Factors influencing anaphoric processing in ESL reading comprehension     

Charles Parish  Kyle Perkins 《Journal of Research in Reading》1985,8(2):106-115

The purpose of this study was to investigate the effects of some factors that influence English as Second Language (ESL) readers’ ability to resolve anaphoric expressions. Fifty full-time ESL students randomly drawn from three different proficiency levels served as unpaid volunteers for the project. Data were elicited by means of multiple-choice and cloze tests. The experimental design contains one between-subjects factor (proficiency level) and three within-subjects factors, all orthogonally manipulated (number of antecedents, case of pronominal anaphor, and propositional distance from antecedent). A four-way mixed ANOVA for the multiple-choice tests indicated significant effects for proficiency level, case of anaphor, and the interaction of case and number of antecedents. A similar four-way ANOVA for the cloze tests indicated significant effects for proficiency level, number of antecedents, case of anaphor, distance from antecedent, and for the interactions of case and antecedents, antecedents and distance, and case and distance. Similarities in the findings from this study and other first and second language studies are noted. Latent trait measurement procedures were employed to produce a rank order of difficulty for the different item types examined in this study.  相似文献   

The self-report of punitive childhood experiences of young adults and adolescents   总被引：2，自引：0，他引：2  

A M Berger  J F Knutson  J G Mehm  K A Perkins 《Child abuse & neglect》1988,12(2):251-262

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The effect of processing depth on ESL reading comprehension     

Kyle Perkins  Sheila R. Brutten 《Journal of Research in Reading》1992,15(2):67-81

This study investigated the effect of depth of processing on second-language reading comprehension. It was hypothesized that questions which entailed shallow cognitive processing would be easier to answer than questions which entailed deeper cognitive processing. Three of the four research hypotheses were confirmed. Previous training (or lack of it) may account for why one of the predictions was not confirmed. This paper concludes with a cautionary note about the types of reading performance teachers can expect, and the recognition of open-ended testing techniques in secondlanguage reading assessment.  相似文献   

Book Review: ICT4D,Information and Communication Technology for Development. General Editor,Tim Unwin     

Ross Perkins 《TechTrends》2010,54(5):15-17

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The role of education in the development of Black feminist thought, 1860‐1920     

Linda M. Perkins 《History of education》2013,42(3):365-275

Very few English secondary schools now include ‘Comprehensive’ in their titles, and political enthusiasm for comprehensive schools is hard to detect. According to David Skelton of Policy Exchange, politicians, like anthropologists, have often ‘investigated them, read thoroughly about them and even visited them, but they don’t really understand them’. Drawing on a variety of source materials, this article discusses the early comprehensive schools movement, the period of intensive circulars and legislation in the 1960s and 1970s and the subsequent waning of interest in comprehensive schools as a policy topic. At the heart of the discussion is a focus on politics and politicians at both the national and local levels, with close reference to some key personalities of the post-war period. It is argued that the story of comprehensive schooling in England needs more balance and that we should look to the present generation of politicians and historians to provide this.  相似文献   

Psychological research in speech     

Lindsey S. Perkins 《Communication quarterly》2013,61(1):22-27

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Addressing Needs of Employers,Older Workers,and Retirees: An Educational Approach     

Kathleen A. Segrist  Brian Tell  Vicki Byrd  Susie Perkins 《Educational gerontology》2013,39(5):451-462

The Retirement Research Foundation of Chicago supported a collaborative to collect demographic data about working and aging, conduct a survey of older job seekers, and interview businesses in the region to assess their awareness and attitudes about mature workers. The 2005 project was titled the 60 + Success Project. A regional task force oversaw the research components and product development. Data collection occurred through 13 focus groups, individual interviews with private, public and nonprofit sector leaders, surveying of mature and aging job seekers, and online surveying of employers. Based upon this multipronged methodology, four major products were produced: Report and Key Findings; Human Resources Handbook and Curriculum; Opportunities for Mature Workers (brochure); and Mature Worker Profile. These products are the first steps toward better understanding the needs of older workers and shaping an action plan for this region. They can serve as catalysts to spur similar educational efforts in other parts of the country.  相似文献   

Outlines of physical chemistry: By George Senter,D.Sc. (Lond.), Birkbeck College (University of London). Fourteenth edition,xx–421 pages, 13 x 19 cm., 46 illustrations in text. New York,D. Van Nostrand Company, 1926. Price, $3     

George Wesley Perkins 《Journal of The Franklin Institute》1927,203(5):732-733

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Measures of cognitive structure: Do they assess learning at the level of comprehension?     

Marcy Perkins Driscoll 《Contemporary educational psychology》1985,10(1):38-51

One purpose of this study was to determine whether cognitive structure, assessed by psychometric measures of concept interrelatedness, can be developed when the students initially do not know what concept relationships exist and what they mean. The second purpose was to apply those measures to a learning situation that has produced a nonspecific transfer effect, i.e., the facilitative effect of concrete examples on learning abstract passages, to attempt to explain this effect more completely. Five groups of 20 students each read two prose passages and took recall and structure assessment tests on the second passage. Results (1) indicated that the nonspecific facilitative transfer effect was replicated and (2) offered some support for the contention that the cognitive structure which proximity measures assess can be trained to correspond to content structure, but that related recall remains low. With resolution of some of the methodological issues surrounding these measures, however, clearer explanation of transfer effects and assessment of higher order learning may be facilitated.  相似文献   

Storage Techniques for Art,Science and History Collections (STASHc.com): An Online Resource for Collection Storage     

Rachael Perkins Arenstein  Lisa Goldberg  Bonnie Naugle 《文物保护研究》2018,63(5):316-319

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