Perceptions of African American faculty in kinesiology-based programs at predominantly White American institutions of higher education     

Burden JW  Harrison L  Hodge SR 《Research quarterly for exercise and sport》2005,76(2):224-237

The purpose of this study was to examine the perceptions of African American faculty on their organizational socialization in kinesiology-based (i.e., sport pedagogy, exercise physiology, motor behavior, sport management/history) programs at predominantly White American institutions of higher education (PW-IHE). Participants were 9 African American tenure-track faculty members from various kinesiology-based programs at PW-IHE. Data were gathered via interviewing and analyzed within the framework of critical race theory (Ladson-Billings, 2000). Findings are presented using storytelling and thematic narratives. Interviews with the participants revealed four major recurring themes with regard to: (a) resources, opportunities, and power structures; (b) programmatic neglects and faculty mentoring needs; (c) social isolation, disengagement, and intellectual inferiority issues; and (d) double standards, marginalization, and scholarship biases. This study suggests that faculty and administrators at PW-IHE should develop sensitivity toward organizational socialization issues relevant to faculty of color.  相似文献   

Whither Electrical Engineering Education     

Seely  Samuel 《Education, IRE Transactions on》1958,1(2):34-37

Changes have been occurring in the character of the present-day engineering product which require a review of the education for such engineering. A number of studies and reports have been made which seek to assess the needs and to suggest ideas for meeting the real challenge that exists. A separate study has been conducted by a group at the Case Institute of Technology along these same lines. This paper discusses the general educational problems and the broad philosophy which have been established to guide our subsequent curriculum development. The result is the need for a complete reappraisal of the existing curricula, with a degree of depth and integration among subject matter far beyond anything that has heretofore been attempted.  相似文献   

Economic behavior of symphony orchestras in the decade of the 1970's: A U.S. - Canada comparison     

Samuel Schwarz 《Journal of Cultural Economics》1991,15(2):95-95

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Development of the Nine-Ball Skills Test to discriminate elite and high-level amateur golfers     

Robertson SJ  Burnett AF  Newton RU  Knight PW 《Journal of sports sciences》2012,30(5):431-437

Currently, there is a lack of appropriate skill assessments available for use in golf. The aim of this study was to examine the discriminative validity and the test-retest reliability of the newly developed "Nine-Ball Skills Test". Participants of two ability levels (elite, n = 14; high-level amateur, n = 16) each hit nine golf shots of differing combinations of trajectory (straight, fade, draw) and height (normal, high, low) at an individually determined target area. Each shot was scored on its percent error index from the target and whether it achieved the maximum height as required. Participants completed the test twice using a 5-iron club. The elite group scored significantly higher (P < 0.05) than the amateur group for both the first and second rounds of the test as well as the combined scores. The between-round test-retest reliability was deemed to be not acceptable, thus we propose that the test's protocol should include use of the two rounds as standard. Due to the importance of ball striking and flight control to performance in golf, the Nine-Ball Skills Test is appropriate for providing a measure of this skill component in elite and high-level amateur golfers.  相似文献   

A social skills group for children     

Estelle Macdonald  Uttom Chowdhury  Jackie Dabney  Miranda Wolpert  Samuel M. Stein 《Emotional and Behavioural Difficulties》2013,18(1):43-52

Abstract

An NHS Trust set up groups to teach social skills to children and adolescents using a cognitive behavioural framework. One group of seven children (five boys and two girls) is described. Parents were invited to a parallel parents' group. Each group lasted for 90 minutes and ran weekly for 6 weeks. Extensive liaison with parents and teachers took place before, during and after the group. Analysis of pre- and postgroup questionnaires sent to parents and teachers indicated improved social functioning, outside the group, for most of the children. Parents valued the dialogue with professionals and often felt supported by them for the first time. Therapists' contact with teachers ensured full knowledge of children's behaviour and the transfer of skills to schools. Cognitive behavioural techniques with children under-going group work require intensive liaison to facilitate generalization of skills learnt.  相似文献   

MEMBERS OF THE NATIONAL COUNCIL FOR JEWISH EDUCATION     

Walter I. Ackerman  Samuel M. Blumenfield  Abraham P. Gannes  Alexander Schindler  Isaac Toubin  Charles Zibbell 《Journal of Jewish Education》2013,79(3):176-177

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WHAT MAKES A HEBREW BOOK READABLE     

Dr. Samuel Nahshon 《Journal of Jewish Education》2013,79(2):53-63

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A SUMMARY OF DOCTORAL DISSERTATIONS ON JEWISH EDUCATION     

Samuel H. Dinsky 《Journal of Jewish Education》2013,79(4):262-269

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Challenging the premises of international policy reviews: an introduction to the review symposium     

Noah Weeth Feinstein  Jeppe Læssøe  Nicole Blum  Dianne Chambers 《Environmental Education Research》2013,19(2):198-205

In 2009, a think tank called the International Alliance of Leading Education Institutes (IALEI) announced the results of a study entitled Climate Change and Sustainable Development: The Response from Education. Intended for a policy audience, the study offered a glimpse into the status of Education for Sustainable Development (ESD) and an early look at the emergence of Climate Change Education (CCE), in 10 different nations. As with most international reports, the IALEI report provoked many questions, some of which are more broadly relevant to scholarship and practice. This paper introduces a review symposium that addresses three such questions: (1) How coherent is the concept of ESD across national contexts and what conceptual tensions continue to surround ESD and CCE? (2) Can nation-level analyses tell us anything useful about countries where education is not centrally governed? and (3) In light of the evolving relationship between educational research and policy, how should researchers engage with ongoing policy debates?  相似文献   

Exploratory analyses to improve model fit: Errors due to misspecification and a strategy to reduce their occurrence     

Samuel B. Green  Marilyn S. Thompson  Jennifer Poirier 《Structural equation modeling》2013,20(1):113-126

Two Lagrange multiplier (LM) methods may be used in specification searches for adding parameters to models: one based on univariate LM tests and respecification of the model (LM‐respecified method) and the other based on a partitioning of multivariate LM tests (LM‐incremental method). These methods may result in extraneous parameters being included in models due to either sampling error or the model being misspecified. A 2‐stage specification search may be used to reduce errors due to misspecification. In the 1st stage, parameters are added to models based on LM tests to maximize fit. Second, parameters added in the 1st stage are deleted if they are no longer necessary to maintain model fit. Illustrations are presented to demonstrate that errors due to misspecification occur with the LM‐respecified method and are even more likely with the LM‐incremental approach. These illustrations also show how the deletion stage can help eliminate some of these errors.  相似文献