Early Literacy Measures for Improving Student Reading Achievement: Translating Research Into Practice     

Doug Marston  Mary Pickart  Amy Reschly  David Heistad  Paul Muyskens  Gerald Tindal 《Exceptionality》2013,21(2):97-117

The importance of early literacy instruction and its role in later reading proficiency is well established; however, measures and procedures to screen and monitor proficiency in the area of early literacy are less well researched. The purpose of this study was to (a) examine the technical adequacy and validity of early curriculum-based literacy measures, Letter–Sound Correspondence, Onset Phoneme Identification, and Phoneme Segmentation, developed for use within the problem-solving model in the Minneapolis Public Schools and (b) describe the district-wide implementation of these measures. In general, these measures were found to have adequate reliability and validity, have moderate to moderately high correlations with criterion measures (oral reading, report cards), and be sensitive to growth across the school year. A case study of how these measures are used for screening and progress monitoring to improve reading achievement within 1 school is included. Limitations and future directions are also presented.  相似文献   

A Service Learning Campus Sustainability Project     

Michael J. Maloni  Robert C. Paul 《Decision Sciences Journal of Innovative Education》2011,9(1):101-106

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Editorial     

Paul Standish 《Journal of Philosophy of Education》2012,46(1):iii-v

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RIM: A Random Item Mixture Model to Detect Differential Item Functioning     

Sofie Frederickx  Francis Tuerlinckx  Paul De Boeck  David Magis 《Journal of Educational Measurement》2010,47(4):432-457

In this paper we present a new methodology for detecting differential item functioning (DIF). We introduce a DIF model, called the random item mixture (RIM), that is based on a Rasch model with random item difficulties (besides the common random person abilities). In addition, a mixture model is assumed for the item difficulties such that the items may belong to one of two classes: a DIF or a non-DIF class. The crucial difference between the DIF class and the non-DIF class is that the item difficulties in the DIF class may differ according to the observed person groups while they are equal across the person groups for the items from the non-DIF class. Statistical inference for the RIM is carried out in a Bayesian framework. The performance of the RIM is evaluated using a simulation study in which it is compared with traditional procedures, like the likelihood ratio test, the Mantel-Haenszel procedure and the standardized p -DIF procedure. In this comparison, the RIM performs better than the other methods. Finally, the usefulness of the model is also demonstrated on a real life data set.  相似文献   

Fear and loathing of tuition fees: an American perspective on higher education finance in the UK     

Paul Greatrix 《Perspectives: Policy and Practice in Higher Education》2013,17(1):12-16

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The Conspiracy Against Village Schools∗     

Paul Grosch 《课程研究杂志》2013,45(6):537-544

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The Contradictions of Contemporary Culture: A Tribute to Norman Jay Levitt (1943–2009)     

Paul R. Gross 《Academic Questions》2012,25(1):153-157

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The Palgrave Handbook of Spirituality and Business by Luk Bouckaert and Laszlo Zsolnai (Eds.)     

Paul Anthony 《Journal of Business & Finance Librarianship》2013,18(4):354-356

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In their very own words: authors and scholarly journal publishing     

David Nicholas  Hamid R. Jamali M.  Paul Huntington  Ian Rowlands 《Learned Publishing》2005,18(3):212-220

This paper presents the results of a major investigation by questionnaire of author attitudes towards scholarly publishing, which was funded by the Publisher's Association. Altogether, the views of nearly 4,000 authors were obtained and this paper concerns just those thousand or so authors who accepted the invitation to write freely about their own personal feelings and experiences. Using QSR N6 textual analysis software, their comments were processed and themes extracted. While the rest of the questionnaire, which was formed of closed‐question, tick‐box type questions, clearly must have had some impact on their thinking, the authors had considerable latitude in regard to what they could say. The paper provides a unique opportunity to hear their views directly. The pressing topics turned out to be (in rough order of concern): the peer‐review system, copyright, journal prices, alternative business models for journal publishing, big deals, Elsevier, electronic publishing and digital journals.  相似文献   

Diversity in the Information Seeking Behaviour of the Virtual Scholar: Institutional Comparisons     

David Nicholas  Director of CIBER  Professor at  Director of the School of Library  Paul Huntington  Senior Researcher  a founder member of CIBER  SLAIS  University College London  WCE  BT  UK  Hamid R. Jamali  a researcher in CIBER  SLAIS  University College London  WCE  BT  UK 《The Journal of Academic Librarianship》2007,33(6):629-638

The logs of four universities using the OhioLINK journal system were evaluated for a period of fifteen months using deep log analysis methods in order to compare and contrast the information seeking behaviour of their users. Large differences were found, especially between the research and teaching universities. Methodological problems associated with making the comparisons are discussed in some detail especially in terms of defining online sessions.  相似文献