Building new societies: Insights and predictions from the 5th Wiley Society Member Survey     

Jonathan Roscoe 《Learned Publishing》2020,33(1):29-36

The 5th Wiley Society Member Survey was conducted in May 2019. We received responses from 3,112 members who either consume, produce, utilize, or support scientific research, from more than 20 countries and across 40 disciplines. This year, we intentionally sought more responses from outside the USA and Western Europe than in the past, making the results more reflective of the diversity of the global research community. This made it clear that the research world is more disparate and, in some cases, such as in the Asia‐Pacific region, more contradictory than we have seen. Previously identified observations, such as an increase in respondents' simultaneous membership of multiple societies, have been consolidated, whereas others, such as the demand for support from societies for high standards of publishing ethics, are new to this survey. Central to the survey's findings is the continuing rise in researcher demand for open access and open research as tools for both consumption and production of research. Ultimately, by using these findings, this article suggests some strategies to enable societies to navigate their way through this new and constantly evolving world of academic research.  相似文献   

Why Can't I Find Newton's Third Law? Case Studies of Students' Use of the Web as a Science Resource     

James G. MaKinster  Ronald A. Beghetto  Jonathan A. Plucker 《Journal of Science Education and Technology》2002,11(2):155-172

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Age Differences in Imagery Abilities   总被引：7，自引：0，他引：7  

Stephen M. Kosslyn  Jonathan A. Margolis  Anna M. Barrett  Emily J. Goldknopf  Philip F. Daly 《Child development》1990,61(4):995-1010

Age differences were examined in 4 aspects of visual mental imagery, namely, image generation, maintenance, scanning, and rotation. The results suggested that one or more distinct processes are used to carry out each aspect of imagery, and that this is true for 5-year-olds, 8-year-olds, 14-year-olds, and adults. There was no evidence that younger children have fewer processing components, which become differentiated into more specialized subsystems over age. In addition, the results suggested that younger children are relatively poor at scanning, rotating, and generating objects in images, but are relatively good at maintaining images.  相似文献   

Examining the Impact of Explicit Language Instruction in Writers Workshop on ELL Student Writing     

Adrienne Wiley  Jonathan McKernan 《The New Educator》2017,13(2):160-169

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In the context of our work as literacy specialists, we taught teachers to use sentence frames to support ELL students’ writing. We then studied the impact of their instruction on students. Our analysis of student writing samples revealed no groupwide developmental trends so we posed deeper questions about their work using the data analysis methods learned through the action research process. We report our findings about the relationship between student writing development and language instruction. We discuss our learning as well as implications for our work supporting teacher instruction.  相似文献   

Post-secondary educators' professional development: Investigation of an online approach to enhancing teaching and learning   总被引：1，自引：0，他引：1  

Lynne Schrum  Mary D. Burbank  Jonathan Engle  Jack A. Chambers  Kelly F. Glassett   《The Internet and Higher Education》2005,8(4):279

Faculty in post-secondary institutions must continually reassess, refine, and revise their teaching, yet it is a challenge for them to gain this professional development with heavy teaching responsibilities and high demands on their time. Creating Optimum Learning Environments (CREOLE) is a collaborative project between one community college and one university to develop an online training program for post-secondary education faculty on the basic principles of teaching and learning and the development of online courses. Four independent modules were developed and taught in a one semester format for educators throughout the U.S. The goal of this research was to identify the strenghts and challenges of this course; determine the changes in pedagogical practice of the participating faculty members; and to examine the resulting changes in participants' course materials to reflect learning and motivation theories, and appropriate online learning strategies. Methods included pre- and post-surveys of the participants, interviews, document analysis, and instructors' reflections. Results demonstrated high expectations from all participants, difficulty in forming a sustained learning community, continuing challenge in technological aspects, and requirement for intense instructor involvement to maintain morale.  相似文献   

Validating NSSE Against Student Outcomes: Are They Related?   总被引：3，自引：1，他引：3  

Jonathan Gordon  Joe Ludlum  J. Joseph Hoey 《Research in higher education》2008,49(1):19-39

While there exist many examples of institutional use of the results of the National Survey of Student Engagement (NSSE), there is a relative paucity of research explicitly linking student outcomes to responses on the survey. A major Doctoral-Extensive institution in the Southeast recently conducted a large-scale implementation of the National Survey of Student Engagement (NSSE). We have linked multiple years of NSSE responses to several student outcomes: freshman retention, GPA, pursuit of graduate education, and employment outcome upon commencement/degree conferral. Our research finds minimal explanatory power in the NSSE benchmarks for these outcomes. A statistically derived model from the individual NSSE items shows greater promise, although there are difficulties in replicating the model for previous student cohorts.

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Rituals Improve Children's Ability to Delay Gratification          下载免费PDF全文

Veronika Rybanska  Ryan McKay  Jonathan Jong  Harvey Whitehouse 《Child development》2018,89(2):349-359

To be accepted into social groups, individuals must internalize and reproduce appropriate group conventions, such as rituals. The copying of such rigid and socially stipulated behavioral sequences places heavy demands on executive function. Given previous research showing that challenging executive functioning improves it, it was hypothesized that engagement in ritualistic behaviors improves children's executive functioning, in turn improving their ability to delay gratification. A 3‐month circle time games intervention with 210 schoolchildren (M_age = 7.78 years, SD = 1.47) in two contrasting cultural environments (Slovakia and Vanuatu) was conducted. The intervention improved children's executive function and in turn their ability to delay gratification. Moreover, these effects were amplified when the intervention task was imbued with ritual, rather than instrumental, cues.  相似文献   

Digital games and learning Sara de Freitas,Paul Maharg (Eds) London,Continuum 2011 £22.99, 308 pp. ISBN 1441198709          下载免费PDF全文

Jonathan Savage 《British Educational Research Journal》2014,40(2):417-418

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Learning outside the laboratory: Ability and non-ability influences on acquiring political knowledge     

David Z. Hambrick  Elizabeth J. Meinz  Jeffrey E. Pink  Jonathan C. Pettibone  Frederick L. Oswald 《Learning and individual differences》2010,20(1):40-45

The purpose of this study was to identify sources of individual differences in knowledge acquired under natural conditions. Through its direct influence on background knowledge, crystallized intelligence (Gc) had a major impact on political knowledge, acquired over a period of more than 2 months, but there were independent influences of personality and interest factors, via exposure to political information through activities like reading the newspaper. We also found sex differences in political knowledge, favoring males, and these differences could not be explained in terms of any of the predictor variables we modeled. We discuss theoretical and practical implications of the results.  相似文献   

Researching early intervention and young children's perspectives – developing and using a ‘listening to children approach’     

Alice Paige‐Smith  Jonathan Rix 《British Journal of Special Education》2011,38(1):28-36

This article, by Alice Paige‐Smith and Jonathan Rix, considers the current context of early intervention in England from the perspective and experiences of two families and in particular focuses on two young children identified as having Down syndrome. This case study research has emerged from previous research conducted by the authors, both of whom are Senior Lecturers at the Open University and have a wealth of experience across all phases of education. Their previous research involved interviews with parents of children diagnosed as having Down syndrome, which raised further questions about early intervention and the pedagogical relationship between the parent and the child, and recognised that ‘early intervention’ can be more than structured activities led by professionals. The research in this article, which has been funded by the British Academy, used ethnographic methodology to understand the process of early intervention with two young children with Down syndrome and their families. The methodology developed to include narrative first‐person observation of the child and photography. In addition to this a method of reflecting on the process of early intervention developed that included the researchers, the parent and the child. The development of this research methodology is considered in detail in this article.  相似文献