Science achievement of english language learners in urban elementary schools: Results of a first‐year professional development intervention     

Okhee Lee  Jaime Maerten‐Rivera  Randall D. Penfield  Kathryn LeRoy  Walter G. Secada 《科学教学研究杂志》2008,45(1):31-52

This study is part of a 5‐year professional development intervention aimed at improving science and literacy achievement of English language learners (or ELL students) in urban elementary schools within an environment increasingly driven by high‐stakes testing and accountability. Specifically, the study examined science achievement at the end of the first‐year implementation of the professional development intervention that consisted of curriculum units and teacher workshops. The study involved 1,134 third‐grade students at seven treatment schools and 966 third‐grade students at eight comparison schools. The results led to three main findings. First, treatment students displayed a statistically significant increase in science achievement. Second, there was no statistically significant difference in achievement gains between students at English to Speakers of Other Language (ESOL) levels 1 to 4 and students who had exited from ESOL or never been in ESOL. Similarly, there was no significant difference in achievement gains between students who had been retained on the basis of statewide reading test scores and students who had never been retained. Third, treatment students showed a higher score on a statewide mathematics test, particularly on the measurement strand emphasized in the intervention, than comparison students. The results indicate that through our professional development intervention, ELL students and others in the intervention learned to think and reason scientifically while also performing well on high‐stakes testing. © 2007 Wiley Periodicals, Inc. J Res Sci Teach 45: 31–52, 2008  相似文献   

Enhancing curriculum and delivery: linking assessment to learning objectives     

Kathryn L. Combs  Sharon K. Gibson  Jane Saly  John T. Wendt 《Assessment & Evaluation in Higher Education》2008,33(1):87-102

Typical university‐wide course evaluations do not provide instructors with sufficient information on the effectiveness of their courses. This article describes a course assessment and enhancement model where student feedback can be used to improve courses and/or programs. The model employs an assessment tool that measures student perceptions of importance and their current competence in course‐specific learning objectives both pre‐ and post‐course. Information gained from this assessment enables course improvement over time and also allows for modification in delivery and/or content of the current course. This model is intended to augment traditional course evaluation mechanisms based on specific and actionable feedback on learning objectives.  相似文献   

Beacons of light,rays, or sun catchers? A case study of the positioning of literacy teachers and their knowledge in neoliberal times   总被引：1，自引：0，他引：1  

Kathryn M. Hibbert  Rachel M. HeydonSharon J. Rich 《Teaching and Teacher Education》2008

This paper reports on a case study of a “lead literacy teacher” initiative in one Canadian province. This initiative is related to a “minority world” trend in teacher in-service that seeks to develop “experts” in a field with the intent that such experts can help other teachers to raise student achievement for the betterment of the economy. Using a post-colonial theoretical framework that advocates for professional development premised on teacher knowledge production, the study finds that the initiative instead forwards a “train-the-trainer” model of information transmission that negates teachers' prior knowledge, experience, and practices. The study argues that for teachers to become critically reflective in their practice, they need material supports (e.g., time) to share with one another and knowledge must be allowed to flow in all directions within the educational hierarchy.  相似文献   

Using teacher stories to reveal quality educational practice: An Eastern Cape experience     

Kathryn Paige  Mike Chartres  Alan Kenyon 《International Journal of Educational Development》2008,28(5):524-533

The University of Fort Hare Distance Education Project set out to improve qualifications of primary teachers in rural and township schools in the Eastern Cape of the Republic of South Africa. At the culmination of an 11-year AUSAid collaboration between the University of Fort Hare and University of South Australia a research project to reveal quality educational practice was undertaken. Using oral histories as the methodology, teacher stories were gathered through a sequence of interviews and classroom observations. This collection of oral histories constitutes the basis for the paper. Its research focus has been the science and mathematics practices of eight teachers who typify the many hundreds who participated in the project. This paper explores the use of oral history as a methodology for documenting quality educational practice.  相似文献   

Hereditary factors in language acquisition     

Kathryn Norcross Black Ph.D. 《Annals of dyslexia》1980,30(1):134-140

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Rethinking healthy families: a continuous responsibility     

Oshana D  Harding K  Friedman L  Holton JK 《Child abuse & neglect》2005,29(3):219-28; author reply 241-9

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The corporatizing and privatizing of schooling: A call for grounded critical praxis     

Kathryn Bell McKenzie  James Joseph Scheurich 《Educational theory》2004,54(4):431-444

Our review of Henry Giroux's Stealing Innocence , Alex Molnar's Giving Kids the Business , and Kenneth Saltman's Collateral Damage describes how these authors assess the problems posed by contemporary corporate influences on public schools and considers the solutions they offer to counter those influences. We also examine Henry Levin's edited collection Privatizing Education , in which various authors address research on privatization in schooling. In our analysis of this book, we highlight the underlying themes of the wide-ranging chapters. Next, we critique all four books, focusing primarily on the books by Giroux, Molnar, and Saltman. We suggest that these three authors provide a somewhat totalized and ahistorical portrait of contemporary corporate influences on schooling and offer a solution that depends on teachers acting as democratic revolutionaries, though there is no realistic possibility that teachers today would take on this role. In contrast, we call for a critical theory and practice that is grounded both in a more complex understanding of the current historical context and also in a dialogical engagement with students, teachers, parents, and other community members.  相似文献   

一项父母--子女活动的跨文化研究     

赖淑玲  张台生  叶仁敏  Kathryn Sanchez 《外国中小学教育》2005,(7):18-20,34

近些年来，对学生课后活动家长的参与，及这类活动与学生在校学习的关系的研究吸引了众多教育研究者和学校、社会工作者的关注与兴趣(科克，2000)。摩鄂(2000)专题讨论了学生课外阅读中家长的介入，以及与学业成绩的关系。撒舍德等人(1997)分析了父母对学生在音乐、艺术、乐器演奏和欣赏，及对他们在学校的行为的影响。  相似文献   

Equitable representation of deaf people in mainstream academia: Why not?     

Kathryn Woodcock  Meg J. Rohan  Linda Campbell 《Higher Education》2007,53(3):359-379

Approximately 5% of people in most countries have deafness or significant hearing loss. This significant minority is underrepresented in mainstream universities across the world. Background information about deafness, relevant technology and its drawbacks, and the use of interpreters are discussed. The barriers to equitable representation of qualified Deaf academics in university settings are reviewed. The experiences of three Deaf academics who teach in mainstream universities are discussed, and suggestions for resolution are offered. Examples are cited for teaching, research and service, the threefold duties of the successful academic. Continuing access difficulties mean that only a few deaf graduates now consider doctoral study; cost and the perception of cost, as well as negative attitudes and lack of knowledge may mean that the few successful graduates have difficulties gaining employment; successful tenure and promotion prospects may also be hindered for the same reasons. We also provide recommendations how barriers for successful Deaf academics can be removed or mitigated.  相似文献   

Rhetoric Versus Reality in Educational Reform: The Case of the National Science Foundation's Urban Systemic Initiative     

Kathryn M. Borman  Bridget Cotner  M. Yvette Baber  Theodore Boydston  William Katzenmeyer  Gladis Kersaint  Jeffrey Kromrey  Reginald Lee  Kazawaki Uekawa 《Journal of Educational Change》2004,5(3):249-266

In this paper, we present findings from a study assessing the impact of reforms on mathematics and science instruction to illustrate the multiple levels at which educational change must occur to promote student achievement and close achievement gaps. We undertake an analysis of the extent to which the rhetoric of national policy, in this case, the National Science Foundation's Urban Systemic Initiative, matches the realities of the day-to-day classroom practices we evaluated in our study. Addressed here is the problem of how applied anthropologists can broaden the scope of research and research findings from the edges of the societal mainstream to address larger policy issues. More globally, we discuss the influence of contemporary applied anthropologists and their colleagues who study marginalized groups on educational research.  相似文献