Investigating video as a means to promote vocabulary for at-risk children     

Rebecca Silverman 《Contemporary educational psychology》2013

Two studies on the role of video on vocabulary learning were conducted in kindergarten classrooms with substantial numbers of children from low-income and Dual Language Learning (DLL) backgrounds. In the first study (n = 78), the effect of video viewing was compared with the effect of book reading on vocabulary learning. In the second study (n = 89), the effect of repeated viewing of video was compared with the effect of single viewing of video on vocabulary learning. Pre-test and post-test receptive and expressive vocabulary measures, which were aligned with the content in the studies, were administered. Analysis of Variance was used to test the effect of condition (i.e., video viewing versus book reading and single versus repeated reading) on children’s word knowledge. Results showed no difference in vocabulary learning between the video viewing and book reading conditions. Findings showed that there was no difference in vocabulary learning between children in the single and repeated viewing condition on the receptive measure, but children in the repeated viewing condition showed higher gains in vocabulary on the expressive measure. No differences were found in either study between children with higher and lower vocabulary knowledge.  相似文献   

The importance of the personal element in collaborative research     

Zinnia Mitchell-Williams  Paul Wilkins  Meabh Mclean  Wendy Nevin  Karyn Wastell  Rebecca Wheat 《Educational Action Research》2013,21(3):329-346

This account draws on the experience of five final-year students of human communication and one tutor from the Manchester Metropolitan University who conducted collaborative research into life stages. The research was personally developmental for all those involved and resulted in an increased sense of personal power. The authors discuss the use of their personal development as a research tool, using the models of cooperative inquiry and heuristic inquiry. Ultimately, they consider how their ‘therapeutic’ process can be termed ‘research’, and how their approach can be utilised in research that is personally and socially educational.  相似文献   

Rhythms of knowing: toward an ecological theory of learning in action research     

Rebecca Luce-Kapler  Dennis Sumara  Brent Davis 《Educational Action Research》2013,21(3):353-372

This article describes the culmination of a 2-year research study, where the researchers used writing practices with participants to structure interpretations of gay, lesbian and transgendered teachers' experiences. The researchers were interested in learning how such work might help the teachers interpret the ways in which they negotiated minority identities within public school teaching. For the final aspect of the study, the researchers decided to move the group from an urban setting to a seaside location, and chose to move more definitively into a participatory role by inviting a colleague to lead the group in interpretive research activities through the use of writing techniques and practices. The three-day writing workshop yielded new insights about the nature of writing and human cognition and, more specifically, revealed how events of collaborative research reflect an ecological complexity, where the outcomes of such work co-emerge and are co-specified by a particular group of individuals working in a particular place and time. As such, these research events develop their own patterns and rhythms of insight.  相似文献   

Memorial: D. Campbell Wyckoff (1918–2005)     

George Brown Jr 《Religious education (Chicago, Ill.)》2013,108(4):340-343

Religious practices have long drawn on the social sciences to broaden our understanding of how human beings develop, learn, relate, and are formed. While the religion and science conversations have not always been friendly, a growing number of theologians and scientists are engaged in promising dialogues where the interests of both parties overlap. This article sketches three domains of recent neuroscientific research that show particular promise for those engaged in thinking about the practices of religious communities: Story telling, memory, and human relating. The purpose of the present discussion is threefold: (1) to demonstrate the ways the neurosciences are now making claims about matters that religious communities have experienced and pondered for millennia, (2) to acknowledge the contributions the sciences can make to our understanding of our religious practices, and (3) to suggest a methodology for engaging the sciences in ways that are, at the same time, faithful to our own religious traditions.  相似文献   

Using Student-Determined Needs to Evaluate Environmental Education Programs     

John D. Hunt  Perry J. Brown 《The Journal of environmental education》2013,44(4):27-29

Abstract

All too often, evaluation is not used as the important management tool it could be, because educators feel inadequately prepared to use complex evaluation techniques. “Direct evaluation,” as a research concept, is based on the idea of “research as an intermediate technology,” developed by Steven and Rachel Kaplan in Cognition and Environment (1982: Praeger). Direct evaluation means you ask what you need to know of those who are participants in a program you wish to evaluate. The results, when collated, can be used for justification as well as modification of programs.  相似文献   

Communication and helping behavior: The effects of information,reinforcement, and sex on helping responses   总被引：1，自引：1，他引：0  

Robert N. Bostrom  Rebecca J. Humphreys  Michael E. Roloff 《Communication quarterly》2013,61(3):147-155

While the phenomenon of helping behavior is usually preceded by some kind of communicative interaction, the communicative interaction has not been studied as extensively as other factors. In this study, information and reinforcement were varied, along with requester and receiver sex. In a field study, individuals were selected randomly from the telephone directory and were asked to help the caller by placing another telephone call (to a confederate). Of all the possible interactions, only the receiver‐sex‐information‐helping, and the helping‐caller sex‐receiver sex were significant. In general, the effects of information were much stronger than those of reinforcement, and male receivers tended to help female callers more than male callers, while females helped indiscriminately. The results are discussed from the point of view of exchange theories.  相似文献   

Book review section     

Patrick C. Kennicott  Herbert H. Brown  Mason A. Hicks  William H. Owens  Robert R. Boren  John T. Rickey 《Communication quarterly》2013,61(4):87-93

POLITICS AND COMMUNICATION. By Richard R. Fagen. Boston: Little Brown, 1966. pp. x+162. Paper $2.50.

THE NEW POLITICS. By James M. Perry. New York: Clarkson N. Potter, Inc., 1968. pp. viii+230. $4.95.

THE LIFE OF POLITICS. By Henry Fairlie. New York: Basic Books, Inc., 1968; pp. 271. $5.95.

THE GREAT SOCIETY. By Glenn R. Capp, Dickenson Publishing Company, Inc., Belmont, California, 1967, pp. 195.

POLITICS AND POWER: THE UNITED STATES SENATE, 1869–1901. By David J. Rothman. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1966. pp. 348. $6.95.

DIRTY POLITICS. By Bruce L. Felknor. New York: W. W. Norton & Company, Inc., 1966; pp. 295, $5.95.

QUOTEMANSHIP: THE USE AND ABUSE OF QUOTATIONS FOR POLEMICAL AND OTHER PURPOSES. By Paul F. Boiler, Jr. Dallas: Southern Methodist University Press, 1967; pp. xiii+454. $7.95.

LANGUAGE AND POLITICS. By Thomas P. Brockway, ed. Boston: D. C. Heath and Company, 1965. pp. 97+ study aids. Paper $1.50.

THE WORD WAR. By Thomas C. Sorensen (Foreword by Robert F. Kennedy) New York: Harper and Row, Publishers, 1968; pp. xi+337.

BULLETIN FROM DALLAS: THE PRESIDENT IS DEAD. By John B. Mayo, Jr. New York: Exposition Press. 1967; pp. 157. $6.00.

POLITICAL TELEVISION. By Bernard Rubin. Belmont, California: Wadsworth Publishing Company. 1967; pp. 200. $4.50.

ETHICS OF SPEECH COMMUNICATION. By Thomas R. Nilsen. Indianapolis: Bobbs‐Merrill, 1966; pp. xii+98. Paper $1.25.

SENATOR FULBRIGHT: PORTRAIT OF A PUBLIC PHILOSOPHER. By Tristram Coffin. New York: E. P. Dutton and Company, 1966; pp. 378. $6.95.

AN ANALYSIS OF LINCOLN AND DOUGLAS AS PUBLIC SPEAKERS AND DEBATERS. By Lionel Crocker. Springfield, Illinois: Charles C. Thomas, 1968, pp. 550. $16.50.  相似文献   

Development of relationship stage measures     

S‐A Welch  Rebecca B. Rubin 《Communication quarterly》2013,61(1):24-40

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Testing Leader–Member Exchange Theory as a Lens to Understand Students’ Classroom Justice Perceptions and Antisocial Communication     

Sean M. Horan  Rebecca M. Chory  Shannon T. Carton  Erin Miller  Peter C. J. Raposo 《Communication quarterly》2013,61(5):497-518

The purpose of this study was to test whether leader–member exchange theory (LMX) offers an explanatory lens for the program of classroom justice research. To that end, relationships among justice, LMX, and antisocial communication were explored. Findings indicated that perceptions of justice and LMX were positively related. Likewise, perceptions of interactional and procedural justice negatively predicted indirect interpersonal aggression, hostility, and revenge. Similarly, LMX perceptions were negatively related to students’ hostility and revenge and mediated the relationships between students’ perceptions of distributive justice and these outcomes. LMX also moderated the relationships between students’ perceptions of classroom justice and indirect interpersonal aggression and deception. Implications, limitations, and future research are discussed.  相似文献   

Health service access across racial/ethnic groups of children in the child welfare system     

Rebecca Wells  Marianne M. Hillemeier  Yu Bai  Rhonda Belue 《Child abuse & neglect》2009,33(5):282-292

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