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This paper shows how the patterns of variation created in the teaching were critical in helping a class of Primary 3 students
in Hong Kong to learn about the colour of light, so that the students attained conceptual rather than procedural knowledge.
A ‘Learning Study’ approach was adopted, which is a Lesson Study grounded in a particular learning theory to improve teaching
and learning. This study, based on the learning theory of Variation advanced by Marton and Booth, was premised on three types
of variation: variation in students’ ways of experiencing what is to be taught/learnt (V1), variation in teachers’ ways of
dealing with the ‘object of learning’ (V2), and the use of ‘pattern of variation’ as a guiding principle of pedagogical design
to enhance students’ learning (V3). In planning the lesson, a conscious effort was made to create relevant patterns of variation,
i.e. varying certain critical aspect(s) while keeping other aspects of the object of learning invariant in order to help students
to discern those aspects. Comparison between the results of the pre- and post-test shows that there was significant gain in
the students’ learning outcomes with respect to the intended object of learning. The findings contribute knowledge to how
the Theory of Variation can be used in practice. It also illustrates how teachers can make use of this theoretical framework
to analyze their own teaching and thereby, develop an analytical awareness of teaching and learning. 相似文献
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Zenawi Zerihun Jos Beishuizen Willem Van Os 《Educational Assessment, Evaluation and Accountability》2012,24(2):99-111
The purpose of the study was to develop an improved teaching evaluation questionnaire based on students’ learning experiences
and selected teacher characteristics identified as indicators of teaching quality. Teaching evaluation questionnaires are
commonly designed either based on agreed indicators of teaching excellence, students’ suggestions of characteristics of excellence,
or dimensions identified from interviews conducted with excellent teachers. In this study, however, students’ evaluation of
their own learning experiences in learner centered classes and a hypothesized framework derived from the literature were used
to develop the items for the questionnaire. Students attended to courses designed in a learner centered paradigm and evaluated
their learning experiences. Based on the hypothesized framework and students’ reflections of their experiences, items were
designed and validated at various levels. Exploratory factor analysis resulted in a 24-item Student Evaluation of Learning
and Teaching Questionnaire (SELTQ) that comprises four factors: assessment and feedback; course organization and presentation;
student self evaluation; and students’ level of engagement. As opposed to the questionnaire widely used in higher education
institutions in Ethiopia that focuses on the evaluation of selected teacher characteristics, the new measure enables students
to evaluate teaching in terms of their own learning progress. 相似文献
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Anne Haarala-Muhonen Mirja Ruohoniemi Nina Katajavuori Sari Lindblom-Yl?nne 《Learning Environments Research》2011,14(2):155-169
The present study explored differences in students’ perceptions of their teaching–learning environments in three professional
academic disciplines at the University of Helsinki, using a modified version of the Experiences of Teaching & Learning Questionnaire.
A total of 426 first-year students from the Faculties of Law, Pharmacy and Veterinary Medicine participated in the study.
When six scales measuring students’ perceptions of their teaching–learning environments were devised, veterinary and pharmacy
students experienced their teaching–learning environment more positively than law students. Significant differences in students’
perceptions were found between disciplines on the four scales of Alignment, Staff Enthusiasm and Support, Constructive Feedback
and Support from Other Students. Comparisons between the disciplines helped in recognising special features of each discipline
from novice students’ points of view. The questionnaire was found to provide valuable information about the quality of teaching
and learning. 相似文献
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Chit-Kwong Kong 《Learning Environments Research》2008,11(2):111-129
It is generally believed that classroom learning experiences very much influence students’ academic development. However,
relatively little is known about whether classroom learning experiences have much effect on students’ affective and social
development. In this study, we argued for the importance of learning experiences on students’ affective and social development.
From research on Accelerated Schools Project and active learning, we conceptualised Positive Learning Experiences, Teacher
Support in Learning, and Active Learning Experiences as three components of learning experiences and developed relevant measures
to tap these learning experiences. Using research data from a large-scale student survey in Hong Kong (N = 19,477), we examined the construct validity of learning experiences and quality of school life. Confirmatory factor analysis
provided very strong support for the measures and the underlying constructs that they tap. In two-way analysis of variance,
the effects of gender and school level (secondary versus primary) on learning experiences and quality of school life were
examined. Significant gender and school-level main effects, as well as gender by school-level interaction effects, were found
for students’ ratings of their learning experiences and quality of school life. Female students gave more favourable ratings
than male students, and primary students gave more favourable ratings than secondary students. In addition, gender differences
in these ratings in secondary schools were relatively smaller than in primary schools. In subsequent multilevel modelling,
learning experiences were strong predictors of quality of school life after controlling for the effects of gender, school
level and average school achievement. These findings provide strong empirical support for the significance of classroom learning
experiences for students’ social and affective development.
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The purposes of this study were to investigate students’ conceptual learning outcomes and the effect of motivation on students’
conceptual learning outcomes in two different contexts: a Web-based and a classroom-based instruction, which incorporated
the Dual Situation Learning Model (DSLM). Nine classes of Grade eight students (N = 190) were involved in the study; five classes participated in a Web-based context and four classes in a regular classroom-based
context. The topic covered was chemical reaction. Students’ conceptual change outcomes were assessed using eight two-tier
pre/post conceptual tests during the instruction and the reaction rate integrated conceptual test at the end of the instruction.
Students’ motivation data were collected in the beginning and during instruction using the items from the Students’ Motivation
Toward Science Learning (SMTSL) questionnaire. The data were analyzed using ANOVA, ANCOVA, bivariate correlation, and multiple
regression analysis. Findings revealed that students’ motivational factors were correlated significantly with their conceptual
learning outcomes in both Web-based and classroom-based science teaching. In the Web-based context, students’ motivation during
the Web-based learning played a more important role on students’ conceptual learning outcomes than before learning. 相似文献
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Rashné R. Jehangir 《Innovative Higher Education》2009,34(1):33-49
Research has shown that first-generation, low-income college students experience both isolation and marginalization, especially
during their first-year of college, which impacts their long-term persistence in higher education. In this article, I argue
that learning community pedagogy designed with attention to multicultural curricula is one vehicle to address the challenges
faced by these college students. Organized around the themes of identity, community, and agency, an interdisciplinary Multicultural
Learning Voices Community (MLVC) was created at a large, public midwestern research university to provide TRiO students with
challenging academic coursework that would connect with their lived experience and help them build bridges of social and academic
integration during their critical first-year of college. This article presents qualitative data from a multiple case study
of seven cohorts of the MLVC, which captures students’ perceptions of their experience.
Rashné R. Jehangir is Assistant Professor in the Department of Post Secondary Teaching and Learning in Education the University of Minnesota.
She received her Ph.D. in Educational Policy and Administration and M.A. in Counseling and Student Personnel Psychology from
the University of Minnesota. Her research interests include student development; access; persistence of low-income, first-generation
students; and the transformation of teaching and learning to address intellectual, social, emotional and student development.
She can be reached at jehan001@umn.edu. 相似文献
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Documentary websites known as “snapshots of practice” provide vivid examples of teachers’ inquiries into issues they have formulated in the context of their own teaching practices and students’ learning. Designed with assistance from Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching, snapshots of practice can be accessed in the K–12 section of the Gallery of Teaching and Learning (). Analysis of prospective teachers’ reflections on science-related snapshots of practice indicate that this use of technology enhanced their understanding of inquiry-based approaches to instruction. The paper also illustrates how prospective teachers used an electronic toolkit, , to construct their own snapshots of practice in order to represent what they had learned in a course on methods of teaching science in elementary school. 相似文献
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Anne K. Morris 《Journal of Mathematics Teacher Education》2006,9(5):471-505
This study investigated the learning-from-practice skills that pre-service teachers possess when they enter teacher preparation programs in the United States. Two subskills were hypothesized to represent, at least in part, what is required to learn from practice: (1) the ability to collect evidence about students’ learning in order to analyze the effects of instruction, and (2) the ability to use the analysis to revise the instruction. Because it seems likely that different teaching situations and contexts reveal these learning-from-practice skills in different ways and to different degrees, this study examined the skills that pre-service teachers exhibited under two experimental conditions. Thirty pre-service teachers were asked to analyze the effects of a videotaped mathematics lesson on student learning, to support their analysis with evidence, and to use their analysis to revise the lesson. Based on the results, it appears that many entry level pre-service teachers can carry out a cause-effect type of analysis of the relationships between specific instructional strategies and students’ learning, and can use this analysis to make productive revisions to the instruction. However, prospective teachers’ ability to collect evidence that supports their analysis appears to be less developed. In addition, the type of analysis that prospective teachers carried out about the effects of instruction on students’ learning differed dramatically across the two experimental task conditions.Preparation of this article was supported by the National Science Foundation (Grant #0083429 to the Mid-Atlantic Center for Teaching and Learning Mathematics). The opinions expressed in the article are those of the author and not necessarily those of the Foundation. Thanks to James Hiebert for his comments on earlier drafts of the paper. 相似文献
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In light of the widespread recognition of the enduring challenge of enhancing the learning of all students—including a growing
number of students representing diverse racial, ethnic, and socioeconomic backgrounds—there has been an explosion of literature
on teaching, learning, and assessment in higher education. Notwithstanding scores of promising new ideas, individual faculty
in higher education need a dynamic and inclusive model to help them engage in a systematic and continuous process of exploring
and testing various teaching and assessment practices to ensure the learning of their students. This paper introduces a model—Teaching-for-Learning
(TFL)—developed to meet this need.
Clifton F. Conrad received his bachelor’s degree in History and his master’s degree in Political Science from the University of Kansas and his
Ph.D. in Higher Education from the University of Michigan. He is Professor of Higher Education at the University of Wisconsin-Madison;
and his research focus is on college and university curricula with particular emphases on program quality, liberal education,
and teaching and learning.
Jason Johnson received his bachelor’s degree in Comparative History of Ideas and his master’s degree in Educational Leadership and Policy
Studies at the University of Washington. He is nearing completion of his Ph.D. and working as a Teaching Assistant in Higher
Education at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, and his research focuses on rhetoric in higher education.
Divya Malik Gupta received her bachelor’s and master’s degrees in Human Development and Family Studies from Maharaja Sayajirao University in
Gujarat, India. She is currently a Ph.D. student at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. 相似文献
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In this study we compare university teachers’ and first-year students’ conceptions of teaching and learning at the Faculty
of Environmental and Biological Sciences. The conceptions were analysed using data from open-ended questionnaires. The results
showed that at the beginning of studies the gap between teachers’ and students’ conceptions of teaching and learning is substantial.
This finding has important implications for the educational process. In order to enhance successful studying from the beginning
of students’ university careers, it is important for teachers to become aware of the differences between students’ and teachers’
conceptions of learning. 相似文献
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Alexander Minnaert Monique Boekaerts Cornelis de Brabander Marie-Christine Opdenakker 《Vocations and Learning》2011,4(3):175-190
To prepare students for effective workplace learning, it is necessary to have insight into the contextual characteristics
that affect students’ developing interest. Aiming at students to become selfregulated learners, teachers should act as mindful
coaches, encouraging their students to monitor the quality of collaborative group work. A field study was conducted within
the context of a Computer Supported Collaborative Learning (CSCL) project fostering self-regulated learning. Students and
teachers made use of an electronic instrument that assessed and visualised students’ experiences of the quality of group learning
over time. 137 vocational students in commerce and business administration participated in a 6 months project requiring to
work in small learning groups. A SEM model, based on self-determination theory, fitted the data quite well. Perceived autonomy,
competence, and social relatedness seemed to be good predictors of students’ situational interest. Qualitative interview data
revealed not only the added value of process-oriented reflection and within-group discussion, but also some shortcomings concerning
the effectiveness of (implementing) CSCL. 相似文献
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Amanda Berry John Loughran Kathy Smith Simon Lindsay 《Research in Science Education》2009,39(4):575-594
This paper reports research from a three-year Australian science teacher professional learning project, the Science Teaching
and Learning (STaL) Project, in which groups of science teacher participants (across years K – 12) worked with academics over
a one-year period as teacher researchers. Through reflecting on their experiences within the STaL Project and collecting data
from their classrooms related to specific science teaching concerns, teacher participants constructed cases around particular
aspects of their professional learning. The cases that these participants developed elicited rich insights into their teaching
and their students’ learning of science. This paper discusses how the cases were developed by the teacher researcher participants
and uses exemplars as a way of illustrating the nature of the professional knowledge developed. 相似文献
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The influence of homework experiences on students’ academic grades was studied with 223 college students. Students’ self-efficacy
for learning and perceived responsibility beliefs were included as mediating variables in this research. The students’ homework
influenced their achievement indirectly via these two self-regulatory beliefs as well as directly. Self-efficacy for learning,
although moderately correlated with perceptions of responsibility, predicted course grades more strongly than the latter variable.
No gender differences were found for any of the variables, a finding that extends prior research based on high school girls.
Educational implications about the importance of students’ homework completion and its relationship to college students’ development
of self-regulation and positive self-efficacy beliefs is discussed from a social cognitive perspective. 相似文献
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Chun-Yen Chang Chien-Hua Hsiao Yueh-Hsia Chang 《Journal of Science Education and Technology》2011,20(2):136-145
This study investigated students’ learning environment preferences and compared the relative effectiveness of instructional
approaches on students’ learning outcomes in achievement and attitude among 10th grade earth science classes in Taiwan. Data
collection instruments include the Earth Science Classroom Learning Environment Inventory and Earth Science Learning Outcomes
Inventory. The results showed that most students preferred learning in a classroom environment where student-centered and
teacher-centered instructional approaches coexisted over a teacher-centered learning environment. A multivariate analysis
of covariance also revealed that the STBIM students’ cognitive achievement and attitude toward earth science were enhanced
when the learning environment was congruent with their learning environment preference. 相似文献
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The present work describes an experience of educational innovation in a university context. Its aim was to determine the relationship
between students’ frequency of use of online self-assessment with feedback and their final performance on the course, taking
into account both learners’ motivation and perceived usefulness of these resources for their learning process. Furthermore,
we studied the relationship between metacognitive variables and academic performance and/or execution of activities aimed
at learning the course content. To this end we created self-assessment material with the Hot Potatoes educational program and assessed the degree to which students took advantage of the tool, their satisfaction with it and
their perceived knowledge, using ad hoc questionnaires. The results indicate better academic performance in those students
that use interactive self-assessment. It should be pointed out that even students with low motivation levels made use of this
teaching tool. Finally, a relationship was found between metacognitive variables and students’ effort and performance. We
discuss the need to include self-assessment in the curriculum, with a view to improving students’ metacognitive knowledge. 相似文献
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This paper reports Grade 12 students’ biology learning during interactive teaching classes in 2001 in Taiwan. The researcher
as teacher, working within an interpretive framework, set out to improve her senior high school student biology teaching and
learning. An intervention based on a social constructivist view of learning was designed, implemented and evaluated. The findings
of this study indicate that intervention students’ cognitive development was facilitated, their reasoning and social abilities
were enhanced, and they enjoyed the lessons more. Their first term examination outcomes were comparable with those in the
traditional teaching classes. This study, therefore, provides an example for how interactive teaching, based on a social constructivist
view of learning, can be effectively used for teaching and learning biology in the senior high school in Taiwan. 相似文献
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Learning no longer takes place as effectively as it did before in most current Korean classrooms. Many teachers have voiced
concerns about a notably reduced level of students’ interest in and enthusiasm for learning school materials, lack of students’
attention to their lectures, and lack of students’ involvement in classroom activities. This negative change, which has been
observed since around 1997, is often referred to as “school collapse” in Korea, meaning classroom breakdown. The paper investigates
the factors that have lead to the phenomenon of the school collapse, introduces the 7th National Curriculum as one of the new reform approaches of the Korean government, and makes some suggestions to ensure more
autonomy and diversity in classrooms to promote effective teaching and learning. 相似文献
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Development of a questionnaire for assessing students’ perceptions of the teaching and learning environment and its use in quality assurance 总被引:2,自引:0,他引:2
There are few available instruments that assess students’ perceptions of university teaching and learning environments and
can be used to provide diagnostic feedback, at the degree or program level, on the quality of the environment. This article
describes the development, testing and application, for quality assurance purposes, of a suitable instrument. The final version
of the questionnaire includes scales seeking students’ feedback on nine facets of the teaching and learning environment. There
are also scales seeking students’ perceptions of the influence of the environment on the development of eight generic capabilities.
The 17 scales have been shown to be reliable. Validity has been established by the use of faculty panels to select appropriate
generic capabilities and by testing, by structural equation modelling, of an underlying model of the nurturing of capabilities
by the environment. The questionnaire has proved to be highly diagnostic when used for quality assurance purposes. A case
is given showing how the questionnaire identifies strengths and weaknesses, which can lead to action plans for quality improvement. 相似文献
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Self-Regulation of Learning within Computer-based Learning Environments: A Critical Analysis 总被引:5,自引:5,他引:0
Fielding I. Winters Jeffrey A. Greene Claudine M. Costich 《Educational Psychology Review》2008,20(4):429-444
Computer-based learning environments (CBLEs) present important opportunities for fostering learning; however, studies have
shown that students have difficulty when learning with these environments. Research has identified that students’ self-regulatory
learning (SRL) processes may mediate the hypothesized positive relations between CBLEs and academic performance. In this review,
we identified 33 empirical studies of SRL and CBLEs. We address three research questions: (1) How do learner and task characteristics
relate to students’ SRL with CBLEs? (2) Can various learning supports or conditions enhance the quality of students’ SRL as
they learn with CBLEs? (3) What conceptual, theoretical, and methodological issues exist for this growing area of research?
We found evidence that specific SRL processes are more often associated with academic success than others and that SRL skills
can be supported. We also identified a number of issues that researchers should aim to address in future investigations, including
a more comprehensive measurement of facets of SRL and the quality of SRL processes, the seeming disconnect between SRL processes
and learning outcomes, and the distinction between self- and other-regulation.
Electronic supplementary material The online version of this article (doi:) contains supplementary material, which is available to authorized users. 相似文献
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Self-directed and social forms of learning are fundamentally different from traditional didactic educational settings from
which students are selected for veterinary, medical and other professional degree courses. It is therefore expected that a
mismatch may emerge between students’ conceptions of effective learning and expectations inherent to the new learning environments.
The present study addressed this issue by examining 128 preclinical students’ predispositions towards two key elements in
problem-based and case-based learning, namely self-directed and social forms of learning. A mixed method approach revealed
converging evidence of students’ overwhelming preference for external, teacher regulation and individual forms of learning.
External regulation was consciously invoked as a coping strategy in managing large amounts of complex information. Constructivist
conceptions of learning were positively related to an appreciation of the cognitive benefits of social forms of learning,
a relationship that has attracted little attention in the higher education literature. These findings stress the importance
of guiding students’ transition towards learning autonomy required for social forms of learning and continuous lifelong learning
after graduation. 相似文献