Coping strategies and the influence of perceived parental support in junior national age swimmers     

Lafferty ME  Dorrell K 《Journal of sports sciences》2006,24(3):253-259

This study examines how national junior age group swimmers cope with poor performance and explores whether coping strategy use changes with perceptions of parental support. One hundred and four junior age group swimmers (mean age 14.2 years) completed a modified version of the COPE scale (Crocker & Issack, 1997) and the perceptions of Perceived Parental Support Scale (Van Yperen, 1995). Results showed that the swimmers in this sample used a mixture of behavioural and cognitive strategies with an emphasis upon individual or internally focused approaches. When analysing coping strategies and perceptions of parental support (high, medium and low), significant differences were found in the use of behavioural and cognitively orientated approaches. When perception of parental support was low, swimmers reported using less active and training-orientated mechanisms and a tendency to use strategies such as self-blame and venting of emotion. These findings suggest that the effectiveness and ability of coping strategies to adapt to differing situations may be contingent upon perceptions of perceived support for junior swimmers. This highlights an area for future research.  相似文献   

征服我心的故事     

Kate  Chambers  小波 《海外英语》2004,(3):15

She Conquered My Heart with Her Stories In a hot,airless room in Africa,surrounded bycustoms officials,I filled out forms to get a resi-dency permit. “Where did you meet your spouse?”Thatwash’t hard.Neither was filling in my educationalqualifications. But the next question had me  相似文献   

The Cox Models Revisited: English Teachers' Views of their Subject and the National Curriculum     

Andrew Goodwyn  Kate Findlay 《English in Education》1999,33(2):19-31

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Personal Learning Planning: Can Tutoring Improve Pupils' Learning?     

Kate Bullock  & Felicity Wikeley 《Pastoral Care in Education》2003,21(1):18-25

This article explores the impact of a Personal Learning Planning (PLP) initiative on pupils' understanding of, and confidence in, learning. The cornerstone of the initiative was a one–to–one, or small group, discussion between Year 9 students and their class tutor. This resulted in a written personal learning plan. The benefits and weaknesses of the initiative are discussed and the interrelationships between action planning, one–to–one tutoring and learning are explored.  相似文献   

Shaping Literacy in the Secondary School: Policy, Practice and Agency in the Age of the National Literacy Strategy     

Andy Goodwyn  & Kate Findlay 《British Journal of Educational Studies》2003,51(1):20-35

This article examines the definitions of literacy in operation in secondary schools, and the relationship between official literacy policy and the practices of the agents responsible for implementing this policy. We trace the history of national 'policy' back to the Language Across the Curriculum movement of the 1970s as it provides an illustrative point of comparison with the first five years of the National Literacy Strategy. Drawing on empirical data which illuminate the views, perceptions and practices of key agents on a number of levels, we critically review the concept of 'school literacy' promoted in government policy, defining it as 'school–centric literacy' and question its ability to facilitate participation in the practices associated with the media and technological literacies which are increasingly a feature of school life. There is evidence of some unplanned effects of the current national policy but also that levels of agency, for literacy teachers in particular, may be rapidly diminishing.  相似文献   

Adiposity,physical activity and neuromuscular performance in children     

Eero A. Haapala  Juuso Väistö  Niina Lintu  Tuomo Tompuri  Soren Brage  Kate Westgate 《Journal of sports sciences》2016,34(18):1699-1706

We investigated the associations of body fat percentage (BF%), objectively assessed moderate-to-vigorous physical activity (MVPA) and different types of physical activity assessed by a questionnaire with neuromuscular performance. The participants were 404 children aged 6–8 years. BF% was assessed using dual-energy x-ray absorptiometry and physical activity by combined heart rate and movement sensing and a questionnaire. The results of 50-m shuttle run, 15-m sprint run, hand grip strength, standing long jump, sit-up, modified flamingo balance, box-and-block and sit-and-reach tests were used as measures of neuromuscular performance. Children who had a combination of higher BF% and lower levels of physical activity had the poorest performance in 50-m shuttle run, 15-m sprint run and standing long jump tests. Higher BF% was associated with slower 50-m shuttle run and 15-m sprint times, shorter distance jumped in standing long jump test, fewer sit-ups, more errors in balance test and less cubes moved in box-and-block test. Higher levels of physical activity and particularly MVPA assessed objectively by combined accelerometer and heart rate monitor were related to shorter 50-m shuttle run and 15-m sprint times. In conclusion, higher BF% and lower levels of physical activity and particularly the combination of these two factors were associated with worse neuromuscular performance.  相似文献   

The word shape hypothesis re‐examined: evidence for an external feature advantage in visual word recognition     

John R. Beech  Kate A. Mayall 《Journal of Research in Reading》2005,28(3):302-319

This study investigates the relative roles of internal and external letter features in word recognition. In Experiment 1 the efficacy of outer word fragments (words with all their horizontal internal features removed) was compared with inner word fragments (words with their outer features removed) as primes in a forward masking paradigm. These forward masked primes were followed by a word to be read aloud. Outer word primes presented for longer durations produced significantly faster naming responses than inner primes. Outer parts of words appear to provide more relevant information for lexical access at an earlier stage than inner fragments. In Experiment 2 words with only external features were named correctly on 96% of occasions compared with 52% of words with only their inner features presented. This indicates much greater information content in the periphery of a word (despite having a reduced area of print available: 45% compared to 55%). Multiple regression analyses controlling for ‘guessability’ (from data in Experiment 2) still produced significantly faster reaction times in the outer relative to the inner priming condition for longer prime durations. These experiments demonstrate that first, the most informative letter features are concentrated in the peripheral region of words; and second, even controlling for this effect, readers appear to have a bias towards analysing outer features of a word before inner features.  相似文献   

The Social Geography of Choice: Neighborhoods’ Role in Students’ Navigation of School Choice Policy in Chicago     

Kate L. Phillippo  Briellen Griffin 《The Urban Review》2016,48(5):668-695

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THE HISTORY OF AN INNOVATION     

Kate Ashcroft 《Assessment & Evaluation in Higher Education》1987,12(1):37-45

This paper is concerned with the processes and thinking that were involved in the development of a highly innovative BEd degree course within the modular course of Oxford Polytechnic. The rationale for the degree course will be considered, followed by a discussion of some of the processes involved in implementing that rationale. The development of a particular basic first year module will be looked at in depth as a case study illustration of innovative teaching, learning and assessment methods, including distance learning, peer teaching, self assessment, group projects, first hand research, analysis of group dynamics and critical enquiry.  相似文献   

Possible futures for science and engineering education     

Margaret Blackie  Kate le Roux  Sioux McKenna 《Higher Education》2016,71(6):755-766

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