Editorial     

Rod Parker‐Rees 《Early Years: An International Journal of Research and Development》2008,28(3):217-219

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The Impact of League Tables on University Application Rates   总被引：1，自引：0，他引：1  

Rod Gunn  Steve Hill 《Higher Education Quarterly》2008,62(3):273-296

In the UK, the popular use of league tables in assessing the comparative standing of universities has escalated to such an extent that most UK national newspapers now publish them. A review of literature to date suggests there has been little academic research undertaken to establish the value of such tables or to assess their impact upon student application rates. This paper explores the relationship between league position and application rates in the UK, using rankings from the Sunday Times as an example, with important lessons for higher education across the globe. Results show that in the period when league tables were newly introduced, there was a significant negative association between league table position (ranked from highest to lowest) and the change in application rates (that is, the higher the league position, the faster the growth in applications) an association that subsequently weakened and may have even have reversed. The paper goes on to explore the notion of various divisions within the overall league table, suggesting that there are effectively two 'selecting' divisions, typically choosing from a surplus of applicants, and two 'recruiting' divisions, typically working to avoid an applications shortfall against target numbers.  相似文献   

Mature-age students’ feelings of enjoying learning in a further education context     

John Ferris  Rod Gerber 《European Journal of Psychology of Education - EJPE》1996,11(1):79-96

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Multiple stories or several flaws? Reflections on architecture,narrative and place in educational research     

Andrew Brookes  Roger Wiseman  Rod Maclean 《The Australian Educational Researcher》1995,22(3):145-154

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Temporal processing and reading disability     

David L. Share  Anthony F. Jorm  Rod Maclean  Russell Matthews 《Reading and writing》2002,15(1-2):151-178

The present investigation examined thehypothesis that early auditory temporalprocessing deficits cause later specificreading disability by impairing phonologicalprocessing (Farmer & Klein 1995; Tallal1980, 1984). Temporal processing ability atschool entry was examined using Tallal'sRepetition Test in a large unselected sample ofover 500 children followed over subsequentyears. Although our data confirmed the presenceof certain non-speech auditory processingdeficits in children later classified asspecific reading-disabled, many findings wereclearly at odds with a causal interpretation ofthis relationship. (1) Reading-disabled (RD)children were impaired at school entry on thesubtest with long interstimulus intervals(ISIs) but not the critical short-ISIsubtest. (2) RD children were not inferior toreading-age (RA) controls. (3) A subgroup of RDchildren with evidence of temporal deficitswere no less proficient on later phonologicalor reading measures than RD children with noevidence of early temporal impairment. (4)Although there was a reliable concurrentcorrelation between temporal deficits andphonological awareness at school entry(suggesting a possible common causeexplanation), early temporal deficits did notpredict later phonological impairment,pseudoword processing difficulties, or specificreading disability. On the other hand, earlytemporal deficits did predict later oralreceptive vocabulary and reading comprehensionweaknesses. These findings suggest thatauditory temporal deficits in dyslexics may beassociated with the same dysphasic-typesymptoms observed by Tallal and her colleaguesin specific language-impaired populations, butdo not cause the core phonological deficitsthat characterize dyslexic groups.  相似文献   

Fostering the Development of Reading Skill through Supplemental Instruction: Results for Hispanic and Non-Hispanic Students     

Gunn B  Smolkowski K  Biglan A  Black C  Blair J 《The Journal of special education》2005,39(2):66-85

This paper reports the effects of a two-year supplemental reading program for kindergarten through third grade students that focused on the development of decoding skills and reading fluency. Two hundred ninety-nine students were identified for participation and were randomly assigned to the supplemental instruction or to a no-treatment control group. Participants' reading ability was assessed in the fall, before the first year of the intervention, and again in the spring of years 1, 2, 3, and 4. At the end of the two-year intervention, students who received the supplemental instruction performed significantly better than their matched controls on measures of entry level reading skills (i.e., letter-word identification and word attack), oral reading fluency, vocabulary, and comprehension. The benefits of the instruction were still clear two years after instruction had ended with students in the supplemental-instruction condition still showing significantly greater growth on the measure of oral reading fluency. Hispanic students benefited from the supplemental reading instruction in English as much as or more than non-Hispanic students. Results support the value of supplemental instruction focused on the development of word recognition skills for helping students at risk for reading failure.  相似文献   

A personal perspective on the needs of a distance educator     

Rod McMillan 《Distance Education》1988,9(2):281-284

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Mapping Learning Analytics initiatives in Latin America     

Cristian Cechinel  Xavier Ochoa  Henrique Lemos dos Santos  João Batista Carvalho Nunes  Virginia Rodés  Emanuel Marques Queiroga 《British journal of educational technology : journal of the Council for Educational Technology》2020,51(4):892-914

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Science and Mathematics Instruction of Beginning Elementary Teachers     

McDevitt  Teresa M.  Gardner  April L.  Shaklee  Janie M.  Bertholf  Michele M.  Troyer  Rod 《Journal of Science Teacher Education》1999,10(3):217-233

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The democratic argument for science curriculum reform in Britain and Australia: 1935–1945     

Dr Rod Fawns 《Research in Science Education》1998,28(3):281-299

The dominance of “academicism” in science education can be shown over the last century. However in the period of this study, when access to a universal secondary education was the main thrust of social reconstruction in Britain and Australia, a key struggle was for a socially-centred general science. The struggle, concerned the terms on which “the spirit of Science alive in the world”, could enter and transform education in schools to meet human needs. The epistemological arguments of the reformers were pragmatic. This study, set initially in an earlier period of depressive capitalism, is an account of how curriculum and cultural change was mediated by educational actors, employing pragmatic arguments for reform which drew on the metaphoric power of a scientific achievements which emanated from their society, to pursue democratic agendas within their workplace and locality.  相似文献