Identifying Non-Sustainable Courses of Action: A Prerequisite for Decision-Making in Education for Sustainable Development     

Helge Gresch  Susanne Bögeholz 《Research in Science Education》2013,43(2):733-754

Students are faced with a multitude of decisions as consumers and in societal debates. Because of the scarcity of resources, the destruction of ecosystems and social injustice in a globalized world, it is vital that students are able to identify non-sustainable courses of action when involved in decision-making. The application of decision-making strategies is one approach to enhancing the quality of decisions. Options that do not meet ecological, social or economic standards should be excluded using non-compensatory strategies whereas other tasks may require a complete trade-off of all the evidence, following a compensatory approach. To enhance decision-making competence, a computer-based intervention study was conducted that focused on the use of decision-making strategies. While the results of the summative evaluation are reported by Gresch et al. (International Journal of Science Education, 2011), in-depth analyses of process-related data collected during the information processing are presented in this paper to reveal insights into the mechanisms of the intervention. The quality of high school students’ (n?=?120) metadecision skills when selecting a decision-making strategy was investigated using qualitative content analyses combined with inferential statistics. The results reveal that the students offered elaborate reflections on the sustainability of options. However, the characteristics that were declared non-sustainable differed among the students because societal norms and personal values were intertwined. One implication for education for sustainable development is that students are capable of reflecting on decision-making tasks and on corresponding favorable decision-making strategies at a metadecision level. From these results, we offer suggestions for improving learning environments and constructing test instruments for decision-making competence.  相似文献   

Children’s Drawings About “Radiation”—Before and After Fukushima     

Susanne Neumann  Martin Hopf 《Research in Science Education》2013,43(4):1535-1549

Although the term “radiation” has a fixed place in everyday life as well as in the media, there is very little empirical research on students’ conceptions about this topic. In our study we wanted to find out what students associate with this term. In 2009, we asked 509 students (between grade 4 and grade 6) from seven different schools to draw pictures related to “radiation”. This method of children’s drawings was supported by short interviews (n?=?74). The motifs appearing in the drawings were analysed, and we investigated whether or not the age and the sex of the children had any influence on the choice of motifs. One major result was that the older the students were, the more likely they were to choose sources of invisible radiation (nuclear power plants, mobile phones) as their motifs. Nine months after the tragic events in Fukushima (and at the same time 2 years after the 2009 data collection), we replicated the study. This time, we received 516 drawings from the same schools as in the 2009 study (supported by 33 interviews). This replicative trend study made it possible to compare the choice of motifs and discover possible differences. The results of this analysis showed that the drawings of 2011 included significantly more motifs related to radioactivity. This difference was prevalent in the drawings regardless of sex or age differences. Direct references to the Fukushima accident could be found in both the drawings and interviews.  相似文献   

Globalizing education,educating the local: how method made us mad     

Susanne Gannon 《教育政策杂志》2013,28(6):867-869

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Comparison of visual,automatic and semiautomatic methods to determine ventilatory indices in 50 to 60 years old adults     

Martin Pühringer  Susanne Ring-Dimitriou  Thomas Stöggl  Bernhard Iglseder  Bernhard Paulweber 《Journal of sports sciences》2020,38(6):692-702

ABSTRACT

The aim of this study was to compare different methods of detecting ventilatory indices (VI) and to investigate the impact of cardiorespiratory fitness (CRF) level on VI detection. Fifty females and fifty males completed a graded exercise test until volitional exhaustion with continuous gas-exchange measurement. The first and second ventilatory indices (VI-1, VI-2) were detected through different single automatic methods and through a semiautomatic method which combines visual and automatic detection methods. Additionally, the VIs were detected visually by two experts which served as the study specific gold standard. When comparing the semiautomatic method at VI-1 (intraclass correlation coefficients (ICC) 0.88 [0.81, 0.92], Bland-Altman bias ± limits of agreement (LoA) 55 ± 334 ml O₂ · min^?1) and VI-2 (ICC 0.97 [0.96, 0.98], LoA 1 ± 268 ml O₂ · min^?1) to the visually detected VI, high levels of agreements and no significant differences were found. This was not the case for any of the other automatic methods. Additionally, we couldn’t find any relevant differences regarding the CRF level.

We therefore concluded that the semiautomatic detection method should be used for VI detection, as results are more accurate than in any of the single-automatic methods.

Abbreviations: CPET: cardiopulmonary exercise test; CRF: Cardiorespiratory fitness; VO_2peak: peak oxygen uptake; VI-1: first ventilatory indices; VI-2: second ventilatory indices; LoA: Bland-Altman bias ± limits of agreement; ICC: intraclass correlation coefficient.  相似文献   

Editorial Note     

Judith M. Nixon  Susanne K. Clement 《资料收集管理》2019,44(1):1-2

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Editorial Note     

Susanne K. Clement  Judith M. Nixon 《资料收集管理》2018,43(2):87-88

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Editorial Note     

Judith M. Nixon  Susanne K. Clement 《资料收集管理》2018,43(1):1-2

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Trends in Cultural Journalism     

Annemarie Kersten  Susanne Janssen 《Journalism Practice》2017,11(7):840-856

Various studies report that cultural journalism increasingly focuses on service and entertainment instead of serious arts coverage. The press prioritizes popular culture over traditional high arts to a growing extent. However, this shift in journalistic attention does not necessarily signify a straightforward decline in aesthetic standards, as popular cultural forms like film have developed along the lines of high art principles in the past decades. This article charts trends in American, Dutch, French, and German film journalism between 1955 and 2005. It demonstrates that coverage is typified by a serious aesthetic approach from the 1970s onwards. The principles of art are seen to steer journalists’ attention to an important degree: the review remains the predominant journalistic genre, and newspapers devote more attention to films by prestigious directors than strictly commercial moviemakers. As such, film’s prominence in the press does not seem to indicate a decline in serious cultural journalism but rather a revaluation of a popular cultural form.  相似文献   

Editorial     

Erik de Graaff  Esat Alpay  Jonte Bernhard  Susanne Ihsen  Anette Kolmos 《European Journal of Engineering Education》2012,37(1):1-2

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Interesting times: a short introduction from the new editorial team of Gender and Education     

Carol Taylor  Susanne Gannon  Jayne Osgood  Kathryn Scantlebury 《Gender and education》2016,28(7):821-822

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