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The organization of conceptual materials: A methodology for measuring ideal and actual cognitive structures 总被引：1，自引：0，他引：1
Richard M. Fenker 《Instructional Science》1975,4(1):33-57
The teaching-learning process is described in terms of a simple communication model with four components: the sender, the encoding structure, the decoding structure, and the destination. Within this context a method is proposed and illustrated for evaluating a student's understanding of the system of concepts underlying the topic areas in an elementary statistics and measurement course. The method, multidimensional scaling, involves determining the students' and instructor's cognitive maps for the various topics. A cognitive map represents a hypothetical cognitive structure of a student or instructor which characterizes his perceived organization of the concepts in a topic area. These individual cognitive maps were compared to the optimal organization or formal structure, as a basis for assessing the students' under-standing of the material. The present research was exploratory but demonstrated that:
- With the help of experts it is possible to define the formal structure for the concepts in a topic area.
- It is possible to measure, in a classroom setting, the cognitive maps that both the students and instructors have for a topic area.
- By comparing individual students' cognitive maps to the instructor's cognitive map or to the formal structure, the student's understanding of the system of concepts defining the topic area can be evaluated.
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Predictors of word‐reading ability in 7‐year‐olds: analysis of data from a U.K. cohort study 
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下载免费PDF全文 Ginny Russell Obioha C. Ukoumunne Denise Ryder Jean Golding Brahm Norwich 《Journal of Research in Reading》2018,41(1):58-78
Previous U.K. population‐based studies have found associations amongst early speech and language difficulties, socioeconomic disadvantage and children's word‐reading ability later on. We examine the strength of these associations in a recent U.K. population‐based birth cohort. Analyses were based on 13,680 participants. Linear regression models were fitted to identify factors that were associated with word‐reading score at the age of 7 years. Path analysis models were fitted to examine phonological skills as a mediator of the relationships. We found that male gender, preterm birth, naming vocabulary at age five, concerns about speech and language, maternal education, type of housing tenure, lone parenting, parent attachment and frequency of reading to the child were all independently associated with word reading. For each of these predictors, there was evidence suggesting that a substantial proportion of the effect may be mediated by phonological skills (ranging from 52 to 89%). Despite policy intervention, many of the same risk factors identified in previous studies still predict children's word‐reading ability in the United Kingdom. Results support the phonological model, with phonological skills on the pathway to word reading.
What is already known about this topic?
- A range of studies has implicated poor socioeconomic background and disadvantaged family circumstances as risks for children's poor word reading.
- Good early development of language skills is firmly established as a pathway to promoting reading ability.
- Not all poor readers show deficits in phonological skills, although such deficits correlate highly with reading difficulties.
What this paper adds
- This is an original analysis of factors in a recent cohort of U.K. children, using stratified sampling to be representative of the U.K. population as a whole.
- A range of child‐specific, family socioeconomic and family relationship factors were independently associated with word‐reading ability when children were age seven.
- For each of the predictors, there was evidence suggesting that a substantial proportion of the effect, if causal, may be mediated by phonological skills (ranging from 52 to 89%).
Implications for theory, policy or practice
- Despite policy intervention, many of the same risk factors identified in older studies still predict children's word‐reading ability in the United Kingdom.
- Results lend weight to the phonological model, where deficits in phonological skills are on the pathway to word reading.
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Xiujie Yang 《教育心理学》2020,40(7):893-911
AbstractThe present study examined phonological processing skills (phonological memory, phonological awareness, and rapid automatised naming, RAN) in relation to early Chinese reading and early Chinese mathematics for young children. Early Chinese reading was assessed with single character reading and multi-character word reading, and early mathematics was assessed with procedural arithmetic and arithmetic story problems. Among 86 Chinese kindergarteners, phonological processing skills explained 20% of the variance in character reading and 28% of the variance in word reading; they accounted for 8% of the variance in arithmetic and 11% of the variance in story problem performance. Specifically, findings further highlight the general importance of phonological awareness in early Chinese single character reading, word reading, simple arithmetic and story problems, and the specific role of RAN in single character reading and simple arithmetic.
- Highlights
Phonological awareness and rapid automatised naming explained unique variance in Chinese single character reading and procedural arithmetic.
Only phonological awareness significantly accounted for unique variance in Chinese word reading and arithmetic story problems.
The associations of phonological awareness with procedural arithmetic and arithmetic story problem were maintained even beyond other variables.
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This article begins with a brief summary of mental models from the information processing perspective. A model of prototypical college learning is then presented. Next, some of the links between mental models and cognitive errors are examined. Finally, studies of one category of cognitive errors, misconceptions and preconceptions of college science students are reviewed. Six factors contributing to error production are identified: four involve spontaneous cognitive mechanisms (strong word associations; non-verbal, intuitive knowledge; tendency to minimize mental effort; untimely triggering of natural language processing mechanisms) and two involve imperfect knowledge (alternative belief systems; fuzzy concepts). 相似文献
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The goal of this study was to examine the means used by textbook authors to introduce, define, and explain the mole concept in high school and introductory college chemistry textbooks. The analysis was framed by four questions:
- 1 How is the mole defined?
- 2 What concepts about the atom are introduced prior to the mole?
- 3 Is Avogadro's constant presented as an experimentally determined value?
- 4 What is the context for introducing the mole?
- 1 Two ways of defining the mole dominate the texts. One way defines the mole as Avogadro's number (6.02 × 1023) particles; the other method defines the mole in terms of carbon-12.
- 2 All texts that present a definition in terms of C-12 introduce and define concepts about the atom prior to introducing the mole.
- 3 Most texts at all levels point out that the value 6.02 × 1023 is an experimentally determined quantity.
- 4 Nearly all texts discuss the mole in relation to die problem of finding a way to count particles that are too small to be directly weighed. Most texts also use a familiar counting unit, such as the dozen, to introduce the mole by analogy.
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Autumn L. McIlraith Language Reading Research Consortium 《Journal of Research in Reading》2018,41(1):79-96
Predictors of early word reading are well established. However, it is unclear if these predictors hold for readers across a range of word reading abilities. This study used quantile regression to investigate predictive relationships at different points in the distribution of word reading. Quantile regression analyses used preschool and kindergarten measures of letter knowledge, phonological awareness, rapid automatised naming, sentence repetition, vocabulary and mother's education to predict first‐grade word reading. Predictors generally varied in significance across levels of word reading. Notably, rapid automatised naming was a significant unique predictor for average and good readers but not poor readers. Letter knowledge was generally a stronger unique predictor for poor and average readers than good readers. Well‐known word reading predictors varied in significance at different points along the word reading distribution. Results have implications for early identification and statistical analyses of reading‐related outcomes. What is already known about this topic
- Early predictors of word reading are well established, with letter knowledge, phonological awareness and rapid automatised naming identified as key predictors.
- These relationships are primarily investigated in average readers, or in groups of good and poor readers separated by an arbitrary cut‐off score.
- In this study, we used quantile regression to determine significant predictors of word reading across a range of word reading abilities.
- The quantile regression approach avoids the loss of power that can arise when creating subgroups and has none of the issues associated with the use of a single, arbitrary cut-off score to separate good and poor readers.
- Letter knowledge and phonological awareness were significantly predictive of word reading across the distribution of word reading abilities, whereas rapid automatised naming was significant only for good readers, and sentence recall was significant only for poor readers.
- Results reinforce the usefulness of measures such as letter knowledge, phonological awareness and sentence repetition in the early identification of children at risk for reading disabilities.
- Results also suggest that measures of rapid naming may add little unique information in differentiating between children who subsequently read in the below‐average range.
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《Journal of Vocational Education & Training》2012,64(59):141-145
Summary In order for group analysis to be successful and to achieve the atmosphere which allows student cooperation to flourish, it is essential that adequate physical and financial resources are provided. These can be summarized as follows:
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(i)Adequate budget to allow for expenditure on models, visual materials, acquisition of background information, etc.
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(ii)Secretarial staff for typing and administration
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(iii)Laboratory technicians
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(iv)Visual aid staff
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(v)All resources available to the industrialist viz: information library, telephone, typing, stationery, workspace, storage, etc.
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(vi)The active cooperation of academic and technical staff
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(vii)Flexibility in timetabling and room allocations
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(viii)Seminar members who will command the respect of the students and will readily adapt to role playing where necessary
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(ix)Studio masters who are totally committed to the group analysis method of teaching and are, therefore, willing to allot substantial proportions of their time to student consultation
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(x)A cooperative administrative staff.
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Philip Wong 《Asia Pacific Journal of Education》1992,12(2):48-58
Metacognition is considered by most educationists as an element necessary for many cognitive tasks. In problem solving, it has been said that possessing knowledge alone is insufficient and problem solvers need to exhibit high level cognitive skills like “self-regulation skills” (also known as metacognitive strategies) for successful problem solving.
A study on students' metacognitive strategies was carried out with over a thousand secondary and pre-university students from 12 schools. A questionnaire adapted from Biggs (1987) was administered to students at various levels (Secondary 2, Secondary 4, Pre-University 1), from different academic tracks (General, Science, Arts) and academic streams (Special, Express, and Normal). They were required to self-report on their metacognitive beliefs; their use of metacognitive strategies in mental tasks involving memory, problem solving and comprehension; and their attitudes towards the learning of various academic subjects. 20 items from the questionnaire which were related to problem solving were categorized into four stages, namely, orientation, organisation, execution and verification and data from these items were analysed.
Some findings that emerged were:
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(a) Normal stream students exhibited a lower usage of metacognitive strategies as compared to students from the Express and Special streams.
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(b) Metacognitive strategies used by Normal stream students tended to be of the “surface” type.
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(c) There was no significant difference in the frequency of usage of metacognitive strategies between students from different academic tracks.
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(d) During the problem solving process, students spent most time on evaluation of answers rather than on monitoring their understanding.
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(e) Students from different levels (Secondary 2, Secondary 4 and Pre-University) exhibited similar frequency of usage of metacognitive strategies in problem solving.
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The implications of these findings on future research and development projects as well as the teaching of metacognitive strategies are discussed in the paper.
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Dr Janice M. Wilson 《Research in Science Education》1990,20(1):292-299
The long term aim of this study is to document changes in the nature and level of conceptual understanding revealed by a cohort
of undergraduate nursing students. The outcome of such a study may be used in future review and redesign processes by curriculum
planners. Conceptual understanding of physiology and pharmacology, areas which are central to nursing studies depends, in
turn, on an understanding of certain chemical concepts. This paper describes the group cognitive structure of 60 first year
preservice nursing students, with respect to 21 basic chemistry concepts. Group cognitive structure is represented by non-metric
multidimensional scaling of data obtained from individual concept maps prepared by students. The impact of prior studies in
chemistry on the level of understanding revealed is discussed.
Specializations: Cognition and science education, behavioural ecology and ethology. 相似文献
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David Gibson Vitomir Kovanovic Dirk Ifenthaler Sara Dexter Shihui Feng 《British journal of educational technology : journal of the Council for Educational Technology》2023,54(5):1125-1146
This paper discusses a three-level model that synthesizes and unifies existing learning theories to model the roles of artificial intelligence (AI) in promoting learning processes. The model, drawn from developmental psychology, computational biology, instructional design, cognitive science, complexity and sociocultural theory, includes a causal learning mechanism that explains how learning occurs and works across micro, meso and macro levels. The model also explains how information gained through learning is aggregated, or brought together, as well as dissipated, or released and used within and across the levels. Fourteen roles for AI in education are proposed, aligned with the model's features: four roles at the individual or micro level, four roles at the meso level of teams and knowledge communities and six roles at the macro level of cultural historical activity. Implications for research and practice, evaluation criteria and a discussion of limitations are included. Armed with the proposed model, AI developers can focus their work with learning designers, researchers and practitioners to leverage the proposed roles to improve individual learning, team performance and building knowledge communities.
Practitioner notes
What is already known about this topic- Numerous learning theories exist with significant cross-over of concepts, duplication and redundancy in terms and structure that offer partial explanations of learning.
- Frameworks concerning learning have been offered from several disciplines such as psychology, biology and computer science but have rarely been integrated or unified.
- Rethinking learning theory for the age of artificial intelligence (AI) is needed to incorporate computational resources and capabilities into both theory and educational practices.
- A three-level theory (ie, micro, meso and macro) of learning that synthesizes and unifies existing theories is proposed to enhance computational modelling and further develop the roles of AI in education.
- A causal model of learning is defined, drawing from developmental psychology, computational biology, instructional design, cognitive science and sociocultural theory, which explains how learning occurs and works across the levels.
- The model explains how information gained through learning is aggregated, or brought together, as well as dissipated, or released and used within and across the levels.
- Fourteen roles for AI in education are aligned with the model's features: four roles at the individual or micro level, four roles at the meso level of teams and knowledge communities and six roles at the macro level of cultural historical activity.
- Researchers may benefit from referring to the new theory to situate their work as part of a larger context of the evolution and complexity of individual and organizational learning and learning systems.
- Mechanisms newly discovered and explained by future researchers may be better understood as contributions to a common framework unifying the scientific understanding of learning theory.
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Gerald Knezek David Gibson Rhonda Christensen Ottavia Trevisan Morgan Carter 《British journal of educational technology : journal of the Council for Educational Technology》2023,54(1):126-141
This article reports on a trace-based assessment of approaches to learning used by middle school aged children who interacted with NASA Mars Mission science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM) games in Whyville, an online game environment with 8 million registered young learners. The learning objectives of two games included awareness and knowledge of NASA missions, developing knowledge and skills of measurement and scaling, applying measurement for planetary comparisons in the solar system. Trace data from 1361 interactions were analysed with nonparametric multidimensional scaling methods, which permitted visual examination and statistical validation, and provided an example and proof of concept for the multidimensional scaling approach to analysis of time-based behavioural data from a game or simulation. Differences in approach to learning were found illustrating the potential value of the methodology to curriculum and game-based learning designers as well as other creators of online STEM content for pre-college youth. The theoretical framework of the method and analysis makes use of the Epistemic Network Analysis toolkit as a post hoc data exploration platform, and the discussion centres on issues of semantic interpretation of interaction end-states and the application of evidence centred design in post hoc analysis.
Practitioner notes
What is already known about this topic- Educational game play has been demonstrated to positively affect learning performance and learning persistence.
- Trace-based assessment from digital learning environments can focus on learning outcomes and processes drawn from user behaviour and contextual data.
- Existing approaches used in learning analytics do not (fully) meet criteria commonly used in psychometrics or for different forms of validity in assessment, even though some consider learning analytics a form of assessment in the broadest sense.
- Frameworks of knowledge representation in trace-based research often include concepts from cognitive psychology, education and cognitive science.
- To assess skills-in-action, stronger connections of learning analytics with educational measurement can include parametric and nonparametric statistics integrated with theory-driven modelling and semantic network analysis approaches widening the basis for inferences, validity, meaning and understanding from digital traces.
- An expanded methodological foundation is offered for analysis in which nonparametric multidimensional scaling, multimodal analysis, epistemic network analysis and evidence-centred design are combined.
- The new foundations are suggested as a principled, theory-driven, embedded data collection and analysis framework that provides structure for reverse engineering of semantics as well as pre-planning frameworks that support creative freedom in the processes of creation of digital learning environments.
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Explaining phonology and reading in adult learners: Introducing prosodic awareness and executive functions to reading ability 下载免费PDF全文
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This study was designed to extend our understanding of phonology and reading to include suprasegmental awareness using measures of prosodic awareness, which are complex tasks that tap into the rhythmic aspects of phonology. By requiring participants to access, reflect on and manipulate word stress, the prosodic awareness measures used here necessarily impose demands on the executive system. Prosodic awareness was evaluated as a phonological predictor of reading in older readers while controlling for executive functions (EF) in order to ascertain whether observed predictive relationships could be confidently attributed to suprasegmental awareness.Methods
103 adults between 18 and 55 years of age completed tasks on prosodic awareness, EF, vocabulary, nonverbal abilities, naming speed and short‐term memory.Results
Independent contributions of prosodic awareness added to models of word reading, whereas EF processes did not uniquely contribute to adult reading outcomes.Conclusions
Suprasegmental phonology explains individual differences in word reading among experienced readers. Theoretical implications of findings are discussed.Implications for Practice
What is already known about this topic- Phonological awareness (PA) becomes less predictive of reading in older readers. PA is typically assessed at the level of the segment (e.g., phonemes, syllables and onset‐rimes), with less focus on suprasegmental processes (e.g., rhythm, stress and intonation).
- Suprasegmental phonological processing includes measures of prosodic ability (e.g., awareness and manipulation of suprasegmental features of oral language). Studies on prosodic awareness and reading have independent contributions beyond segmental PA in early readers. Less work has been investigated among adult readers.
- Executive functions (EF) including inhibitory control, working memory, switching and updating and monitoring of goal directed behaviour, predict overall academic achievement. Limited studies have controlled for EF demands in phonological tasks.
- Tasks of prosodic awareness necessarily impose demands on the executive system when manipulating components of oral language. After controlling for EF and controls, prosodic awareness explained individual differences in adult word reading.
- Tasks of suprasegmental phonological processes explain the association between phonology and reading in older and more experienced readers. Researchers who explore phonology and reading development should begin to include tasks of prosodic awareness to examine the dual role of segmental and suprasegmental PA as it is implicated across development.
- Theoretical models of phonology and reading can be extended to include suprasegmental processes.
- For educational practitioners involved in reading assessment of older readers, tasks of prosodic awareness are a more age‐appropriate measure of phonology.
- Tasks of phonology and reading with increasing complexity impose greater demands on the executive system. The relationship between cognitive flexibility and reading needs to be considered in theoretical models of reading.
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J. Stanley Ahmann 《Journal of Experimental Education》2013,81(4):281-288
This study examined how retention of prose is affected by (1) outlines as advanced organizers, (2) preexperimentai familiarity with the material, and (3) text genre (i.e., narrative vs. expository prose). College students studied either a two-level outline, a one-level outline, or no outline before listening to 400 to 500 word passages that varied in familiarity and narrativity. Subjects were subsequently given a cued recall test or a 3-Alternative, Forced Choice test on the passages. Whereas outline condition and familiarity had no significant effects on retention, narrativity ratings on the passages predicted between 38% and 84% of the variance of retention scores. Stories were recalled much better than expository passages. These findings were discussed in the context of current theories in cognitive psychology, particularly those that have explored the structure, organization, and representation of knowledge and prose. 相似文献
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Michail Giannakos Mutlu Cukurova 《British journal of educational technology : journal of the Council for Educational Technology》2023,54(5):1246-1267
This study presents the outcomes of a semi-systematic literature review on the role of learning theory in multimodal learning analytics (MMLA) research. Based on previous systematic literature reviews in MMLA and an additional new search, 35 MMLA works were identified that use theory. The results show that MMLA studies do not always discuss their findings within an established theoretical framework. Most of the theory-driven MMLA studies are positioned in the cognitive and affective domains, and the three most frequently used theories are embodied cognition, cognitive load theory and control–value theory of achievement emotions. Often, the theories are only used to inform the study design, but there is a relationship between the most frequently used theories and the data modalities used to operationalize those theories. Although studies such as these are rare, the findings indicate that MMLA affordances can, indeed, lead to theoretical contributions to learning sciences. In this work, we discuss methods of accelerating theory-driven MMLA research and how this acceleration can extend or even create new theoretical knowledge.
Practitioner notes
What is already known about this topic- Multimodal learning analytics (MMLA) is an emerging field of research with inherent connections to advanced computational analyses of social phenomena.
- MMLA can help us monitor learning activity at the micro-level and model cognitive, affective and social factors associated with learning using data from both physical and digital spaces.
- MMLA provide new opportunities to support students' learning.
- Some MMLA works use theory, but, overall, the role of theory is currently limited.
- The three theories dominating MMLA research are embodied cognition, control–value theory of achievement emotions and cognitive load theory.
- Most of the theory-driven MMLA papers use theory ‘as is’ and do not consider the analytical and synthetic role of theory or aim to contribute to it.
- If the ultimate goal of MMLA, and AI in Education in general, research is to understand and support human learning, these studies should be expected to align their findings (or not) with established relevant theories.
- MMLA research is mature enough to contribute to learning theory, and more research should aim to do so.
- MMLA researchers and practitioners, including technology designers, developers, educators and policy-makers, can use this review as an overview of the current state of theory-driven MMLA.
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Marco Antonio Moreira 《Assessment & Evaluation in Higher Education》1983,8(3):234-245
First, the theory of directed graphs (digraphs) was used to map the conceptual structure of the content, implicit in the instructional materials, in the area of electricity at college level. After this, the graphical representation of content structure, thus obtained, was compared with those obtained for the teacher's cognitive structure and the student's cognitive structure through a word association test and the multidimensional scaling technique. Research findings suggest mainly that the techniques used to assess content and cognitive structures might be useful tools for such a purpose.
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《The Journal of educational research》2012,105(6):327-329
AbstractThe study examined relations between ethclass group membership, the achievement syndrome of families, and the cognitive performance of 850 11-year-old Australian children from six ethclass groups. A semi- structured interview schedule was constructed to assess parents’ achievement orientations, press for English, press for dependence, educational and occupational aspirations, and individualistic-collectivistic value orientations. Standardized tests were used to measure children’s intelligence and performance in mathematics, word knowledge, and word comprehension. The results support the proposition that if children from different cultural groups are found to be characterized by distinct patterns of cognitive scores, then the groups are characterized by distinct patterns of family learning environments. Also, the findings suggest that some of the achievement syndrome measures may act as threshold variables so that until certain levels of particular environment measures are attained, other family processes may have limited associations with children’s cognitive performance. 相似文献
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《Journal of Vocational Education & Training》2012,64(21):85-95
Summary The early history of factory inspection in this country shows that:
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(1) voluntary submission to inspection could not be counted on;
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(2) local forms of inspection were completely ineffective;
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(3) a strong central government inspectorate was much more effective but made mistakes in its formative years;
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(4) the absence of any tradition of schooling and all that went with it added to the great educational responsibilities imposed upon the factory inspector;
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(5) some influence may be traced in negative and positive ways upon Her Majesty's inspectors of schools.
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Paul Berry Peter Mathams Beulah Middleton 《International Journal of Disability, Development & Education》1977,24(3):156-164
The study reports the analysis of a mother/child interaction sequence. Its focus is on the mother's teaching strategies. The child was presented with two tasks. The first task was new and not previously experienced by the child; the second task was one that had been experienced. The mother's teaching of the tasks was videotaped and analysed. The material was analysed according to ‘on task’ behaviours. The results indicated that:
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(a) both the mother and child were able to maintain a continuous communication sequence;
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(b) the mother structured both tasks, but structured the new task more, and allowed some flexibility in the old task;
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(c) the language used by the mother was ‘restricted';
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(d) in responding to her child's behaviour, the mother made more use of verbal cues and used fewer non‐verbal cues
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Carmel McNaught 《科学教学研究杂志》1982,19(2):177-186
In this report the relationships between cognitive preferences and patterns of achievement in chemistry for grade 12 students in Australia are investigated. The results of the study are consistent with the following two general propostions:
- 1 Students who develop the cognitive preferences consistent with those implied or stressed by the Higher School Certificate chemistry course tend to perform better on an end-of-course achievement examination than do students whose cognitive preferences are not consis tent with these implied preferences.
- 2 Higher cognitive preference for a particular preference is positively correlated with performance on the sorts of cognitive tasks implied in that preference.
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Martin Trow 《Higher Education Quarterly》1989,43(1):55-75
The Robbins Report (1963) helped to justify and chart the great expansion of British higher education in the decade and a half following up its publication. But this liberal and expansionist document has also served to limit the growth of British higher education by affirming the values and assumptions that define the English ‘idea of a university’. Among these values are:
- (i) the monopoly by state supported institutions of study leading to degrees;
- (ii) their commitment to high and common academic standards for the honours degree;
- (iii) a degree earned through full-time study over three years; and
- (iv) the costs of student maintenance and instruction being borne wholly (or nearly so) by the state.