Data Visualization as Participatory Research: A Model for Digital Collections to Inspire User-Driven Research

The emerging creative practices of digital collections are increasing in prominence thanks to the access to, and appeal of, data visualizations. Interactive data visualizations, such as a map, timeline, chart, graph, or artist’s rendering of data, enable users to pursue their own research interests within a collection and participate in new areas of research. Use of these data visualizations enhances the scope of the collection and enables a modern and diverse thematic collection to emerge. This article considers the question: Does the addition of data visualizations affect how users participate with a research collection? Impacts on collection development, application of user-centered design, and analysis of users’ exploratory strategies are discussed. Examples of data visualizations used in digital humanities projects and digital collections are presented as case studies.     

Making Sense of the Online Forum Posts of Two Books on Zheng He’s Voyages

This paper studies the online forum posts at the websites of Amazon and Goodreads of two books on Zheng He’s voyages. The findings are threefold: First, most of the online forum participants play their due roles and satisfy the six conditions of Dahlberg’s model of an ideal online public sphere. Second, the emerged themes match the six conditions of Dahlberg’s model. The readers’ reviews at the two Western social media websites are mostly positive and rational. Implications of the study are also discussed.     

石油工程专业探索性实验提升大学生创新能力的意义

国内石油工程专业的本科生实验以传统验证性实验为主,缺少探索性实验教学。验证性实验教学偏重实验结果,是一种再现式的教学模式,不能充分体现实验探索未知的意义,造成大学生缺乏应有的创造能力,思维呆板,认识问题的方法单一,跟不上石油工程学科培育人才的发展要求。探索性实验,重在对未知的探索,有利于激发学生的好奇心,提高学生的主观能动性,克服其思维僵化的状态、培养思维灵活性,对提升大学生创新能力有着十分重要的意义。     

An Examination and Validation of an Adapted Youth Experience Scale for University Sport

Limited tools assess positive development through university sport. Such a tool was validated in this investigation using two independent samples of Canadian university athletes. In Study 1, 605 athletes completed 99 survey items drawn from the Youth Experience Scale (YES 2.0), and separate a priori measurement models were evaluated (i.e., 99 items, YES 2.0, YES for Sport [YES-S]). Confirmatory factor analysis (CFA) and exploratory structural equation modeling (ESEM) results indicated issues with model fit. Post-hoc modifications improved fit, resulting in a 46-item, 9-factor model with five positive and four negative dimensions. In Study 2, 511 athletes completed the same items. The resultant model was confirmed using both CFA (comparative fit index [CFI] = .911, standardized root mean square residual [SRMR] = .056, root mean square error of approximation [RMSEA] = .040) and ESEM (CFI = .956, SRMR = .023, RMSEA = .034). The resultant University Sport Experience Survey provides a reliable and factorially valid instrument for measuring development in university sport.     

探索性实验是创新型人才培养的有效途径

通过探索性实验与高素质创新型人才培养关系的探讨,阐述了探索性实验是高素质创新型人才培养的重要途径和探索性实验的实施程序。     

高职应用化工技术专业教材建设探索

分析了当前国内高职院校应用化工技术专业（民用爆破器材方向）教材存在的缺陷和不足,结合教育改革实践,提出了与企业合作并按照职业岗位能力开发成套教材的解决方法,同时进行了解决方法的可行性分析。     

中国古代学习思想与研究性学习

中国古代学习思想强调“知行统一”、“躬行践履”,忌“因循”,重“发展”,注重德识才学创新素质的培养,蕴含了丰富的研究性学习思想。对这些思想的研究有助于丰富现代教育观念和学习科学。     

中美研究型大学管理岗位设置的比较研究

现代大学已走出象牙塔而越来越处于社会的中心,其作为一个有输入与输出的系统,必然要重视运行的效率.设置大学的管理岗位、清晰各岗位的隶属关系并明确各岗位的职责和权限是提高大学运行效率的一个基本途径,因此,对大学管理岗位设置的研究和探讨是很有意义的.本文比较了中、美7所研究型大学的管理岗位设置并提出了对改革我国大学管理制度的一点建议.     

对非生物类专业生物学实验课的改革与创新

非生物学专业公选课生命科学基础实验的基本目的是引导学生学习科学研究的基本思路与实践方法.研究如何转变传统的教学理念,在普及基本知识和训练基本实验技能中,整合适当的探索性研究内容.通过围绕着一些重要的生命科学概念建设不同的探索性实验项目,如实地考察全国示范性工程的深圳市湿地生态保护工程,使学生主动学习,深化、扩展、整合各种相关知识.学生们通过课程学习,不仅得到生命学科基本知识普及与基础技能训练,而且能够改善其批判性思考、综合性分析和进行科学交流能力,从而成为具有创新性思维并持续终生学习、勇于应对将来各种科学和人文挑战的新型人才.