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Jennifer J. Chen Arlene Martin Valeria Erdosi-Mehaffey 《Early Childhood Education Journal》2017,45(3):359-368
Early childhood educators worldwide all strive to improve the quality of care and education for young children through sustainable pathways. One such pathway is professional development (PD). In the United States, ongoing PD has been recognized as critical to enhancing practitioners’ professional competence. Situated within the broader context of early childhood professional development systems, this study examined the New Jersey Infant/Toddler Credential (NJITC) as a case of PD. Specifically, we evaluated the effectiveness of the NJITC as PD by investigating its process as well as impact on the participating practitioners’ professional growth and practice from multiple perspectives: written reflections from a course instructor and a childcare center director; survey reflective responses from 12 practitioners; and informal conversations with childcare center directors, course instructors, field supervisors, and practitioners. The findings revealed that having the NJITC coursework offered through an onsite PD model and supported by a state-based scholarship program provided much needed incentives to encourage participation. It also resulted in improved professional growth and practice among the participating practitioners. However, it is only to the extent that the infant/toddler practitioners continue to engage in continuous PD beyond the ITC coursework will they be able to keep themselves abreast of the state of knowledge and best practices from which to further enhance their professional competence. In light of the process and impact of the NJITC on practitioners’ acquisition of specialized knowledge, skills, and dispositions to effectively work with infants and toddlers, implications and recommendations for policy are discussed. 相似文献
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Chapman Angela Rodriguez Felicia D. Pena Carmen Hinojosa Erica Morales Lizbeth Del Bosque Valeria Tijerina Yakeline Tarawneh Constantine 《Cultural Studies of Science Education》2020,15(3):723-737
Cultural Studies of Science Education - Factors that influence the underrepresentation of females in STEM careers begin early in childhood when gender biases and stereotypes emerge. Stereotypes... 相似文献
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Valeria Lovelace Susan Scheiner Susan Dollberg Ivelisse Segui Tracey Black 《Learning, Media and Technology》1994,20(2):69-78
Since its inception, Sesame Street has modelled racial harmony; however, as a result of the rising racial unrest in the United States in 1989, we launched a four-year race relations curriculum initiative designed to be more explicit about physical and cultural differences, and to encourage friendship between people of different races and cultures. To assess children's basic knowledge and attitudes about diverse children living and playing together a variety of methods were developed, including a game 'Make a Neighborhood', to assess how living in a segregated environment influences preschoolers' understanding of race relations. The game allowed us to observe how preschoolers sort drawings of children who differ by race, clothing and hairstyle into places in the neighbourhood. Results indicated that Chinese American, African American, Puerto Rican and Crow Indian preschoolers integrated homes, schools, playgrounds, churches and stores when given drawings of children from their own groups and White children. White preschoolers integrated Chinese American and White, Puerto Rican and White and Crow Indian and White children in every structure. However, White preschoolers were significantly more likely to segregate African American and White children in the homes, schools, playgrounds, churches and stores. Based on these results, segments were produced which show White children visiting an African American friend's home. 相似文献
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Carmel Cefai Paul Downes Valeria Cavioni 《European Journal of Psychology of Education - EJPE》2016,31(2):255-274
Over the past decades, there has been a substantial increase in post-secondary education participation in most Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) and European Union countries. This increase, however, does not necessarily reflect a parallel equitable growth in post-secondary education, and early school leaving is still an issue of concern in particular regions and countries across the world. This paper presents a study on increasing participation in post-secondary education in Malta, the country with the one of the highest proportions of early school leaving in the European Union. The study was carried out in a region with one of the highest rates of early school leaving in the country, making use of a phenomenological approach as well as a resilient systems perspective to early school leaving. On the basis of students’ narratives, the study identifies a number of risk and protective factors in early school leaving and makes various suggestions on how to build more resilient systems to facilitate access to post-secondary education, particularly for students coming from low socio-economic, excluded backgrounds. 相似文献
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Giusti M Melle G Fenocchio M Mortara L Cecoli F Caorsi V Ferone D Minuto F Rasore E 《Journal of Zhejiang University. Science. B》2011,12(3):163-173
Differentiated thyroid carcinoma (DTC) generally has a favorable outcome. Thyroid disease, treatments, stress, and comorbidity
can compromise health-related quality of life (QoL) and indirectly weigh upon the outcome. From 2004 to 2008, we evaluated
QoL longitudinally in 128 DTC subjects. During scheduled examinations, subjects were asked to undergo a semi-structured psychiatric
interview and five rated inventories. The same examination was conducted in 219 subjects after surgery for benign thyroid
pathology. Low scores represent a better QoL. DTC and control subjects were similar in terms of age, male/female ratio, concomitant
psychopharmacological treatments, and frequency of psychiatric diseases. In DTC subjects, Billewicz scale (BS) scores showed
an increasing trend over time, especially among females. The ad hoc thyroid questionnaire (TQ) scores were similar in both
groups and did not change over time, but at the end of the study ad hoc TQ and BS were significantly related. Ad hoc TQ scores
were also related to age on entry to the study. In both male and female DTC subjects, Hamilton’s tests for anxiety (HAM-A),
but not for depression (HAM-D), showed an improving trend. At the end of the study, HAM-A and HAM-D scores were comparable
to those of the control group. HAM-A and HAM-D were both positively correlated with the stage of cancer and the time between
diagnosis and treatment. Only HAM-D correlated with age on entry to the study. Kellner symptom questionnaire (KSQ) item scores
were higher in DTC subjects than in controls. The change over time in the items including anxiety, somatization, depression,
and hostility was significant. Somatization and hostility were more significantly reduced in DTC females than in DTC males.
Hostility scores were significantly lower in DTC subjects than in controls at the end of the study. Somatization and depression
were significantly related to staging on diagnosis and age on entry to the study. Our study confirms a wide variation of illness
perception in DTC subjects, which is generally unrelated to the favorable clinical follow-up of the disease. Psychological
evaluation during long-term follow-up improved QoL scores, which reached the same levels noted in subjects with a history
of thyroid surgery for benign thyroid pathology. Our data indicate that special attention should be paid to QoL in older DTC
subjects and those with more severe staging on diagnosis. 相似文献
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Valeria Denisova 《华章》2011,(9)
澳大利亚有约六十多万的华人,他们生活在那里,聚居情况和语言使用情况都比较复杂.本文主要从澳大利亚华人社区的起源、发展着手,分析了澳大利亚华人社区的汉语方言使用和分布情况.为中国国内外关心此问题的人提供一定的参考. 相似文献
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Valeria Cirillo Arianna Martinelli Alessandro Nuvolari Matteo Tranchero 《Research Policy》2019,48(4):905-922
One of the most significant results of the qualitative literature on national systems of innovation (NSIs) is that different systemic arrangements (i.e. configurations of actors and institutions) can deliver similar levels of innovative performance. Using factor analysis on a novel dataset of 29 quantitative indicators of innovative activities we provide an empirical characterization of the structure of European NSIs over the last ten years. Our results cast doubt on the empirical significance of the “equifinality” of heterogeneous systemic arrangements in the context of NSI. Innovation systems show inherent complexity, which leads to a high level of complementarity among their constituent components and configuration. This result implies that successful innovation policies should be systemic, leaving little flexibility in policy design and scope. 相似文献
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Bruce Waldrip Peter Cox Craig Deed Jeffrey Dorman Debra Edwards Cathleen Farrelly Mary Keeffe Valeria Lovejoy Lucy Mow Vaughan Prain Peter Sellings Zali Yager 《Learning Environments Research》2014,17(3):355-370
This project sought to evaluate regional students’ perceptions of their readiness to learn, assessment processes, engagement, extent to which their learning is personalised and to relate these to academic efficacy, academic achievement, and student well-being. It also examined teachers’ perceptions of students’ readiness to learn, the assessment process, engagement, and the extent to which students’ learning is personalised. The sample involved students in years 7–10 from six Victorian secondary schools. An instrument Personalised Learning Environment Questionnaire (PLQ) was developed to measure students’ perceptions of the factors effecting the implementation of Personalised Learning Plans (PLPs). It employed the latest scales to assess a range of PLP indicator variables, with all scales modified for use in an Australian context, and the total number of items kept to a minimum. Only scales more sensitive to PLPs were used to minimise the length of the instrument. There were three outcome variables: academic efficacy, academic achievement, and student well-being. The PLPs were assessed through scales that assess several contributing, distinct dimensions: selfdirected learning readiness, personal achievement, goal orientation, learning environment, personalised teaching and learning initiatives, curriculum entitlement and choice, and perceptions of assessment for learning. The trail PLQ was administered to 220 students, resulting in a 19 scale questionnaire with three or four items per scale. This paper reveals good data to model fit for the majority of items and each scale had good reliability. The paper describes the analytic techniques and results, how the instrument was refined and identifies common and uncommon student perceptions based on a post hoc analysis. The main study consisted of 2,407 students from four schools in the Bendigo Education Plan. They responded to this refined 19 scale version of the PLQ that was developed from the trial PLQ. All scales had satisfactory internal consistency reliability. 相似文献
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This article explores the relationship between educational outcomes and anti-school attitudes at different levels of social organization in schools. Data were collected in St. Petersburg, Russia (104 schools, 7300 students) and analyzed using multi-level regression models that included three levels: individual, clique of friends and school. A clique is defined as a tight group of friends in a school class; we used social network analysis software Kliquefinder for clique identification. We demonstrate that friends’ attitudes are strongly related to the educational outcomes of a student (net of person’s individual attitudes and socio-demographic characteristics). In contrast, school-level effects disappear in the multi-level model when individual characteristics are included. The results of the study clearly demonstrate that the socio-economic and curricular differentiation of schools does not always lead to the polarization of ‘school academic cultures’. A school social environment is sufficiently heterogeneous, and different value systems in small peer groups may coexist. 相似文献