Continuity,complexity, and change: teacher education in Mauritius     

Rhonda Di Biase 《师资教育杂志》2018,44(4):517-519

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Teachers’ self-concept and valuing of learning: relations with teaching approaches and beliefs about students     

Alexander S. Yeung  Rhonda G. Craven  Gurvinder Kaur 《Asia-Pacific Journal of Teacher Education》2014,42(3):305-320

One’s self-concept and value perceptions can significantly influence one’s behaviours and beliefs. Australian teachers from urban and rural areas of the state of New South Wales were asked to respond to survey items on two predictors (teacher self-concept, valuing of learning) and three outcomes. Confirmatory factor analysis established the five latent factors. Structural equation modelling found significant paths from teacher self-concept to both student-centred and teacher-centred approaches but not beliefs about student ability. The positive path from valuing of learning to student-centred teaching was statistically significant but the path to teacher-centred teaching was not. The significant path from valuing of learning to beliefs about student ability was negative indicating that teachers who value student learning were less likely to believe in ability constraints. Therefore, teacher preparation programmes should enhance self-concept simultaneously with teaching skills and values and facilitate an advocacy for students’ learning.  相似文献   

The Religious Roots of Ernest L. Boyer's Educational Vision: A Theology of Public Pietism     

Douglas Jacobsen  Rhonda Hustedt Jacobsen 《Christian Higher Education》2014,13(1):17-28

The educational theories and policies promoted by Ernest L. Boyer (1928–1995), who served as chancellor of the SUNY system, U.S. Commissioner (Secretary) of Education, and president of the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching, were significantly influenced by his affiliations with the Brethren in Christ Church and the Society of Friends (Quakers) even though he rarely spoke about his faith publicly. Drawing on Anabaptist, pietistic, and apophatic (silence-oriented) theological traditions, Boyer's public career demonstrated a service-focused convictional theology that could be termed “public pietism.” Boyer's educational philosophy focused on human connectedness and called for all citizens to be active participants in improving their communities by living out nonsectarian “consensus virtues.” While Boyer was a strong proponent of the separation of church and state, his public service was imbued with deeply held Christian values.  相似文献   

Exploring the educational aspirations–expectations gap in eighth grade students: implications for educational interventions and school reform     

Chris Michael Kirk  Rhonda K. Lewis  Angela Scott  Denise Wren  Corinne Nilsen  Deltha Q. Colvin 《Educational studies》2012,38(5):507-519

Over the past three decades, more and more students are expressing a desire to attend college, yet for many members of disenfranchised groups, this goal is often not attained. While many factors contribute to these disparities, research has shown that students begin adjusting their expectations (what they think they can achieve) for the future in relation to their idealised aspirations (what they would like to achieve). The current study explores this gap among 207 eighth grade students from two urban middle schools. Using the School Attitude Assessment Survey-Revised, three factors were found to predict expectations which matched student aspirations. These factors were academic motivation and self-regulating behaviours, academic self-perception and attitudes towards teachers. Implications for educational interventions and school reform are discussed.  相似文献   

The trickster figure in African-American teaching: Pre- and postdesegregation     

Rhonda Baynes Jeffries 《The Urban Review》1994,26(4):289-304

This paper explores African-American cultural performance as it exists in education. It focuses on the trickster performance and reveals this community tradition in action through research conducted with African-American educators at two urban schools in the South. The goal of the research is to increase the recognition and use of cultural performance in schools and to create an enhanced learning environment.  相似文献   

Multicultural school psychology training: An examination of students’ self‐reported course outcomes          下载免费PDF全文

Desireé Vega  Rhonda Tabbah  Michele Monserrate 《Psychology in the schools》2018,55(5):449-463

This mixed methods study examined the outcomes of a multicultural course on school psychology students’ feelings of empathy and sensitivity toward members of different racial and ethnic groups. It also investigated students’ perceptions of how the course would influence their future practice as school psychologists. Ethnic identity awareness was explored across ethnic groups and in relation to students’ feelings of empathy and sensitivity toward members of different racial and ethnic groups. Results showed differences in ethnic identity awareness between White and non‐White participants, significant increases in areas of feelings of empathy and sensitivity at posttest, and significant positive correlations between measures of ethnic identity awareness and feelings of empathy and sensitivity. Additionally, a content analysis of the participants’ reflection papers highlighted three key themes: (1) importance of a safe learning environment, (2) increased social awareness, and (3) putting theory into practice. Implications for school psychology training programs to prepare culturally competent practitioners will be discussed as well as limitations and future directions for research.  相似文献   

Development of the Secure Counselor: Case Examples Supporting Pistole & Watkins's (1995) Discussion of Attachment Theory in Counseling Supervision     

Rhonda Neswald‐McCalip 《Counselor Education & Supervision》2001,41(1):18-27

The author clarifies key concepts and assumptions of attachment theory, emphasizing the importance of adult attachment relationships in counseling supervision. Case examples are presented of supervisee behaviors and subsequent supervision strategies used during a semester‐long practicum. The case examples illustrate how the application of theoretical constructs described in attachment theory can foster productive supervisor and supervisee alliances.  相似文献   

Examining Drivers of Course Performance: An Exploratory Examination of an Introductory CIS Applications Course     

Rhonda A. Syler  Casey G. Cegielski  Sharon L. Oswald  R. Kelly Rainer  Jr. 《Decision Sciences Journal of Innovative Education》2006,4(1):51-65

The accelerating diffusion of broadband Internet access provides many opportunities for the development of pedagogically robust Web‐based instruction (WBI). While the supporting technology infrastructure of broadband disseminates, the attention of academic researchers focuses upon issues such as the drivers of student usage of WBI. Specifically, the research presented herein examined the impact of WBI on a student's aggregate course performance. We hypothesized that learning independence (LI) is a determinate factor in a student's use of WBI. In this study, we employed structural equation modeling techniques to examine the data and assess the direct and indirect effects of LI on WBI usage. The subjects, students in an introductory Computer Information Systems applications course, used a Web‐based tutorial program for skills instruction. The findings of this study suggest that WBI usage has a significant impact on a student's course performance. Despite its plausibility, the effect of LI on WBI usage was not significant. However, we did conclude that two of the second order factors of the LI construct have a direct effect on a student's performance in the course.  相似文献   

Immersive virtual reality for supporting complex scientific knowledge: Augmenting our understanding with physiological monitoring     

Michelle Lui  Rhonda McEwen  Martha Mullally 《British journal of educational technology : journal of the Council for Educational Technology》2020,51(6):2181-2199

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Assessing approaches to learning with nonparametric multidimensional scaling     

Gerald Knezek  David Gibson  Rhonda Christensen  Ottavia Trevisan  Morgan Carter 《British journal of educational technology : journal of the Council for Educational Technology》2023,54(1):126-141

This article reports on a trace-based assessment of approaches to learning used by middle school aged children who interacted with NASA Mars Mission science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM) games in Whyville, an online game environment with 8 million registered young learners. The learning objectives of two games included awareness and knowledge of NASA missions, developing knowledge and skills of measurement and scaling, applying measurement for planetary comparisons in the solar system. Trace data from 1361 interactions were analysed with nonparametric multidimensional scaling methods, which permitted visual examination and statistical validation, and provided an example and proof of concept for the multidimensional scaling approach to analysis of time-based behavioural data from a game or simulation. Differences in approach to learning were found illustrating the potential value of the methodology to curriculum and game-based learning designers as well as other creators of online STEM content for pre-college youth. The theoretical framework of the method and analysis makes use of the Epistemic Network Analysis toolkit as a post hoc data exploration platform, and the discussion centres on issues of semantic interpretation of interaction end-states and the application of evidence centred design in post hoc analysis.

Practitioner notes

What is already known about this topic

• Educational game play has been demonstrated to positively affect learning performance and learning persistence.
• Trace-based assessment from digital learning environments can focus on learning outcomes and processes drawn from user behaviour and contextual data.
• Existing approaches used in learning analytics do not (fully) meet criteria commonly used in psychometrics or for different forms of validity in assessment, even though some consider learning analytics a form of assessment in the broadest sense.
• Frameworks of knowledge representation in trace-based research often include concepts from cognitive psychology, education and cognitive science.

What this paper adds

• To assess skills-in-action, stronger connections of learning analytics with educational measurement can include parametric and nonparametric statistics integrated with theory-driven modelling and semantic network analysis approaches widening the basis for inferences, validity, meaning and understanding from digital traces.
• An expanded methodological foundation is offered for analysis in which nonparametric multidimensional scaling, multimodal analysis, epistemic network analysis and evidence-centred design are combined.

Implications for practice and policy

• The new foundations are suggested as a principled, theory-driven, embedded data collection and analysis framework that provides structure for reverse engineering of semantics as well as pre-planning frameworks that support creative freedom in the processes of creation of digital learning environments.

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