Student Engagement and School Burnout in Finnish Lower-Secondary Schools: Latent Profile Analysis     

T. E. Virtanen  M.-K. Lerkkanen  A.-M. Poikkeus  M. Kuorelahti 《Scandinavian Journal of Educational Research》2018,62(4):519-537

Self-ratings of behavioural engagement, cognitive engagement and school burnout were used in person-centred analyses to identify latent profiles among 2,485 Finnish lower-secondary school students. Three profiles were identified: high-engagement/low-burnout (40.6% of the sample), average-engagement/average-burnout (53.9%), and low-engagement/high-burnout (5.5%). Another sample of lower-secondary school students was used to validate the 3 profiles. The factors most strongly associated with the high-engagement/low-burnout profile of lower-secondary school students’ were high levels of support from teachers and family, good academic performance, and lack of truancy. The study indicated that teacher and family support and students’ academic achievement are pivotal in understanding student engagement and school burnout.  相似文献   

Discussion of competences at university level: review of the competency profile of social educators / Discusión de competencias en el ámbito universitario: revisión del perfil del educador social     

María-Dolores Eslava-Suanes  Ignacio González-López  Carlota de-León-Huertas 《Cultura y Educación》2018,30(2):393-413

Training in competences helps university students develop in a comprehensive way that is oriented towards working in their chosen profession. The profession focused on in this study is that of social educator. Degree programmes related to this profession are relatively new and their implementation is also open to variation. As a result of this, a review of the competency profile of the profession is considered necessary. The study presented here aims to validate the competences of this profession by means of expert judgement. The panel of experts assesses the relevance and clarity of each element, as well as giving their opinions on them. The contributions provided result in a set of qualitative and quantitative data whose analysis helps to redefine a profile comprising 23 competences distributed across two dimensions: basic competences (14) and professional competences (9).  相似文献   

Research on temperature profiles of honeycomb regenerator with asymptotic analysis     

AI Yuan-fang MEI Chi HUANG Guo-dong JIANG Shao-jian CHEN Hong-rong 《重庆大学学报(英文版)》2006,5(2):77-82

1 Introduction 1 High temperature air combustion (HTAC) [1] can offer significantly improved thermal efficiency, reduced NOx emission and uniform heat flux field. Most of HTAC use the honeycomb regenerative system to preheat the air to a temperature above…  相似文献   

Who mentors undergraduate student researchers? An analysis of faculty involvement at a four-year university     

Donna Chamely-Wiik  Brian T. Cooney  Michael A. DeDonno 《Mentoring & Tutoring: Partnership in Learning》2020,28(1):78-97

ABSTRACT

In this study, we investigated a profile of faculty who mentor undergraduate researchers at a four-year Hispanic-serving, public research university. Six variables were investigated: ethnicity, gender, age, tenure status, teaching evaluations, and research productivity. Data were compiled from institutional databases. Findings showed a greater percentage of tenured faculty mentoring undergraduate researchers while the percent of minority UR faculty mentors was consistent with institutional percentages. Additionally, findings included a higher percentage of Science, Technology, Engineering, and Math (STEM) Undergraduate Research (UR) underrepresented minority faculty mentors compared to STEM Institution (INST) underrepresented minority faculty. For research productivity, UR faculty mentor funding comprised 28.0% of all external grant awards and 36.0% of all external funding during the sampling period. The majority funding for INST and UR faculty were found to be in the STEM disciplines. These findings provide evidence of potential predictors to describe UR faculty mentor profiles and can be considered important information for determining future educational policies and practices.  相似文献   

Exploring profiles of ideal high school mathematical teaching behaviours: perceptions of in-service and pre-service teachers in Taiwan     

Feng-Jui Hsieh  Qian Chen 《Educational studies》2018,44(4):468-487

This study explored and compared the perspectives of Taiwanese in-service and pre-service high school mathematics teachers regarding ideal teaching behaviours; the perspectives of a nationwide sample of students were taken as the baseline. Fourteen factors contributing to ideal teaching behaviours were identified through exploratory factor analyses. Nine factors, including idea explanation and speedy lecture, were rooted in traditional Chinese culture; five factors, including concrete representation and student activities, were influenced by Western cultures. Three teacher profiles were identified through k-means clustering analysis. The perspectives of in-service teachers were dominated by a painless meaning-emphasised profile; these teachers emphasised meaningful learning for students and avoided the fast pace and demanding requirements that can cause distress in students, whereas pre-service teachers were dominated by an all-round profile, revealing their openness to all factors. Compared with pre-service teachers, in-service teachers’ perspectives were more similar to those of students.  相似文献   

Rat serum electrolytes, lipid profile and cardiovascular activity onNauclea latifolia leaf extract administration     

M. I. Akpanabiatu  I. B. Umoh  E. O. Udosen  A. E. Udoh  E. E. Edet 《Indian journal of clinical biochemistry : IJCB》2005,20(2):29-34

Aqueous extract of the leaf and root ofNauclea latifolia Sm. (Rubiaceae) is used in Nigerian folk medicine for the treatment of hypertension. This work is carried out to investigate the effect ofNauclea latifolia leaf extract on lipid profile and cardiovascular activity of rats. Normal and 10% coconut oil fed rats were treated with the water-soluble fraction of the ethanol extract ofNauclea latifolia leaf for 2 weeks. Forty-eight mature male albino rats of the Wistar strain were divided into two experiments of four groups, each group having 6 animals. Experiment I animals were treated with the water-soluble fraction of the ethanol extract whilst experiment II animals were fed 10% coconut oil meal before treatment with the water-soluble fraction of the ethanol extract. A single oral dose ofNauclea latifolia was 170, 340 and 510 mg/kg body wt/day of the extracts respectively for 2 wks. There was no significant change in the lipid profile of the experimental animals as compared with the controls. There was about 40% relaxation on contracted thoracic aorta that was pre-contracted with 2 μM phenylephrine. The viability of the tissue was tested against 10 μM of acetylcholine. There was no significant (P>0.05) change in Na⁺ concentration in the serum. However, the K⁺ concentration in the serum of the experimental animals showed a significant increase. The study shows that ethanol extract ofNauclea latifolia has vasodilator action on the aorta and that lipid profiles of experimental rats were not affected. Furthermore, the increase in the K⁺ may be contributing to the vasodilator effect ofNauclea latifolia.  相似文献   

Effects of flaxseed<Emphasis Type="Italic">(Linum usitatissimum) chutney</Emphasis> on gamma-glutamyl transpeptidase and micronuclei profile in azoxymethane treated rats     

K. A. Faseehuddin Shakir  Basavaraj Madhusudhan 《Indian journal of clinical biochemistry : IJCB》2007,22(2):129-131

Antioxidant property of flaxseed chutney was evident by decreasing lipid peroxidation (TBARS) and predictor enzyme γ-glutamyl transpeptidase profile and micronuclei formation in azoxymethane treated rats. After 10 weeks, rats fed with either fiber-free basal diet or Antioxidant diet exhibited over sevenfold increase in γ-glutamyl transpeptidase activity and nearly fourfold increase in micronuclei load in comparison to controls (p<0.001). A significant reduction in both γ-glutamyl transpeptidase level (52%) and micronuclei formation (47%) was observed in fiber-free basal diet/Antioxidant diet/flaxseed chutney diet fed rats. Relative to rats fed fiber-free basal diet, the profile of γ-glutamyl transpeptidase and micronuclei load was not significantly altered.  相似文献   

基于混合链编码二进制图像的压缩和重构     

王永强  李好  张婷 《唐山学院学报》2010,(3):34-36,39

用一种先进的混合链编码算法对二进制图像进行压缩和重构,该算法包含了无损和有损两个部分,并利用这一算法对图像轮廓进行处理,生成大量的链节点数据,然后根据(n10,5)的规则进行编码,可实现很高的压缩比。对于有损部分,引入了一种新的线性处理技术,既平滑了图像轮廓,又保持了很高的图像质量。实验结果表明,该方法优于其它链编码方法 ,包括FCC,DCC-8和L&Z。另外,此方法的压缩比明显大于WinZip,JBIG1和JBIG2等标准的压缩比。  相似文献   

Assessing Measurement Invariance in Multiple-Group Latent Profile Analysis     

Margarita Olivera-Aguilar  Samuel H. Rikoon 《Structural equation modeling》2018,25(3):439-452

The study of measurement invariance in latent profile analysis (LPA) indicates whether the latent profiles differ across known subgroups (e.g., gender). The purpose of the present study was to examine the impact of noninvariance on the relative bias of LPA parameter estimates and on the ability of the likelihood ratio test (LRT) and information criteria statistics to reject the hypothesis of invariance. A Monte Carlo simulation study was conducted in which noninvariance was defined as known group differences in the indicator means in each profile. Results indicated that parameter estimates were biased in conditions with medium and large noninvariance. The LRT and AIC detected noninvariance in most conditions with small sample sizes, while the BIC and adjusted BIC needed larger sample sizes to detect noninvariance. Implications of the results are discussed along with recommendations for future research.  相似文献   

Neuromuscular,metabolic and hormonal profiles of young tennis players and untrained boys     

Antti Mero  Laura Jaakkola  Paavo V. Komi 《Journal of sports sciences》2013,31(2):95-100

This study compared the neuromuscular, metabolic and hormonal profiles of trained prepubescent tennis players and an untrained group. The boys in the experimental group (n = 9; mean age ± S.D. = 11.4 ± 0.5 years) had participated in tennis training for 2.3 ± 1.0 years and the boys in the control group (n = 9; mean age ± S.D. = 10.9 ± 0.4 years) were normal active volunteers. The tennis players were found to be physically more active than the controls when the comparison was made for either 1 year (4.9 ± 1.8 vs 2.6 ± 2.5 times per week; P<0.05) or for 1 week (3.4 + 1.2 vs 0.4 ± 0.5 times; P < 0.001) preceding the tests. Choice reaction time was significantly (P <0.01) shorter in the experimental group (258 ± 16 ms) than in the control group (344 + 81 ms). Dropping height in the best drop jump was significantly (P< 0.05) higher in the tennis players (0.46 + 0.19 m) than in the control boys (0.27 ± 0.10 m). The tennis players had significantly lower oxygen consumption at the ‘anaerobic threshold’ than the controls (P < 0.05). There were no significant differences between the groups in serum hormone levels. The small differences that existed may have been caused by actice participation in sport by the tennis players.  相似文献