One-year experimental study of the ACT objective test with non-traditional students     

Gloria B. Wood 《Innovative Higher Education》1990,15(1):29-41

The Curriculum Committee of the General College (GC) at the University of Minnesota selected the ACT Objective Test to assess general educational outcomes, educational gains, and to provide an individual assessment of academic achievement for graduating Associate of Arts degree candidates.Data analyses to assess general educational outcomes revealed that GC Associate of Arts degree candidates scored significantly lower than an ACT national sample on total score and four out of six subscores.Data analyses to assess educational gains revealed no significant differences between three comparison groups of GC students: Associate of Arts candidates, GC sophomores, and GC freshman; although there was a significant difference on grade-point average (GPA).Finally, data analyses to assess ethnic group performance revealed significant differences between four ethnic groups, although there were no significant differences on GPA. In addition, it was discovered that the relationship between total score and GPA was strongly positive for the Black and Caucasian groups but was negative for the Asian and Other groups.Thus, since the ACT Objective Test did not provide an adequate measure of educational gains, and it appears that the ACT Objective Test might possibly be a culturally biased instrument, it was decided to discontinue use of the ACT Objective Test in the General College after the one-year experimental period.Gloria B. Wood received her Ph.D. in Counseling Psychology from the University of Minnesota. She teaches psychology and career planning to a predominantly nontraditional and under-prepared college population. Her research interests include: cognitive development and learning styles; the psychological and motivational variables related to academic performance; and variables related to career assessment and development.  相似文献   

Where Students Start and What They Do When They Get Stuck: A Qualitative Inquiry into Academic Information-Seeking and Help-Seeking Practices     

Susan Thomas  Eamon Tewell  Gloria Willson 《The Journal of Academic Librarianship》2017,43(3):224-231

This study investigates two questions key to academic library resources and services: Which sources are students most likely to use to begin their academic work? Whom do students tend to consult for research assistance? In-depth interviews conducted with 15 undergraduate and graduate students were thematically analyzed through a three-step process. The findings indicate that students are most likely to consult faculty and peers for assistance and are largely unaware of librarians' roles, while they tend to begin research using library databases and do not necessarily start with Google. In addition, student use of small study groups as learning networks and reliance upon alternate sites to conduct research emerged as unanticipated themes.  相似文献   

Learning to Listen     

Gloria Taylor 《Literacy》1994,28(1):20-23

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Textbook treatments and students' understanding of acceleration     

Gloria Dall'Alba  Eleanor Walsh  John Bowden  Elaine Martin  Geofferey Masters  Paul Ramsden  Andrew Stephanou 《Research in Science Education》1992,22(1):409-409

This paper has been accepted for publication in theJournal of Research in Science Teaching. Copies are available from Gloria Dall'Alba, ERADU, RMIT, GPO Box 2476V, Melbourne. Vic. 3001.  相似文献   

Who is Publishing Diverse Books Best?     

Nicholas Shea  Gloria Mulvihill  Vi La Bianca  Alyssa Hanchar 《Publishing Research Quarterly》2018,34(2):207-217

Small independent publishers are frequently lauded as the bastions of diversity while the Big Five are vilified as the primary contributors to the overwhelming whiteness of book publishing—yet no statistical data has been offered to support either claim. Moreover, the overall percentages of authors of color have remained the same year after year (Low in Where is the diversity in publishing? The 2015 diversity baseline survey results. Lee and Low (blog), 2016). The following study is a comparison of the Big Five publishers and small independent publishers with respect to author diversity. As social media outlets are now claiming to change the landscape of publishing by making diverse books more accessible to readers, data was sourced from an independent, reader-driven list to determine which publishers—if any—are promoting authors of color and whether their books are making it into the hands of readers.  相似文献   

The Prediction of State Progress in the Implementation of Public Law 99-457, Part H     

Gloria L. Harbin  James J. Gallagher  Jane Eckland  Timothy Lillie 《Early education and development》1991,2(4):321-333

The purpose of this study was to examine the ability of several state characteristics to predict progress in the implementation of Part H of P.L. 99-457. This analysis utilizes two scales developed by investigators at the Carolina Policy Studies Program. One is intended to measure four potentially influential characteristics of the states: political climate, resources, policies, and interagency systems related to Part H. The second scale is an indicator of the progress states are making in the three stages of policy implementation (policy development, policy approval, and policy application). This study reports findings regarding the relationships between geographic region and state progress, as well as between influential characteristics and progress in the three stages of policy implementation. No statistically significant differences were found in state progress by geographic region. However, the four influential characteristics together predicted overall state progress and progress in each of the three stages. The dimension of system uniquely accounted for a significant proportion of variance in overall state progress, and progress in policy development and policy approval. The results suggest that an administrative structure, mechanisms, and process that promote multiagency planning are important to the successful implementation of Part H of P.L. 99-457.  相似文献   

Literacies remaking public places: the Umbrella Movement of Hong Kong, 2014     

Julia Gillen  Mandy Hoi Man Yu  Gloria Ho Nga Fan  Selena Ho 《Literacy》2020,54(2):40-48

We approach Hong Kong's Umbrella Movement, also known as Occupy Central, encountered in 2 days in November 2014 as an exemplar of literacy as placemaking. As a contemporary city‐based resistance movement, the creation and subsequent resemiotisation of literacy artefacts were an important element of spatialised practice in asserting a new and dynamic sense of citizenship. In their collaborative design, shared commitment to certain values and expressions of political resistance, these occupation sites may be read as an instantiation of Goodsell's concept of public space. The initial research site of engagement gave rise to a dataset of photographs that the authors examined together as discourses in place, informed by cultural knowledge of Hong Kong. Selecting two photographs, we broaden out beyond the linguistic features of texts to consider processes of creative semiotic remediation. We suggest that in such placemaking activities, the Umbrella Movement activists embodied Giroux's concept of literacy as emancipatory practice. Finally, we make suggestions as to how this study might be connected to a critical pedagogy of place.  相似文献   

Disturbing stories: Literature as Pedagogical Disruption     

Julie Faulkner  Gloria Latham 《English in Education》2013,47(2):102-117

Literature's power to consider moral and ethical issues to expand and reflect on our own lives has long been considered a vital dimension of subject English. Moreover, critical perspectives ask how texts and pedagogies serve particular interests and beliefs, leaving other perspectives silent. ‘Safe’ elements of teaching are reinforced by discourses established through experience, while popular narratives can distort the complexities of teaching. Initial teachers witness little in their field experience to challenge inscribed ways of thinking, which marginalises the role of critical theory in classroom practice. In this article, we use a pedagogy of discomfort to explore how an adolescent novel can challenge initial teachers' notions of literature teaching. We discuss the ways in which unsettling fiction based on fact serves to dislocate certainties, and suggest possibilities for reconstructing initial teachers' approaches to literature and pedagogy.  相似文献   

Un estudio sobre la comprensión de términos espacio-temporales en niños de 4 a 6 años     

José Antonio Carranza  Alfredo G. Brito  Gloria Torrecilla 《Infancia y Aprendizaje》2013,36(26):111-119

Resumen

Este estudio trató de comprobar si la comprensión de los pares de palabras «antesldespués», «delanteldetrás» y «primerolúltimo» presenta relación con el significado dominante en la comunidad lingüistica, la complejidad de la tarea, la asimetría de los términos y la edad. Se utilizaron 90 adultos y 180 niños entre 4 y 6 años. Los adultos definieron las palabras a analizar; loi niños ejecutaron las consignas en tres contextos: espacial, espacio-temporal y temporal. Los resultados indican que el par «antesldespués» es comprendido más pronto en el sentido temporal, el par «delanteldetrás» en sentido espacial. Estos datos coinciden con los obtenidos en las definiciones adultas. «Primeroúltimo» es mejor comprendido en tareas temporales, aunque los adultos dieron definiciones ambiguas. Por otra parte, la compejidad de la tarea parece influir en la comprensión: l'a ausencia de rasgos de los objetos y. el. orden gramatical inverso dificultan la tarea. Estos resultados sugieren que la hipótesis de los rasgos sonánticos es insuficiente para explicar la adquisición del signifcado.  相似文献   

Learning intercultural communication through group work oriented to the world beyond the classroom     

Shuang Liu  Gloria Dall'Alba 《Assessment & Evaluation in Higher Education》2012,37(1):19-32

Competence in intercultural communication has become a necessity for functioning effectively in our increasingly globalised and multicultural society. This study reports the use of a group project to enhance students’ learning of intercultural communication. Participants were from a large undergraduate class in an Australian university. The aim of the course is to encourage students to develop knowledge of intercultural communication by orienting themselves to the world beyond the classroom, and by learning from each other’s experiences and perspectives. In a group project assignment, students used the knowledge and skills gained in class to resolve practical problems that they encountered in intercultural interactions outside the classroom. This paper focused on students’ experience of working in groups, and links between this experience and performance on the group project. Our study confirms previous research that demonstrates active engagement in group work can enhance learning outcomes. It also goes further in showing that groups that more highly rated their learning of intercultural communication through the group work experience obtained higher grades on the project.  相似文献