Improving school attendance: can participation in outdoor learning influence attendance for young people with social,emotional and behavioural difficulties?     

Alan Price 《Journal of Adventure Education & Outdoor Learning》2013,13(2):110-122

The link between good attendance in school and academic performance has been acknowledged for some time now. However, improving school attendance for young people with social, emotional and behavioural difficulties (SEBD) or pupils at risk of exclusion can be a challenging task for educational leaders. This paper begins with a discussion of earlier studies on outdoor learning and school attendance. It adds to the discourse by presenting findings from a one-year outdoor learning programme situated within an English special school for young people with SEBD. The research reported here is part of a larger study that used an action research design. The paper concludes that although improvements in attendance can be achieved, the factors affecting attendance are complex and that improvements may be restricted to programmes that utilise an outdoor learning approach rather than being achievable across the whole school curriculum.  相似文献   

Modeling Ability Differentiation in the Second-Order Factor Model     

Dylan Molenaar  Conor V. Dolan  Han L.J. van der Maas 《Structural equation modeling》2013,20(4):578-594

In this article we present factor models to test for ability differentiation. Ability differentiation predicts that the size of IQ subtest correlations decreases as a function of the general intelligence factor. In the Schmid–Leiman decomposition of the second-order factor model, we model differentiation by introducing heteroscedastic residuals, nonlinear factor loadings, and a skew-normal second-order factor distribution. Using marginal maximum likelihood, we fit this model to Spanish standardization data of the Wechsler Adult Intelligence Scale (3rd ed.) to test the differentiation hypothesis.  相似文献   

Combining IRT and SEM: A Hybrid Model for Fitting Responses and Response Certainties     

Pere J. Ferrando  Cristina Anguiano-Carrasco  Josep Demestre 《Structural equation modeling》2013,20(2):208-225

This article proposes a model-based procedure, intended for personality measures, for exploiting the auxiliary information provided by the certainty with which individuals answer every item (response certainty). This information is used to (a) obtain more accurate estimates of individual trait levels, and (b) provide a more detailed assessment of the consistency with which the individual responds to the test. The basis model consists of 2 submodels: an item response theory submodel for the responses, and a linear-in-the-coefficients submodel that describes the response certainties. The latter is based on the distance-difficulty hypothesis, and is parameterized as a factor-analytic model. Procedures for (a) estimating the structural parameters, (b) assessing model–data fit, (c) estimating the individual parameters, and (d) assessing individual fit are discussed. The proposal was used in an empirical study. Model–data fit was acceptable and estimates were meaningful. Furthermore, the precision of the individual trait estimates and the assessment of the individual consistency improved noticeably.  相似文献   

Models and Strategies for Factor Mixture Analysis: An Example Concerning the Structure Underlying Psychological Disorders     

Shaunna L. Clark  Bengt Muthén  Jaakko Kaprio  Brian M. D'Onofrio  Richard Viken  Richard J. Rose 《Structural equation modeling》2013,20(4):681-703

The factor mixture model (FMM) uses a hybrid of both categorical and continuous latent variables. The FMM is a good model for the underlying structure of psychopathology because the use of both categorical and continuous latent variables allows the structure to be simultaneously categorical and dimensional. This is useful because both diagnostic class membership and the range of severity within and across diagnostic classes can be modeled concurrently. Although the conceptualization of the FMM has been explained in the literature, the use of the FMM is still not prevalent. One reason is that there is little research about how such models should be applied in practice and, once a well-fitting model is obtained, how it should be interpreted. In this article, the FMM is explored by studying a real data example on conduct disorder. By exploring this example, this article aims to explain the different formulations of the FMM, the various steps in building a FMM, and how to decide between an FMM and alternative models.  相似文献   

Disentangling Shape from Level Effects in Person-Centered Analyses: An Illustration Based on University Teachers’ Multidimensional Profiles of Effectiveness     

Alexandre J. S. Morin  Herbert W. Marsh 《Structural equation modeling》2013,20(1):39-59

This study compares alternative ways of disentangling the effects of level (the tendency for a person to be high, medium, or low across all factors) and shape (the tendency for a person to have a distinct pattern of factors on which they are high, medium, or low) in profile analyses. This issue is particularly relevant to performance appraisals where it is often useful to identify specific strengths and weaknesses over and above a person global performance, but also to person-centered analyses more generally where the observation of qualitative (shape) differences between profiles is often used as justification for the added value of profiles. Substantively, this study illustrates these issues in the identification of profiles of teachers based on multidimensional students’ ratings of their effectiveness, using an archival data set of 31,951 class-average ratings based on the Students’ Evaluations of Educational Quality (SEEQ) instrument collected over a 13-year period. The results show the superiority of a factor mixture operationalization of teaching effectiveness in which a global effectiveness factor was used to control for unnecessary level effects in the profiles.  相似文献   

含一缺陷层一维磁流体光子晶体局域模磁场调控特性研究     

郝丽丽  谢应茂 《赣南师范学院学报》2013,(6):21-24

基于磁流体的折射率磁场调控特性,利用传输矩阵法数值模拟了TiO2和纳米磁流体(水基Fe3O4)作为基元材料的一维光子晶体局域模的磁场调控特性.结果表明:具有(AB)NBB(AB)NA结构排列(N为正整数)的一维磁流体光子晶体的局域模波长会随着外加磁场强度的增大向短波方向移动,且最大调控量与周期数无关,折射率n c一定时,局域模波长随着介质层厚度的增大向长波方向移动;局域模的品质因子随光子晶体的周期数、介质层厚度的增大而增大.当光子晶体周期数一定时,局域模波长的调控量将随着介质层厚度的增大而增大.  相似文献   

数码产品普及对高校学生管理工作的影响及对策     

魏明 《连云港职业技术学院学报》2013,26(2):69-71

随着经济的不断发展,人们生活水平的不断提高,数码产品日渐普及,已经成为大学生的“必需品”,它给大学生活带来诸多便利,也给高校学生管理工作带来了巨大的影响。高校学生管理者要具备与时俱进的创新思维、积极接受新事物、转变教育观念,充分发挥数码产品的积极作用,提高高校学生管理工作的针对性和实效性。  相似文献   

Application of Social Constructivism into EFL Classroom     

李海燕 《海外英语》2013,(7)

Recently, the view that classroom knowledge is socially constructed rather than being merely transmitted from teacher to student has made a significant impact in English language teaching. Based on s...  相似文献   

网络游戏对高职高专学生的影响及应对措施     

戴海群 《辽宁高职学报》2013,(9):104-106

目前,有越来越多的高职高专学生沉迷于网络游戏,甚至达到痴迷的程度,严重影响了正常的学习和生活。从哲学的视角分析网络游戏给高职高专学生带来的利与弊,从而挖掘出学生沉迷于网络游戏的深层原因,并提出相关的解决措施,以便更好地引导学生正确地对待网络游戏,促进身心健康成长。  相似文献   

我国大学生幸福指数体系的设计与分析     

冯采  张同健  任文举 《兰州石化职业技术学院学报》2013,13(1):37-39

大学生幸福指数是全面衡量大学生生活、学习、成长的指标,正成为现代教育学研究的热点。大学生幸福指数包含学习环境、心理健康、生活环境和社会期待4个要素。基于我国大学生的样本,验证性因子分析揭示了大学生幸福指数改进的内部机理,发现了幸福指数的优势和不足,从而为大学生全面发展策略的制定和实施提供了理论指导。  相似文献