Personality Traits Are Associated With Cortical Development Across Adolescence: A Longitudinal Structural MRI Study          下载免费PDF全文

Lia Ferschmann  Anders M. Fjell  Margarete E. Vollrath  Håkon Grydeland  Kristine B. Walhovd  Christian K. Tamnes 《Child development》2018,89(3):811-822

How personality traits relate to structural brain changes in development is an important but understudied question. In this study, cortical thickness (CT) and surface area (SA), estimated using magnetic resonance imaging (MRI), were investigated in 99 participants aged 8–19 years. Follow‐up MRI data were collected after on average 2.6 years for 74 individuals. The Big Five personality traits were related to longitudinal regional CT or SA development, but limited cross‐sectional relations were observed. Conscientiousness, emotional stability, and imagination were associated with more age‐expected cortical thinning over time. The results suggest that the substantial individual variability observed in personality traits may partly be explained by cortical maturation across adolescence, implying a developmental origin for personality–brain relations observed in adults.  相似文献   

Does ethnic bias affect kindergarten teachers’ school entry recommendations?     

Birgit Becker 《Educational research; a review for teachers and all concerned with progress in education》2018,60(1):17-30

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Ruling by schooling Quebec: conquest to liberal governmentality – a historical sociology,by Bruce Curtis,Toronto, University of Toronto Press, 2012     

Christian Ydesen 《Paedagogica Historica: International Journal of the History of Education》2018,54(3):384-386

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Student attitudes that predict participation in peer assessment     

Yan Zou  Christian Dieter Schunn  Fuhui Zhang 《Assessment & Evaluation in Higher Education》2018,43(5):800-811

Peer assessment has been widely applied to actively engage students in learning to write. However, sometimes students resist peer assessment. This study explores reviewers’ attitudes and other underlying factors that influence students’ participation in online peer assessment. Participants were 234 Chinese undergraduates from two different academic backgrounds: engineering majors (n = 168) and English majors (n = 66). Gender, academic background and prior experience with peer assessment were all related to participation levels. Moreover, factor analyses revealed three attitudinal factors: (1) positive attitude (a general endorsement of the benefits of peer assessment), (2) interpersonal negative (concerns about the negative effects on interpersonal relationships), and (3) procedural negative (doubts about the procedural rationality of peer assessment). Among the attitudinal factors, procedural negative was negatively associated with participation, as expected. Interestingly, interpersonal negative was associated with greater participation, and positive attitude was associated with lower participation, in part because students worked hard on each review rather than doing many reviews superficially. Implications for instruction are discussed.  相似文献   

The climate for entrepreneurship at higher education institutions     

Heiko Bergmann  Mario Geissler  Christian Hundt  Barbara Grave 《Research Policy》2018,47(4):700-716

While the importance of a supportive context for entrepreneurship is widely acknowledged, its antecedents are rarely investigated. We apply the concept of organizational climate to higher education institutions and examine the drivers of students’ perceptions of the entrepreneurial climate in their university. Combining data from two unique datasets and using multilevel techniques, we analyze the relationship between university characteristics and such climate perceptions of 8009 students at public universities in Germany. We find university entrepreneurship measures to have a positive effect on students’ climate perceptions, which also depend on students’ background and gender. In addition, we find evidence for different peer effects, depending on students’ affinity for entrepreneurship. For the general student population, including entrepreneurship content in their normal studies seems to be required to initiate a social process of sensemaking. However, students’ perception of the entrepreneurial climate only depend to a certain degree on intentional entrepreneurship measures. In our study, general university characteristics have the strongest influence on climate perceptions. Overall, our study adds to our understanding of which parameters are important for establishing a more favorable and inspiring climate for becoming an entrepreneur at higher education institutions.  相似文献   

Sozialer Status und Spendenverhalten Ehrenamtlicher in Sportvereinen     

Eike Emrich  Martin Hämmerle  Christoph Behrens  Tim Meyer  Christian Pierdzioch 《Sportwissenschaft》2018,48(4):560-572

While much research has been done to analyze whether socioeconomic status influences prosocial behavior in the form of donations, no consensus has yet emerged in the relevant literature. We contribute to this research by studying, based on a dataset from a questionnaire of volunteers of sports clubs in Palatinate (part of Rhineland–Palatinate, Germany) whether social status affects donations. We measured social status of volunteers of sports clubs along the dimensions income, vocation, education and we considered status crystallization. Results showed that social status has a positive effect on the likelihood of donations. We report similarities and differences across different categories of donations (donations to one’s own sports club, to other clubs, to aid projects, and political parties).  相似文献   

Engines at top speed! Using the adventures of a comic book motorsports hero as an approach to understanding recent French history     

Sébastien Laffage-Cosnier  Noemi García-Arjona  Christian Vivier 《Sport in History》2018,38(1):1-22

Jean Graton created a series of comic books called Michel Vaillant, and its motorsports hero bore the same name. Michel Vaillant made his first appearance in 1957 in the weekly Tintin. Young French boys who loved adventure, sports and car racing greeted this publication with great enthusiasm. We studied the first series of Michel Vaillant, composed of 16 comic books produced in the 1960s. We have departed from traditional approaches and have based our method on the analysis of the sources of Graton’s inspiration. We link these sources to the comics’ text bubbles, visual signs and iconic meanings of the drawings. Our analysis of the comics’ iconography based on the establishment of a mass culture dedicated to the automobile brings to light the existence of an urge to go beyond the limits of tradition. Our research highlights that the success of Michel Vaillant is due, in the main, to the series’ detailed knowledge of the automobile sports industry, and to the myths of speed, youth and progress that it promulgates – myths in which its young male readers could see themselves reflected and which would also prepare them for the future.  相似文献   

Investigating the Effect of Different Selected-response Item Formats for Reading Comprehension     

Anthony Becker  Tatiana Nekrasova-Beker 《Educational Assessment》2018,23(4):296-317

While previous research has identified numerous factors that contribute to item difficulty, studies involving large-scale reading tests have provided mixed results. This study examined five selected-response item types used to measure reading comprehension in the Pearson Test of English Academic: a) multiple-choice (choose one answer), b) multiple-choice (choose multiple answers), c) re-order paragraphs, d) reading (fill-in-the-blanks), and e) reading and writing (fill-in-the-blanks). Utilizing a multiple regression approach, the criterion measure consisted of item difficulty scores for 172 items. 18 passage, passage-question, and response-format variables served as predictors. Overall, four significant predictors were identified for the entire group (i.e., sentence length, falsifiable distractors, number of correct options, and abstractness of information requested) and five variables were found to be significant for high-performing readers (including the four listed above and passage coherence); only the number of falsifiable distractors was a significant predictor for low-performing readers. Implications for assessing reading comprehension are discussed.  相似文献   

Improving Silent Reading Performance Through Feedback on Eye Movements: A Feasibility Study     

Sebastian P. Korinth  Christian J. Fiebach 《Scientific Studies of Reading》2018,22(4):289-307

This feasibility study investigated if feedback about individual eye movements, reflecting varying word processing stages, can improve reading performance. Twenty-five university students read 90 newspaper articles during 9 eye-tracking sessions. Training group participants (n = 12) were individually briefed before each session, which eye movement parameter(s) (fixation count, first fixation duration, regression, and/or skipping) to address, and informed about changes achieved in preceding sessions. Control group participants (n = 13) were told that self-instruction to read faster would produce training gains. Total fixation times decreased significantly more for training than for control group participants. Important to note, faster reading did not impair comprehension. Results are interpreted as first indications for a possible applicability of the feedback approach to silent reading. In addition to implications for future studies, alternative result interpretations (e.g., motivational effects, reduction of mindless reading) are discussed.  相似文献   

Northeast Under/graduate Research Organization for Neuroscience (NEURON): Our 13th Conference for Neuroscience Trainees and Educators          下载免费PDF全文

Jay P. McLaughlin  Stacey Gomes  Angela Seliga  Sharon Ramos-Goyette  Amy Morrison  Christian G. Reich    Cheryl A. Frye 《CBE life sciences education》2009,8(2):111-113

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