What do people know about key environmental issues? A review of environmental knowledge surveys     

Beth Robelia  Tony Murphy 《Environmental Education Research》2012,18(3):299-321

This paper presents results from 15 little publicized state and national environmental surveys in the US that used similar questions. Our analysis reveals trends in adult understanding of environmental issues. These trends indicate that many may have difficulty making informed decisions about environmental policy as citizens, voters, and consumers. Some environmental myths are still prevalent in the US public’s understanding of environmental issues. The authors compare data from the National Environmental Education Foundation survey in the US and data from state surveys using the same questions to examine how public knowledge has changed from 1995 to 2008. Environmental myths and how they may affect the public’s perception of environmental topics are discussed. The authors suggest the need for greater consistency in the surveys of environmental knowledge to allow comparison among different studies.  相似文献   

Enhancing student learning of research methods through the use of undergraduate teaching assistants     

Jessica Crowe  Ryan Ceresola  Tony Silva 《Assessment & Evaluation in Higher Education》2014,39(6):759-775

By using a quasi-experimental design, in this study, we test the effect of undergraduate teaching assistants on student learning. Data were collected from 170 students enrolled in four sections of a quantitative research methods course, two sections without undergraduate teaching assistants and two sections with undergraduate teaching assistants, over two semesters. Results indicate that having undergraduate teaching assistants in the classroom can result in higher student performance. Students in the sections with undergraduate teaching assistants earned higher grades, were more likely to pass the course with a C or higher and performed better on half of the student learning outcomes than students in the sections without an undergraduate teaching assistant. Based on the overwhelmingly positive results on student learning, we would recommend the active use of undergraduate teaching assistants in the classroom, but especially for courses that students find challenging.  相似文献   

broadcasting history     

Amy Henderson  Joseph E. Persico  Tony Thomas 《Communication Booknotes Quarterly》2013,44(6):120-121

ON THE AIR: PIONEERS OF AMERICAN BROADCASTING by Amy Henderson (Washington: Smithsonian Institution Press, 1988—$24.95, paper, ISBN 0-87474-499-7)

EDWARD R. MURROW: AN AMERICAN ORIGINAL by Joseph E. Persico (New York: McGraw-Hill, 1988—$24.95, ISBN 0-07-049480-0)

THE CINEMA OF THE SEA: A CRITICAL SURVEY AND FILMOGRAPHY, by Tony Thomas (Jefferson, NC: McFarland, 1988—$24.95, ISBN 0-89950-342-X)  相似文献   

User acceptance of SMS-based e-government services: Differences between adopters and non-adopters     

Tony Dwi Susanto  Robert Goodwin 《Government Information Quarterly》2013

Delivering public services through the SMS channel is popular in developed and developing countries, and it has demonstrated its benefits. However, citizens' acceptance of the services is still an issue. This paper presents a study on user acceptance of SMS-based e-government services. Constructs of the proposed model were derived from a survey on citizens' motivations for using SMS-based e-government services (142 respondents from 25 countries), prominent theories on individual acceptance of technologies, and current studies on user acceptance of SMS and e-government services. The model was validated using data from 589 citizens in three cities in Indonesia, who are non-adopters. The relationships between the factors then were compared with data from 80 adopters of SMS-based e-government services in Australia. The proposed model explains what factors influence non-adopters to accept SMS-based e-government services, and the comparison explains the relative importance of the factors for the adopters. The findings are promising for governments who wish to evaluate a new SMS-based e-government system very early in its development in order to assess potential acceptability and for governments who would like to diagnose the reasons why an existing SMS-based e-government service is not fully acceptable to citizens and to take corrective action to increase the acceptability of the service.  相似文献   

The American Universities Which Published Most Often in Journals for Business & Finance,Law, Education,and Social Sciences Librarians, 2000–2010     

Amy Hardin  Tony Stankus 《Journal of Business & Finance Librarianship》2013,18(3):251-261

The authors adapt the methods and ranking system of the 5-year study by Wiberley, Hurd, and Weller (2006) to report the number and affiliations of papers published by subject-specialist librarians in four journals from 2000 to 2010: the Journal of Business & Finance Librarianship, Law Library Journal, Legal Reference Services Quarterly, and Behavioral and Social Sciences Librarian. While both approaches demonstrated high output from many of the same highly ranked universities, our modified approach identified a significant number of unranked schools that may have deep specialty strengths among their subject expert librarian authors.  相似文献   

“Our Modern Skulls House a Stone Age Brain”: An Overview and Annotated Bibliography of Evolutionary Psychology,Part I     

Tony Stankus 《Behavioral & Social Sciences Librarian》2013,32(3):119-141

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What Makes Schools Effective? A Comparison between School Communities in Australia and the USA∗     

Tony Townsend 《School Effectiveness & School Improvement》2013,24(3):311-326

This paper reports on findings related to the perceptions held by members of school communities with respect to the factors which most help schools to be effective. The data are from a study conducted in Melbourne, Australia and in seven states of the United States of America. Findings from this research indicate that members of school communities: principals, teachers, parents and students believe that the most critical elements that contribute to the development of an effective school are dedicated and qualified staff, clear school purposes, strong academic and administrative leadership, a safe school environment and a positive school climate.

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Secondary pre-service teacher education in Ethiopia: its impact on teachers' competence and confidence to teach practical work in science     

Tony Shallcross  Elaine Spink  Philip Stephenson  Paul Warwick 《International Journal of Science Education》2013,35(12):1293-1312

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Introduction     

Tony Wright 《Open Learning》2013,28(1):3-4

In the last issue of our predecessor journal, Teaching at a Distance, Alistair Morgan considered what the term ‘independent learning’ meant in the Open University context. This article continues that debate, placing it in the context of a general model of the teaching and learning system, and relates independent learning to the idea of learning as personal development. The author, Tony Wright, is Staff Tutor in Technology in the East Anglian region of the Open University.  相似文献   

Towards a method to disseminate knowledge from the post project review     

Davar?RezaniaEmail author  Tony?Lingham 《知识管理研究与实践》2009,7(2):172-177

In this paper we review several issues associated with post project review and dissemination of knowledge in information technology projects. We reflect on our practice of coaching project teams. In identifying the role of social pressure in forming teams’ perception of their performance, we suggest what could potentially be an interesting and fruitful avenue of future research on an approach to post project review and dissemination of knowledge in organizations.  相似文献