Using the College Outcome Measures Project to measure college outcomes     

Steven F. Schomberg  Darwin D. Hendel  Caroline L. Bassett 《Innovative Higher Education》1983,7(2):95-104

This article describes one institution's use of the College Outcome Measures Project (COMP) in comparing outcomes for graduates of traditional and non-traditional programs. The study was designed to answer three questions concerning the use of COMP in evaluating traditional and non-traditional programs. Results obtained in a study of 96 University of Minnesota graduating seniors suggest greater potential usefulness in distinguishing among institutions than in comparing outcomes of programs within an institution. The authors conclude that as new approaches and instruments for measuring college outcomes become available, criteria for instrument selection need to be shared among individuals charged with conducting outcome studies.  相似文献   

Special and mainstream school collaboration for the promotion of inclusion     

Richard Rose  Caroline Coles 《Journal of Research in Special Educational Needs》2002,2(2)

The Green Paper Excellence for All Children ( DfEE, 1997 ) set out an agenda for the future of special needs provision which was further endorsed by Meeting Special Educational Needs: A Programme for Action ( DfEE, 1998 ). Amongst the recommendations made within these documents was a reappraisal of the role of special schools to support increased opportunities for inclusion. This paper reports on research conducted in one English local education authority (LEA) to examine an approach to develop greater links between a special school and a number of mainstream schools, with the intention of enabling pupils with complex needs to be supported in mainstream classrooms. The research focused upon the procedures which had been developed to support pupils through a period of transition from segregated to mainstream education, and considered those conditions which had been created in order that inclusion might succeed.  相似文献   

Embedding an integrated learning environment and digital repository in design engineering education: lessons learned for sustainability     

Caroline Breslin  David Nicol  Hilary Grierson  rew Wodehouse  Neal Juster  William Ion 《British journal of educational technology : journal of the Council for Educational Technology》2007,38(5):805-816

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Adaptive emotion regulation,academic performance and internalising problems in Flemish children with special educational needs: a pilot study     

Henk Weymeis  Karla Van Leeuwen  Caroline Braet 《欧洲特需教育杂志》2019,34(1):124-135

School readiness of children with special educational needs (SEN) is still understudied. The present study examined how the presumed bidirectional relationship between impaired academic performance (AP) and internalising problems (IP) could be favourably influenced. In this regard, it was assumed that children’s adaptive emotion regulation plays a crucial role, as it was shown to be independently related to improved AP and fewer IP. However, to gain stronger evidence for this assumption, it should be further clarified whether adaptive emotion regulation, AP and IP are also jointly associated and, if so, how this is reflected in children with SEN. To explore these issues, two different models were tested in a cross-sectional pilot including 61 Flemish elementary school children with SEN (39 boys and 22 girls, mean age = 10.0 years old). Teachers reported on adaptive emotion regulation, AP and IP. The results indicated that AP partially mediated the relationship between adaptive emotion regulation and IP (Model 1), while IP fully mediated the relationship between adaptive emotion regulation and AP (Model 2). Practical implications, strengths and limitations were discussed.  相似文献   

Can students within higher education learn to be resilient and,educationally speaking,does it matter?     

Caroline Walker  Alan Gleaves  John Grey 《Educational studies》2006,32(3):251-264

This paper presents a critical appraisal of resilience and its associated concepts within the context of higher education. It addresses wide‐ranging definitions of resilience, encompassing endurance and adaptability, and seeks to understand how these definitions impact on the learning experiences of students. As theoretical and empirical work on resilience has burgeoned in terms of adolescent experiences of education, the rise of interest has not been matched by that in studies of adult learning, particularly within university settings. This is despite the growing importance of retention studies, which have clear and important links to how well students manage their learning ability in adversity. Realization of the potential embodied in this concept to alter for the better, together with ways of conceptualizing learning and teaching, however, will remain constrained unless teachers within higher education pay attention to the resilience narratives that individual students present, and how teaching strategies can affect their learning trajectories. The paper examines some factors that impact on students’ learning within higher education, and theorizes how teaching and assessment may be adapted to promote resilience in all its forms.  相似文献   

Using Social Stories to Enhance Behaviour in Children with Autistic Spectrum Difficulties     

Caroline Smith 《Educational Psychology in Practice》2001,17(4):337-345

This paper describes teachers, parents and educational psychologists working together to meet the needs of children and young people with autistic spectrum difficulties in mainstream and special schools. It examines the impact on children's social behaviour of a two-session workshop for groups of parents/carers, teachers and learning support assistants about 'Social Stories' (Gray, 1994). It highlights the contribution that Social Stories can make to the management of a wide range of social behaviours, including inappropriate sexual behaviour, unsafe behaviour and obsessional behaviour. Issues raised by the use of Social Stories and their benefits for children with autistic spectrum difficulties are considered. The paper concludes by describing the developing diversity in the use of Social Stories and invites those working in the field to contribute to the body of information about their strengths and limitations.  相似文献   

Identification and placement for deaf students with multiple disabilities: choosing the path less followed     

Guardino CA 《American annals of the deaf》2008,153(1):55-64

Students with a hearing loss often have an additional disability. Although the number of deaf students with multiple disabilities is growing, research on this population has significantly decreased over the past quarter-century. The article reviews the literature on identification and placement of deaf students with multiple disabilities, specifically deaf students with one of the following disabilities: autism, emotional/behavior disorders, attention deficit disorders, or mental retardation. Degree of incidence is also reported, and is compared with statistics from the annual report of the Gallaudet Research Institute (2005). Included in the review are suggestions for future research and implications for professionals in the field of deafness.  相似文献   

Effects of preschoolers’ storybook exposure and literacy environments on lower level and higher level language skills     

Grolig  Lorenz  Cohrdes  Caroline  Tiffin-Richards  Simon P.  Schroeder  Sascha 《Reading and writing》2019,32(4):1061-1084

Reading and Writing - The development of preschoolers’ language skills is influenced by literacy environments and individual differences in storybook exposure. Extant research is limited as...  相似文献   

Honesty and hope: Presenting human rights issues to teenagers through fiction     

Gwenda Bond 《Children‘s Literature in Education》1994,25(1):41-53

She is married to a Baptist minister, and is the author ofThe Answered Call: William Carey and the Dawn of Modern Missions (Harper Collins Religious, 1992).  相似文献   

Stylistic Variation at the "Single-Word" Stage: Relations between Maternal Speech Characteristics and Children's Vocabulary Composition and Usage     

Julian M. Pine  Elena V. M. Lieven  Caroline F. Rowland 《Child development》1997,68(5):807-819

In this study we test a number of different claims about the nature of stylistic variation at the "single-word" stage by examining the relation between variation in early vocabulary composition, variation in early language use, and variation in the structural and functional propreties of mothers' child-directed speech. Maternal-report and observational data were collected for 26 children at 10, 50, and 100 words, These were then correlated with a variety of different measures of maternal speech at 10 words, The results show substantial variation in the percentage of common nouns and unanalyzed phrases in children's vocabularies, and singficant relations between this variation and the way in which language is used by the child. They also reveal singficant relations between the way in whch mothers use language at 10 words and the way in chich their children use language at 50 words and between certain formal properties of mothers speech at 10 words and the percentage of common nouns and unanalyzed phrases in children's early vocabularies, However, most of these relations desappear when an attempt is made to control for ossible effects of the child on the mother at Time 1. The exception is a singficant negative correlation between mothers tendency to produce speech that illustrates word boundaries and the percentage of unanalyzed phrases at 50 and 100 words. This suggests that mothers whose sprech provides the child with information about where new words begin and end tend to have children with few unanalyzed. phrases in their early vocabularies.  相似文献