The development of the ability to recognize the meaning of iconic signs     

Tolar TD  Lederberg AR  Gokhale S  Tomasello M 《Journal of deaf studies and deaf education》2008,13(2):225-240

Early developmental psychologists viewed iconic representation as cognitively less complex than other forms of symbolic thought. It is therefore surprising that iconic signs are not acquired more easily than arbitrary signs by young language learners. One explanation is that children younger than 3 years have difficulty interpreting iconicity. The current study assessed hearing children's ability to interpret the meaning of iconic signs. Sixty-six 2.5- to 5-year-olds who had no previous exposure to signs were required to match iconic signs to pictures of referents. Whereas few of the 2.5-year-olds recognized the meaning of the iconic signs consistently, more than half of the 3.0-year-olds and most of 3.5-year-olds performed above chance. Thus, the ability to recognize the meaning of iconic signs gradually develops during the preschool years. Implications of these findings for sign language development, receptive signed vocabulary tests, and the development of the ability to interpret iconic symbols are discussed.  相似文献   

All aboard the internet     

Don E. Descy Ph.D. 《TechTrends》1996,41(2):3-5

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Escalating Terror: Communicative Strategies in a Preschool Classroom Dispute     

Susan Danby  Carolyn D. Baker 《Early education and development》2001,12(3):343-358

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Relationships of attitude toward classroom environment with attitude toward and achievement in science among tenth grade biology students     

E. Lynn Talton  Ronald D. Simpson 《科学教学研究杂志》1987,24(6):507-525

The purpose of the study was to examine the relationship of classroom environment to attitudes toward science and achievement in science among tenth grade biology students. An attitude instrument was administered at three times during the school year to measure student attitudes toward science and the classroom environment. The classroom environment measures examined six areas: emotional climate of the science classroom, science curriculum, physical environment of the science classroom, science teacher, other students in the science classroom, and friends attitudes toward science. Student achievement in science was measured by teacher reported semester grades. The results of the study indicated: (1) student attitudes toward the classroom environment predicted between 56 to 61% of the variance in attitudes toward science, (2) student attitudes toward the classroom environment predicted between 5 to 14% of the variance in achievement in science, (3) student attitudes toward science and attitudes toward the classroom environment predicted between 8 and 18% of the variance in achievement in science.  相似文献   

对非线性规划的一类Di Pillo-Grippo增广拉格朗日函数的进一步研究     

杜学武  梁玉梅  张连生 《上海大学学报(英文版)》2006,10(4):293-298

1 Introduction Duringthe past several decades ,considerable atten-tion has been given to devising methods for solvingconstrained opti mization problemsviaunconstrainedmini mization techniques and a number of researchwork in the area of nonlinear programmi…  相似文献   

Uses of and Students' Reactions to Video cartridges as Self-Instructional Materials in the Library     

N D C Harris  S Kirkhope 《British journal of educational technology : journal of the Council for Educational Technology》1979,10(1):18-31

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The relationship between individual instructional characteristics and the overall assessment of teaching effectiveness across different instructional contexts   总被引：1，自引：0，他引：1  

Joseph M. Ryan  Paul D. Harrison 《Research in higher education》1995,36(5):577-594

There is an ongoing debate in the student evaluation of teaching literature about whether an overall rating or factorial dimensions of teaching effectiveness should be used in personnel decisions. Marsh and his colleagues have advocated the use of a weighted average approach to computing overall evaluations. A policy-capturing experiment was carried out where students in three different instructional contexts made overall evaluations of hypothetical instructors based on a manipulation of the teaching factors in Marsh's SEEQ. The results indicated (1) amount learned was consistently the most important factor affecting overall evaluations; (2) course difficulty was consistently the least important factor affecting overall evaluations; and (3) there was a strong similarity among the three groups in the relative importance of the various teaching factors in arriving at an overall evaluation. The implications of this research are discussed, as well as directions for future research.  相似文献   

The Pendulum in the 21st Century-Relic or Trendsetter     

Peters  Randall D. 《Science & Education》2004,13(4-5):279-295

When identifyinginstruments that have had great influence on the history of physics, none comes to mind more quickly than the pendulum. Though first treated scientifically by Galileo in the 16th century, and in some respects nearly `dead' by the middle of the 20th century; the pendulum experienced `rebirth' by becoming an archetype of chaos. With the resulting acclaim for its surprising behavior at large amplitudes, one might expect that there would already be widespread interest in another of its significant nonlinearities. Such is not the case, however, and the complex motions of small amplitude physical pendula are barely known. The present paper shows that a simply-constructed metallic rod pendulum is capable of demonstrating rich physics in a largely unstudied area.  相似文献   

Editor’s comments     

D. L. H. 《Journal of Science Teacher Education》1989,1(2):i-i

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Rural science teacher preparation: A re-examination of an important component of the educational system     

Dr. Kevin D. Finson  John B. Beaver 《Journal of Science Teacher Education》1990,1(3):46-48

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