Implementation of an Early Care and Education Partnership: Perspectives of Diverse Stakeholders     

Laura E. Hawkinson  BreAnna L. Davis Tribble 《Early education and development》2019,30(8):1009-1028

ABSTRACT

Communities are investigating new ways to expand access to high-quality early education. A new early care and education partnership initiative in a mid-Atlantic state offered publicly-funded preschool slots to eligible children in private early childhood programs and provided quality supports to participating private programs. This qualitative study examines the implementation of this partnership initiative from the perspectives of administrators, early childhood program staff, and family members of enrolled children. Researchers conducted 15 focus groups with these stakeholders across five communities and used a directed content analysis approach to analyze the data. Research Findings: The thematic findings from this study suggest that ECE partnerships can improve implementation processes by developing intentional communication plans and paying attention to the needs and preferences of early childhood program staff and families. The study findings also suggest that private programs may be able to counter the loss of preschool enrollment slots to public schools by participating in ECE partnerships. Practice and Policy: Policymakers may use these findings to inform the design of new ECE partnership initiatives or other initiatives that involve collaboration among early care and education programs. Practitioners may use these findings to inform planning for new partnerships they are engaged in.  相似文献   

Effects of group size and advance organizers on learning parameters when using microcomputer tutorials in kinematics     

Ernest R. Carnes  Joy S. Lindbeck  C. Frank Griffin 《科学教学研究杂志》1987,24(9):781-789

The purpose of this study was to investigate how the use of CAI tutorial programs, incorporating advance organizers and involving various sizes of groups of subjects, would affect students' achievement scores, retention scores, and rates of learning. Used as subjects were 100 suburban high school physics students running interactive tutorial physics programs focusing on strobe simulation and displacement-time and velocity-time graphs. For fifty students (experimental group) an advance organizer program preceded each tutorial. The remaining fifty students (control group) had an advance non-organizer program preceding each tutorial. While pursuing the tutorials the students worked individually or together in groups of two, three, or four. Five days were allocated for the students to repeat the four tutorials until 90% competency level was attained. Achievement and retention were measured by individually administered paper-pencil teacher-made tests sampling the content of all four tutorials. Rate of learning was determined for groups by the number of times the first three tutorial programs were executed in order to attain 90% competency. In the two-way analysis of variance the only significant result at the 0.05 level pertained to group size. Results of the Tukey Test revealed that students working in groups of three and four on CAI tutorials had significantly better rates of learning than students working alone. No significant differences in achievement or retention were observed for the various groups. The implications for using CAI tutorials in physics point to grouping students in fours as a time saving and economic method of presenting material without significant loss of achievement or retention.  相似文献   

A comparison of sexually abused and non-sexually abused adolescents in a clinical treatment facility using the MMPI-A     

Forbey JD  Ben-Porath YS  Davis DL 《Child abuse & neglect》2000,24(4):557-568

OBJECTIVE: In the current study, the adolescent version of the Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory, the MMPI-A, was used to address concerns voiced about the mixing of different developmental ages, use of inadequate comparison groups, and the lack of reliance on reliable and valid measures of psychological, behavioral, and psychosocial problems used in previous studies of sexually abused children and adolescents. METHOD: A total of 107 adolescents in residential treatment (73 boys and 34 girls) were included in the study. Seventy-two of these adolescents had reportedly been sexually abused (42 boys and 30 girls); 35 had not been abused (31 boys and 4 girls). Predictions based on previous research with adolescents were made and tested regarding which MMPI-A validity, clinical, and content scales would differ between the sexually abused and non sexually abused groups of adolescents. RESULTS: Overall, and consistent with many predictions, sexually abused adolescents had both statistically and clinically higher elevations on several MMPI-A scales than did their non-abused counterparts. No scales were more elevated for non-abused adolescents than for abused adolescents. CONCLUSIONS: Sexually abused adolescents in residential treatment, as a group, present with concerns that their non-abused counterparts did not have, or did not share to the same extent. Treatment recommendations based on the MMPI-A scale elevations are provided, limitations of the current study discussed, and directions for further research are suggested.  相似文献   

Changing practice in Malaysian primary schools: learning from student teachers’ reports of using action,reflection and modelling (ARM)     

Claire Dickerson  Kit Thomas  Joy Jarvis  Roger Levy 《师资教育杂志》2018,44(2):194-211

Curricular and pedagogical reforms are complex inter-linked processes such that curricular reform can only be enacted through teachers teaching differently. This article reports the perspective of emergent Malaysian primary teachers who were expected to implement a Government reform that promoted active learning. The 120 student teachers were members of a single cohort completing a new B.Ed. degree programme in Primary Mathematics designed by teacher educators from Malaysia and the UK. They were taught to use a tripartite pedagogical framework involving action or active learning, supported in practice through reflection and modelling. Drawing on findings from surveys carried out with the student teachers at the end of their first and final placements this article examines evidence for the premise that the student teachers were teaching differently; illustrates how they reported using active learning strategies; and identifies factors that enabled and constrained pedagogic change in the primary classroom. The students’ accounts of using action, reflection and modelling are critiqued in order to learn about changing learning and teaching practice and to contribute to understanding teacher education and early teacher development. The students’ reports suggest diversity of understanding that emphasises the need to challenge assumptions when working internationally and within national and local cultures.  相似文献   

Long-term retention of fear-potentiated startle following a short training session     

Serge Campeau  Keng C. Liang  Michael Davis 《Learning & behavior》1990,18(4):462-468

The permanence of aversive memories has been reported to vary when assessed with conditioned emotional response procedures (months) versus avoidance response measures (days). When evaluated with the potentiated startle paradigm, five light-shock pairings at a 2-min intertrial interval produced highly reliable potentiated startle, which was similar in magnitude from 1 to 28 days after training and maximal using a 0.6-mA footshock intensity. These results are consistent with such measures as conditioned emotional response procedures, in which aversive memories have been observed after months following originaltraining. The results obtained with various shock intensities are also discussed in the context of other indices of fear.  相似文献   

Urban student affairs data exchange     

Joe L. Davis  Linda J. Kaiser  Richard E. Hoover  Sandy MacLean 《The Urban Review》1995,27(1):93-99

Urban institutions of higher education have need of a peer group for comparison purposes. This article describes a student affairs database developed specifically for urban institutions of higher education. Such a database enables urban institutions to refer to comparison groups having similar characteristics. Specific examples of how the data can be utilized by chief student affairs officers and others are provided.  相似文献   

A perinatal intervention program for urban american indians part 2: the story of a program and its implications for practice          下载免费PDF全文

Prater SL  Davis CL 《The Journal of perinatal education》2002,11(2):23-32

This is the story of how a culturally aware staff successfully intervened with a clientele of another culture. A high infant mortality rate for American Indians in Milwaukee, WI, prompted a community health agency to initiate a program to address the problem. Efforts were made to educate the American Indian community about the importance of both prenatal and postnatal care. Part 1 of this report was published (Davis & Prater, 2001) and presented the design and implementation of the program, as well as program outcomes. Here, Part 2 describes aspects of the same program, including the personal story of a client and the results of an evaluation conducted by a three-person research team. Implications for practice are also presented. Among these are suggestions for hiring and retaining staff, locating and retaining clients, addressing cultural sensitivity, and identifying administrative actions that enhance program operation. The personal stories of two additional clients are included to illustrate the difficult reality of some clients' lives and the resulting necessity for flexibility and resourcefulness on the part of program staff. This program represents the positive impact that program workers had on the problem of American Indian infant mortality.  相似文献   

Normalizing literary responses in the teacher education classroom     

Dennis Sumara  Brent Davis  Tammy Iftody 《Changing English: An International Journal of English Teaching》2006,13(1):55-67

In this essay, the authors present analyses of data emerging from a study of a classroom of pre‐service English language arts teachers' readings of a young adult novel that challenged normative sexuality stereotypes. They argue that when literary fictions are included within teacher education ‘methods’ courses, the possibility that literature might support generative learning is eroded by the normative structures of teacher education, particularly those pedagogical beliefs and practices that separate discourses of experience from discourses of knowledge. The authors offer a brief overview of studies of human consciousness, with particular attention to how literary experiences can contribute to its development. They suggest that the identities that co‐emerge with conscious awareness are structured by normalizing discourses instantiated within teacher education methods courses. The essay concludes with a discussion of how the conscious awareness of beginning English teachers might be more expansively developed within pre‐service teacher education.  相似文献   

A behavioral change model with implications for faculty development     

Robert H. Davis 《Higher Education》1979,8(2):123-140

A model of voluntary behavior change is developed and applied to faculty in higher education and the process of instructional innovation. The model identifies individual and organizational variables that determine whether or not a faculty member will change his instructional practices by adopting methods, techniques, or ideas that are new to him and the likelihood that he will succeed if he decides to try to innovate. Some implications of the model for faculty development programs are discussed.  相似文献   

Looking in the mirror: Teachers' use of autobiography and action research to improve practice     

Dr Nancy T. Davis 《Research in Science Education》1996,26(1):23-32

This study presents an argument for valuing subjective, reflective knowledge based on Habermas' category of cognitive interest of emancipatory knowing. Using the teachers' autobiographies and action research as data sources, the process of personal empowerment is explored. A model of change derived from analysis of teachers' writings is proposed that includes disturbance, alternatives, confidence and action.  相似文献