Transition to school: The role of kindergarten children's behavior regulation     

Antje von Suchodoletz  Gisela Trommsdorff  Tobias Heikamp  Frank Wieber  Peter M. Gollwitzer   《Learning and individual differences》2009,19(4):561-566

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Spoken language development in oral preschool children with permanent childhood deafness     

Sarant JZ  Holt CM  Dowell RC  Rickards FW  Blamey PJ 《Journal of deaf studies and deaf education》2009,14(2):205-217

This article documented spoken language outcomes for preschool children with hearing loss and examined the relationships between language abilities and characteristics of children such as degree of hearing loss, cognitive abilities, age at entry to early intervention, and parent involvement in children's intervention programs. Participants were evaluated using a combination of the Child Development Inventory, the Peabody Picture Vocabulary Test, and the Preschool Clinical Evaluation of Language Fundamentals depending on their age at the time of assessment. Maternal education, cognitive ability, and family involvement were also measured. Over half of the children who participated in this study had poor language outcomes overall. No significant differences were found in language outcomes on any of the measures for children who were diagnosed early and those diagnosed later. Multiple regression analyses showed that family participation, degree of hearing loss, and cognitive ability significantly predicted language outcomes and together accounted for almost 60% of the variance in scores. This article highlights the importance of family participation in intervention programs to enable children to achieve optimal language outcomes. Further work may clarify the effects of early diagnosis on language outcomes for preschool children.  相似文献   

Keep the “H”     

Peter R. Hybert 《Performance Improvement》2009,48(3):5-6

This commentary advocates “keeping the H” in “human performance technology” to help make it clear to nonpractitioners what human performance consultants do. There are different types of performance (e.g., financial performance) and different means of achieving performance (e.g., engineering) that are outside the average human performance technologist's repertoire. Though the human performance technologist should target business results and intervene at more than just the individual level, ultimately, their emphasis is improving human work.  相似文献   

Gender and Management in HEIs: Changing organisational and management structures     

Özkanlı  Özlem  de Lourdes Machado  Maria  White  Kate  O’Connor  Pat  Riordan  Sarah  Neale  Jenny 《Tertiary Education and Management》2009,15(3):241-257

This paper reports on the second phase of a multi-country study examining cross cultural perspectives of gender and management in Higher Education Institutions (HEIs). It examines the broader labour market context and legislative frameworks for higher education in each country and then analyses the literature on women in university management. The paper presents the findings of research with male and female senior managers about their perceptions of women as HEI managers within changing organisational and management structures. It concludes that although HEI’s are now largely aware of barriers to women getting into and on in senior management, they have not addressed the organisational structures and cultures that perpetuate this inequity.

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Childhood adversity, educational trajectories, and self-reported health in later life among U.S. women and men at the turn of the century     

Prof. Angela M. O’Rand Ph.D.  Prof. Jenifer Hamil-Luker Ph.D.  Prof. Cheryl Elman Ph.D. 《Zeitschrift für Erziehungswissenschaft》2009,12(3):409-436

A major objective of current life course research is to specify the processes linking early childhood conditions to subsequent life course statuses that span educational, occupational, familial, and health domains across the life span. This study confronts at least two persistent challenges to the rigorous specification of the relationships among these variables. The first is that the point-in-time measurement of education as “years of schooling” masks considerable heterogeneity in the timing and curricular tracks of schooling and obscures our understanding of how and when education matters for life-course inequality. The second challenge involves interdependencies between aspects of life-course inequality, including educational achievement and health. The intertwining of these variables across the life course, and their usual conceptualization and measurement, limit the interpretation of their relationship and its generalizability across studies. We use data from three waves of the National Survey of Families and Households between 1987–1988 and 2001–2002 to explore trajectories of self-reported health, applying latent class cluster analysis (finite mixture models) to deal directly with these measurement and specification issues. Generally, we find mediating effects of education in mid- to late-life health demonstrating the pivotal role of education in life course processes. Women’s childhood backgrounds are more heterogeneous and temporally complex educational careers affect their self-assessed health more than men’s. Late degrees are linked to poor health trajectories among women, but not men. Also, marital history, number of births and health behaviors are associated in expected ways with women’s and men’s health trajectories at midlife.  相似文献   

Moral crisis in higher institutions and the dress code phenomenon     

K. O. Fayokun S. O. Adedeji S. A. Oyebade 《美中教育评论》2009,6(2):58-66

This article reviewed the case of indecent dressing among the youth of today especially on the universities campuses, which has forced the authorities of those institutions to enact dress codes to stem the tide and restore high moral standards, integrity and decency. Whether this bid was successful or not was another thing which was a function of many factors namely： （1） absence of procedural and legal structures for enforcement and sanctions; （2） weak moral backgrounds from home; （3） lip-service paid to the issue of dress code by the authorities; （4） negative influence of foreign cultures through the moral pollution of the mass media; and （5） the corrupt nature of the society iner-alia. In the view of the fact that this phenomenon portends serious danger to realizing the sincere goals of training reliable, decent-minded, well mannered workforce and leaders for the future, the study recommended that： （1） all hands be put on deck by all the stake holders within and outside campuses to stem the dangerous tide; （2） well designed structures be laid down for enforcing the rules and penalizing non-compliance; and （3） regular counselling programmes be mounted all over the campuses and in the communities utilizing agencies like the parents, the teachers, the religious bodies and the media most especially.  相似文献   

Fairness and Consequential Validity of Teacher Work Samples     

Peter Denner  Antony Norman  Shu-Yuan Lin 《Educational Assessment, Evaluation and Accountability》2009,21(3):235-254

Acknowledging the necessity to establish the fairness and consequential validity of teacher candidate performance assessments when they are used to make high-stakes decisions impacting entry into the profession, we investigated whether there were any adverse results from the use of the Renaissance Teacher Work Sample (TWS) assessment at two universities as a consequence of the age, gender, or race/ethnicity of teacher candidates. We also investigated education program and program entrance requirements, such as Praxis I scores, and measures of grade point average, as general predictors of TWS success. The findings indicated no disparate impact or adverse consequences based on the gender, age, or race/ethnicity of the teacher candidates. Selected variables did predict a moderate amount of the variance of the TWS total scores of both preinterns and student-teaching interns. The process used to determine the value implications of the results was also discussed.  相似文献   

Anthony Grafton and Megan Williams: Christianity and the Transformation of the Book: Origen,Eusebius, and the Library of Caesarea     

Oresick  Peter 《Publishing Research Quarterly》2009,25(2):128-129

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Erratum to “In memory: Allen Smith” [The Journal of Academic Librarianship 34 (2008) 467–468]     

Peter Hernon 《The Journal of Academic Librarianship》2009,35(1):114

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Problems of information support of scientific innovation and industrial spheres: New conceptual approaches     

L. F. Borisova  O. V. Syuntyurenko 《Scientific and Technical Information Processing》2009,36(2):81-84

The discrepancy between national information infrastructure capabilities and the present-day requirements of the new economic institutional environment is one of main causes of the gap between the significant volume of fundamental and applied innovation research results that have commercialization potential, and the actual abilities of our domestic industry to assimilate these results, which exists in Russia. The purpose of this article is to form at least a rough conceptual look at an effective information infrastructure for innovation and scientific and technical activities, which corresponds to the present-day requirements of the new economic institutional environment in Russia. To solve the problem of overcoming inertial trends in national information system development, new ideas and new conceptual approaches are required. The presented conceptual approaches are oriented toward solving the problems of modernization and the development of a qualitatively new structural and substantial organization of the national information system. Most of the critical phases of information support of the stages of technology transfer and the basic principles of information infrastructure development are shown. A brief enumeration of the set of key actions on the development of the information infrastructure of the scientific, technical, and industrial spheres is provided.  相似文献