Modeling Secondary Students’ Genetics Learning in a Game-Based Environment: Integrating the Expectancy-Value Theory of Achievement Motivation and Flow Theory

Journal of Science Education and Technology - This study examined students’ genetics learning in a game-based environment by exploring the connections between the expectancy-value theory of...     

Inconsistencies in regulation: the continuing story of Early Childhood Services

The inconsistencies of regulation and inspection in UK early childhood services are examined. The rationale and regulatory requirements for daycare put forward by the Department of Health are compared with those currently operating within the Department for Education and Employment for schools and nursery education. The policy frameworks within the two departments are based on different assumptions about practice and lead to major inconsistencies of delivery. A more coherent policy is needed to resolve these inconsistencies.     

Ethics courses: Their impact on the values and ethical decisions of criminal justice students

Numerous articles and books advocate the importance of ethics as an essential component of a criminal justice curriculum. While there are several approaches suggested, one of the most popular methods of assuring coverage of this important topic is to add an ethics course to the curriculum either as a required or an elective course. Teaching students ethical theories, principles and providing them with the opportunity to discuss discipline specific ethics problems is thought to help contribute to the establishment of ethical practitioners.

The purpose of this research is to examine the impact of a semester long criminal justice ethics course on the students' value orientations, and their perceptions of both the seriousness of ethical violations and their likelihood of engaging in such behaviors. Our findings are consistent with the results of researchers evaluating ethics courses in other disciplines. Implications for criminal justice ethics education are discussed.     

Assessing attitude towards religion: the Astley–Francis Scale of Attitude towards Theistic Faith

This study builds on the research tradition modelled by the Francis Scale of Attitude towards Christianity, the Katz–Francis Scale of Attitude towards Judaism, the Sahin–Francis Scale of Attitude towards Islam and the Santosh–Francis Scale of Attitude towards Hinduism to propose a generic instrument concerned with attitudes towards theistic faith. The scale properties of this new instrument, established among a sample of 284 (200 female and 84 male) 16–18-year-old students, commend it for use in future research.     

The role of rhythm in the correction of stammering

PIONEER WOMEN ORATORS. By Lillian O'Connor. New York: Columbia University Press, 1954; pp. xvii+264. $3.75.

A HISTORY OF THE SOUTHERN CONFEDERACY. By Clement Eaton. New York: The Macmillan Company, 1954; pp. ix+335. $5.50.

LINCOLN'S IMAGERY: A STUDY IN WORD POWER. By Theodore C. Blegen. La Crosse, Wisconsin: Sumac Press, 1954; pp. 32. $2.00.

THE ANTISLAVERY ORIGINS OF THE FOURTEENTH AMENDMENT. By Jacobus ten‐Broek. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1951; pp. 232. $3.00.

ELIHU ROOT AND THE CONSERVATIVE TRADITION. By Richard W. Leopold. Boston: Little, Brown and Co., 1954; pp. x+222. $3.00.

THE MAN BEHIND ROOSEVELT, THE STORY OF LOUIS McHENRY HOWE. By Lela Stiles. Cleveland: The World Publishing Company, 1954; x+311. $4.75.

FRANKLIN D. ROOSEVELT: THE ORDEAL. By Frank Freidel. Boston: Little, Brown and Company, 1954; pp. 320. $6.00.

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SAMUEL JOHNSON'S PARLIAMENTARY REPORTING: DEBATES IN THE SENATE OF LILLIPUT. By Benjamin Beard Hoover. (University of California Publications, English Studies: VII). Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press, 1953; pp. xi+227. Cloth, $2.50; paper, $1.75.

SAVANNAH'S PIONEER THEATRE FROM ITS ORIGINS TO 1810. By J. Max Patrick. Athens: The University of Georgia Press, 1953; pp. viii+94. $1.75.

TWINS OF GENIUS. By Guy A. Cardwell. East Lansing, Michigan: Michigan State College Press, 1953; pp. iii+134. $2.50.

THE THEATRE IN THE FIFTIES. By George Jean Nathan. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1953; pp. viii+298. $4.50.

THEATRE, ‘53. Edited by John Chapman. New York: Random House, 1953; pp. 564. $5.00.

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AN INTRODUCTION TO GENERAL AMERICAN PHONETICS. By Charles Van Riper and Dorothy Edna Smith. New York: Harper and Brothers, 1954: pp. vi+152. $2.50.

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PLANNED PREACHING. By George Miles Gibson. Philadelphia: The Westminster Press, 1954; pp. 140. $2.50.

PREACHING. By Walter Russell Bowie. Nashville: Abingdon Press, 1954; pp. 217. $2.75.

Edmund H. Linn, Andover Newton Theological School

THE PSYCHOLOGY OF PERSONALITY. By Bernard Notcutt. New York: Philosophical Library, 1953; pp. 255. $4.75.     

Telephone Interviewing Practices within Academic Libraries

This study explores the use of telephone interviews within academic libraries by surveying the 112 academic institutional members of the Association of Research Libraries to identify how telephone interviews are utilized. By comparing the literature to the research results, the authors conclude with best practices for telephone interviews.     

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