Two- and Three-Year Achievement Results From the Memphis Restructuring Initiative     

Steven M. Ross  William L. Sanders  S. Paul Wright  Sam Stringfield  L. Weiping Wang  Marty Alberg 《School Effectiveness & School Improvement》2013,24(3):323-346

The purpose of this study was to analyze student achievement data from the first 3 years of the Memphis Restructuring Initiative (MRI). The MRI represents one of the first efforts by an urban school district to move past traditional top-down versus bottom-up reform debates by providing systemic support for outside-in/inside-out implementation and local co-construction of externally-developed reform designs in schools. Analyses of academic achievement focus on a state-of-the-art measure of value added assessments. At the end of 3 years the reforming schools had produced generally positive gains relative to locally matched control schools. Those results varied somewhat by reform type and by level of poverty in the communities being served. Based on the research methods used and the results, implications for future research and practice in educational reform are discussed.  相似文献   

Developing Culturally Competent Preservice Teachers     

Calli Lewis Chiu  Donna Sayman  Kelly M. Carrero  Thomas Gibbon  Staci M. Zolkoski  Mandy E. Lusk 《Multicultural Perspectives》2017,19(1):47-52

An unfortunate, yet persistent, truth in U.S. public schools is the large achievement gap existing between children from culturally and linguistically diverse backgrounds and their White, middle-class counterparts. The potential for cultural dissonance between contemporary teachers and their students necessitates that educators must persistently seek culturally responsive practices. Much has been written regarding strategies for culturally responsive pedagogy; therefore, this article moves beyond a review of culturally responsive pedagogy. Rather than providing teacher candidates with more suggestions for culturally responsive teaching activities, the authors provide teacher educators with specific resources for facilitating the development of cultural competence among preservice teachers.  相似文献   

Herschel in bedlam     

Steven J. Dick 《Metascience》2013,22(3):703-706

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What do freshmen really know about research? Assess before you teach     

Jean Caspers  Steven Mark Bernhisel 《Research Strategies》2005,20(4):458-468

The paper describes an effort to assess the information literacy skills of first year college students. An instrument was developed and information was gathered on students' experience and comfort in conducting library research as well as their perceived competence with specific information literacy skills. In addition, students completed a skills test to assess specific knowledge and skills relating to information literacy. Entering freshmen generally self-reported their skills to be less than “excellent.” This finding was supported by the results of the skills test. Strengths and weaknesses in information literacy skills are reported as well as implications for librarians who assess and teach these skills to students.  相似文献   

International training course on Health InterNetwork Access to Research Initiative (HINARI)     

Glover SW  Joshi R  Thapa G  Sonam K  Cheata T  Gleghorn C 《Health information and libraries journal》2004,21(3):193-196

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The automation of knowledge     

Lewis Mumford 《Educational technology research and development : ETR & D》1964,12(3):261-276

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Volunteering in libraries,museums and archives     

Steven Hewlett 《Cultural Trends》2002,12(46):39-66

Volunteering is very much in vogue as far as government is concerned; volunteering strengthens society through participation, whilst helping to extend and deliver services and enhance the lives of volunteers in numerous ways. This chapter of Cultural Trends offers an overview of volunteering before looking at the involvement of volunteers in museums, libraries and archives. Many volunteer‐involving organisations are examining carefully the way in which they recruit and support volunteers, as the environment in which volunteers are recruited becomes more competitive. At the same time, organisations can sometimes lose sight of why they involve volunteers.

This chapter reports on a survey of museums and libraries conducted for Resource: the Council for Museums, Archives and Libraries, identifying the added value of involving volunteers and the institutional structures in place to support them. A survey was conducted in which 1,500 questionnaires were sent out ‐ with 500 each going to libraries, museums and archives. It finds that volunteers are a key element in extending the services that museums and libraries can offer. It also finds that practices in involving volunteers vary widely. Volunteers are more likely to be found in libraries than museums or archives and women are more likely to be involved than men. Very few of the organisations returning the questionnaires have somebody whose job is to manage or coordinate volunteers; perhaps unsurprisingly most are to be found in museums. Where organisations do not involve volunteers, issues of time management were most often cited, although a minority argued against involving volunteers per se.

The chapter concludes that although many organisations value highly the involvement of volunteers, there is more that can be done to support volunteering in libraries, museums and archives.  相似文献   

Physical fitness and cardiac risk factors of professional firefighters across the career span     

Davis SC  Jankovitz KZ  Rein S 《Research quarterly for exercise and sport》2002,73(3):363-370

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Training principles: evaluation of modes and methods of resistance training--a coaching perspective   总被引：1，自引：0，他引：1  

Stone M  Plisk S  Collins D 《Sports biomechanics / International Society of Biomechanics in Sports》2002,1(1):79-103

Current information and evidence indicate that for most activities free weight training can produce superior results compared to training with machines, particularly when the free weight training involves complex, multi-joint exercises. A number of reasons can account for the superiority of free weights; the major factor deals with mechanical specificity. Mechanical specificity is concerned with appropriate movement patterns, force application and velocity of movement. Considering the available evidence that adherence to the concept of specificity of exercise and training can result in a greater transfer of training effect then free weights should produce a more effective training transfer. Therefore, the majority of resistance exercises making up a training programme should include of free weight exercises with emphasis on mechanical specificity (i.e. large muscle mass exercises, appropriate velocity, contraction type etc.). Generally, machines should be used as an adjunct to free weight training and, depending upon the sport, can be used to a greater or lesser extent during various phases of the training period (preparation, pre-competition, competition).  相似文献   

Index to Volume XLI     

Jean Bocock  Lewis Baston  Peter Scott  David Smith 《Minerva》2003,41(4):421-422

Other Index

Index to Volume XLI  相似文献