Promoting attitude change and expressed willingness to take action toward climate change in college students     

Gale M. Sinatra  CarolAnne M. Kardash  Gita Taasoobshirazi  Doug Lombardi 《Instructional Science》2012,40(1):1-17

This study examined the relationship among cognitive and motivational variables impacting college students’ willingness to take mitigative action to reduce the impacts of human-induced climate change. One hundred and forty college students were asked to read a persuasive text about human-induced climate change and were pre and post tested on their attitudes about climate change and their willingness to take action to mitigate its effects. Students showed statistically significant changes in their attitudes about climate change and their willingness to commit to take action. A path model demonstrated that openness to change and a willingness to think deeply about issues predicted both change in attitudes and expressed willingness to take action. This research demonstrates that a persuasive text has the potential to promote change around complex socio-scientific issues.  相似文献   

Comparing the Validity and Output of the GT1M and GT3X Accelerometer in 5- to 9-Year-Old Children     

Gerda Jimmy  Roland Seiler  Urs Mäder 《Measurement in physical education and exercise science》2013,17(3):236-248

The purpose of this study was to compare the validity and output of the biaxial ActiGraph GT1M and the triaxial GT3X (ActiGraph, LLC, Pensacola, FL, USA) accelerometer in 5- to 9-year-old children. Thirty-two children wore the two monitors while their energy expenditure was measured with indirect calorimetry. They performed four locomotor and four play activities in an exercise laboratory and were further measured during 12 minutes of a sports lesson. Validity evidence in relation to indirect calorimetry was examined with linear regression equations applied to the laboratory data. During the sports lessons predicted energy expenditure according to the regression equations was compared to measured energy expenditure with the Wilcoxon-signed rank test and the Spearman correlation. To compare the output, agreement between counts of the two monitors during the laboratory activities was assessed with Bland-Altman plots. The evidence of validity was similar for both monitors. Agreement between the output of the two monitors was good for vertical counts (mean bias =??14 ± 22 counts) but not for horizontal counts (?17 ± 32 counts). The current results indicate that the two accelerometer models are able to estimate energy expenditure of a range of physical activities equally well in young children. However, they show output differences for movement in the horizontal direction.  相似文献   

Selected Measures of Angular Displacement,Strength, and Flexibility in Subjects With and Without Shin Splints     

Gale M. Gehlsen  Andrea Seger 《Research quarterly for exercise and sport》2013,84(3):478-485

Abstract

The purpose of this study was to determine if angular displacement between the calcaneus and the midline of the lower leg while running is related to shin splints. A secondary purpose was to compare the strength and flexibility of ankle-joint plantar flexion, dorsal flexion, inversion, and eversion of shin-splint-injured and non-shin-splint-injured subjects. Two groups of conditioned female athletes were randomly selected to participate in this study. One group had a previous history of chronic shin splints, and the other group had no history of shin-splint injury. Angular displacement between the calcaneus and the midline of the lower leg was measured from motion picture film (100 frames/second) taken while the subjects were running at two speeds, 3m/second and 5m/second. A cable tensiometer was used to measure plantar flexion, dorsal flexion, and inversion and eversion strength at the ankle joint; and a goniometer was used to measure the flexibility of the plantar flexors, dorsiflexors, invertors, and evertors at the ankle joint. The results indicated that a shin-splint-injured leg had greater angular displacement between the calcaneus and the midline of the lower leg than a healthy leg, and that shoes and speed of running had an influence upon the amount of angular displacement. In addition, the muscular strength of the plantar flexor muscle was greater in the shin-splint subjects than in the non-shin-splint subjects.  相似文献   

Critical policy sociology: historiography,archaeology and genealogy as methods of policy analysis     

Trevor Gale 《教育政策杂志》2013,28(5):379-393

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吊索训练对高水平足球运动员平衡能力、踢球速度和躯干(肌肉力量)稳定性的改善     

Magnussen R  周瑾 《北京体育大学学报》2007,30(6):858-860

研究目的:通过量化的数据,确定以稳定性为核心的吊索训练计划(SET)对高水平足球运动员身体位置平衡能力、踢球速度和力量的作用.  相似文献   

Evaluation of health information outreach: theory,practice, and future direction     

Wanda Whitney  Gale A. Dutcher  Alla Keselman 《Journal of the Medical Library Association》2013,101(2):138-146

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Archetypal scientists     

Christian Seiler  Klaus Wohlrabe 《Journal of Informetrics》2013,7(2):345-356

We introduce archetypal analysis as a tool to describe and categorize scientists. This approach identifies typical characteristics of extreme (‘archetypal’) values in a multivariate data set. These positive or negative contextual attributes can be allocated to each scientist under investigation. In our application, we use a sample of seven bibliometric indicators for 29,083 economists obtained from the RePEc database and identify six archetypes. These are mainly characterized by ratios of published work and citations. We discuss applications and limitations of this approach. Finally, we assign relative shares of the identified archetypes to each economist in our sample.  相似文献   

Suspension from High School: The Practice and its Effects     

Ian Gale  Keith Topping 《Pastoral Care in Education》2013,31(3):215-224

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‘Take more time to actually listen’: students' reflections on participation and negotiation in school     

Gillean McCluskey  Jane Brown  Pamela Munn  Gwynedd Lloyd  Lorna Hamilton  Stephen Sharp  Gale Macleod 《British Educational Research Journal》2013,39(2):287-301

Behaviour in schools is an emotive topic and one of enduring political interest and sensitivity. The media often portrays schools as violent and dangerous places and young people as ever more unruly. This paper explores findings from a recent large‐scale national study on behaviour and focuses on the data from primary and secondary school students within this study. The comments and suggestions offered by students move beyond a discussion of behaviour to focus on the broader questions of participation, engagement and meanings of active citizenship in school.  相似文献   

Statutory assessment of the class? Supporting the additional needs of the learning context     

Trevor Gale 《International Journal of Inclusive Education》2013,17(3):253-269

The dialogue of this paper operates at two levels. First, it seeks to rethink the various perspectives on social justice evident in the academic literature, reviewing what is collectively known about it and where current thinking is taking and/or should be taking us. Second, it reports on research concerning the schooling of students with disabilities or, more accurately, research concerning the practices of teachers in relation to the inclusion of students with disabilities within ‘mainstream’ classrooms. These two discussions come together through their collaborative interest in recognizing social justice when they ‘see’ it; the data from the research are used to inform the theory it illustrates and the theory is used to explain teachers' practices. In this critical sense it is more than a dialogue, with its parts dialectically related. The paper's critique also extends to questioning whose interests are served (and whose are not) by various social justice perspectives and their applications to schooling. It concludes that ‘a critical theory of social justice must consider not only distributive patterns, but also the processes and relationships that produce and reproduce those patterns’ (Young 1990: 241).  相似文献