Instrument adaptation in cross-cultural studies of students’ mathematics-related beliefs: learning from healthcare research     

Paul Andrews  Jose Diego-Mantecón 《Compare》2015,45(4):545-567

Much comparative research into education-related beliefs has exploited questionnaires developed in one culture for use in another. This has been particularly the case in mathematics education, the focus of this paper. In so doing, researchers have tended to assume that translation alone is sufficient to warrant a reliable and valid instrument for cross-cultural research, prompting concerns that a number of necessary equivalences are unlikely to have been addressed. In this paper, we consider the nature of these equivalences before examining the literature of a different field, healthcare research, to synthesise an approach to instrument adaptation that is pragmatic but rigorous. Finally, we demonstrate how this pragmatic approach, incorporating extensive cognitive interviews, enabled us to adapt and refine a mathematics-related beliefs questionnaire, developed in Flanders, for use with students aged 14–15 in England and Spain. Analyses indicate that the instrument so developed is multidimensional, reliable and cross-culturally valid. Some implications are discussed.  相似文献   

Reading difficulties and attention‐deficit/hyperactivity behaviours: evidence of an early association in a nonclinical sample          下载免费PDF全文

Chiara Luoni  Umberto Balottin  Maria Zaccagnino  Laura Brembilla  Giulia Livetti  Cristiano Termine 《Journal of Research in Reading》2015,38(1):73-90

Attention‐deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) often co‐occurs with reading disability. A cross‐sectional study in an Italian‐speaking, nonclinical sample was conducted in an attempt to document the existence of an early association between reading difficulties (RD) and ADHD behaviours. We recruited a sample of 369 children in their first year at primary school. Of the sample, 8.4% displayed RD; 7.0% had ADHD; 3.5% presented both RD and ADHD behaviours; 50% of the children with ADHD displayed RD; 41.9% of those with RD displayed ADHD behaviours. Low socioeconomic status was associated with a fourfold increased probability of displaying RD (odds ratio = 3.98), but not ADHD behaviours. In this nonclinical sample, we detected an early association between ADHD behaviours and RD. A key role in this association may be played by inattention symptoms, which occurred with significantly increased frequency also in the group presenting only RD.  相似文献   

Fostering Social and Emotional Skills for Well-Being and Social Progress     

Koji Miyamoto  Maria C. Huerta  Katarzyna Kubacka 《European Journal of Education》2015,50(2):147-159

Children need a balanced set of cognitive, social and emotional capabilities to adapt to today's demanding, changing and unpredictable world. OECD countries and partner economies recognise the importance on the holistic development of individuals. However, there are big gaps between stakeholders' knowledge, expectations and practices on how to foster such skills. This paper presents evidence on the importance of social and emotional skills; on how policy makers and schools are currently enhancing and monitoring such skills; and, on the existing gaps between knowledge, expectations and practices to mobilise these skills. The paper concludes by pointing ways in which education stakeholders can do more to better develop and mobilise the skills that drive individual's well-being and social progress. The paper draws on findings and frameworks that are being published in a full OECD report entitled ‘Skills for Social Progress: the Power of Social and Emotional Skills’ in the first half of 2015.  相似文献   

A structure‐agency perspective on young children's engagement in school science: Carlos's performance and narrative     

Maria Varelas  Eli Tucker‐Raymond  Kimberly Richards 《科学教学研究杂志》2015,52(4):516-529

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Fostering structurally transformative teacher agency through science professional development          下载免费PDF全文

Maria S. Rivera Maulucci  Jennie S. Brotman  Shoshana Sprague Fain 《科学教学研究杂志》2015,52(4):545-559

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Empowering visuo-spatial ability in primary school: results from a follow-up study     

Maria Chiara Fastame  Daniela Callai 《Educational Psychology in Practice》2015,31(1):86-98

The current study was primarily aimed at verifying the effect of a combined computer-assisted and pencil-and-paper training that was developed to empower visuo-spatial abilities in primary school pupils. One hundred and twenty third grade (mean average: eight years old) and fourth grade (mean age: nine years old) students attending several Italian primary schools were presented with several tests of the Primary Mental Abilities (PMA) battery by Thurstone and Thurstone. Of these, 64 children underwent the training “Recovery in visuo-spatial abilities” developed by Fastame and Antonini for 15 weekly sessions. The remaining students were assigned to the control group. Post-test scores and a follow-up assessment after six months by the end of the training highlight the positive impact of the intervention in enhancing visuo-spatial abilities.  相似文献   

‘Not everything that the bourgeois world created is bad’: aesthetics and politics in women workers' education     

Maria Tamboukou 《Discourse: Studies in the Cultural Politics of Education》2015,36(3):424-436

In this paper, I look into the papers of Fannia Cohn, an immigrant labour organizer, who served the Education Department of the International Ladies' Garment Workers' Union (ILGWU) between 1918 and 1962 and became one of its few women vice-presidents. As an internationally recognized figure in the history of workers' education, Cohn left a rich body of labour literature, wherein art is central in the ways she conceptualized, designed and organized women workers' educational programmes and curricula, as well as cultural activities for more than 50 years. For Cohn, however, art and politics were tightly interwoven in what I have called the artpolitics assemblage of women garment workers' life and work. It is entanglements between ethics, aesthetics and politics, considered in the light of the Rancièrian notion of ‘the distribution of the sensible’, that I discuss in this paper.  相似文献   

Greed and Rapacity in Twilight and Vampire Academy: Kleinian Models of Maturation for Young Adult Readers     

Thury  Eva Maria 《Children‘s Literature in Education》2022,53(2):273-289

Children's Literature in Education - This paper considers the Twilight novels alongside the Vampire Academy books, as young adult readers regularly invoke these series as touchstones...  相似文献   

A Model-Based Inquiry Sequence as a Heuristic to Evaluate Students’ Emotional,Behavioural, and Cognitive Engagement     

Jimenez-Liso  M. Rut  Bellocchi  Alberto  Martinez-Chico  Maria  Lopez-Gay  Rafael 《Research in Science Education》2022,52(4):1313-1334

Research in Science Education - In this study we address the need to promote student engagement with school science and the need to measure a more comprehensive conception of engagement considering...  相似文献   

Youth and Children's Orchestras: Analysis of the Educational Experience and Some Reflections from the Field of Lifelong Guidance and Counseling     

Valenzuela  Viviana  Aisenson  Gabriela  Duarte  Maria Eduarda 《International Journal for Educational and Vocational Guidance》2022,22(3):689-711

International Journal for Educational and Vocational Guidance - This article presents results of a study examining the experience of a group of socially vulnerable teenagers integrated into a...  相似文献