Development of SFON in Ecuadorian Kindergartners     

Gina Bojorque  Joke Torbeyns  Minna Hannula-Sormunen  Daniël Van Nijlen  Lieven Verschaffel 《European Journal of Psychology of Education - EJPE》2017,32(3):449-462

This study explored the development of Ecuadorian Kindergartners’ spontaneous focusing on numerosity (SFON) during the kindergarten year, as well as the contribution of early numerical abilities to this development. One hundred Kindergartners coming from ten classrooms received two SFON tasks, one at the beginning and one at the end of the school year, and an early numerical abilities achievement test at the beginning of the school year. Results first demonstrated limited SFON development during the kindergarten year, with inter-individual differences and intra-individual stability of children’s SFON tendency. Second, both children’s SFON tendency and their early numerical abilities at the start of the kindergarten year were predictively related to their SFON tendency at the end of the year. Our results do not only add to our theoretical understanding of SFON in young children, but also inform educational policy and practices in the domain of early mathematics education in Ecuador, as they provide building blocks for optimizing the educational goals and curricula for kindergarten mathematics.  相似文献   

Interactive sonification of images in serious games as an education aid for visually impaired children     

Andrzej Radecki  Michał Bujacz  Piotr Skulimowski  Paweł Strumiłło 《British journal of educational technology : journal of the Council for Educational Technology》2020,51(2):473-497

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The Role of Private Universities and Colleges in the Spatial Restructuring of Higher Education in Poland     

Józef Szabłowski 《Higher Education in Europe》2001,26(3):411-419

The development of private higher education institutions in Poland since 1989 has become a thorny political issue. The question is discussed in terms of the overall expansion of higher education in Poland, the Polish national development strategy, the spatial distribution of higher education institutions in Poland, and the role of higher education in the formation of the Polish national e´lite. The author argues strongly in favour of the equal treatment of private higher education.  相似文献   

Factors affecting success of training companies     

Piotr Rogala  Roman Batko  Sławomir Wawak 《Studies in Continuing Education》2017,39(3):357-370

This study aims to identify the key factors which influence the functioning quality and success of training companies. Based on an analysis of the requirements included in the quality management system standards for providers of education and training services, a set of twenty factors has been developed. This was followed by a survey for specifically selected managers of 90 Polish firms, which provide training, who evaluated both the influence of the factors on the probability of success and also the level of difficulty required to accomplish the factors. The findings indicate that the managers of the learning providers need to focus on employing qualified trainers and providing a curriculum which is unique and adjusted to their customers’ needs.  相似文献   

Choosing the Future: Economic Preferences for Higher Education Using Discrete Choice Experiment Method     

Czajkowski  Mikołaj  Gajderowicz  Tomasz  Giergiczny  Marek  Grotkowska  Gabriela  Sztandar-Sztanderska  Urszula 《Research in higher education》2020,61(4):510-539

Research in Higher Education - This study illustrates how respondents’ stated choices (the discrete choice experiment method) combined with the random utility framework can be used to model...  相似文献   

The development of teaching and learning in Polish higher education     

Kupisiewicz  Czesław  Januskiewicz  Franciszek 《Higher Education》1974,3(2):141-148

Higher Education - Research into teaching and learning in higher education has been actively pursued in Poland, with the aim of achieving efficient expansion and improving teaching in individual...  相似文献   

Structures of argumentative discourse: Effects of type of referential space     

Danièle Coquin-Viennot  Pierre Coirier 《European Journal of Psychology of Education - EJPE》1992,7(3):219-229

Written argumentative texts were collected from 7 to 14 year-old-children in two situations: one in which a scientific-like issue was to be debated (formal discourse: FD) and one in which an opinion was to be defended (natural discourse: ND). The structure of the supporting arguments advanced in the individual protocols were analyzed. Various structural indices were defined and calculated for each protocol, and then input into a factorial correspondence analysis. In both the FD and ND conditions, the main factorial axis opposes long protocols to short ones. This finding held true even though the other indices were weighted to compensate for protocol length. The length variable thus appears to be a discourse characteristic as such. Furthermore, long FD protocols were associated with embedded structures and a substantial amount of rewording. Long ND protocols had a low degree of embedding, and contained many accumulated arguments and thematic breaks. The second axis opposes sequential chaining of arguments to argument coordination in FD. In ND, it opposes the absence of structure and many rewordings to a variety of more or less highly organized structures, but without sequential chaining. These analyses revealed some interesting differences between formal and natural discourse: the key role played by sequential chaining in FD versus the insignificance of this type of structure in ND, and the important but different role of rewording in FD and ND. Protocol length was found to be strongly linked to subject age: older subjects have more arguments at their disposal. But in addition to acquiring the ability to write longer texts, older children are able to use different structures for argumentation, depending on the type of referential space involved.  相似文献   

Values Attributed to Marriage by Persons with Physical Disabilities     

Krystyna Błeszyńska 《International Journal of Disability, Development & Education》1995,42(3):203-210

Within the so‐called normal society one can observe again and again symptoms of reluctance to being closely associated with people with physical disabilities. The general opinion is that this group of people is characterised by specific psychological and physical functioning and they are thought to have distinct needs and expectations as regards family life. To verify and confirm the above, comparative research was undertaken to find out how young able‐bodied, blind and persons using wheelchairs evaluate marriage. The subject of the research was the importance ascribed to the hierarchy of values related to marriage and family, and the types of needs satisfied through these institutions of social life. The participants were asked to evaluate such phenomena as love, sexual life and parenthood as well as expressing their attitude and opinion on conjugal infidelity. The results obtained do not indicate any significant differences in attitudes and views presented between the groups under consideration. All valued marriage and family life very highly and had similar expectations, however, not all will be able to fulfil their needs and aspirations in these areas. It will be quite complicated, especially so for those who are disabled. All possible failures are caused by, first of all, negative attitudes of the society towards erotic activities of people with disabilities.  相似文献   

Relevance matters. Eighteen-month-olds’ use of relevant informative pointing as a predictor of two-year-olds’ language abilities / La relevancia es importante. El uso de gestos deícticos relevantes e informativos por parte de niños de año y medio como factor predictor de las capacidades lingüísticas a los dos años     

Arkadiusz Białek  Marta Białecka-Pikul  Anna Filip  Maria Broda 《Infancia y Aprendizaje》2013,36(4):674-701

Abstract

The significance of pointing gestures in the development of linguistic communication is linked to their referential character and formation of common ground in use of gestures and speech. Our longitudinal study aimed to define the nature of this relationship more precisely and to explore whether the relevance vs lack of relevance of a child’s pointing gestures is related to development of language abilities. We developed a special protocol to measure relevant and irrelevant pointing gestures in 18-month-olds, sampled production of spontaneous speech and measured their language comprehension at two years of age. A group of 343 children was tested, and using structural equation modelling we showed that relevant gestures predict the level of development of language production and comprehension. As predicted, this association was not applied to irrelevant gestures. It is likely that a child’s more frequent use of relevant pointing gestures helps the caregiver to recognize the child’s communicative intentions and to comment on his/her behaviour appropriately. The identified developmental/predictive relationship is valid in both mentalistic and teleological interpretation of early communicative development.  相似文献   

European public service television and the cultural‐educational logic: A comparative analysis of children's and youth programming     

Daniël Biltereyst 《亚洲交流杂志》2013,23(2):86-104

One of the most recurrent themes in studies on European television trends, is that the policies of liberalization and deregulation have caused the industry to follow a more market‐oriented or crass commercial logic. New technologies and policies have led to an explosion in the number of commercial channels; new financial, organizational and programming strategies; increasing pressure from advertising and multinationals; and a decreasing role of the state in production and distribution.

This paper looks at how such pressures have affected the policies of European public service broadcasters (PSBs), by concentrating on their traditional commitment to education in an analysis of children's and youth programmes as an index of this change.  相似文献