Gender and textbooks: Women writers of elementary readers, 1880–1950

Between 1880 and 1950, the role of women as authors of elementary readers flowered and faded. From 1880 to 1915, female authorship dominated. Over the next fifteen years female authorship withstood the challenge of the scientific movement in education. Women’s role as solo authors declined, however, during the Depression, World War II and the postwar years. These changes are explained by the deteriorating environment for female professionalism, changes in the concept of reading expertise, the expanded role of publishers in textbook development, and the differences between men and women in opportunities for graduate study. E. Jennifer is Monaghan a professor in the Department of Educational Services, Brooklyn College of the City University of New York. She is the founder of the History of Reading Special Interest Group of the International Reading Association and author ofA Common Heritage: Noah Webster’s Blue-Back Speller.     

Standard Error of Measurement

The standard error of measurement (SEM) is the standard deviation of errors of measurement that are associated with test scores from a particular group of examinees. When used to calculate confidence bands around obtained test scores, it can be helpful in expressing the unreliability of individual test scores in an understandable way. Score bands can also be used to interpret intraindividual and interindividual score differences. Interpreters should be wary of over-interpretation when using approximations for correctly calculated score bands. It is recommended that SEMs at various score levels be used in calculating score bands rather than a single SEM value.     

The Concept of Inclusive Education: Teacher Training and Acquisition of English Language in the Hearing Impaired

Three languages are widely used in schools in Kenya – English, Kiswahili and Kenya Sign Language. Many pupils with hearing impairments are taught separately from the mainstream, in specialist settings. The fact that most of the formal teaching, assessment and examination processes in Kenyan schools rely upon spoken and written English compounds the separation of these pupils from the mainstream of education and, potentially, from the mainstream of society. In this article, Gertrude Wamae, graduate assistant in the Department of English and Linguistics at Kenyatta University, and Rachael Kang'ethe-Kamau, lecturer in the Department of Special Education at Kenyatta University, discuss the relationships between language, hearing impairment and inclusion in the Kenyan context. The article suggests that the use of signed exact English would enhance opportunities for inclusion for those with hearing impairments and that programmes of teacher training need to take account of persuasive research in this area. The article closes with a plea for further research, carried out collaboratively by educationalists, linguists, teacher trainers and practitioners, to develop policies and practices suited to more inclusive futures. The article is based on a paper presented to the International Conference on Inclusive Education run by Maseno University in September 2002.     

International Early Childhood Resources from Educational Research Abstracts (ERA)

The aim was to examine cross-cultural variation in linguistic responsiveness to young children in 10 English-speaking mother–child dyads and 10 Italian-speaking mother– child dyads. All 20 children were late talkers who possessed delays in expressive vocabulary development but age-appropriate cognitive and receptive language skills. Dyads were filmed in 15 minute free play contexts, which were transcribed and coded for measures of maternal linguistic input (e.g. rate, MLU, labels, expansions) and child language productivity (e.g. utterances, different words used). The results revealed that the Italian mothers used more utterances, spoke more quickly and used a more diverse vocabulary than the Canadian mothers. The Italian children mirrored their mothers and also used more utterances and a more diverse vocabulary than the Canadian children. Mothers in both groups used similar percentages of responsive labels and expansions. However, Italian mothers responded to fewer of their children's vocalisations, using a smaller percentage of imitations and interpretations than the Canadian mothers. Correlations between maternal input and children's language productivity revealed that contingent language measures (e.g. imitations, interpretations, expansions) were related to high levels of productivity in children in both cultural groups. The results support the use of language interventions based on increasing maternal responsiveness for these children at the one-word stage of language development. They also point to differences that may be culturally based. For example, Italian mothers use faster rates of interaction and appear to have higher expectations for their children's verbal participation in interaction. This is reflected in higher rates of language production from their children, even though children in both cultural groups have similar vocabulary sizes.     

Der Entwurf strukturierter rollenbasierter Zugriffskontrollmodelle

Zusammenfassung. In diesem Beitrag wird ein formaler Ansatz zur Ableitung von Zugriffsrechten auf der Basis eines formalen Organisationsmodells vorgestellt. Hierzu wird der Ansatz der rollenbasierten Zugriffskontrolle (engl. Role-Based Access Control, kurz RBAC) um die M?glichkeit erweitert, Aufbauorganisationen zu modellieren. Der Vorteil gegenüber rollenbasierten Ans?tzen mit einfachen Rollenhierarchien ist die klare Struktur, die einem Zugriffskontrollmodell durch die Organisationsform aufgepr?gt wird. Des Weiteren k?nnen organisatorische Regelungen, wie z.B. Urlaubsvertretung oder Weisungsbefugnis, direkt im Modell hinterlegt werden. Aufwendig zu pflegende und h?ufig inkonsistente Rollenkataloge werden obsolet. Sicherheitsstrategien mit unpr?zisen Vorgaben lassen sich mittels der vorgestellten Technik der sog. `Kompetenzerweiterung' umsetzen. Das zugrundeliegende Paradigma des vorgestellten Ansatzes unterscheidet sich stark von anderen Ans?tzen mit statischer Autorisation. Nutzer k?nnen sich Zugriffsrechte in fest definierten Grenzen selbstverantwortlich zuteilen, wobei jedoch eine nachtr?gliche Kontrolle stark vereinfacht und damit praktikabel wird. Eingegangen am 22. Februar 2001 / Angenommen am 22. Mai 2001     

海南省大学男生体质的现状与对策

在 2 0 0 0年学生体质调研的基础上 ,对海南省 19～ 2 2岁大学男生身体形态、机能、素质等指标进行统计处理 ,并对其各项指标进行纵横向比较研究 ,针对其体质现状提出了在今后体育教学改革中应注意的问题