Learning From Video: A Meta-Analysis of the Video Deficit in Children Ages 0 to 6 Years

Young children often learn less from video than face-to-face presentations. Meta-regression models were used to examine the average size of this difference (video deficit) and investigate moderators. An average deficit of about half of a standard deviation was reported across 122 independent effect sizes from 59 reports, involving children ages 0–6 years. Moderator analyses suggested (a) the deficit decreased with age, (b) object retrieval studies showed larger deficits than other domains, and (c) there was no difference between studies using live versus prerecorded video. Results are consistent with a multiple-mechanism explanation for the deficit. However, the analyses highlighted potential quality and publication bias issues that may have resulted in overestimation of the effect and should be addressed by future researchers.     

Math Fluency: Accuracy Versus Speed in Preoperational and Concrete Operational First and Second Grade Children

Cognitive abilities as well as math fluency play an important role in mathematical skills. Understanding the relationship between cognitive abilities and mathematical skills is imperative to teaching effective arithmetic skills. The present study aimed to investigate the relationship between cognitive ability and math fluency with 38 first and second grade elementary aged children. Results demonstrate that preoperational children lacked the speed of concrete operational children but achieved comparable levels of accuracy when completing arithmetic problems.     

流行音乐与中学教材音乐的碰撞

流行作为一种文化现象将长期存在。因此,提高学生的审美能力是非常关键的。当审美能力提高到一定程度以后,就会形成相应的免疫力。对流行歌曲进行鉴别,能吸取精华去其糟粕比较是最好的教学手段。音乐教师应把词曲俱佳的优秀作品和低俗的毫无价值的作品放在一起,和学生共同探讨辨别,并有计划、有步骤地加强学生的基础音乐教育,让学生掌握歌曲的演唱方法和欣赏音乐所具有的知识,多让学生接触一些思想性和艺术性较高的音乐作品,以此来荡涤他们的心灵,使他们的情感通过优秀的作品得到升华,从而提高学生的欣赏水平和音乐鉴赏能力。     

三分量开边界Bariev模型的基本对易关系式及多粒子态波函数

运用三分量开边界Bariev模型的monodromy矩阵,T,T-1,U-,作用到真空态上的值、Yang-Baxter关系及反射方程,给出了该模型的基本对易关系式,并给出了模型的递推的多粒子态波函数,从而为进一步运用嵌套的代数Bethe ansatz方法求解该模型的多粒子解Betheansatz方程以及系统的能谱奠定了基础。     

幼儿园课程整合的实质及其策略

随着幼儿园课程研究的深入,人们越来越认识到幼儿园课程应当突破学科的界限,走向整合。整合课程的基础是整合的教育观,整合的教育观应该建立在整合的发展观基础之上。幼儿园课程的整合不仅仅体现在课程内容组织形式的整合上,更体现在教育者在设计和组织幼儿活动时要始终树立整合的观念,一方面,用学科之间的交叉和融合的眼光来考察和处理幼儿园课程涉及的学科领域内容;另一方面,关注儿童的整体发展,儿童生活的全过程,其最高境界是实现教育目标、课程内容、教育方式等各要素、各层面、各级水平的优化组合,获得综合性教育效果。     

Being highly internationalised strengthens your reputation: an empirical investigation of top higher education institutions

In an educational context characterised by globalisation, reputation constitutes a crucial issue for today’s higher education institutions. Internationalisation of higher education is often seen as a potential response to globalisation and, consequently, higher education has become increasingly internationalised during the past decade. In this paper, we investigate the relationship between internationalisation and reputation in top higher education institutions. Results reveal that internationalisation positively influences a university’s reputation but also moderates the relationship between the institution’s reputation and its institutional performance with regard to research quality, teaching quality and graduate employability.     

PPBS in higher education planning and management: Part I,an overview

Higher education in the United States and elsewhere is beset by crises: crises of public confidence, questions of continuing relevance, doubts about continuing the emphasis on doctoral instruction, and a very real financial crisis. In response, governing boards and governmental agencies are devoting increasing attention to the management of higher education. Part of this response has been a heightened interest in formal planning-programming-budgeting-systems (PPBS); in fact, several states have legislated the adoption of PPBS for higher educational planning and decision making. Similar interest has been evidenced in other countries. Therefore, it is an appropriate time to reconsider the nature and role of PPBS and its potential impact on higher education. This paper describes the salient characteristics of PPBS and traces the development of PPBS and related analytical techniques in governmental agencies and institutions of higher education. A second paper will illustrate both the concepts and the implementation of PPBS by a detailed exposition of the University of California's experience with PPBS. Finally, in a third paper we suggest an alternative view of policy analysis for educational planning which is a departure from traditional PPBS. We conclude with general observations and specific recommendations to educational managers seeking to improve their resource allocation procedures.