Review: Green Culture: Environmental Rhetoric in Contemporary America.     

Susan Mallon Ross 《Technical Communication Quarterly》1997,6(1):108-110

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28 Days Later: Twitter Hashtags as “Just in Time” Teacher Professional Development     

Spencer P. Greenhalgh  Matthew J. Koehler 《TechTrends》2017,61(3):273-281

Researchers have argued that Twitter has potential to support high-quality professional development (PD) that can respond to teachers’ questions and concerns just in time and “on the spot.” Yet, very little attention has been paid to instances where Twitter has made just-in-time learning possible. In this paper, we examine one instance of timely professional development on Twitter, in which 3,598 users used an educational hashtag—#educattentats—to create a temporary affinity space supporting French teachers preparing to discuss recent terrorist attacks with their students. We describe this just-in-time PD by focusing on participants and modes of participation, the spread of the hashtag in its first hours and the growth and eventual decline of the hashtag over the course of 28 days. The results of this study suggest that #educattentats served effectively as just-in-time professional development for teachers. Implications for research and practice are discussed.  相似文献   

Reputation and reality: ranking major disciplines in Australian universities     

Ross Williams  Nina Van Dyke 《Higher Education》2008,56(1):1-28

League tables that rank universities may use reputational measures, performance measures, or both. Each type of measure has strengths and weaknesses. In this paper, we rank disciplines in Australian universities both by reputation, using an international survey of senior academics, and with actual performance measures. We then compare the two types of measures to see how closely they match. The criterion we use for both sets of measures is ‘international academic standing’. We find a high correlation between the survey results and the various measures of research performance. We also find a correlation between the quality of student intake and the survey rankings, but the satisfaction levels of recent graduates do not correlate well with the rankings by academics. We then construct an overall measure of performance, which gives very similar rankings to the survey results, especially for the top-ranked institutions.

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Harnessing technology to improve formative assessment of student conceptions in STEM: forging a national network   总被引：2，自引：0，他引：2  

Haudek KC  Kaplan JJ  Knight J  Long T  Merrill J  Munn A  Nehm R  Smith M  Urban-Lurain M 《CBE life sciences education》2011,10(2):149-155

Concept inventories, consisting of multiple-choice questions designed around common student misconceptions, are designed to reveal student thinking. However, students often have complex, heterogeneous ideas about scientific concepts. Constructed-response assessments, in which students must create their own answer, may better reveal students' thinking, but are time- and resource-intensive to evaluate. This report describes the initial meeting of a National Science Foundation-funded cross-institutional collaboration of interdisciplinary science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) education researchers interested in exploring the use of automated text analysis to evaluate constructed-response assessments. Participants at the meeting shared existing work on lexical analysis and concept inventories, participated in technology demonstrations and workshops, and discussed research goals. We are seeking interested collaborators to join our research community.  相似文献   

Computers on wheels: an alternative to 'each one has one'   总被引：1，自引：0，他引：1  

Michael M. Grant  Steven M. Ross  Weiping Wang  Allison Potter 《British journal of educational technology : journal of the Council for Educational Technology》2005,36(6):1017-1034

Four fifth‐grade classrooms embarked on a modified ubiquitous computing initiative in the fall of 2003. Two 15‐computer wireless laptop carts were shared among the four classrooms in an effort to integrate technology across the curriculum and affect change in student learning and teacher pedagogy. This initiative—in contrast to other one‐to‐one programmemess and stationary labs—offers public schools alternatives to budget constraints and instructional‐space overhead. Results indicate positive teacher technology competence and confidence, as well as instructional strategies that were student‐centred made meaningful uses of technology. Teacher technological knowledge and efficacy, pedagogical knowledge, and a supportive school community seem to be strong indicators for impacting technology integration in this context.  相似文献   

Book reviews     

Michalina Vaughan  Elchanan Cohn  Vivien Hodgson  Alec Ross  J. C. Mathews  David McNamara  John Hladczuk 《Higher Education》1987,16(4):503-512

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Problem Solving, Contention, and Struggle: How Siblings Resolve a Conflict of Interests     

Avigail Ram  & Hildy S. Ross 《Child development》2001,72(6):1710-1722

In a laboratory setting, 48 sibling dyads age 4 and 6 or 6 and 8 years negotiated the division of six toys. Findings revealed that, in general, children reached divisions while using a preponderance of constructive problem-solving strategies, rather than contentious tactics. The degree of conflict of interests and the quality of sibling relationships predicted the children's use of problem-solving and contentious negotiation strategies, and was related to the types of resolutions achieved. Dyads experiencing low conflict of interests resolved their differences quickly. High conflict of interests coupled with positive relationships and constructive negotiation resulted in longer negotiations and creative, agreeable resolutions. High conflict of interests coupled with more negative relationships and destructive negotiations resulted in children's failures to reach agreement. Developmental differences indicated that older siblings within the pairs took the lead in negotiation, and benefited slightly more from the divisions. Furthermore, children in older dyads were more sophisticated and other oriented in their negotiations.  相似文献   

The evolving reference desk: A case study     

Christopher Ross Bowron  Joseph E. Weber 《The Journal of Academic Librarianship》2019,45(5):102057

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Age of Uncontrolled Information Flow     

Henry Spencer 《The Information Society》1997,13(2):163-170

We are heading into an era of uncontrolled and uncontrollable information flow. In the past, the tools of information flow required large investments, and the persons controlling them were easily identifiable. Now, effective long-range communication with large numbers of people can be done using tools that are easily affordable to the average citizen. Moreover, it can be done in ways that make monitoring and control virtually impossible. This is not a worrisome future change that can be averted by prompt action; it is a fait accompli and there is no reversing it. However, this is not necessarily clear to those interested in monitoring and control. Unfortunately, the bulk of electronic communication is still relatively exposed to monitoring and control, and is likely to remain so for a while. The danger is that the authorities, trying to retain a grip on a situation that is irretrievably slipping away, will react to the extremes of the problem in ways that leave ordinary users' privacy unprotected. The best approach is to adapt traditional solutions rather than inventing new ones. The safeguards built into the traditional solutions may not be precisely appropriate, but they are far better than nothing.  相似文献   

Opportunities for educational innovations in authentic project-based learning: understanding instructor perceived challenges to design for adoption     

Rees Lewis  Daniel G.  Gerber  Elizabeth M.  Carlson  Spencer E.  Easterday  Matthew W. 《Educational technology research and development : ETR & D》2019,67(4):953-982

Educational technology research and development - Authentic project-based learning (APBL) is a highly effective way for instructors to help students learn disciplinary skills, modes of thinking,...  相似文献