A method for transcribing signed and spoken language

Transcribing sign communication used simultaneously with spoken English presents investigators with a unique problem: the singular quality of the bimodal communicative interactions cannot be accurately depicted using accepted conventions for recording either spoken or signed language samples. This article proposes guidelines for transcribing such data. The need for guidelines arose during an earlier study of the language development of a hearing child of deaf parents. To meet the immediate needs of that study, rules and conventions from previous studies were combined with newly generated ones, resulting in the guidelines proposed in this article. The guidelines can be applied to data in which intermodal linguistic influence is suspected.     

The State of NCME: Remembering the Past, Looking to the Future

What are the roots of NCME? What were our initial goals and how well have we attained them? Are we drifting away from our practitioner orientation? What should be our policy on important matters in educational practice and our role in sociopolitical issues in educational measurement?     

武术套路的传统美学阐释

用传统美学的审美观点,分析了武术套路演练中传统美学与艺术表现的关系和深刻内涵.认为,武术套路的传统美学深受中国传统哲学思想的影响,套路演练的美学艺术表在于把握好动态中的“和谐”；演练客体“形”与“神”的“和谐”；演练客体与观赏主本的“和谐”。     

Investigation of Poor Academic Achievement in Children with Duchenne Muscular Dystrophy

Duchenne Muscular Dystrophy (DMD) is a neurogenetic developmental disorder that presents with progressive muscular weakness. It is caused by a mutation in a gene that results in the absence of specific products that normally localize to muscle cells and the central nervous system (CNS). The majority of affected individuals have IQs within the normal range, generally with lower verbal than performance IQ scores. Prior work has demonstrated selective deficits on tests of verbal span and immediate memory. For the current study, 26 boys with DMD (and normal intellectual function) and their unaffected siblings were evaluated. Paired comparisons demonstrated that the children with DMD had significantly poorer academic achievement scores than their siblings, even though their vocabulary levels and home and educational environments were comparable. Children with DMD also had more behavioral concerns, physical disabilities, and poorer verbal memory spans. Linear regression indicated that behavioral concerns, executive function, and physical disability did not contribute substantially to academic performance, whereas performance on verbal span did. DMD presents with a selective developmental aberration in verbal span that has wide‐ranging consequences on learning skills.     

我国体育彩票发行回顾与发展对策研究

通过访谈25名技能表现类项群的杰出运动员,总结出此项群运动员流畅心理状态的九个诱发因素,按重要性依次排序:适宜的身体准备、赛前和赛中的计划准备、自信心和积极的态度、赛前达到适宜的唤醒水平、良好的比赛动机、赛中感觉好、集中注意力、适宜的比赛情境、教练和团队的配合。其中,排序前5个的是主要诱发因素。流畅心理状态可控性的调查结果显示:75%的运动员认为流畅状态是可以控制的,在69条诱发因素的原始条目中,能够被控制的条目占总数的73.3%,通过赛前和赛中的心理调控帮助运动员进入并保持流畅状态是完全可行的。教练员和运动心理学研究者可以依据表现类项群9个诱发因素制定相应的心理训练方案。     

Assessing School Readiness: Validity and Bias in Preschool and Kindergarten Teachers' Ratings

As a part of efforts to evaluate and monitor the increasing public investment in early childhood education, teachers are being asked to assess children's school readiness. In this study, preschool teachers and kindergarten teachers rated children's skills in three areas (kindergarten readiness, academic skills, and communication skills), and these ratings were compared with direct assessments of the children's skills. Ratings by both groups of teachers tended to be more highly related to basic skills, such as counting and number naming, than to abilities such as solving applied problems and using expressive and receptive vocabulary. Preschool teachers' ratings had a lower association with children's observed skills and abilities than kindergarten teachers' ratings. Ratings of children attending Head Start were systematically inflated, but this relationship was mediated to a significant extent by the teachers' levels of education. More educated teachers rated children in a manner consistent with the children's directly assessed skills. Implications of these findings for informing future efforts to assess school readiness by using teacher ratings are discussed.     

电动跑台对提高竞走运动员步频的研究

采用竞走运动员无氧阈值速度的测定与应用方法 ,分别对运动员进行 3个阶段逐级提高速度的跑台竞走实验 ,经过统计学处理和实际比赛的对比 ,结果表明 :利用电动跑台进行辅助训练 ,可以加快发展竞走运动员的动作速率 ,有效提高竞走运动员的步频 ,创造优异成绩。     

影响武术套路裁判执法能力因素研究

采用问卷调查、文献资料、数理统计等研究方法，分析了影响武术套路裁判执法能力的主要因素——裁判员业务水平、外界干扰和规则尚不完善，并对其主要致因进行了探究。