Gardening as a cognitive activity     

Deborah G. Ventis 《Early Childhood Education Journal》1992,19(3):32-34

Gardening and children are a natural combination; children love to play in the dirt, and are fascinated by growing things. The benefits of having a garden can go beyond the fresh vegetables and flowers, a lot can be learned in the process. Although skills involved in planting and caring for the garden and acquiring a rudimentary knowledge of biology are obvious benefits, many other cognitive skills can be introduced or reinforced with a garden project.Deborah G. Ventis is Associate Professor of Psychology, College of William and Mary, Williamsburgh, VA.  相似文献   

Utilitarian Individualism and Panel Nonresponse     

Loosveldt  Geert; Carton  Ann 《Int. Journal of Public Opinion Research》2002,14(4):428-438

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Book reviews     

Louise L. Stevenson  Albert N. Greco  Ann Okerson  Beth Luey 《Publishing Research Quarterly》1991,7(1):85-91

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Information express: The use of commercial document delivery in the county college of Morris LRC     

Ann L. Kelsey  Associate Director  Diane M. Davenport  Reference Librarian 《The Journal of Academic Librarianship》1993,19(5)

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Can a Teacher‐Led State Assessment System Work?     

Deborah L. Bandalos 《Educational Measurement》2004,23(2):33-40

Recent implementation of Nebraska's Standards-based Teacher-led Assessment and Reporting System (STARS) introduced a unique opportunity to examine the benefits and drawbacks of a teacher-led state assessment system. STARS is unique among state assessment systems in that statewide tests are replaced by locally developed assessments designed by teachers. Benefits of this system are found to be greater teacher use of results for instructional planning, greater diagnostic utility of the assessments, and gains in assessment literacy. Disadvantages include the time-consuming and stressful nature of creating localized assessments. Compatibility of STARS with the requirements of the No Child Left Behind Act are discussed.  相似文献   

So many filters, so little time: the development of a search filter appraisal checklist          下载免费PDF全文

Julie Glanville  Sue Bayliss  Andrew Booth  Yenal Dundar  Hasina Fernandes  Nigel David Fleeman  Louise Foster  Cynthia Fraser  Anne Fry-Smith  Su Golder  Carol Lefebvre  Caroline Miller  Suzy Paisley  Liz Payne  Alison Price    Karen Welch 《Medical Library and Historical Journal》2008,96(4):356-361

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Untangling the jungle of e-journal access issues using CRM software     

Carol Ann Borchert   《Library Collections, Acquisitions, and Technical Services》2006,30(3-4):224-237

Librarians have been struggling for years with the variety of issues arising while troubleshooting access to electronic journals. This article outlines the advantages and disadvantages of using a Customer Relations Management (CRM) software, originally designed for a call center, to communicate with patrons and track access issues. Utilizing the e-mail software used by the Reference Department at the University of South Florida, we assign incidents, correspond with patrons and staff, write internal notes, maintain transactions, and pull statistics. Hopefully, library vendors will develop software oriented to the needs of libraries to assist in managing access problems for e-journals.  相似文献   

Paving Consensus: Enacting, Challenging, and Revising the Consensus Process in a Cohousing Community   总被引：1，自引：0，他引：1  

Mary Ann Renz 《Journal of Applied Communication Research》2006,34(2):163-190

This study focused on a cohousing community's use of consensus to make a decision about surfacing a parking area. It revealed that the community's use of consensus decision making allowed the residents to balance three goals: making an appropriate decision, meeting members' needs, and maintaining the community's well-being. Reaching agreement, however, was complicated by members' value differences and discontinuity in their participation. The analysis of this case reveals three qualities characteristic of the enactment of consensus: the role of structured communication within and between group meetings, a tension between maintaining process openness and reaching decision closure, and the expectation that group members will work within the consensus process. The analysis also highlights the importance of timing in the interpretation of conflict in a consensus-oriented group and the role of process change when a group reaches the limits of members' commitment to consensus.  相似文献   

Public Attitudes toward Polls: Evidence from the 2000 U.S. Presidential Election     

Price  Vincent; Stroud  Natalie Jomini 《Int. Journal of Public Opinion Research》2006,18(4):393-421

This study investigates the perceived impact of election polls,focusing on the hotly contested 2000 U.S. presidential election.Survey data from 558 individuals gathered during the final daysof the election campaign are analyzed to examine beliefs thatthe polls greatly affect other voters, general views of pollsas good or bad for the country, beliefs about whether pollstersinfluence their results to come out a certain way, and supportfor banning election-night projections. Results indicate thatmost respondents felt the polls had no influence on themselveswhile still affecting others. Respondents exhibiting these ‘third-person-effect’perceptions were significantly more likely than others to believethat election polls are a bad thing for the country. Negativeperceptions of polls and beliefs that pollsters try to influenceresults were also related to general distrust of the news media.Negative views of polls in turn were associated with increasedsupport for prohibiting election-night projections. In general,the results illustrate the dependency of negative views aboutpolling on fears of untoward effects on voters, in particularthe fear that polls and election projections might lend supportto candidates opposed by the respondent.  相似文献   

Creating Access to Invisible Special Collections: Using Participatory Management to Reduce a Backlog     

M. Winslow Lundy  Deborah R. Hollis   《The Journal of Academic Librarianship》2004,30(6):466-475

The University of Colorado at Boulder Libraries used participatory management to reduce a special collections backlog. Without an increase in budget or staffing, technical and public services departments designed a pilot project to redeploy internal human resources in a collaborative manner. The process of backlog management is discussed.  相似文献