An Evaluation of Three Interdisciplinary Social Science Events Outside of the College Classroom     

Sarah Knapp  Renee Merges 《College Teaching》2017,65(3):137-141

This article describes three interdisciplinary events held outside of the classroom to examine social psychological concepts in the criminal justice system, with undergraduate students enrolled in criminal justice and psychology courses. These events can most accurately be described as using a synthetic interdisciplinary approach, in which the disciplines of psychology and criminal justice remain clearly identifiable in looking at phenomena like occurrences of bystander apathy, while enabling a holistic view of these phenomena. First, 75 students celebrated the life of Kitty Genovese, a famous victim of bystander apathy. Later in the semester, the same students competed in a game-show-like review session. Finally, 45 students explored the intersection of the mental health and criminal justice systems with professionals from various fields. Overall, students enjoyed the social interaction with their peers across the majors, as well as with their professors and professionals in the field. Students also indicated that the interactive learning techniques enhanced their new understanding of the intersection of the disciplines. Future research should investigate the offering of interdisciplinary events to students within and across academic divisions to build community and enhance students' understanding of their educational and career opportunities.  相似文献   

An international collaborative investigation of beginning seventh grade students' understandings of scientific inquiry: Establishing a baseline     

Judith Lederman  Norman Lederman  Selina Bartels  Juan Jimenez  Mark Akubo  Shereen Aly  Chengcheng Bao  Estelle Blanquet  Ron Blonder  Mariana Bologna Soares de Andrade  Catherine Buntting  Mustafa Cakir  Heba EL-Deghaidy  Ahmed ElZorkani  Estelle Gaigher  Shuchen Guo  Arvi Hakanen  Soraya Hamed Al-Lal  Cigdem Han-Tosunoglu  Annemarie Hattingh  Anne Hume  Serhat Irez  Gillian Kay  Ozgur Kivilcan Dogan  Kerstin Kremer  Pi-Chu Kuo  Jari Lavonen  Shu-Fen Lin  Cheng Liu  Enshan Liu  Shiang-Yao Liu  Bin Lv  Rachel Mamlok-Naaman  Christine McDonald  Irene Neumann  Yaozhen Pan  Eric Picholle  Ana Rivero García  Carl-Johan Rundgren  David Santibáñez-Gómez  Kathy Saunders  Renee Schwartz  Frauke Voitle  Jakob von Gyllenpalm  Fangbing Wei  Jocelyn Wishart  Zhifeng Wu  Huang Xiao  Yalcin Yalaki  Qiaoxue Zhou 《科学教学研究杂志》2019,56(4):486-515

Although understandings of scientific inquiry (as opposed to conducting inquiry) are included in science education reform documents around the world, little is known about what students have learned about inquiry during their elementary school years. This is partially due to the lack of any assessment instrument to measure understandings about scientific inquiry. However, a valid and reliable assessment has recently been developed and published, Views About Scientific Inquiry (VASI; Lederman et al. [2014], Journal of Research in Science Teaching, 51, 65–83). The purpose of this large-scale international project was to collect the first baseline data on what beginning middle school students have learned about scientific inquiry during their elementary school years. Eighteen countries/regions spanning six continents including 2,634 students participated in the study. The participating countries/regions were: Australia, Brazil, Chile, Egypt, England, Finland, France, Germany, Israel, Mainland China, New Zealand, Nigeria, South Africa, Spain, Sweden, Taiwan, Turkey, and the United States. In many countries, science is not formally taught until middle school, which is the rationale for choosing seventh grade students for this investigation. This baseline data will simultaneously provide information on what, if anything, students learn about inquiry in elementary school, as well as their beginning knowledge as they enter secondary school. It is important to note that collecting data from all of the approximately 200 countries globally was not humanly possible, and it was also not possible to collect data from every region of each country. The results overwhelmingly show that students around the world at the beginning of grade seven have very little understandings about scientific inquiry. Some countries do show reasonable understandings in certain aspects but the overall picture of understandings of scientific inquiry is not what is hoped for after completing 6 years of elementary education in any country.  相似文献   

Statistical estimates of learners�� judgments about knowledge in calibration of achievement     

Philip H. Winne  Krista Renee Muis 《Metacognition and Learning》2011,6(2):179-193

In theoretical models of self-regulated learning, calibration is one important component in successful learning. Two issues of calibration are explored. First, Nelson (1987) suggested the G (gamma) coefficient is the most appropriate measure of calibration (judgment accuracy) and rejected signal detection theory’s d′ statistic because data commonly challenge distributional assumptions. We empirically examined this issue, comparing G and d′. Second, we examined whether a learner’s calibration varies across three domains of knowledge: general, word, and mathematics. A sample of 266 university students volunteered to participate in the study. Participants were selected from various undergraduate and graduate courses. Participants first answered demographic items. Then they completed three knowledge tests (general, word, and mathematics) and judged correctness for each answer provided. Order of domains was randomly counterbalanced among participants. Results show that d′ is a valid measure of calibration, that assumptions about underlying distributions can be tested, and that preliminary evidence suggests that d′ may be a superior measure of accuracy compared to G. Finally, calibration varied by domain.  相似文献   

A PROBABILISTIC MODEL FOR STUDENTS’ ERRORS AND MISCONCEPTIONS ON THE STRUCTURE OF MATTER IN RELATION TO THREE COGNITIVE VARIABLES     

Georgios Tsitsipis  Dimitrios Stamovlasis  George Papageorgiou 《International Journal of Science and Mathematics Education》2012,10(4):777-802

In this study, the effect of 3 cognitive variables such as logical thinking, field dependence/field independence, and convergent/divergent thinking on some specific students’ answers related to the particulate nature of matter was investigated by means of probabilistic models. Besides recording and tabulating the students’ responses, a combination of binomial and multinomial logistic regression techniques was used to analyze the data. Thus, students’ misconceptions as well as the compatible-with-the-scientific-view student’s answers were explored one by one in relation to the above 3 cognitive variables. The study took place with the participation of 329 ninth-grade junior high school pupils (aged 14–15). The results showed that mostly logical thinking and sporadically the other 2 cognitive variables were significantly associated with students’ answers. Interpretation of the results and implications for science education are discussed.  相似文献   

Guidance and education,an analysis of young peoples’ discontinuous school pathways: the guidance-oriented approach of educational institutions     

Aisenson  Gabriela  Legaspi  Leandro Pablo María  Valenzuela  Viviana  Czerniuk  Renee  Miguelez  Violeta Vicente  Moulia  Lourdes  Larriba  Gerardo  Solano  Lila  Alonso  Diego Eduardo 《International Journal for Educational and Vocational Guidance》2022,22(3):739-758

International Journal for Educational and Vocational Guidance - This article presents results of an investigation that explored the school pathways of young Argentine unskilled workers without a...  相似文献   

Why are Women Underrepresented in Elite Colleges and Universities? A Non-Linear Decomposition Analysis     

Rob Bielby  Julie Renee Posselt  Ozan Jaquette  Michael N. Bastedo 《Research in higher education》2014,55(8):735-760

The emerging female advantage in education has received considerable attention in the popular media and recent research. We examine a persistent exception to this trend: women’s underrepresentation in America’s most competitive colleges and universities. Using nationally generalizable data spanning four decades, we evaluate evidence for three possible explanations. First, we analyze whether men’s academic profiles more closely match the admissions preferences of elite institutions. Next, we consider organizational preferences for male applicants. Finally, we test whether women self-select out of elite institutions through their application choices. Using Blinder–Oaxaca non-linear decomposition techniques and multinomial logistic regression, we find that men’s advantage in standardized test scores best explains the enrollment gap. Our analyses thus suggest that the gender enrollment gap in elite colleges and universities is a matter of access, not student choice. We discuss the implications of these results for educational equity and college admissions.  相似文献   

What's sexy? Adolescent girls discuss confidence,danger, and media influence     

Sharon Lamb  Kaelin M. Farmer  Elena Kosterina  Susan Lambe Sariñana  Aleksandra Plocha  Renee Randazzo 《Gender and education》2016,28(4):527-545

Building on qualitative research about sexualisation by media and culture and the impact on girls' development, in this article we present a discourse analysis of three focus groups of teen girls of colour and of diverse ethnicities asked to talk about sexiness. We focus on the ways the girls both support and resist hegemonic discourses about femininity and sexuality as well as on the discursive strategies used by the girls to separate sexiness from lack of respectability and present themselves as both knowing consumers of media and passive responders. The girls constructed sexiness in three ways that we refer to as interpretive repertoires and analyse each for paradoxes, contradictions, and resistance to mainstream conceptualisations of sexiness. These are sexy as confident; disadvantages and advantages to sexy; and sexy as sold to you.  相似文献   

Enabling Factors of Preservice Science Teachers’ Pedagogical Content Knowledge for Nature of Science and Nature of Scientific Inquiry     

Mesci  Günkut  Schwartz  Renee S.  Pleasants  Brandy Ann-Skjold 《Science & Education》2020,29(2):263-297

Science & Education - The goal of this study was to explore the influencing factors of pre-service science teachers’ pedagogical content knowledge (PCK) for targeted aspects of nature of...  相似文献   

Negative instructor communication behaviours: exploring associations between instructor misbehaviours and the classroom learning environment     

Kaufmann  Renee 《Learning Environments Research》2020,23(2):185-193

Learning Environments Research - Given the array of positive outcomes associated with building and maintaining a positive learning environment, the purpose of this study was to explore associations...  相似文献   

留学申请中的一些问题     

Renee 《中国大学生就业》2002,(7):65-68

前面谈到,决定留学是否成功的两个基本条件是"财"和"才",至少应具备其中之一,留学才具有可能性.对于绝大部分大学生同学来说,他们的"才"是不低,但又难以到达让别人给奖学金的水平,所以'财"的问题好象更为突出.因为这一条件的制约,上文提到的留学几个热门国家和地区中,欧洲大陆尤其是法国、德国应该是大部分大学生同学们的重点考虑目标.  相似文献