field. This paper presents a theoretical model for the analysis of e-government studies and further uses a bibliometric analysis to examine constructs such as theoretical perspectives, methods, and units of analyses. We examine current trends in e-government research, and discuss emerging opportunities.  相似文献   

REPRESENTING ‘INFORMAL EMPIRE’ IN THE NINETEENTH CENTURY     

Rhoda Desbordes 《Media History》2013,19(2):121-139

This article proposes an approach to media imperialism from the telegraphic news agencies’ point of view. Since the mid-nineteenth century, in fact, Western imperial interests were reflected in the geographical expansion led by the first international news agencies. The War of the Pacific (1879–83) in South America provides an entry point for investigating both the notion of the British ‘informal empire’ and the role of the first telegraphic news agencies in the South American region. The history of the news agency business in the subcontinent from the 1850s onwards helps contextualize the conflict between the South American republics of Bolivia, Chile and Peru as news agencies, newspapers and other information practices of the time revealed this event in Europe and the rest of the world. By the end of the war, Reuters and Havas (the British and the French news agencies), numbered their own casualties as a consequence of their confrontation in an extra-European region.  相似文献   

EDUCATIONAL CONFLICT FOR WOMEN     

Myra Sadker 《Review of Education, Pedagogy & Cultural Studies》2013,35(1):37-44

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