School governance and teachers' attitudes to parents' involvement in schools

This study probes teachers' attitudes toward parental involvement in schools as a function of four types of school governance as suggested by Bauch and Goldring. Participants of the study included headteachers, chairpersons of parents' committees, and teachers of 11 primary schools in a medium-sized town in Israel. A discriminant analysis found different profiles of teachers' attitudes toward parental involvement: resistant and negative attitudes characterized schools where parents were empowered. Ambivalent attitudes characterized schools with professional and bureaucratic modes of governance, and positive attitudes were found in schools with partnership governance. This implies that the latter mode of governance is a promising step toward a community-oriented approach.     

Low-income Latino mothers’ booksharing styles and children's emergent literacy development

Booksharing is often considered one of the most important activities parents can do to promote young children's early literacy skills. However, there is relatively little research on the style and nature of booksharing in Latino homes. This study examined the relation between maternal booksharing styles and low-income Latino children's subsequent language and literacy development. Eighty Latino Head Start four-year-old children and their mothers were audiotaped while they shared a wordless children's picture book together in their home. Six months later, children's emergent literacy ability was assessed. Results of a cluster analysis identified three types of maternal booksharing styles which had differential predictive power over children's literacy longitudinally. Results are discussed in terms of improving culturally appropriate research, practice and policy for early childhood and family literacy programming designed to meet the needs of young Latino children and their parents.     

Homework involvement among Hong Kong primary school students

One component of the curriculum reform in Hong Kong focuses on the use of homework in consolidating learning, deepening understanding and constructing knowledge. This study examines the profile of Hong Kong primary school students' homework involvement, and investigates the relationships between time involvement and academic attributes, namely interest in homework, interest in academic subjects, academic efficacy, and efficacy for self-regulated learning. The sample comprised 2,361 primary school students representing all six grade levels in Hong Kong. Data was collected using questionnaires and homework diaries. Results showed heavy homework involvement among primary school students in Hong Kong, especially at the senior primary level. Differential patterns across levels were observed for the relationship between homework involvement and academic attributes. Specifically, junior primary students' study-related interests and efficacies were found to decline with increasing time involvement, whereas inverted U-shape relationships were observed among senior primary students. There was concern for students with high time involvement as they received more homework and they worked slower. They were less likely to perceive the positive functions of homework, and showed poorer study-related interests and efficacy beliefs. The findings of this study provide crucial information for school personnel and educators in Hong Kong in developing homework strategies and policies that enhance teaching and learning.     

Understanding Head Start children's problem behaviors in the context of arrest or incarceration of household members

Using data from the nationally representative Head Start Family and Child Experiences Survey (FACES), the relationships between living in a household where a household member had been arrested or incarcerated and conduct problems of preschool children enrolled in Head Start were examined. Children who lived in such households showed more aggressive, hyperactive, and withdrawn behaviors than children who lived in households with no such exposure. These associations remained statistically significant after controlling for other family background characteristics. Parental involvement in Head Start, less use of spanking, and more time spent by the child in Head Start were associated with less problem behaviors.     

写作能力的培养从家庭教育开始

学生主观的写作恐惧情绪,客观的词句贫乏无话可说,起源都在于家庭教育。家庭教育中,家长进行孩子启蒙教育的开始,与孩子交流的言语习惯、思维习惯都已是在潜移默化地影响了孩子的语言与思维,这两点也直接地影响了将来孩子在写作中语句、内容、情感、观点的几大写作要素的发展。因此,以家庭教育为入口,从根本上解决写作难的问题具有现实意义。     

Parental Involvement in Children’s Learning: The Case of Cochlear Implantation—Parents as Educators?

Extensive research emphasises the importance of parental involvement for children’s learning and academic achievement. This paper reports from a Norwegian study researching parents’ experiences on follow-up after their child’s cochlear implantation. Within this context, parental involvement is suggested to be of major importance for the child’s language learning. The study explores the parents’ talk on their involvement in the child’s language after implantation. Data consist of 27 written parental accounts and interviews with 14 of these parents. The analysis shows the parents’ extensive involvement in the child’s language learning. The study brings into conversation how understandings of learning influence parental involvement, leading to implications for the parents and children involved. It addresses a need for debate on how parents can support children’s learning, whilst avoiding parenthood becoming a series of educational tasks.     

Barriers preventing parental involvement in mainstream education of children with specific learning disabilities: parent perspectives

This study aims to investigate the barriers to parental involvement in Jordanian mainstream schools from the parents’ perspective. A 36-item questionnaire that addressed five domains was designed specifically for this study and distributed to 206 parents of children with specific learning disabilities. The results reveal that the main barrier to parental involvement relates to parents’ beliefs, followed by barriers related to mainstream schools’ teachers and team work, while ‘available facilities’ was viewed as the least significant barrier. The results indicate that there were statistically significant differences regarding parental income level for each of the five domains and the overall scale, but there were no differences attributable to parents’ educational levels and gender. Based on these findings, a number of suggestions and recommendations are made.     

合作与企业国际化创新:政府参与的调节作用

本文利用2009-2011年之间科技部创新型企业数据库中样本企业的面板数据,通过回归分析,实证检验了企业间合作和产学研合作对于企业国际化创新的影响,并探究了政府参与在该过程中的权变机制。研究发现,企业间合作和企业国际化创新绩效是正向的线性关系,而产学研合作对企业国际化创新绩效具有倒U型影响。政府参与正向调节企业间合作对国际化创新的影响,并改善产学研合作与企业国际化创新绩效之间的关系。     

供应商参与对新产品开发效率的影响:以知识获取为中介

本文密切结合新产品开发情境,细分了新产品开发需要获取的三类知识,探讨了供应商参与对获取新产品开发所需要三类知识的影响,进而影响新产品开发效率的机理。以广东省158家企业为研究对象,应用结构方程方法实证了研究假设。结果表明,供应商参与对获取新产品开发所需的三类知识具有显著的正向影响,但是对新产品开发效率没有显著的直接影响;获取新产品开发所需的三类知识对新产品开发效率有显著的正向影响。揭示了知识获取是供应商参与影响新产品开发效率的中介变量。     

试析体育流行和参与体育的关系——一个经验研究的视野

当今社会,流行(时尚)这一社会现象普遍存在于人们社会生活的各个领域,追求流行(时尚)已成为现代人特别是中产阶层女性的一个重要特征.以广州市企业女性白领阶层为研究对象,以文献、问卷、主成分分析和结构方程路径模型分析为主要研究方法,从流行和体育流行的概念入手,通过经验研究描述分析了被调查者接受体育流行的一般概况、接受体育流行的类型和途径、接受体育流行和参与体育的关系、影响被调查者参与体育的因素等,最后提出了本文的研究结论与思考.