Ethnic and Racial Identity in Adolescence: Implications for Psychosocial,Academic, and Health Outcomes     

Deborah Rivas‐Drake  Eleanor K. Seaton  Carol Markstrom  Stephen Quintana  Moin Syed  Richard M. Lee  Seth J. Schwartz  Adriana J. Uma?a‐Taylor  Sabine French  Tiffany Yip  Ethnic  Racial Identity in the st Century Study Group 《Child development》2014,85(1):40-57

The construction of an ethnic or racial identity is considered an important developmental milestone for youth of color. This review summarizes research on links between ethnic and racial identity (ERI) with psychosocial, academic, and health risk outcomes among ethnic minority adolescents. With notable exceptions, aspects of ERI are generally associated with adaptive outcomes. ERI are generally beneficial for African American adolescents' adjustment across all three domains, whereas the evidence is somewhat mixed for Latino and American Indian youth. There is a dearth of research for academic and health risk outcomes among Asian American and Pacific Islander adolescents. The review concludes with suggestions for future research on ERI among minority youth.  相似文献   

Feeling Good,Happy, and Proud: A Meta‐Analysis of Positive Ethnic–Racial Affect and Adjustment     

Deborah Rivas‐Drake  Moin Syed  Adriana Uma?a‐Taylor  Carol Markstrom  Sabine French  Seth J. Schwartz  Richard Lee  Ethnic  Racial Identity in the st Century Study Group 《Child development》2014,85(1):77-102

One point of intersection in ethnic and racial identity research is the conceptual attention paid to how positively youth feel about their ethnicity or race, or positive ethnic–racial affect. This article reports results of a series of meta‐analyses based on 46 studies of this dimension and psychosocial, academic, and health risk outcomes among ethnic and racial minority youth. The overall pattern of results suggests that positive ethnic–racial affect exhibited small to medium associations (r range = |.11| to |.37|) with depressive symptoms, positive social functioning, self‐esteem, well‐being, internalizing, externalizing, academic achievement, academic attitudes, and health risk outcomes. Implications for theory and research about the role of positive ethnic–racial affect among youth growing up in an increasingly diverse society are discussed.  相似文献   

From dictatorship to democracy: history of education in Spain     

Antonio Viñao 《Paedagogica Historica: International Journal of the History of Education》2014,50(6):830-843

In a book published in 1995 providing an overview on the state of the art in European educational historiography in Europe, Marie-Madeleine Compère referring to post-Franco Spain, emphasised the “dynamism” and “the capacity to mobilise” that had arisen among Spanish researchers by “any collective initiative.” Moving on, this article intends to clarify: a) to what extent Compère is right; and b) what caused the changes in the Spanish educational historiography during the last four decades. It also deals with some of the prevailing trends and issues facing this academic and scientific field today.  相似文献   

Comparative analysis of student self-reflections on course projects     

Cristina Pomales-García  Kenneth Cortés Barreto 《European Journal of Engineering Education》2014,39(6):685-699

This study presents the skills, experiences, and values identified in project self-reflections of 161 undergraduate engineering students. Self-reflections from two different engineering design courses, which provide experiences in project-based learning (PBL), are analysed through the content analysis methodology. Results show that ‘application’, ‘true life’, ‘satisfaction’, and ‘communication’ are the common keywords shared in the reflections. Multiple hypothesis tests to identify differences between courses, project types, years, and gender suggest that there are no significant differences between experiences, skills, and values self-reported by students who completed either a case study or an industry project. Based on research findings, recommendations will be provided to enhance the engineering curriculum based on PBL experiences to support the development of relevant professional skills and experiences.  相似文献   

Competences in demand within the Spanish agricultural engineering sector     

Alicia Perdigones  Diego Luis Valera  Guillermo Pedro Moreda  Jose Luis García 《European Journal of Engineering Education》2014,39(5):527-538

The Rural Engineering Department (Technical University of Madrid) ran three competence surveys during the 2006–2007 and 2007–2008 academic years and evaluated: (1) the competences gained by agricultural engineer's degree and agricultural technical engineer's degree students (360 respondents); (2) the competences demanded by agricultural employers (50 farming sector employers); (3) competences required by farming sector professionals and former students (70 professionals). The surveys show significant differences between what competences agricultural employers require of graduates and the competences they acquire during their agricultural engineering degree courses. Recruiters are looking for generic competences such as the ability to coordinate groups and place less importance on knowledge of engineering, biology, applied economics and legislation. Of the computer-related competences, those most in demand by sector professionals were related to the use of Microsoft Office/Excel (used by 79% of professionals). Surveys were used to redesign some subjects of the degrees.  相似文献   

A longitudinal developmental analysis of students’ causality beliefs about school performance     

Isabel Roque  Marina Serra de Lemos  Teresa Gonçalves 《European Journal of Psychology of Education - EJPE》2014,29(1):159-173

This study examined the development of school-related causality beliefs which are children’s generalized perceptions of the utility or power of different categories of specific means in producing school outcomes. Based on the action theory perspective, we analyzed the developmental model of these beliefs as well as the trajectories of the five perceived causes of school success and failure: ability, effort, luck, teacher’s help, and unknown causes. On a 5-year longitudinal study, following a group of 63 students over an 8-year period (from the second to the ninth grades), using hierarchical linear models, intraindividual changes and interindividual differences in these changes were identified; also, factors that might account for this variability were tested. The results showed a decrease of the effectiveness attributed to the various causes, but their differentiated trajectories, and a relative independence of gender and achievement factors (engagement and school grades) in the evolution of these beliefs. School children in the lower grades value most highly ability and effort as causes of school success. Student’s beliefs about the causes of school performance become both more conservative and more differentiated along schooling, which is probably a normative general tendency. Findings from this longitudinal study corroborate, to a large extent, a consistent set of important developmental findings based on previous cross-sectional designs.  相似文献   

雨水和中水回用对北京供水的潜在贡献(英文)     

刘栗  MarinaBergenJensen  孟庆一 《东南大学学报》2014,(2):150-157

为寻找新途径以缓解北京市因日趋减少的年降水量和人口快速增长等因素引起的水危机,及地下水位迅速下降的状况,探讨了基于住户的分散式雨水收集和中水回用,作为减少地下水抽取和从其他地区调水的手段.通过案头案例研究,提出了雨水和中水结合式收集再利用的2个理念.基于粗略假设,计算表明采用升级理念可节约生活自来水消费的67.8%,而采用降级理念则节约5.9%.如果2 000万北京市民采用升级理念,将节约相当于0.545×109m3的年供水量.尽管先决条件诸多,如水处理技术、空间需求、能源和成本,以及公众接受能力,主张采用住户雨水收集和中水回用与其他措施相结合,以实现北京可持续的水管理.  相似文献   

Executive function and verbal self-regulation in childhood: Developmental linkages between partially internalized private speech and cognitive flexibility     

David Alarcón-Rubio  José A. Sánchez-Medina  José R. Prieto-García 《Early childhood research quarterly》2014

Recent studies have noted that executive function and the use of self-regulatory private speech are related in childhood, and proposed that the critical leap that occurs in the development of executive function between the ages of three and six years may be due to the onset of language-based self-regulatory functions at this age. This research explored the relationship between executive function and private speech in a cross-sectional study of 81 children between four and seven years of age. The children performed an executive function task, the Dimensional Change Card Sort (DCCS), and children's use of private speech was observed during a categorization task. The results indicated that, after controlling for children's age, gender, verbal abilities, and fluid reasoning, children's use of partially internalized private speech during the categorization task was significantly related to the number of phases successfully passed on the DCCS task, which required them to switch between card sorting rules. Children who used more partially internalized private speech were more likely to pass the most challenging phase of the DCCS task that assesses the ability to flexibly use different sorting rules according to a higher-order rule. We discuss the role of verbal mediation in the development of cognitive flexibility and its implications for the design of intervention programs for children who possess deficits of executive function.  相似文献   

Building Authenticity in Social Media Tools to Recruit Postsecondary Students     

Jean Kelso Sandlin  Edlyn Vallejo Peña 《Innovative Higher Education》2014,39(4):333-346

An increasing number of institutions utilize social media tools, including student-written blogs, on their admission websites in an effort to enhance authenticity in their recruitment marketing materials. This study offers a framework for understanding what contributes to prospective college students’ perceptions of social media authenticity and how their perceptions shape expectations of the college experience. The results of the study are based on qualitative data comprising 16 in-depth interviews, 165 journal entries, and an eight-member focus group interview with college-bound students. Prospective college students perceived student-written blogs to be authentic when student bloggers disclosed personal details and feelings about campus life, even when the topic of the blog was contrived to focus on admission and college-related activities. Recognizing a blog as authentic occurred through the process of internalizing the experience described in the blog post and identifying with the blogger.  相似文献   

Connecting goals and actions during reading: the role of illustrations     

Josetxu Orrantia  David Múñez  Julio Tarín 《Reading and writing》2014,27(1):153-170

The ability to integrate information that is separated within a text, such as connecting a character’s action to a goal stated earlier in the text, is a critical factor in narrative comprehension. In the present study, we analyze the ability of 9- and 11-year olds to integrate such information. In addition, we examined the effect of illustrations on integration process by using on-line comprehension measures. Participants read narratives that conveyed a character’s goal early in the text, and an action was described later on that was either consistent or inconsistent with the goal. Narratives were presented either with an illustration that mirrored the situation described in the goal, or without an illustration. The results show that 11-year-olds spent more time on the inconsistent actions than on the consistent actions; in addition, 9-year-olds detected the inconsistency when illustrations were provided. An additional finding was that working memory moderated children’s ability to connect actions and goals. These results suggest that children as young as 9 years form connections between characters’ actions and their goals during text processing, although they need an illustration to keep the goal information activated to detect the inconsistency. Illustrations’ effectiveness was interpreted in terms of extra processing of the characters’ goal.  相似文献