Is students’ energy literacy related to their university’s position in a sustainability ranking?     

D. R. E. Cotton  J. Winter  W. Miller  L. Dalla Valle 《Environmental Education Research》2018,24(11):1611-1626

Abstract

University rankings are increasingly important internationally, and in the UK include a sustainability ‘Green League’. However, there is little evidence about experiences of studying in ‘sustainable universities’. We report an empirical study at five universities in varied positions in the Green League, exploring students’ energy literacy, environmental attitudes and perceptions of their institution’s energy-saving efforts. Although the link to energy literacy is not clear, findings suggest that there are significant differences between students’ environmental attitudes at universities placed at different points in the league. In addition, students at higher ranked universities are more positive about their university’s energy-saving efforts, suggesting that these institutions may exhibit more overt manifestations of sustainability. This is important since students report being more likely to choose energy-conservation behaviours if there is visible representation of energy use. The study is the first to attempt a comparison between universities at different positions in a sustainability ranking.  相似文献   

Topicalization and the Processing of Expository Prose by Children: mediating effects of cognitive styles and content familiarity     

Beth Davey  Debra Miller 《教育心理学》1990,10(1):23-38

This study assessed the effects of text topicalization conditions (initial position, final position, or no topic sentence) on the comprehension of main ideas and specific passage information for middle school readers. Also of interest were interactions of topic familiarity and readers’ cognitive styles (degree of field independence) with text topicalization. One hundred and seven subjects were randomly assigned to one of the three topicalization conditions and read three familiar and three less‐familiar multipleparagraph expository texts. Main idea comprehension was assessed with both a sentencesummary (generation) and best‐title (recognition) task. Comprehension of specific passage information was evaluated with multiple‐choice items. Text topicalization effects were observed for main idea comprehension (with initial position best, followed by final position), while topic familiarity resulted in higher comprehension scores for specific passage information. Moreover, a cognitive style‐text topicalization interaction was found on the best‐title task; in this case, relatively field dependent readers were assisted by a final topic sentence placement. Implications are drawn for future research concerning the complex interplay of texts, tasks and readers in prose‐processing.  相似文献   

Foundations of a new instructional paradigm... really!     

Erin Edwards  David Wiley  Laurie Miller Nelson 《TechTrends》2002,46(1):17-17

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Raising the bar on studying cultural evolution     

Noam Miller 《Learning & behavior》2018,46(1):5-6

Sasaki and Biro (2017, Nature Communications, 8, 15049) show that pairs of pigeons can increase the efficiency of their homing routes over several ‘generations’ in which pair members are gradually replaced by naïve birds. Their findings show that socially transmitted cumulative alterations of behavior are not unique to humans and suggest a way to examine potential mechanisms of cultural evolution.  相似文献   

Citizenship, Public Philosophy, and the Struggle for Democracy     

Henry A. Giroux 《Educational theory》1987,37(2):103-120

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Book reviews     

David Corson  Afzal Ahmed  Henry Macintosh 《International Review of Education/Internationale Zeitschrift für Erziehungswissenschaft/Revue internationale l'éducation》1990,36(1):109-117

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From Equality to Quality in Education: Shifts in Ideology     

Miriam Henry  Gary Maclennan 《Asia-Pacific Journal of Teacher Education》1980,8(3-4):91-99

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Mini-languages: a way to learn programming principles     

Peter Brusilovsky  Eduardo Calabrese  Jozef Hvorecky  Anatoly Kouchnirenko  Philip Miller 《Education and Information Technologies》1997,2(1):65-83

Mini-languages are a visually intuitive, simple and powerful way to introduce students to programming. They are a good foundation for general computer science instruction, provide insight into programming for the general population, and teach algorithmic thinking. The goal of the paper is to provide an extensive review of the mini-language approach to teaching programming. For different audiences and in different countries, the authors have extensive experience in design and application of mini-languages. We outline the problems that motivate the application of this approach, present a brief history, review several existing mini-languages, and provide discussion of lessons learned. In particular, we discuss how to choose a mini-language for a particular group of students and list some requirements for a successful application of a mini- language. We conclude with a discussion of possible future directions of the mini-language approach development  相似文献   

Indian child welfare: A community team approach to protective services     

Casimér R. Wichlacz  John M. Lane  C.Henry Kempe  Casimer R. Wichlacz 《Child abuse & neglect》1978,2(1):29-35

The purpose of this study is threefold: first, to describe the characteristics of child abuse and neglect on a major Indian reservation; second, to examine the impact of a community team approach to child abuse and neglect as measured by the incidence of reported abuse and neglect and admissions for emergency foster care; and third, to make recommendations for actions to close the gaps in child welfare services to Indian children living on reservations.  相似文献   

Introduction to the research policy 20th anniversary special issue of the publication of “Profiting from Innovation” by David J. Teece     

Henry Chesbrough  Julian Birkinshaw  Morris Teubal 《Research Policy》2006,35(8):1091-1099

This introductory essay reviews the key contributions of David Teece's landmark paper “Profiting from Innovation” published in research policy in 1986. It summarises the contributions of each of the papers in the special issue. It then offers some perspectives on the key themes emerging from these papers, and on the broader challenges facing researchers, strategists and policymakers in the field of technology innovation today.  相似文献