Assessment of the effects of a cooperative play programme for children aged 10–11 years on social adaptation and on the perception that parents,teachers and peers have of children's prosocial behaviours     

《Infancia y Aprendizaje》2013,36(3):303-318

Abstract

The objective of this research was to design a cooperative play programme in order to assess its effects on social adaptation and on the perception that parents, teachers and peers have of children's prosocial behaviours. The study used an experimental pre-posttest design with control group. The sample included 86 participants aged 10 to 11 years, 54 in the experimental group and 32 controls. Before and after administering the programme, three evaluation instruments were applied. The intervention consisted of a weekly two-hour play session throughout the school year. The programme's activities stimulate communication and prosocial behaviour. Results of the analysis of variance suggest positive impact of the intervention, as the experimental participants significantly increased their behaviours of self-control and leadership, as well as their prosocial behaviour; moreover, an increase was observed in the number of classmates considered prosocial. Highest levels of improvement were found in the experimental participants who, at pretest, had few behaviours of consideration for others, self-control and leadership and low prosocial behaviour, but many withdrawal behaviours. Some effects of the programme were found to be influenced by gender, as the girls showed more decrease in their withdrawal behaviours and a greater increase in the number of classmates perceived as prosocial.  相似文献   

Developmental changes (14–21 years old) in binge drinking patterns and their explanatory factors / Cambios evolutivos (14–21 años) en los patrones de ingesta puntual de alcohol en exceso y en sus factores explicativos     

Amparo Caballero  Itziar Fernández  Dolores Muñoz  Pilar Carrera 《Infancia y Aprendizaje》2013,36(3):458-497

Abstract

In order to design prevention programs, it is important to understand the evolution of drinking behaviour patterns among adolescents and young people. The aim of this paper is to analyse the changes in these patterns based on age and their role in explaining this behaviour in the Theory of Planned Behaviour framework. We used 273 participants divided into three sub-samples (3^rd and 4^th ESO [Educación Secundaria Obligatoria, ‘Compulsory Secondary Education’] students and university students). For older ages, the frequency of binge drinking is higher and the attitudes were also more positive towards alcohol consumption. Structural equation analyses show that drinking behaviour is explained by a different model in each age-group: in older groups, the role played by positive attitude and perceived control is more important than in the younger; by contrast, the influence of reference groups decreases with age. Results show significant differences between age groups regarding the reasons that young people report for engaging or not engaging in this behaviour.  相似文献   

Graphic abilities in relation to mathematical and scientific ability in adolescents     

Fotini Stavridou  Domna Kakana 《Educational research; a review for teachers and all concerned with progress in education》2013,55(1):75-93

Background:?The study investigated a small range of cognitive abilities, related to visual-spatial intelligence, in adolescents. This specific range of cognitive abilities was termed ‘graphic abilities’ and defined as a range of abilities to visualise and think in three dimensions, originating in the domain of visual-spatial intelligence, and related to visual perception and the ability to represent space. The educational importance of graphic abilities has received minimal attention from the educational community and, consequently, plays a limited role in educational practice.

Purpose:?In order to understand the particular educational importance of this range of cognitive abilities, we investigated how graphic abilities are connected with the performance and the subject preference of adolescents in several academic areas. Our hypotheses were, first, that there is a high degree of correlation between developed graphic abilities and high performance in mathematics and science, and second, that there is a high degree of correlation between developed graphic abilities and personal subject preference in these two areas.

Sample:?The sample consisted of 60 14-year-old students (30 girls and 30 boys) attending a public secondary school in a small town in northern Greece. The entire sample had followed the same mathematics courses, which did not involve any geometry or spatial representation tasks.

Design and methods:?We identified and defined a specific range of three graphic abilities, related to visual-spatial intelligence, and we investigated these abilities in the sample through several visual-spatial tasks designed for the study and measured the sample's performance in these tasks. The degree of adolescents' graphic performance (that is, the performance in these visual-spatial tasks) was correlated with their performance in mathematics and science and with their subject preference (mathematics, science and language).

Results:?Our findings confirmed both hypotheses. A high degree of correlation was found between developed graphic abilities and high performance in mathematics, and a lower but still significant degree of correlation was found between developed graphic abilities and high performance in science. The findings support the second hypothesis as well, suggesting that children with developed graphic abilities reported that their favourite subject was mathematics and second favourite subject was science.

Conclusions:?The research suggested that there is a particular relation between the level of graphic abilities performance and children's performance and in preference for mathematics and science. That is, children with developed visual perception, visual thought and representational skills are actually better with numbers and physical concepts. This particular relation might be relevant to the overall cognitive development of children, especially with respect to the increasingly developing communication technologies, and it would seem to deserve more attention and extended research from the educational community. The authorial position is that education would gain from a better understanding of: the nature of graphic abilities, how we can develop this range of abilities and how the development of visual thought and graphic expression contributes to several curriculum subjects.  相似文献   

Documentation in Managed Care     

《Journal of Teaching in Social Work》2013,33(1-2):199-212

Abstract

This paper discusses clinical record keeping knowledge and skills for social work students and all practitioners in the context of managed care. Specifically we review managed care's documentation demands; prerogatives of utilization review; the tensions between man aged care and social work values; and social work education implications of evolving record-keeping standards and services delivery in managed care.  相似文献   

重大体育赛事风险特点与风险管理初探   总被引：12，自引：1，他引：12  

肖锋  沈建华 《体育科研》2004,25(6):8-10

运用文献资料法、专家访谈法、逻辑分析法等方法对重大体育赛事的运作存在的风险进行了研究。重大体育赛事的运作存在自然、经济、政治、组织管理等方面的风险。采取各种有效的手段措施、利用损失规避、损失控制、损失转移方法对赛事风险进行管理,避免各种事故的发生,减少因各种事故造成的负面影响和损失,是赛事成功运作举办和最大化举办赛事对社会发展的积极促进作用的保证。  相似文献   

中医院校大学生自主创业认知水平调查研究——以天津中医药大学为例     

辛怡  韩正  李海媛  贺竹  谢士玲 《科技创业月刊》2008,21(1):146-148

以天津中医药大学的在校学生为研究对象,通过问卷调查和个别深入访谈相结合的形式,探索中医院校学生的自主创业认知水平,揭示中医院校学生创业方面存在的若干问题,在此基础上给出相关的对策建议。  相似文献   

跨国投资中政治风险的评价     

杨柳 《科技创业月刊》2008,21(4):35-37

政治风险是企业在跨国经营中最重要的风险之一,也是近几年导致我国许多企业海外投资失败的重要原因,因此,加强对跨国投资中政治风险的防范显得尤为迫切。分析了跨国投资中政治风险的影响因素,并从宏观和微观层面对跨国投资中政治风险的现有评估方法进行了阐述和总结,提出了适合我国企业对跨国投资特定项目进行政治风险评估的框架体系和评价方法。  相似文献   

风险企业全过程风险控制机制研究     

谢胜强  颜彦 《科技创业月刊》2008,21(3):28-29

从风险的概念和创业风险的分类出发,研究了风险企业成长过程中从种子期、起步期、成长期到成熟期等各个阶段的风险类型和特点,并在此基础上,从风险控制保障机制方面系统分析了风险控制体系的构建。  相似文献   

地方农业保险发展现状及其存在的主要问题研究     

尹海文 《科技创业月刊》2008,21(7)

农业保险在我国国民经济中占有十分突出的地位,随着国民经济的不断持续增长,农业保险在我国显示着巨大的发展潜力。但是,从地方农业保险的发展来看,存在一系列的问题制约其发展,应当及时解决。  相似文献   

体育旅游中高风险项目的界定及其特点研究   总被引：1，自引：0，他引：1  

周清明  ZHOU Yong-song 《南京体育学院学报(社会科学版)》2008,22(2)

以体育旅游基础理论和体育旅游安全相关理论为基本理论支撑,结合体育旅游的风险现实案例进行研究。首先了解体育旅游的相关概念,回顾体育旅游产生和发展的历史,然后在这个背景下对体育旅游各个类型及其所属项目进行研究,界定出体育旅游高风险项目的定义和主要项目,并从旅游主体、旅游客体和旅游组织机构这三个层面来归纳高风险项目的主要特点。  相似文献