Diversity on U.S. Public and Commercial TV in Authorial and Executive-Produced Social-Issue Documentaries     

Caty Borum Chattoo  Patricia Aufderheide  Kenneth Merrill  Modupeola Oyebolu 《广播与电子媒介杂志》2018,62(3):495-513

Where are diverse makers and subjects most likely to be found in U.S. TV documentary? This study compares commercial and public TV series, and also anthology formats (“authorial” series) and executive-produced formats. A content analysis for characters and makers showed that public TV authorial series are more diverse than either commercial or other public TV series. Independent documentaries have diversity value both in commercial and public TV settings.  相似文献   

‘Fractured communities’: uncertainty,stress, and (a lack of) communal coping in Palestinian refugee camps     

Tamara D. Afifi  Walid A. Afifi  Anne F. Merrill  Najib Nimah 《Journal of Applied Communication Research》2016,44(4):343-361

This study examined how communal coping reveals itself in Palestinian refugee camps and the conditions that promote or prevent its occurrence. Individual and dyadic interviews were conducted with 40 mothers and one of their adolescent children living in Palestinian refugee camps in Lebanon. The results revealed that communal coping existed within the mother–adolescent dyad to a certain extent, but was rare within the larger context of the refugee camps. While families and neighbors did not typically verbalize their hardships and actively cope with them as a group, there was often an implicit recognition that they were all experiencing the same uncertainty and stress. Acting upon their uncertainty as a collective, however, was greatly hampered by mistrust within and outside the camps, due to widespread violence, privacy violations, vying for scarce resources, and disloyalty. Parents and adolescents also engaged in protective buffering whereby they attempted to reduce the stress of the family by keeping stress and fears to themselves rather than communicating about them. Even though protective buffering helped the refugees cope with chronic uncertainty and maintain a sense of normalcy, it prevented them from acting upon the problem as a group. Finally, parents emphasized that the child’s education provided hope for the future. Practical implications are discussed.  相似文献   

Radar detection and tracking systems : by S.A. Hovanessian. 416 pages,diagrams, illustrations, 6 × 9 in. Dedham,Ma., Artech House, 1973. Price, $12.95.     

Merrill I. Skolnik 《Journal of The Franklin Institute》1975,299(4):304

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The “Hip” Classroom     

Merrill H. Goldwyn 《College Teaching》2013,61(4):310-311

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Mechanism     

A.A. Merrill 《Journal of The Franklin Institute》1935,219(4):477-481

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Applying computerized-scoring models of written biological explanations across courses and colleges: prospects and limitations     

Ha M  Nehm RH  Urban-Lurain M  Merrill JE 《CBE life sciences education》2011,10(4):379-393

Our study explored the prospects and limitations of using machine-learning software to score introductory biology students’ written explanations of evolutionary change. We investigated three research questions: 1) Do scoring models built using student responses at one university function effectively at another university? 2) How many human-scored student responses are needed to build scoring models suitable for cross-institutional application? 3) What factors limit computer-scoring efficacy, and how can these factors be mitigated? To answer these questions, two biology experts scored a corpus of 2556 short-answer explanations (from biology majors and nonmajors) at two universities for the presence or absence of five key concepts of evolution. Human- and computer-generated scores were compared using kappa agreement statistics. We found that machine-learning software was capable in most cases of accurately evaluating the degree of scientific sophistication in undergraduate majors’ and nonmajors’ written explanations of evolutionary change. In cases in which the software did not perform at the benchmark of “near-perfect” agreement (kappa > 0.80), we located the causes of poor performance and identified a series of strategies for their mitigation. Machine-learning software holds promise as an assessment tool for use in undergraduate biology education, but like most assessment tools, it is also characterized by limitations.  相似文献   

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   

数字时代的长文     

吴万伟  提姆·埃布纳 《青年记者》2011,(31)

目前,篇幅较长的文章面临着严峻的挑战.怎样才能够持续吸引网络读者的注意力?因为网络读者更可能喜欢快速点击而不是一页一页地阅读.内容维护者的新群体说,正是移动设备和应用程序增强了长文的吸引力,并再次创造出能坐下来认真阅读的读者.  相似文献   

首要教学原理     

M.戴维.梅里尔 《当代教育与文化》2014,(6):1-7

首要教学原理是从一组有效教学的原理和模式中提炼出来的,具体是指聚焦问题或者面向任务开展教学,并以此经历激活旧知、示证新知、应用新知和融会贯通的教学循环圈。首要教学原理中各项要求如果能够一一得到落实,那么,教学策略的效能水平肯定也会逐渐得以提高。在解决复杂问题时,首要教学原理对学业表现的促进作用才得以凸显。  相似文献   

The Scientific Manpower Shortage and Its Implications for the Engineering Technician     

Merrill  John 《Education, IRE Transactions on》1960,3(1):3-10

Some of the background of the present scientific manpower shortage is reviewed. Utilization as an important aspect of engineer efficiency is discussed. With this setting, the engineering technician's complementary function with the engineer is introduced. The limited availability of technicians is cited. A discussion of the stepping-stone aspect of the technician job, an area worth consideration because of its ramifications, is presented and the concept of a four-year program for engineering technicians is shown to have significant value in coping with several phases of technician training. Four areas of study and investigation are suggested that can contribute to solution of the overall need of increased scientific manpower through increased utilization. Utilization would be improved by the proper preparation of an adequate number of engineering technicians.  相似文献