Consistent occupational preferences and academic adjustment     

W. Bruce Walsh  Arnold R. Spokane  Elizabeth Mitchell 《Research in higher education》1976,4(2):123-129

This study explored the differences in academic adjustment variables between students who made congruent, incongruent, and undecided college major choices. The academic adjustment variables were operationally defined by the College Inventory of Academic Adjustment. Congruent, incongruent, and undecided college major choice groups were defined operationally using the Vocational Preference Inventory. The analysis of variance revealed the main effect of groups (congruent, incongruent, and undecided) to be significant for two academic adjustment variables. The test for the main effect of sex was found to be significant for one adjustment variable. The test for interaction was found to be significant for one variable. The findings suggest that students in the congruent female and male groups tend to be more academically adjusted than students in the undecided male group.  相似文献   

The influence of price on school enrollment under Uganda's policy of free primary education     

Jane Arnold Lincove 《Economics of Education Review》2012

This study uses household survey data to estimate determinants of schooling in Uganda, with a model that includes the price of school. Uganda's universal education policy offered free tuition, fees, and supplies to up to four children per family, including two daughters. The empirical method includes an estimation of a child-specific price of schooling. Despite widespread subsidies, the cost of primary school remained an obstacle under this policy, but the effects of price were similar for boys and girls. Regressions by wealth quintile estimate nonlinear effects of wealth and price, suggesting that there are opportunities to expand education through targeted cash transfer and subsidy policies.  相似文献   

Testing a motivational model of achievement: How students’ mathematical beliefs and interests are related to their achievement     

Brett D. Jones  Jesse L. M. Wilkins  Margaret H. Long  Feihong Wang 《European Journal of Psychology of Education - EJPE》2012,27(1):1-20

Blackwell et al. (Child Development 78(1):246–263, 2007) tested a motivational model of achievement in which an incremental theory of intelligence leads to learning goals and positive effort beliefs, which leads to fewer ability-based, helpless attributions, and more positive strategies, which leads to improved grades. In the present study, we tested this model by using a different population, using domain-specific items, comparing the results across gender, including “interest” as another variable in the model, and assessing the impact of achievement as an antecedent and outcome variable in the model. Participants included 163, mostly White, ninth-grade Algebra students from a suburban school in southwest Virginia, USA. We established that the model had a relatively good fit to the data and all paths were statistically significant when achievement was used as both an antecedent and outcome variable. The standardized path coefficients were consistent with those reported by Blackwell et al. and the model was invariant across genders. Furthermore, we documented that interest could be included as another mediating variable in the model. The results of this study provide evidence to support the validity of the relationships between the constructs in the Blackwell et al. model for the population examined.  相似文献   

Longitudinal links between spanking and children's externalizing behaviors in a national sample of White, Black, Hispanic, and Asian American families     

Gershoff ET  Lansford JE  Sexton HR  Davis-Kean P  Sameroff AJ 《Child development》2012,83(3):838-843

This study examined whether the longitudinal links between mothers' use of spanking and children's externalizing behaviors are moderated by family race/ethnicity, as would be predicted by cultural normativeness theory, once mean differences in frequency of use are controlled. A nationally representative sample of White, Black, Hispanic, and Asian American families (n = 11,044) was used to test a cross-lagged path model from 5 to 8 years old. While race/ethnic differences were observed in the frequency of spanking, no differences were found in the associations of spanking and externalizing over time: Early spanking predicted increases in children's externalizing while early child externalizing elicited more spanking over time across all race/ethnic groups.  相似文献   

Developing a national information policy—considerations for developing countries     

Anna-Marie Arnold 《International Information and Library Review》2013,45(3):199-207

Information and information technology developments are influencing the economies of many countries. Information needs to be made available and accessible in countries for industrial, educational and governmental purposes. Information is also an asset of unpredictable value. For these reasons, governments should acknowledge and value the relevance of such information, and therefore address it through national policies. Many countries have developed national information policies which reflect the values that governments attach to the access to and the availability of information in their countries. The most important influences on the development of a national information policy are based on the country's socio-political circumstances. Developing countries are advised to focus attention in their national information policies on aspects concerning socio-economic development, the application of information and access to information.  相似文献   

Motion Pictures     

Joseph McBride  Colin McArthur  Alan Lovell  Jim Hillier  Joel E. Siegel  Arnold Gassan 《Communication Booknotes Quarterly》2013,44(7):8-10

The American Film Institute Guide to College Courses in Film and Television (Washington, D.C.: Acropolis. Books, 1973—$5.95, paper)

Joseph McBride, Orson Welles (192 pp.)

Colin McArthur, Underworld USA (176 pp.)

Alan Lovell and Jim Hillier, Studies in Documentary (176 pp.)

Joel E. Siegel, Val Lewton: the Reality of Terror (176 pp.)

Arnold Gassan's A Chronology of Photography (Light Impressions, Box 3012, Rochester, N.Y. 14614, 1972—$10.50/ 7.95)  相似文献   

General Media and Society     

Robert Atwan  Barry Orton  Alliam Vesterman  Everette E. Dennis  Arnold H. Ismach  Donald M. Gillmor 《Communication Booknotes Quarterly》2013,44(9):145-147

Atwan, Robert, Barry Orton, and Alliam Vesterman. American Mass Media: Industries and Issues (New York: Random House, 1978—$8.95, paper)

Dennis, Everette E., Arnold H. Ismach, and Donald M. Gillmor, eds. Enduring Issues in Mass Communication (St. Paul, Minn.: West P.' _fishing Co., 1978—price not given, paper)

White, David Manning, and John Pendleton, eds. Popular Culture: Mirror of American Life (Del Mar, Calif.: Publisher's Inc., 1977—$11.95/6.25)

Charlene J. Brown, Trevor R. Brown, and William L. Rivers' The Media and the People (New York: Holt, Rinehart a Winston, 1978 —price not given, paper)

Malcolm Muggeridge's Christ and the Media (Grand Rapids, Mich.: William B. Eerdmans Publishing Co., 1977— $5.95)  相似文献   

Regulation     

William E. Francois  R. Terry Ellmore  Joseph J. Hemmer Jr.  Carol E. Jenson  Jim Surmanek  Arnold Barban 《Communication Booknotes Quarterly》2013,44(5):55-56

William E. Francois, MASS MEDIA LAW AND REGULATION (Columbus, Ohio: Grid Publishing, 1982—price not given)

R. Terry Ellmore, BROADCASTING LAW S REGULATION (Blue Ridge Summit, Pa.: TAB Books, 1982—$24.95)

Joseph J. Hemmer, Jr., COMMUNICATION UNDER LAW: VOLUME II: JOURNALISTIC FREEDOM (Met uc hen , N.J.: Scarecrow Press, 1980—$20.00)

Carol E. Jenson, THE NETWORK OF CONTROL: STATE SUPREME COURTS AND STATE SECURITY STATUTES, 1920-1970 (Westport, Conn.: Greenwood Press, 1982—$27.50)

CURRENT DEVELOPMENTS IN COPYRIGHT LAW 1982 Handbook 144, 1982, 894 pp.)

INFRINGEMENT OF COPYRIGHTS Handbook 134, 1981, 275 pp.)

MEDIA PLANNING: A QUICK AND EASY GUIDE by Jim Surmanek (1980—$9.95, paper)

ESSENTIALS OF MEDIA PLANNING: A MARKETING VIEWPOINT by Arnold Barban, et al. (1976(!)—$7.95, paper)

Huntley Baldwin, CREATING EFFECTIVE TV COMMERCIALS (1982—$22.95).

A MARKETING APPROACH TO BUILDING STORE TRAFFIC WITH BROADCAST ADVERTISING by William L. McGee and others (1978—$50.00, paper)  相似文献   

Evolving,Not Extinct: Music Reference in the 21st Century     

Donna M. Arnold 《The Reference Librarian》2013,54(2):146-150

As reference work changes dramatically due to computer technology, tangible reference collections are disappearing from academic libraries in many fields. Such is not the case in music research libraries, however. While many important online music reference resources exist, many print resources remain vitally important, and because of limited funding, they are unlikely to be digitized soon. Music libraries and music reference collections are currently a combination of traditional and online resources, enhanced by human expertise. This beneficial combination should be maintained.  相似文献   

What is ‘Agency’? Perspectives in Science Education Research     

Jenny Arnold  David John Clarke 《International Journal of Science Education》2013,35(5):735-754

The contemporary interest in researching student agency in science education reflects concerns about the relevance of schooling and a shift in science education towards understanding learning in science as a complex social activity. The purpose of this article is to identify problems confronting the science education community in the development of this new research agenda and to argue that there is a need for research in science education that attends to agency as a social practice. Despite increasing interest in student agency in educational research, the term ‘agency’ has lacked explicit operationalisation and, across the varied approaches, such as critical ethnography, ethnographies of communication, discourse analysis and symbolic interactionism, there has been a lack of coherence in its research usage. There has also been argument concerning the validity of the use of the term ‘agency’ in science education research. This article attempts to structure the variety of definitions of ‘student agency’ in science education research, identifies problems in the research related to assigning intentionality to research participants and argues that agency is a kind of discursive practice. The article also draws attention to the need for researchers to be explicit in the assumptions they rely upon in their interpretations of social worlds. Drawing upon the discursive turn in the social sciences, a definition of agency is provided, that accommodates the discursive practices of both individuals and the various functional social groups from whose activities classroom practice is constituted. The article contributes to building a focused research agenda concerned with understanding and promoting student agency in science.  相似文献