Assessing School Readiness: Validity and Bias in Preschool and Kindergarten Teachers' Ratings

As a part of efforts to evaluate and monitor the increasing public investment in early childhood education, teachers are being asked to assess children's school readiness. In this study, preschool teachers and kindergarten teachers rated children's skills in three areas (kindergarten readiness, academic skills, and communication skills), and these ratings were compared with direct assessments of the children's skills. Ratings by both groups of teachers tended to be more highly related to basic skills, such as counting and number naming, than to abilities such as solving applied problems and using expressive and receptive vocabulary. Preschool teachers' ratings had a lower association with children's observed skills and abilities than kindergarten teachers' ratings. Ratings of children attending Head Start were systematically inflated, but this relationship was mediated to a significant extent by the teachers' levels of education. More educated teachers rated children in a manner consistent with the children's directly assessed skills. Implications of these findings for informing future efforts to assess school readiness by using teacher ratings are discussed.     

高师体育教育专业体操必修课程改革现状与发展趋势的研究

运用文献资料法、专家访谈法、调查问卷法、数理统计法 ,对高师体育教育专业体操必修课课程目标、教学内容的优化整合进行分析研究。认为 :体操必修课程教学内容选择应以体现社会发展和学生的需要为前提 ,构建以健身体操为主的体操教学内容体系。     

体育学院学生压力感受和应对方式的研究

以461名学生为研究对象,以10项自我陈述测验和生活满意感量表为研究工具,采用描述性统计和多因素方差分析的统计方法,调查了体育学院学生的压力感受和应对方式.研究目的是为学生管理和心理健康教育提供心理依据,维护他们的身心健康.研究结果显示,体育学院学生感受的主要压力有学习、学校环境适应、人际交往和就业.面对压力,他们的应对方式主要有解决问题、退避、转移注意力、自我激励、宣泄和求助.     

奥运冠军米斯蒂·海曼的训练特点

美国运动员米斯蒂·海曼在悉尼奥运会女子200m蝶泳比赛中击败了该项世界纪录保持者澳大利亚苏珊 ?奥尼尔,爆出了2000年一大新闻。米斯蒂的成功,首先在于确立训练目标:增强肌肉力量,改善身体组成成份。虽然,那时她的体魄已经非常健康、匀称了,体内只有16%的脂肪,但计划要她降到12%。教练员探索她发展肌肉的突破口,为她制订了符合饮食习惯的各组食谱。训练中,主要做带有力量性、平衡性、多关节的和全身的练习,如:下蹲,静力举重,大步行进中的扩胸等练习,以增大肺活量。教练员还为她设计了提高肩后部和上背部的力量、提高腰腹部的力量和改善四头…     

体育院校课程综合化研究

分析了课程综合化的背景及其对体育院校课程综合化的启示，阐述了课程综合化的方式，即分段模式和整合模式；在对课程综合化的实质及意义认识的基础上，探讨了体育专业教育课程改革的综合化问题。     

大学体育课程教学模式设计与动作探讨

本丈参照2002年教育部新颁布的《全国普通高等学校体育课程教学指导纲要》，针对目前高校体育发展的现状，围绕“生活体育、体育生活”这一思路，就体育如何真正走入大学生生活及高校体育与社会体育接轨等问题提出新的操作思路，设计了“一年级选项课 二年级课外教学俱乐部 高年级选修课 全方位体育俱乐部”这一模式。旨在为全国大多数尚未启动或即将启动的高校体育课程教学改革提供借鉴和参考。     

More Unintended Consequences of High-Stakes Testing

This article explores the basis of negative sentiments toward and current critiques of high-stakes student testing from within the education profession. To promote some balance for current policy debates, evidence for 10 unintended, unrecognized, or unarticulated positive consequences is provided. The article concludes with an examination of the relationship between high-stakes testing and accountability systems.     

济宁市就业高峰年龄段人群体质现状与评价研究

利用国民体质监测资料 ,对济宁市就业高峰年龄段 (2 0～ 2 4岁 )人群的体质状况及特点进行研究。旨在制定该人群体质评价标准 ,为劳动和人事部门用人提供客观依据 ,以服务于经济建设     

The Development of Measures of Individual Differences in Self-Regulatory Control and Their Relationship to Academic Performance

Two studies are reported describing the development and validation of the Strategic Flexibility Questionnaire (SFQ): a self-report instrument aimed at eliciting students’ beliefs about the need for, and conditional nature of, self-regulatory control over learning. In Study 1, 281 first-year university education students completed a 40-item pilot questionnaire. Factor analysis of responses revealed a 21-item instrument indicating three types of control beliefs: adaptive executive control, inflexible executive control, and irresolute executive control. In Study 2, the predictive validity of these conceptions was tested against the academic performance of 105 third-year university education students. Results indicated that students reporting adaptive executive control beliefs were more successful academically, while those students reporting inflexible or irresolute control beliefs were significantly less successful academically.