The use and value of Bernstein’s work in studying (in)equalities in undergraduate social science education     

Monica McLean  Andrea Abbas  Paul Ashwin 《British Journal of Sociology of Education》2013,34(2):262-280

This paper illustrates how critical use of Basil Bernstein's theory illuminates the mechanisms by which university knowledge, curriculum and pedagogy both reproduce and interrupt social inequalities. To this end, empirical examples are selected from the findings of the ESRC-funded project ‘Pedagogic Quality and Inequality in University First Degrees' (RES-062-23-1438, November 2008–January 2012). The project investigated sociology-related social science degrees in four social science departments in universities in different positions in influential UK higher education league tables. A Bernsteinian lens throws fresh light on how university education might contribute to a more egalitarian society.  相似文献   

Measuring Successful Aging in Southern Black Older Adults     

Meredith Troutman  Mary A. Nies  Monica Bentley 《Educational gerontology》2013,39(1):38-50

With the growing size of the population of aging Black individuals, it is important to understand successful aging in this group. This study, therefore, piloted the Successful Aging Inventory (SAI) with a convenience sample of Black older adults. Participants completed a demographic form, the SAI, Purpose in Life Test, Life Satisfaction Inventory-A, Mastery Scale, and Center for Epidemiologic Studies Depression Scale. Internal reliability and convergent and discriminant validity were acceptable. The SAI appears suitable for examining successful aging in Black older adults.  相似文献   

Editorial: Challenges for Service Providers     

Monica Cuskelly 《International Journal of Disability, Development & Education》2000,47(2):117-118

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Against the grain: science education researchers and social justice agendas     

Ridgeway  Monica L. 《Cultural Studies of Science Education》2019,14(2):283-292

Cultural Studies of Science Education - This paper is written in response to Alberto J. Rodriguez and Deb Morrison’s article entitled, “Expanding and Enacting Transformative Meanings of...  相似文献   

Assessing the Accessibility of Library Tools & Services When You Aren’t an Accessibility Expert: Part 2     

Russell Michalak  Monica D. T. Rysavy 《图书馆管理杂志》2020,60(3):295-300

Abstract

There are a few studies in library literature that explore accessibility issues from the perspective of students who use assistive technologies for accessibility. As we shared in part one of this two-part series in our column, librarians have extensively explored through usability studies with WAVE and other audit tools how accessible library websites and databases are when using assistive technologies like JAWS. In this column, we asked our blind student worker to journal his experiences navigating our library’s databases. We found this student navigated the databases better than we anticipated. While his experiences regarding the accessibility of the libraries’ electronic services varied, common issues he experienced included navigational issues from menus with expanding capabilities, documents that were not scanned with OCR, and images without alternative text.  相似文献   

Students’ perceptions of family influences on their academic motivation: A qualitative analysis     

Tim Urdan  Monica Solek  Erin Schoenfelder 《European Journal of Psychology of Education - EJPE》2007,22(1):7-21

Research examining family influences on student motivation and achievement in school has generally focused on parental influences and has often been limited to one or two variables (e.g., parental expectations or aspirations, parental involvement in schoolwork). In the present study we interviewed high school seniors to examine whether and how family members affected their academic motivation and achievement. Interviews were coded holistically for the strength, affective tone, source, and types of familial influence. Emergent themes from the interview analyses revealed that students perceived a broad range of types and sources of familial influence on motivation. Interviews were divided into five prototypical patterns: Family Obligation, Family Pleasing, Family Support, Aversive Influence, and No Influence. The types of familial influence differed by cultural characteristics (generational status, native country) and by achievement level. Associations between the five patterns of family influence and existing theories of family influence are discussed.  相似文献   

Students' perceptions of their information literacy skills: the confidence gap between male and female international graduate students     

Russell Michalak  Monica D.T. Rysavy  Alison Wessel 《The Journal of Academic Librarianship》2017,43(2):100-104

In the 2015 Summer Session I, the information literacy team combined two instruments, the Information Literacy Assessment (ILA) and the Students' Perceptions of Their Information Literacy Skills Questionnaire (SPIL-Q), into one survey and distributed it to the college's international graduate students through a Google Form. It was distributed to 932 international graduate students, and 172 valid respondents completed the survey. The purpose of this research was to compare the confidence gap in information literacy skills between men and women, particularly in international graduate students. Data collected illustrated that female international business students (n = 70) tended to be slightly more confident than their male counterparts (n = 102) regarding their perceived information literacy skills as evidenced by their SPIL-Q average score across all six IL topics, 3.78, vs. male student's average score of 3.58.  相似文献   

Group identification in early adolescence: its relation with peer adjustment and its moderator effect on peer influence   总被引：1，自引：0，他引：1  

Kiesner J  Cadinu M  Poulin F  Bucci M 《Child development》2002,73(1):196-208

This study was conducted to test whether group identification (importance of the group to the individual) covaried with individual-group similarity on problem behavior; and whether group identification moderated peer group influence on the individual's development of delinquent behavior across a 1-year period. The level of reciprocated nominations within the individual's self-nominated group was controlled for in all analyses. Participants were 190 sixth and seventh graders (during the first year of the study) from the north of Italy. Level of reciprocated nominations within the group, but not identification, was found to covary with individual-group behavioral similarity (group behavior interacted with reciprocity of group nominations in predicting individual behavior). Group identification, but not reciprocated nominations, was found to moderate peer group influence on the individual's change in delinquent behavior, across 1 year. The individual's peer status within the classroom, level of reciprocated nominations, and gender all were related to the individual's level of group identification. Results are discussed in terms of understanding peer group influence on the individual.  相似文献   

But is My Resource Included? How to Manage,Develop, and Think about the Content in Your Discovery Tool     

Monica Moore 《期刊图书馆员》2016,70(1-4):149-157

Implementing discovery tools and getting them to work with existing library services often leaves very little time for their promotion and for the thoughtful, ongoing evaluation and curation of their content. However, the expectations and experiences that users have about discovery tools are often directly related to the content and the way that content is described. In our efforts to work with vendors to resolve the underlying business issues that prevent us from having all of the metadata for our resources included in our discovery tools, we may have lost sight of our role in curating and evaluating the usefulness of the content that is already included in them.  相似文献   

A Lasting Legacy     

Monica Cuskelly 《International Journal of Disability, Development & Education》2008,55(4):287-288

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