Developing the potential for sustainable improvement in underperforming schools: Capacity building in the socio-cultural dimension     

Jeffrey V. Bennett  Rose M. Ylimaki  Thad M. Dugan  Lynnette A. Brunderman 《Journal of Educational Change》2014,15(4):377-409

This mixed-method study examines Arizona principals’ capacity-building skills and practices in Tier III schools aimed at developing potential for sustained improvements in student outcomes. Data sources included surveys (62 individuals) and semistructured interviews (29 individuals) of principals and staff (e.g. teachers, instructional coaches, assistant principals) who participated in grant-funded leadership training over an 18-month period. The theoretical framework consisted of leadership in the sociocultural dimension (Ylimaki et al. in Leadersh Policy Sch 11(2):168–193, 2012) and capacity building for sustainable improvement in high-capacity Schools (Mitchell and Sackney in Sustainable improvement: building learning communities that endure. Sense Publishers, Rotterdam, 2009). Findings indicated that: (1) schools were not at high-levels of capacity building; (2) those schools in process of building capacity for sustainable improvement demonstrate a directive leadership approach; (3) school development towards high capacity focused on micro-level processes (e.g., professional learning communities); and (4) little attention was given to leadership in the socio-cultural dimension. Implications of the study suggest future research test a leadership development model for Tier III schools that links capacity building leadership and student achievement. The next generation of educational leaders must also have the knowledge, skills, dispositions, and analytical tools to lead schools in both the accountability culture and the macro socio-cultural dimension.  相似文献   

International Encyclopedia of Women Sports     

Christensen K.  Guttmann A.  Pfister G.  Annette Hofmann  M. Buerke  S. Ewald  S. Flassplöher  A. Krause  S. Offermanns  B. Poschner 《Sportwissenschaft》2003,33(1):84-89

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Comparisons of adopted and nonadopted adolescents in a large, nationally representative sample     

Miller BC  Fan X  Christensen M  Grotevant HD  van Dulmen M 《Child development》2000,71(5):1458-1473

There are conflicting findings about whether adopted children have more psychological and behavioral problems than nonadoptees. Research results are discrepant partly because many previous studies were based on small clinical samples or on samples biased by self-selection. A nationally representative school survey (Add Health) was used to compare adopted (n = 1,587) and nonadopted adolescents (total N = 87,165) across a wide variety of measures. Standardized mean differences show that adopted adolescents are at higher risk in all of the domains examined, including school achievement and problems, substance use, psychological well-being, physical health, fighting, and lying to parents. Demographic and background variable breakdowns show that the effect sizes for differences between adopted and nonadopted adolescents were larger for males, younger or older adolescents, Hispanics or Asians, and adolescents living in group homes or with parents of low education. Distributional analyses revealed approximately a 1:1 ratio of adopted to nonadopted adolescents in the middle ranges of the outcome variables but a ratio of 3:1 or greater near the tails of the distributions. These data clearly show that more adopted adolescents have problems of various kinds than their nonadopted peers; effect sizes were small to moderate based on mean differences, but comparisons of distributions suggest much larger proportions of adopted than nonadopted adolescents at the extremes of salient outcome variables.  相似文献   

Polynesian Folklore: An Alternative to Plastic Toys     

Sharon Black  Thomas Wright  Lynnette Erickson 《Children‘s Literature in Education》2001,32(2):125-137

Because folklore has the capability to teach and to preserve the thoughts, feelings, and beliefs of a people, suggestions are offered for using folklore to deepen children's understanding of Polynesian culture. Maori nature fables, along with error/punishment stories involving the woman or man on the moon, represent the instructive function. Tales and legends preserving cultural history are represented by a folk story reflecting values and customs of everyday life, accounts of legendary monsters reflecting cultural hopes and fears, and heroic tales of the popular demigod Maui. Specific stories are reviewed, juvenile collections are referenced, and classroom activities are offered.  相似文献   

Quality criteria for conceptual technology integration models in education: bridging research and practice     

Tondeur  Jo  Petko  Dominik  Christensen  Rhonda  Drossel  Kerstin  Starkey  Louise  Knezek  Gerald  Schmidt-Crawford  Denise A. 《Educational technology research and development : ETR & D》2021,69(4):2187-2208

Educational technology research and development - In order to effectively use technology in education, appropriate conceptual understandings are needed to guide the integration process. Today,...  相似文献   

Incongruities as a source of organizational renewal in corporate management of R&D     

Jens Frslev Christensen 《Research Policy》2002,31(8-9)

The heydays of the central R&D laboratory as the ‘dominant design’ of corporate R&D in large technology-intensive companies is over. The last decades have witnessed not only downsizing of central R&D, but also ongoing experimentation and restructuring of the modes of managing corporate R&D. What is the logic behind these ongoing restructurings? The paper argues that different kinds of organizational incongruities constitute critical sources of change in the organization of R&D. The paper seeks to align a contingency and an evolutionary perspective in analyzing two Danish technology-intensive companies characterized by highly different organizational trajectories.  相似文献   

Supporting Family Choice     

Mary M. Murray  Kimberly A. Christensen  Gardner T. Umbarger  Karin C. Rade  Kathryn Aldridge  Judith A. Niemeyer 《Early Childhood Education Journal》2007,35(2):111-117

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Casual Games and Casual Learning About Human Biological Systems     

C. Aaron Price  Katherine Gean  Claire G. Christensen  Elham Beheshti  Bryn Pernot  Gloria Segovia  Halcyon Person  Steven Beasley  Patricia Ward 《Journal of Science Education and Technology》2016,25(1):111-126

Casual games are everywhere. People play them throughout life to pass the time, to engage in social interactions, and to learn. However, their simplicity and use in distraction-heavy environments can attenuate their potential for learning. This experimental study explored the effects playing an online, casual game has on awareness of human biological systems. Two hundred and forty-two children were given pretests at a Museum and posttests at home after playing either a treatment or control game. Also, 41 children were interviewed to explore deeper meanings behind the test results. Results show modest improvement in scientific attitudes, ability to identify human biological systems and in the children’s ability to describe how those systems work together in real-world scenarios. Interviews reveal that children drew upon their prior school learning as they played the game. Also, on the surface they perceived the game as mainly entertainment but were easily able to discern learning outcomes when prompted. Implications for the design of casual games and how they can be used to enhance transfer of knowledge from the classroom to everyday life are discussed.  相似文献   

Celebration,reflection and challenge: The BAICE 20th anniversary     

Michael Crossley  Qing Gu  Angeline M. Barrett  Lalage Bown  Alison Buckler  Carly Christensen 《Compare》2018,48(5):801-820

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Beliefs and Attitudes about Science and Mathematics in Pre-Service Elementary Teachers,STEM, and Non-STEM Majors in Undergraduate Physics Courses     

Lynnette Michaluk  Rachel Stoiko  Gay Stewart  John Stewart 《Journal of Science Education and Technology》2018,27(2):99-113

Elementary teachers often hold inaccurate beliefs about the Nature of Science (NoS) and have negative attitudes toward science and mathematics. Using a pre-post design, the current study examined beliefs about the NoS, attitudes toward science and mathematics, and beliefs about the teaching of mathematics and science in a large sample study (N = 343) of pre-service teachers receiving a curriculum-wide intervention to improve these factors in comparison with Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics (STEM) and non-STEM majors in other physics courses (N = 6697) who did not receive the intervention, over a 10-year period. Pre-service teachers evidenced initially more negative attitudes about mathematics and science than STEM majors and slightly more positive attitudes than non-STEM majors. Their attitudes toward mathematics and science and beliefs about the NoS were more similar to non-STEM than STEM majors. Pre-service teachers initially evidenced more positive beliefs about the teaching of mathematics and science, and their beliefs even increased slightly over the course of the semester, while these beliefs in other groups remained the same. Beliefs about the NoS and the teaching of mathematics and science were significantly negatively correlated for STEM and non-STEM majors, but were not significantly correlated for pre-service teachers. Beliefs about the NoS and attitudes toward mathematics and science were significantly positively correlated for both pre-service teachers and STEM students pursing the most mathematically demanding STEM majors. Attitudes toward science and mathematics were significantly positively correlated with accurate beliefs about the teaching of mathematics and science for all student groups.  相似文献