Young people,social workers and social work education: the role of digital skills

ABSTRACT

This paper addresses a key issue in the development of youth-focused social work: the role of digital skills in the relationship between young people and social workers who work with these native digital users. To this end, we analysed data from the International Digital Economy and Society Index 2019 and Eurostat. Information from the sixth European Working Conditions Survey and a survey conducted by the Social Care Institute for Excellence and the British Association of Social Workers supported the empirical analysis. The main findings reveal a gap between the level of digital skills required in the labour market and the actual level of digital skills in both young people and social workers, despite efforts by both groups to improve their skills. Initiatives to foster digital skills are therefore recommended to bridge this digital divide. Lastly, it was concluded that both groups could act as mutual drivers of digital transformation.     

How does cultural capital affect educational performance: Signals or skills?

In this paper, we test two mechanisms through which cultural capital might affect educational performance: (a) teachers misinterpreting cultural capital as signals of academic brilliance and (b) cultural capital fostering skills in children that enhance educational performance. We analyse data from the ECLS-K and ECLS-K:2011 from the United States and focus on three aspects of children’s cultural capital: participation in performing arts, reading interest and participation in athletics and clubs. We find that (1) none of the three aspects of cultural capital that we consider affects teachers’ evaluations of children’s academic skills; (2) reading interest has a direct positive effect on educational performance; and (3) the direct effect of reading interest on educational performance does not depend on schooling context. Our results provide little support for the hypothesis that cultural capital operates via signals about academic brilliance. Instead, they suggest that cultural capital fosters skills in children that enhance educational performance. We discuss the theoretical implications of our findings.     

Parenting and children’s negative emotionality,self‐regulation,and academic skills: The moderating role of fathers’ residency

We examined whether fathers’ residency modified the associations among mothers’ supportiveness, father involvement, children’s negative emotionality during toddlerhood and children’s academic skills in pre‐kindergarten via children’s self‐regulation. Participants were 2,291 mothers (M_age = 23.24 years) and children (M_age = 14.99 months at Wave 1; 50.7% girls) in the Early Head Start Research and Evaluation Project. Results revealed distinctive associations by fathers’ residency: self‐regulation mediated the association between mothers’ supportiveness and academic skills only in resident‐father‐families. Self‐regulation mediated the association between negative emotionality and academic skills only in nonresident‐father‐families. The findings highlight the family processes of mothers, fathers, and children in low‐income family contexts that contribute to children’s academic skills, and how those family processes may vary by fathers’ residency status.     

Teaching Employees How to Receive Feedback: A Preliminary Investigation

ABSTRACT

There is a substantial literature on how to deliver feedback to change performance. However, to date no research has been conducted on teaching employees how to effectively receive feedback, even though employee behavior during a feedback session could moderate the effects of feedback. Thus, we developed a list of skills that should be exhibited by an employee while receiving verbal feedback. We then evaluated their acquisition after behavioral skills training using a nonconcurrent multiple-baseline design across participants. The results showed that participants were able to acquire and maintain appropriate feedback receiving behavior.     

Predicting Condom Use Outcomes via the Information Motivation Behavioral Skills Model: An Analysis of Young Black Men

Objectives: This study examines the relationships between information motivation behavioral skills model constructs and their associations with consistent condom use and condom use problems among young Black men. Methods: The authors use baseline data collected from 702 participants in a randomized controlled trial. Analyses involved path modeling and bootstrapped standard errors to estimate associations. Results: Motivation had the largest association with consistent condom use, whereas condom application skills had the largest association with condom use problems. Conclusion: Motivation is the most important predictor of consistent condom use, whereas condom application skills are the most important predictor of condom use problems.     

职业院校大学生就业工作探析

本文指出高职院校应以市场为导向,合理调整教育模式,实施精细化、全程化的就业指导和服务工作,帮助学生转变就业观念,从而促进大学生就业。     

从写作能力看英语专业学生的批判性思维能力

批判性思维能力是大学生必须具备的基本素养,文章针对批判性思维的六项核心技能,对英语专业大学一年级和四年级的学生通过议论文写作展开调查和研究。结果表明,通过四年学习学生具备了解释,分析,说明这三项技能,而评估,推论和自我校准技能仍然缺失。     

关于提高体育教师教学技能的几点思考

在高校体育教学经历选项课和俱乐部化教学模式改革之后,一个亟待解决的问题是如何提高体育教师的专业素质和教学技能。立足于高校体育教学改革背景下体育教师队伍现状分析,就其存在问题和相关因素进行研究,并针对其素质发展和提高教学技能提出了相应的措施和建议。     

谈钢琴教学中读谱、演奏技巧与乐感的综合培养——以肖邦夜曲op.9-no.1作品教学为例

钢琴演奏是一个综合的整体艺术,在钢琴教学中,需运用辩证统一的教学模式——即将读谱、演奏技法以及乐感的培养三者相互协调、促进。并通过钢琴教学中的演奏及乐感的培养来促进学生的循环认知、模式信息认知与演奏技巧创新认知等能力的培养。肖邦夜曲op.9-no.1音乐语言丰富多彩,通过肖邦的这部夜曲作品教学的分析可以帮助我们研究和了解肖邦的创作追求,帮助学生增加抒情性乐曲的乐感与演奏技巧。