A longitudinal study of the educational and career trajectories of female participants of an urban informal science education program     

Kathleen A. Fadigan  Penny L. Hammrich 《科学教学研究杂志》2004,41(8):835-860

The purpose of this longitudinal case study is to describe the educational trajectories of a sample of 152 young women from urban, low‐income, single‐parent families who participated in the Women in Natural Sciences (WINS) program during high school. Utilizing data drawn from program records, surveys, and interviews, this study also attempts to determine how the program affected the participants' educational and career choices to provide insight into the role informal science education programs play in increasing the participation of women and minorities in science, math, engineering, and technology (SMET)‐related fields. Findings revealed 109 participants (93.16%) enrolled in a college program following high school completion. Careers in medical or health‐related fields followed by careers in SMET emerged as the highest ranking career paths with 24 students (23.76%) and 21 students (20.79%), respectively, employed in or pursuing careers in these areas. The majority of participants perceived having staff to talk to, the job skills learned, and having the museum as a safe place to go as having influenced their educational and career decisions. These findings reflect the need for continued support of informal science education programs for urban girls and at‐risk youth. © 2004 Wiley Periodicals, Inc. J Res Sci Teach 41: 835–860, 2004  相似文献   

Young Children''s Vulnerability to Self-Blame and Helplessness: Relationship to Beliefs about Goodness   总被引：8，自引：0，他引：8  

Gail D. Heyman  Carol S. Dweck  Kathleen M. Cain 《Child development》1992,63(2):401-415

Motivational helplessness, linked to conceptions of intelligence, has been well documented in older children. While some researchers have reported that children just starting school are motivationally invulnerable, others have found evidence of helplessness when these children encounter failure. The present study seeks to determine whether the reactions associated with helplessness can be identified in a new context, that of criticism, and whether any such responses are related to the child's conceptions of goodness. Subjects were 107 5- and 6-year-old children who enacted achievement situations in which teacher criticism was presented. The 39% of children whose own assessments were undermined by criticism exhibited the affect, task choices, and nonconstructive problem-solving strategies characteristic of helplessness. They were also more likely to make global negative self-judgments following criticism, including negative judgments of their goodness. Finally, these children were more likely to endorse stable and global beliefs about goodness.  相似文献   

The Effect of an Analysis-of-Practice,Videocase-Based,Teacher Professional Development Program on Elementary Students' Science Achievement     

Joseph A. Taylor  Kathleen Roth  Christopher D. Wilson  Molly A. M. Stuhlsatz  Elizabeth Tipton 《Journal of research on educational effectiveness》2017,10(2):241-271

This article describes the effects of an analysis-of-practice professional development (PD) program on elementary school students' (Grades 4–6) science outcomes. The study design was a cluster-randomized trial with an analysis sample of 77 schools, 144 teachers and 2,823 students. Forty-two schools were randomly assigned to treatment, (88.5 hours) of integrated analysis-of-practice and content deepening PD (over the course of one year) while 35 schools were randomly assigned to receive an equal number of PD hours in science content deepening alone. Students' content knowledge, as measured by a project-specific test, was compared across treatment groups. The effect size for this comparison was 0.52 standard deviations in favor of students whose teachers participated in the PD that included analysis-of-practice. This effect compares favorably to that of other elementary school interventions whose effectiveness was studied with a narrowly focused outcome measure. Analysis of the demographics of the study schools suggests that the treatment effect could be relevant outside the local study context. Implications for future research include tests of mediation for teacher-level outcomes and efficacy tests of specific teaching strategies (intervention subcomponents).  相似文献   

Racial Inequality in Critical Thinking Skills: The Role of Academic and Diversity Experiences     

Josipa Roksa  Teniell L. Trolian  Ernest T. Pascarella  Cindy A. Kilgo  Charles Blaich  Kathleen S. Wise 《Research in higher education》2017,58(2):119-140

While racial inequalities in college entry and completion are well documented, much less is known about racial disparities in the development of general collegiate skills, such as critical thinking. Using data from the Wabash National Study of Liberal Arts Education, we find substantial inequality in the development of critical thinking skills over four years of college between African American and White students. The results indicate that these inequities are not related to students’ academic experiences in college but are substantially related to their experiences with diversity. These findings have important implications for understanding racial inequality in higher education and considering strategies for addressing observed disparities.  相似文献   

Developing Multicultural Counseling Competencies Through Experiential Learning     

Nancy Arthur  Kathleen Achenbach 《Counselor Education & Supervision》2002,42(1):2-14

Counselor educators are challenged to prepare students for working with culturally diverse clients. The recent attention paid to multicultural counseling competencies has defined domains of learning; however, training methods to support the development of multicultural counseling competencies have received less emphasis. This article focuses on experiential learning as a teaching and learning methodology to increase students' multicultural counseling competencies. The authors outline ethical and practical suggestions for using experiential learning in multicultural counseling curriculum.  相似文献   

School efficiency in rural Guatemala     

Kathleen S. Gorman  Ernesto Pollitt 《International Review of Education/Internationale Zeitschrift für Erziehungswissenschaft/Revue internationale l'éducation》1992,38(5):519-534

Summary This paper addresses the issues concerning the ability of the educational sector in Guatemala to meet its basic objective of providing primary education to children in rural areas. We report on data collected in seven villages in rural Guatemala on over 2000 children. Measures of school efficiency in these villages indicate that although increasingly large numbers of children are enrolling in school, promotion, repetition, and drop-out rates continue to be high and that girls are at a greater disadvantage than boys in this population. Complex interrelationships among the schooling variables point to the need for policy decisions to incorporate family, community and school level inputs.

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Zusammenfassung In diesem Artikel werden Themen bezüglich der Eignung des Bildungssektors in Guatemala zur Versorgung der Kinder in ländlichen Gegenden mit Grundbildung behandelt. Wir berichten über in sieben Dörfern im ländlichen Guatemala gesammelte Daten von über 2000 Kindern. Eine Bewertung der Effizienz der Schulen zeigt, daß obwohl die Anzahl der an den Schulen eingeschriebenen Kinder steigt, Versetzungen, Wiederholungen einer Klasse oder vorzeitiges Ausscheiden aus der Schule unverändert hoch bleiben und Mädchen gegenüber Jungen dieser Gesellschaft benachteiligt sind. Komplexe Verflechtungen zwischen den Schulvariablen deuten auf die Notwendigkeit politischer Entscheidungen zur Einbeziehung von Familie, Gemeinde und Schulkollegium hin.

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Résumé Le présent article traite des problèmes concernant la capacité du secteur éducatif guatémalais à atteindre son objectif fondamental: dispenser un enseignement primaire aux enfants des zones rurales. Les données présentées ont été recueillies dans sept villages du monde rural guatémalais et portent sur 2000 enfants. Les mesures du rendement scolaire dans ces villages indiquent que bien qu'un nombre toujours plus grand d'enfants soit scolarisé, la promotion, le redoublement et le taux de déperdition scolaire restent élevés et que les filles sont plus désavantagées que les garçons dans cette population. Les corrélations complexes entre les variables scolaires soulignent la nécessité de décisions politiques visant à incorporer la famille, la collectivité et les entrées au niveau de l'école.

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An analysis of the scholarly productivity of instructional technology faculty     

Kathleen McDermott Hannafin 《Educational technology research and development : ETR & D》1991,39(2):39-42

The resumés of 132 instructional technology (IT) faculty were analyzed in an effort to assess the scholarly productivity of IT faculty. Faculty were surveyed to identify leading basic and applied IT journals and to determine overall publication patterns. The findings indicate that individuals who are now full professors have a higher publication rate than faculty at lower ranks in instructional systems/educational technology programs. On an annual basis, individuals in educational psychology programs published more applied, basic, and overall research than faculty in other academic affiliations.  相似文献   

Integrating Cognitive and Psychometric Models to Measure Document Literacy     

Kathleen Sheehan  Robert J. Mislevy 《Journal of Educational Measurement》1990,27(3):255-272

The Survey of Young Adult Literacy conducted in 1985 by the National Assessment of Educational Progress included 63 items that elicited skills in acquiring and using information from written documents. These items were analyzed using two different models: (1) a qualitative cognitive model, which characterized items in terms of the processing tasks they required, and (2) an item response theory (IRT) model, which characterized items difficulties and respondents' proficiencies simply by tendencies toward correct response. This paper demonstrates how a generalization of Fischer and Seheibleehner's Linear Logistic Test Model can be used to integrate information from the cognitive analysis into the IRT analysis, providing a foundation for subsequent item construction, test development, and diagnosis of individuals skill deficiencies.  相似文献   

Pathways from parental stimulation of children’s curiosity to high school science course accomplishments and science career interest and skill     

Adele Eskeles Gottfried  Kathleen Suzanne Johnson Preston  Allen W. Gottfried  Pamella H. Oliver  Danielle E. Delany  Sirena M. Ibrahim 《International Journal of Science Education》2016,38(12):1972-1995

Curiosity is fundamental to scientific inquiry and pursuance. Parents are important in encouraging children’s involvement in science. This longitudinal study examined pathways from parental stimulation of children’s curiosity per se to their science acquisition (SA). A latent variable of SA was indicated by the inter-related variables of high school science course accomplishments, career interest, and skill. A conceptual model investigated parental stimulation of children’s curiosity as related to SA via science intrinsic motivation and science achievement. The Fullerton Longitudinal Study provided data spanning school entry through high school (N?=?118). Parental stimulation of curiosity at age 8 years comprised exposing children to new experiences, promoting curiosity, encouraging asking questions, and taking children to a museum. Intrinsic motivation was measured at ages 9, 10, and 13 years, and achievement at ages 9, 10, and 11 years. Structural equation modelling was used for analyses. Controlling for socio-economic status, parental stimulation of curiosity bore positive and significant relations to science intrinsic motivation and achievement, which in turn related to SA. Gender neither related to stimulation of curiosity nor contributed to the model. Findings highlight the importance of parental stimulation of children’s curiosity in facilitating trajectories into science, and relevance to science education is discussed.  相似文献   

The multimedia case as a tool for professional development: an analysis of online and face-to-face interaction among mathematics pre-service teachers, in-service teachers, mathematicians, and mathematics teacher educators   总被引：2，自引：0，他引：2  

Rebecca McGraw  Kathleen Lynch  Yusuf Koc  Ayfer Budak  Catherine A. Brown 《Journal of Mathematics Teacher Education》2007,10(2):95-121

In this study, we consider the potential of multimedia cases as tools for teacher professional development. Specifically, we examined online and face-to-face discussions that occurred within groups composed of pre-service mathematics teachers, in-service mathematics teachers, mathematicians, and mathematics teacher educators. Discussions within these heterogeneous groups tended to focus on issues of classroom implementation of the tasks shown in the multimedia case. Secondary foci of discussion included task characteristics and appropriateness of tasks for engaging students in thinking about mathematical concepts and processes. Analysis of contributions to discussions across group member type revealed differences that suggest that the variety of backgrounds and experiences of group members can blend in ways that support rich and critical discussions of mathematics, teaching, and learning.  相似文献