Type of high school biology program and its effect on student attitude and achievement in college life science

A specially designed questionnaire and a modification of the “Science Classroom Activity Checklist” by L. H. Krockendorfer were used to categorize 299 life science students at the University of Iowa into two groups; those with high school biology backgrounds founded in the BSCS philosophy and those with traditionally oriented backgrounds. These groups were compared with respect to grade achievement in a college life science course, ratings of their background for the college course, and their attitude toward biology as established by their high school experience. With respect to inquiry and student-centered methods, texts were revealed as poor indicators of types of programs offered.     

Estimating peer effects in Swedish high school using school,teacher, and student fixed effects

In this paper I use a rich dataset in order to observe each student in different subjects and courses over time. Unlike most peer studies, I identify the peers and the teachers that each student has had in every classroom. This enables me to handle the simultaneity and selection problems, which are inherent in estimating peer effects in the educational production function. I use a value-added approach with lagged peer achievement to avoid simultaneity and extensive fixed effects to rule out selection. To be specific, it is within-student across-subject variation with additional controls for time-invariant teacher characteristics that is exploited. Moreover, I identify students that are attending classes in which they have no peers from previous education which otherwise might bias the result. I find positive peer effects for the average student but also that there is a non-linear dimension. Lower-achieving students benefit more from an increase in both mean peer achievement and the spread in peer achievement within the classroom than their higher-achieving peers.     

高中生物学实验术语的辨析

对高中生物学实验教学中容易混淆的术语进行了辨析,澄清了近似术语的内涵,梳理了相似概念的关系.     

Junior high school science teacher preparation,teaching behavior,and student achievement

The findings challenge both practices and prejudices in junior high school science teacher preparation.     

The effect of a brief teacher training on student achievement

On the basis of previously determined correlations between teacher behavior and student achievement, a training program for mathematics teachers was developed. Previous research had established that this training did change the behavior of teachers. This article reports the effects of the training program on teacher behavior, student achievement, and student attitudes towards mathematics. From this study it appeared that the timing of the training was important for its effect on student achievement. There was no effect on student attitude.     

高中英语课堂教师提问的研究

过去十年教师的提问方式和提问类型曾经是国外研究者的研究焦点。但是近几年来,国内也有很多学者从理论和实践两个层次来研究课堂提问,并主要着眼于教师使用展示性问题和参考性问题的频率,以及提问策略,教师提问的分布和提问后等待时间等。但是对高中英语教师提问的研究还是比较少的,本文试图对高中英语课堂教师提问的分析来探讨教师提问方式与学生语言能力提高的关系。     

从学生需求谈生物学教师的专业素质

本文利用调查资料,从学生角度提出了中学生物学教师必须具备的专业素质。     

The effects of an interactive dissection simulation on the performance and achievement of high school biology students

Educators, administrators, and students are reevaluating the value of animal dissection in the classroom and are taking a careful look at instructional alternatives. This research is an attempt to examine the performance, achievement, and attitudinal effects of a dissection alternative, an interactive videodiscbased (IVD) simulation, in two ways: as a substitute for dissection and as a preparatory tool used prior to dissection. Sixty-one high school students enrolled in three general-ability high school biology classes participated in this research over a 4-day period. On the substitution issue, findings suggest that the IVD simulation was at least as effective as actual dissection in promoting student learning of frog anatomy and dissection procedures. On the preparation issue, it was found that students using the IVD simulation as a preparation performed a subsequent dissection more effectively than students receiving no preparation and more effectively than students viewing a videotape as preparation. Students using the IVD simulation as preparation also learned more about frog anatomy and dissection procedures than those who dissected without preparation. Students in all groups evidenced little change in attitudes toward dissection. All students reported a significant gain in dissection self-efficacy, but no between-group differences were found. Findings are discussed relative to their implications for educational practice and future research.     

In-service high school mathematics teacher training in Mexico

Since the training of high school mathematics teachers in Mexico is not organized in form of a well defined teacher training program, those teachers go into high school mathematics teaching without being specially prepared for it. This situation makes in-service teacher training more and more important. Most of it is done by means of graduate (Master's) degrees in mathematics education.     

High school teacher’s sense of responsibility toward student achievement

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中学生物课实施情感教学目标的研究

情感教育是现代教育体系的重要组成,生物学教师既要重视认知目标和能力目标的教学,也要关注情感教学目标的实施,研究生物课情感教学目标实施的特征和问题表征以及实施原则和应具备的条件,将有助于现代教育理念在中学素质教育中发挥积极作用。     

角色扮演教学法在高中生物教学中的应用

结合教学实例,分析角色扮演教学法的概念及实施的步骤,运用角色扮演活动进行教学,可以促使学生进一步认识并掌握生物基本概念,充分体现学生的主体,促使学生学会沟通与合作,培养学生各种能力.