Teacher Learning of Technology Enhanced Formative Assessment

This study examined the integration of technology enhanced formative assessment (FA) into teachers’ practice. Participants were high school physics teachers interested in improving their use of a classroom response system (CRS) to promote FA. Data were collected using interviews, direct classroom observations, and collaborative discussions. The physics teachers engaged in collaborative action research (AR) to learn how to use FA and CRS to promote student and teacher learning. Data were analyzed using open coding, cross-case analysis, and content analysis. Results from data analysis allowed researchers to construct a model for knowledge skills necessary for the integration of technology enhanced FA into teachers’ practice. The model is as a set of four technologies: hardware and software; methods for constructing FA items; pedagogical methods; and curriculum integration. The model is grounded in the idea that teachers must develop these respective technologies as they interact with the CRS (i.e., hardware and software, item construction) and their existing practice (i.e., pedagogical methods, curriculum). Implications are that for teachers to make FA an integral part of their practice using CRS, they must: 1) engage in the four technologies; 2) understand the nature of FA; and 3) collaborate with other interested teachers through AR.     

发展性评价:学生评价的理性选择

学生评价是教育评价的重要内容,由于受历史文化、社会现实和传统教育观的影响,学生评价存在过于注重甄别选拔功能、评价主体单一、评价目标内容偏狭及忽视差异性等问题.发展性学生评价应通过确立全面的评价目标内容、实施多元主体的差异性评价和综合运用多样化的评价方法实现对传统学生评价的超越,切实促进学生的全面发展.     

艺术设计学院教学改革中的形成性评估与英语教学策略

形成性评估是教育评价的一个重要组成部分,它能弥补传统的评价方式和评价主体单一的缺陷,使评估过程成为教学过程的有机成分。作为教学手段和学习手段,它有着终结性评估不可比的优势。在大学英语教学中如何实施形成性评估,以产生良好的教学效果是值得深入研究和探讨的。     

Too Important to Quit: A Call for Teacher Support of Art

The author argues that general education teacher candidates must learn to “­re-start” art to empower them with the skills needed to realize art’s promise within their future classrooms. Entry/exit surveys completed by candidates ­revealed that an art methods course corrected misconceptions about the nature of creativity and improved candidates’ confidence in their artistic skills.     

教师合作:教师发展的一个重要路径

20世纪80年代以来,教师合作作为教师发展的一种方式获得广泛的关注,成为国际教师教育研究领域中一大热点问题。本文认为,所谓教师合作,就是教师们为了改善学校教育实践,以自愿、平等的方式就共同感兴趣的问题,共同探讨解决的办法,从而形成的一种批判性互动关系;教师合作有助于激发与强化教师发展意愿、提高教师个体反思能力、促进学校组织学习。     

Teacher Candidates' Exposure to Formative Assessment in Educational Psychology Textbooks: A Content Analysis

The purpose of this article is to define formative assessment, outline what is known about the prevalence of formative assessment implementation in the classroom, establish the importance of formative assessment with regards to student motivation and achievement, and present the results of a content analysis of current educational psychology textbooks. Several key definitions of formative assessment are examined, and various means of conducting formative assessment are outlined. Numerous studies that have examined the effects of formative assessment on motivation and achievement are summarized. The theoretical link between formative assessment and several important motivational constructs is established, and suggestions for future research are delineated.     

The Art of Teacher Evaluation

Post-secondary education sees an increasing variety of instructional media and an increasing diversity among learners. The goal of this study was to ascertain whether students of different learning styles, majors, and genders benefited from particular instructional media. Students completed a learning styles inventory and a survey of perceived usefulness of each instructional medium. Qualitative information was collected in student focus groups. All students perceived some of the same instructional media as useful and all valued a mix of media. A rich ecology of media appears to enhance student learning.     

开放教育中的形成性评价

形成性评价是现代远程开放教育教学过程质量监控的一个重要环节。结合“人才培养模式改革与开放教育试点”工作的开展,本文重点探讨现代远程开放教育教学过程中,形成性评价的作用、特点以及实施。     

Formative Assessment: Assessment Is for Self-regulated Learning

The article draws from 199 sources on assessment, learning, and motivation to present a detailed decomposition of the values, theories, and goals of formative assessment. This article will discuss the extent to which formative feedback actualizes and reinforces self-regulated learning (SRL) strategies among students. Theoreticians agree that SRL is predictive of improved academic outcomes and motivation because students acquire the adaptive and autonomous learning characteristics required for an enhanced engagement with the learning process and subsequent successful performance. The theory of formative assessment is found to be a unifying theory of instruction, which guides practice and improves the learning process by developing SRL strategies among learners. In a postmodern era characterized by rapid technical and scientific advance and obsolescence, there is a growing emphasis on the acquisition of learning strategies which people may rely on across the entire span of their life. Research consistently finds that the self-regulation of cognitive and affective states supports the drive for lifelong learning by: enhancing the motivational disposition to learn, enriching reasoning, refining meta-cognitive skills, and improving performance outcomes. The specific purposes of the article are to provide practitioners, administrators and policy-makers with: (a) an account of the very extensive conceptual territory that is the ‘theory of formative assessment’ and (b) how the goals of formative feedback operate to reveal recondite learning processes, thereby reinforcing SRL strategies which support learning, improve outcomes and actualize the drive for lifelong learning.     

过程性评价：内涵与操作——以深圳市育才中学为主例

过程性评价是高中新课程学业评价的重要组成部分,也是取得学分的必要条件。它是一种在课程实施的过程中对学生的学习进行评价的方式。科学地进行过程性评价,对学生学习动机、效果以及与学习密切相关的非智力因素等方面的提升能产生积极而显著的作用。但就面上的情况来看,相当一部分学校因种种原因导致其形同虚设甚至完全取消。如何准确把握过程性评价的内涵与实践,实现过程性评价的应有价值和功能,是每一个课程理论工作者及一线实践者必须面对的问题。     

教师专业成长的重要途径--英国新教师入职培训制度概述

作为英国师范教育体系改革的一个重要组成部分，新教师入职培训制度的建立不仅在职前培养和职后培训之间形成了一个过渡阶段，即新教师的入职培训阶段，很好地完成了新教师向职业教师的过渡，而且有利于教师的专业成长与发展。本文拟从英国新教师入职培训制度建立的背景和原因、具体实施以及积极意义等方面加以叙述，以便从中了解英国师范教育的发展态势。     

过程本位:教师教育质量监测的路径选择

本文在提出和探讨"过程本位"教师教育质量监测模式的内涵与特征基础上,从传统教师教育质量监测制度的局限性、新时代教师教育改革的必然要求和信息技术的发展支撑等方面分析了转向"过程本位"教师教育质量监测的必要性,从树立科学的教师教育质量监测理念、重视教师教育过程中不断变化的"人"的因素、不断优化教师教育质量监测路径、根据监测结果不断完善教师教育质量监测制度等四个方面提出"过程本位"的教师教育质量监测实施路径。     

开放教育形成性考核册浅析

如何实施远程开放教育学生自主化学习的监控,是开放教育完成教学任务的一项重要步骤。历年来,我国远程开放教育对学生学习每门功课进行监测都是利用中央电大或省电大的形成性考核册来完成的,在使用过程中,有利有弊。本文对形考册和网上作业进行分析,旨在探索更好的考核办法来促进开放教育的发展。     

远程教育专职教师胜任力的研究

本文以远程教育专职教师为研究对象,基于文献研究,对专家、管理人员、教师、学生等多层面结构进行了访谈和开放式问卷调查,构建了远程教育专职教师胜任力结构模型,并对结构模型中的各因素进行了分析评价,以期为今后时教师质量标准的研究以及师资培训规划的研究做好前期研究.