Graduate attribute development and employment outcomes: tracking PhD graduates     

Catherine Manathunga  Rachael Pitt  Christa Critchley 《Assessment & Evaluation in Higher Education》2009,34(1):91-103

The provision of diversified research training is regarded as one of the most significant contributions made by the Australian Cooperative Research Centres (CRC) programme [Howard Partners 2003 Howard Partners. 2003. Evaluation of the cooperative research centres programme, Canberra, ACT: Department of Education, Science and Training.  [Google Scholar], Evaluation of the cooperative research centres programme, Department of Education, Science and Training, Canberra, ACT]. Yet, a systematic evaluation of Australia’s CRC research training programmes and outcomes has not yet been undertaken. This article reports on a pilot questionnaire designed to provide the beginnings of such an evaluation. Participants were science‐based research graduates who were awarded with a PhD within the four‐year period 2000–2003 and had completed the majority of their PhD project either in a university school or in a CRC environment. The questionnaire results provide insights into participants’ perceptions of the graduate attributes they developed prior to and during their PhD studies. It also investigates their perceptions about the relative importance of particular skills in university and industry settings. This article argues that understanding the perceptions and employment experiences of recent research graduates is a vital way of ensuring that PhD programmes are more effectively designed to prepare research graduates for a range of careers. In particular, these results confirm the importance of constant re‐evaluation and improvement of all PhD training programmes.  相似文献   

Does paired mentoring work? A study of the effectiveness and affective value of academically asymmetrical peer mentoring in supporting disadvantaged students in school science     

Rachael Sharpe  Ian Abrahams  Nikolaos Fotou 《Research in Science & Technological Education》2018,36(2):205-225

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Creating Cultural Competence: An Outreach Immersion Experience in Southern Africa     

Cirecie West-Olatunji  Rachael D. Goodman  Sejal Mehta  Laura Templeton 《International journal for the advancement of counseling》2011,33(4):335-346

With disasters on the rise, counselors need to increase their cultural awareness, knowledge, and skills to work with affected communities. This study reports outcomes of a four-week immersion experience in southern Africa with six counselor-trainees. Data sources for this qualitative study were: daily journals and demographic forms. Outcomes suggest that sustained contact with community residents and daily supervision experiences served to improve cultural awareness. Recommendations include pushing through students?? resistance using a non-linear dynamic model of transformation.  相似文献   

Autism-Related Variation in Reciprocal Social Behavior: A Longitudinal Study     

Rachael E. Wagner  Yi Zhang  Teddi Gray  Anna Abbacchi  Deporres Cormier  Alexandre Todorov  John N. Constantino 《Child development》2019,90(2):441-451

Deficits in reciprocal social behavior are a characterizing feature of autism spectrum disorder (ASD). Autism-related variation in reciprocal social behavior (AVR) in the general population is continuously distributed and highly heritable—a function of additive genetic influences that overlap substantially with those which engender clinical autistic syndromes. This is the first long-term prospective study of the stability of AVR from childhood through early adulthood, conducted via serial ratings using the Social Responsiveness Scale, in a cohort-sequential study involving children with ASD, other psychiatric conditions, and their siblings (N = 602, ages = 2.5–29). AVR exhibits marked stability throughout childhood in individuals with and without ASD.  相似文献   

Correction to: An analysis of the ecological components within a text structure intervention     

Beerwinkle  Andrea L.  Wijekumar  Kausalai  Walpole  Sharon  Aguis  Rachael 《Reading and writing》2021,34(5):1367-1367

Reading and Writing - In the original publication of the article the funding information was missed to be published.  相似文献   

Assessing the Effectiveness of the Cognitive Interview for Children with Severe Intellectual Disabilities     

Rebecca Milne  Stefanie J. Sharman  Martine B. Powell  Sarah Mead 《International Journal of Disability, Development & Education》2013,60(1):18-29

We examined whether the cognitive interview (CI) procedure increased event recall in children with severe intellectual disabilities (ID) compared with children with no ID. Forty-six children with and without ID watched a videotaped event; they were aged between eight and 11 years. The next day they were individually interviewed using the CI or a structured interview (SI). Interviews consisted of free recall and specific questions, some of which contained leading or misleading information. The leading and misleading questions determined children’s susceptibility to information presented after the event. Overall, children without ID reported more correct information than children with ID. For all children, the CI led to more correct recall than the SI without increases in incorrect details or confabulations. Although the CI did not decrease children’s susceptibility to the misleading questions compared with the SI, children without ID disagreed with more of the misleading suggestions than children with ID. These results suggest that the CI may indeed be a valuable tool to elicit information from very vulnerable witnesses.  相似文献   

Communicating Campus Sexual Assault: A Mixed Methods Rhetorical Analysis     

Heidi Y. Lawrence  Lourdes Fernandez  Rachael Graham Lussos  Bonnie Stabile  Melissa Broeckelman-Post 《Technical Communication Quarterly》2013,22(4):299-316

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This article reports on a mixed methods rhetorical analysis of a data set of news reports on campus sexual assault. A macro-level qualitative analysis of narratives combined with micro-level quantitative content analysis of verb voice offers insight into how news media shapes perceptions of power, blame, and agency in reporting. These findings offer implications for how public actors discuss campus sexual assault and implications for the teaching and practice of research methods in technical communication.  相似文献   

Picturing natural girlhoods: nature,space and femininity in girls’ school promotions     

Natasha Wardman  Kristina Gottschall  Christopher Drew  Rachael Hutchesson  Sue Saltmarsh 《Gender and education》2013,25(3):284-294

This paper furthers a discussion about the ways in which idealised versions of gender permeate the aesthetic presentation and impression management strategies of elite private schools. Specifically, we consider how the written text, layout and images used in 12 Australian private girls' school prospectuses function in constructing discourses of ‘natural’ femininity. Far from being merely factual sources of information, we see school prospectuses as strategic texts that idealise and commodify gendered subjectivities that are likely to appeal to the perceived clientele of a particular school. Drawing on feminist and poststructuralist theoretical frames and utilising social semiotic techniques, we analyse how these promotional texts align the feminine subject with nature and the natural world. This alignment serves the dual function of constituting femininity as naturally beautiful, fragile, passive and vulnerably at-risk, while at the same time ameliorating such risk through more empowered (yet constrained) notions of interconnectedness. The tensions between such contradictory discourses of traditional and neoliberal femininity create impossible subject positions for girls, as in order to succeed with one version of femininity, they must simultaneously fail at another.  相似文献   

Parental Perspectives on Children’s School Readiness: An Ethnographic Study     

Jose  Kim  Banks  Susan  Hansen  Emily  Jones  Rachael  Zubrick  Stephen R.  Stafford  Joel  Taylor  Catherine L. 《Early Childhood Education Journal》2022,50(1):21-31

Early Childhood Education Journal - School readiness is a construct used by educators and policy makers to describe a range of abilities that are beneficial for children transitioning to school....  相似文献   

Choosing and using methodological search filters: searchers' views     

Sophie Beale  Steven Duffy  Julie Glanville  Carol Lefebvre  Dianne Wright  Rachael McCool  Danielle Varley  Charles Boachie  Cynthia Fraser  Jenny Harbour  Lynne Smith 《Health information and libraries journal》2014,31(2):133-147

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