An analysis of the effectiveness of filmstrips in comparison with oral presentation of stories in the first and second grades.

Thesis (Ed.M.)--Boston Universit

Word mastery in oral reading: telling versus sounding of unknown words, in grade three.

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Communicative strategies of visually impaired infants and their mothers.

The development of five visually impaired infants between 10 months and three years of age was followed for six months. Films of mother-infant interactions were made in the subjects' homes at regular intervals throughout the six-month period to document the development of communicative skills within each dyad. The films were analyzed at 2-sec. intervals for seven categories of infant behavior and three categories of maternal behavior, comprising a total of 42 behavioral subcategories. Maternal behaviors were analyzed from the infant's perspective, so that only those maternal behaviors which could be sensed by a sightless infant were scored. The observational data were analyzed using lagged conditional probabilities to extract conditional relationships and cyclic dependencies among the scored behaviors.The results suggest that the infants' rates of communicative behavior were within normal limits. Furthermore, the rates of individual infant behaviors fluctuated cyclically over time. However, their behavior was notably unresponsive to maternal intervention. Maternal behaviors rates, on the other hand, changed frequently in response to infant behaviors, but did not display mutually cyclic patterns. Clinical implications include a greater emphasis on training parents in the appropriate patterning of their responses. A highly structured program of maternal response to infant vocalizations is suggested in the interest of enhancing the communicative use of vocalizations by the visually impaired infant.The infants showed serious deviations from the sequence of communicative development espoused by pragmatic language theorists. Several of the constructs that Elizabeth Bates considers strongly related to language development were absent in the one subject who acquired any linguistic ability during the project. These included the production of conventional, ritualized gestures, the notion of an external referent, and combinatorial and symbolic play (all of which would require visual guidance according to traditional definitions). These discrepancies suggest that the pragmatic model of language development, as traditionally operationalized, does not adequately describe communicative development in the visually impaired population

Improving retention and performance in civil society in Uganda

This article is the second article in the Human Resources for Health journal's first quarterly feature. The series of seven articles has been contributed by Management Sciences for Health (MSH) under the theme of leadership and management in public health and will be published article-by-article over the next few weeks. The journal invited Dr Manuel M. Dayrit, Director of the WHO Department of Human Resources for Health and former Minister of Health for the Philippines to launch the feature with an opening editorial to be found in the journal's blog

A study to ascertain what effect the study of homophones has on spelling achievement

Thesis (Ed.M.)--Boston Universit

A study to ascertain what effect the study of homophones has on spelling achievement

Thesis (Ed.M.)--Boston Universit

Mesure de l’autonomisation économique des femmes : de la recherche à la pratique

Version anglaise disponible dans la Bibliothèque numérique du CRDI: Measurements of women’s economic empowerment : from research to practiceLes objectifs de développement durable pour l’autonomisation économique des femmes nécessitent des mesures claires et des définitions du progrès. Le programme CEDEF indique qu’il existe de nombreuses définitions de l’autonomisation économique des femmes, et qu’il n’existe pas d’approche universelle à cet égard. Les indicateurs doivent être clairement définis et refléter les contextes locaux et la disponibilité des données. Pour les institutions axées sur le développement, il est essentiel d’intégrer des indicateurs propres au contexte à l’intérieur des cadres de surveillance internationaux

Measurements of women’s economic empowerment : from research to practice

French version available in IDRC Digital Library: Mesure de l’autonomisation économique des femmes : de la recherche à la pratiqueDespite much progress in monitoring women’s economic empowerment, there are large data gaps with respect to Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) particularly in low-income countries. Measures and measuring tools may not be meaningful unless they are closely aligned to a specific context. This is pertinent in low-income contexts, where economic participation in the absence of supportive gender policies — may not be empowering, and where the nature of work itself is undergoing structural change. Comparable global indicators are necessary. The review of GrOW projects found over 40 different measures currently used to analyse women`s economic empowerment

Effects of gender on credit card usage among university students in Turkey.

In recent years, much has been written about credit card usage among university students. Despite a vast number of studies, little has been written about credit card usage among university students in developing countries. This research surveyed university students in Turkey in an attempt to understand their uses of credit cards. In particular, we examined the impact of gender on credit card use. The literature on the impact of gender on credit card usage is a bit unsettled and this study seeks to add another dimension to the research in this area. Using both parametric and nonparametric measures, we sought to isolate gender and tested whether or not it affects the ways that young people in Turkey use credit cards. The importance of this research centers on the portrait it provides of credit card usage among young people in a developing country as well as to pointing the factors that may influence future credit card use