How to Analyze Interpersonal and Individual Effects in Peer-Tutored Reading Intervention

Reading strategy interventions relying upon peer tutoring are a common way to foster poor readers' comprehension skills. Those interventions are based on the assumption that tutees benefit from the (higher) reading skills of their tutors. However, this interpersonal effect has not yet been tested explicitly because the effectiveness of peer tutoring is commonly analyzed separately for tutees and tutors or with aggregated data. The present study illustrates how interpersonal and individual effects of a peer-tutored reading strategy intervention can be estimated using dyads as units of analysis in structural equation modeling. To demonstrate the application of the model, data from an experimental intervention study comparing the effects of a peer-tutored reading strategy training and a control condition in Grade 4 (N = 68 dyads) were analyzed.     

对大学生心理危机干预的几点认识

高校大学生因心理问题导致的自杀、杀人事件破坏性强,负面影响引人注目,社会各界已开始关注如何预防大学生心理危机的发生.完善危机干预机制、建立健全干预制度、提高危机干预人员专业素质,对于有效预防危机事件的发生具有重要意义.     

从知觉生态理论看自闭症的发生与发展

文章讨论了三种解释自闭症障碍发生与发展的理论模式。心理学模式将自闭症患者的发展障碍或心理病理障碍看作是心智活动受损的表现;神经生物学模式主要考虑特定的大脑结构受损及其对自闭症行为功能障碍的影响;生态学模式避开了直接研究自闭症患者心理或大脑这个黑箱,而通过研究自闭症患者和环境的交互作用来解释自闭症患者的行为。     

正念干预及其教育应用

随着正念在全球的普及,有关正念的研究和应用逐渐被人们专注,其中对青少年的正念干预多涉及在学校环境中对学生群体的研究.本文系统地回顾了在学校环境中正念应用的研究现状,包括正念干预对青少年有何效果,在学校开展的正念干预有哪些形式等,并进一步探讨现有正念干预研究的局限性,为未来的研究与应用提供参考.     

Impact of rapid reading skills training on reading rate and reading achievement among primary school students in China

Abstract

The current study examined the effects of a silent rapid reading skills training intervention on the reading rate and reading achievement of primary school students in China in order to determine the efficacy of the intervention and explore potential gender differences. A total of 108 Chinese primary school students were randomly assigned by the classroom to either an experimental (n = 54) or control (n = 54) condition. Students in the experimental group completed 12 sessions of rapid reading skills training designed to increase their ability to rapidly read Chinese text in silence. Students in the control group engaged in regular Chinese language curriculum for the same time period. After the three-week intervention period, students in the experimental group displayed significantly greater silent reading speed of Chinese characters (M?=?1331.26 characters per minute) compared to students in the control group (M?=?617.48 characters per minute; p?<?.001). Children in the intervention group also displayed a significantly greater effective reading rate (F = 87.11, p?<?.001, partial η²?=?0.46) at post-test compared to the control. Male students displayed greater increases in reading speed than female students. Neither intervention effect nor gender difference was evident for reading comprehension. Implications for educational interventions designed to increase silent reading speed among Chinese students are discussed.     

Effects of individualized word retrieval in kindergarten vocabulary intervention

We examined the effects of adaptive word retrieval intervention on a classroom vocabulary program on children’s vocabulary acquisition in kindergarten. In the experimental condition, word retrieval was provided in a classroom vocabulary program, combining implicit and explicit vocabulary instructions. Children performed extra word retrieval activities and received semantic feedback for words they did not learn during the classroom vocabulary program. Eighty-seven children were in the experimental condition, and 115 children were in the classroom vocabulary control condition. Results showed the adaptive word retrieval intervention to stimulate higher learning gains than the classroom vocabulary program on the learning of the target words. Children in the experimental condition also showed transfer effects; they described more words on a standardized expressive vocabulary test than children in the control condition. The research findings suggest additional value of word retrieval with feedback for classroom vocabulary learning.     

中央干预-地方自治? 整合-分离?——学前教育服务体系的比较研究和政策分析

本文简述和评论了一些工业化国家学前教育服务体系的改革动态,并对这些国家在学前教育事业发展中的政府、市场和社会相互关系的变化作了分析和思考,试图从中寻找对我国学前教育事业发展有借鉴意义的经验.     

"自闭症"儿童及其教育治疗研究

自闭症是一种集中发生在婴幼儿群体中的一种疾患,60年以来对于自闭症的研究成效显著。分析自闭症及其原因,探讨自闭症的教育和治疗措施对于预防和治疗自闭症患者有积极的意义。