Comparison of Individual Criteria and Externally Imposed Criteria for Stage Allocation: Findings from an Internet Study Addressing Physical Activity     

Jana Richert  Sonia Lippke  Ralf Schwarzer 《Measurement in physical education and exercise science》2013,17(4):225-240

Stage-matched interventions can only be more effective than “one-size-fits-all” interventions if they target participants' specific needs. Therefore, individuals must be allocated to a stage that truly reflects their mindsets. Various criteria for stage allocation exist. This study's objective was to demonstrate the impact of different classification criteria on stage allocation, and which criterion yields the best reflection of individuals' mindsets. The sample consists of 569 internet users. Physical activity, intention to change, and four stages of change (Non-Intender, Intender, Maintaining Actor, and Changing Actor) were assessed. Staging was based on two criteria: individual criteria and externally imposed criteria (30 min of physical activity on at least 4 days of the week). Hypotheses were tested by multivariate analyses and validity tests. As predicted, the different criteria affected stage allocation, and staging based on the individual criterion seemed to reflect individuals' intention to change and behavior better than staging based on the external standard.  相似文献   

Didactic competencies of teachers from the learner’s viewpoint     

Milena Valenčič Zuljan  Cirila Peklaj  Sonja Pečjak  Melita Puklek  Jana Kalin 《Educational studies》2012,38(1):51-62

Teacher competencies can be researched in many different ways. In the present article they are studied from the learner’s viewpoint. The article presents results of the extensive project “Teacher Education for New Competencies for the Knowledge Society and the Role of these Competencies in Educational Goal Attainment at School”, carried out at the Faculty of Arts of the University of Ljubljana, with the financial support of the Slovenian Ministry of Education and Sport. We present the results of the learner’s judgement of the teacher’s didactic competencies. We formed a questionnaire with which we operationalised teacher competencies with the purpose of measuring the teacher’s efficiency of instruction. In order to achieve the goals of modern instruction it is important to engage both models: learner‐centred and teacher‐centred education. The research showed that elements of the traditional instruction model are more frequently used than the model that demands a changed learner role.  相似文献   

Infant vocal-motor coordination: precursor to the gesture-speech system?     

Iverson JM  Fagan MK 《Child development》2004,75(4):1053-1066

This study was designed to provide a general picture of infant vocal-motor coordination and test predictions generated by Iverson and Thelen's (1999) model of the development of the gesture-speech system. Forty-seven 6- to 9-month-old infants were videotaped with a primary caregiver during rattle and toy play. Results indicated an age-related increase in frequency of vocal-motor coordination, greater coordination with arm (specifically right arm) than leg or torso movements, and a temporal pattern similar to that in adult gesture-speech coproductions. Rhythmic vocalizations (consonant-vowel repetitions) were more likely to occur with than without rhythmic movement, and with rhythmic manual than with nonmanual activity, and the rate of vocal-manual coordination was higher in babblers than in prebabblers.  相似文献   

Research University STEM Faculty Members’ Motivation to Engage in Teaching Professional Development: Building the Choir Through an Appeal to Extrinsic Motivation and Ego     

Jana Bouwma-Gearhart 《Journal of Science Education and Technology》2012,21(5):558-570

This paper reports on a qualitative, grounded-theory-based study that explored the motivations of science and engineering faculty to engage in teaching professional development at a major research university. Faculty members were motivated to engage in teaching professional development due to extrinsic motivations, mainly a weakened professional ego, and sought to bring their teaching identities in better concordance with their researcher identities. The results pose a challenge to a body of research that has concluded that faculty must be intrinsically motivated to participate in teaching professional development. Results confirmed a pre-espoused theory of motivation, self-determination theory; a discussion of research literature consideration during grounded theory research is offered. A framework for motivating more faculty members at research universities to engage in teaching professional development is provided.  相似文献   

Interviewing to analyze & assess performance improvement initiatives     

Jana L. Pershing 《Performance Improvement》2003,42(6):30-36

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