The impact of collaborative online reading on summarizing skills

The aim of this study was to determine whether, as a result of collaborative-online reading of a chapter from a book of an academic nature, the quality of the collaborative summary that the readers would write would be higher than that written by readers who would both read the same chapter and write a summary in a face-to-face setting. In this study we examined the difference between the summaries written by participants from two groups, each group was divided into subgroups of 3 participants who had read collaboratively a chapter of a book, and collaborated on writing a summary. The participants of the experimental group read the chapter as it appeared in a website for collaborative reading built especially for this study and the participants were asked to summarize the chapter on a shared online digital document. The participants of the control group were asked to read the chapter face-to-face and to collaboratively summarize it in hand writing. The quality of the summaries was evaluated with a tool developed by Rivard (2001). This tool was developed to measure the quality of the summaries. In our study the main and secondary ideas that were supposed to be included in the participants’ summaries were identified by three literature teachers using ten different criteria and the summaries were analyzed by two other judges based on these criteria. The findings indicated that there were significant differences in the majority of the writing indicators being measured with the tool. The findings indicated that collaborative-online reading and writing produce a summary of a higher quality than one read and hand written collaboratively face-to-face.     

Social Work Intervention with White Collared Employees and Their Families

This investigation presents a framework for understanding and also to test the efficacy of Social Work intervention on the well being of the white collared employee (industrial employee) and his/her family. A comprehensive and intensive personal- family exploration was done to uncover the relatedness of seemingly disparate areas of the clients lives. A total of 80 executives (industrial employees) served as subjects. A baseline assessment was done using structured, standardized interview-schedules/questionnaires. The results of the study can be enumerated as follows: After the Social Work intervention, the executives in occupational profile, there were significant changes in Role perception, overload, role conflict, low status and poor peer relations. In coping strategies there was significant improvement in sub-scales like problem solving and unproductive coping. Significant reduction was noticed in their proneness to heart disease, depression, inadequate mental mastery, and perceived ill health. There was significant improvement in their family group support, and in their expressiveness, achievement, orientation, active-recreational and organizational characteristics.     

Parents of Traditionally Aged Community College Students: Communications and Choice

Five suburban community colleges in a metropolitan area collaborated on a survey to parents of high school graduates of the class of 2002 who attended the colleges in fall 2002. The study was undertaken to learn more about parents roles in their students selection of community colleges, to give insights and information about this important community college constituency, and to assist community colleges to shape more effective ways to foster positive and supportive opinions among parents of potential students. Parents want the community college to provide students with credits and grade point averages enabling transfer, overestimate their students academic skills as measured by course placement tests, engaged in a number of college-choice activities, and indicate that factors associated with lifestyle and money were major reasons for selecting the community college. Associations between parents social capital and perceptions of their students academic abilities were found for a number of dependent variables examined. The study also revealed important differences in how participating institutions record and calculate key measures such as credits earned and grade point averages.     

我校撑竿跳高运动员的训练

总结我校两届学生撑竿跳高训练的经验,对于初次接触撑竿跳高运动且经短时间训练就参加比赛的运动员,如何进行训练更能适应省大运会比赛的要求,并取得较好成绩进行了有益的尝试。     

浅析教育学院学报如何办出特色

教育学院学报如何能办出特色?一、要探讨教育学院的办学规律;二、围绕教育学院的办学规律加强选题策划和栏目设计;三、学报编辑要强化特色意识.     

找准位置整体优化办出特色--地方高等财经院校新经济学专业培养方案研究

根据1998年7月教育部新修订的《普通高校本科专业介绍》中对新经济学专业培养目标的要求，地方财经院校在人才培养目标和模式上应找准位置，合理设计课程体系，办出特色，以培养出具 有宽厚基础知识、创新能力和较高综合互质的适应新世纪需要的合格人才。     

班主任专业制度建设的校本实践

班主任专业制度建设可以确立班主任专业地位，维护班主任合法权益，优化班主任的教育行为，引领班主任专业发展。南通高等师范学校开展以建立职级制度、完善选用制度、落实培训制度为主要内容的班主任专业制度建设的校本实践研究，取得了很好效果。班主任专业制度建设需要加强对警主任工作的领导，强化对班主任工作的管理，严格对班主任工作的考核。     

From natural numbers to numbers and curves in nature —I

The interconnection between number theory, algebra, geometry and calculus is shown through Fibonacci sequence, golden section and logarithmic spiral. In this two-part article, we discuss how simple growth models based on these entities may be used to explain numbers and curves abundantly found in nature