Vertical Ground Reaction Forces of Children during One- and Two-Leg Rope Jumping     

Vicki M. Pittenger  Steven T. McCaw  David O. Thomas 《Research quarterly for exercise and sport》2013,84(4):445-449

Abstract

Sport offers opportunities for children to identify and resolve moral issues. Moral issues in sport have primarily been studied from the researcher's perspective, with the child's perspective relatively ignored. Thus, the purpose of this study was to explore the nature and content of the issues children experienced in sport. Interview participants consisted of 7 boys and 8 girls ranging in age from 10 to 12 years (M = 11.6 years, SD = 1.7) who had competitive youth sport experience. An inductive content analysis revealed that children identified issues surrounding three overall dimensions concerning fairness of adult's actions, negative game behaviors, and negative team behaviors. Specific examples of issues included unfair actions by coaches, disrespecting opponents, and selfish behavior in practice. The self-identified issues both confirmed and expanded upon the content found in hypothetical moral dilemmas in sport.  相似文献   

Drawing a computer scientist: stereotypical representations or lack of awareness?     

Katarina Pantic  Jody Clarke-Midura  Frederick Poole  Jared Roller  Vicki Allan 《Computer Science Education》2013,23(3):232-254

ABSTRACT

Stereotypes people hold about computer scientists contribute to underrepresentation in computer science. Perceptions of computer scientists have historically been linked to males and a “nerd” culture, which can lead to lack of interest, particularly for girls. This article presents two studies conducted with two groups of middle schoolers: those who attended our programming camp (Study One) and those who did not (Study Two). After analyzing participants’ drawings and two survey questions we found that perceptions youth holds about computer scientists may be improving. Additionally, we found that males (versus females) and those youth who did not attend our camp (versus those who did) tended to have more stereotypical perceptions of computer scientists. With this article, we contribute to the literature on CS stereotypes by examining both positive and negative representations youth had about computer scientists. We also cast light on the lack of awareness about this profession among the youth of this age.  相似文献   

Managing the Process: The Intradepartmental Networks of Early-Career Academics     

Meghan J. Pifer  Vicki L. Baker 《Innovative Higher Education》2013,38(4):323-337

This article relies on data from surveys and interviews to explore the networking behaviors and strategies of early-career faculty members within the contexts of their academic departments. Findings suggest that faculty members’ approaches to interactions and relationships with colleagues may be conceptualized according to a continuum of behavior, based on their political awareness of interactions and their strategic engagement in them, interactions as a means of impression management, the cultivation of relationships for symbolic inclusion in networks, and the presence of functional patterns in network. The article concludes with recommendations for future research.  相似文献   

Diversity in collaborative research communities: a multicultural,multidisciplinary thesis writing group in public health     

Cally Guerin  Vicki Xafis  Diana V. Doda  Marianne H. Gillam  Allison J. Larg  Helene Luckner 《Studies in Continuing Education》2013,35(1):65-81

Writing groups for doctoral students are generally agreed to provide valuable learning spaces for Ph.D. candidates. Here an academic developer and the eight members of a writing group formed in a Discipline of Public Health provide an account of their experiences of collaborating in a multicultural, multidisciplinary thesis writing group. We consider the benefits of belonging to such a group for Ph.D. students who are operating in a research climate in which disciplinary boundaries are blurring and where an increasing number of doctoral projects are interdisciplinary in nature; in which both academic staff and students come from enormously diverse cultural and language backgrounds; and in which teamwork, networking and collaboration are prized but not always proactively facilitated. We argue that doctoral writing groups comprising students from diverse cultural and disciplinary backgrounds can be of significant value for postgraduates who wish to collaborate on their own academic development to improve their research writing and communication skills; at the same time, such collaborative work effectively builds an inclusive, dynamic research community.  相似文献   

Co-constructing distributed leadership: district and school connections in data-driven decision-making     

Vicki Park  Amanda Datnow 《School Leadership & Management》2013,33(5):477-494

The purpose of this paper is to examine leadership practices in school systems that are implementing data-driven decision-making employing the theory of distributed leadership. With the advent of No Child Left Behind Act of 2001 (NCLB) in the US, educational leaders are now required to analyse, interpret and use data to make informed decisions in all areas of education, ranging from professional development to student learning. The emphasis on data-driven decision-making practices to bring about improved student outcomes is relatively a new feature of the education reform landscape and thus requires educators to learn and develop new competences. Leadership is one crucial bridge that can support and direct these new learning efforts. Using qualitative data from a case study of four urban school systems, the authors’ findings indicate that: (1) leaders at all levels co-constructed the vision and implementation of productive data-driven decision-making by creating an ethos of learning and continuous improvement rather than one of blame; (2) in order to give data relevance, leaders also distributed decision-making authority in a manner that empowered different staff members to utilise their expertise; and (3) the school systems directed their resources on building human and social capacity mainly by focusing on modelling and knowledge brokering amongst their staff. The paper concludes with a discussion of research and policy implications based on the findings.  相似文献   

Beyond mentoring and advising: Toward understanding the role of faculty “developers” in student success     

Vicki L. Baker  Kimberly A. Griffin 《About Campus》2010,14(6):2-8

It is old news that interactions between students and faculty enhance student learning. In this article, Vicki Baker and Kimberly Griffin offer another role for faculty in their relationships with students—that of developer.  相似文献   

Observing the process of mathematics teacher change—part 1     

David Reid  Vicki Zack 《Journal of Mathematics Teacher Education》2010,13(5):371-374

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International and Citizen Faculty in the United States: An Examination of their Productivity at Research Universities     

Ketevan Mamiseishvili  Vicki J. Rosser 《Research in higher education》2010,51(1):88-107

The study examined the differences between international and U.S. citizen faculty members’ productivity in the areas of research, graduate and undergraduate teaching, and service at research universities in the United States. Utilizing the 2004 National Study of Postsecondary Faculty (NSOPF:04) data set, we used a Structural Equation Modeling (SEM) to address the primary research questions in the study. The results indicated that international faculty members were significantly more productive in research, but less productive in teaching and service than their U.S. citizen colleagues. The study can potentially aid policymakers and university administrators to not only better serve and support international faculty members but also to fully utilize them as a resource that benefits the institution and the students in all functions of their work and not just in research.  相似文献   

温柔     

Vicki 《作文大王》2007,(15):58-59

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学生支持的地区结构与管理     

维基·古德温  陈海山 《中国远程教育(综合版)》2005,(17):15-16

作为学生和教材之间的一个重要的界面,英国开放大学的地区中心支持辅导教师通过学习中心为学生提供强有力的学习支持和行政指导.本文介绍了英国开放大学地区中心的职能和结构、地区中心的管理方式、以及地区中心下属的学习中心的职能和作用.  相似文献