Enhancing school climate through social and emotional learning: effects of RULER in Mexican secondary schools     

Baumsteiger  Rachel  Hoffmann  Jessica D.  Castillo-Gualda  Ruth  Brackett  Marc A. 《Learning Environments Research》2022,25(2):465-483

Learning Environments Research - We investigated the impact of RULER—an evidence-based approach to social and emotional learning—on school climate. Students and teachers from 37 Mexican...  相似文献   

Theories of change and outcomes in home-based Early Head Start programs     

Helen H. Raikes  Lori A. Roggman  Carla A. Peterson  Jeanne Brooks-Gunn  Rachel Chazan-Cohen  Xiaoyun Zhang  Rachel F. Schiffman 《Early childhood research quarterly》2014

Programs to promote children's early development are based on a set of assumptions, explicit or implicit, about intended outcomes and how the program will effect change. The “theories of change” were examined in ten home-based programs in the Early Head Start Research and Evaluation Project (EHSREP), using data collected through multiple interviews with program staff. All home-based programs indicated that parenting outcomes were among their highest three priorities, while only 4 of 10 programs said that child outcomes were in their top priorities. The pattern of outcome differences between randomly-assigned program and control group participants reflected the programs’ theories of change in several ways. Early Head Start home-based programs showed positive impacts on 9 of 9 parenting outcomes, including parental supportiveness, home language and learning supports, emotional responsiveness, and family conflict when children were 24 months of age. Significant program impacts on child cognitive skills (Bayley MDI scores) and social behavior (observed child engagement of parent during play) were found when children were 36 months of age. Mediation analyses showed that the 54% of the program impact on 36-month child cognitive scores was mediated by 24-month program impacts on parental supportiveness, language and learning support, emotional responsiveness, and family conflict, and 47% of the program impact on 36-month child engagement of parent was mediated by 24-month impacts on parental supportiveness, language and cognitive stimulation, and emotional responsiveness. Results from mediation analyses were consistent with these home-based programs’ theories of change, supporting the efficacy of focusing on parent change as a mechanism for child outcomes in home visiting programs.  相似文献   

Helping Students Make Sense of Graphs: An Experimental Trial of SmartGraphs Software     

Andrew Zucker  Rachel Kay  Carolyn Staudt 《Journal of Science Education and Technology》2014,23(3):441-457

Graphs are commonly used in science, mathematics, and social sciences to convey important concepts; yet students at all ages demonstrate difficulties interpreting graphs. This paper reports on an experimental study of free, Web-based software called SmartGraphs that is specifically designed to help students overcome their misconceptions regarding graphs. SmartGraphs allows students to interact with graphs and provides hints and scaffolding to help students, if they need help. SmartGraphs activities can be authored to be useful in teaching and learning a variety of topics that use graphs (such as slope, velocity, half-life, and global warming). A 2-year experimental study in physical science classrooms was conducted with dozens of teachers and thousands of students. In the first year, teachers were randomly assigned to experimental or control conditions. Data show that students of teachers who use SmartGraphs as a supplement to normal instruction make greater gains understanding graphs than control students studying the same content using the same textbooks, but without SmartGraphs. Additionally, teachers believe that the SmartGraphs activities help students meet learning goals in the physical science course, and a great majority reported they would use the activities with students again. In the second year of the study, several specific variations of SmartGraphs were researched to help determine what makes SmartGraphs effective.  相似文献   

Science Anxiety, Science Attitudes, and Gender: Interviews from a Binational Study     

Jeffry Mallow  Helge Kastrup  Fred B. Bryant  Nelda Hislop  Rachel Shefner  Maria Udo 《Journal of Science Education and Technology》2010,19(4):356-369

We conducted interviews with eleven groups of Danish and American students. The interview topics included gender and national components of science education, science anxiety, and attitudes toward science. The groups were science and nonscience students at the upper secondary and university levels, and one group of American science teachers who were students in a science enrichment program. The interviews revealed a variety of relationships between and among science attitudes, science anxiety, nationality, gender, and course of study. We also probed student attitudes toward constructivist versus traditional views of science.  相似文献   

Persistence of the Intuitive Conception of Living Things in Adolescence     

Reuven Babai  Rachel Sekal  Ruth Stavy 《Journal of Science Education and Technology》2010,19(1):20-26

This study investigated whether intuitive, naive conceptions of “living things” based on objects’ mobility (movement = alive) persist into adolescence and affect 10th graders’ accuracy of responses and reaction times during object classification. Most of the 58 students classified the test objects correctly as living/nonliving, yet they demonstrated significantly longer reaction times for classifying plants compared to animals and for classifying dynamic objects compared to static inanimate objects. Findings indicated that, despite prior learning in biology, the intuitive conception of living things persists up to age 15–16 years, affecting related reasoning processes. Consideration of these findings may help educators in their decisions about the nature of examples they use in their classrooms.  相似文献   

Evidence for social learning in wild lemurs (Lemur catta)     

Rachel L. Kendal  Deborah M. Custance  Jeremy R. Kendal  Gillian Vale  Tara S. Stoinski  Nirina Lalaina Rakotomalala  Hantanirina Rasamimanana 《Learning & behavior》2010,38(3):220-234

Interest in social learning has been fueled by claims of culture in wild animals. These remain controversial because alternative explanations to social learning, such as asocial learning or ecological differences, remain difficult to refute. Compared with laboratory-based research, the study of social learning in natural contexts is in its infancy. Here, for the first time, we apply two new statistical methods, option-bias analysis and network-based diffusion analysis, to data from the wild, complemented by standard inferential statistics. Contrary to common thought regarding the cognitive abilities of prosimian primates, our evidence is consistent with social learning within subgroups in the ring-tailed lemur (Lemur catta), supporting the theory of directed social learning (Coussi-Korbel & Fragaszy, 1995). We also caution that, as the toolbox for capturing social learning in natural contexts grows, care is required in ensuring that the methods employed are appropriate-in particular, regarding social dynamics among study subjects. Supplemental materials for this article may be downloaded from http://lb.psychonomic-journals.org/content/supplemental.  相似文献   

Social learning research outside the laboratory: How and why?     

Rachel L. Kendal  Bennett G. Galef  Carel P. Van Schaik 《Learning & behavior》2010,38(3):187-194

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Methuselah moms     

Nowak R 《New scientist (1971)》2006,192(2574):46-51

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Not brain-dead, but ripe for transplant     

Nowak R 《New scientist (1971)》2006,191(2563):6-7

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Magnetic compass orientation in C57BL/6J mice   总被引：1，自引：0，他引：1  

Muheim R  Edgar NM  Sloan KA  Phillips JB 《Learning & behavior》2006,34(4):366-373

We report evidence for a robust magnetic compass response in C57BL/6J mice. Mice were trained to build their nests in one of four magnetic directions by creating a light gradient along the long axis of a rectangular cage and positioning a nest box at the opposite (dark) end. The mice were then tested overnight in a circular, visually symmetrical arena in one of four magnetic field alignments. The positions of the nests built in the test arena showed strong unimodal orientation in the magnetic direction coinciding with the dark end of the training cage.  相似文献