Do You Want to Know What I Learned? Using Informational Trade Books as Models to Teach Text Structure     

Sylvia Read  D. Ray Reutzel  Parker C. Fawson 《Early Childhood Education Journal》2008,36(3):213-219

Informational text is an important resource for classroom teachers that places unique comprehension demands on young students. Research on teaching expository text structure to young children shows that explicit instruction improves student comprehension. This practical article addresses how to use “well-structured” expository trade book titles to teach text structure. A lesson plan template and an extended example of an explicit lesson on order/sequence are provided.  相似文献   

Addressing Health Disparities in the Undergraduate Curriculum: An Approach to Develop a Knowledgeable Biomedical Workforce     

Rocio Benabentos  Payal Ray  Deepak Kumar 《CBE life sciences education》2014,13(4):636-640

Disparities in health and healthcare are a major concern in the United States and worldwide. Approaches to alleviate these disparities must be multifaceted and should include initiatives that touch upon the diverse areas that influence the healthcare system. Developing a strong biomedical workforce with an awareness of the issues concerning health disparities is crucial for addressing this issue. Establishing undergraduate health disparities courses that are accessible to undergraduate students in the life sciences is necessary to increase students’ understanding and awareness of these issues and motivate them to address these disparities during their careers. The majority of universities do not include courses related to health disparities in their curricula, and only a few universities manage them from their life sciences departments. The figures are especially low for minority-serving institutions, which serve students from communities disproportionally affected by health disparities. Universities should consider several possible approaches to infuse their undergraduate curricula with health disparities courses or activities. Eliminating health disparities will require efforts from diverse stakeholders. Undergraduate institutions can play an important role in developing an aware biomedical workforce and helping to close the gap in health outcomes.  相似文献   

Children’s shyness: a suitable case for treatment?     

W. Ray Crozier 《Educational Psychology in Practice》2014,30(2):156-166

Shy and withdrawn behaviours are cause for concern and have attracted contrasting perspectives. On the one hand, they are regarded as predictive of social anxiety disorder and may benefit from intervention; on the other hand, there are claims that normal behaviours are being pathologised. Evidence is reviewed which suggests that while they represent a risk factor for social anxiety disorder, these patterns of behaviours are only moderately predictive, the large majority of shy children do not go on to meet diagnostic criteria for social anxiety disorder, nor have adults who meet these criteria necessarily been shy as children. A fruitful approach may be to develop effective social and emotional learning programmes to increase children’s understanding of shyness and to aid identification of children at risk.  相似文献   

Informing UK Information Management pedagogic practice: The nature of contemporary higher education culture     

Kevin Grant  Ray Hackney  David Edgar 《International Journal of Information Management》2010

This paper explores the nature of Information Management (IM) pedagogic practice within UK higher education (HE), by exploring the history of IM and teasing out what this may mean for its teaching. Empirical evidence is considered from both qualitative and quantitative data analysis perspectives through the application of Grounded theory.  相似文献   

Evaluation of plasma hormone concentrations using Enzyme-Immunoassay/Enzyme-linked Immunosorbent assay in healthy Indian men: Effect of ethnicity     

M. Sachidhanandam  S. N. Singh  A. K. Salhan  Uday Sankar Ray 《Indian journal of clinical biochemistry : IJCB》2010,25(2):153-157

The study involved three ethnic groups of India; Rajputs, Gorkhas and South-Indians. Each group consisted of ∼40 healthy, male soldiers between 20–50 years. The reference ranges for cortisol, testosterone, prolactin, arginine vasopressin and proAtrial natriuretic peptide_1–98 were determined using Enzyme-Immunoassay (EIA) while plasma levels of thyroid-stimulating hormone, triiodothyronine, free-triiodothyronine, thyroxine and freethyroxine were measured using Enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay (ELISA). The results indicated that plasma hormone concentrations were within physiological range and inter-ethnic differences were most prominent between north- (Rajputs and Gorkhas) and south- Indians. In comparison to Radioimmunoassay, the EIA method for prolactin, thyroid-stimulating hormone, free-thyroxine gave higher values while the ELISA method for triiodothyronine, free-triiodothyronine, and thyroxine gave lower values. These differences are due to differences in assay standards and design.  相似文献   

Identifying A Range of Performance Improvement Solutions Through Evaluation Research     

Peter J. Dean  Martha Ray Dean  Elizabeth C. Guman 《Performance Improvement Quarterly》1992,5(4):16-31

Using the evaluation research strategy (Geroy & Wright, 1988) as a guideline, the authors conducted a needs assessment with 280 support staff, faculty, and administrators at a mid–sized community college. We taught the nominal group technique (Delbecq & Van de Ven, 1971) to representatives from each of these three groups. These representatives facilitated the participation of virtually all employees at the college in identifying a prioritized list of items that would enable these persons to “do their jobs better.” Analysis of the suggested performance improvement solutions utilized the performance technology model (Gilbert, 1978) and indicated that the solutions fell into five categories of intervention: high–yield training, direction and flow of information, resources, performance incentives, and medium–yield training. This combination of models and methods provided the decision makers with data that refocused their vision from planning professional development training to planning for performance improvement. These data represented needs, not wants, and enabled them to recognize the importance of addressing both training and non–training options.  相似文献   

Personalized and Adaptive Context-Aware Mobile Learning: Review,challenges and future directions     

Gumbheer  Chandra Prakash  Khedo  Kavi Kumar  Bungaleea  Anjali 《Education and Information Technologies》2022,27(6):7491-7517

Education and Information Technologies - Due to the outbreak of COVID 19, digital learning has become the most efficient learning and teaching technique adopted across the world. The pervasiveness...  相似文献   

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