Developing a Research Agenda in Science Education     

Patricia?E.?SimmonsEmail author  Herb?Brunkhorst  Vincent?Lunetta  John?Penick  Jodi?Peterson  Barbara?Pietrucha 《Journal of Science Education and Technology》2005,14(2):239-252

The Science Summit reinforced a question upon which many of us in science education are focused: How can we, the science education community of researchers, practitioners, and consumers, lead policy? We include a brief review of the No Child Left Behind Act and its implications for teachers, and elaborate about one ongoing and growing effort to answer the concerns about the paucity of research expressed at the Summit. We describe a unique and growing collaboration across professional science education and science organizations and societies that focuses on the development of a research agenda. The term ‘consilience’ refers to the “jumping together of knowledge” that leads to scientific advancements, progressive, creative, fluid scientific research and intellectual capacity to move a research community toward an enlightened research agenda. A coherent research agenda enables us to specify what we know, what we need to know, and how research can be employed for creating and implementing policy. The use of a dynamic organizer (such as Pasteur’s Quadrant) for a research matrix of topics provides a possible structure for organizing and cataloging research questions, designs, findings from past studies, needed areas for research, and policy implications. Through this unique collaboration, the science education community can better focus on needs and priorities and ensure that teachers, policy makers, scientists, and researchers in education at local through national levels have an important stake in research priorities and actions.  相似文献   

The pedagogical benefits of enacting positive psychology practices through a student–faculty partnership approach to academic development     

Alison Cook-Sather  Joel Alden Schlosser  Abigail Sweeney  Laurel M. Peterson  Kimberly Wright Cassidy  Ana Colón García 《International Journal for Academic Development》2018,23(2):123-134

Academic development that supports the enactment of positive psychology practices through student–faculty pedagogical partnership can increase faculty confidence and capacity in their first year in a new institution. When student partners practice affirmation and encouragement of strengths-based growth, processes of faculty acclimation and self-authoring can be accelerated. This article presents a student–faculty pedagogical partnership program and positive psychology practices that focus on faculty strengths and capacities as the foundation for reinforcing and revising existing pedagogical strategies and for sustaining energy for continued development. It combines collaborative autoethnographic and comparative case study approaches to investigate the pedagogical benefits of these practices.  相似文献   

A call to action: exploring and responding to educational developers’ workplace burnout and well-being in higher education     

Klodiana Kolomitro  Natasha Kenny  Suzanne Le-May Sheffield 《International Journal for Academic Development》2020,25(1):5-18

ABSTRACT

There is a gap in research exploring stress, burnout, and well-being within the context of educational development. The purpose of this study was to examine the concepts of burnout and workplace well-being among educational developers across the international landscape. Thematic analysis from the survey responses (n = 210) revealed characteristics around four themes that both enhanced or hindered participants’ sense of well-being: a) colleagues, b) manager/director, c) institution/senior administration, and d) workplace. Our findings highlight the need to further amplify conversations related to burnout, as well as examine and promote workplace well-being for educational developers.  相似文献   

Expectancies as mediators in the differential-reward conditional discrimination performance of pigeons     

Gail B. Peterson  Ruth L. Wheeler  Gordon D. Armstrong 《Learning & behavior》1978,6(3):279-285

In a series of within-subject experiments employing a two-choice delayed conditional discrimination task, pigeons chose correctly more often when kind of correct choice and kind of reinforcer were perfectly correlated than when uncorrelated. Correct choice behavior fell to chance levels when the correlation was reversed or when it was removed by using only one kind of reinforcer. Implications for mediation theories are discussed, with the conclusion being that, although the possibility that instrumental mediators are present in this situation cannot be dismissed, the overall pattern of results indicates that classical mediators are of principal importance in this type of task.  相似文献   

Interactions at a distance     

Judi Repman  Suzanne Logan 《TechTrends》1996,41(6):35-38

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Applied Comparative Education: the International Baccalaureate     

A. D. C. Peterson 《比较教育学》1977,13(2):77-80

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Exploring the social inclusion of deaf young people in mainstream schools,using their lived experience     

Suzanne Edmondson  Julia Howe 《Educational Psychology in Practice》2019,35(2):216-228

Research suggests that children with hearing loss face a number of difficulties in the education system, including socially. Although there has been much research with the severe to profound deaf population there has been little research into the life experiences of children with moderate hearing loss who attend mainstream secondary schools. This research sought to examine the experiences of social inclusion for five young people with moderate hearing loss. Data were gathered through semi-structured interviews in the young person’s school setting and were analysed using Interpretative Phenomenological Analysis (IPA). Although each participant had distinctive experiences, there were a number of common themes that emerged indicating the factors that support social inclusion and those which create barriers for deaf children in schools. Implications for educational psychologists are considered and the limitations of the research are outlined.  相似文献   

Community college student-parents: priorities for persistence     

Sally Peterson 《Community College Journal of Research & Practice》2016,40(5):370-384

This study of community college student-parents used interpretive phenomenological analysis of interview data contributed by 15 participants from three Mountain West Community Colleges. The participants qualified by the following criteria: had delayed college entrance by 2 years or more, had a child not yet in kindergarten, were full-time students in an associate degree program, worked part-time, and had 15 credits or more toward their degree. This study revealed what it meant for student-parents to have success while they addressed the challenges of balancing work, home, child care, and academic responsibilities. The student-parents described experiences that required prioritizing responsibilities, managing time effectively, securing needed support services, addressing stress, developing strategies for study and parenting, and maintaining a positive mindset. The findings include quotations that describe the challenges of each student-parent; whether individually unique, conflicting, or shared by the subset of this nontraditional student group. The student-parents shared a common sense of resolve to use prioritizing strategies as they made decisions affecting their degree completion. Student-parents had the common goal to obtain a better life for themselves and their children.  相似文献   

Parallels between the reading and spelling deficits of two subgroups of developmental dyslexics     

Curtin  Suzanne  Manis  Franklin R.  Seidenberg  Mark S. 《Reading and writing》2001,14(5-6):515-547

The spelling errors of third graders who fit phonological andsurface profiles of developmental dyslexia were analyzed, alongwith the errors of younger (reading level matched) andchronologically age matched non-dyslexic comparison groups. InStudy 1, errors were analyzed as phonologically constrained,unconstrained, or inaccurate and as either orthographicallyacceptable or unacceptable. Study 2 extended the errorclassification system to nonword spellings. The main finding wasthat different types of dyslexics produced different types oferrors. Both studies found that children produced spelling errorsconsistent with their type of dyslexia. The phonological groupshowed poor knowledge of phoneme-grapheme correspondences,consistent with the existence of a phonological deficit. Thesurface group's spelling error profile differed from thephonological group and closely resembled the younger normalcomparison group. This pattern is consistent with other evidencethat surface dyslexia represents a general delay in acquiringliteracy skills. The studies provide converging evidence, from aspelling task, that developmental dyslexia is a non-homogeneouscategory consisting of at least two major subtypes with distinctetiologies and behavioral sequelae.  相似文献   

Science education goals and curriculum designs in American and Chinese High Schools   总被引：1，自引：0，他引：1  

Zhixin Su  Suzanne Goldstein  Jilin Su 《International Review of Education/Internationale Zeitschrift für Erziehungswissenschaft/Revue internationale l'éducation》1995,41(5):371-388

This paper reports findings from a comparative study of science education goals and curriculum designs in American and Chinese high schools, based on data gathered from a survey of Chinese educationists who came to the USA as visiting scholars between 1991 and 1994. The ideal goals of science education are similar in the USA and China, but the real emphases are quite different in the two nations' schools. In curriculum design, American science education has wider scope but much less depth than its Chinese counterpart. These differences are also reflected in text-books and classroom activities. Implications for change in science education are discussed for both American and Chinese high schools.

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Zusammenfassung Dieser Artikel befaßt sich mit den Ergebnissen einer vergleichenden Studie zu den Zielen der wissenschaftlichen Erziehung und Curriculumsentwürfen in amerikanischen und chinesischen Hochschulen; basierend auf einer Studie chinesischer Erziehungswissenschaftler, die zwischen 1991 und 1994 als Gastschüler in die USA kamen. Die Idealziele wissenschaftlicher Erziehung sind in den USA and in China gleich, aber die reale Umsetzung ist in den Schulen beider Nationen sehr unterschiedlich. Im Curriculumsentwurf hat die wissenschaftliche Erziehung der Amerikaner einen breiteren Umfang aber weniger Tiefgang als die ihrer chinesisischen Kollegen. Diese Unterschiede zeigen sich auch in Textbüchern und Aktivitäten im Klassenraum. Diskutiert werden anschließend Änderungsvorschläge sowohl für amerikanische als auch für chinesische Hochschulen.

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Résumé L'article commente les résultats d'une étude comparative entre les Etats-Unis et la Chine sur les objectifs de l'enseignement scientifique et l'élaboration des programmes correspondants. Ces résultats proviennent de données collectées lors d'une enquête réalisée par des pédagogues chinois séjournant dans des lycées américains entre 1991 et 1994. Les objectifs théoriques fixés pour l'enseignement des sciences correspondent dans les deux pays, mais les applications pratiques divergent notablement. En ce qui concerne la structure des programmes, l'enseignement américain est plus vaste mais moins approfondi que son équivalent chinois. Cette différence se reflète également dans les manuels scolaires et les activités en classe. S'ensuit une discussion sur les conséquences qu'aurait une révision de l'enseignement de cette matière dans les lycées des deux pays.

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Sumario Este trabajo informa los resultados de un estudio que compara los objetivos de la educación y los delineamientos de currículo de las universidades estadounidenses y chinas, basándose en datos recogidos de un informe confeccionade por especialistas en pedagogía chinos que permanecieron en los EE UU entre 1991 y 1994 como eruditos invitados. Si bien los objetivos ideales de los estudios científicos son similares en los EEUU y en China, los énfasis reales son bastante diferentes en los sistemas de ambas naciones. en el delineamiento del currículo americano, la educaíon científica presenta una gama más amplia, pero mucho menos profunda que la de su equivalente china. Estas diferencias también se reflejan en los libres de textos y en las actividades en las aulas. Se están discutiendo las consecuencias para un cambio en la educación científica, tanto para universidades estadounidenses como para las chinas.

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