Temperament, Emotion, and Cognition at Fourteen Months: The MacArthur Longitudinal Twin Study     

Robert N. Emde  Robert Plomin  JoAnn Robinson  Robin Corley  John DeFries  David W. Fulker  J. Steven Reznick  Joseph Campos  Jerome Kagan  Carolyn Zahn-Waxler 《Child development》1992,63(6):1437-1455

200 pairs of twins were assessed at 14 months of age in the laboratory and home. Measures were obtained of temperament, emotion, and cognition/language. Comparisons between identical and fraternal twin correlations suggest that individual differences are due in part to heritable influences. For temperament, genetic influence was significant for behavioral observations of inhibition to the unfamiliar, tester ratings of activity, and parental ratings of temperament. For emotion, significant genetic influence was found for empathy and parental ratings of negative emotion. The estimate of heritability for parental report of expression of negative emotions was relatively high, whereas that for expression of positive emotions was low, a finding consistent with previous research. For cognition and language, genetic influence was significant for behavioral indices of spatial memory, categorization, and word comprehension. Shared rearing environment appears influential for parental reports of language and for positive emotions, but not for other measures of emotion or for temperament.  相似文献   

Wise Men and Clever Tricks: a response     

Robin Alexander 《Cambridge Journal of Education》1994,24(1):107-112

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Empirical Research into Teaching     

Robin Barrow 《Interchange》2006,37(4):287-307

The paper argues that 100 years of empirical research into teaching has failed to provide a usable account of best practice. This is partly because of conceptual and other logical problems that cannot in practice be resolved, as has been argued before. However, it is further argued that the real reason that no useful rules of good teaching can be established is that there are no substantive and important rules covering human interactions such as teaching. It is not that science cannot get the answers; rather it is that there are not any answers, and that is why there is not a science of teaching. Every teaching event is unique and the way to determine good practice is to be clear about what one is trying to achieve and to know one’s particular audience. This is not simply sound practical advice, but logically the only path to knowledge in this area.  相似文献   

Media Commentary     

Robin Moss 《Learning, Media and Technology》1994,20(1):39-42

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Comments on Holmes     

Robin Barrow 《Interchange》1993,24(3):237-240

Certain basic moral propositions are unlike basic religious propositions in that it is incoherent to deny them. A community needs a shared set of moral beliefs in a way that it does not need a shared set of religious beliefs. The cultivation of certain types of behaviour is necessary in a community. For these three reasons, bringing up children to adhere to certain basic moral principles is justified in a way that bringing them up to accept basic religious tenets is not.Simon Fraser University  相似文献   

Language preference and its relationship with reading skills in English and Spanish     

Michele H. Brenneman  Robin D. Morris  Marlyne Israelian 《Psychology in the schools》2007,44(2):171-181

A dearth of research has investigated the language preference of bilingual childhood populations and its subsequent relationship to reading skills. The current study evaluated how a sequential bilingual student's choice of language, in a particular environmental context, predicted reading ability in English and Spanish. The participants were Latino children ranging in age from 7 years, 5 months, to 11 years, 6 months, with 43% born in the United States. Results showed a relationship between a child's higher English language preference for media and for communication with others outside the family and better reading skills in English. Language preference differences predicted reading abilities better for English than for Spanish. Results suggested that sequential bilingual children's language preference may be a useful marker of English language (second language [L2]) facility and use that is related to their reading proficiency or influences the development of English reading skills in such bilingual children in the United States. © 2007 Wiley Periodicals, Inc. Psychol Schs 44: 171–181, 2007.  相似文献   

A 15-Year Study of 63 Teachers at 24 Institutions Reveals: “What the Best College Teachers Do”: Review of: What the Best Teachers Do, by Ken Bain; Harvard University Press (Cambridge, MA); ISBN: 0–6740–1325–5     

Robin L Wright  Aaron Charlson    Carrie F Olson 《CBE life sciences education》2005,4(4):279-280

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Creating Supports for Young Children with Disabilities in Natural Environments     

Elizabeth J. Erwin  Robin Schreiber 《Early Childhood Education Journal》1999,26(3):167-171

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A Society of Signs? Mediating a Learning Society     

Richard Edwards  & Robin Usher 《British Journal of Educational Studies》1999,47(3):261-274

This article critiques certain notions of a learning society. These are framed largely in economic and humanist frameworks of competitiveness and social exclusion. This overlooks the implications of information, communications and media technologies, and the linguistic turn in social theory. These suggest a learning society can be framed as a 'society of signs' Some of the possible implications of the latter are outlined.  相似文献   

A typology of the three-year-old twin sibling relationship drawn from two different environments: School and home     

Monique Robin 《European Journal of Psychology of Education - EJPE》1999,14(1):141-159

The main purpose of this study was to describe the relational structure of child twins on the basis of their mothers' representations of their behavior in two everyday settings, at school and in the home. This study looks in particular at dependence on the co-twin and the dominant/dominated relationship in these two life environments. Fifty-seven questionnaires were gathered from mothers of twins three months after the children had begun preschool. A multiple correspondence analysis and an automatic classification of the data pointed out several relational structures of the twin sibling relationship, in contrast to the often stereotyped single representation of twinship. A secondary aim was to associate the observed relational structures with (a) the type of twinship and the sex makeup of the twin pair (b) the mothers' child-raising behaviors, which may or may not tend to turn the twins outward (first short separation of the children before preschool). Contrary to predictions, no particular relational structures could be differentiated on the basis of the type of twinship (monozygotic vs. same-sex dizygotic twins). On the other hand, pairs composed of a boy and a girl exhibited a number of specific characteristics. Parents who were in favor of short separations did not have children who were more co-twin independent in the school environment. However these twins showed a dominant/dominated relationship in the home.  相似文献