Reading,writing, and math self-concept in elementary school children: influence of dimensional comparison processes     

Jan-Henning Ehm  Sven Lindberg  Marcus Hasselhorn 《European Journal of Psychology of Education - EJPE》2014,29(2):277-294

The internal/external (I/E) frame of reference model (Marsh, Am Educ Res J 23:129–149, 1986) conceptualizes students' self-concepts as being formed by dimensional as well as social comparison processes. In the present study, the I/E model was tested and extended in a sample of elementary school children. Core academic skills of reading, writing, and math were related to corresponding and non-corresponding self-concept facets to determine the onset of dimensional contrast effects. School achievement and domain-specific academic self-concepts of 1,114 students from grades 1 to 3 were assessed. Negative paths were found for math achievement on reading self-concept and for reading achievement on math self-concept in the third grade. Math achievement was not associated negatively with writing self-concept. Positive influences were found within the verbal domain for writing achievement on reading self-concept from grade 1 onward. The results suggest a broad interpretation of the I/E model in which contrast as well as assimilation effects are possible. Factors influencing the dimensional comparison processes are discussed.  相似文献   

A longitudinal study on boys’ and girls’ career aspirations and interest in technology     

Jan Ardies  Sven De Maeyer  David Gijbels 《Research in Science & Technological Education》2013,31(3):366-386

Background: More young people, boys and girls, are needed in technical studies and professions, as the relative number of students in technology-related studies has been decreasing in most industrialised countries. To overcome this decrease several countries implemented mandatory technology classes in the curriculum of secondary education.

Purpose: This study has two goals: exploring the evolution of pupils’ interest during the year(s) they attend the mandatory technology classes and exploring determining characteristics for differences in boys’ and girls’ attitude change over time.

Sample: This study focuses on data gathered in the first and second grade of the first cycle in general secondary education in the North region of Belgium, Flanders. In a first stage we selected a good representation of geographically spread schools (n = 20), from which over 1300 students participated.

Design and methods: A longitudinal study with eight measurement occasions spread over the course of two years is presented in order to capture the evolution of students’ attitudes, making use of a multilevel growth model analysis.

Results: The results show that students’ interest in technology decreases over time, although at the end of each grade interest is increasing again. Boys’ and girls’ interest in technology also evolves a little different in the first cycle of secondary education. For career aspirations we didn’t see any significant difference between boys and girls. Boys’ and girls’ aspirations decrease over time with a little increase by the end of the second grade. Students with a more technological curriculum also have more career aspirations in the field of technology than their peers with other curricula. Although students’ perceptions about technology as a subject for boys and girls are largely stable.

Conclusions: The evolution of students’ attitude is far from linear, this strengthens us in the choice for a more complex analysis model and the choice for more measuring points than only at the beginning and the end when analysing students’ attitudes towards technology. With this research we found that students interest and aspirations in the field of technology are not stable and do change in the first cycle of secondary education. Overall, we can conclude that if the goal of technology education at school maintains to promote ‘a larger number of students in technological oriented studies and professions’, there is still much to do.  相似文献   

We need integrated publishing     

Sven FUND 《Learned Publishing》2013,26(1):57-64

Scholarly publishing has seen a decade of rapid proliferation of business models and emerging technologies. Together with globalization of the publishing market and new challenges, this evolution has also led to rapid advancements in management tasks even within small publishing houses. The outcome of this change for the stakeholders, including researchers, authors, and shareholders, is unclear, and a return to a more cohesive, integrated approach is desirable. One major obstacle must be overcome: organizational inertia.  相似文献   

Introduction   总被引：4，自引：0，他引：4  

Sven Widmalm 《Minerva》2001,39(4):365-372

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Local Sport in Europe     

Melanie Haller  Sven Ismer 《Sportwissenschaft》2007,37(4):476-480

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Konstituierung und Selbstauflösung der Sinnstruktur des Sports durch Grenzsetzung und Grenzverletzung     

Sven Güldenpfennig 《Sportwissenschaft》1996,26(2):189-202

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Fußball zur Zeit des Nationalsozialismus     

PD Dr. Sven Güldenpfennig 《Sportwissenschaft》2010,40(4):295-297

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Written narrations by 8- to 10-year-old Turkish pupils in Flemish primary education: A follow-up of seven text features     

Lieve Verheyden  Kris Van den Branden  Gert Rijlaarsdam  Huub Van den Bergh  Sven De Maeyer 《Journal of Research in Reading》2010,33(1):20-38

This semi-longitudinal study examined the development of narrative writing quality of young Turkish second language learners in mainstream Dutch-only education, and the impact of student-level and classroom-level predictors of narrative writing quality, using hierarchical linear modelling. Writing samples of 106 third graders and 111 fourth graders of seven Flemish primary schools were collected at the beginning and at the end of the school year. Measures included one holistic primary trait judgement, and six objective indices of text quality. Student-level predictors included age, SES and home language, while the classroom-level predictor focused on the home language pattern of the classroom. There was a significant mean growth for each index in each grade, but effect sizes differed from quite large for content and word level indices over moderate for sentence level indices to small for the text level index. Home language (Turkish) had a significant negative effect on all but one variables, particularly in Grade 4, while the negative effect of low SES was much more limited. A supplementary negative effect was found for homogeneity of classroom population. Implications of the study highlight the importance of student and classroom characteristics in writing achievement as well as the need to consider the poor performance of Turkish children.  相似文献   

Providing better education services to the poor: Accountability and context in the case of Guatemalan decentralization     

Alec Ian Gershberg  Ben Meade  Sven Andersson 《International Journal of Educational Development》2009

We explore how two community-based reform models align with the World Bank’s World Development Report 2004 accountability framework. Using a qualitative case study of rural Guatemalan primary schools, we examine local governance through interviews with a range of stakeholders.  相似文献   

Estimating the quality of performance assessments: The case of an ‘interactive examination’ for teacher competencies     

Anders Jonsson  Liesbeth K. J. Baartman  Sven A. Lennung 《Learning Environments Research》2009,12(3):225-241

Professional schools prepare students to become competent professionals. Consequently, there is a need for assessments that can determine the acquisition of the relevant professional competencies. Although using performance assessment to replace traditional paper-and-pencil tests might provide one way to move forward, the use of performance assessments for summative purposes has been shown to be problematic (e.g. marker consistency and construct representation). With the aid of a comprehensive framework of quality criteria for competence assessments, this article considers if one particular existing competence assessment methodology is suitable for summative as well as formative use. It is argued that the comprehensive quality estimation of the examination procedure aids in identifying strengths and weaknesses in the assessment methodology, and that this information can be used to facilitate the inclusion of performance assessment in higher education, both for summative and formative use.  相似文献