Foreign aid to education in sub-Saharan Africa: How useful is it?     

François Orivel  Fabrice Sergent 《Prospects》1988,18(4):459-469

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The PISA Tasks: Unveiling Prospective Elementary Mathematics Teachers’ Difficulties with Contextual,Conceptual, and Procedural Knowledge     

Utkun Aydın  Meriç Özgeldi 《Scandinavian Journal of Educational Research》2019,63(1):105-123

The aim of this mixed methods study was to investigate the difficulties prospective elementary mathematics teachers have in solving the Programme for International Student Assessment (PISA) 2012 released items. A mathematics test consisting of 26 PISA items was administered, followed by interviews. Multiple data were utilized to provide rich insights into the types of mathematical knowledge that a particular item requires and prospective teachers’ difficulties in using these knowledge types. A sample of 52 prospective teachers worked the mathematics test, and 12 of them were interviewed afterwards. The data-sets were complementary: the quantitative data showed that PISA items could be categorized under contextual, conceptual, and procedural knowledge and indicated the most frequent difficulties in the combined contextual, conceptual, and procedural knowledge items. The qualitative data revealed that few prospective teachers could give mathematical explanations for conceptual knowledge items, and that their contextual knowledge was fragmented. Educational implications were discussed.  相似文献   

Effects of reducing verbal content in computer-assisted instruction     

David Alan Glman  Nancy Ann Moreau 《Educational technology research and development : ETR & D》1969,17(3):291-298

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Making sense of the glass ceiling in schools: an exploration of women teachers’ discourses     

Marie‐Pierre Moreau  Jayne Osgood  Anna Halsall 《Gender and education》2007,19(2):237-253

There is extensive evidence of a ‘glass ceiling’ for women across the labour market. Though schools have widely been described as ‘feminized’ work environments, the under‐representation of women at school management level is well established. Based on a study of women teachers’ careers and promotion in the English school sector (in early years, primary and secondary schools), this paper draws on a critical discourse analysis of 44 individual interviews conducted with women teachers to explore their views of the ‘glass ceiling’. Despite significant evidence of the barriers to management positions faced by women teachers, interpretative frameworks drawing on discourses of individualization and personal choice are most prominent among these to make sense of the low proportion of women in school management. However, the paper also identifies the existence of alternative discourses recognizing the existence of gender inequalities.  相似文献   

What Does Prone Skateboarding in the Newborn Tell Us About the Ontogeny of Human Locomotion?     

Vincent Forma  David. I. Anderson  Joëlle Provasi  Evelyne Soyez  Mélina Martial  Viviane Huet  Lionel Granjon  François Goffinet  Marianne Barbu-Roth 《Child development》2019,90(4):1286-1302

The crawling behavior of sixty 2-day-old newborns was studied while they were supported prone on a mini skateboard and on a pediatric mattress without additional support. Analyses of the number and types of limb movements and their characteristics, the coactivation of limb pairs, and the displacement across the surface, revealed that newborns can crawl with locomotor patterns similar to those documented during quadrupedal locomotion in animals and human adults. This was particularly apparent on the skateboard. This discovery suggests that locomotor circuitry underlying quadrupedal locomotion develops during fetal life. Drawing upon other evidence for a quadrupedal organization underlying bipedal gait, we argue that early quadrupedal training may enhance interventions designed to hasten the onset of independent walking.  相似文献   

Effects of orthographic consistency and word length on the dynamics of written production in adults: psycholinguistic and rTMS experiments     

Planton  Samuel  Jucla  Mélanie  Démonet  Jean-François  Soum-Favaro  Christiane 《Reading and writing》2019,32(1):115-146

Reading and Writing - Recent studies on written word production aim at studying how information is transmitted between central (linguistic) and peripheral (motor) processes. Neurocognitive models...  相似文献   

The role of motor processes in three-dimensional mental rotation: Shaping cognitive processing via sensorimotor experience     

David Moreau 《Learning and individual differences》2012,22(3):354-359

An extensive body of literature has explored the involvement of motor processes in mental rotation, yet underlying individual differences are less documented and remain to be fully understood. We propose that sensorimotor experience shapes spatial abilities such as assessed in mental rotation tasks. Elite wrestlers' and non-athletes' mental rotation accuracy and response times were measured in three different conditions: mental rotation (a), mental rotation with visual (b) and movement (c) interference. Results showed that both groups were equally affected by the visual interference task, as hypothesized from previous literature. However, the movement interference task impacted tremendously more wrestlers' mental rotation performance. These findings suggest that experts in motor activities rely heavily on motor processes in three-dimensional mental rotation problems solving, thus performing more poorly when simultaneously holding movements. The implications of this work in providing further evidence for the close tie between perceptive, motor and cognitive processes are discussed.  相似文献   

Transformation impossible: policy,evidence and change in South African higher education     

Van Schalkwyk  François B.  van Lill  Milandré H.  Cloete  Nico  Bailey  Tracy G. 《Higher Education》2022,83(3):613-630

Higher Education - A quarter of a century after South Africa’s transition to democracy, the rhetoric of ‘transformation’ remains firmly ingrained in its higher education policy...  相似文献   

Tackling the anxiety of learning statistics: The mystery of the red envelope     

Melanie A. Robinson  Jean-François Soublière  Marine Agogué  Denis A. Grégoire  Tuvana Rua  Yves Plourde 《Decision Sciences Journal of Innovative Education》2023,21(3):167-176

Most graduate programs in management require students to carry out a substantive research project. However, few management students have a comfortable command of the statistical techniques needed to realize such quantitative projects. This can lead to student anxiety and stress, which challenges instructors to devise ways to build students’ self-efficacy with statistical analysis. Drawing on game-based learning principles, we developed an exercise to help students in a graduate-level research methods course practice these statistical techniques. Designed around a series of four gamified challenges, students perform basic statistical analyses (correlations, t-tests, and simple linear regression) to solve puzzles and unlock a reward hidden in a mysterious red envelope. We used the exercise on seven occasions (five times in the methods course and twice in a graduate program preparatory course). After launching it in fall 2021, we observed that students were engaged and enthusiastic about the exercise. To ascertain its effectiveness more systematically, we collected data in five subsequent sections using a pretest/posttest design (N = 84) which showed that perceptions of statistics self-efficacy increased following the exercise. We conclude by suggesting that our exercise can be tailored to other learning contexts such as management and statistics-centered courses.  相似文献   

Documenting Collections: Cornerstones for More History of Science in Museums     

Marta C. Lourenço  Samuel Gessner 《Science & Education》2014,23(4):727-745

Historians of science have recently become increasingly involved with collections and scientific instruments. This creates opportunities for a more significant role of history in museums of science, as well as more meaningful and contextualized exhibitions and educational programmes. However, complementing the mainstream focus on universal scientific principles with history requires structural and cultural changes in museums’ approaches and practices. In this paper we draw from recent collaborative work with historians of science at the University of Lisbon to reflect on the challenges museums face as they prepare for a more meaningful historical approach to science. We argue that documentation is crucial both before objects enter the museum and as regular collections practice. We propose a conceptual and methodological framework comprising two operational levels: documenting individual objects and documenting collections.  相似文献