Is anyone out there listening? Explaining low reciprocal interactivity during televised lessons in a developing country context     

Rinelle Evans 《Learning, Media and Technology》2004,29(1):7-23

In face‐to‐face teaching, the educator is able to directly mediate learning and gauge the level of the learners’ English proficiency. Teleteaching makes this virtually impossible, as learners are invisible and thus immediate intervention in learning or estimations of proficiency are much more difficult to achieve. TELETUKS Schools1 TUKS is the original name of the university given in 1908 (Transvaal Universiteits Kollege) and the nickname by which the institution is commonly known in popular parlance. View all notes—a community project of the University of ­Pretoria—aims to assist Grade 12 learners prepare for their final examinations via interactive, televised lessons in key subjects. This article seeks to explain why learners refrain from participating during educational transmissions even though technology permits bi‐directional audio links. Understanding why viewers are reluctant to interact during transmissions could help educationists exploit the unique instructional potential of television, especially in remote areas of developing countries or where resources are severely limited. The results of a questionnaire survey conducted during a TELETUKS winter school (2002) suggest that limited language skills and the medium of instruction (English)—compounded by the nature and complexities of the medium—are possible reasons why the anticipated learner‐presenter interaction remains exceptionally low. This exploratory study also shows that further research in the form of in‐depth participant interviews; direct observation of learner participation and content analysis of televised lessons ought to establish the deeper, underlying reasons for low interactivity.  相似文献   

Letter names, letter sounds and phonological awareness: an examination of kindergarten children across letters and of letters across children     

Mary Ann Evans  Michelle Bell  Deborah Shaw  Shelley Moretti  Jodi Page 《Reading and writing》2006,19(9):959-989

In this study 149 kindergarten children were assessed for knowledge of letter names and letter sounds, phonological awareness, and cognitive abilities. Through this it examined child and letter characteristics influencing the acquisition of alphabetic knowledge in a naturalistic context, the relationship between letter-sound knowledge and letter-name knowledge, and the prediction of Grade 1 phonological awareness and word identification from these variables. Knowledge of letter sounds was better for vowels and for letters with consonant–vowel names than for those with vowel–consonant names or names bearing little relationship to their sounds. However, there were anomalies within each category reflecting characteristics of the individual letters. Structural equation modelling showed that cognitive ability, comprising receptive vocabulary, non-verbal reasoning, rapid automatized naming of colours, and phonological memory significantly contributed to alphabetic knowledge and phonological awareness. In turn, letter-name knowledge but not phonological awareness predicted letter-sound knowledge and subsequent reading skill.This research was supported by a grant from the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada to the first author. Thank you is extended to the participating schools and children and to Ian Newby-Clark for his orientation to AMOS. Michelle Bell, Shelly Moretti and Jodi Page have since graduated from the University of Guelph  相似文献   

Integrating studients with special educational needs into mainstream schools in OECD countries     

Peter Evans 《Prospects》1995,25(2):201-218

After graduating from the University of London in psychology, Peter Evans completed his Ph.D. in the field of special education. He directed a research project, funded by the Department of Education and Science, on curriculum development for pupils with moderate learning difficulties. Subsequently he became responsible for programmes on special education at the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) in Paris. Peter Evans has published many books and scientific papers in the area of learning difficulties. Recent books includeIntegrating students with special needs into mainstream schools (1995) andOur children at risk (1995).  相似文献   

解决分布式需求的内在冲突     

Larry Peterson  Tom Anderson  Dan Blumenthal  Dean Casey  David Clark  Deborah Estrin  Joe Evans  Mike Reiter  Scott Shenker  John Wroclawski  洪丹  陈茂科 《中国教育网络》2006,(11):18-20

2006年8月,GEN(I网络创新的全球化环境)项目组公布其项目的设计原则。来自普林斯顿大学、麻省理工大学、华盛顿大学等学校的十二位专家编写了这份报告。该报告阐述了GENI的研究范围、用户的需求、需求的内在压力,以及工程设计的原则。报告指出了GENI的价值主张,广泛的部署、多样化可扩展的网络技术集合、对真实用户流量的支持仍是GENI关注的原则和方向。上期已经介绍第一部分——“分布式需求定义GENI的重心”,本期刊出第二部分——“解决分布式需求的内在冲突”。  相似文献   

Visualizing biological data in museums: Visitor learning with an interactive tree of life exhibit     

Michael S. Horn  Brenda C. Phillips  Evelyn Margaret Evans  Florian Block  Judy Diamond  Chia Shen 《科学教学研究杂志》2016,53(6):895-918

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A call for international research on COVID-19-induced brain dysfunctions     

Pedro A Valdes-Sosa  Alan C Evans  Mitchell J Valdes-Sosa  Mu-ming Poo 《国家科学评论(英文版)》2021,8(12)

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Functional school refusal subtypes: Anxiety,avoidance, and malingering     

Larry D. Evans 《Psychology in the schools》2000,37(2):183-191

Chronic school refusal has traditionally been classified under broad categories such as school phobia and truancy. However, the need for improved recognition and treatment of school refusal has heightened efforts to identify subtypes of school refusal behavior. Recent efforts have focused on functional subtypes of school refusal. This article purposes to extend recent efforts by showing that the three basic subtypes of anxiety, avoidance, and malingering are not only functional, but consistent with refusal characteristics, empirical evidence from factor analysis and clinical diagnosis over the past decade, and treatment approaches. Such extension is intended to aid practitioners in further understanding and using functional subtypes. © 2000 John Wiley & Sons, Inc.  相似文献   

Technical problem solving among 10-year-old students as related to science achievement,out-of-school experience,domain-specific control beliefs,and attribution patterns     

Jürgen Baumert  Robert H. Evans  Helmut Geiser 《科学教学研究杂志》1998,35(9):987-1013

Using a sample of 531 10-year-olds from Germany and the United States, the study investigated the relationships among the structure of everyday experience, domain-specific control beliefs, acquisition of science knowledge, and solving of everyday technical problems. It assumed that children acquire operative schemata through daily experiences with technical objects and toys which not only transfer to solving technical everyday problems but also have a positive influence on school science learning. It was also thought that the covariation between technical everyday experiences and science achievement/technical problem solving would be mediated by control beliefs. A causal model, developed and tested by means of structural equation modeling, showed that domain-specific out-of-school experience only indirectly influences problem-solving performance, mediated by control beliefs. © 1998 John Wiley & Sons, Inc. J Res Sci Teach 35: 987–1013, 1998.  相似文献   

Collaborative teaching in a linguistically and culturally diverse higher education setting: a case study of a postgraduate accounting program     

Elaine Evans  Jen Tindale  Dawn Cable  Suzanne Hamil Mead 《高等教育研究与发展》2009,28(6):597-613

The Language for Professional Communication in Accounting project has changed teaching practice in a linguistically and culturally diverse postgraduate accounting program at Macquarie University in Australia. This paper reflects on the project’s interdisciplinary and collaborative approach to diversity in the classroom by tracing its growth and development and describing the way in which it is supporting the integration of professional communication skills and discipline‐specific content within the Master of Accounting program. In particular, the paper demonstrates that discipline specialists working in a continuous and collaborative relationship with English language specialists, to integrate and assess communication skills and enrich the curriculum, leads to better outcomes for students and staff. The paper contributes to a growing literature on approaches that integrate particular graduate attributes into programs with diverse student populations, rather than bolt‐on interventions by language specialists that have limited outcomes.  相似文献   

Now I am NObody,see me for who I am: the paradox of performativity     

Emma Rich  John Evans 《Gender and education》2009,21(1):1-16

This paper draws on data collected from young white middle class women experiencing eating disorders to highlight what we refer to as the paradox of performativity in schools. In interviews with these young women on their schooling experiences, their narratives convey both a critique of the social conditions of their schooling and their subjugated subjectivities, yet claim they are unable to ‘voice’ that critique within schools, or to resist performativity. In this paper, we explore this ambiguity and the implications it has for the subjectivities of young women. Such stories vividly reveal the painful and complex processes they endure in an effort to conform to performative cultures. The limits and possibilities of their ‘voice’ within these contexts, we suggest, reveals how performative discourse intersects with and is mediated by the embodied knowledge that both teachers and students bring to these educational encounters.  相似文献