A venture in industrial education

Early Conceptions and Tests of Intelligence. By Joseph Peterson, Professor of Psychology at George Peabody College for Teachers. Yonkers‐on‐the‐Hudson, N. Y.: World Book Co., 1925. Price, $2.16.

Creative Youth. By Hughes Mearns. Garden City: Doubleday, Page &; Co., 1925. Pp. xv + 234. Price, $2.50.

James K. Polk, A Political Biography. By Eugene Irving McCormac (University of California). Berkeley: University of California Press, 1922. Pp. x + 746. Price, $6.

Scientific Method in Education. By William Clark Trow (University of Cincinnati). Cambridge: Houghton Mifflin Co., 1925. Pp. xii + 159. Price, $1.20.

America's Need for Education. By Calvin Coolidge. Boston: Houghton Miffiin Co., 1925. (Riverside Educational Monographs.) Pp. vii + 87. Price, $0.80.

History of America. By Carl Russell Fish (University of Wisconsin). Cincinnati: American Book Co., 1925. Pp. 570 + lix. Price, $1.92.

Roads to Social Peace. By Edward Alsworth Ross (University of Wisconsin). Chapel Hill, N. C: University of North Carolina Press, 1924. Pp. 133.

A School History of Tennessee. By S. E. Scates (West Tennessee State Normal School). Yonkers: World Book Co., 1925. Pp. xii + 395.

Frontier Law. By William J. McConnell and Howard R. Driggs (New York University). Yonkers, N. Y.: World Book Co., 1924. Pp. xii+ 233. Price, $1.20.

The Constitution of Our Country. By Frank A. Rexford and Clara L. Carson. Cincinnati: American Book Co., 1924. Pp. xx + 186. Price, $0.76.

Fiber and Finish. By E. E. Dodd. Boston: Ginn &; Co., 1925. Pp. x + 196.

Modern Mathematics. By Raleigh Schorling and John R. Clark. Yonkers: World Book Co., 1924. For seventh grade, pp. xv + 256; for eighth grade, xvii + 254.

History of Economic Progress in the United States. By Walter W. Jennings (University of Kentucky). New York: Thomas Y. Crowell Co., 1926. Pp. xvi + 819. Price, $4.50.

Out in the Kitchen. By James Woodward Sherman. Boston: Little, Brown &; Co., 1925. Pp. x + 133. Price, $0.70.

A History of Minnesota. By William Watts Folwell (University of Minnesota). St. Paul: Minnesota Historical Society, 1921. Pp. xvii + 533.

The Junior‐College Movement. By Leonard V. Koos (University of Minnesota). Boston: Ginn &; Co., 1925. Pp. xii + 436. Price, $2.40.

Principles and Practices of Secondary Education. By John Addison Clement (University of Illinois). New York: The Century Co., 1925. Pp. xxi + 503. Price, $2.50.     

Seeking support: researching first‐year students’ experiences of coping with academic life

Students’ transition to academia comes with a number of challenges which, if inadequately addressed, may negatively affect their academic performance and psychological well‐being. Hence, the question of support becomes critical and has been reflected in the variety of practical measures to provide support with learning and facilitate newcomers’ integration into higher education. However, while forms of institutional aid have increased and diversified in recent years, the kind of support the students actually need and prefer to use – from the pool of available resources – remains insufficiently understood in current research. To address this gap, this paper advocates a social network approach to first‐year students’ experiences of coping with academic life and suggests an agenda for further investigation, which would contrast support ‘from above’ and support ‘from below.’     

A qualitative critique of teacher labor market studies

Qualitative studies of the teacher labor market suggest that problems and remedies generated by quantitative research fail to capture the most dynamic variables which are affecting the supply and demand of public school teachers. For example, quantitative research has not accounted for (1) the continual exiting and reentering of urban teachers, (2) the considerable bifurcation between urban and rural teacher labor markets as reflected in teacher mobility and cultural economic opportunities, (3) local definitions of labor market needs and teacher quality, and (4) the demanding and stressful working conditions of teaching, which are having a systemic and adverse effect on the occupation.     

One and One is Sometimes Three in Small Group Mathematics Learning

In recent years, Mathematics teaching has been confronted by demands for higher standards and better pupil achievement in several parts of the world. Researchers have suggested the shift from teacher‐centred instruction towards more active participatory learning methods as one way to improve the quality of the teaching and learning process. The tension between whole‐class teaching versus small group learning in Mathematics has been particularly apparent in many education systems. This article analyses the development of Mathematics teaching by asking whether small group learning is an effective arrangement in teaching school Mathematics. We conclude that although there is no unanimity about the affects of small group learning on student achievement in school Mathematics, it seems that it produces at least equal academic outcomes among all students compared to more traditional methods of instruction. Working in pairs is a particularly effective form of learning Mathematics and that small groups are beneficial for developing mathematical problem‐solving skills. We also conclude that the present educational policies and increased quality assurance structures in many countries conflict, or are not consistent with scientific‐professional thinking and research on the teaching of Mathematics.     

教育男生和女生:对性别平等教育的启示

性别平等教育长期被视作教育中的次要问题,教育学界对此也存在不少误解。“零和式”的教育使性别平等问题走向了极端。性别平等教育的目标不仅使女生享有平等的教育的机会,同时也使男生受益。打破教育体制中固有的性别成见才是实现平等教育的根本途径。     

Do more hours in center-based care cause more externalizing problems? A cross-national replication study

Whether high quantities of center-based care cause behavior problems is a controversial question. Studies using covariate adjustment for selection factors have detected relations between center care and behavior problems, but studies with stronger internal validity less often find such evidence. We examined whether within-child changes in hours in center-based care predicted changes in externalizing problems in toddlers and preschoolers (N = 10,105; 49% female; data collection 1993–2012) in seven studies, including from Germany, Netherlands, Norway, two from Canada and two from the U.S. Race/ethnicity data were only collected in the United States (57% and 80% White; 42% and 13% African-American; 1.2% and 5% Latinx). Meta-analyses showed no association (r = .00, p = .88) between hours in center-based care and externalizing problems.     

Teaching Statistics through Resampling

This paper describes experiences of teaching statistics without mathematical theory but using computer-intensive re-sampling methods. The method is relevant to statistics teaching at all levels.     

Using initial,derived, and terminal credibility to help students understand how they are perceived by others

Courses: Public Speaking, Interpersonal Communication, Organizational Communication, Introduction to Communication Studies, Business Communication

Objectives: The goal for this activity is not only to provide students with an understanding of their initial, derived, and terminal credibility when relating a personal, edifying story but also to understand how they are initially perceived by their fellow students.     

The effectiveness of an expanded interrogative training technique for young deaf children

This study investigates the development of language interrogatives in deaf children through a program using expanded question structures. Ten young deaf children, (age range 6 to 8 years) were assigned to matched groups on the basis of chronological age and results of Raven's Progressive Matrices. One group was given six traditional question structures and the other was given six expanded question structures, on each of four consecutive days. On the fifth day, the traditional question structures were asked of all the subjects. The analysis of responses showed that even with a small sample the expanded question structures affected the number of accurate responses for the conceptual type of “wh” questions.