Gleanings from the Whirl     

Edited by Beatrice L. Caraway 《期刊图书馆员》2017,73(3-4):365-374

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Surety     

Beatrice Munro Wilson 《The Educational forum》2013,77(3)

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Participatory Plant Breeding with Traders and Farmers for White Pea Bean in Ethiopia     

T. Assefa  B. Dagne  W. Argaw  D. Tessema  S. Beebe 《The Journal of Agricultural Education and Extension》2013,19(5):497-512

Abstract

Purpose: This research, conducted in Ethiopia, involved select stakeholders in the variety evaluation process early: to identify a greater number of acceptable varieties and to shorten a lengthy research and release process.

Design/methodology/approach: A Participatory Plant Breeding (PPB) approach was used in both on-station and community-based trial evaluations. Farmers, traders and processors evaluated bean varieties for promotion, considering field performance, culinary characteristics, market value, and canning acceptability.

Findings: Within four years, two varieties were identified and recommended for release which were high performing, had excellent consumption and cooking characteristics for local foods, fetched high local market prices and met international canning quality standards.

Practical implications: (1) Ethiopian men and women have distinct criteria for evaluating white pea beans, the former putting emphasis on marketability, with women focusing on food security issues. Both groups might be involved in the selection process. (2) Key characteristics cited by farmers, for instance, use for forage, may not be taken into account in the formal breeding process. Expanding the criteria used to determine which varieties should be released would make economic sense. (3) Farmers screened for local product acceptability before researchers put forward lines for testing by the export and canning industry. Local acceptability need not necessarily conflict with market chain acceptability—if the right processes are followed.

Originality/value: The context was unusual: a) the region was drought-prone; and b) the crop had to meet rigorous canning requirements, plus local preferences. The involvement of traders and processors was novel, as was the use of a ‘participatory framework’ even when the product had to meet stringent market requirements.  相似文献   

Serials Report     

Beatrice L. Caraway 《期刊图书馆员》2013,64(1-2):9-33

Abstract

An exploratory study of the information-seeking experiences of women's studies faculty provided interesting insights into their use and collection of periodical literature. Using in-depth interviews and observations, as well as postings from a listserv, the study identified problems, influences, and expectations involved in faculty's daily work with magazines and journals.  相似文献   

Gleanings from the Whirl     

Beatrice L. Caraway 《期刊图书馆员》2013,64(3-4):454-477

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Private School Diversity in Denmark's National Voucher System     

Beatrice Schindler Rangvid 《Scandinavian Journal of Educational Research》2013,57(4):331-354

The voucher system in Denmark combines unrestricted generous subsidies with substantial autonomy of private schools as to schedule and teaching methods. This has produced a private school sector with a wide variety of school types. This paper uses data on eight cohorts of students (over 510,000 individuals) to compare educational attainment in public and private voucher schools, including religious schools (Catholic and Protestant) and various types of non‐religious schools. The findings suggest that, after controlling for individual and peer characteristics, the average public student would attain moderately higher levels of education if he/she attended grammar or Catholic school, relative to the public alternative. Attainment of students at Protestant, international and German minority schools is not different from public schools. However, attending free, boarding and, particularly, little and Waldorf schools is associated with substantially lower completion rates at the upper secondary level, which is probably at least partly due to the clustering of special education students in these school types, which cannot be controlled for. At the tertiary level, differences between private and public schools generally vanish.  相似文献   

Stocking one's mental larder     

Warren I. Titus  Jack W. Miller  Richard Brozovich  Beatrice M. Clutch  Anna Loe Russell 《Peabody Journal of Education》2013,88(5):312-313

Themes, Theories, and Theraphy: The Teaching of Writing in College. Albert R. Kitzhaber. (New York: McGraw‐Hill, 1963. Pp. 175. $4.95.)

The Nongraded Elementary School, Revised Edition. John I. Goodlad and Robert H. Anderson. (New York: Harcourt, Brace, and World, 1963. Pp. 248. $1.95, paper.)

Human Learning in the School. John P. DeCecco. (New York: Holt, Rinehart, and Winston, 1963. Pp. 636. $4.75.)

Health Instruction for Today's Schools. Dorothy Marguerite La Salle and Gladys Greer. (Englewood Cliffs, New Jersey: Prentice‐Hall, 1963. Pp. 368. $6.75.)

Lovejoy's Prep School Guide. Clarence E. Lovejoy. (New York: Harper and Row, 1963. Pp. 136. $5.95.)

Health Teaching in the Schools, fourth edition. Ruth E. Grout. (Philadelphia: W. B. Saunders and Company, 1963. Pp. 415. $6.75.)  相似文献   

The Diverse Gifts of Dr. Leslie R. Williams     

Beatrice S. Fennimore 《Journal of Early Childhood Teacher Education》2013,34(2):172-174

Preparing students in the early childhood field to work with children both with and without disabilities and to collaborate with different professionals is an important endeavor for colleges and universities. The purpose of this paper is to articulate a unique model of program collaboration between early childhood special education and early childhood regular education that demonstrates a cohesive preservice teacher education program across two departments within one university. This unique 10-year history of interdisciplinary collaboration and team teaching provides insights into many of the benefits and challenges of this type of program. This paper presents an historical overview of the development of this collaborative program and describes the logistics of operating an interdisciplinary program at the administrative level. Information collected from faculty and students illustrates the benefits and challenges of team teaching. Finally, strategies for developing a successful program are discussed.  相似文献   

Teacher Effectiveness: research in the Third World—highlights of a review     

Beatrice Avalos 《比较教育学》1980,16(1):45-54

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Factors in teacher assignments: Measuring workload by effort     

Gerald W. McLaughlin  James R. Montgomery  Archer R. Gravely  Beatrice T. Mahan 《Research in higher education》1981,14(1):3-17

Based on a national survey of 491 department heads in 25 major universities in the United States, this study examines what department heads perceive to be the component parts in making assignments to faculty members. The importance of evaluating faculty resources based on effort required rather than on time devoted to given tasks is stressed. Regression analysis is used to investigate how department heads interpret effort required to teach classes and how this effort varies by discipline (Biglan taxonomy), by class level, by number of students, and by type of instructional technique. The results are validated against reported time expenditures from a faculty activity analysis.Presented at the Twentieth Annual Forum of the Association for Institutional Research, Atlanta, April 1980.  相似文献