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Inviting Self-Efficacy: The Role of Invitations in the Development of Confidence and Competence in Writing
No full textSocial cognitive theorists contend that the beliefs individuals hold about their abilities powerfully influence the ways in which they will behave (Bandura, 1986). Of all beliefs, self-efficacy, people\u27s judgments of their capabilities to accomplish specific tasks, is regarded the most influential arbiter in human agency and helps explain why people\u27s behavior may differ markedly even when they have similar knowledge and skills. Bandura argued that what people do is often better predicted by their beliefs about their capabilities than by what they are actually capable of accomplishing. This is consistent with the view of researchers who argue that the potent nature of beliefs makes them a filter through which new phenomena are interpreted and evaluated (Pajares, 1992)
Cross-Cultural Equivalence and Psychometric Properties of the Traditional Chinese Version of the Inviting School Survey-Revised
No full textThe Inviting School Survey-Revised (ISS-R) was adapted and translated into Traditional Chinese (ISS-RC), using a five-stepprocess, based on international test administration guidelines, involving judgmental, logical, and empirical methods. Bothversions were administered to a convenience sample of Chinese-English fluent Hong Kong school community members(administrators, teachers, students, parents, and support personnel). A series of repeated measures ANOVAs revealedequivalence between the two versions, ISS-R and ISS-RC Total Scale and Subscales (variances, subscale correlations, internalconsistency) other than the Program Subscale overall mean difference. Item analyses, utilizing repeated measures ANOVAs,revealed significant differences in 11 of the 50 scale items. Suggestions for further development and refinement of the ChineseInvitational School Survey (ISS-RC) are presented. Additionally, recommendations for future research and application of theISS-R and ISS-RC are provide
Editorial: A New Wave for the JITP
No full textI wish to begin my first editorial with some well deserved thanks. Firstly, thank you to those who had the faith and trust in me by appointing me editor. I’ll work hard to improve the journal.Second, I see my work as part of a team and my right hand person is Ken Smith, the Associate Editor. Ken, your quick and efficient action in fulfilling your duties as well as your continual feedback to me has been invaluable this past year. I look forward to our continued personal and professional relationship.Next, my thanks go out to the Board of Editors, the peer reviewers. Without your commitment and professionalism the journal would surely suffer. You make my job much easier.Lastly, we all owe a debt of gratitude to our immediate past editor, Phil Riner. Nine years is a very long time to act in that capacity and your efforts are a testament to your commitment to the Alliance and to your individual perseverance. Thanks Phil, you are a tough act to follow
EDITORIAL: Blue, Orange, White, and Brown: Causality, Values, and the Impact of Messages
No full textIt is a simple question. I ask the “teachersto-be” in my university classes at the beginningof every term: “How many of you havebenefited from exposure to hostile, negative,and caustic comments from a teacher?” Iprovide a second version: “How many ofyou find yourselves attending to a lessonand learning better after the teacher criticizesyou or attempts to embarrass you infront of the class?” I give a third version:“How many of you have been made good bybeing told you were bad?
Editorial: The Beacon and the Port
No full textIn 1957 I was a school age kid attendingsegregated schools in NorthCarolina and barely understood whatwas occurring at Central High in LittleRock, Arkansas. Nine Arkansas highschools students decided to go to school,and to get to school safely, PresidentEisenhower had to enlist the services ofthe 101st Air Borne Division and a federalizedU.S. National Guard. I wasseven at the time and on that day, I roadto school in a bus and was guarded onlyby my taunting ten year old brother andthe supervision of community values. Itwas another ten years before the schoolsI attended opened their doors to allAmericans and it wasn’t until 1979 thatthe first seniors graduated from my highschool having never attended raciallysegregated schools. This edition of JITPcommemorates two very important anniversaries.First, it is the 50th anniversaryof the Central High incident. Second, itis the 25th anniversary of the Alliance forInvitational Education
Invitational Education at Cooper Elementary
No full textIn the summer of 1998, I was appointed Principal at CooperElementary, one of 21 elementary schools in the Livonia PublicSchools’ district, the 5th largest district in the state ofMichigan. Like many first-year principals, I was full of freshideas, lofty goals and endless enthusiasm to inspire students,staff and parents. My mandate: increase studentachievement scores at the lowest performing school in thedistrict
To Honor the Net in Invitational Counseling
No full textHonoring the net is a concept presented by Purkey in his discussion ofthe four-corner press. In a counseling setting this concept relates to theperceptions of the counselor and the client as they encounter oneanother in the counseling relationship, as well as the relationshipitself. This manuscript attempts to examine the dynamic of the net andthe process of honoring the net in these interactions
Editorial: Feeling Small…and Believing It
No full textRecently I journeyed to one of Florida’s many “oases of joy” to revisitAmerica’s leading rodent and relive a single day of a month-long familyvacation in 1988. While I couldn’t get my son in town for the week,my daughter (who had just graduated from Duke) wanted to compete in atriathlon in central Florida, so at least one of the nestlings could bebrought in tow. We were giddy with excitement and nostalgia as we rememberedour last exploration of the mouse’s world. I was champion ofthe world, determined to make the day at the park a perfect one and imprintthat memory forever. That is, I was like virtually everyone else inthe parking lot.
 
Examining Student Transition Programs through an Invitational Lens
No full textMoving to a new school, while frequently exciting, is also filled withstress and anxiety for students and their parents. Nowhere is this moredeeply felt than during the transition from elementary to middle school.Increasingly schools are modifying their transition practices to assurethat students are better informed, and feel more secure in their new setting.This paper uses the construct of Invitational Education to identifyways in which school personnel can modify both formal and informaltransition activities to assure that students see their new school as welcomingand inviting
The Transformational College Teacher
No full textThe recent deluge of criticism directed at university and college teaching is a perfect example of the old chestnut, "We have some bad news and some good news." The bad news is that the image of higher education in general, and the state of teaching within the academy in particular, has been badly tarnished. A few well-known examples will suffice to make the point.In The Closing of the American Mind, Allan Bloom (1987) accused the academy of no less a crime than failing democracy and impoverishing the souls of today\u27s students. ProfScam\u27s author, Charles J. Sykes (1988), suggested that the professoriate was made up of a group of lazy, egotistical, and greedy entrepreneurs whose concern for educating the next generation of intellectual leaders was far down on the priority list for their time, energy, and expertise. Speaking with more authority and only slightly less passion, then Secretary of Education William Bennett added his criticism to the discussion, claiming that graduate schools have produced too many narrow specialists whose teaching is often lifeless, stilted, and pedestrian (Bennett, 1985). More recently the House Select Committee on Children, Youth, and Families issued a report entitled, "College Education: Paying More and Getting Less," which the Chronicle of Higher Education greeted as "the opening salvo in a war against higher education that has been building for some time" (Chronicle of Higher Education, 1992, p. B7). The Chair of that report, Representative Patricia Schroeder, was quoted as stating that a professor\u27s salary is "inversely related to the number of hours he or she teaches" (Anderson, 1992), thus adding further fuel to the idea that teaching is not valued in academe