Perceptions of two television cartoons: Powerpuff girls and Johnny Bravo     

Shirley Matile Ogletree  Brad Mason  Tammy Grahmann  Paul Raffeld 《Communication Research Reports》2013,30(3):307-313

“Powerpuff Girls” (PPG) and “Johnny Bravo” (JB) are two recent additions to cartoon programming on the Cartoon Network. In Study 1 over three‐fourths of 187 elementary school children indicated that they had watched JB and PPG. These children perceived PPG to be significantly more aggressive than JB. In Study 2 two trained, independent raters scored JB, compared to PPG, as more likely to make appearance‐enhancing actions and more likely to use come‐ons while the PPG were more aggressive and more likely to giggle/laugh. Johnny was more likely to be the recipient of aggressive behaviors, rather than be aggressive himself.  相似文献   

Conversations among Coal Miners in a Campaign to Promote Hearing Protection     

Michael T. Stephenson  Brian L. Quick  Kim Witte  Charles Vaught  Steve Booth-Butterfield  Dhaval Patel 《Journal of Applied Communication Research》2013,41(3):317-337

Although working in a coal mine can diminish one's hearing capabilities by 50%, not until 2000 did federal laws require companies to establish noise standards in order to help prevent hearing loss among their employees. Since then, researchers have worked with safety administrators to develop effective messages promoting hearing protection and testing. This research assessed the effects of campaign messages on discussing campaign postcards and talking with others about a helmet-sticker incentive. The results, which are discussed with a focus on future campaigns, indicate that hearing-related attitudes, intentions, and behaviors are the most influenced by messages that were affectively neutral and least influenced by messages that were affectively negative.  相似文献   

Demonstrating Value in Federal Medical Center Libraries     

Mary Virginia Taylor  Priscilla L. Stephenson 《Medical reference services quarterly》2013,32(4):403-412

Abstract

Librarians in the federal sector, like librarians in other medical center libraries, increasingly find it necessary to prove their worth to administrators of their facilities in order to keep their libraries open. The Federal Libraries Section of the Medical Library Association developed a survey for use by federal librarians to help them quantify the value of library reference services provided. Using this survey, these librarians gathered statistics to show the library’s effect on patient care, education, and administrative questions.  相似文献   

The use of Vidicon cameras in teaching TV     

Jim Bob Stephenson  Edward Stasheff 《广播与电子媒介杂志》2013,57(3):247-252

There is, little doubt that most library collections on broadcasting history are incomplete, a condition that manifests itself in incomplete (or even incorrect) documentation in many student papers and even professionally written books. The following list is, as its compilers point out, a selective one. It is hoped that readers of the Journal will transmit to the Editor any citations they feel should not have been omitted. (The editor, inordinately proud of his personal library that includes 88 of the 149 entries below, has already slipped in a handful of additional items.)  相似文献   

On a binomial test of model fit     

Zvi Drezner  Tammy Drezner 《Structural equation modeling》2013,20(2):144-145

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From the (Academic) middle to the top: an evaluation of the AVID/TOPS college access program     

Tammy Kolbe  Peter Kinsley  Rachel Carly Feldman  Sara Goldrick-Rab 《Journal of Education for Students Placed at Risk》2013,18(4):304-335

Abstract

Despite overall increases in college-going, college enrollment rates remain inequitable. Many programs attempt to address these persistent racial/ethnic and social class disparities in college attendance by intervening in the high school curriculum. Advancement Via Individual Determination (AVID) is among the longest standing and prevalent of these college access programs. In this paper, we present findings from a multi-year evaluation and cost analysis of the AVID/TOPS program – an enhanced AVID model – in place in Madison Metropolitan School District (Wisconsin). Taken together, the evaluation’s findings characterize AVID/TOPS as a promising program model that is associated with an increased likelihood for college readiness and matriculation, particularly for student groups underrepresented in higher education. We also report on the resources and costs required to implement the program, and show that the program’s benefits appear to exceed its costs.  相似文献   

Rapid Naming Components and Their Relationship With Phonological Awareness,Orthographic Knowledge,Speed of Processing,and Different Reading Outcomes     

George K. Georgiou  Rauno Parrila  John R. Kirby  Kathy Stephenson 《Scientific Studies of Reading》2013,17(4):325-350

This study examines (a) how rapid automatized naming (RAN) speed components—articulation time and pause time—predict reading accuracy and reading fluency in Grades 2 and 3, and (b) how RAN components are related to measures of phonological awareness, orthographic knowledge, and speed of processing. Forty-eight children were administered RAN tasks in Grades 1, 2, and 3. Results indicated that pause time was highly correlated with both reading accuracy and reading fluency measures and shared more of its predictive variance with orthographic knowledge than with phonological awareness or speed of processing. In contrast, articulation time was only weakly correlated with the reading measures and was rather independent from any processing skill at any point of measurement.  相似文献   

为什么要结交这样的人     

Alison Stephenson 《高中生》2013,(22):9

很多人的朋友都拥有独特的魅力,有的风趣幽默,有的得体大方,有的正直诚实,有的才华出众。可你知道你为什么要结交这样的人吗?所谓良师益友,有哪几类朋友是你必须拥有的?  相似文献   

Building community capacity and social infrastructure through landcare: a case study of land grant engagement     

Courtney E. Kimmel  R. Bruce Hull  Max O. Stephenson  David P. Robertson  Kimberly H. Cowgill 《Higher Education》2012,64(2):223-235

In the struggle to remain true to their technical assistance and civic engagement missions in an era of shrinking budgets and increasingly complex accountability claims, land grant universities have developed different engagement strategies to contribute to the development of surrounding communities. Drawing on Flora and Flora’s (in Ann Am Acad Polit Soc Sci, 48, 1993) assertion that a strong and “entrepreneurial” social infrastructure is critical for facilitating lasting change and development in communities (particularly rural communities), this article presents a case study of a land grant university’s engagement with a community landcare group from the perspective of building social capacity in surrounding communities. This case explores Virginia Tech’s involvement in facilitating and supporting Catawba Landcare using three theoretical frames—Ronald Heifetz’s concept of “holding environments” as a safe and facilitated space where social learning can occur; ecological and social entrepreneurship and the roles and functions required to support these forms of entrepreneurship; and the concept of learning action networks in which otherwise disparate partners are linked under common goals and collectively learn how to manage the situation at hand. Using these three theoretical frames, this paper posits landcare as a model of engagement for land grant universities thus contributing to the construction of social infrastructure.  相似文献   

Exploring Australian pre-service teachers sense of efficacy,its sources,and some possible influences     

Sue O’Neill  Jennifer Stephenson 《Teaching and Teacher Education》2012

Beginning teachers that posses a good sense of efficacy are less likely to suffer stress, burnout, or attrition. This study reports final-year Australian pre-service primary teachers sense of efficacy scores and the sources of information that contributed to it. Results showed that our beginning teachers had a good sense of efficacy, and classroom management was not differentiated from instructional or engagement efficacy. Further, personal qualities and physiological and affective states predicted self-efficacy scores, and having a number of opportunities to practice behaviour management skills was associated with a higher sense of efficacy. Implications for teacher education are discussed.  相似文献