The learning and study strategies inventory: A South African application     

David L. Agar  Nadine Knopfmacher 《Higher Education》1995,30(1):115-126

500 disadvantaged students volunteered to complete the Learning and Study Strategies Inventory at the University of the Witwatersrand. The purpose was two-fold. Firstly, for diagnostic purposes, students and tutors were provided with learning strategy profiles. Secondly, for research purposes, results were analysed on a group and sub-group basis. This analysis revealed that the most problematic components of learning, as perceived by the students, were in the affective areas of motivation and anxiety. Test taking strategies and selecting main ideas were also perceived as weaknesses. A few differences were also found when the variables of gender, language and faculty were introduced.  相似文献   

Changes in the representation of dynamism in fifth grade children     

Catherine Garnier  Nadine Bednarz 《Instructional Science》1995,23(4):243-267

According to research on mental representation carried out in the Piaget tradition (Galifret-Granjon, 1981; Piaget & Inhelder, 1966), the cognitive processes of decentration in terms of the states (initial and final) and anticipation (of change and movement) form the basis of the reconstruction of a dynamic situation. Children centered primarily on the initial and final states have great difficulty creating a mental representation of a dynamic situation. This study, based on a socio-constructivist approach (Gamier, 1985), seeks to help children develop these two fundamental processes. The pedagogical analysis focuses first on the observation of children's behaviour while playing ball in a group and then on the graphic representation of their actions drawn by the children after each play session. We saw in the children's game definite changes stemming from decentration. We also noticed that the children were centering less on the states in their graphic production which became increasingly rich in codes.  相似文献   

Electronic Portfolio Adoption for Teacher Education Candidates     

Michael W. Ledoux  Nadine McHenry 《Early Childhood Education Journal》2006,34(2):103-116

Programs of professional development for preservice teachers of young children in the United States attempt to align their program goals and candidate performances to The National Association for the Education of Young Children (NAEYC), Association of Childhood Education International (ACEI), and their particular state standards. In addition they attempt to teach candidates to be knowledgeable and reflective practitioners who use the best practices in their field. This article will address one university’s attempt to adopt this process and utilize electronic portfolios. The article will include examples of course objectives, standards, rubrics, and candidate performances interwoven through program matrices in order to insure the proper delivery of instruction while maintaining flexibility and creativity. It is hoped that the article will foster discussion about the strengths and challenges of accountability and academic freedom in preparing candidates in early childhood education.  相似文献   

Will you be my friend? A multilevel network analysis of friendships of students with and without special educational needs backgrounds in inclusive classrooms     

Thorsten Henke  Katja Bogda  Jennifer Lambrecht  Stefanie Bosse  Helvi Koch  Kai Maaz  Nadine Spörer 《Zeitschrift für Erziehungswissenschaft》2017,20(3):449-474

The objective of this study was to determine the relationship between having a special educational needs background (SEN) and the likelihood of having friends in inclusive classes. We assumed that a combination of individual, dyadic and contextual variables can sufficiently explain the relation between a SEN diagnosis and the likelihood of friendship. Data analysis was based on a cross-sectional sample of students (N = 1241) in second and third grade primary-school classes. To address the different levels adequately, the present study improves upon previous research in two ways: First, the sociometric data were analyzed with the p2 model, a specialized multilevel network model. Second, the study focused solely on friendships and emphasized the concept’s unique features with respect to inclusive education. Data analysis indicated that students with SEN had a decreased probability of becoming friends with their classmates compared to students without SEN. Even when individual, dyadic, and contextual variables were included into the model, the association between a SEN diagnosis and the likelihood of friendship persisted. The implications of the results are discussed with respect to their implications for inclusive teaching practice.  相似文献   

Globalisation, identity, and nation: Australian and American undergraduates abroad     

Nadine Dolby 《The Australian Educational Researcher》2005,32(1):101-117

In this essay, I explore how two groups of undergraduates — Americans and Australians — participate in the reformulation of the “global imagination” through their experiences of studying abroad. Specifically, I question the assumption that the global imagination constitutes one shared, common experience that is the same across nations. In contrast, I demonstrate that though American and Australian students are certainly among the elite in global terms, their shared economic position does not necessarily correspond to a common global imagination. Instead, they have markedly different notions of both national and global identities. American students’ strong national identity often prevents them from exploring the possibilities of global affiliation. Australian students’ relatively weak national identity allows for a robust global sense of place, but is sometimes constrained by a limited tolerance for racial and ethnic diversity. In conclusion, I argue that the global imagination has not one, but numerous manifestations, which have the potential to both enable and constrain the enhancement of justice and democracy in a global context.  相似文献   

Une etude des conceptions inappropriées développées par les enfants dans l’apprentissage de la numération au primaire     

Nadine Bednarz  Bernadette Dufour-Janvier 《European Journal of Psychology of Education - EJPE》1986,1(2):17-33

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Evaluation of an adaptive tutorial supporting the teaching of mathematics     

Heather Richelle Weltman  Victoria Timchenko  Haritos Emanuel Sofios  Paul Ayres  Nadine Marcus 《European Journal of Engineering Education》2019,44(5):787-804

ABSTRACT

Adaptive tutorials enable engaged, personalised and interactive online learning that includes instant adaptive feedback. By integrating an adaptive tutorial into a large and diverse engineering mathematics course, we explored its potential to support and guide students’ learning from afar. The aim of this study was to assess whether students provided with an adaptive tutorial, could benefit from its use and whether they would engage in and take responsibility for their learning. Comparisons were made between students who did and did not use the tutorial. Quantitative and qualitative data analyses determined the impact of including an adaptive tutorial in a blended learning environment, where 58% of students engaged with the tutorial and 74% of them completed it. Improved confidence and understanding was reported by 98% of the participants. A comparison of examination results indicated that median scores for students who utilised the tutorial were significantly higher than those who did not.  相似文献   

‘The idea is nice… but not for me’: First-year students’ readiness for large-scale ‘flipped lectures’—what (de)motivates them?     

Velde  Robin van der  Blignaut – van Westrhenen  Nadine  Labrie  Nanon H. M.  Zweekhorst  Marjolein B. M. 《Higher Education》2021,81(6):1157-1175

Higher Education - The flipped classroom is proposed as an answer to challenges in higher education. However, studies that explore its influence on first-year student motivation are largely...  相似文献   

Inter-firm R&D partnering in pharmaceutical biotechnology since 1975: Trends, patterns, and networks     

Nadine Roijakkers  John Hagedoorn 《Research Policy》2006,35(3):431-446

This paper analyses a large, longitudinal database on inter-firm R&D partnerships formed in the high-tech pharmaceutical biotechnology industry since 1975. Our research indicates an overall growth in the number of annually, newly established R&D partnerships where research partners consistently prefer contractual partnerships to equity-based alliances. In the networks that develop through these R&D partnerships, small, entrepreneurial biotechnological companies take a leading role during the 1980s when biotechnology first became relevant for the pharmaceutical industry. The 1990s, however, show a different pattern with established, large pharmaceutical companies becoming more dominant, acting as nodal players with multiple partnerships with a variety of other companies.  相似文献   

The impact of the French policy mix on business R&D: How geography matters     

Benjamin Montmartin  Marcos Herrera  Nadine Massard 《Research Policy》2018,47(10):2010-2027

Based on a spatial extension of an R&D investment model, this paper measures the macroeconomic impact of the French R&D policy mix on business R&D using regional data. Our measure takes into account not only the direct effect of policies but also indirect effects generated by the existence of spatial interaction between regions. Using a unique database containing information on the levels of various R&D policy instruments received by firms in French NUTS3 regions over the period 2001–2011, our estimates of a spatial Durbin model with structural breaks and fixed effects reveal the existence of a negative spatial dependence among R&D investments in regions. In this context, while a-spatial estimates would conclude that all instruments have a crowding-in effect, we show that national subsidies are the only instrument that is able to generate significant crowding-in effects. On the contrary, it seems that the design, size and spatial allocation of funds from the other instruments (tax credits, local subsidies, European subsidies) lead them to act (in the French context) as beggar-thy-neighbor policies.  相似文献