Teachers’ Thoughts on Teaching Reading: An Investigation of Early Childhood Teachers’ Perceptions of Literacy Acquisition     

Rebecca M. Giles  Karyn Tunks 《Early Childhood Education Journal》2015,43(6):523-530

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Writing Dinosaur Large and Mosquito Small: Prephonological Spellers’ Use of Semantic Information     

Lan Zhang  Rebecca Treiman 《Scientific Studies of Reading》2015,19(6):434-445

One influential theory of literacy development, the constructivist perspective, claims that young children believe that writing represents meaning directly and that the appearance of a written word should reflect characteristics of its referent. There has not been strong evidence supporting this idea, however. Circumventing several methodological concerns with previous studies, we examined written spellings of young children who did not yet use letters to represent the sounds of words, that is, prephonological spellers. We identified 38 prephonological spellers (M age = 4 years, 2 months) and measured the area of their writing productions. Prephonological spellers made significantly larger productions for words representing large objects than those representing small objects. This effect held true after controlling for the influences of other variables, including size of writing on previous trials and order of trial in a session. Our results suggest that young children sometimes use drawing-like features to communicate the meaning of words when writing.  相似文献   

Education policy mobility: reimagining sustainability in neoliberal times     

Marcia McKenzie  Andrew Bieler  Rebecca McNeil 《Environmental Education Research》2015,21(3):319-337

This paper is concerned with the twinning of sustainability with priorities of economic neoliberalization in education, and in particular via the mobility or diffusion of education policy. We discuss the literature on policy mobility as well as overview concerns regarding neoliberalism and education. The paper brings these analyses to bear in considering the uptake of sustainability in education policy. We ask to what extent sustainability as a vehicular idea may be twinning with processes of neoliberalization in education policy in ways that may undermine aspirations of, and action on, environmental sustainability. Toward the end of the paper, we draw on data from an empirical study to help elucidate how the analytic frames of policy mobility can inform our analyses of the potential concerns and possibilities of sustainability as a vehicular idea. In particular, we investigate how sustainability and related language have been adopted in the policies of Canadian post-secondary education institutions over time. The paper closes by suggesting the potential implications of the proceeding analyses for policymakers, practitioners, and researchers concerned with sustainability in education policy.  相似文献   

Erratum to: Applying cognitive science principles to improve retention of science vocabulary     

Rebecca Shore  Jenna Ray  Paula Goolkasian 《Learning Environments Research》2015,18(2):313-313

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Instructional expenditures and student achievement: a multiyear statewide analysis     

Maureen Cullen  Barbara Polnick  Rebecca Robles-Piña  John R. Slate 《Educational Research for Policy and Practice》2015,14(2):93-117

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Intimate partner violence during infancy and cognitive outcomes in middle childhood: Results from an Australian community-based mother and child cohort study     

Priscilla Savopoulos  Stephanie Brown  Peter J. Anderson  Deirdre Gartland  Christina Bryant  Rebecca Giallo 《Child development》2022,93(4):e396-e411

The cognitive functioning of children who experience intimate partner violence (IPV) has received less attention than their emotional-behavioral outcomes. Drawing upon data from 615 (48.4% female) 10-year-old Australian-born children and their mothers (9.6% of mothers born in non-English speaking countries) participating in a community-based longitudinal study between 2004 and 2016, this study examined the associations between IPV in infancy and cognition in middle childhood (at age 10). Results showed that IPV in the first 12 months of life was associated with lower general cognitive ability and poorer executive attention but not working memory skills. IPV in middle childhood (in the 10th year postpartum) was not associated with cognition. This study provides evidence for the long-term impact of early life exposure to IPV on children's cognition, and points to the importance of early intervention to optimize development.  相似文献   

You escaped! How did you learn during gameplay?     

Alice Veldkamp  Johanna Rebecca Niese  Martijn Heuvelmans  Marie-Christine P. J. Knippels  Wouter R. van Joolingen 《British journal of educational technology : journal of the Council for Educational Technology》2022,53(5):1430-1458

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Professional development to support principals' vision of science instruction: Building from their prior experiences to support the science practices     

Katherine L. McNeill  Rebecca Lowenhaupt  Kevin Cherbow  Benjamin R. Lowell 《科学教学研究杂志》2022,59(1):3-29

The implementation of science reform must be viewed as a systems-level problem and not just focus on resources for teachers and students. High-capacity instructional leadership is essential for supporting classroom science instruction. Recent reform efforts include a shift from learning about science facts to figuring out scientific phenomena in which students use science practices as they build and apply disciplinary core ideas. We report findings from a research study on professional development (PD) to support instructional leaders' learning about the science practices. After participating in the PD, the instructional leaders' familiarity with and leadership content knowledge of the science practices significantly improved. Initially, principals used their understandings from other disciplines and content neutral visions of classrooms to make sense of science instruction. For example, they initially used their understandings of models and argument from ELA and math to make sense of science classroom instruction. Furthermore, some principals focused on content neutral strategies, like a clear objective. Over the course of the PD workshops, principals took up the language of the science practices in more nuanced and sophisticated ways. Principals' use of the language of the science practices became more frequent and shifted from identifying or defining them to considering quality and implementation in science classrooms. As we design tools to support science, we need to consider instructional leaders as important stakeholders and develop resources to specifically meet their needs. If the science feels too unfamiliar or intimidating, principals may avoid or reframe science reform efforts. Consequently, it is important to leverage instructional leaders' resources from other disciplines and content neutral strategies as bridges for building understanding in science. We argue that the science practices are one potential lever to engage in this work and shift instructional leaders' understandings of science instruction.  相似文献   

The impact of the first COVID-19 lockdown in the UK for doctoral and early career researchers     

Jackman  Patricia C.  Sanderson  Rebecca  Haughey  Tandy J.  Brett  Caroline E.  White  Naomi  Zile  Amy  Tyrrell  Katie  Byrom  Nicola C. 《Higher Education》2022,84(4):705-722

Higher Education - Doctoral researchers and early career researchers (ECRs) are crucial to producing scientific advancements and represent the future of academic leadership. Their research...  相似文献   

You've Been Warned: Does Information About Pitfalls of Technological Toys Affect Caregiver Behavior?     

Brenna Hassinger-Das  Rebecca A. Dore  Jennifer M. Zosh 《Mind, Brain, and Education》2023,17(1):29-42

Although the presence of toys in childhood has remained steady for decades, the types of toys that fill children's toy boxes have changed, especially over the last 10–15 years. Many of today's toys are marked by technological enhancements, from a shape sorter driven by a singing bear to robotic plastic animals designed to match a toddler's favorite television show. Although examining the effects of these changes is still an unexplored area, research to date suggests that there may be costs to the quality of caregiver–child interaction when using these toys together. This leads to two possibilities: (1) the design of the enhancements themselves hurt interactions; or (2) these toys can still be beneficial to interactions, but caregivers simply need to be aware of the potential pitfalls. In this study, we explore whether providing caregivers with a subtle cue about the potential negative impacts of technological toys on caregiver–child interaction affects their behavior.  相似文献