Constructivism and the role of self‐instructional course materials: A reply     

D. Randy Garrison 《Distance Education》1995,16(1):136-140

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Dialogic voices in talk about drinking and pregnancy     

Leslie A. Baxter  Randy Hirokawa  John B. Lowe  Peter Nathan  Liz Pearce 《Journal of Applied Communication Research》2004,32(3):224-248

Alcohol use during pregnancy poses a significant risk of fetal alcohol syndrome. This study presents the interpretive findings of the formative research phase of a funded grant to develop a community-based public health media campaign on the topic of drinking during pregnancy. In the initial wave of data collection, 50 rural women were recruited from four Women, Infants, and Children (WIC) clinics in southeastern Iowa to participate in semi-structured interviews. In the second wave, 10 additional WIC clients were interviewed for member-checking purposes. Findings revealed two competing discourses that organized these women's attitudes, beliefs, and behaviors surrounding drinking and pregnancy: the discourse of individualism and the discourse of responsible motherhood. These two discourses offer opposing normative guidelines for talk among their close female relatives and friends. The implications of these findings for designing a community-based media campaign are discussed.  相似文献   

Evaluating risk for targeted violence in schools: Comparing risk assessment,threat assessment,and other approaches     

Marisa Reddy  Randy Borum  John Berglund  Bryan Vossekuil  Robert Fein  William Modzeleski 《Psychology in the schools》2001,38(2):157-172

In the wake of recent school shootings, fear over violence in schools has prompted increased requests for psychologists, educators, and law enforcement professionals to assist in preventing future school violence incidents. We attempt to lay a foundation for developing effective assessment and prevention approaches by first distinguishing planned school‐based attacks from other forms of school and youth violence. We then review the three assessment approaches that have been advocated and used in some jurisdictions (profiling, guided professional judgment, automated decision‐making) and demonstrate why they are inappropriate—and potentially harmful—in preventing planned school‐based attacks. We then describe the contours of the threat assessment approach, developed by the U.S. Secret Service to prevent assassinations, and examine its utility for responding to communications or behaviors of concern that students may present in school settings. © 2001 John Wiley & Sons, Inc.  相似文献   

A Computer-Based Task for Measuring the Representational Component of Quantitative Proficiency     

Randy Elliot Bennett  Marc M. Sebrechts 《Journal of Educational Measurement》1997,34(1):64-77

In this study, we created a computer-delivered problem-solving task based on the cognitive research literature and investigated its validity for graduate admissions assessment. The task asked examinees to sort mathematical word problem stems according to prototypes. Data analyses focused on the meaning of sorting scores and examinee perceptions of the task. Results showed that those who sorted well tended to have higher GRE General Test scores and college grades than did examinees who sorted less proficiently. Examinees generally preferred this task to multiple-choice items like those found on the General Test's Quantitative section and felt the task was a fairer measure of their ability to succeed in graduate school. Adaptations of the task might be used in admissions tests, as well as for instructional assessments to help lower- scoring examinees localize and remediate problem-solving difficulties.  相似文献   

Cattell‐Horn‐Carroll broad cognitive ability profiles of low math achievers     

Briley E. Proctor  Randy G. Floyd  Renee B. Shaver 《Psychology in the schools》2005,42(1):1-12

This study extends previous research examining the relations between Cattell‐Horn‐Carroll cognitive abilities and math achievement. The cognitive profiles of children with normative weaknesses in Math Calculation Skills or Math Reasoning were compared to those of their average‐achieving peers. The cognitive profile of the low Math Calculation Skills group (n = 68) was similar to that of their average‐achieving peers. The low Math Reasoning group (n = 52) scored lower than their average‐achieving peers on the cognitive abilities as a set and on Fluid Reasoning and Comprehension–Knowledge. When individual profiles were considered, approximately half of the children with normative math weaknesses demonstrated commensurate weaknesses in one or more cognitive abilities, which may inform diagnostic models of learning disabilities. © 2005 Wiley Periodicals, Inc. Psychol Schs 42: 1–12, 2005.  相似文献   

A Target’s Perspective: Verbal Aggressiveness,Coping Strategies,and Relational Harm     

Randy R. Roper  Amy Janan Johnson  Eryn N. Bostwick 《Communication Research Reports》2017,34(1):21-28

A total of 361 college students recalled situations when they were the targets of verbally aggressive messages. Results indicated that message source predicted perceived relational harm better than the trait variable of verbal aggressiveness. Greater relational harm was perceived from romantic partners and short-term acquaintances. Males were higher in verbal aggressiveness. Targets’ levels of trait verbal destructiveness predicted which coping strategy each reported, and which coping strategy they chose predicted perceived relational harm.  相似文献   

Scenario-Based Assessments in Writing: An Experimental Study     

Mo Zhang  Peter W. van Rijn  Paul Deane  Randy E. Bennett 《Educational Assessment》2019,24(2):73-90

Writing from source text is critical for developing college-and-career readiness because it is required in advanced academic environments and many vocations. Scenario-based assessment (SBA) represents one approach to measuring this ability. In such assessment, the scenario presents an issue that the student is to read and write about. Before writing, lead-in exercises are presented to encourage the examinee to engage with the source materials and to model the process used in a classroom writing project. This study experimentally manipulated a middle-school assessment design to understand if (1) the lead-in/essay structure increased scores erroneously with a concomitant decrease in test technical quality, and (2) the presence of a single unifying scenario affected scores or score meaning. In general, the SBA design did not appear to artificially increase total-test or essay scores. As importantly, it functioned as well as, sometimes better than, the alternative designs in terms of the measurement characteristics examined.  相似文献   

The Nature of Science and Science Education: A Bibliography     

Bell  Randy  Abd-El-Khalick  Fouad  Lederman  Norman G.  Mccomas  William F.  Matthews  Michael R. 《Science & Education》2001,10(1-2):187-204

Research on the nature of science and science education enjoys a longhistory, with its origins in Ernst Mach's work in the late nineteenthcentury and John Dewey's at the beginning of the twentieth century.As early as 1909 the Central Association for Science and MathematicsTeachers published an article – A Consideration of the Principles thatShould Determine the Courses in Biology in Secondary Schools – inSchool Science and Mathematics that reflected foundational concernsabout science and how school curricula should be informed by them. Sincethen a large body of literature has developed related to the teaching andlearning about nature of science – see, for example, the Lederman (1992)and Meichtry (1993) reviews cited below. As well there has been intensephilosophical, historical and philosophical debate about the nature of scienceitself, culminating in the much-publicised Science Wars of recent time. Thereferences listed here primarily focus on the empirical research related to thenature of science as an educational goal; along with a few influential philosophicalworks by such authors as Kuhn, Popper, Laudan, Lakatos, and others. Whilenot exhaustive, the list should prove useful to educators, and scholars in otherfields, interested in the nature of science and how its understanding can berealised as a goal of science instruction. The authors welcome correspondenceregarding omissions from the list, and on-going additions that can be made to it.  相似文献   

From Cognitive-Domain Theory to Assessment Practice     

Randy E. Bennett  Paul Deane  Peter W. van Rijn 《教育心理学家》2016,51(1):82-107

This article exemplifies how assessment design might be grounded in theory, thereby helping to strengthen validity claims. Spanning work across multiple related projects, the article first briefly summarizes an assessment system model for the elementary and secondary levels. Next the article describes how cognitive-domain theory and principles are used in the design of a scenario-based summative assessment for argumentation in the English language arts. Finally, results from several psychometric approaches are used to evaluate propositions suggested by the domain theory, including ones related to the use of topical scenarios and learning progressions in assessment design. Although results generally supported these propositions, the work described represents only a small step in a long-term, iterative process of theory development, assessment design, and empirical tryout, which should, in principle, lead to more valid assessments that better inform teaching and learning.  相似文献   

Forum: The Cultures of Schooling and the Reproduction of Inequity     

Randy Yerrick  Wolff-Michael Roth  Kenneth Tobin 《Cultural Studies of Science Education》2006,1(2):253-272

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