Enriching the Student Learning Experience: Linking Student Development and Organizational Perspectives

Founding About Campus Executive Editor Patricia M. King discusses her concerns about what she sees as the unnecessary split between the institutional and the individual approach to supporting student learning and provides a forward‐looking model to merge the two.     

Service Learning Pedagogies to Promote Student Learning in Occupational Therapy Education

The centrality of service learning in the development of students’ professional practice has received worldwide attention. Exposure to appropriately designed service learning experience determines the acquisition of graduate attributes. This article addresses a study in which the key question was: What methods and strategies do students and their clinical supervisors find beneficial in improving their learning experiences during service learning placements? Drawing on the views and experiences of a group of final year occupational therapy (OT) students and their supervisors, the initial focus is on concepts in learning relevant to service learning and professional development, including Vygotsky's zone of proximal development (ZPD), the capability approach and collaborative and peer assisted learning. This is followed by an overview of the methodology and an analysis of the students’ and clinical supervisors’ experiences during service learning. The discussion focuses on the implications of the study findings for practice within a service learning context to enhance the alignment of institutional practices with students’ needs.     

学习支持服务学生满意度及个案问卷调查

学习支持服务是远程开放教育教学的主要过程,是远程教育质量保证的一个重要因素已经被远程教育界认为是所有开放大学成功的关键。及时进行学习支持服务满意度调查是监控远程开放教育教学质量最有效的手段之一。但目前国内开展学习支持服务学生满意度调查还没有起步,更没有纳入常态教学质量监控。本文结合个案问卷调查,对远程开放教育学习支持服务学生满意度调查进行了尝试,对相关的概念、评价指标、期待学生的评价、问卷调查中应注意的问题等进行了进一步的探讨,以期作为一种监控教学质量的常态手段。     

再论环保法庭审判模式

环保法庭审判模式的确立是环保法庭制度构建的重要环节。当前的"三审合一"与"四审合一"审判模式依旧受传统三大部门法思维限制,对环境法理论吸收不足。环保法庭审判模式应当打破传统审判理论的约束,更多地吸收环境法理论,构建起"立案、审理、执行"三合一的环保法庭审判模式。     

用服务学习搭建语言学习与素质发展的桥梁

2003年的《普通高中英语课程标准(实验)》对高中英语课程的性质和内容目标做出了重大调整,明确了其工具性和人文性双重特征,提出把发展人的综合素质作为提高语言综合能力的前提,通过英语课程促进学生全面发展的目标.这一重大调整对学习方式和教学方法提出了重大挑战,如果能将服务学习这一方式引入语言学习领域,就可以充分发挥其在搭建语言学习与素质发展间的桥梁作用.     

Supporting Student Learning through Instructional Videos in Business Statistics

While statistics is an essential topic for business students, many students experience barriers to successful learning due to anxiety, motivation, or difficulty with quantitative understanding. This research examines the use of online videos with an effort to explore the relationship between student characteristics, video usage, and course performance measures. In addition, the study examines student perceptions of the supplemental resources in an effort to examine the efficacy related to student learning and performance. This study seeks to confirm previous research regarding the benefit of supplemental video resources and extend the knowledge base by understanding the impact for various types of students (e.g., level of course, level of previous academic performance, etc.). The study found that the use of the video resources varies based on students’ previous math performance and the difficulty of the material. Student ratings indicate that the videos were helpful in learning the content and that they provided an important resource when students needed additional tools to master the material. Analysis of the results provides implications for understanding how different students use online videos and offers recommendations for educators and researchers about how to enhance student success in difficult statistics coursework.     

Strategic Teaching: Student Learning through Working the Process

The designers of our future built environment must possess intellectual tools which will allow them to be disciplined, flexible and analytical thinkers, able to address and resolve new and complex problems. In response, an experimental and collaborative design studio was designed to inspire and build on students' knowledge and their creative thinking abilities through a series of explorative exercises and modelling. The learning experience of students undertaking this studio was enabled and guided by a collaboration of teachers experienced in both teaching and creative practice. A series of guest creative practitioners joined the studio's intensive 10‐week hands‐on workshop sessions within which students undertook set exercises. These creative research workshops then served to inform subsequent design development of the students' work through planning and documentation over a period of 4 weeks. Strategic teaching is central to the creative development process. The driving educational belief, as idea and practice, is that by bringing ideas to life in design, by working with full‐scale three‐dimensionality, students are able to cement their commitment to ‘working the process’, towards becoming excellent designers. This ambitious strategy enables students to work on the many different aspects of the design problem towards meeting their design outcome at the highest level of resolution and intent. Through a combination of pragmatic tasks – writing and developing design briefs – and visual tasks – evidence gathering and analysis of design through photographic, modelling and diagramming exercises – students were encouraged to think outside and beyond the ‘normal’ realm of design practice.     

Engaging Criminal Justice Students through Service Learning

The increasing popularity of service learning has led to the implementation of the pedagogy across educational levels and disciplines. Evidence of its utilization in criminal justice education spans two decades, most of which include case studies of service-learning courses or projects. These examples of service-learning implementation seem to serve as a best practices guide for other faculty and researchers interested in adopting the pedagogy. By examining responses to offender populations and policy areas by students (n = 37) involved in a service-learning course, the current research adds to this “best practices” approach and is intended to instigate further examination of the benefits of service learning for criminal justice students and the discipline.     

远程开放教育学生学习支持服务的探索

学习支持服务是远程教育的重要组成部分。建立和完善学习支持服务体系，首先要明确服务的对象、服务的功能及服务的模型；然后确定服务内容、开发项目和组织服务；最后对学习支持服务质量实施监控，不断改进服务质量。本用献分析法，对学生学习支持服务概念提出一些观点和认识，对广播电视大学远程教育学生学习支持服务若干情况进行分析，并提出改进建议。本的结论是：学习支持服务人人有责；学习支持服务体系应融于远程教育大系统；加快学习支持服务的开发。     

Understanding Conceptual Change and Science Learning through Educational Neuroscience

Although the field of educational neuroscience has grown in recent years, little research has been conducted on conceptual change and science learning through an educational neuroscience framework. Educational neuroscience is frequently used to study processes of language and mathematics cognition, but is not extensively applied to conceptual change and science learning. This review integrates insights from extant conceptual change educational neuroscience studies to inform the fields of educational psychology and science education. These new insights shed light on the persistence of misconceptions and the roles of error detection, inhibition, executive function, and memory in conceptual change. Future directions for the study of conceptual change and educational neuroscience are discussed.     

Toward an Understanding of Authentic Learning: Student Perceptions of an Authentic Classroom

Advocates of educational reform often describe classroom instruction as inauthentic. That is, most classroom learning activities are structured around artificial contexts for learning, and students only engage in tasks and remember information at superficial levels. Some teachers are attempting to break traditional classroom practices by creating authentic contexts for learning. To date, most of the research on authentic classrooms has described the processes teachers have used to develop the classroom environment (learning activities, resources, etc.); however, few have examined authentic classrooms from the students' perspective: “What do students think about authentic classrooms?” The purpose of this qualitative study was to examine a unique learning environment at a large, Midwest high school to understand how students perceived that environment. Most of the students reported a positive experience and described the classroom as fun and exciting with real-world relevance. However, there were several students who did not share these views, and many students were not successful.

     

Enriching the curriculum through motion pictures

Conclusion The use of the motion pictures in the various classes was unquestionably worthwhile and profitable to the respective students. The advantages to these students becomes clearer when one recalls that there was a significant gain on every single film test; and further, that about one-sixth of the entire instructional time in the experimental classes was given over to the use of motion pictures. In spite of this time allocation, there were many gains for the experimental classes on the standardized tests, some of them significantly so, and not one single instance of a significant loss. Thus did the Nebraska Program of Educational Enrichment Through the Use of Motion Pictures document the case for the use of films in selected areas of the secondary curriculum. At a time when educators are seeking help in solving some of the crises in education, the research carried out with curriculum enrichment by films in Nebraska is particularly pertinent. It represents the first fullscale attempt to discover the values of motion pictures in enriching the school program under a variety of conditions; and it foreshadows, perhaps, a curriculum in which films may play a more integral role in instruction. Wesley C. Meierhenry is associate professor of the history and principles of education and school administration at the University of Nebraska. He was program administrator of The Nebraska Program of Educational Enrichment Through the Use of Mition Pictures.     

Assessment in the Service of Student Learning: Three Cases in Point

Three examples of extant testing practices (i.e., a classroom instructor's use of a simple pre-post design, the practice of teaching to the test, and the think aloud verbal protocol) are discussed to illustrate the contention that assessment in the service of testing and learning does not necessarily involve radically different assessment practices. It is demonstrated that activities already familiar to teachers and assessment specialists can powerfully inform student learning and teaching practice.     

学习支持服务与学生参与度关系的调查研究——以浙江奥鹏远程教育为例

远程教育的质量和效益竞争离不开良好的学习支持服务,因此,关注远程教育的学习支持服务问题,提高学习支持服务的力度,是解决远程教育质量问题和持续发展问题的重要途径,其中学生学习参与度又是考量学习支持服务是否具有力度的重要方法。基于这样的认识,本研究在访谈和文献分析基础上设计了“学习支持服务问卷”和“学生学习参与度问卷”,就两者互相影响的问题专门展开了调查,调查数据显示学习支持服务和学习参与度之间存在显著正相关。希望本研究能对学习支持服务方面的决策提供支撑。     

Enriching educational accountabilities through collaborative public conversations: Conceptual and methodological insights from the Learning Commission approach

Journal of Educational Change - This article describes the use of a Learning Commission to experiment with conceptualising and implementing richer modes of educational accountability. A Learning...     

Measuring Self-Regulated Learning Processes through Tracking Patterns of Student Interaction with Achievement Activities

A micro-level approach to the study of relationships between component processes within self-regulated learning in young adolescent students is described. Using this approach, contingencies between self-regulatory processes can be identified and insight into factors that promote students’ use of self-regulatory strategies can be investigated. Evidence is presented showing how the influence of mastery achievement goals on specific task goals can be mediated by students’ state of interest. Further development of this approach requires consideration of the measurement issues associated with using single items to measure on-task states. Evidence for the reliability and validity of single-item measurement of states is considered in relation to areas of psychological inquiry that regularly use single-item measures and we conclude that further development of these types of measure has the potential to expand our understanding of self-regulated learning.