A Five-Year Follow-Up: Teachers�� Perceptions of the Benefits of Home Visits for Early Elementary Children     

James A. Meyer  Mary Beth Mann  Jennifer Becker 《Early Childhood Education Journal》2011,39(3):191-196

The purpose of this study was to replicate previous research about teachers?? perceived benefits of home visits to determine if they remained stable. Furthermore, the investigation sought to find out whether home visits impacted variables often associated with improved school success (i.e., school attendance, academic performance, parent engagement). Participants were 29 kindergarten through second grade teachers in a rural, Midwestern school district who conducted home visits at the beginning of the school year. Seventeen of the teachers participated in the earlier study. Revised surveys were completed. Results are consistent with those of the previous study. Specifically, teachers reported these positive effects: beneficial relationships and better communication with parents, more appreciation of the influence of the child??s home environment related to school performance, and a better understanding the child??s behavior in school. In addition, teachers identified a connection between the home visits and variables related to school success. Thus, teachers?? perceptions reinforced the importance of conducting home visits.  相似文献   

Translating the Cochrane EMBASE RCT filter from the Ovid interface to Embase.com: a case study     

Julie Glanville  Ruth Foxlee  Susi Wisniewski  Anna Noel‐Storr  Mary Edwards  Gordon Dooley 《Health information and libraries journal》2019,36(3):264-277

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SciVal Experts: a collaborative tool     

Vardell E  Feddern-Bekcan T  Moore M 《Medical reference services quarterly》2011,30(3):283-294

SciVal Experts is a resource for finding experts and fostering collaboration. The tool creates researcher profiles with automatically updated publication and grant information and faculty-inputted curriculum vitae, more fully capturing a researcher's body of work. SciVal Experts indexes campus-based "experts" by research topic, allowing faculty to find potential research partners and mentors, furthering translational research opportunities and dissemination of knowledge.  相似文献   

Psychometric Properties of the Abbreviated Perceived Motivational Climate in Exercise Questionnaire     

E. Whitney G. Moore  Theresa C. Brown  Mary D. Fry 《Measurement in physical education and exercise science》2013,17(4):186-199

The purpose of this study was to develop an abbreviated version of the Perceived Motivational Climate in Exercise Questionnaire (PMCEQ-A) to provide a more practical instrument for use in applied exercise settings. In the calibration step, two shortened versions’ measurement and latent model values were compared to each other and the original PMCEQ using a three-group CFA invariance testing approach with previously collected exercise setting data (N = 5,427). Based on the model fit and reliability values, the 12-item version performed better than the 17-item version. The resultant 12-item PMCEQ-A’s CFA model estimates were then compared to the PMCEQ’s model values for two different, previously conducted studies of exercise settings (N = 414 and 770). The more parsimonious 12-item PMCEQ-A can be used by exercise psychology researchers to gain insight into members’ perspectives on the motivational climate and may lead to developing effective strategies to enhance members’ experiences and commitment.  相似文献   

High school general physical education teachers' behaviors and beliefs associated with inclusion     

Samuel Hodge  Jonathon Ammah  Kevin Casebolt  Kathryn Lamaster  Mary O'Sullivan 《Sport, Education and Society》2013,18(3):395-419

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Learning effects of an experimental EFL program in Second Life     

Charles Xiaoxue Wang  Brendan Calandra  Susan T. Hibbard  Mary L. McDowell Lefaiver 《Educational technology research and development : ETR & D》2012,60(5):943-961

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Librarian participation in expanding the pool of potential medical students     

Guerrieri R 《Medical reference services quarterly》2012,31(1):61-72

This article reports on the results of an exploratory survey to determine if librarians actively participate in medical school student recruiting programs. It looks specifically at what librarians are doing to assist with recruitment and what biomedical career resources their libraries offer. The survey link was e-mailed to all U.S. medical school library directors, who were asked to forward it to the appropriate librarian. Out of 113 medical schools, 68 (60%) responded to most questions. Forty-three (86%) of 50 item respondents do participate in such activities, and 29 (67%) of 43 item respondents have been doing so for more than five years. Thirty-two (64%) of 50 item respondents provide resources on biomedical careers in the libraries.  相似文献   

Developing a Test of Scientific Literacy Skills (TOSLS): Measuring Undergraduates�� Evaluation of Scientific Information and Arguments     

Cara Gormally  Peggy Brickman  Mary Lutz 《CBE life sciences education》2012,11(4):364-377

Life sciences faculty agree that developing scientific literacy is an integral part of undergraduate education and report that they teach these skills. However, few measures of scientific literacy are available to assess students’ proficiency in using scientific literacy skills to solve scenarios in and beyond the undergraduate biology classroom. In this paper, we describe the development, validation, and testing of the Test of Scientific Literacy Skills (TOSLS) in five general education biology classes at three undergraduate institutions. The test measures skills related to major aspects of scientific literacy: recognizing and analyzing the use of methods of inquiry that lead to scientific knowledge and the ability to organize, analyze, and interpret quantitative data and scientific information. Measures of validity included correspondence between items and scientific literacy goals of the National Research Council and Project 2061, findings from a survey of biology faculty, expert biology educator reviews, student interviews, and statistical analyses. Classroom testing contexts varied both in terms of student demographics and pedagogical approaches. We propose that biology instructors can use the TOSLS to evaluate their students’ proficiencies in using scientific literacy skills and to document the impacts of curricular reform on students’ scientific literacy.  相似文献   

How epistemic reflexivity enables teacher educators’ teaching for diversity: Exploring a pedagogical framework for critical thinking     

Jo Lunn Brownlee  Terri Bourke  Leonie Rowan  Mary Ryan  Peter Churchward  Sue Walker  Lyra L’Estrange  Anita Berge  Eva Johansson 《British Educational Research Journal》2022,48(4):684-703

Recent research points to the importance of teacher educators teaching for diversity in initial teacher education programmes. Teaching for diversity is an approach to teacher education in which an understanding of specialist literature and a focus on critical thinking supports a social justice agenda as opposed to merely using different tips and tricks to prepare future teachers for teaching diverse learners in the classroom. In this study, we explored how Australian and New Zealand teacher educators negotiated a social justice agenda in teacher education programmes, using a new transdisciplinary framework of epistemic reflexivity. The Epistemic Reflexivity for Teacher Education (ER-TED) framework draws on epistemic cognition (Clark Chinn’s Aims, Ideals, Reliable epistemic processes – AIR – framework) and Margaret Archer’s reflexivity to explore knowledge claims in teacher educators’ pedagogical decision-making. The findings identified how teacher educators in our study discerned and deliberated with respect to epistemic aims for justification, which involve transformative critical thinking and critical thinking for self. They reported good knowledge (ideals) as being scholarly in nature, and reliable epistemic processes based on higher-order thinking (analysis and evaluating competing ideas) or engaging with multiple perspectives. The teacher educators in our study are clear examples of how strong overall evaluative epistemic stances enable teaching for social justice. We argue that the ER-TED framework can help us as a profession to address teaching for diversity in teacher education programmes based on the belief that the pursuit of social justice requires an evaluativist epistemic stance.  相似文献   

Psychological Capital,Well-being,and Distress of International Students     

Prasath  Priscilla Rose  Xiong  Yiying  Zhang  Qiyang  Jeon  Lieny 《International journal for the advancement of counseling》2022,44(3):529-549

International Journal for the Advancement of Counselling - International students continue to experience myriad of challenges, some of which further transpired disproportionately during the...  相似文献