Experimenting with Trident

Paul Holland, headmaster of Deerswood School, Crawley, Sussex, and Ivan Paine, area coordinator for the Trident Project, describe work experience provision for the ESN(M) pupil     

创新思维 实践真知——谈重庆大学研究生创新实践基地创新教育新理念

重庆大学研究生创新实践基地作为国家教育部研究生教育创新工程重点建设项目,本着"以生为本,发展个性"、"优化创新环境,跨学科培养人才"、"产学研结合,发挥研究生教育的服务功能"等教育创新新理念,争取一切资源优化研究生教育环境,为国家特别是西部地区和重庆直辖市培养高层次创新性人才.     

Challenges facing group work online

Online group work can be complicated because of its asynchronous characteristics and lack of physical presence, and its requirements for skills in handling technology, human relationships, and content-related tasks. This study focuses on the administrative, logistical and relationship-related challenges in online group work. Challenges in areas such as commitment/responsibility, communication/coordination, structure/management, and leadership are discussed; strategies for how to streamline the management of online group work, how to decrease unnecessary logistical load and extra layers of structure, and how to improve online group work through the design of the syllabus are presented. The study suggests that instructors split group work into individual portions, use peer evaluation, establish guidelines for communication, use tools such as Google Drive to streamline duplicate works, monitor the process of the group work, and give group members freedom, ownership, and autonomy in their group work.     

Experimenting with New Criteria for Recruitment into Engineering

A brief account is given of a recently established procedure of admitting students without advanced high school courses in physics and mathematics to the Tampere Universiry of Technology. As background there has been a need to broaden the recruiting basis for engineering education. This has also meant admitting a much greater proportion of female engineering students than usual. These students have partly different qualities compared to those admitted through the normal tests. However, despite this, there is no intention of changing the curriculum or the level of engineering education in the technical universities. So there must be methods of training the newly entering students and give them the same knowledge as traditional recruits.     

Structuring cooperative group work in classrooms

Cooperative, small-group learning is widely recognised as a pedagogical practice that promotes learning and socialisation across a range of curriculum areas from primary school through to high school and college. When children work cooperatively together, they learn to give and receive help, share their ideas and listen to other students’ perspectives, seek new ways of clarifying differences, resolving problems, and constructing new understandings and knowledge. The result is that students attain higher academic outcomes and are more motivated to achieve than they would be if they worked alone. This paper provides an overview of five different studies that the author has conducted that demonstrate clearly the importance of explicitly structuring cooperative small-group work in classrooms if children are to derive the benefits widely attributed to this pedagogical practice.     

Learning from group work in science

Abstract

This paper addresses itself to the question of how effective group work is in promoting ‘learning from others’. It follows an earlier report in which verbal interactions between pupils engaged in group work were analysed. The tasks attended to during the group work were all concerned with the planning of scientific investigations.

The findings obtained indicate that a significant amount of ‘learning from others’ occurs as the result of pupils being involved in group work: in the present case, about 40% of information points included in pupils’ independent written accounts had previously been contributed to the group discussion by other pupils. However, the accounts also contained information points that had not been mentioned during the preceding group discussions.

The extent of pupils’ achievement and ‘learning from others’ in group work appeared unrelated to their actual group behaviours, which suggests that even seemingly ‘inactive’ group members benefit from their involvement in group learning experiences.     

浅析小组工作在学校社会工作中的介入模式

随着我国教育的改革、社会的发展与变迁,我国当代学生出现了很多心理、行为和人际交往的社会问题,传统的学生工作已经无法满足大部分学生健康成长的需要。在这种情况下,学校社会工作以其全新的工作理念和方法,成为解决学生问题的有效途径之一。在学校中进行社会工作并结合小组工作等社会工作方法为学生的健康成长提供帮助,从而对未来和谐社会的建设具有重要的意义。     

The classroom group work for collaborative learning

This paper addresses the issues in the field of collaborative learning,and put its stress on the classroom group work for collaborative learning.The way to deal with group work and teacher's role in the process will also be discussed.     

Contrasting models of library work group performance

The performance of 43 library work groups was assessed by means of supervisor's ratings. Characteristics of the groups' tasks, membership, leadership, structure, and process were measured by averaging their members' responses to factors of theWork Group Survey. Subsets of groups were formed by classifying the 43-group population into professional vs. nonprofessional samples. Correlates of group performance were determined for each. In the professional groups, the unique correlates of performance were (1) expertise, (2) mature interpersonal processes, and (3) task goal clarity. In contrast, the correlates of performance in the nonprofessional groups were (1) performance-contingent rewards, (2) member retention, (3) supervisory behavior, and (4) workflow efficiency. The implications of these findings for both organization theorists and change agents are discussed.     

英语学习自我概念与小组活动的相关性研究

本研究通过定性和定量两种研究方法对学习者的英语学习自我概念与他们在小组活动中的表现进行相关性研究。研究结果表明,学习者的英语学习自我概念与他们在小组活动中的表现密切相关。一般来讲,英语学习自我概念较高的学习者在小组活动中表现积极,而英语学习自我概念较低的学习者在小组活动中表现被动,但学习者之间英语学习自我概念的相互比较会影响他们在小组活动中的表现。     

做好演示实验,培养学生的实验能力

1 教师应有目标地创设问题情境,激发学生的参与意识 有些教师演示实验善于"唱独角戏",教师演,学生看.实际上,演示实验是教学双方协调活动的一种实验方式.如果教师能挖掘实验素材,针对实验的每个环节创设问题情境,让学生带着问题观察、思考和回忆,对于提高学生解决实际问题的能力是十分有利的.     

Experimenting with the family in the newborn period: a commentary

Belsky has described the ineffectiveness of employing the Brazelton Neonatal Behavioral Assessment Scale as an intervention device with new families. In light of the previous reports of success in enhancing parent-infant interaction with such procedures, we suggest a number of alternate explanations for the disparity in results across investigations. Furthermore, in examining the dynamics of these interventions, we propose that empowering new parents with a sense of competency may be as critical to success as showcasing the capabilities of the newborn.     

Experimenting with global governance: understanding the potential for generational change

The appropriate role for the United Nations in international dispute resolution is a matter of high profile discussion and controversy. This paper begins with this ambivalence about the appropriate role for the United Nations in the world and examines several sets of issues that relate to the future of support for the UN within the US and the prospects for global governance more generally. First, we briefly review two thematic strands in previous and contemporary scholarship:(1) arguments for increased global governance in contemporary world affairs, driven by perceptions of the changing nature of the political, social, economic and military challenges in the contemporary world system. This debate is also put in the context of the relevance of public support for global governance institutions; and (2) why it is valuable to study how the current generation of adolescents perceive issues of global governance and the impact that their views may have on that nexus in the coming years. We then move to an analysis of data generated from an experimental study of American adolescents and their attitudes toward global governance.     

Addressing issues in group work in the classroom

For group projects to be pedagogically successful, instructors must understand how students view group work, factors that influence students’ perceptions about group work, and students’ views about the importance of group work. Understanding these factors will provide instructors with guidance in effectively using group projects in their courses. This study examines how students perceive group work after completing a semester-long group project. Our sample consists of 145 students taking an upper division research methods class in the Department of Sociology and Criminal Justice at a large regional university. Our data support the idea that small groups may work more effectively together than larger ones, that high grade point average students have more concerns than others about group work and that those with more time demands are less positive than others about group work. The authors suggest strategies for successful group work in classes.