Handwriting Skills in Children with Spina Bifida: Assessment, Monitoring and Measurement

The authors describe a handwriting programme conducted with handicapped pupils and illustrate it by three case studies. Julie Hancock teaches at Glossop Green Middle School, Crawley; Jean Alston is senior lecturer in special education, Crewe and Alsager College of Higher Education.     

Integrating Curriculum,Instruction, and Assessment in Project-Based Instruction: A Case Study of an Experienced Teacher

This case study of a teacher who engaged his students in inquiry within a technologically rich classroom was conducted over 5 weeks, including 15 regularly scheduled classes. Data include extensive teacher interviews, e-mail, and artifacts such as class notes, curriculum guides, and handouts. A retrospective analysis methodology was utilized to address what Barron et al. (1998), called the major hurdles in implementing project-based curricula: the simultaneous changes in curriculum, instruction, and assessment practices. In addition, a framework developed by the National Research Councils How People Learn was employed to provide detail on the nature of knowledge, learner, assessment, and community centeredness of the project-based unit. Finally, the classroom environment created during a unit of astronomy was analyzed and five principles emerged: the sense of a project, the development of independent individuals, creation of a global community of learners, a cyclic nature of instruction emphasizing conceptual and procedural understanding, and the utilization of distributedexpertise.     

Teacher Questioning: The Epicenter of Instruction and Assessment

In this article we examine some sequences of teacher–student interaction in which a teacher generates and acts on formative assessment data. We look at the teacher's practices of question construction and her decisions about in situ next pedagogical steps made in real time to support and further student learning. Our observations are guided by the following research questions: (a) What are the interactional practices that constitute formative assessment? (b) Are there observable classroom routines and organization that support these interactional practices? Our observations suggest that open and respectful pedagogical questioning is a key resource in eliciting students' current learning status, and for making decisions about next steps in student learning. Stable classroom routines and mutually understood interactional goals and practices are significant supports for these processes.     

智慧课堂教学新形态：纸笔数字书写技术教学应用

纸笔数字书写是指对手持工具进行自然书写产生的轨迹或图形等视觉符号进行数字化处理的过程,具有保留传统纸笔书写行为、采集完整书写数据、实现远程共享书写空间等优势。纸笔数字书写技术是对传统纸笔书写的信息技术赋能,它与传统课堂教学的融合能为当前信息化教学“屏幕过度依赖”带来的健康和教学问题提供新的解决方案,因而也可能成为一种新型的智慧课堂教学形态。为了证实纸笔数字书写技术的教学应用潜力,以“腾讯企鹅智笔课堂”为例开展的实证调查表明:学生使用点阵笔的整体满意度较高,女生满意度水平普遍高于男生;技术自我效能感、互动学习活动、技术使用态度和感知有用性是影响学生使用点阵笔满意度的主要因素,其中技术自我效能感和互动学习活动的影响程度最大;技术接受模型中的感知易用性对学生使用点阵笔的满意度影响并不显著,因此还需要在教学实践中不断摸索以纸笔数字书写技术为支持的最佳教学策略。     

Examining the Links Between Psychoeducational Assessment,Instruction and Remediation

The assessment of students’ capabilities and learning outcomes has long been considered an important factor in instructional design and program planning and refinement. The information provided by clinicians, however, has not always been presented to classroom teachers in a form that will allow them to amend their classroom practices to the students’ advantage. This paper reviews the recent history of psychoeducational testing and examines several attempts to link assessment with instruction within the information processing domain. The authors present a case for the inclusion of testing procedures that inform teachers of students’ information processing capabilities and they argue that clinicians and educators must work together to translate these data into effective remediation and instruction practices.     

Integrating Evaluation and Needs Assessment: A Case Study of an Ergonomics Program

This case study focuses on the relationship between evaluation and needs assessment and how both processes were integrated in one project. The project involved evaluating a 10‐year‐old ergonomics course. The course was one component of a broader organizational change initiative, aimed to reduce or eliminate on‐the‐job injuries. The success of the change initiative depended on applying knowledge from the course as well as other workplace variables, such as management commitment, plant communications, and the relationship between management and union labor. Robert Stake's (1967) countenance framework was modified to consider both instructional and performance issues in the research design. Data collection included observing the course, conducting focus groups with past course attendees who were ergonomic committee members, interviewing ergonomic teams in manufacturing plants, and reviewing course materials and other related documents. The findings illustrate the overlap between the needs assessment and evaluation processes. The discussion addresses how these labels can limit perception of the system of interest, the importance of adapting the research design to take advantage of naturally occurring organizational events, the value of integrating both needs assessment and evaluation perspectives, and the importance of differentiating evaluation and needs assessment recommendations.     

量规:一种现代教学评价的方法

本文围绕量规这一现代教学评价的典型方法,论述了量规的定义、特点与功用,描述了量规的设计与开发步骤,讨论了发挥量规效用的方法,展示了量规范例,从而为全面理解、开发和使用量规提供了一个基本的理论与实践框架.     

论教学评价标准——主体与内容体系

教学评价标准涉及价值主体与评价主体两类主体,教师、学生、社会是价值主体,他们作为评价主体的情况较为复杂,要视具体的评价内容而定。教学评价标准由教学活动评价标准、师生发展状态评价标准、师生工作绩效评价标准三个方面构成。教学评价标准涉及的主体与内容体系可以带来相应的启示。     

Situated Self-Regulation: Modeling the Interrelationships Among Instruction,Assessment, Learning Strategies and Academic Performance

To succeed academically, college students must actively construct course information, synthesize this information with information from texts and other resources, understand this information so that they can succeed on various forms of assessments and ultimately retain this information for the long term. While the complexity of these demands has been modeled somewhat metaphorically, there has been little ecologically valid research into learning in authentic classroom contexts. The present study examines the interrelationships among student perceptions of the learning context, test complexity, study strategies, and academic performance. Results of a path analysis demonstrated that perceptions of the teaching format and test complexity were positively related to the study strategies reported, and these study strategies were further related to the reported course performance.     

Handwriting: Evolution and evaluation

Handwriting, “everyone’s art,” is an indispensable skill. The roots of our present forms of penmanship are traced. When and which initial style to teach children, especially the dyslexic or learning disabled, are discussed. The need for a good instrument to evaluate handwriting to prevent perpetuation of illegibilities or to determine if speed is rapid enough to meet the writer’s purpose is paramount. A new diagnostic tool, the Children’s Handwriting Evaluation Scale (CHES) and its college counterpart are detailed. The CHES also provides a projective scoring key based on graphoanalytic interpretations.     

新建本科院校常规档案建设与管理

常规档案是开展本科教学合格评估的基础和依据,在评估中发挥着重要作用。同时,随着合格评估工作的展开,新建本科院校在档案建设与管理方面的问题也暴露无遗。因此,新建本科院校应以合格评估为契机,采取应对策略和措施,逐步优化和规范常规档案的建设管理,使其更好地为教育教学和合格评估工作服务。     

现代信息化教学的原则及评估--《美国高等教育协会公报》介绍

本文拟就《美国高等教育协会公报》等有关文献为基础，就如何在高校中运用现代化的信息技术（或媒体）开展教学的问题，介绍了美国高教协会倡导的七项教学原则，及其特别拟定的相应评估细则（或称问卷）。     

真实性评价和课堂教学的整合

真实性评价作为一种新的教育评价理念实质为“人的评价”,积极发掘着教育评价中人的意义和价值。在全新的思维和视角下,真实性评价作为非正式评价成为了学生在现实课堂中生活和学习过程,追求着评价与教学的整合。教师既要使真实性评价服务于课堂教学,又要构建表现本位的课堂教学。     

《经济数学基础》教学模式探讨

通过问卷调查、面授教学、网上答疑、小组活动、考试等多种方式了解学生学习需求，研习远程开放教育理论，构建了《经济数学基础》课程教学模式。该模式分为四个模块：课程导学、课程辅导、学习过程、学习效果评价。根据学生学习情况不同，充分有效利用中央电大教学资源，实施分层教学。     

Using Portfolios of Student Work in Instruction and Assessment

The tern portfolio has become a popular buzz word. Unfortunately, it is not always clear exactly what is meant or implied by the term, especially when used in the context of portfolio assessment. This training module is intended to clarify the notion of portfolio assessment and help users design such assessments in a thoughtful manner. We begin with a discussion of the rationale for assessment alternatives and then discuss portfolio definitions, characteristics, pitfalls, and design considerations.     

关注教师"教"的现代教学评价的研究与展望

关注教师“教”是现代教学评价研究发展的突破与创新，它重点强调教师的主体价值和专业发展。分析现代教学评价的内涵，总结教学评价在思想取向、主客体关系、功能、标准、方法论以及实施模式方面的变化特点，并在此基础上对现代教学评价的发展趋势进行展望，这在素质教育条件下对教师提高教学效能和促进专业发展具有重要的意义。     

以学生为主体的教学质量评价及其影响因素

分析了教学质量评价中存在的一些问题, 提出了以学生为主体的教学质量评价的思路及可能存在的一些问题, 应用现代统计工具, 对这些问题进行了实证分析研究, 得出了一些实证结论, 并对教学质量评价提出了相应的建议、措施和方法。