scholarly journals The formation of writer identity through writing response groups in the classroom

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
◽  
Andrea Piters
Keyword(s):  
Cultural Perspective ◽  
Writer Identity ◽  
Literacy Activities ◽  
Children's Writing ◽  
Literate Identity ◽  
Response Groups ◽  
Response Group ◽  
Children's Identity

<p>Supporting the formation of children's identity as writers in the context of interaction within a writing response group was the focus of this study.  The children in the study were in a composite Year Seven and Eight class. The children were randomly placed in groups of five or six members. Talk in the groups, students' writing journals, and the teacher/researcher's journal were analysed from a socio-cultural perspective to investigate how the group contributed to the formation of children's literate identity.  The analysis revealed that responses served to acknowledge children's writing as interesting and worthy of attention. The acknowledgement created a social energy that contributed to growth in children's writing, enabling children access to the roles they desired in the classroom.  The study highlighted the importance of children being able to form an identity as a writer to enable them to successfully engage in literacy activities.</p>

scholarly journals The formation of writer identity through writing response groups in the classroom

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
◽  
Andrea Piters
Keyword(s):  
Cultural Perspective ◽  
Writer Identity ◽  
Literacy Activities ◽  
Children's Writing ◽  
Literate Identity ◽  
Response Groups ◽  
Response Group ◽  
Children's Identity

<p>Supporting the formation of children's identity as writers in the context of interaction within a writing response group was the focus of this study.  The children in the study were in a composite Year Seven and Eight class. The children were randomly placed in groups of five or six members. Talk in the groups, students' writing journals, and the teacher/researcher's journal were analysed from a socio-cultural perspective to investigate how the group contributed to the formation of children's literate identity.  The analysis revealed that responses served to acknowledge children's writing as interesting and worthy of attention. The acknowledgement created a social energy that contributed to growth in children's writing, enabling children access to the roles they desired in the classroom.  The study highlighted the importance of children being able to form an identity as a writer to enable them to successfully engage in literacy activities.</p>

Maternal Writing Support for Kindergartners With Cerebral Palsy and Its Relations to Early Literacy Skills

2017 ◽  
Vol 52 (1) ◽  
pp. 29-38 ◽  
Author(s):  
Lori E. Skibbe ◽  
Dorit Aram
Keyword(s):  
Cerebral Palsy ◽  
Early Literacy ◽  
Literacy Practices ◽  
Literacy Skills ◽  
Early Literacy Skills ◽  
Literacy Activities ◽  
Children's Writing ◽  
Children's Literacy ◽  
Letter Sound ◽  
Writing Activity

Twenty kindergartners (eight boys) with cerebral palsy (CP) and their mothers engaged in a writing activity that required dyads to compose a grocery list containing four items together. Maternal writing supports were observed, including graphophonemic mediation (i.e., support for letter–sound correspondence) and printing mediation (i.e., guidance on letter choice and form). Mothers described their home literacy practices, and children’s early literacy skills were assessed. Mothers reported engaging in many literacy activities with their children. They also provided variable levels of printing mediation, low levels of graphophonemic mediation, rarely corrected children’s writing errors, and frequently provided physical supports to children during the writing activity. Mothers’ reported literacy activities at home as well the ways in which they helped children choose letters were strongly related to children’s literacy skills. Findings suggest that mothers can bolster their children’s literacy skills through carefully orchestrated writing activities when children have CP.

Low-amplitude trapezius activity in work and leisure and the relation to shoulder and neck pain

2006 ◽  
Vol 100 (4) ◽  
pp. 1142-1149 ◽  
Author(s):  
Paul Jarle Mork ◽  
Rolf H. Westgaard
Keyword(s):  
Neck Pain ◽  
Activity Pattern ◽  
Muscle Pain ◽  
Voluntary Contraction ◽  
Emg Activity ◽  
Shoulder And Neck Pain ◽  
Low Threshold ◽  
Response Groups ◽  
Response Group

The aim of this study is to obtain evidence supporting or negating the hypothesis that muscle pain is associated with sustained activation of low-threshold motor units. Long-term surface electromyographic (EMG) recordings of trapezius activity pattern were related to subjectively reported shoulder and neck pain in work and leisure. Recordings from 118 female subjects (73 recorded both during work and leisure) were analyzed. Computer operators, secretaries, and health care and retail workers were represented in the material. The recordings were calibrated by the root-mean-square-detected response at maximal voluntary contraction (%maximum EMG). The analysis was performed by quantifying duration and amplitude of surface EMG activity exceeding 2% maximum EMG (“EMG bursts”). Three response categories were defined by duration of the burst periods during work: low- (<50%), intermediate- (50–70%), and high-response (>70%) groups. Shoulder and neck pain was assessed by hourly visual analog score throughout work and leisure and by pain score for the last 6 mo. Shoulder and neck pain was higher at work than leisure for subjects with long-term pain in both the high- and the low-response groups. Persistent pain, defined by the 6-mo score, was more prevalent in the high- than the low- and intermediate-response groups (73 vs. 37%); relative risk was 2.0. Trapezius activity was reduced from work to leisure for the high- but not the low-response group. The activity pattern is consistent with low-threshold motor unit overexertion for the high- but not the low-response group. We speculate that different mechanisms of muscle pain causation, dependent and independent of motor activity pattern, coexist.

Retention as a function of paired and individual use of programmed instruction

1965 ◽  
Vol 58 (7) ◽  
pp. 649-654
Author(s):  
Walter Dick
Keyword(s):  
Eighth Graders ◽  
Response Mode ◽  
Programmed Instruction ◽  
Reading Group ◽  
Delayed Recall ◽  
Response Groups ◽  
Written Response ◽  
Individual Use ◽  
Response Group

One of the current issues in the field of programmed instruction is the effect of response mode upon learning and retention. A number of studies have indicated no difference in immediate learning as a function of various forms of overt, covert, and reading responses. However, Krumboltz and Weisman [1]* found that their written response group, when compared to those who just thought their responses and those who read the correct responses, showed significantly greater retention after a delay of two weeks. Goldbeck and Campbell [2] had eighth graders study a 32-frame program on electricity in order to test for differences in performance as a function of learning response; they used reading, writing, and thinking response groups. The results indicated significantly greater retention for the reading group after a period of ten weeks. Tobias and Weiner [3], using essentially the same design as Goldbeck and Campbell, found no differences among their groups on either immediate or delayed recall. The programs used in these studies varied in length from 32 to 177 frames.

scholarly journals Is There a Need to Alter the Timing of Anti-Müllerian Hormone Measurement During the Menstrual Cycle?

2019 ◽  
Vol 79 (07) ◽  
pp. 731-737 ◽  
Author(s):  
Umit Gorkem ◽  
Cihan Togrul
Keyword(s):  
Menstrual Cycle ◽  
Ovarian Reserve ◽  
Luteal Phase ◽  
Antral Follicle ◽  
Antral Follicle Count ◽  
Infertile Women ◽  
Significant Difference ◽  
Response Groups ◽  
N 93 ◽  
Response Group

Abstract Introduction There are numerous conflicting studies which have addressed the question whether the measurement of anti-Müllerian hormone (AMH) concentrations should be done at a certain time during the menstrual cycle. We aimed to investigate AMH fluctuations during the follicular and luteal phases of the menstrual cycle and to determine whether AMH variations, if present, might influence the clinical utility of ovarian reserve markers. Materials and Methods A total of 257 infertile women eligible for inclusion were categorized into three groups based on their total antral follicle count: 1. hypo-response group (< 7 follicles, n = 66), 2. normo-response group (7 – 19 follicles, n = 98), and 3. hyper-response group (> 19 follicles, n = 93). Results Mean follicular AMH levels were elevated compared to levels in the luteal phase in all response groups (p < 0.001). There were significant and strong positive correlations between follicular and luteal AMH levels in all response groups (Spearmanʼs r = 0.822, r = 0.836, and r = 0.899, respectively; p < 0.001 for all groups). Fisherʼs Z-test comparisons of these correlations in all response groups demonstrated that there was no statistically significant difference (Z = 0.277, Z = − 1.001, and Z = − 1.425, respectively; p < 0.001). Conclusion We found that serum AMH levels in the follicular phase were higher than those in the luteal phase in all three response groups. In current practice, fluctuations in serum AMH concentrations are not large enough to alter the timing of AMH measurements during the menstrual cycle. The issue is important for the assessment of ovarian reserve in infertile women with AMH levels near to the cut-off value.

Predicting the response of neoadjuvant chemotherapy in hormone receptor- positive and HER2-negative breast cancer with axillary lymph node metastasis by a multigene assay (GenesWell™ BCT)

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jun-Hee Lee ◽  
Jai Min Ryu ◽  
Jee Hyun Ahn ◽  
Soo Youn Cho ◽  
Se Kyung Lee ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Breast Cancer ◽  
Lymph Node ◽  
Neoadjuvant Chemotherapy ◽  
Hormone Receptor ◽  
Axillary Lymph Node ◽  
Axillary Lymph ◽  
Hormone Receptor Positive ◽  
Multigene Assay ◽  
Response Groups ◽  
Response Group

Abstract The GenesWell™ BCT (BCT score) is a recently developed multigene assay that predicts the risk of distant recurrence in patients with hormone receptor-positive (HR+) and HER2 negative (HER2-) early breast cancer (BC). The ability of the assay to predict the response to neoadjuvant chemotherapy (NACT) has not been established to date. Biopsy specimens of HR+/HER2- BC patients with axillary lymph node (LN) metastasis who underwent NACT were analyzed using the BCT score. The modified breast cancer test (BCT) score was developed and classified into high-and low-response groups. A total of 88 patients were available for the BCT score among 108 eligible patients. The median follow-up duration was 35.9 (7.8-128.5) months. Among these, 61 (65.1%) had cN1 and 53 (60.2%) had cT1 or T2. The BCT score was low in 25 (28.4%) patients and high in 63 (71.6%) patients. Among 50 patients with pathologic complete response or partial response, 41 (82.0%) were in the high-response group, and 9 (18.0%) were in the low-response group. Among 38 patients with stable disease or progressive disease, 22 (57.9%) patients were in the high-response group, and 16 (42.1%) were in the low-response group (p = 0.025). Ki-67 before NACT was a significant factor for predicting tumor response (p = 0.006; 3.81 [1.50-10.16]). The BCT score showed a significant response to NACT (p = 0.016; 4.18 [1.34–14.28]). A significant difference was found in distant metastasis-free survival between the high and low response groups (p = 0.004). We demonstrated that the BCT score predicts NACT responsiveness of HR+/HER2- BC with LN metastasis and might help determine whether to undergo NACT or not. Further studies are warranted to validate these findings.

Nodulation of Stylosanthes guyanensis: prediction of Rhizobium effectiveness response with seed isozyme patterns

1976 ◽  
Vol 27 (3) ◽  
pp. 381 ◽  
Author(s):  
PJ Robinson ◽  
RA Date ◽  
RG Megarrity
Keyword(s):  
Nitrogen Fixation ◽  
Acid Phosphatase ◽  
Pattern Analysis ◽  
Isozyme Analysis ◽  
Rapid Screening ◽  
Isozyme Patterns ◽  
Wide Range ◽  
Response Groups ◽  
Response Group

Forty-nine introductions of S. guyanensis were tested against 22 strains of Rhizobium for effectiveness of the symbiosis in nitrogen fixation. A wide range of effectiveness between strains on individual accessions, and significant strain x accession interactions, were obtained. Two major groups of accessions were obtained on pattern analysis, a wide effectiveness response group with an average of 42% strains effective (containing 30 accessions) and a narrow response group with only 6% strains effective (19 accessions). The seed isozyme patterns (esterase and acid phosphatase) were also determined on the 49 introductions. Classification of these data also revealed two major groups containing 28 and 21 accessions which corresponded on a broad basis with the accessions containcd in Lhc wide and narrow effectiveness response groups respectively. The use of seed isozyme analysis as a guide to Rhizobium effectiveness response is proposed as a rapid screening technique for introductions of S. guyanensis.

scholarly journals Clinical factors associated with lithium response in bipolar disorders

2016 ◽  
Vol 51 (5) ◽  
pp. 524-530 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sarah Sportiche ◽  
Pierre Alexis Geoffroy ◽  
Clara Brichant-Petitjean ◽  
Sebastien Gard ◽  
Jean-Pierre Khan ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Bipolar Disorder ◽  
Partial Response ◽  
Rating Scale ◽  
Statistical Significance ◽  
Bipolar Disorders ◽  
Clinical Predictors ◽  
History Of ◽  
Lithium Response ◽  
Response Groups ◽  
Response Group

Background: Bipolar disorder is a common chronic illness characterized by high levels of morbidity and all-cause mortality. Lithium is one of the gold standard mood stabilizer treatments, but the identification of good, partial and non-responders in clinical settings is inconsistent. Methods: We used an established rating scale (the Alda scale) to classify the degree of lithium response (good response, partial response, non-response) in a large, multicentre clinically representative sample of well-characterized cases of bipolar disorders I and II. Next, we examined previously reported clinical predictors of response to determine which factors significantly differentiated between the three response groups. Results: Of 754 cases, 300 received lithium, for at least 6 months, as a treatment for bipolar disorder (40%). Of these cases, 17% were classified as good response, 52% as partial response and 31% as non-response. Lifetime history of mixed episodes ( p = 0.017) and alcohol use disorders ( p = 0.015) both occurred in >20% of partial response and non-response groups but <10% of good response cases. Family history of bipolar disorder I was of borderline statistical significance, being more frequent in the good response group (38%) compared with the non-response group (18%). There was a trend ( p = 0.06) for bipolar disorder II to be associated with non-response. Conclusions: Only three factors previously identified as predictors of lithium response significantly differentiated the response groups identified in our sample. Interestingly, these factors have all been found to co-occur more often than expected by chance, and it can be hypothesized that they may represent a shared underlying factor or dimension. Further prospective studies of predictors and the performance of the Alda scale are recommended.

Olfactory Modulation of Steady- State Visual Evoked Potential Topography in Comparison with Differences in Odor Sensitivity

2002 ◽  
Vol 16 (2) ◽  
pp. 71-81 ◽  
Author(s):  
Caroline M. Owen ◽  
John Patterson ◽  
Richard B. Silberstein
Keyword(s):  
Steady State ◽  
Visual Evoked Potential ◽  
Evoked Potential ◽  
Behavioral Responses ◽  
Simultaneous Recording ◽  
Odor Concentration ◽  
Odor Detection ◽  
Detection Response ◽  
Response Groups ◽  
Visual Evoked

Summary Research was undertaken to determine whether olfactory stimulation can alter steady-state visual evoked potential (SSVEP) topography. Odor-air and air-only stimuli were used to determine whether the SSVEP would be altered when odor was present. Comparisons were also made of the topographic activation associated with air and odor stimulation, with the view toward determining whether the revealed topographic activity would differentiate levels of olfactory sensitivity by clearly identifying supra- and subthreshold odor responses. Using a continuous respiration olfactometer (CRO) to precisely deliver an odor or air stimulus synchronously with the natural respiration, air or odor (n-butanol) was randomly delivered into the inspiratory airstream during the simultaneous recording of SSVEPs and subjective behavioral responses. Subjects were placed in groups based on subjective odor detection response: “yes” and “no” detection groups. In comparison to air, SSVEP topography revealed cortical changes in response to odor stimulation for both response groups, with topographic changes evident for those unable to perceive the odor, showing the presence of a subconscious physiological odor detection response. Differences in regional SSVEP topography were shown for those who reported smelling the odor compared with those who remained unaware of the odor. These changes revealed olfactory modulation of SSVEP topography related to odor awareness and sensitivity and therefore odor concentration relative to thresholds.

Learning: A Cultural Perspective

1997 ◽  
Vol 42 (6) ◽  
pp. 527-528
Author(s):  
Geoffrey B. Saxe ◽  
Lisa M. Butler
Keyword(s):  
Cultural Perspective
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