Standardized test outcomes for students engaged in inquiry‐based science curricula in the context of urban reform     

Robert Geier  Phyllis C. Blumenfeld  Ronald W. Marx  Joseph S. Krajcik  Barry Fishman  Elliot Soloway  Juanita Clay‐Chambers 《科学教学研究杂志》2008,45(8):922-939

Considerable effort has been made over the past decade to address the needs of learners in large urban districts through scaleable reform initiatives. We examine the effects of a multifaceted scaling reform that focuses on supporting standards based science teaching in urban middle schools. The effort was one component of a systemic reform effort in the Detroit Public Schools, and was centered on highly specified and developed project‐based inquiry science units supported by aligned professional development and learning technologies. Two cohorts of 7th and 8th graders that participated in the project units are compared with the remainder of the district population, using results from the high‐stakes state standardized test in science. Both the initial and scaled up cohorts show increases in science content understanding and process skills over their peers, and significantly higher pass rates on the statewide test. The relative gains occur up to a year and a half after participation in the curriculum, and show little attenuation with in the second cohort when scaling occurred and the number of teachers involved increased. The effect of participation in units at different grade levels is independent and cumulative, with higher levels of participation associated with similarly higher achievement scores. Examination of results by gender reveals that the curriculum effort succeeds in reducing the gender gap in achievement experienced by urban African‐American boys. These findings demonstrate that standards‐based, inquiry science curriculum can lead to standardized achievement test gains in historically underserved urban students, when the curriculum is highly specified, developed, and aligned with professional development and administrative support. © 2008 Wiley Periodicals, Inc. J Res Sci Teach 45: 922–939, 2008  相似文献   

Perspektiven der Weiterentwicklung des Universitätsgesetzes 2002     

Werner Hauser 《Zeitschrift für Hochschulrecht, Hochschulmanagement und Hochschulpolitik: zfhr》2008,7(2):35-36

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Modellierung von deterministischer Software in Simulink     

Gerald Stieglbauer und Andreas Werner 《Informatik - Forschung und Entwicklung》2005,19(4):189-193

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Abilities and skill acquisition: A latent growth curve approach     

Manuel C. Voelkle  Werner W. Wittmann  Phillip L. Ackerman 《Learning and individual differences》2006,16(4):303-319

The relationship between abilities and skill acquisition has been the subject of numerous controversies in psychology. However, while most researchers implicitly or explicitly accept the idea that abilities and skill acquisition should be related, empirical research has failed to provide evidence for a consistently strong correlation between the two constructs. Based on the reanalysis of a study on skill acquisition using the air traffic controller task TRACON [Ackerman, P. L., Kanfer, R., and Goff, M. (1995). Cognitive and Noncognitive Determinants and Consequences of Complex Skill Acquisition. Journal of Experimental Psychology. Applied, 1(4), 270–304], it will be shown how latent growth curve modeling can help to gain a better understanding of the relationship between human abilities and skill acquisition. A brief introduction into the basic concepts of latent growth curve modeling will be given, particularly with regard to the advantages for the analysis of skill acquisition and its determinants. The goal is thereby to provide evidence for a much closer association than commonly assumed and to offer a new, differential, perspective formerly obscured by traditional between-subject analyses.  相似文献   

The relative age effect in youth soccer across Europe   总被引：2，自引：2，他引：0  

Helsen WF  van Winckel J  Williams AM 《Journal of sports sciences》2005,23(6):629-636

The potential asymmetries in the birth-date distributions of youth soccer players across ten European countries (2175 age citations) were considered. First, we examined the birth-dates of players representing national youth teams in international competitions. Second, the birth-dates of players representing professional club teams in international youth tournaments were analysed. Kolmogorov-Smirnov tests were used to assess differences between observed and expected birth-date distributions. Regression analyses were employed to examine the relationship between month of birth and number of players in the different samples. The results showed an over-representation of players born in the first quarter of the selection year (from January to March) for all the national youth selections at the under-15 (U-15), U-16, U-17 and U-18 age categories, as well as for the UEFA U-16 tournaments and Meridian Cup. Players with a greater relative age are more likely to be identified as "talented" because of the likely physical advantages they have over their "younger" peers. Some options for reducing the relative age effect are offered.  相似文献   

Special Education—some Cross‐National Comparisons     

Rosemary Werner Putnam 《比较教育学》1979,15(1):83-98

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The support of research by German foundations: Functional and legal aspects     

Werner Seifart 《Minerva》1981,19(1):72-91

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TIScover – Eine generische Plattform für webbasierte Tourismusinformationssysteme     

Birgit Pr?ll  Werner Retschitzegger und Roland Wagner 《Informatik - Forschung und Entwicklung》2001,16(1):1-13

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Prediction of intelligence and achievement at ten years from twenty months pediatric and psychologic examinations   总被引：1，自引：0，他引：1  

E E Werner  M P Honzik  R S Smith 《Child development》1968,39(4):1063-1075

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Physical and perceptual-cognitive demands of top-class refereeing in association football     

Helsen W  Bultynck JB 《Journal of sports sciences》2004,22(2):179-189

The aim of this study was to examine the physical and perceptual-cognitive demands imposed on UEFA top-class referees and assistant referees during the final round of the Euro 2000 Championship. To investigate the physical workload, the heart rates during matches were monitored by short-range radio telemetry and translated to different workloads expressed as a percentage of maximal heart rate. For measurement of the perceptual-cognitive workload, video-recordings of games were used to obtain the average number of observable decisions taken by a referee. On average, referees and assistant referees performed the matches at 85 +/- 5% and 77 +/- 7% of their maximal heart rate, respectively. Over the 31 games, the mean number of observable decisions was 137 (range 104-162), 64% of which were based on communication with the assistant referees and/or the fourth official. To optimize the physical preparation of top-class match officials, the results of this study support the application of intensive and intermittent training sessions, which should place priority on high-intensity aerobic stimuli. In addition, video training is discussed as an additional method for improving match officials' decision making.  相似文献