The impact of high school exit exams on graduation rates and achievement     

Katherine Caves  Simone Balestra 《The Journal of educational research》2018,111(2):186-200

The authors examined the short- and long-term effects of high school exit exams (HSEEs) on graduation rates and achievement using an interrupted time series approach. There is a positive overall effect of HSEE introduction for graduation rate trends, which is heterogeneous over time. HSEEs have a negative impact on graduation rates in the year of introduction and briefly after, which is short lived and becomes positive (but not statistically significant) over the long term. There is also a preintervention negative effect, suggesting that high schools prepare for the HSEE before introduction. There are no effects for achievement, possibly due to the lack of meaningful cross-state achievement data. The findings are robust to the inclusion of states that do not have HSEEs as a control group and also robust to controlling for No Child Left Behind introduction.  相似文献   

Identifying motivators and barriers to older community-dwelling people participating in resistance training: A cross-sectional study     

Elissa Burton  Gill Lewin  Simone Pettigrew  Anne-Marie Hill  Liz Bainbridge  Kaela Farrier 《Journal of sports sciences》2017,35(15):1523-1532

Participation rates of older people in resistance training (RT) are low despite increasing research showing many health benefits. To increase the number of older people participating in RT it is important to know what would motivate people to become involved, what motivates those who participate to continue, and the factors preventing many older people from commencing participation. To investigate these issues, a questionnaire was mailed to three groups of older people: (1) those receiving home care services, (2) members of a peak non-government seniors’ organisation and (3) those participating in a specific gym-based RT programme. In total, 1327 questionnaires were returned (response rate = 42.5%). To feel good physically and mentally were the main reasons motivating participation among all three groups, and falls prevention was identified as an important motivator for the home care respondents. Pain, injury and illness were the main barriers to participating, or continuing to participate. However, medical advice was a factor influencing participation commencement. The results suggest organisations providing RT programmes for older people should tailor the promotion and delivery of programmes to address key motivators and barriers specific to each group to increase the proportion of older people initiating and continuing to engage in RT.  相似文献   

Sovereigns and Superstitions: Identity and Memory in Thomas Bentley’s ‘Monumentes of Antiquities’     

Simone Hanebaum 《Cultural and Social History》2016,13(3):287-305

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Book Reviews     

Lyn Wilkinson  Simone Smala  Lyn Kerkham 《The Australian Educational Researcher》2004,31(1):113-119

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The educational cost of philosophical suicide: What it means to be lucid     

Simone Thornton 《Educational Philosophy and Theory》2019,51(6):608-618

The struggle to become lucid is at the heart of The Myth of Sisyphus. To understand the absurd is to understand that the fit between our conception of the world and the world itself is fraught with uncertainty; lucidity is the elucidation of the absurd. To be lucid is to revolt against the type of certainty that leads to suffering; to revolt against philosophical suicide. Camus teaches us the intellectual humility that stays hands; there is no reasoning that justifies suffering. If it is granted that the ability to recognise and respond to our own and others suffering is an important part of being human, and the task of education is to develop humans, then lucidity, in so far as it holds promise for the development of such an ability, has the potential to contribute positively to education.  相似文献   

How effort towards challenge is depicted in stories for young children: an Indonesian study     

Suprawati  Maria N.  Volet  Simone  Pino-Pasternak  Deborah 《Asia Pacific Education Review》2020,21(2):325-338

Asia Pacific Education Review - This study examined the nature of effort towards challenge in stories recommended for young children in Indonesian schools. One hundred and nine stories with...  相似文献   

Beurteilereffekte bei der Messung von Unterrichtsqualität     

Dipl.-Päd. Marcus Pietsch  Dr. Simone Tosana 《Zeitschrift für Erziehungswissenschaft》2008,11(3):430-452

In the external evaluation of schools the technique of classroom observation belongs to the methodological standard repertoire. Nevertheless the measurement of quality of classroom teaching based upon selected lesson sequences, which are as a rule inspected only briefly, is fraught with a lot of methodological problems. Therefore it is relevant for a substantiated quality assurance to reveal problems in the measurement of quality of classroom teaching due to an implementation of adequate empirical methods. This is made possible by using the generalizability theory and the many-facet Rasch model. Analyses based upon data of the Hamburg school inspection point out that by using an appropriate data collection procedure rater effects in classroom observations turn out comparatively low at about nine percent of total variance. Furthermore analyses prove that it is insufficient to simply quantify the agreement among raters by using global reliability measures, but that it is necessary to check up on intra rater consistency for getting valid and in this way reliable results from classroom observations for the practice.  相似文献   

When Do Pictures Help Learning from Expository Text? Multimedia and Modality Effects in Primary Schools     

Simone Herrlinger  Tim N. Höffler  Maria Opfermann  Detlev Leutner 《Research in Science Education》2017,47(3):685-704

Adding pictures to a text is very common in today’s education and might be especially beneficial for elementary school children, whose abilities to read and understand pure text have not yet been fully developed. Our study examined whether adding pictures supports learning of a biology text in fourth grade and whether the text modality (spoken or written) plays a role. Results indicate that overall, pictures enhanced learning but that the text should be spoken rather than written. These results are in line with instructional design principles derived from common multimedia learning theories. In addition, for elementary school children, it might be advisable to read texts out to the children. Reading by themselves and looking at pictures might overload children’s cognitive capacities and especially their visual channel. In this case, text and pictures would not be integrated into one coherent mental model, and effective learning would not take place.  相似文献   

Cultural and Multicultural Perspectives on Learning and Motivation     

Simone Volet 《Asia Pacific Journal of Education》1999,19(2):9-14

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Modelling and coaching of relevant metacognitive strategies for enhancing university students' learning     

Simone E. Volet   《Learning and Instruction》1991,1(4)

Recent developments in strategy instruction research suggest that learning in a particular discipline is enhanced by guiding students through the development of content-relevant metacognitive strategies. The potential of such an instructional approach for university settings is discussed in this paper, and is supported with evidence from an experimental field study. The study, conducted with 28 experimental and 28 matched control students over 13 weeks of an introductory computer science course, involved (a) students' development of a metacognitive strategy relevant for computer programming, (b) modelling and coaching procedures with complete explanations about strategy use, and (c) a socially supportive learning context. The instructional method had significant short-term and long-term effects on students' cognitive and affective learning outcomes.  相似文献