Race,school choice and transfers to opportunity: implications for educational stratification in South Africa     

Lori Diane Hill 《British Journal of Sociology of Education》2016,37(4):520-547

This study investigates the links between race, school choice and educational stratification in South Africa. It focuses on racial differences in families’ efforts to take advantage of choice by transferring to opportunity (i.e., transferring to a school perceived to offer students better access to educational opportunity than their current school) and explores the implications of those transfers for emerging patterns of racial stratification in access to high quality schools. Findings reveal significant racial variation in transfers to opportunity and suggest a complex link between race and the ways in which historically disadvantaged groups have engaged with the post-apartheid educational opportunity structure.  相似文献   

Ready to learn? Children's pre-academic achievement in pre-Kindergarten programs   总被引：5，自引：0，他引：5  

Carollee Howes  Margaret Burchinal  Robert Pianta  Donna Bryant  Diane Early  Richard Clifford  Oscar Barbarin 《Early childhood research quarterly》2008

We examined children's growth in school-related learning and social skills over the pre-Kindergarten (pre-K) year in state-funded programs designed to prepare children for kindergarten. We expected that children's gains in academic and social skills could be attributed to variations in the structural and classroom process dimensions of program quality. Nearly 3000 (n = 2800) children were randomly selected, four per classroom, from approximately 700 randomly selected, state-funded pre-Kindergarten classrooms in eleven states. Enrollment in pre-K appeared related to gains in academic skills. Children showed larger gains in academic outcomes when they experienced higher-quality instruction or closer teacher–child relationships. Gains were not related to characteristics of the child or program (i.e., ratio, teacher qualifications and program location and length). These findings have implications for a range of state and local policy and program development efforts as well as for theories of contextual influences on development.  相似文献   

The Question of Style: The Original Discussion     

Forbes Morlock 《Parallax》2014,20(1):4-10

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Operation ARA: A computerized learning game that teaches critical thinking and scientific reasoning     

Diane F. Halpern  Keith Millis  Arthur C. Graesser  Heather Butler  Carol Forsyth  Zhiqiang Cai 《Thinking Skills and Creativity》2012,7(2):93-100

Operation ARA (Acquiring Research Acumen) is a computerized learning game that teaches critical thinking and scientific reasoning. It is a valuable learning tool that utilizes principles from the science of learning and serious computer games. Students learn the skills of scientific reasoning by engaging in interactive dialogs with avatars. They are tutored by avatars with tutoring sessions that vary depending on how well students have responded to questions about the material they are learning. Students also play a jeopardy-like game against a feisty avatar to identify flaws in research and then generate their own questions to determine the quality of different types of research. The research examples are taken from psychology, biology, and chemistry to help students transfer the thinking skills across domains of knowledge. Early results show encouraging learning gains.  相似文献   

Toward Effective and Compelling Instruction for High School eCommerce Students: Results from a Small Field Study     

Kenneth J. Luterbach  Diane Rodriguez  Lakecia Love 《TechTrends》2012,56(6):59-63

This paper describes an instructional development effort to create effective and compelling instruction for eCommerce students. Results from a small field study inform the development project. Four high school students in an eCommerce course completed the standalone tutorial developed to teach them how to create a web page in the HyperText Markup Language (HTML). The four participants were also interviewed in an attempt to determine what motivates them to learn. Researcher observations of completed web pages indicated that the tutorial helped the four participants learn introductory HTML tags and, except for one revealing instance, they mastered the content without instructor assistance. Future work to develop an automated system for determining and correcting learner misconceptions evident in dysfunctional hyperlinks would provide additional support to learners. Lastly, this paper discusses implications of the field study results for the design and implementation of effective and compelling instruction.  相似文献   

Learning and teaching: issues for teacher education     

Jo-Anne Reid  Diane Mayer  Ninetta Santoro  Michael Singh 《Asia-Pacific Journal of Teacher Education》2012,40(4):343-345

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Managing learning and communication systems as business assets     

Diane M. Gayeski  James D. Russell 《Performance Improvement》2005,44(7):45-47

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Developing a School Focused Approach to Continuing Professional Development in Sustainability Education     

Tony Shallcross  Kathryn O'Loan  Diane Hui 《Environmental Education Research》2000,6(4):363-382

This article has two aims. Its first is to describe how findings from a questionnaire survey of 96 UK primary schools influenced the theory of action adopted in the SEEPS Project, (Sustainability Education in European Primary Schools, 1997) funded by DGXI and DGXXII of the European Commission and Scottish Natural Heritage. SEEPS is a continuing professional development (CPD) project developed by representatives from 11 European educational systems. The first section of the article outlines how the Project came to adopt a school focused theory of action in CPD, in preference to a centralised or school-based approach. School focused CPD trains trainers and provides them with adaptable materials that can support individualised CPD programmes decided in and by the school and its staff. The second aim is to outline and analyse some of the more interesting inter and intra-regional relationships, correlations and differences which emerged from the survey. We have only included those findings that illuminate CPD provision in sustainability education. This article seeks to share data with others working in environmental education and sustainability education and to stimulate a debate about the relevance of school focused approaches in international discussions about CPD in environmental and sustainability education.  相似文献   

Cadaveric Simulation Training in Cardiothoracic Surgery: A Systematic Review     

Davida A. Robinson  Diane T. Piekut  Linda Hasman  Peter A. Knight 《Anatomical sciences education》2020,13(3):413-425

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Breakthrough performance: Creating the innovative enterprise     

Diane Hanson  Jerry Bapst 《Performance Improvement》1998,37(3):8-14

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