The Provision for Personal, Social, Health Education (PSHE) and Citizenship in School-based Elements of Primary Initial Teacher Education

This small-scale research study looks at the PSHE/Citizenship framework and the opportunities for student teachers to understand and experience within school the relationship between values, personal and social development and learning. A questionnaire was given to two sets of student teachers on their final school-based placements. The research suggests that there needs to be greater recognition of the centrality of multi-cultural awareness and understanding within the political literacy section of the PSHE/Citizenship framework. This is the counterpart to a previous study of the opportunities for values education within the university-based elements of Primary Initial Teacher Education ( Mead, 2003 ).     

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.     

关于富裕家庭少儿体质健康与生长发育状况的研究

首次报导了我国富裕家庭的少儿体质健康与生长发育的现状与差距。指出经济条件好的富家子女在生长发育指标上呈优良态势,其中身高,体重、胸围三项指标的均值,超过全国城市同龄组水平。但血红蛋白总体水平偏低,贫血比例较高,鸡胸、漏斗胸也有一定数量,以男孩为最。     

中小学体育教师科研活动的制约因素及对策研究

对中小学体育教师科研活动现状和制约因素进行了分析,并提出了对策和建议：体育教师应努力提高自身修养;积极开拓创新,提高科研水平;同时应广泛收集资料,提高所选课题的质量.     

也谈教育对经济增长的作用

本文从教育与劳动者素质、教育对人口和劳动力资源的影响、教育与消费、教育与产业结构等方面说明教育对经济增长具有突出作用,还分析了教育促进经济增长的特殊途径。     

英语教育专业基础课程的改革尝试

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21世纪初我国高校体育师资队伍建设分析

分析我国高校体育教师队伍现状和存在问题，并结合知识经济的理论和本人从事10多年高校体育教学工作的实际，探讨新世纪初提高我国高校体育师资队伍整体素质的基本思路和主要措施。     

对高师教学法课的一点认识

本文针对目前高等师范教育中,学科教学法课所存在的问题,强调了这一学科在高等师范教育中的重要地位以及如何加强这一学科的教学与研究的具体方法。