Knowledge and the curriculum: a recurring issue     

Steve Higgins  Louise Hayward  Kay Livingston  Dominic Wyse 《Curriculum Journal》2016,27(4):427-429

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Assessing giftedness with the WISC‐III and the SB‐IV     

Michael Simpson  Dominic A. Carone  William J. Burns  Traci Seidman  Doil Montgomery  Alfred Sellers 《Psychology in the schools》2002,39(5):515-524

The Wechsler Intelligence Scale for Children–Third Edition (WISC‐III) and the Stanford‐Binet Intelligence Scale–Fourth Edition (SB‐IV), were administered to 20 gifted children and 20 non‐gifted children to examine the extent of the difference in IQ scores obtained on the two tests and whether order effects were present. Results show that the SB‐IV Composite Score was significantly higher than the WISC‐III Full Scale IQ for both groups. However, for the gifted group, unlike the non‐gifted group, this difference achieved significance only when the SB‐IV was administered first. When either IQ test was administered to the gifted students for the first time, without the confound of a learning influence, there was no significant difference in mean scores. However, when both tests were administered, it was found that the SB‐IV influenced the WISC‐III Full Scale IQ in a downward direction whereas the WISC‐III influenced the SB‐IV Composite Score in an upward direction. © 2002 Wiley Periodicals, Inc.  相似文献   

Distributed Learning: Data, Metacognition, and Educational Implications     

Lisa K. Son  Dominic A. Simon 《Educational Psychology Review》2012,24(3):379-399

A major decision that must be made during study pertains to the distribution, or the scheduling, of study. In this paper, we review the literature on the benefits of spacing, or spreading one's study sessions relatively far apart in time, as compared to massing, where study is crammed into one long session without breaks. The results from laboratory research provide strong evidence for this pervasive “spacing effect,” especially for long-term retention. The metacognitive literature on spacing, however, suggests that massing is the preferred strategy, particularly in young children. Reasons for why this is so are discussed as well as a few recommendations regarding how spacing strategies might be encouraged in real-world learning. While further research and applicability questions remain, the two fields—education and cognitive science—have made huge progress in recent years, resulting in promising new learning developments.  相似文献   

Dragons in English: The Great Change of the Late Nineteenth Century     

Dominic Cheetham 《Children‘s Literature in Education》2014,45(1):17-32

The impetus for the incredible variety found in the modern literary dragon is commonly seen to stem from the creative genius of either E. Nesbit or Kenneth Grahame. However, examination of dragon stories in the late nineteenth century shows that several different authors, on both sides of the Atlantic, were producing similar stories at about the same time, suggesting that the change was part of a general literary and cultural development rather than simply inspired storytelling. This study examines dragon stories of the late nineteenth century and argues that the rediscovery of the Scandinavian dragon, the discovery of the Chinese and Japanese dragons, and possibly the nineteenth-century publication of folktales parodying traditional dragon stories, gave authors new ways of looking at dragons. Traditional St George type dragon stories had already shifted into children’s literature, making books for children the natural environment for the development of the dragon, and it is argued that the combined pressures of the new ideas about dragons, the parody, and the enormous cultural changes of the late Victorian period, were sufficient to stimulate the great change in the literary dragon, which has continued and diversified ever since.  相似文献   

Teachers’ reported practices for teaching writing in England     

Julie E. Dockrell  Chloë R. Marshall  Dominic Wyse 《Reading and writing》2016,29(3):409-434

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The Effects of Gender, at-Risk Status, and Number of Years in Preschool on Children's Academic Readiness     

Dominic F. Gullo 《Early education and development》1991,2(1):32-39

While there has been a number of studies examining the effects of preschool as intervention for children of economic poverty and special needs children, there has not been research examining the effects of preschool education for the general population of children. The purpose of this study was to determine the effects of years of preschool, gender, and at-risk status on children's readiness for first grade. 4539 children participated in the study. 104 children started public school at three-years-old (K3), 1234started school at age four (K4) and 3201 started at age five. At-risk status was determined using the Cooperative Preschool Inventory (Caldwell, 1974) and first grade readiness was determined using the Metropolitan Readiness Test (MRT; Nurss & McGauvran, 1974). Results of the analyses indicated that children who entered the public school preschool program at K3 or K4 scored significantly higher on the MRT than children who entered at K5. Additionally, the findings indicated that if children started at K3, by the end of kindergarten there was no difference between the at-risk and not-at-risk children's scores on the MRT. This was not true for the K4 or K5 groups. The discussion focuses on two issues. First, the relationship between the benefits of preschool and continuity of programs, and second, that “regular” preschool education may serve as intervention for those children who require it, if attended long enough.  相似文献   

Attitudinal effects of utilizing a critical method of analysis     

Dominic A. Infante  Robin A. Grimmett 《Communication Studies》2013,64(4):213-217

Subjects were trained in the use of a critical method for analyzing controversial messages. At a later date the subjects, along with two control groups, listened to a counter‐attitudinal speech. Utilization of the critical method appeared to serve an immunizing function for females, while for males a heightened persuasibility effect was observed.  相似文献   

THINKING ABOUT CITIZEN JOURNALISM     

Seth C. Lewis  Kelly Kaufhold  Dominic L. Lasorsa 《Journalism Practice》2013,7(2):163-179

This study seeks to understand how community newspaper editors negotiate the professional complexities posed by citizen journalism—a phenomenon that, even in the abstract, would appear to undermine their gatekeeping control over content. Through interviews with 29 newspaper editors in Texas, we find that some editors either favor or disfavor the use of citizen journalism primarily on philosophical grounds, while others favor or disfavor its use mainly on practical grounds. This paper presents a mapping of these philosophical-versus-practical concerns as a model for visualizing the conflicting impulses at the heart of a larger professional debate over the place and purpose of user-generated content in the news production process. Moreover, these findings are viewed in light of gatekeeping, which, we argue, offers a welcome point of entry for the study of participatory media work as it evolves at news organizations large and small alike. In contributing to a growing body of literature on user-generated content in news contexts, this study points to the need for better understanding the causes and consequences of journalism's hyperlocal turn, as digitization enables newswork to serve increasingly niche geographic and virtual communities.  相似文献   

How Item Writers Understand Depth of Knowledge     

Adam E. Wyse  Steven G. Viger 《Educational Assessment》2013,18(4):185-206

An important part of test development is ensuring alignment between test forms and content standards. One common way of measuring alignment is the Webb (1997, 2007) alignment procedure. This article investigates (a) how well item writers understand components of the definition of Depth of Knowledge (DOK) from the Webb alignment procedure and (b) how consistent their DOK ratings are with ratings provided by other committees of educators across grade levels, content areas, and alternate assessment levels in a Midwestern state alternate assessment system. Results indicate that many item writers understand key features of DOK. However, some item writers struggled to articulate what DOK means and had some misconceptions. Additional analyses suggested some lack of consistency between the item writer DOK ratings and the committee DOK ratings. Some notable differences were found across alternate assessment levels and content areas. Implications for future item writing training and alignment studies are provided.  相似文献   

Considerations for Equating Alternate Assessments: Two Case Studies of Alternate Assessments Based on Alternate Achievement Standards     

Adam E. Wyse  Vincent J. Dean  Steven G. Viger  Timothy R. Vansickle 《教育实用测度》2013,26(1):50-72

The development of alternate assessments for students with disabilities plays a pivotal role in state and national accountability systems. An important assumption in the use of alternate assessments in these accountability systems is that scores are comparable on different test forms across diverse groups of students over time. The use of test equating is a common way that states attempt to establish score comparability on different test forms. However, equating presents many unique, practical, and technical challenges for alternate assessments. This article provides case studies of equating for two alternate assessments in Michigan and an approach to determine whether or not equating would be preferred to not equating on these assessments. This approach is based on examining equated score and performance-level differences and investigating population invariance across subgroups of students with disabilities. Results suggest that using an equating method with these data appeared to have a minimal impact on proficiency classifications. The population invariance assumption was suspect for some subgroups and equating methods with some large potential differences observed.  相似文献