Performance in a social context: Date rape versus date right

This investigation examined performance of texts as a method of modifying sexual attitudes and assertiveness in a dating context in order to prevent date rape or unwanted sexual aggression. The study focused on the impact of three training modalities (live performance, performance plus discussion, and discussion) and aggressive sexual experience on sexual attitudes and assertive behavior. Results suggest that live performance alone and live performance plus discussion have the capacity to modify sexual attitudes and increase awareness of the issues.     

Supplemental Instruction: Understanding Academic Assistance in Underrepresented Groups

Student retention rates are increasingly important in higher education. Higher education institutions have adopted various programs in the hopes of increasing graduation rates and grade point averages (GPAs). One of the most effective attempts at improvement has been the Supplemental Instruction (SI) program. We examined our SI program relative to three facets: attendance, attendance's influence on final scores, and graduation rates for students who had participated in these courses. These questions were also investigated focusing on specific comparison groups, as we looked into how these effects differed for minority students and nontraditional students compared with those of White and traditional peers. Overall, SI attendance led to positive outcomes— increased final course grades and graduation rates—even after adjusting for previous achievement.     

The Effects of Special Education Support on Young Australian School Students

Determining the effectiveness of many special education interventions is most difficult because of the practical and ethical limitations associated with assigning participants to a control or non-treated group. Using Longitudinal Study of Australian Children data, this article utilised eight different propensity score analysis methods to determine if a cohort of young primary school children receiving special education services significantly improved their literacy and numeracy skills, social skills and their behaviour, two years after the commencement of the special service, in comparison to a “matched” group of students who did not receive special education support. The children receiving special education support performed statistically significantly less well than the different matched groups across all outcome measures. This result is consistent with the findings from two similar studies in the US and calls into question the effectiveness of special education services for the majority of Australian students with additional needs.     

Phenomenological Methodologies in the Field of Educational Communications and Technology

The purpose of this paper is to clarify the philosophical and methodological variations of phenomenological research methods and their role in the field of educational communication and technology (ECT). Phenomenology is a qualitative research methodology concerned with investigating phenomena as they manifest through lived-experiences. The unit of analysis resides in the intentional meanings of phenomena. Analysis of those intentionalities, however, has evolved over the past century; phenomenologists have viewed intentionality as something that is: described (transcendental phenomenology), interpreted (hermeneutic phenomenology), or resists centering and embraces contexts, situations, and the partial (post-intentional phenomenology) (Vagle 2014, 2018). To conduct phenomenological research, then, one must be able to articulate the specific philosophical underpinnings associated with each approach and the suitability of each approach. To support researchers and practitioners in the field, this paper explicates philosophical and methodological variations of more prominent phenomenological research approaches as well as related issues and affordances. In doing so, this paper offers scholars in the field various perspectives in which to ground future phenomenological research.     

Wearable Textiles to Support Student STEM Learning and Attitudes

Journal of Science Education and Technology - Electronic textiles, especially those that can be worn (wearable textiles) are gaining traction within the P12 education community. The technology...     

Book Reviews: “Primitive Education,” a Confusion of Terms

Biography: Hernán Cortés, Conqueror Of Mexico by Salvador de Madariaga. The Macmillan Company. 542 pp. $4.00.

Jefferson by Saul K. Padover. Illustrated. Harcourt, Brace and Co. 459 pp. $4.00.

Education: An Introduction to Education by Velorus Martz and Henry Lester Smith. Charles Scribner's Sons. 485 pp. $2.00.

Children in a World of Conflict by Roy F. Street. The Christopher Publishing House. 302 pp. $2.50.

Handbook of Educational Psychology and Measurement by M. J. Nelson. The Dryden Press. 174 pp. $1.25.

Education in the United States by Edgar W. Knight. Second revised edition. Ginn and Company. 669 pp. $3.40.

Introduction to American Public Education by Chris A. DeYoung. 704 pp. $2.75.

Theories of Secondary Education in the United States by Joseph Justman. Contributions to Education, No. 814. Bureau of Publications, Teachers College, Columbia University. Pp. viii plus 481. $3.00.

The Subject Fields in General Education. A Report of the National Commission on Cooperative Curriculum Planning. John J. DeBour, Editor. D. Appleton-Century Company, Inc. 239 pp. $1.50.

Fiction: Sugar in the Gourd by Evelyn Hanna. E. P. Dutton and Company. 313 pp. $2.50.

General Literature: Heirs to your Money and how to Protect Them by Nathaniel Fishman. Liveright Publishing Corporation. 133 pp. $1.50.

The Actor's Art And Job by Harry Irvine. E. P. Dutton and Co. 251 pp. $2.50.

Shall not Perish from the Earth by Ralph B. Perry. New York: The Vanguard Press, 1940. 159 pp. $1.50.

The Alert by Wilfrid Gibson. The Oxford University Press. (Imported from England, 1941.) 41 pp. $1.00.

Religion: Religious Crossroads by Radoslav A. Tsanoff. E. P. Dutton and Co. 384 pp. $3.75.

Social Studies: The Axis Grand Strategy. Blue Prints for the Total War. From original material prepared by Staff Officers of the German Army, Navy, and Air Force. Compiled and edited by Ladislas Farago, Editor of German Psychological Warfare. Farrar and Rinehart. 614 pp. $3.75.

The Roots of National Socialism by Rohan D'O. Butler. E. P. Button and Co. 304 pp. $3.00.