Children’s Developing Ability to Resolve Disagreements by Integrating Perspectives     

Jamie Amemiya  Caren M. Walker  Gail D. Heyman 《Child development》2021,92(6):e1228-e1241

Children live in a world where disagreement is commonplace. Although disagreement can sometimes be explained by differences in people’s reliability, disagreement may also indicate that the referent elicits multiple perspectives. The present studies (total N = 129, 5- to 12-year-old ethnically diverse U.S. children, 42% girls) examined children’s ability to resolve disagreement among two individuals by identifying referents that integrated the perspectives, and considered the extent to which any age-related change could be explained by epistemological understanding (i.e., acknowledging that two perspectives can be right). Children’s age was positively correlated with their ability to integrate perspectives, and children performed at above-chance levels by approximately 10 years of age. Age differences in integrating perspectives were partially accounted for by epistemological understanding.  相似文献   

Novice use of qualitative versus quantitative problem solving in electrostatics     

Claude McMillan  Marc Swadener 《科学教学研究杂志》1991,28(8):661-670

Problem-solving behavior of six novice subjects attempting to solve an electrostatics problem in second-semester calculus-based college physics was observed and recorded. Five of the subjects were characterized as “A” or “B” students and one subject as a “D” student in introductory college physics. Although the A or B subjects were able to arrive at a “correct” solution to the problem, they exhibited major misconceptions about the problem situation as well as minimal qualitative understanding of the problem situation. The A or B subjects were successful in identifying, either from memory or written notes, equations relevant to electrostatics, whereas the D subject was not. The implication of this study is that current instruction in introductory calculus-based college physics and the students' previous science learnings place a premium on acquisition of correct quantitative solutions at the expense of qualitative understanding of physics problem situations.  相似文献   

The rights of children and young people under special educational needs legislation in England: an inclusive agenda?     

Neville Harris  Gail Davidge 《International Journal of Inclusive Education》2019,23(5):491-506

ABSTRACT

In this article we consider the rights of children and young people with special educational needs and disabilities in England, introduced under the Children and Families Act 2014, within the context of the wider reforms made by the Act. Drawing primarily on key informant interviews conducted as part of an ESRC project on Autonomy, Rights and Children with Special Needs: A New Paradigm? (ES/P002641/1), and making reference to the international framework of children’s and disabled persons’ rights, we present an analysis of the (mostly professional) viewpoints gathered and what they tell us about the progress towards the realisation of children and young people’s autonomy and agency in this field.  相似文献   

Characteristics of respondents who respond differently to positively and negatively worded items on rating scales   总被引：2，自引：1，他引：2  

Gail H. Weems  Anthony J. Onwuegbuzie  James B. Schreiber  Sandy J. Eggers 《Assessment & Evaluation in Higher Education》2003,28(6):587-606

Although evidence prevails that including positively and negatively worded items within the same scale can lead to differential response patterns, little is known about factors that predict how different these responses will be. Thus, three datasets were analysed to investigate the characteristics of respondents whose responses between positively and negatively worded items are most different. The three studies yielded two major findings: (i) responses to the positively worded items yielded statistically significantly higher means than did responses to the negatively worded items, and (ii) several characteristics were identified pertaining to those who tend to have the largest absolute discrepancies in responses between the two sets of items.  相似文献   

Expectancies as mediators in the differential-reward conditional discrimination performance of pigeons     

Gail B. Peterson  Ruth L. Wheeler  Gordon D. Armstrong 《Learning & behavior》1978,6(3):279-285

In a series of within-subject experiments employing a two-choice delayed conditional discrimination task, pigeons chose correctly more often when kind of correct choice and kind of reinforcer were perfectly correlated than when uncorrelated. Correct choice behavior fell to chance levels when the correlation was reversed or when it was removed by using only one kind of reinforcer. Implications for mediation theories are discussed, with the conclusion being that, although the possibility that instrumental mediators are present in this situation cannot be dismissed, the overall pattern of results indicates that classical mediators are of principal importance in this type of task.  相似文献   

A personal perspective on the needs of a distance educator     

Rod McMillan 《Distance Education》1988,9(2):281-284

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A Multidisciplinary,Team-Based Teleconsultation Approach to Enhance Child Mental Health Services in Rural Pediatrics     

Kate Margolis  Kimberly Kelsay  Ayelet Talmi  Heidi McMillan  M. Cecile Fraley  John F. Fred Thomas 《Journal of educational and psychological consultation》2018,28(3):342-367

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An unsuitable case for treatment     

Vines G 《New scientist (1971)》1995,147(1994):37-39

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Enhancement of pigeons’ conditional discrimination performance by expectancies of reinforcement and nonreinforcement     

Gail B. Peterson  Ruth L. Wheeler  Milton A. Trapold 《Learning & behavior》1980,8(1):22-30

Prior work has shown that when the separate correct responses of a conditional discrimination are followed by different reinforcing outcomes, performance is enhanced relative to that obtained under the conventional, single-reinforcer procedure. Four experiments with pigeons yielded the analogous finding when the different outcomes were reinforcement and explicit nonreinforcement. Controls indicated that the results could not be attributed to the effects of intermittent reinforcement, to possible differences in cue duration, or to a variety of potential sources of conditioned reinforcement. An interpretation in terms of expectancy learning is proposed.  相似文献   

Professors' and students' conceptualizations of the learning task in introductory physics courses     

Janet Gail Donald 《科学教学研究杂志》1993,30(8):905-918

What are students expected to learn in physics courses? Eight expert physics teachers and researchers, two from the University of Western Ontario in Canada, Cambridge University in the United Kingdom, Stanford University in the United States of America, and Monash University in Australia, described their perceptions of learning in their courses. Students from the courses were then interviewed for their perceptions of learning in physics courses. In their courses, professors focused on the development of intellectual skills, assuming that students had a specific physics vocabulary. Students, however, were aware of their own limitations and suggested that professors should take nothing for granted. Students considered that to be a good teacher, a professor should know the perspective of the students and should start at the students' level. The results suggested that the intellectual challenge of learning physics merits early explanation.  相似文献