Effect of blended learning and learners’ characteristics on students’ competence: An empirical evidence in learning oriental music     

Chamila Nishanthi Edward  David Asirvatham  Md. Gapar Md. Johar 《Education and Information Technologies》2018,23(6):2587-2606

Blended learning emerged as the most popular instructional design strategy in the field of education since last decade to present date. In fact, it is well acknowledged that blended learning approach significantly elevate students’ engagement and competency in learning process. Despite immense potentiality, many countries are still lag behind adopting this instructional design, such as Sri Lanka. Therefore, the primary aims of this study are two fold, (a) to investigate the effect of blended learning and learners’ characteristics on students’ competence and (b) to investigate the effectiveness of blended learning in teaching Oriental Music. This study mainly carried out among the senior secondary schools students at Colombo, Sri Lanka. A mixed methods, experimental and survey, were carried out to test the effectiveness of blended learning and identifying the important factors for enhancing students’ competence in learning Oriental Music. Results of independent sample t-test confirmed that blended learning is effective in terms of improving students’ performance in learning Oriental Music. Similarly, regression analysis confirmed that attitude and motivation are the two most important determinants for improving students’ competence. This study fulfilled an existing research gap by utilizing blended learning to teach highly traditional abstract art. Results of the study contributes to the curriculum designing field with novel ideas to adapt in hybrid instructions to teach secondary level students effectively. The curriculum designers will make use of these findings during innovation and future researcher would be benefitted to overlook more possible platforms to deliver music instructions. It will help them to understand how their set objectives have been achieved in technology integrations and seek for improvement where necessary.  相似文献   

A dynamic decision model for portfolio investment and assets management     

QIAN Edward Y.  FENG Ying  HIGGISION James 《浙江大学学报(A卷英文版)》2005,6(Z1)

This paper addresses a dynamic portfolio investment problem. It discusses how we can dynamically choose candidate assets, achieve the possible maximum revenue and reduce the risk to the minimum level. The paper generalizes Markowitz's portfolio selection theory and Sharpe's rule for investment decision. An analytical solution is presented to show how an institutional or individual investor can combine Markowitz's portfolio selection theory, generalized Sharpe's rule and Value-at-Risk(VaR) to find candidate assets and optimal level of position sizes for investment (dis-investment). The result shows that the generalized Markowitz's portfolio selection theory and generalized Sharpe's rule improve decision making for investment.  相似文献   

About this issue     

Edward F. Iwanicki 《Educational Assessment, Evaluation and Accountability》1990,3(3):203-203

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Bullying and the Unique Socioemotional Needs of Gifted and Talented Early Adolescents: Veteran Teacher Perspectives and Practices     

William T. Allen Jr. 《Roeper Review》2017,39(4):269-283

Much is written at the elementary school level concerning bullying and the socioemotional needs of gifted and talented (GT) students; however, in the last 10 years, little qualitative research exists concerning the early adolescent GT age group. In the social environment of classroom life, early and current research indicates that many of these students experience neurotic perfectionism, overexciteabilities (OEs), developmental asynchrony, and bullying. The formation of autonomous classes (GT-only classes) has afforded some hope concerning the amelioration of such problems; nevertheless, in this study, detailed evidence of classroom bullying in the form of social ostracism and teasing has been found with this GT age group. If left unchecked, psychological autopsies have shown these students suffering emotional difficulties and even committing suicide as a result of school and classroom torment. With such potential for classroom bullying problems, few studies address what veteran teachers of early adolescent GT students do to keep students psychologically safe. Within the social milieu of classroom life, and in comparison to research standards, this study explores three efficacious teacher perspectives and practices.  相似文献   

Neither naïve nor nihilistic: researching for teacher education     

Leonie Rowan  Parlo Singh  Jeanne Allen 《Asia-Pacific Journal of Teacher Education》2016,44(5):417-420

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Nonlinearity in filmic presentation: Part II,discussion     

Stuart M. Cooney  William H. Allen 《Educational technology research and development : ETR & D》1964,12(3):302-324

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Impact of Repeatedly Failing a High School Exit Exam: Voices of English Language Learners     

Louis J. Kruger  Chieh Li  Edward Kimble  Rachel Ruah  Diana Stoianov  Kalyani Krishnan 《The Urban Review》2016,48(3):463-483

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Preface     

Allen J. Edwards  Editor 《Contemporary educational psychology》1986,11(4)

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Scoring measures of word dictation curriculum‐based measurement in writing: Effects of incremental administration     

Apryl L. Poch  Abigail A. Allen  Erica S. Lembke 《Psychology in the schools》2019,56(5):702-723

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Fighting for Desired Versions of a Future Self: How Young Women Negotiated STEM-Related Identities in the Discursive Landscape of Educational Opportunity     

Carrie D. Allen 《学习科学杂志》2017,26(3):407-436

In this article, we investigate how the national imperative to increase opportunities for young women of color in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) and to broaden their participation was taken up locally at two high schools in one school district. Using ethnographic and longitudinal data, we focus on four young women of color (two at each school) as they negotiated STEM-related identities in the discursive and practice contexts of their lives at school. Using Holland and Lave’s concept of history in person, we view the young women as fighting for particular versions of a future self while entangled in discursive and social relations that threatened to position them differently than they wished to be. We find that their fight for future selves was not—for them—with the national narrative about women of color in STEM but with local school narratives that negatively positioned students of color more broadly and remained silent on issues of gender, the intersection of gender and race, and the implications for STEM. High school success in STEM came as a hopeful but potentially fragile byproduct of struggles to differentiate themselves from people like them (other Blacks, Latinas, the poor). Implications of these findings are discussed.  相似文献