Investigating the Psychometric Properties of the ACEI Global Guidelines Assessment (GGA) in Four Countries     

Belinda J. Hardin  Doris Bergen  Hsuan-Fang Hung 《Early Childhood Education Journal》2013,41(2):91-101

The ACEI Global Guidelines Assessment (GGA) was developed to provide an international assessment tool that can be used by early childhood educators to develop, assess, and improve program quality worldwide. This pilot study was conducted in four countries to investigate the psychometric properties of the GGA within and across different countries. A total of 168 programs and 336 early care and education professionals participated in this study from communities in the People’s Republic of China, Guatemala, Taiwan, and the United States. The results show strong internal consistency for each subscale and the total GGA as well as moderate interrater consistency for the five subscales. A comparison of item ratings and the qualitative evidence suggests moderately acceptable congruence between the ratings and evidence to support the ratings. Patterns of program practices were identified within and across the participating sties and countries that reflected both unique and common practices. These results suggest that the GGA has potential as a useful and effective tool both for understanding early childhood program quality within and across countries and as a means of helping practitioners to establish and/or improve the quality of their services.  相似文献   

Enhancing pedagogical content knowledge in elementary science     

Karen Goodnough  Woei Hung 《Teaching Education》2013,24(3):229-242

In this study, five elementary teachers and a university researcher developed and implemented problem‐based learning (PBL) experiences in the context of science teaching and learning. Collaborative inquiry was adopted as a methodology, while a variety of qualitative methods were used to examine the engagement and development of teachers’ pedagogical content knowledge (PCK). A PCK model is used as a framework to examine teachers’ professional knowledge growth in areas such as orientations to teaching science, knowledge of science curriculum, knowledge of students’ understanding of science, knowledge of assessment, and knowledge of instructional strategies. Implications for how teachers may be supported when adopting instructional innovations are discussed.  相似文献   

Kindergarten Children's Executive Functions Predict Their Second-Grade Academic Achievement and Behavior     

Paul L. Morgan  George Farkas  Marianne M. Hillemeier  Wik Hung Pun  Steve Maczuga 《Child development》2019,90(5):1802-1816

Whether and to what extent kindergarten children's executive functions (EF) constitute promising targets of early intervention is currently unclear. This study examined whether kindergarten children's EF predicted their second-grade academic achievement and behavior. This was done using (a) a longitudinal and nationally representative sample (N = 8,920, M_age = 97.6 months), (b) multiple measures of EF, academic achievement, and behavior, and (c) extensive statistical control including for domain-specific and domain-general lagged dependent variables. All three measures of EF—working memory, cognitive flexibility, and inhibitory control—positively and significantly predicted reading, mathematics, and science achievement. In addition, inhibitory control negatively predicted both externalizing and internalizing problem behaviors. Children's EF constitute promising targets of experimentally evaluated interventions for increasing academic and behavioral functioning.  相似文献   

高校学生婚育权与受教育权之发展演变——以1978年恢复高考以来教育部颁布的规范性文件为分析文本   总被引：2，自引：0，他引：2  

尹力  张虹 《教育学报》2008,(3):92-96

婚育权是我国公民依法享有的一项民事权利,在校大学生应该享有与其他公民平等的婚育权。受教育权作为学生权利中最根本的权利,是宪法赋予公民的一项基本权利,公民结婚与否不应成为其接受教育的限制条件。我国1978年恢复高考以来高校学生婚育权的发展,经历了由最初的“限制结婚”到“禁婚”,再到“禁婚、禁育”的解除三个阶段,学生婚育权和受教育权二者之间也从冲突走向融合,这既彰显了受教育权利的人权特性,也为高校管理理念的重塑提供了新的视角。  相似文献   

Kidney function change after transcatheter aortic valve replacement in patients with diabetes and/or hypertension     

Jiaqi FAN  Changjie YU  Kaida REN  Wanbing LIN  Stella NG  Zexin CHEN  Xinping LIN  Lihan WANG  Qifeng ZHU  Yuxin HE  Jubo JIANG  Xianbao LIU  Jian'an WANG 《Journal of Zhejiang University. Science. B》2021,22(3):241-247

Aortic stenosis(AS)is a progressive heart valve disease occurring predominantly in older patients.According to a survey in a western country,the prevalence of AS is nearly 6.4%in patients over 75 years old(Carabello and Paulus,2009).Transcatheter aortic valve replacement(TAVR)is an alternative method for AS patients.Previous studies have described how up to 66%of TAVR patients have concomitant baseline kidney dysfunction(Ferro et al.,2015;Gargiulo et al.,2015).The majority of patients can benefit from the TAVR procedure with the recovery of kidney function.  相似文献   

Self-schematic students in mathematics and their contrasting coping responses to mathematical challenges: a cluster analytic investigation     

Ng  Clarence 《Educational Studies in Mathematics》2021,107(2):315-338

Educational Studies in Mathematics - Mathematics self-schemas are students’ cognitive generalisations of their selves in learning mathematics (Ng in Educational Psychology, 34(6),...  相似文献   

An Experienced Science Teacher’s Metavisualization in the Case of the Complex System of Carbon Cycling     

Hung  Jung-Yi  Chang  Hsin-Yi  Hung  Jeng-Fung 《Research in Science Education》2021,51(2):493-521

Research in Science Education - Science teachers use a large number of visual representations and models in science classes to guide students to understand complex phenomena and to learn to conduct...  相似文献   

Immigrant Chinese Mothers’ Socialization of Achievement in Children: A Strategic Adaptation to the Host Society          下载免费PDF全文

Florrie Fei‐Yin Ng  Irene Nga‐Lam Sze  Catherine S. Tamis‐LeMonda  Diane N. Ruble 《Child development》2017,88(3):979-995

Academic socialization by low‐income immigrant mothers from Mainland China was investigated in two studies. Immigrant Chinese mothers of first graders (n = 52; M_age = 38.69) in the United States (Study 1) and kindergartners (n = 86; M_age = 36.81) in Hong Kong (Study 2) tell stories that emphasized achieving the best grade through effort more than did African American (n = 39; M_age = 31.44) and native Hong Kong (n = 76; M_age = 36.64) mothers, respectively. The emphasis on achievement was associated with mothers' heightened discussion on discrimination (Study 1) and beliefs that education promotes upward mobility (Study 2), as well as children's expectations that a story protagonist would receive maternal criticism for being nonpersistent in learning (Study 2).  相似文献   

Unpacking the paradox of Chinese science learners: insights from research into Asian Chinese school students’ attitudes towards learning science,science learning strategies,and scientific epistemological views     

May Hung May Cheng  Zhi Hong Wan 《Studies in Science Education》2016,52(1):29-62

Chinese students’ excellent science performance in large-scale international comparisons contradicts the stereotype of the Chinese non-productive classroom learning environment and learners. Most of the existing explanations of this paradox are provided from the perspective of teaching and learning in a general sense, but little work can be found which systematically summarises the findings from the research on Chinese science learners and their science learning so as to explain the paradox. In this paper, a total of 25 empirical quantitative studies, whose sample sizes range from 132 to 8815, published between 1987 and 2014, are reviewed. Three aspects are explored: students’ science learning strategies, attitudes towards learning science and their scientific epistemological views. In addition to summarising the results reported in these studies, efforts are made to link them with the paradox of the Chinese learners, and to generate some hypotheses to resolve it. Finally, directions for further research are suggested.  相似文献   

The analysis and reconciliation of students’ rebuttals in argumentation activities     

Yu-Ren Lin  Jeng-Fung Hung 《International Journal of Science Education》2016,38(1):130-155

The present study investigated the guidance provided by science teachers to resolve conflicts during socioscientific issue-based argumentation activities. A graphical representation (GR) was developed as a tool to code and analyze the dialogue interaction process. Through the GR and qualitative analysis, we identified three types of dialogue reconciling strategies. The first one consists of teacher management, in which the teacher temporarily maintains the right to speak when students get mired in an emotional rebuttal situation. The second strategy involves the use of qualifiers to identify the strengths and weaknesses of an opposing argument. The third strategy consists of providing students with guidance to keep both parties (i.e. the students taking, respectively, the affirmative and negative positions) on the same discussion topic and can be used to assist teachers with forming broad questions that prompt students to conduct deeper discussions. These reconciling strategies were beneficial in that they helped students to argue in a more reflective way.  相似文献