她在皱眉头吗?

对蒙娜丽莎画像的最新研究得知:蒙娜丽莎的眼睛根本没有微笑,当然也没有露出悲哀神情,听到这个消息诗人和歌曲作家都很扫兴。通过画像看出,这两种情绪都是嘴在起作用。类似研究可以帮助查清其他情绪特征,或测定出人们大脑视觉方面的缺陷,如无法辨别脸部表情等。     

The Home School Knowledge Exchange Project: linking home and school to improve children's literacy

The Government is urging teachers to engage more closely with families and is promoting the concept of the ‘extended’ school. This article reports on the literacy strand of the Home School Knowledge Exchange (HSKE) project, directed by Professor Martin Hughes at the University of Bristol. A selection of literacy activities developed during this project is discussed – activities that enabled teachers and parents to share their knowledge about children in order to enhance their learning. These included ‘school‐to‐home’ activities where the direction of knowledge was primarily from teachers to families and ‘home‐to‐school’ activities where families' knowledge of children impacted on school learning. Practical aspects of planning and conducting home–school knowledge exchange activities are discussed, and challenges are explored. The approaches presented in this article provide examples that could be considered and adapted by schools interested in extending their provision for families. This article draws on the recently published Improving Primary Literacy: Linking Home and School ( Feiler et al., 2007 ).     

EFFECTS OF “GAME” VERSUS “TEST” TASK DEFINITION FOR THIRD GRADE CHILDREN ON THREE SUBTESTS OF THE WECHSLER INTELLIGENCE SCALE FOR CHILDREN1

Forty-six male and forty-six female third grade children were assigned to one of two experimental conditions. In one condition Ss were told that they were going to take several tests and were than administered three subtests from the nonverbal battery of the WISC. In the second condition Ss were told that they were going to play several games and were than administered the same three subtests. An analysis of variance applied to the resulting summed scores revealed one significant main effect, task definition (p < .01).     

BOOK REVIEWS

Books Reviewed in this Article: Statistics For Biologists. School Census and Resource Pack. Statistics Concepts and Controversies. A Question in Dispute. The Design of Experiments: Statistical principles of practical application.     

Multicultural Counselor Training: Students' Perceptions of Helpful and Hindering Events

Counselor trainees perceptions during a multicultural counseling course highlighted the importance of experiential activities and ethnically diverse speakers to the development of awareness and knowledge.     

Ethnicity and Training Marital and Family Therapists

The author reviews ethnicity in the family therapy training literature. She describes an original exercise that teaches counselors in training the significance of ethnicity to family functioning.