Neighborhood and family influences on educational attainment: results from the Ontario child health study follow-up 2001

This study uses multilevel models to examine longitudinal associations between contextual influences (neighborhood and family) assessed in 1983 in a cohort of 2,355 children, 4-16 years of age, and educational attainment in 2001. Variation in educational attainment in 2001 attributable to between-neighborhood and between-family differences was 8.17% and 36.88%, respectively. The final model explained 33.64% of the variance in educational attainment, with unique variances of 14.53% for neighborhood and family-level variables combined versus 10.94% for child-level variables. Among the neighborhood and family-level variables, indicators of status (5.29%) versus parental capacity/family process (4.03%) made comparable predictions to attainment while children from economically disadvantaged families did not benefit educationally from living in more affluent areas.     

Adapting Teaching to Match Learning Styles

The teaching of English as a foreign language （TEFL） experienced a major methodological shift in the1970s and 80s, with a move away from the Grammar-Translation （G-T） and Audio-lingual Approaches, which had been so popular throughout the 1950s and 60s, towards Communicative Language Teaching （CLT） and other humanistic approaches.     

“I Have Seen the Opportunities That Science Brings”: Encouraging Girls to Persist in Science

Women are underrepresented in science careers. To overcome this, it is important to explore how to encourage girls to continue to study science. This intervention involved girls aged 12–14 attending interactive science sessions at a university. Girls completed questionnaires before and after the session. Through the intervention, girls became more likely to believe they could succeed in science and saw it as both more useful and interesting. However, the timing of this intervention appeared to be too late. Many girls had already decided on a career and stated that they would be unlikely to continue to study science if it was not needed in their chosen career.     

体力活动与多发性硬化症研究的10大问题

摘要：全世界约有250万人患有多发硬化症（MS）,并且发病率有增加趋势。MS是一种中枢神经系统疾病,与多种症状和功能障碍相关。目前一线治疗方法对晚期患者基本无效。越来越多的证据表明体力活动（PA）有益于MS患者,但是大多数MS患者存在PA不足和静坐少动行为。因此,我们提出了10个研究问题,旨在指导今后有关PA和MS的研究：1）PA是否是一种MS的缓解性治疗行为？2）PA对MS患者有哪些益处？3）什么样的PA处方最适合MS患者？4）MS患者在PA中有哪些安全问题？5）哪些MS患者可以通过PA获得益处？6）哪些变量可以用来解释PA对MS患者的作用？7）有效促进 MS患者进行PA的行为干预方法是什么？8）我们如何将研究成果用于实际临床工作中？9）静坐少动行为对MS患者有什么影响？10）评价MS患者PA的最佳方法是什么？这些问题对于帮助我们了解PAPA对MS患者长期和短期的效果,开发新方法促进和保持MS患者的PA至关重要,解决这些问题可以大大改善MS患者的生活质量。     

Täuschungshandlungen im Sport

Experimental studies on the head fake in basketball showed that participant’s responses in a pass direction identification task were delayed for incongruent compared to congruent directions of the players gaze and pass (so-called head fake effect). In these studies on the head fake effect, static pictures were presented and responses on the pass direction were given with a simple key press. The present study examines whether an increase in the response complexity affects the head fake effect and whether it can also be transferred to the presentation of dynamic stimuli. In experiment 1, participants were presented with static pictures of a basketball player who passes a ball to the left or to the right. The player’s gaze direction was either oriented in the direction of the intended pass or in the opposite direction (i.?e., a head fake). The participants were asked to respond as quickly as possible to the pass direction and to ignore the gaze direction. Participants gave responses by pressing a key (simple response) or by executing a quasirealistic defense movement (complex response). Response complexity was blocked. In experiment 2, videos replaced the static stimuli. The responses were only given with the complex, full body movement. Results show that the head fake effect is independent of response complexity and that it can also be found when presenting dynamic stimuli.