Doing Educational Research: an action research approach     

Alice Otto  S. Nkanga 《Educational Action Research》2013,21(3):279-286

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Three-Level Models for Indirect Effects in School- and Class-Randomized Experiments in Education     

Keenan A. Pituch  Daniel L. Murphy  Richard L. Tate 《Journal of Experimental Education》2013,81(1):60-95

Due to the clustered nature of field data, multi-level modeling has become commonly used to analyze data arising from educational field experiments. While recent methodological literature has focused on multi-level mediation analysis, relatively little attention has been devoted to mediation analysis when three levels (e.g., student, class, school) are present in a study setting. This article presents analysis models that can be used to test indirect effects in experimental designs having three levels where random assignment is at the third (school) or second (class) level and where the indirect effect may be random. In the presentation, simulated datasets are used to illustrate model specification and results interpretation for hypothetical three-level educational experiments involving mediation and moderation of treatment effects.  相似文献   

Majors and credits in public speaking     

Mrs. Alice’ W. Macleod 《Quarterly Journal of Speech》2013,99(2):149-152

If politics is an art, then matters of style must be crucial to its practice. This essay considers how political actions are shaped by rhetorical practices that depend upon aesthetic perceptions. Modern assumptions of artistic autonomy are replaced by the classical concept of decorum, which offers a model for understanding how political life is styled for rhetorical effect. The role of decorousness in contemporary politics is illustrated by the extreme case of the courtly style, which constitutes power through propriety, is centered on the king's body, displaces speech with gesture, and ends in political paralysis.  相似文献   

Dispelling Myths about Latino Parent Participation in Schools     

Alice M. L. Quiocho  Annette M. Daoud 《The Educational forum》2013,77(3):255-267

This qualitative study was conducted to discuss and dispel commonly held myths about Latino parents' involvement in their children's education. Differences between teacher perceptions of Latino parent involvement and parents' understanding of their roles in supporting their children's education—including the learning and use of the English language—were explored. Results indicated that some teachers held negative perceptions of Latino parents. The study also revealed that Latino parents had high expectations of their children's academic achievement and wanted to be more involved in their education, but felt excluded from the school community.  相似文献   

Educational attainment in the short and long term: was there an advantage to attending faith,private, and selective schools for pupils in the 1980s?     

Alice Sullivan  Samantha Parsons  Francis Green  Richard D. Wiggins  George Ploubidis  Timmy Huynh 《牛津教育评论》2013,39(6):806-822

ABSTRACT

This paper asks whether private, selective, and faith schools in England and Wales in the 1980s provided an academic advantage to their pupils, both in the short and longer term. Using longitudinal data from the 1970 British Cohort Study, we examine academic outcomes in compulsory schooling and further education, and the highest qualification gained by age 42. School sector differences are substantially attenuated by controlling for prior pupil characteristics. Nevertheless, a residual effect of private, grammar, and secondary modern schooling remains, both in the short and long term, controlling for both pupil and school characteristics. In the case of faith schools, however, the apparent advantage is restricted to the short term once pupil characteristics are controlled. A unique feature of our analysis is that we control for the individual’s faith of upbringing, which is important in reducing what could otherwise be seen as a distinctive Catholic school advantage.  相似文献   

IMPACT OF ILLITERACY ON REHABILITATION OF COMMUNICATION DISORDERS: PRELIMINARY CONSIDERATIONS     

Alice R. Kahn  Laura J. Kelly 《Educational gerontology》2013,39(6):581-589

The number of older illiterate adults seeking therapy for acquired communication disorders is increasing. Communication bias may place health‐care professionals at risk for providing appropriate services to these patients. There is a need to identify illiterate patients, and to study the impact of current diagnostic and rehabilitative procedures on them. Possible effects of illiteracy on hearing‐impaired, aphasic, and laryngectomy patients are discussed, and preliminary suggestions for providing comprehensive rehabilitative services to them are provided.  相似文献   

Rethinking assessment and inequality: the production of disparities in attainment in early years education     

Alice Bradbury 《教育政策杂志》2013,28(5):655-676

Despite decades of research and debate, the issue of unequal outcomes continues to be a concern in educational systems worldwide. In England, published data relating to pupils’ attainment across ethnic groups and by class indicators has been used to demonstrate continued inequalities in schools. This article attempts to deconstruct the relationship between assessment results and inequality by questioning the assumption that results only record inequality, rather than being implicated in its production. Interview data related to the case of a statutory teacher assessment system in early years education are used to show how assessment results may be influenced by pressure from external advisors, who only recognise certain patterns of results as intelligible. These recognisable patterns, it is argued, relate to wider discourses of class, race and the ‘inner city’, through which the pupils in these schools are constituted as inevitably low attaining. In addition, monitoring systems based on ‘value added’ methodologies provide an incentive to deflate assessment results in this first year of school. The article concludes that we need to rethink exactly what apparent disparities in assessment results actually represent, particularly given the increasing use of teacher assessment in the school system in England.  相似文献   

法兰克福：美因河畔的魅力之城     

Alice 《世界发明》2009,(4):76-77

位于欧洲心脏的大都会法兰克福,以鲜明的个性带给人独特的体验：传统与现代、贸易与文化、忙碌与安逸。法兰克人的基督教主教会议所在地最初位于美因河惟一的渡口,而法兰克福这一城市的名字也正因此得名——它源自于拉丁文“Franconofurd”,  相似文献   

在雷峰塔颠覆和重建当代艺术     

Alice 《世界发明》2009,(6):12-13

说起雷峰塔,有人会想起《白蛇传》里的神话传说,有人会想起鲁迅先生那篇刊登于中学课本的杂文《论雷峰塔的倒掉》。始建于五代十国的雷峰塔曾是西湖的地标建筑,“雷峰夕照”是著名的西湖十景之一。1924年9月25号雷峰塔轰然坍塌。2002年10月25日,雷峰塔重建竣工。2008年4月18日至2009年5月31日,“刀锋——重建雷峰塔”实验艺术展在北京圣之空间展出,宣誓着来自西湖边的艺术理想和精神之塔的重建。  相似文献   

What Is Education For?   总被引：2，自引：0，他引：2  

Nick Tate 《English in Education》1999,33(2):5-18

This paper is a speech given at King's College, University of London, where Dr Tate asks us to review current rationales for teaching and learning in schools. He outlines his own view which states that it is a liberal humanist project in the tradition of Arnold through to Gramsci which seeks to bring civilisation and values to the population. His paper surveys how this answer plays out in other countries as well as what this means for educationalists and education policy makers. He ends by asking the government to look at the big picture and the big idea which education is.  相似文献