成年障碍者社区教育支持现状调查

本研究借鉴余秀兰对弱势群体教育支持的界定和分类,通过自编问卷对大连市和牡丹江市两地24个社区114名社区专干和416名成年障碍者进行调查,并着重分析两市社区对成年障碍者提供教育支持的情况以及成年障碍者利用社区教育支持的情况.研究发现:(1)社区对成年障碍者提供的教育支持主要以偶尔提供为主;(2)成年障碍者对社区教育支持的利用情况主要以没有利用为主.本研究为社区如何提供教育支持和成年障碍者如何 利用社区提供的教育支持提出了建议.     

大学生公共英语学习情况调查

用实证研究的方法,从课堂教学、课外学习,学习方法、学习动机和态度四方面对兰州师专学生的公共英语学习情况进行了调查研究,从中得出一些改进公共英语教学和学习的建议.     

高校旅游英语教学模式研究

文章主要调查华南师范大学增城学院旅游管理专业学生对旅游英语教学模式的认知,分析影响旅游英语教学质量提高的主、客观因素。通过论证,提出我国高校旅游英语教学可借鉴的模式是：设立科学的旅游英语教学体系,明确旅游专业所培养的对象、层次,以及学生今后应对岗位的性质;以旅游实践为导向,选择适合不同对象、层次的旅游英语教材。英语语言和旅游专业理论教学相结合;提高专业教师的综合素质。通过掌握不同国家或社会的文化背景,突出旅游交际的听说特点,辅以多媒体影视手段,同时加强旅游英语的阅、译和写作的技能,以提高教学质量。     

Regret for Complaint Withholding

This study examines regret for withholding relational complaints. The study sample of 393 participants completed measures of irritant frequency, irritant importance, relational intimacy, emotional distress from withholding, and regret for withholding. Irritant frequency mediated the positive relationship between length of withholding and irritant importance. This process predicted less intimacy and more emotional distress from withholding, the latter of which related to regret. Alternative paths were also found between length of withholding and regret. Results offer important implications for the role of regret management in hurtful confrontations and may inform other avoidance forms.     

Collaborative research for assessment for learning

This paper reports on a collaborative research study between three secondary teachers and two university researchers, initiated by the teachers, into the practice and impacts of assessment for learning in science, geography and history classes. The research provides insights into how teachers and researchers can collaborate to develop a research and practice agenda. The study illustrates the need for a dynamic interconnection between the personal, micro or school-related level and the macro or policy level factors. The findings highlight the importance of external support, shared teacher knowledge and beliefs, professional experimentation, and shared reflection on student responses to classroom innovations.     

The globalization of Teach for America: An analysis of the institutional discourses of Teach for America and Teach for India within local contexts

Teach for India is an alternative teacher credentialing program in India that is part of Teach for All, a global organization with strong ties to Teach for America, the American alternative credentialing program. This exploratory study employs institutional discourse analysis to raise questions about the appropriateness of Teach for India for its cultural context. This study compares Teach for India and Teach for America, describing how the programs are similar, and why these similarities might be problematic, given the dissimilar historical, cultural, and economic contexts.     

Willingness to Pay and Preference for Private Institutions

This study focuses on the correlates of student preference for private institutions over public institutions in their senior year in high school, with a particular focus on the effects of students' subjective responses to tuition costs and to financial aid availability. The data for this study were drawn from a longitudinal study of postsecondary educational choice of high school students in the state of Indiana. The results indicate that in addition to student and family background and student academic characteristics, students' subjective responses to tuition costs and to financial aid availability have a substantial linkage with student preference for private or public institutions. This study suggests that family and ascribed characteristics alone do not explain student preference for the type of postsecondary institution. Students' subjective responses to tuition costs and to financial aid availability are also directly related to student preference for a certain type of postsecondary institution, independent of student family background and academic characteristics. This suggests that the willingness to pay, not only the ability to pay, plays a direct role in student college choice decisions. The implications for policy making are discussed.     

Permission-seeking as an agentive tool for transgressive teaching: An ethnographic study of teachers organizing for curricular change

This study describes how a group of teachers in a US public school developed and used permission-seeking moves as strategic and agentic tools to change their school curriculum and challenge norms of teaching. Although the notion of asking permission is typically considered disempowering in educational contexts, this study demonstrates that certain forms of permission-seeking (and giving) can foster collaboration and teacher agency across multiple constituent groups in a school community. This 2-year ethnographic study occurred within a context of a test-driven teaching environment with shifting student racial and economic demographics. Our research offers a reconceptualized theory of permission within a teacher agency framework and new possibilities for practitioners to engage in transgressive teaching with diverse learners in hyper-standardized teaching contexts.     

非智力因素对数学学习的影响

本文阐述了数学学习的动机,数学学习的兴趣以及如何激发学生学习数学的动机,讲述了教师和家庭对数学学习的影响.     

Biodiversity for Beginners

Biodiversity is a difficult concept. It can be introduced to young children successfully, laying the foundations for further study in later years. This article describes one practical activity for 5‐ and 6‐year‐old children.     

Use of webquest design for inservice teacher professional development

This study investigated whether a teacher professional development module built around designing WebQuests could improve teachers’ technological and pedagogical skills. The technological skills examined included Web searching and Web evaluating skills. The pedagogical skills targeted were developing a working definition for higher-order thinking skills, and designing WebQuest tasks to improve such skills. This case study was carried out with six inservice teachers. After the training, all the teachers showed improvement in their Web searching and evaluating skills. Furthermore, teachers adopted a working definition for higher-order thinking skills, and, using Web resources, they designed activities that promote students’ higher-order thinking. This study provides evidence supporting the use of design-based activities in learning technological and pedagogical skills and suggests an effective inservice teacher professional development module.     

网络语体风格的软规范与硬规范

语言规划研究是一种战略研究。网络语体风格的规范问题是语言规划必不可少的部分，但却是一个很少有人触及的领域。网络语体风格的表现是进行网络语体风格规范的基础，在此基础上，主要讨论网络语体风格软规范和硬规范的基础、理据和基本策略问题。并认为，语言的规范都应该分成两个部分，即软规范和硬规范。     

Recommendations for professional development necessary for iPad integration

With the recent adoptions of 1:1 technology initiatives, such as the iPads in schools, it is urgent to provide appropriate professional development opportunities for teachers to maximize student use of the technology. This study provides vital information on the professional development needs of teachers for initial integration of technology with the iPad device and what is needed beyond the first year to sustain use in classrooms. One hundred and ninety-one teachers from 10 school districts participated in the study. The results of this study indicate that successful professional development occurs when teachers are allowed time to collaborate with colleagues and learn from peers on how they integrated curriculum with the technology. Collaboration with peers and work time was more important to teachers than one-on-one coaching or large group professional development. Teachers also voiced a need for ongoing, differentiated professional development due to the wide range of teacher expertise and learning levels with technology.     

Implications of multi-image for concept acquisition

This study explored a number of questions related to multi-image presentation of information and acquisition of a concept — in this case, classifying plants in the subphylum Pteropsida. Of particular interest was whether redundancy (i.e., additional positive examples of plants in the classes) and an opportunity to view nonexamples as well as examples of classes would be helpful to the seventhgrade subjects. This study was funded by a Research Council grant, University of North Carolina at Greensboro. The author is grateful to Virginia Henry, Jamestown (N.C.) Junior High School, for her effort and to Douglas Denny, University of Kansas, for his informative cooperation.     

The Correction for Guessing

This study identified personality differences between college students who had and who did not have emotional problems, and then used these personality differences to predict emotional problems in other students. Personality differences on seven measures predicted three kinds of emotional problems. The technique predicted problems with the great silent majority of students who never ask for official help. This information can be used to plan preventive counseling or educational programs early in the college career of potential problem students.     

短跑运动员选材法研究

探讨了短跑运动员选材的重要性 ,并就选材的标准、方法及步骤做了进一步研究。     

Religion as a Support Factor for Women of Color Pursuing Science Degrees: Implications for Science Teacher Educators

This study explores the influence of religion as a support factor for a group of Latina and African-American women majoring in science. The current project is a part of a larger study that investigated persistence factors of underrepresented woman who were enrolled as science majors at United States colleges and universities. This paper focuses on one theme that emerged among six participants who disclosed how religion was a significant influence on their persistence in science fields. The strength and support offered by religious values is certainly not specific to science content; however, the support received from their beliefs highlights a potential area for further exploration. Given the importance of increasing participation by students from diverse backgrounds into science fields, it is critical to recognize how some of these differences may be the key factors influencing the way these students look at the world. This study offers evidence that science educators need to consider what role religious beliefs have for students who may be considering science or science education as a future career, particularly for those students from underrepresented groups.     

Writing for peer-reviewed journals: strategies for getting published

Believing that education is vital to improving the conditions of workers in the globalised economy, this international study assesses the factors that are enabling and constraining 18 leading workers education programs' response to the neo-liberal global economy. Two conclusions can be drawn from the findings of this study. This first conclusion is that the constraining factors outweigh the enabling ones, so that unions are still not able to seriously challenge transnational corporations. The second conclusion is that workers' education may be on the verge of a golden age.     

The determination of criteria for the selection of students for the pssc physics course

This study was done to determine criteria for selecting for the PSSC physics course and in the context, to determine the predictive ability of three creativity measures relative to more conventional predictors.     

火灾事故责任认定错误是否应予国家赔偿

根据近几年来因火灾事故责任认定错误引起的国家赔偿案件日益增多的形势,结合国家赔偿的构成要件和火灾事故责任认定的特性,着重论述了火灾事故责任认定错误的国家赔偿问题。