Archive for April, 2003
03-04-11
Tags: Academic Redshirting and Young Children Introduction
The term redshirting originally referred to postponing a college athlete’s participation in regular season games for one year to give him an extra year of further growth and practice with the team in the hope of improving the player’s skills for future seasons. Academic redshirting for young children refers to the […]
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03-04-10
Tags: The Onion | Local Anorexic Still Way Too Fat Above: Silver Spring, MD, anorexic Lisa Kimmel, who could stand to lose a few pounds.
SILVER SPRING, MDDespite years of intense dieting and vigorous exercise, local anorexic Lisa Kimmel is still way too fat, it was reported Monday.
“I can’t believe how gross I look,” said the corpulent Kimmel, […]
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03-04-10
Tags: The Onion | New Remote Control Can Be Operated By Remote A viewer enjoys the new remote-controlled remote control.
TOKYOTelevision watching became even more convenient this week with Sony’s introduction of a new remote-controlled remote control.
The new device, which can be controlled via remote control through the use of a second remote control unit, will replace older […]
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03-04-10
Tags: The Onion | Bush Subconsciously Sizes Up Spain For Invasion WASHINGTON, DCDuring a White House meeting with visiting Spanish prime minister and fellow allied-forces leader Jose Maria Aznar, President Bush subconsciously sized up Spain for invasion Monday. Above: Bush’s mind wanders while he shakes Aznar’s hand.
“Aznar was pledging his ongoing support for the Iraqi war […]
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03-04-10
Tags: The Onion | Rules Grammar Change: English Traditional Replaced To Be New Syntax With Above: Announces to reporters Joyce Watters grammar rules new English for. U.S. Grammar Guild is Watters president of.
U.S. Grammar Guild according to, the new structure loosely on an obscure 800-year-old, pre-medieval Anglo-Saxon syntax is based. The syntax primarily verbs, verb clauses and […]
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03-04-10
Tags: The Onion | Nation’s Schoolchildren Call For Cuts In Math, Science Funding WASHINGTON, DCCalling current levels of funding “unconscionably excessive,” thousands of schoolchildren descended on the nation’s capital Monday to demand drastic cuts in math and science funding for public schools. Above: Douglas Witherspoon, 11, and Kimberly Neesin, 10, propose “sorely needed” school-spending cuts. The Onion […]
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03-04-10
Tags: http://www.theonion.com/onion3638/school_fine_report.html Above: Edina, MN, high-school junior Megan Brodhagen, one of the millions of U.S. teens who praise their educational experience as “good.”
WASHINGTON, DCAccording to results of a survey released Monday by the Department Of Education, most U.S. teenagers characterize their education as “fine.”
The survey, conducted by the Office of Educational Research and Improvement (OERI), polled more […]
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03-04-10
Tags: Youthful Tendency Disorder, originally published on The Onion, is reposted here for information archiving purpose only. Readers are urged to read at its original site: http://www.theonion.com/content/node/28223
"As horrible as the diagnosis was, it was a relief to finally know," said Beverly. "At least we knew we weren’t bad parents. We simply had a child who was […]
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03-04-10
Tags: The Onion | Report: TV Helps Build Valuable Looking Skills NEW YORKA report […]
NEW YORKA report released Monday by NYU’s Center For Media Studies has found that television, accused by experts of diminishing children’s attention spans and discouraging them from interacting with others, can actually help children as young as six months develop essential looking skills.
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03-04-10
Tags: MediaFamily.org | Facts: Chidren And Media Violence According to parents in the Media in the Home 2000 study, children spend 6 hours with media every day (Woodard, 2000).
Did you know?
By the time a child is eighteen years old, he or she will witness on television (with average viewing time) 200,000 acts of violence including […]
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03-04-10
Tags: Craig A. Anderson Craig A. Anderson Works “in press” & Publications since 1995 All publications can be downloaded and printed using Adobe’s free Acrobat Reader. Click here to access various scales and tasks […]
Professor & Chair
B.A. 1976 Butler University
M.A. 1978 Stanford University
(advisor: Lee Ross)
Ph.D. 1980 Stanford University (advisor: J. Merrill Carlsmith
See Recent Publications on video games and violence
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03-04-10
Tags: Mary Ballard Methods of contact Ph.D. 1991, West Virginia University Teaching Interests
She gave a talk at SHS in Sept 2002 on video game
Mary Ballard (Professor)
Mary Ballard, Ph.D.Department of PsychologyAppalachian State UniveristyBoone, NC 28608Voice: (828) 262 2714e-mail: ballardm@am.appstate.edu
Education
M.S. 1981, Eastern Kentucky University
B.S. 1979, Eastern Kentucky University
Child Development, Adolescent Development, and Psychology of Gender
Research Interests
Mock […]
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03-04-10
Tags: ABCNEWS.com : Report: Violent Games Still Reach Kids
In their report, the National Institute on Media and the Family offers a list of “kid-tested” and “parent-approved” games. They also provide a parent alert, listing the top 10 games to avoid.”
Topping the list was Grand Theft Auto III, rated M for Mature 17 years and older […]
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03-04-10
Tags: UC - Videogame Culture Conference - Agenda “Video Games and Civil Society”
Public RoundtablesFriday, October 26, 2001Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago
“The Pedagogical Possibilities of Interactive Games”
“Video Game Violence: Research Findings, Policy Options, and Constitutional Questions”
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03-04-09
Tags: Spence video: 10/01 Stanford Report, October 17, 2001 Stipek emphasizes supporting rather than controlling children’s learning experiences
Video: Jack Hubbard
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03-04-09
Tags: New education dean marries theory and practice : 10/01 Stanford Report, October 17, 2001 New education dean marries theory and practice
BY MEREDITH ALEXANDER
Abstract designs painted by 4-year-olds adorn Deborah Stipek’s office walls — reminders of her past life. Not long ago, Stipek, dean of the School of Education, was directing the Corinne Seeds University Elementary […]
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03-04-09
Tags: Deborah Stipek Dr. Deborah Stipek is the Dean of the School of Education at Stanford University. Dr. Stipek’s scholarship concerns instructional effects on children’s achievement motivation, early childhood education, elementary education and school reform. In addition to her scholarship, Dr. Stipek has an interest in policies affecting children and education, and has become […]
Deborah Stipek Stanford University
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03-04-09
Tags: SRCD - Society for Research in Child Development Ordering information is at the bottom of this page. Volume I
At What Age Should Children Enter Kindergarten? A Question for Policy Makers and ParentsDeborah Stipek
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The Child Abuse Prevention and Treatment Act of 1983 Lindsay Chase-Lansdale, Patrick Casey, Byron Egeland, Eli Newberger, Diana T. […]
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03-04-09
Tags: Reading and Writing Quarterly Volume 19 Number 2 INTRODUCTION: MOTIVATION AND SELF-EFFICACY BELIEF Jerry Jinks; Anthony Lorsbach THE ROLE OF SELF-EFFICACY BELIEFS INSTUDENT ENGAGEMENT AND LEARNING INTHECLASSROOM Elizabeth A. Linnenbrink; Paul R. Pintrich SELF-EFFICACY BELIEFS, MOTIVATION, AND ACHIEVEMENT IN WRITING: A REVIEW OF THE LITERATURE Frank Pajares SELF-EFFICACY FOR READING AND WRITING: INFLUENCE OF MODELING, GOAL SETTING, AND […]
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03-04-09
Tags: Ingenta Select - Duke University (cid255) Title: INTEGRATING LITERACY AND TECHNOLOGY: MAKING A MATCH BETWEEN SOFTWARE AND CLASSROOM Author(s): Elizabeth A. (Betsy) Baker Source: Reading and Writing Quarterly Volume: 19 Number: 2 Page: 193 — 197
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