Investing in high quality preschool: lessons from an urban setting     

Rebekah L. Dorman  Elizabeth Anthony  Billie Osborne-Fears  Robert L. Fischer 《Early Years: An International Journal of Research and Development》2017,37(1):91-107

Abstract

Large numbers of children of low income families in the United States arrive at kindergarten already far behind their more affluent peers on measures of school readiness. In the absence of any federal preschool policy and amidst alarm about this growing divide, universal prekindergarten (UPK) programs have been launched around the United States, at both the state and local levels, to address the school readiness gap. Invest in Children, a public/private partnership in Cuyahoga County (Cleveland, OH) launched a UPK program of high quality, affordable preschool nine years ago. The program’s creation, implementation and challenges are discussed along with evaluation findings that document its positive impact on school readiness. Lessons learned are discussed in terms of the impact of political and economic shifts, as well as state policy changes, on this local program. The program’s planned expansion and enhancements to program design and evaluation are also described.  相似文献   

Intergenerational activities     

McDuffie  Winifred  Buemi  Helen  Patch  Eileen  Nash  Pat  Brown  Sonja 《Early Childhood Education Journal》1983,11(2):9-15

Early Childhood Education Journal - How can we prepare the young children of today for the future, when 20 percent of all Americans will be old? Education about the process of human aging can help...  相似文献   

Understandings and misunderstandings of eighth graders of four physics concepts found in textbooks     

John W. Renner  Michael R. Abraham  Eileen Bross Grzybowski  Edmund A. Marek 《科学教学研究杂志》1990,27(1):35-54

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Book reviews     

Michael Macdonald-Ross  Eileen Scanlon  David Hawkridge 《Instructional Science》1981,10(1):101-104

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The Presence of An-Other: The Prescience of Racism in Post-Modern Times   总被引：1，自引：0，他引：1  

Ruth Eileen Arber 《Journal of Educational Change》2003,4(3):249-268

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Nonlongitudinal Estimation of Growth Curve Parameters: The Cohort Growth Model     

Kevin A. Fischer  Andreas G. Klein  Jost Reinecke 《Structural equation modeling》2019,26(3):402-417

The cohort growth model (CGM) is a method for estimating the parameters of a latent growth model (LGM) based on cross-sectional data. The CGM models the interindividual differences in the growth rate, and it models how subjects’ growth rate is related to their initial status. We derive model identification for the CGM and illustrate, in a simulation study, that the CGM provides unbiased parameter estimates in most simulation conditions. Based on empirical data we compare the estimates of the CGM with the estimates of the LGM. The results were comparable for both models. Although the estimates of the (co)-variances were different, the estimates of both models led to similar conclusions on the developmental change. Finally, we discuss the advantages and limitations of the CGM, and we provide recommendations for its use in empirical research.  相似文献   

Perceptions of diverse educators regarding ethnic-minority deaf college students, role models, and diversity     

Parasnis I  Fischer SD 《American annals of the deaf》2005,150(4):343-349

IN A QUALITATIVE STUDY, the researchers documented the perceptions of deaf and hearing ethnically diverse university faculty and staff regarding issues related to the education of ethnic-minority deaf college students. These experienced educators commented on the importance of ethnic-minority role models for deaf college students, the academic preparedness of ethnic-minority deaf students, these students' level of comfort on campus, and the success of institutional efforts to increase awareness regarding ethnic diversity. The insightful reflections of these diverse educators can be informative in improving the educational experience of ethnic-minority deaf students.  相似文献   

General experiences + race + racism = Work lives of Black faculty in postsecondary science education     

Eileen R. C. Parsons  Domonique L. Bulls  Tonjua B. Freeman  Malcolm B. Butler  Mary M. Atwater 《Cultural Studies of Science Education》2018,13(2):371-394

Existent research indicates that postsecondary Black faculty members, who are sorely underrepresented in the academy especially in STEM fields, assume essential roles; chief among these roles is diversifying higher education. Their recruitment and retention become more challenging in light of research findings on work life for postsecondary faculty. Research has shown that postsecondary faculty members in general have become increasingly stressed and job satisfaction has declined with dissatisfaction with endeavors and work overload cited as major stressors. In addition to the stresses managed by higher education faculty at large, Black faculty must navigate diversity-related challenges. Illuminating and understanding their experiences can be instrumental in lessening stress and job dissatisfaction, outcomes that facilitate recruitment and retention. This study featured the experiences and perceptions of Black faculty in science education. This study, framed by critical race theory, examines two questions: What characterizes the work life of some Black faculty members who teach, research, and serve in science education? How are race and racism present in the experiences of these postsecondary Black faculty members? A phenomenological approach to the study situates the experiences of the Black participants as valid phenomena worthy of investigation, illuminates their experiences, and seeks to retain the authenticity of their voices.  相似文献   

Worked examples with errors: when self-explanation prompts hinder learning of teachers diagnostic competences on problem-based learning     

Nicole Heitzmann  Frank Fischer  Martin R. Fischer 《Instructional Science》2018,46(2):245-271

To diagnose classroom situations is crucial for teachers’ everyday practice. The approach of worked examples with errors seems promising to support the diagnosis of classroom situations in student teachers (Stark et al. in Learn Instr 21(1):22–33, 2011). To enhance that approach, error-explanation prompts and an adaptable feedback method to help the learner realize why an error happened and how to prevent a recurrence might be beneficial. In this empirical study, we investigated whether error-explanation prompts and adaptable feedback can facilitate diagnostic competences. N = 108 student teachers took part in a 2 × 2 factorial design (with and without error-explanation prompts as well as with and without adaptable feedback). Error-explanation prompts had a positive effect on declarative-conceptual knowledge if combined with adaptable feedback. Student teachers might have realized a lack of basic concepts and focused their attention on the declarative-conceptual knowledge in the feedback. Contrary to our expectations, however, error-explanation prompts hindered rather than facilitated learning of practical diagnostic knowledge.  相似文献   

Bias hypotheses under scrutiny: investigating the validity of student assessment of university teaching by means of external observer ratings     

Elisabeth Fischer  Martin Hänze 《Assessment & Evaluation in Higher Education》2019,44(5):772-786

To advance the discussion on the validity of student evaluations of university teaching, student ratings of two teaching dimensions – student involvement and rapport – were compared with corresponding observer ratings. Seven potential bias variables were tested with regard to their impact on the students’ teaching assessment: three teacher characteristics (first impression, enthusiasm, humour) and four student characteristics (prior interest, expected grades, study experience, class attendance). Bias was defined as an impediment of the students’ assessment of teaching on course level. By means of bivariate correlations with course averages and two-level latent moderated structural equations, data of 1,716 students in 80 courses were analysed. Results showed that all three teacher characteristics were genuinely connected to rapport, and even explained variance of the student-rated variable when controlling for observer-rated rapport. The assessment of student involvement was not modified by the teacher characteristics except for teacher enthusiasm, which affected the student evaluation when controlling for observed involvement and, moreover, moderated the relation between the observed and the student-rated variable. For the examined student characteristics, no biasing effects were found – neither on rapport nor on student involvement.  相似文献