Tensions between knowledge transmission and student-focused teaching approaches to assessment purposes: helping students improve through transmission

This study surveyed 1064 Chinese school teachers’ approaches to teaching and conceptions of assessment, and examined their inter-relationship using confirmatory factor analysis and structural equation modeling. Three approaches to teaching (i.e. Knowledge Transmission, Student-Focused, and Examination Preparation) and six conceptions of assessment (i.e. Student Development, Teaching Improvement, Examination, Control, School Accountability, and Irrelevance) were identified. Teachers indicated they used Student-Focused most frequently and this positively predicted the assessment purposes of Student Development and Teaching Improvement, while loading negatively on Control, School Accountability, and Irrelevance. The Knowledge Transmission teaching approach, in contrast, positively predicted the assessment purposes of Examination, School Accountability, Control, Student Development, and Teaching Improvement. Thus, despite a predominantly student-focused approach to teaching, knowledge transmission was seen as a teaching approach that contributed positively to student learning. Possible explanations for this anomalous result are discussed.     

高校贫困学生工作之我见

随着近年来高校的连续扩招 ,各高校在校学生成倍增加 ,越来越多的西部地区、贫困地区的农村孩子步入大学校园 ,使大学生中贫困学生增多 ,做好高校贫困生工作是做好学生工作的一个重点 ,本文结合多年学生工作的经验 ,对贫困生产生的原因、给工作带来的矛盾以及怎样做好此项工作进行了探讨     

Evaluating an individualized science program for community college students

Two classes of community college students having less than the usual minimal preparation required for admission were taught half of a basic science course using individualized instruction and half using traditional instruction. The course was divided into chemistry and physics segments and random halves of each class received the individualized treatment in one segment and the traditional treatment in the other. The individualized treatment was found to yield superior achievement gains and more positive attitudes toward science than the traditional treatment while both resulted in equivalent student satisfaction. No differences between segments were obtained. Of the four treatment-segment combinations, individualized physics appeared to yield the greatest achievement. Individualized instruction was concluded to be effective.     

大学生社会主义核心价值观教育途径研究

培育和弘扬社会主义核心价值观是全社会的责任。大学生是一个特殊的群体,关系着祖国建设的未来,关系着我们党伟大目标的实现;价值观教育事关民族的向心力与凝聚力。我们要对大学生思想状况准确把握,有针对性地寻求大学生社会主义核心价值观的有效教育途径,使大学生在弘扬社会主义核心价值观中起到引领的作用。     

Using texting to nudge urban public school students to and through college

Abstract

This study investigates how a network of New York City public schools use texting to increase enrollment and persistence in college. Text messages include tips and reminders to fill out the Free Application for Federal Student Aid as well as college tips. Our multiple regression results suggest that although when the texting began did not appear to matter, the texting program increased enrollment and persistence in college. In addition, response rates were positively associated with enrollment and persistence. Finally, we find that the content of the messages themselves as well as individual characteristics affected response rates.     

大学生异化现象的原因分析及对策思考

大学生的“异化”现象已逐渐成为高等教育中出现的新问题,主要表现为过于看重经济利益、科技知识,过于依赖网络技术。究其原因,既有社会经济、西方文化霸权、高校的教育理念等外部原因,也有学生自身的因素。为此,国家要加快经济建设,明确高等教育的功能和目的,加强本土先进文化引导。     

Reflecting geometrical shapes: approaches of primary students to reflection tasks and relations to typical error patterns

Educational Studies in Mathematics - Students’ issues dealing with reflection tasks, especially with inclined mirror lines, are widely known. Previous research conducted with primary school...     

高职院校学生实现“无缝隙”就业途径分析

以就业为导向培养技能型人才的高职教育,因发展快速导致就业形势日趋严峻。本文从高职教育的办学特征出发,提出"无缝隙"就业理念,探讨"无缝隙"就业的特征和实现途径,使学业与就业有机结合,建立预先就业通道,实现就业目标。     

充分利用校园文化进行大学生人文素质教育

大学校园文化是大学生人文素质教育的载体。高校要把教育改革与建设理想的校园文化有机地结合起来,寓大学生人文素质教育于校园文化之中。本文重点探讨了对大学生进行人文素质教育的有效途径,即充分发挥校园丈化的教育导向功能、开发与创造功能、娱乐调节功能和激励凝聚功能等。     

大学英语多媒体与传统两种教学方式的对比研究

当前我国大学英语课主要有两种教学方式,即传统的"三个一"(一本书,一支笔,一张嘴)教学方式和新兴的多媒体辅助教学方式.传统的教学方式经济、方便、灵活,利于师生互动,教学反馈直接,然而传统课堂教学信息量小,教学信息类型单一,从而影响教学效率.多媒体教学方式教学信息多维化、形象直观,语境创设好,宜激发学生的兴趣,便于学生理解和掌握,并且教学参考资料丰富,检索快捷方便,课件易于重复利用,备课上课时间节省,能给教师提供许多便利.多媒体教学方式也有其缺陷,其设备投资大,使用维护难度高,并且在一定程度上影响教学反馈,隔绝师生之间必需的情感交流.对比分析两种方式的优缺点,对于完善大学英语课堂教学方式,推动大学英语教学改革,有着现实指导意义.     

英语教学对大学生文化素质培养的作用

大学英语教学对大学生文化素质的养成有着重要作用：可培养大学生积极向上的人生观和对待社会问题的正确态度,危机意识和发展意识,良好的日常行为习惯和处世之道。     

论人文关怀理念在班主任帮困助学工作中的运用——以某艺术院校学工个案为例

由于专业的特殊性和学生成长环境的特殊性,艺术类专业贫困生的帮困助学工作更为复杂。文章以一则学工个案为例,说明班主任在帮困助学工作中,一定要贯穿"人文关怀"理念,关注学生的生存与发展,坚持"经济资助"与"精神资助"相结合的原则,在经济上给予贫困生一定的资助,在精神上注重对贫困生的人格教育,促进大学生的健康成长。     

大学生思想政治教育的创新途径和方法研究

在新的时代条件下,为使大学生思想政治教育更加适合大学生的思想实际,更加适应社会发生的巨大变化,有必要对大学生思想政治教育途径和方法中的一些不足之处进行创新。只有这样,才能更好地改进和加强大学生思想政治教育,切实提高大学生思想政治教育的实效性。     

从流行音乐谈对大学生综合素质的培养

本文分析了流行音乐的特点及认识问题,并在此基础上重点阐述了流行音乐在培养大学生综合素质方面的作用和功能,包括培养大学生追本溯源的科学精神,对大学生进行情感教育,培养大学生的创新精神以及对大学生进行人生教育等。     

论大学生两大课堂的良性对接

大学生两大课堂的良性对接是指第一课堂与第二课堂通过互动互补的"结合"实现在结构、机制与功能上的有机性、联通性和整体性。两大课堂的良性对接,体现了理论与实践的对立统一,教师与学生的教学相长,有利于学生知识、能力和素质的整体优化。实现两大课堂的良性对接必须建立一种中介组织,确立学生的主体性地位,实现二者教育功能上的互补。     

Using narrative inquiry to understand persistently disciplined middle school students

Educators’ persistent disciplining of a small group of students positions them as “frequent flyers.” This identity prevents educators from developing an understanding that could enable them to reengage these students. Using the methodology of interpretive biography positioned within narrative inquiry and using a Gestalt-based analysis, this study presents the case narratives of three persistently disciplined students from one urban middle school in the southeast USA. Examining the central tensions of each case led to a richer and more comprehensive narrative of each student, reflecting his or her complex motivations and desires. Viewing students as the whole people reflected in these narratives rather than through the deficit-oriented lens that labels students as frequent flyers can shift educators’ practices to better support the learning of all students.     

如何破解当代大学生的两大压力

在激烈竞争的市场经济条件下，当代大学生面对多方面的挑战、困难和压力，特别是就业的压力和贫困的压力。如何帮助、教育、引导大学生破解这两大压力是高校、社会以及各级党委政府必须引起高度重视并采取有效措施的大问题。