I am using my online account with blogger to post the project 3 for my Library 107 class. This is where you can find my assignment when it is completed.
Here are my first 4 article sources and 1 website source for the Starter Bibliography:
Engel, Pascale Marguerite Josiane, Flávia Heloísa Santos, and Susan Elizabeth Gathercole. "Are Working Memory Measures Free of Socioeconomic Influence?." Journal of Speech, Language & Hearing Research 51.6 (2008): 1580-1587. Academic Search Premier. EBSCO. Web. 25 July 2010.
Jordan, Nancy C., and Susan C. Levine. "Socioeconomic variation, number competence, and mathematics learning difficulties in young children." Developmental Disabilities Research Reviews 15.1 (2009): 60-68. Academic Search Premier. EBSCO. Web. 25 July 2010.
McGrath, Marianne P., and Bethany C. Brown. "Developmental Differences in Prosocial Motives and Behavior in Children From Low-Socioeconomic Status Families." Journal of Genetic Psychology 169.1 (2008): 5. MasterFILE Premier. EBSCO. Web. 25 July 2010.
Pellino, M. Karen. "The Effects of Poverty on Teaching and Learning." Teachnology. 2007. Teachnology Incorporated. 23 July 2010. [http://www.teach-nology.com/tutorials/teaching/poverty/print.htm]
XIAOFEI, LIU, and LU KE. "Student Performance and Family Socioeconomic Status." Chinese Education & Society 41.5 (2008): 70. MasterFILE Premier. EBSCO. Web. 25 July 2010.
This is the final and edited version for my project along with the annotations.
Aratani, Yumiko. Homeless Children and Youth: Causes and Consequences. Sept 2009. National Center for Children in Poverty. 27 July 2010. [http://www.nccp.org]
This website features the largest research foundation in support of children. The information that it features includes facts and statistics about the poverty level in different states. Certain studies show the levels and percentage of children living in low-income families. It also shows the characteristics of children that are poor based on the parents previous education, employment status and structure of the family. The National Center for Children in Poverty is a public interest research organization that addresses poverty and its effects on the lives of children.
Armstrong, Thomas. Multiple Intelligences In the Classroom. Alexandria: Association for Supervision and Curriculum Development, 1994.
The author of this book is Thomas Armstrong and has a Ph.D. He has written other books with the relation to children and learning capabilities. Armstrong is also the director of his company Armstrong Creative Training in California that helps children with these learning disabilities. He has a long history of working with children who are in need of special education and other mental health issues. He really knows how to make the reader get involved and learn from what his experiences are in the book for multiple intelligences.
Thomas bases his book on the seven types of intelligences that people can have. He goes on about how you can develop them and try to "master" them. It does only make sense though that he mentions the personal life factor in there because it not only impacts your health or other things but your learning style and intelligence. A key point that I found useful was how it talks about how to further the development of the intelligences. He also talks about how these children do retain the information and how other specific teaching styles can improve it. This helps me develop my argument because it does not only involve the teacher, but a family or even just parents. It also develops my side because it shows that the factors affecting a child's life and home environment are factors in how much they can learn or be affected by being taught.
Bradway, Lauren Carlile. How to maximize your child's learning ability: a complete guide to choosing and using the best computer games, activities, learning aids, toys, and tactics for your child. Garden City Park: Lauren Bradway and Barbara Albers Hill, 2004.
In this book the author Lauren Bradway, who has a doctorate in Human Ecology. She is trained as a speech language pathologist and learned from the University of Oklahoma Health Sciences Center. The author does consultations with schools and maintains teacher training programs that help children and families. Her website is another part of her career it is www.helpingchildrengrow.com and she is very successful. the co-author Barbara Alders Hill went to Hofstra University and has a BA in Psychology and an MS in Education. She teaches at the elementary level and writes for magazines.
The very beginning of the book describes the learning styles and how to identify them. Another aspect is how to encourage these learning styles which is a point that is going to be made in the paper. It will provide an outlook that instead of changing the way they learn the parents can be influential and help them learn in their own way. This in turn will lessen the effect of the other factors that have a negative impact on development and growth, like socioeconomic status and parental involvement. Each age and grade level is addressed so no matter if the learning behaviors continue throughout elementary or stop they can be addressed. It even goes on a few pages to mention how parental learning styles influence the child's learning. All of these factors add up and it is a very helpful source that help understand the three learning styles and how they can be encouraged.
Carter, Carol, Joyce Bishop, Sarah Lyman Kravits. Keys to Effective Learning. Upper Saddle River: Prentice Hall, 1998.
This book has a chapter about educational issues that address one important factor needed in my paper. It would be the factor of diversity in the classrooms. Each child has diverse learning opportunities and factors contributing to the information that they can even attain. Much of the different backgrounds , abilities, economic status, and even health conditions affect learning in the classroom. The book also talks about the spectrum of the learning styles. Values of children also affect these issues and it is something that needs to be assessed in the paper as well. Many of these interrelate and can be taken back to the paper as a main source for why these styles are so different and can make the learning process more difficult. If a child has a better socioeconomic status their values might not be very developed because they don't get those same chances that a child with a lower status would have to develop feelings for it. This was a book that could be used as a textbook with the different aspects it covers and it has many different authors not just a single author. It has many different sources but it is a great source, it only covers a certain aspect of my paper but that was all I needed.
Edelman W. Marian. Marian Wright Edelman's Child Watch® Column: "Leaving the Littlest Ones Behind". 12 Feb 2010. Children's Defense Fund. 27 July 2010. [http://www.childrensdefense.org/newsroom/child-watch-columns/child-watch-documents/leaving-the-littlest-ones-behind.html]
Marian is the founder of the Children's Defense Fund and is an activist for children's rights and keeps other activists who visit the website informed as well. On an updated post she talks about the differences in development for children in a family of a lower income. It also covers the idea that children born in poverty are at a big risk of being less developed later on in life as well. She mentions how from early stages in life these problems should be addressed and given the full attention they deserve. This source was full of information and links to other references where the information was found and it gave a wider view on these problems and risks that kids face when in a learning environment.
Engel, Pascale Marguerite Josiane, Flávia Heloísa Santos, and Susan Elizabeth Gathercole. "Are Working Memory Measures Free of Socioeconomic Influence?." Journal of Speech, Language & Hearing Research 51.6 (2008): 1580-1587. Academic Search Premier. EBSCO. Web. 25 July 2010.
Gathercole is a cognitive psychologist and has been working on research in human memory at the University of York in the United Kingdom. Engel, is another researcher in this project and is based in the United Kingdom as well. The final author included is Flavia who is in Brazil. This test was based on the evaluations of students from low-socioeconomic families and the effects of it on their memory and vocabulary skills. This study reinforces the idea that the children in a higher socioeconomic status are at a better disadvantage than those of a lower income. They constantly achieve higher on tests that measure their competence when compared.This resource was one of the first I found that actually was able to identify the ways that it affected a child. This information will lead the reader to the conclusion that those who have a lower socioeconomic status have a much harder time than those who have that support.
Jordan, Nancy C., and Susan C. Levine. "Socioeconomic variation, number competence, and mathematics learning difficulties in young children." Developmental Disabilities Research Reviews 15.1 (2009): 60-68. Academic Search Premier. EBSCO. Web. 25 July 2010.
The authors Nancy and Susan came together on this research, and put their backgrounds of school teaching and psychology to use. Nancy works at the University of Delaware conducting research for her published works and teaching while Susan who is based in Chicago, Illinois and is the co-director of the Center for Early Childhood Research. In this article the authors outline the characteristics of a child that is in need of more attention in the learning process especially in the field of mathematics. A section in the article shows the correlation between the socioeconomic status and learning in math. It is easy to see that with many researchers coming to the same conclusions; how the socioeconomic status really does affects a child's ability to learn and retain knowledge. All of the studies, including this one all mention that it does not just have a small impact but a significant impact on the child. Much to everyone's surprise the study also shows the effects of this impact. It shows that many children get left behind when they enter school and are much slower to gain knowledge that their peers have no problem with.
Mather, Mark, Dia Adams. Census 2000: The Risk of Negative Child Outcomes in Low-Income Families. April 2006. The Annie E. Casey Foundation Population Reference Bureau. 27 July 2010. [http://www.aecf.org/upload/publicationfiles/da3622h1234.pdf]
Mark Mathers is the associate vice president of Domestic Programs at the Population Reference Bureau. He also supports the KIDS Count network in the meetings and is an advocate of child and family well being. He has his Ph.D in sociology from the University of Maryland. The article referencing the trends in the census years can validate the connection of physical, emotional, and social developments in their young years. It relates the development into adult years and what the outcome of their life is and compares it to those growing up in a higher income bracket. A family income chart was used to show the differences and when they are compared they really can prove what is being said. This source was very useful even though it was from the previous census time because it shows that many children who faced poverty then were still greatly affected by other factors like race and especially family income. It is a great source because it used the current numbers to verify the truth about these growing rates of poverty and slow decline in learning.
McGilly, Kate. Classroom Lessons: Integrating Cognitive Theory and Classroom Practice. Massachusetts: The MIT Press, 1995.
This book has a chapter that describes the learning styles and how to accommodate them in the classrooms. The plan is to reform the educational system and it can be with the discovery of programs for learning that include considerations for all these influencing factors. It's main idea that is another central focus of my paper is the curriculum in its role as medium for this learning to take place. It talks about how they engineer the curriculum in such a way as to provide it for the teacher so they can influence as many children as they can with just one lesson. It also talks about the hidden curriculum involved and how it affects them and their activities. For my topic this was a great source, because it involved the main part of the paper I needed to include to make sure the paper gives information about the design of it and how it affects children depending on their particular learning style.
McGrath, Marianne P., and Bethany C. Brown. "Developmental Differences in Prosocial Motives and Behavior in Children From Low-Socioeconomic Status Families." Journal of Genetic Psychology 169.1 (2008): 5. MasterFILE Premier. EBSCO. Web. 25 July 2010.
Marianne P. McGrath is a professor at the Institutional Review Board at the University of Michigan–Flint. She teaches developmental psychology, gender, and research methods, classes as well. Bethany C. Brown is a former psychiatric case manager, is still studying for her master’s degree in neuropsychology. This study does not go into the same area that I wanted to use in my research but at the same time it does explain the developmental differences among children and how they perceive their actions with others. The person that they are when they are interacting with others can reflect many other things among a child's life. Just as their parents influence their learning of the basic formal curricula they can also influence the outcome of the informal curricula as well such as interactions with others. The socioeconomic status affects these areas as well so it not only shows that my argument is correct but it furthers the evidence by providing examples in another area that is not exactly taught at school first hand.
Morgan, Harry. Cognitive Styles and Classroom Learning. Westport: Praeger Publishers, 1997.
Harry Morgan works for the State University of West Georgia in Carrollton. There he is Professor of Early Childhood Education and he has written other books about children and the differences race bring about on education. His book is about the cognitive part of learning and understanding new ideas. Children are always being bombarded with new things every day and to accommodate the changes the brain must intake these concepts and process them at a fast pace. A chapter in the book is dedicated to explaining how the information is processed and how the learning actually takes place. It also refers to studies done by Sigmund Freud on this where the inflammation makes a critical connection in the paper. It is a great source that will help me explain the process to the audience and then relate it to how education can be influenced by other factors like the socioeconomic status.
National Law Center on Homelessness and Poverty. 27 July 2010. [http://www.nlchp.org]
The NLCHP website is focused on finding a key to ending poverty and homelessness throughout communities. It is a site that has many useful facts on poverty and they keep everyone informed on the policies that are available to help. They advocate for legal action that will end homelessness and some that prevent it in the future. It was a useful site that helped with the understanding of the reality of poverty in some of our own communities and neighborhoods. It would be a useful recommendation for future research where the need for policies is higher, but not specifically for this paper.
Terzian Mary, Kassim Mbwana. What Works for Parent Involvement Programs for Adolescents: Lessons from Experimental Evaluations of Social Interventions. Dec 2009. Child Trends. 27 July 2010. [http://www.childtrends.org/Files//Child_Trends-2009_12_09_FS_WWParentInvolveAdol.pdf]
Mary Terzian is involved in research based on programs that positively influence teens and children. This research article would be helpful in my paper because it is showing what involvement techniques could be used to help children develop and become better in mental health and physical as well. Some of the programs varied in themes or topics but the overall did show improvements in behaviors or other traits they showed before. One of the main topics that this article does address is the importance of the role that parents can play in a child's life when they are involved and this is something that is critical to the paper. This article was not as helpful when compared to the others; it was a source that I would not have used much information from in my paper.
Weisz, Eva, and Barry Kanpol. "Classrooms as Socialization Agents: The Three R's and Beyond." Education 111.1 (1990): 100. MasterFILE Premier. EBSCO. Web. 31 July 2010.
Eva Weisz has a Ph.D. in Curriculum and Instructions and Educational Policy and Leadership from The Ohio State University and has a background in teaching many different age levels and schools. This article was a literature review but it reviewed reports that studied curriculum as more than just a way to teach the kids the regulated material. It was discovered that it was a way for them to learn the ways in which to socialize with others, desirable behavioral traits, and the actual curriculum itself. It is something that I wanted to emphasize in my paper because it provides new ideas that were never used before. It shows that how the teachers instruct and what the setting for learning is added to the ideas that are presented can really affect a child's ability to learn.
XIAOFEI, LIU, and LU KE. "Student Performance and Family Socioeconomic Status." Chinese Education & Society 41.5 (2008): 70. MasterFILE Premier. EBSCO. Web. 25 July 2010.
Xiaofei Liu has a Ph.D. and is a candidate at the College of Education Administration at Beijing Normal University. Ke Lu is the co-author and is a postgraduate student at the College of Education Administration at Beijing Normal University. This study was a great resource because it studied the three main topics that are in the outline for the paper. It studies the socioeconomic status and how the parents affect their learning as well by what they know and by being involved. The people conducting this study recognize the importance of research in this area and want to be able to expand the knowledge. Much of the research and review of the results support my arguments and gives the proof that is needed to convince the reader of my point.
