Assessing and tracking students’ problem solving performances in anchored learning environments     

Brian A. Bottge  Enrique Rueda  Jung Min Kwon  Timothy Grant  Perry LaRoque 《Educational technology research and development : ETR & D》2009,57(4):529-552

The purpose of this randomized experiment was to compare the performance of high-, average-, and low-achieving middle school students who were assessed with parallel versions of a computer-based test (CBT) or a paper-pencil test (PPT). Tests delivered in interactive, immersive environments like the CBT may have the advantage of providing teachers with diagnostic tools that can lead to instruction tailored to the needs of students at different achievement levels. To test the feasibility of CBT, students were randomly assigned to the CBT or PPT test conditions to measure what they had learned from an instructional method called enhanced anchored math instruction. Both assessment methods showed that students benefited from instruction and differentiated students by achievement status. The navigation maps generated from the CBT revealed that the low-achieving students were able to navigate the test, spent about the same amount of time solving the subproblems as the more advanced students, and made use of the learning scaffolds.

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Keeping their attention: Classroom practices associated with behavioral engagement in first grade mathematics classes in China and the United States   总被引：1，自引：0，他引：1  

Xuezhao Lan  Claire Cameron Ponitz  Kevin F. Miller  Su Li  Kai Cortina  Michelle Perry  Ge Fang 《Early childhood research quarterly》2009,24(2):198-211

This study investigated variation in students’ behavioral engagement across mathematics classes in China and the United States. Student behavioral engagement was examined along with two aspects of the classroom (group size and teacher instructions given about classroom behavior). Video observational data were collected and coded over 1051 time intervals in 35-minute mathematics sessions in Chinese classrooms (n = 8) and comparable American classrooms (n = 7). Latent growth analyses revealed that overall, behavioral engagement declined over time, although the drop-off was dramatically sharper in American classrooms relative to Chinese classrooms. In addition, larger group size and the timing of teacher instructions (given before versus after the behavior) were significantly associated with increased engagement. This study revealed compelling cultural differences as well as patterns in student and teacher behaviors associated with students engaging in on-task behaviors in the classroom. Implications for ways to promote effective classroom behavior are discussed.  相似文献   

A combined social action, mixed methods approach to vocational guidance efficacy research     

Justin C. Perry 《International Journal for Educational and Vocational Guidance》2009,9(2):111-123

This article proposes a social action, mixed methods approach to verifying the efficacy of vocational guidance programs. Research strategies are discussed in the context of how the processes and purposes of efficacy research have been conceptualized and studied in vocational psychology. Examples of how to implement this approach in future efficacy research are provided.  相似文献   

The development, validation, and applicability of The Personnel Evaluation Standards     

Robert L. Linn  Margret Buchmann  Bruce Gould  Thomas Kellaghan  Dal Lawrence  Phil C. Robinson  Perry Zirkel 《Journal of Personnel Evaluation in Education》1989,2(3):199-214

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Outside the Classroom: Researching Literacy With Adult Learners. By Ellayne Fowler and Jane Mace     

Zoe Nikolaidou 《Literacy》2007,41(1):53-54

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Professional skills development in a resource-poor setting: the case of pharmacy in Malawi     

Zoe Lim  C. Anderson  S. McGrath 《International Journal of Educational Development》2012

The dominance of the human capital approach in vocational skills development has been increasingly questioned for being de-humanised and de-contextualised. Contrary to this trend, the discourse in health professional skills development has shown increasing enthusiasm for consolidating this existing paradigm. To debate whether professional skills development should indeed be insulated from such scepticism, this paper examines one strategy adopted by the health professions. Called ‘task shifting’, this strategy involves re-delegating professional tasks to nonprofessional cadres according to a skills-based toolkit. Challenging the context-free approach to using this toolkit, this paper presents ethnographic evidence derived from a case study of pharmacy workforce issues in Malawi. It was found that task shifting was inhibited by a perception barrier about the moral and intellectual superiority of the pharmacists. Pharmacy technicians were judged to be unfit for a professional task because of a perceived lack of professional status, power and ethics. On tracing the origin of the inherent professional prowess assigned to the pharmacists, it was found that professionalism was an ideology borrowed from external sources, inter alia, colonial legacies and global health governance. This study exposes our hidden assumption about an axiomatic transferability of Anglo-American skills development models to a postcolonial, aid-dependent context. This paper therefore suggests redefining this toolkit by bridging health research into dialogue with non-health disciplinary concerns such as postcolonialism and aid-dependence. In conclusion, it argues that professional skills development is context-laden; and in need of a human-centred approach that involves true indigenous participation–challenges not unlike those faced by the vocational skills discourse.  相似文献   

Engaging young students in scientific investigations: prompting for meaningful reflection     

Travis Wilson  Michelle Perry  Carolyn J. Anderson  Dean Grosshandler 《Instructional Science》2012,40(1):19-46

This study examined the verbal prompts a tutor used to promote reflection and young students’ responses to these prompts. Seven children (ages 8–12) participated in 260 min of one-on-one tutoring to learn scientific concepts related to gear movement; the tutor spontaneously provided these students with 763 prompts for reflection. Prompts reliably induced reflection: Students responded verbally 87% of the time. Turn-by-turn discourse analysis revealed seven distinct types of prompts and 11 distinct types of verbal responses. High-level prompts were strongly associated with high-level responses. A log-multiplicative association model with two dimensions (temporality and certainty) represented the relationships between prompt and response types; from this model, odds ratios estimated the strength of association between specific pairs of prompt and response types. Findings are discussed in terms of the effects that reflection may have on students’ developing understanding of scientific concepts.  相似文献   

International trends in health science librarianship: part 1 - the English speaking world     

Browne R  Lasserre K  McTaggart J  Bayley L  McKibbon A  Clark M  Perry GJ  Murphy J 《Health information and libraries journal》2012,29(1):75-80

This is the second in a series of articles exploring international trends in health science librarianship in the first decade of the 21st century. The invited authors were asked to reflect on developments in their country - viz. Australia, Canada, New Zealand and the United States. Future issues will track trends in Northern Europe, the Nordic countries, Southern Europe and Latin America. JM.  相似文献   

TEACHER–STUDENT INTERPERSONAL BEHAVIOR IN SECONDARY MATHEMATICS CLASSES IN INDONESIA     

Ridwan Maulana  Marie-Christine Opdenakker  Perry den Brok  Roel J. Bosker 《International Journal of Science and Mathematics Education》2012,10(1):21-47

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Access to academic curriculum in Australian secondary schools: a case study of a highly marketised education system     

Laura B. Perry  Leonie Southwell 《教育政策杂志》2014,29(4):467-485

This study examines how access to academic curriculum differs between secondary schools in Australia, a country whose education system is marked by high levels of choice, privatisation and competition. Equitable access to academic curriculum is important for both individual students and their families as well as the larger society. Previous research has shown that students from lower socio-economic backgrounds are less likely to study academic curriculum than their more advantaged peers. Less is known, however, about the extent to which this pattern is related to differential provision of curriculum between schools. We found that low socio-economic schools offer students less access to the core academic curriculum subjects that are important for university entry. We also found that the breadth and depth of courses offered is related to school sector (private or public) and socio-economic context. Previous research has shown that choice and competition are inequitable because they frequently increase school social segregation and ‘cream-skimming’. Our findings show another inequitable consequence, namely that choice and competition limit access to high-status academic curriculum in working-class communities.  相似文献