Changes in curiosity behavior from childhood to adolescence     

Rita W. Peterson 《科学教学研究杂志》1979,16(3):185-192

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Soulmates: A Valuable Training Approach     

J. Vincent Peterson 《Counselor Education & Supervision》1977,17(1):76-77

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SALUS: online co-operation between South Australian health libraries     

Peterson M  Harris L;South Australian Health Libraries Consortium 《Health information and libraries journal》2002,19(2):78-83

The establishment of the South Australian Health Libraries Consortium led to the development of the SALUS project which enabled the online delivery of core health, clinical information and bibliographic databases with full-text resources across South Australian government health services. This was the first venture of Australian health librarians to create an online consortium. This article discusses the policy and management issues surrounding the implementation of the SALUS project and its influence on the evolution of the health Libraries Consortium over several years. Lessons learned during this process included: the necessity to plan well ahead yet to remain flexible in implementing those plans, to avoid procedure becoming more important than improvization during planning, to be willing to take well judged risks on occasions, and to be fully aware of changing circumstances in the project's funding and political environment. The importance of securing influential advocates outside of the participating libraries to support continued project funding is also considered.  相似文献   

External and Internal Influences on Institutional Approaches to Student Assessment: Accountability or Improvement?     

Peterson  Marvin W.  Augustine  Catherine H. 《Research in higher education》2000,41(4):443-479

The purpose of this study is to compare the influences of state characteristics related to student assessment, accreditation emphasis on student assessment, and institutional dynamics supporting student assessment on the approaches to student assessment that institutions have initiated. We conducted this study by examining the relevant literature, creating a national survey instrument, surveying undergraduate institutions throughout the United States, and analyzing the responses of the 885 public institutions who participated in our survey. Separate regressions were run for three different groups of institutional types on three approaches to assessment: cognitive, affective, and post-college. Regressions for the three institutional types explained 21 to 27% of the variance for cognitive assessment, 7 to 21% for affective assessment and 6 to 19% for post-college assessment. With the exception of a minor influence of state characteristics for doctoral and research universities, institutional dynamics and accreditation region were found to be the primary influences on student assessment approaches for all institutional types. We found that the drive for state-level accountability has not exceeded the influence of institutional accreditation and that internal dynamics appear to be the driving force of all three approaches to student assessment.  相似文献   

Higher Education in the English‐speaking World     

A. D. C. Peterson 《比较教育学》1983,19(3):373-379

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Primary grade student reports for teacher evaluation     

Kenneth D. Peterson  Amy Driscoll  Dannelle Stevens 《Journal of Personnel Evaluation in Education》1990,4(2):165-173

The improvement of teacher evaluation is an important theme in current public school reform efforts. One change, suggested by a number of researchers, is to gather more lines of evidence or perspectives of teacher performance for decision making. Student views, commonly used in higher education, are advocated as one data source about teacher quality. Although it is clear that students of all ages can provide some perspective on teacher performance, substantial questions remain about using the views of young pupils.The purpose of this study was to empirically examine a sample of student reports of teacher performance from kindergarten through second grade. The analysis used procedures developed for student rating forms in higher education. The objective was to advance understanding and practice about effective teacher evaluation, specifically in the use of pupil report data.  相似文献   

The development,trial and evaluation of a constructivist teaching and learning approach in a preservice science teacher education program     

Dr Brian Hand  Ray Peterson 《Research in Science Education》1995,25(1):75-88

This paper reports on the use of a constructivist teaching/learning approach to improve first year pre-service primary teachers' confidence in, and attitude to, teaching science. The two-semester program was based on allowing the students to explore science concepts in detail during the first semester and then developing constructivist pedagogy in the second semester. There were many benefits reported by students including ownership of knowledge, the development of pedagogic skills and the use of group work to develop ideas. However, a number of concems were raised such as uncertainty of knowing what to do when exploring knowledge for themselves and the lack of note taking which occurred. A number of issues that need to be considered when re-implementing the program are discussed.  相似文献   

Higher education's role in educating the older worker     

David A. Peterson  Pauline Abbott 《Innovative Higher Education》1980,5(1):30-39

Educational programs for mature adults have become widespread in the past few years but still attract only a small minority of the potential older population. One approach to increasing enrollment is to gain access to older people through their place of employment. This offers the advantages of a captive group, clear objectives for the instructional experience, a supportive environment, and a substantial experience base on which to plan the instruction. European industrial training of older workers offers substantial insight and application to the U.S. and may prove a boon to both educators and employers.  相似文献   

The residual deprivation effect in instrumental conditioning as a function of deprivation level at the time of exposure to the reinforcer     

Dane Peterson  James H. McHose 《Learning & behavior》1980,8(4):642-646

The effect of food deprivation level at the time of initial exposure to a subsequent food reinforcer was investigated in two experiments. In Experiment 1, deprivation at the time of initial exposure influenced the subsequent acquisition and extinction of an instrumental response. In Experiment 2, the residual deprivation effect associated with a reduction in deprivation level occurred only when rats initially experienced the reinforcer at a high, as compared with a low, deprivation level. Results were discussed in terms of the assumption that the limits of incentive generated by a reinforcer are influenced by the deprivation state at the time of first exposure to that reinforcer.  相似文献   

Pitfalls in the evaluation of principals     

William C. Harrison  Kent D. Peterson 《The Urban Review》1986,18(4):221-235

This paper describes the characteristics of a statewide principal evaluation system. Present empirical knowledge of the ways school principals are evaluated is almost nonexistent (Harrison, 1985); because of this we will employ a design drawn from studies of evaluation in other settings (Dornbusch and Scott, 1975), of teachers (Natriello and Dornbusch, 1981) and control of principals (Peterson, 1984). A questionnaire was used to gather information about the ways principals are evaluated as reported by principals and superintendents. The authors find that even when an evaluation system is detailed, specific, and statewide, inconsistencies develop because of the special nature of principals' work. The systems appear to break down in the sampling of performance and outputs and in the communication of negative feedback-key areas if principals are to improve their performance. Suggestions for research and practice are presented.Presented at the annual meeting of the American Educational Research Association in San Francisco, 1986.  相似文献