Integrating Video Documentary Into the Classroom: A Community Assessment Assignment     

Samantha G. Levinson  Keith Caldwell  Helen E. Petracchi  Sandra Wexler  Rafael Engel 《Journal of Teaching in Social Work》2013,33(2):160-175

Community assessment is a strategy commonly taught to social work students to identify a community’s strengths and challenges. This article describes the value of using video documentary as part of a community assessment assignment. We identify the advantages of using video documentary in the assessment process and the reporting of findings. We discuss the preproduction, production, and postproduction steps necessary to produce a video documentary and illustrate how such assignments can be incorporated into a social work course. We conclude by identifying the educational benefits accrued to students.  相似文献   

The contributions of parental management language to executive function in preschool children     

Samantha W. Bindman  Annemarie H. Hindman  Ryan P. Bowles  Frederick J. Morrison 《Early childhood research quarterly》2013

This study investigated relations between preschoolers’ emergent executive function skills and their interactions with parents, with particular focus on the verbal utterances parents use to guide children's behavior (i.e., management language). Parent–child dyads (n = 127) were videotaped during a structured play task and the frequency of two types of management language, Direction (high control) and Suggestion (low control), was observed. Children's executive function was assessed using the Head–Toes–Knees–Shoulders (HTKS) task. Latent growth modeling was used to investigate relations between management language and the development of children's executive function. Direction language (i.e., commands) was negatively associated with children's age three executive function but not significantly related to the rate of executive function development over time. Conversely, Suggestion language (i.e., questions and statements that offer children some degree of choice) was positively related to executive function at age three but negatively related to growth. The potential importance of management language as a parenting behavior that contributes to various aspects of children's self-regulation during preschool and kindergarten is discussed.  相似文献   

Methodological analysis in communication research     

Samuel L. Becker 《Quarterly Journal of Speech》2013,99(4):382-391

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The Long Green Line     

Beverly June Becker 《Quest (Human Kinetics)》2013,65(2):127-133

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NEWS NOTES AND EDITORIAL COMMENTS     

John J. Becker 《Religious education (Chicago, Ill.)》2013,108(9):803-807

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The All-American Faculty Meeting     

Ernest J. Becker 《Clearing house (Menasha, Wis.)》2013,86(9):543-545

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Educational attainment in the short and long term: was there an advantage to attending faith,private, and selective schools for pupils in the 1980s?     

Alice Sullivan  Samantha Parsons  Francis Green  Richard D. Wiggins  George Ploubidis  Timmy Huynh 《牛津教育评论》2013,39(6):806-822

ABSTRACT

This paper asks whether private, selective, and faith schools in England and Wales in the 1980s provided an academic advantage to their pupils, both in the short and longer term. Using longitudinal data from the 1970 British Cohort Study, we examine academic outcomes in compulsory schooling and further education, and the highest qualification gained by age 42. School sector differences are substantially attenuated by controlling for prior pupil characteristics. Nevertheless, a residual effect of private, grammar, and secondary modern schooling remains, both in the short and long term, controlling for both pupil and school characteristics. In the case of faith schools, however, the apparent advantage is restricted to the short term once pupil characteristics are controlled. A unique feature of our analysis is that we control for the individual’s faith of upbringing, which is important in reducing what could otherwise be seen as a distinctive Catholic school advantage.  相似文献   

Public Understanding of Climate Change: Certainty and willingness to act     

Rosanne W. Fortner  Jae-Young Lee  Jeffrey R. Corney  Samantha Romanello  Joseph Bonnell  Brian Luthy 《Environmental Education Research》2000,6(2):127-141

During a 10-week period prior to the 1997 Kyoto conference on climate change, two parallel studies were conducted: Study 1 examined media portrayals of global warming and the certainty with which information was reported (percentage of 'hedging'); Study 2 was a telephone survey to assess public knowledge about key topics in global climate change, people's certainty about their information, trust in the media, and willingness to take action on global warming. Media reports were found to be scarce, and about half of the references to global warming were found to be hedged. More hedging was evident in the New York Times than in other print media and national television reports, and economic impacts of climate change were reported with the greatest certainty. The audience (N = 139 adults, average age 36–45, with at least a high school education) reported trusting their media sources more than 50% of the time. They were collectively fairly knowledgeable and certain about global warming information (9.1 on a scale of - 20 to + 20), and they appeared to be willing to adopt a range of responsible behaviors seen to be useful in countering global warming (average response 3.0 out of 4). The knowledge/certainty factor was described as 'attitude under uncertainty', and was significantly related to media trust (r = 0.325, p < 0.01) and willingness to act responsibly (r = 0.400, p < 0.01). Comparing Study 1 with Study 2, the research does not support a hypothesis that media hedging is related to uncertainty. Implications for environmental communicators are discussed.  相似文献   

Bildungsexpansion und Bildungsbeteiligung     

Rolf Becker 《Zeitschrift für Erziehungswissenschaft》2000,3(3):447-480

Die vorliegende Untersuchung ist ein Beitrag, die Frage zu kl?ren, warum in der westdeutschen Nachkriegszeit immer mehr Schulpflichtige nach Abschluss der Grundschule das Gymnasium besuchen. Ausgehend von einem entscheidungstheoretischen Modell der subjektiven Werterwartung werden Mechanismen der elterlichen Bildungsentscheidung aufgezeigt. Dabei wird davon ausgegangen, dass sowohl zunehmende Bildungsmotivationen als auch Ver?nderungen in der subjektiven Bewertung von Kosten und Nutzen für eine h?here Bildung wichtige Voraussetzungen für die zunehmende Bildungsbeteiligung, aber auch Folgen der Bildungsexpansion waren. Die empirischen Analysen für drei Zeitpunkte in den 60er, 70er und 80er Jahren best?tigen diese Annahmen weitgehend. Ebenso wurde empirisch belegt, welch wichtige Rolle neben den Bildungsintentionen von Eltern und dem vorhergehenden Bildungsverlauf ihrer Kinder auch strukturelle Momente der Bildungsexpansion und ihre Eigendynamik beim tats?chlichen Bildungsübergang spielen. Schlie?lich gibt es Hinweise dafür, dass die Persistenz klassenspezifischer Bildungsungleichheiten auf einer konstanten Balance von Nutzen und Kosten zwischen den sozialen Klassen basiert.  相似文献   

MindWorks: Making Scientific Concepts Come Alive     

Becker  Barbara J. 《Science & Education》2000,9(3):269-278

The Southwest Regional Laboratory, through major funding from the National Science Foundation (ESI-9450235), has developed a series of eight instructional modules for use in common secondary school physical science that address three central goals of U.S. science literacy education: (1) to motivate students who have previously shown little interest in science; (2) to accomplish deep change in students' internalized conceptions of the structure and workings of the physical world; and (3) to build greater understanding, in both teachers and students, of the process and culture of scientific activity.Beginning with a discussion of the conceptual scaffolding that undergirds the project's pedagogical approach, the paper presents an overview of MindWorks' goals, the materials that have been developed to achieve these goals, and the progress of the pilot implementation and project evaluation.  相似文献