Active relatives and health-related physical fitness in European adolescents: The HELENA Study     

M Martín-Matillas  FB Ortega  JR Ruiz  D Martínez-Gómez  G Vicente-Rodríguez  A Marcos  L Béghin  A Kafatos  M González-Gross  M Zaccaria  D Molnár  S De Henauw  M Sjöström  LA Moreno  MJ Castillo On Behalf Of The Helena Study 《Journal of sports sciences》2012,30(13):1329-1335

Abstract High physical fitness in childhood and adolescence is positively associated with favourable health-related outcomes. Our aim was to examine the relationship between relatives' (father, mother, brother, sister, and best friend) physical activity engagement and encouragement on adolescents' physical fitness. Adolescents were part of the HELENA study, a multi-centre study conducted in 10 cities from nine European countries in 2006-2008. Participants were 3288 adolescents (48% boys, 52% girls) aged 12.5-17.5 years with valid data on at least one of the three fitness variables studied: muscular strength (standing long jump), speed/agility (4×10 m shuttle run), and cardiorespiratory fitness (20 m shuttle run). The adolescents reported their relatives' physical activity engagement and encouragement. Analysis of covariance showed that relatives' physical activity engagement (father, mother, brother, and best friend) was positively related to cardiorespiratory fitness (P?相似文献   

E-government and citizen's engagement with local affairs through e-websites: The case of Spanish municipalities     

Juan-Gabriel Cegarra-Navarro  José Rodrigo Córdoba Pachón  José Luis Moreno Cegarra 《International Journal of Information Management》2012

As a mixture of new technologies, processes and services oriented to the citizen, e-government has become one of the most important keywords for the public sector reform with proponents claiming that it guarantees transparency, accountability and better communication between local and national administrations and their public. Few if any studies have investigated the factors that might contribute to the establishment of trusting relationship between city councils and citizens. This paper examines the relative importance and significance of three types of information communication technologies (ICTs) towards the use of e-government and the development of civic engagement. We conduct an empirical investigation of 179 Spanish official town websites (web sites in the municipalities). The research findings suggest that implementing ICT not only involves a step towards an increase in the use of e-government services by people, but also provides numerous opportunities for their civic engagement. The main conclusion of this study is that although ICT can leverage the adoption of e-government, it cannot create alone engagement with traditional activities of the local government. What is missing from this relationship is a mediating variable (adoption of e-government by government officers), which in turn can greatly help to better understand how ICT impacts relationships between governments and their citizens.  相似文献   

Are determining factors of municipal E-government common to a worldwide municipal view? An intra-country comparison     

Isabel Gallego-Álvarez  Luis Rodríguez-Domínguez  Isabel-María García-Sánchez 《Government Information Quarterly》2010

The implementation of E-government aims at simplifying and improving the transactions between public administrations and their users or customers. The objective of this study is to analyze whether the factors behind the level of development of E-government among municipalities of a specific country are common to the improvement of digital administration in the largest municipalities from 81 countries worldwide. While previous studies provide evidence that municipalities from the same country, mainly those governed by left-wing parties, focus on differentiating themselves in the content of their Web sites, our findings emphasize that internationally, in the most important municipalities worldwide, all the political parties attempt to promote the development of a dynamic and participatory E-government.  相似文献   

Differences between web sessions according to the origin of their visits     

José Luis Ortega  Isidro Aguillo 《Journal of Informetrics》2010,4(3):331-337

The aim of this paper is to characterize the distribution of number of hits and spent time by web session. It also expects to find if there are significant differences between the length and the duration of a session with regard to the point of access–search engine, link or root. Web usage mining was used to analyse 17,174 web sessions that were identified from the webometrics.info web site. Results show that both distribution of length and duration follow an exponential decay. Significant differences between the different origins of the visits were also found, being the search engines’ users those who spent most time and did more clicks in their sessions. We conclude that a good SEO policy would be justified, because search engines are the principal intermediaries to this web site.  相似文献   

Training and psychosocial patterns during the early development of Portuguese national team athletes     

André Barreiros  Jean Côté  António Manuel Fonseca 《High Ability Studies》2013,24(1):49-61

This study explored the early development of expert athletes compared to a group of athletes that did not achieve an expert level of performance despite being involved in youth events with their national squads. In particular, the activities, training patterns, and psychosocial influences that characterized their paths in competitive sports were examined. Male and female participants (N?=?42) from different sports were interviewed. Overall, athletes showed several commonalities. However, experts were selected to national squads later and also started thinking about investing in becoming elite athletes later. Non-experts revealed more parental pressure and less individual training with coaches.  相似文献   

Mentoring Matters: An Exploratory Survey of Educational Leadership Doctoral Students’ Perspectives     

Anjalé D. Welton  Katherine Cumings Mansfield  Pei-Ling Lee 《Mentoring & Tutoring: Partnership in Learning》2013,21(5):481-509

There is limited research on quantitative differences between men and women’s experiences in doctoral programs. We aim to fill that gap by sharing findings from a web-based exploratory survey of perceived gender differences on quality mentoring in educational leadership doctoral programs. According to survey results, there is limited statistical significance in terms of gender differences in programmatic supports and scholarly progress. However, women experience feelings of self-doubt due to negative experiences with advising and mentoring, including difficulties making connections to a quality mentor. Furthermore, both female and male participants shared common definitions of what constitutes quality mentorship and believed mentorship was important, but lacking in varying degrees. Finally, all participants agreed that their educational leadership preparation programs should provide additional support in terms of writing and research development. Participants also shared important recommendations for strengthening mentoring experiences as well as future research methods and foci.  相似文献   

Effects of a Cooperative Learning Program on the Elaborations of Students Working in Dyads     

Karen Krol  Jeroen Janssen  Simon Veenman  Jos van der Linden 《Educational Research and Evaluation》2013,19(3):205-237

In this study, the effects of a school improvement program on cooperative learning (CL) with respect to the elaborations of 6th-grade students working in mixed-ability and mixed-sex dyads on 2 cooperative tasks were examined. A posttest-only design with a control group was used to investigate the provision and receipt of elaborations within the dyads and the performance of the dyads working on cooperative mathematics and language tasks. Treatment dyads were found to exchange significantly more high-level elaborations during the language task than the control dyads. The treatment dyads also tended to produce higher performance scores on the 2 tasks.  相似文献   

Responsive Instruction for Young Children: A Study of how teachers can help easily distracted children become more attentive     

Jos H. M. Castelijns 《Emotional and Behavioural Difficulties》2013,18(1):22-33

In a research and development project called ‘orthopedagogisch project Afstemming’, conducted at the Utrecht University, a programme for teachers in kindergarten is designed and evaluated. It's goal is enhancing children's motivation and attention for work and play by means of responsive Instruction.  相似文献   

Learning by starch potato growers: learning in small businesses with no employees     

Niels R. Faber  Laura Maruster  René J. Jorna  Rob J.F. van Haren 《Educational Research and Evaluation》2013,19(6):519-539

In small businesses with no employees, learning environments have a low learning readiness. Consequently, learners need to rely on their own agency to shape their learning experiences. Results from a study of agricultural entrepreneurs indicated that the components of motivation and self-regulated learning strategies shape learner's agency and explain learning environment configuration in small businesses with no employees. Configuration of the learning environment was found to be a weak determinant of the learning performance of these learners. However, results showed that prior performance of learners in small businesses with no employees dictates how their agency operates and what learning effect is achieved; higher prior performance results in higher learning effects. We conclude that mechanisms that underlie learning in traditional learning environments work similarly in learning environments in small businesses with no employees.  相似文献   

Orthography and the development of metalinguistic reflection in Portuguese primary school pupils / Ortografía y desarrollo de la reflexión metalingüística en alumnos portugueses en primaria     

Otília C. Sousa  José-António Costa  Marie Nadeau 《Cultura y Educación》2013,25(4):868-878

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Linguistic awareness is crucial in learning literacy. This project has a two-fold aim: to develop the students’ ability to think about language in order to write with accuracy and to lead teachers to promote students’ discussions about their writing difficulties. The study is part of a two-year action-research project developed in primary schools from the Lisbon area, with experimental and control groups. The starting point of the project was the analysis of the problems students of third and fourth grades showed in their writing. The scope of the project includes dictation tasks within an interactionist approach, favouring grammatical discussions leading to the observation and manipulation of linguistic data.  相似文献