Training teachers to use new technologies impacts multiple ecologies: Evidence from a national initiative     

Niki Davis  Christina Preston  Ismail Sahin 《British journal of educational technology : journal of the Council for Educational Technology》2009,40(5):861-878

A pair of papers re-examined the evidence from a national initiative to train all teachers in England to bring them up to the level of newly qualified teachers, who are required to know when to use and when not to use information and communication technologies (ICT) in their professional practice. The first paper confirmed that multilevel evaluation of professional development was robust for ICT teacher training. This second paper contrasts the highest and lowest rated designs for ICT teacher training: an 'organic' approach that provided training in schools was highly rated, whereas a centralised computer-assisted learning approach with online access to trainers was the lowest rated design. The study supports an ecological view of the diffusion of ICT innovations in education and recommends that ICT teacher training be designed to support evolution of each teacher's classroom, school and region, as well as the training of the ICT teacher trainers.  相似文献   

Does musical training improve school performance?     

Olive Emil Wetter  Fritz Koerner  Adrian Schwaninger 《Instructional Science》2009,37(4):365-374

In a retrospective study, we compared school performance of 53 children practicing music (group 1) with 67 controls not practicing music (group 2). Overall average marks as well as average marks of all school subjects except sports were significantly higher in children who do (group 1) than in those who do not practice music (group 2). In a multiple regression analysis, musical training, parent’s income, and educational level (grades) correlated significantly with overall average marks. A slight decrease of overall average marks over 4 years from grades 3 to 6 was found in the control group only. Musical training evidently correlates with children’s better performance at school, but is obviously part of a multifactorial dependence. Continuous musical training appears to help achieve and maintain school performance at a high level over time.  相似文献   

Der Beitrag des Lehrers zur Internationalen Verständigung und Zusammenarbeit     

Fritz Bohnsack 《International Review of Education/Internationale Zeitschrift für Erziehungswissenschaft/Revue internationale l'éducation》1956,2(2):234-237

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Book reviews     

John B. Haney  Fritz H. Brecke  Vernon S. Gerlach  Donald A. Cook  James J. Zigerell  Donald P. Ely  Harry M. Geduld 《Educational technology research and development : ETR & D》1975,23(3):333-359

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The Properties and the Nature of Light: The Study of Newton’s Work and the Teaching of Optics     

Athanasios Raftopoulos  Niki Kalyfommatou  Constantinos P. Constantinou 《Science & Education》2005,14(7-8):649-673

The history of science shows that for each scientific issue there may be more than one models that are simultaneously accepted by the scientific community. One such case concerns the wave and corpuscular models of light. Newton claimed that he had proved some properties of light based on a set of minimal assumptions, without any commitments to any one of the two models. This set of assumptions constitutes the geometrical model of light as a set of rays propagating in space. We discuss this model and the historical reasons for which it had the head-primacy amongst the relevant models. We argue that this model is indispensable in structuring the curriculum in Optics and attempt to validate it epistemologically. Finally, we discuss an approach for alleviating the implicit assumptions that students make on the nature of light and the subsequent interference of geometrical optics in teaching the properties of light related to its wave-like nature.  相似文献   

The parents anonymous service provider/service recipient experimental training project     

Margot E. Fritz  Jean M. Baker 《Child abuse & neglect》1979,3(1):235-239

These preliminary evaluation results suggest that the training approach is positively perceived by participants and that it has positive effects in changing their attitudes and behavior.  相似文献   

Exploring the reliability of generic and content-specific instructional aspects in physical education lessons     

Charalambos Y. Charalambous  Ermis Kyriakides  Niki Tsangaridou  Leonidas Kyriakides 《School Effectiveness & School Improvement》2017,28(4):555-577

Heightened accountability pressures and an increased emphasis on teaching quality have directed scholarly attention to scrutinizing instruction, particularly with respect to issues of validity and reliability. However, these attempts have largely been directed toward “core” content areas and investigated generic or content-specific instructional aspects separately. Focusing on a less explored area, physical education, and concurrently attending to both instructional aspects, in this exploratory study, we examined whether the optimal lesson-rater combination needed to obtain reliable teaching-quality estimates differs depending on the type of instructional aspects considered. Data analysis of 147 lessons using generalizability theory suggested that either a 3-lesson-2-rater or a 4-lesson-1-rater combination yields sufficiently reliable estimates for nearly all dimensions examined (generic or content specific). Quality of student practice, however, required 11 lessons scored by 2 raters. These findings underline the importance of examining individual dimensions within a given observational instrument and the merit of carefully selecting and training raters.  相似文献   

Full circle or forward     

M E Fritz 《Child abuse & neglect》1989,13(3):313-318

In the early 70s when a parent with abuse problems named Jolly K. sought help to stop her abusive behavior, there were no services for parents. Today, nearly two decades later, there has not been much improvement with regard to the provision of services for parents. Our belief is that the dichotomy which occurred early in the field's development between those who were for the child, and those (such as Parents Anonymous) who sought to provide services to parents and were presumed to be for the parent and implicitly against the child is largely responsible for an ever more punitive approach to the problem. The solution lies in shifting our focus away from the exclusive mandate to protect the child towards support for the family unit. Such a shift should include expanding the knowledge base of the field by the inclusion of information from fields such as alcoholism, spouse abuse, and eating disorders, as well as by advocating for services which support the family. Research into the part that neuro-chemistry plays in violence should also be undertaken. The impetus for change within the field cannot come from the child protective services (CPS) system, which, as a creature of the law, can only be reactive, not pro-active. Professionals working outside the CPS system must take responsibility for change if it is to occur.  相似文献   

Moving towards effective physical education teacher education for generalist primary teachers: a view from Cyprus     

Niki Tsangaridou 《Education 3-13》2016,44(6):632-647

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The GLOBE Visualization Project: Using WWW in the Classroom     

de La Beaujardière  J-F.  Cavallo  John  Hasler  A. Fritz  Mitchell  Horace  O'Handley  Chris  Shiri  Ron  White  Richard 《Journal of Science Education and Technology》1997,6(1):15-22

Though commercial interest in the World Wide Web is growing, the potential uses of the medium as a learning tool are numerous. The GLOBE Visualization Project is one such educational application. We have designed and implemented a WWW-based, user-friendly, language-independent, graphical user interface providing access to visualizations created for GLOBE, a multinational program of education and science. The target users of the system are K–12 students and their teachers from over 1100 schools in 39 countries; other clients include the GLOBE scientific investigators and members of the public internationally. Navigation is intuitive, and employs the metaphors of a Control Panel which changes the image appearing in a Viewscreen. The interface can be learned empirically by persons of all ages regardless of technical expertise or native language; context-sensitive help is provided for users who prefer documentation. The GLOBE Visualization server is on the World Wide Web at URL http://globe.gsfc.nasa.gov/globe/.  相似文献