System-Level Evaluation: Language and Other Background Factors Affecting Mathematics Achievement   总被引：1，自引：0，他引：1  

Sarah Howie 《Prospects》2005,35(2):175-186

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The Relationship between Children's Emotional and Behavioral Problems and the Social Responses of Elementary School Teachers     

Pace TM  Mullins LL  Beesley D  Hill JS  Carson K 《Contemporary educational psychology》1999,24(2):140-155

This study examined the relationship between children's emotional and behavioral problems and teachers' social responding. Elementary school students completed the Children's Depression Inventory and a parent completed the Child Behavior Checklist. Teachers rated children on measures of interpersonal attractiveness and personal rejection. Teachers' ratings of student interpersonal attractiveness were significantly correlated with the level of student depression, internalizing problems, externalizing problems, and overall psychopathology. However, teachers' ratings of personal rejection toward students only correlated with externalizing behavior problems. Family income was also related to child adjustment and teacher ratings. Externalizing behavior problems best predicted both lower interpersonal attractiveness and increased personal rejection, even after controlling for family income. Copyright 1999 Academic Press.  相似文献   

Teaching Cultural History from Primary Events     

Robert N. Carson 《Science & Education》2004,13(7-8):797-809

This article explores the relationship between specific cultural events such as Galileo’s work with the pendulum and a curriculum design that seeks to establish in skeletal form a comprehensive epic narrative about the co-evolution of cultural systems and human consciousness. The article explores some of the challenges and some of the strategies needed to represent complex primary events in the concise, viscerally immediate form necessary to make this curriculum offering practical.  相似文献   

Mathematical literacy of school leaving pupils in South Africa     

S. Howie  T. Plomp   《International Journal of Educational Development》2002,22(6)

This paper discusses some results of South African (SA) grade 12 pupils on an international test of mathematical literacy, administered in the framework of the Third International Mathematics and Science Study (TIMSS) under the auspices of the International Association for the Evaluation of Educational Achievement (IEA). Three questions are addressed: (1) What are the strengths and weaknesses of SA school-leavers in mathematical reasoning and social utility from an international comparative perspective?: (2) What is the growth of SA pupils' mathematical literacy from grade 8 to 12? (3) What are the background variables that influence the level of mathematical literacy of SA school-leavers? Finally some implications of the results for SA education will be discussed.  相似文献   

Integrative Public Health-Aligned Physical Education and Implications for the Professional Preparation of Future Teachers and Teacher Educators/Researchers in the Field     

Collin Andrew Webster  David F. Stodden  Russell L. Carson  Catherine Egan  Danielle Nesbitt 《Quest (Human Kinetics)》2016,68(4):457-474

ABSTRACT

This article has two purposes: (a) to consider existing platforms and future possibilities in the United States for what the authors refer to as Integrative Public Health-Aligned Physical Education (IPHPE), which integrates standards-based K–12 physical education with a public health agenda focusing on promoting increased physical activity and fitness, and (b) to consider the implications of IPHPE for the preparation of future physical education teachers and teacher educators/researchers. First, the historical context that has nurtured the development of ideologies that inform IPHPE is summarized. Second, examples of these ideologies in terms of their current and prospective contributions to IPHPE perspectives are discussed. Third, building from existing public health-aligned recommendations for pre-service physical education teacher education (PETE) programs, IPHPE-based professional preparation requirements for future physical education teachers are considered. Finally, the focus shifts to doctoral PETE (D-PETE) programming and professional preparation requirements for future physical education teacher educators/researchers from an IPHPE perspective. The overall intention of this article is to propose a way forward for physical education which bridges educational priorities of the profession to contemporary and relevant public health needs.  相似文献   

An Online Course to Prepare Preservice Teachers to Promote Movement Integration     

Robert Michael  Collin A. Webster  Lynda Nilges  Ali Brian  Robert Johnson  Russell Carson 《The American journal of distance education》2019,33(1):59-70

Previous research has not explored the potential of distance learning to prepare preservice teachers (PCTs) for promoting children’s physical activity. The purpose of this study was to (a) examine the perceptions and experiences of PCTs, inservice classroom teachers, university instructors, and elementary students who were involved in a semester-long distance delivery course that included a service-learning (SL) component with an emphasis on classroom movement integration (MI). Using a qualitative single case study design, interviews, observations, and artifacts (e.g. PCTs’ reflections and academic work) were thematically analyzed. Findings produced three themes including student-centered approach, benefit/importance of physical activity, and connect and reflect. These themes showed that participants’ perceptions and experiences support constructivist-guided SL using a distance delivery design. This study adds to the emerging research base on school-university partnerships to support schools in the implementation of comprehensive school physical activity programming.  相似文献   

Transmission characteristics of the submarine cable     

John R. Carson  J.J. Gilbert 《Journal of The Franklin Institute》1921,192(6):705-735

Evidence has been assembled to show that any deformable body moving in a fluid or immersed in a moving fluid will assume a shape that is as nearly as is possible “stream-line.”Illustrations of this principle of “stream-line” assumption are taken from geology, meteorology, physics, and biology.The adjustment of organisms in accordance with this principle is very similar to the adjustment by organisms to directed light (heliotropism) and to gravity (geotropism). Accordingly a term is suggested for defining this adjustment, vis., rheotropism.  相似文献   

A Laboratory-intensive Course on RNA Interference and Model Organisms     

Joanna A. Miller  D. Scott Witherow  Susan Carson 《CBE life sciences education》2009,8(4):316-325

RNA interference (RNAi) is a powerful method to silence gene expression in a variety of organisms and is generating interest not only as a useful tool for research scientists but also as a novel class of therapeutics in clinical trials. Here, we report that undergraduate and graduate students with a basic molecular biology background were able to demonstrate conceptual knowledge and technical skills for using RNAi as a research tool upon completion of an intensive 8-wk RNAi course with a 2-h lecture and 5-h laboratory per week. Students were instructed on design of RNAi experiments in model organisms and perform multiweek laboratory sessions based on journal articles read and discussed in class. Using Nicotiana benthamiana, Caenorhabditis elegans, and mammalian cell culture, students analyzed the extent of silencing using both qualitative assessment of phenotypic variations and quantitative measurements of RNA levels or protein levels. We evaluated the course over two semesters, each with a separate instructor. In both semesters, we show students met expected learning outcomes as demonstrated by successful laboratory experiment results, as well as positive instructor assessments of exams and lab reports. Student self-assessments revealed increased confidence in conceptual knowledge and practical skills. Our data also suggest that the course is adaptable to different instructors with varying expertise.  相似文献   

“We’re Here to Learn to Speak French”: An Exploration of World Language Teachers’ Beliefs About Students and Teaching     

Hannah Carson Baggett 《Educational Studies A Journal of the American Educational Studies Association》2013,49(6):641-667

The purpose of this qualitative study was to explore five world language teachers’ beliefs about their students, their attributions about student enrollment, and their reported teaching practices. Findings represent a continuum of critical practice in that three teachers appeared to espouse deficit thinking and stereotypes about students of color, and color-evasiveness or colorblindness as an approach to teaching. Two teachers appeared to espouse beliefs that may be more representative of inclusive classrooms, and these teachers reported advocacy work for certain student groups and efforts to develop students’ critical consciousness in their classrooms. Findings are contextualized via critical lenses, and implications for language teacher education and policy are discussed.  相似文献   

Organizing for survival and social change: The case of streetwise     

Lynn M. Harter  Autumn Edwards  Andrea McClanahan  Mark C. Hopson  Evelyn Carson‐Stern 《Communication Studies》2013,64(2):407-424

This study explores how members of StreetWise organize for survival and social change. Through the publication of a street journal by the same name, StreetWise provides employment opportunities for men and women without homes. Using feminist principles of organizing as a backdrop, we highlight the discursive moves that (1) reinforce StreetWise's standpoint as counter to the practices and structures of the dominant culture, and (2) provide alternative ways of thinking about issues of poverty and homelessness. We highlight tensions that emerge between the dialectic of survival and social change, and in so doing position StreetWise as an “alternative discourse community” that develops counterdiscourses amidst cultural and material constraints. We work toward locating how members negotiate organizational irrationalities through moral deliberation.  相似文献