Technology integration for instructional improvement: The impact of professional development     

Stephanie L. Potter  Amanda J. Rockinson‐Szapkiw 《Performance Improvement》2012,51(2):22-27

Technology purchased for use in the classroom often goes unused. We identify a primary reason for the lack of technology integration as ineffectively developed professional development opportunities for teachers. Then we recommend a sustained, administrative‐supported and mentor‐supported approach to professional development as an alternative to the ineffective traditional approach. The importance of considering the role of teachers' attitudes and beliefs on their use of technology in professional development is also discussed.  相似文献   

Search is a verb: systematic review searching as invisible labor     

Amanda Ross-White 《Journal of the Medical Library Association》2021,109(3):505

Invisible labor is a term used by labor economists to describe work that contributes, and is often even necessary, to the economy but largely goes unrecognized and unpaid. Despite the fact that systematic review searching is a significant task for many librarians and knowledge professionals, the search process can be considered a form of invisible labor because it often goes without recognition. This occurs sometimes through not granting authorship to the librarian who performed the intellectual contribution of search development and sometimes through a devaluing of the search process by the choice of language used to describe the search. By using the term search as a passive verb or noun, authors devalue the real intellectual labor involved in searching, which includes decisions related to search terms and combinations, database selection, and other search parameters. This commentary explores the context of how searching is described through the concept of invisible labor.  相似文献   

Learning From Others: The Effects of Agency on Event Memory in Young Children     

Lauren H. Howard  Tracy Riggins  Amanda L. Woodward 《Child development》2020,91(4):1317-1335

Little is known about the influence of social context on children's event memory. Across four studies, we examined whether learning that could occur in the absence of a person was more robust when a person was present. Three-year-old children (N = 125) viewed sequential events that either included or excluded an acting agent. In Experiment 1, children who viewed an agent recalled more than children who did not. Experiments 2a and 2b utilized an eye tracker to demonstrate this effect was not due to differences in attention. Experiment 3 used a combined behavioral and event-related potential paradigm to show that condition effects were present in memory-related components. These converging results indicate a particular role for social knowledge in supporting memory for events.  相似文献   

Early retention: Are there long-term beneficial effects?     

Amanda McCombs Thomas  Lisa Armistead  Tracy Kempton  Sean Lynch  Rex Forehand  Sarah Nousiainen  Bryan Neighbors  Lynne Tannenbaum 《Psychology in the schools》1992,29(4):342-347

The purpose of this study was to examine whether retention of kindergarten and first-grade children is associated with long-term beneficial effects. Thirty-one children who had been retained were compared to 31 children who had similar grades but had never been retained. The dependent measures were grade point average in the second through fifth grades and four teacher-assessed areas of functioning in the fourth and fifth grade: social competence, cognitive competence, externalizing problems, and internalizing problems. The results indicated that retention was not associated with long-term beneficial effects but rather, especially for White children, appeared to be associated with poorer academic and social functioning. Implications and limitations of the study are discussed.  相似文献   

The Self-Perceptions of Pupils with Down Syndrome in Relation to Their Academic Competence,Physical Competence and Social Acceptance     

Amanda Begley 《International Journal of Disability, Development & Education》1999,46(4):515-529

The self-perceptions of 64 pupils with Down syndrome aged between 8 and 16 years were assessed in three school related domains; academic competence, physical competence, and social acceptance. Results from the Pictorial Scale of Perceived Competence and Acceptance and a School Situations Grid suggested that pupils with Down syndrome hold very positive self-perceptions in each school related domain, that self-perceptions become more positive with age, are more positive for females than males, and remain positive regardless of school placement type. The utility of the instruments for assessing the self-perceptions of pupils with Down syndrome is discussed. Possible explanations for the study findings and suggestions for further research are also raised.  相似文献   

Using Activity Theory to explore the management of General Certificate of Education (GCSE) access arrangements     

Amanda Hipkiss  Kevin A. Woods 《British Journal of Special Education》2022,49(2):190-208

Access arrangements are the way in which awarding bodies for public examinations in England, such as the General Certificate of Secondary Education, make reasonable adjustments for students with special educational needs and disabilities. SENCos have expressed concerns about the onerous nature of managing requirements for access arrangements, both administratively and practically, but there has been little explanation of why an apparently straightforward process proves so challenging. In this study, the development of a whole-school system to improve the administrative and practical management of access arrangements is used to seek to understand how the requirements set (and re-set) annually interact with school systems and processes to render the administration of access arrangements potentially complex, time-consuming and unpredictable. Scotland's flexible, school-led framework of requirements for the management of public examination assessment arrangements is highlighted as potentially more fit-for-purpose for the organisation of statutory reasonable adjustments for educational assessment.  相似文献   

Adolescent caregiving success as a predictor of social functioning from ages 13 to 33     

Joseph P. Allen  Meghan A. Costello  Amanda F. Hellwig  Corey Pettit  Jessica A. Stern  Bert N. Uchino 《Child development》2023,94(6):1610-1624

Adolescent success providing satisfying support in response to a close friend's call in a caregiving task was examined as a potentially fundamental developmental competence likely to predict future social functioning, adult caregiving security, and physical health. Adolescents (86 males, 98 females; 58% White, 29% African American, 8% mixed race/ethnicity, 5% other) were followed from ages 13 to 33 (1998–2021) using multiple methods and reporters. Early caregiving success was found to predict greater self- and partner-reported caregiving security, lower negativity in adult relationships, and higher adult vagal tone. Results are interpreted as advancing our understanding beyond simply recognizing that adolescent friendships have long-term import, to now identifying specific capacities within friendships that are linked to longer-term outcomes.  相似文献   

Engaging with animal-assisted interventions (AAIs): exploring the experiences of young people with ASD/ADHD diagnoses     

Zoe Chadwick  Amanda Edmondson  Sarah McDonald 《Support for Learning》2022,37(1):44-61

Animal-assisted Interventions (AAIs) have been used as therapeutic interventions aimed at improving psychological well-being, often for young people with mental health and educational difficulties. This qualitative study explored how three students (male and female), aged 12–15 and with ASD and/or ADHD diagnoses experienced AAI at an alternative education provision. Semi-structured interviews with each participant were conducted and analysed using constructivist thematic analysis. Three themes and four sub-themes were identified. The themes were: (1) Self-esteem, with sub-themes motivation and reward, and self-awareness, (2) Emotional benefits with strategy building, and support and (3) Identification. Participants valued AAI as a positive intervention which aided their psychological well-being. Findings emphasise the effectiveness of AAIs for young people with neurodevelopmental disorders in both a therapeutic and an educational context.  相似文献   

Creative adolescent experiences of education and mental health during COVID-19: A qualitative study     

Lauren M. Zaeske  Taylor P. Harris  Amanda Williams  Gretchen Scheibel  Haiying Long  Barbara A. Kerr 《Psychology in the schools》2023,60(2):460-478

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