Good practices for student learning: Mixed‐method evidence from the Wabash National Study     

Kathleen M. Goodman  Marcia Baxter Magolda  Tricia A. Seifert  Patricia M. King 《About Campus》2011,16(1):2-9

Kathleen M. Goodman, Marcia Baxter Magolda, Tricia A. Seifert, and Patricia M. King review both quantitative and qualitative data to understand students' college experiences and provide powerful information to guide educators.  相似文献   

In the News     

Andy Baxter 《英语沙龙》2011,(12):13-13

编者按：本专栏由英国大使馆文化处提供稿件,旨在让读者从中学习地道英文,体悟英文百味。本期介绍了网络带给英国传统报刊业的冲击。网络时代到来,新闻实现了24小时实时播报,英国纸媒业的寒冬真要到来了吗？  相似文献   

Strategic narrative in multi-academy trusts in England: Principal drivers for expansion     

Jacqueline Baxter  Alan Floyd 《British Educational Research Journal》2019,45(5):1050-1071

Multi-academy trusts (MATs) are now a common feature of the English educational landscape. Yet numerous high-profile failures indicate that they present substantial challenges in terms of leadership and governance. One of the areas that most exercises school leaders and boards is the setting of strategic direction for the MAT. This includes elements such as its expansion. This article draws on 30 interviews with school leaders and trustees from 6 MATs and 10 interviews with national leaders of governance in looking to respond to the research question: What are the principal drivers for strategic expansion in MATs? The article begins by contextualising the research in light of recent policy, then moves to consider why theory on strategy as narrative was chosen in preference to other strategic approaches, and how it was employed to analyse data. The article concludes that within this sample there are a number of drivers for MAT expansion and that these fall under six principal categories: opportunities, values, pressures, feelings, risks and resources. It also concludes that resources and business viability play a substantial part in decisions to expand, and that strategy appears to be an iterative learning process. As such, it contributes to theory on the governance of multi-level organisations and to practice in terms of the Department for Education's focus on MAT growth.  相似文献   

From the editor ‐ Helping students become at home in higher education     

Marcia B. Baxter Magolda 《About Campus》2007,11(6):1-1

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Systematic reviews: inducting research students into scholarly conversations?     

Janni Leung  Alize Ferrari  Amanda Baxter  Mariyana Schoultz  Michelle Beattie  Meredith Harris 《高等教育研究与发展》2017,36(1):217-220

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Writing in Mathematics: An Alternative Form of Communication for Academically Low‐Achieving Students     

Juliet A. Baxter  John Woodward  Deborah Olson 《Learning disabilities research & practice》2005,20(2):119-135

Abstract. Classroom communication figures prominently in current math reform efforts. In this study, we analyze how one teacher used writing to support communication in a seventh‐grade, low‐track mathematics class. For one school year, we studied four low‐achieving students in the class. Students wrote in journals on a weekly basis. Using classroom observations and interviews with the teacher, we developed profiles of the four students, capturing their participation in class discussions. The profiles highlighted an important similarity among the four students: marginal participation in both small‐group and whole‐class discussions. However, our analysis of the students' journals identified multiple instances where the students were able to explain their mathematical reasoning, revealing their conceptual understanding, ability to explain, and skill at representing a problem. In this respect, journals potentially facilitate another important form of classroom communication. The promise of writing is that it offers an alternative to the visions of classroom communication that are strictly oral in nature.  相似文献   

From Policy to Practice: Pupils' Responses to Widening Participation Initiatives     

Arthur Baxter  Jim Tate  Sue Hatt 《Higher Education Quarterly》2007,61(3):266-283

Recent widening participation policies have been subject to a number of criticisms; they focus on aspirations rather than differences in performance; they place less value on the aspirations of the ‘disadvantaged’ comparing them to a middle class norm; they subordinate what was a radical agenda to the demands of the economy and so constrain the available options to young people. Using data from young people who have taken part in Aimhigher initiatives in the South West of England and from teachers who have organised Aimhigher events, this paper will examine to what extent these features of policy are evidenced in the attitudes and aspirations of these pupils. It will argue that the data shows little evidence of pupils positioning themselves as inferior, that young people display instrumental attitudes to education, but that these attitudes relate to policy discourse and practice in complex ways.  相似文献   

Auditing the historic environment: Measurements,datasets and English heritage's state of the historic environment report 2002     

Ian Baxter 《Cultural Trends》2002,12(46):1-31

This chapter sets out the current context for historic environment management, and the associated information requirements to manage organisations successfully within the sector for the benefit of the country's heritage. The initiative undertaken by English Heritage (the English government's conservation advisors) in developing a pilot State of the Historic Environment Report is used as a case study in the collation of management information for advocacy purposes. Political support for such a development is considered, as well as the history of the report's development with its roots outside the heritage sector. The challenges of project management for report delivery are discussed, particularly where information collation and analysis is reliant on third‐party data sources, often created for separate purposes. Tourism data is focused on, showing how results from the former English Tourism Council's annual surveys of visitor attractions were used to inform key messages in the heritage sector. Comments are made on specific types of data used, and a review given of the methodology for collecting dedicated heritage management organisational data.  相似文献   

Learning Partnerships in Practice: Orientation,Leadership, and Residence Life     

Taran Cardone  Elizabeth Stoll Turton  Gerald Olson  Marcia Baxter Magolda 《About Campus》2013,18(5):2-9

Committed to improving how their various programs serve student learning, Taran Cardone, Elizabeth Stoll Turton, Gerald Olson, and Marcia Baxter Magolda describe how their participation in Miami University's Community of Practice on Engaged Learning (COPEL) helped them create developmentally appropriate, learning‐centered approaches that support the complex task of student self‐authorship.  相似文献   

Using assistive technology with SRSD to support students on the autism spectrum with persuasive writing     

Anne Ozdowska  Peta Wyeth  Suzanne Carrington  Jill Ashburner 《British journal of educational technology : journal of the Council for Educational Technology》2021,52(2):934-959

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