论积极英语课堂心理环境的营造策略

针对高职院校和独立学院学生英语学习现状,从如何提高大学英语教师教学素质和心理素质,激发学生学习动机,减弱课堂物环境对教学活动的影响三方面提出了创设积极的大学英语课堂教学心理环境的途径。     

Information fluency for undergraduate biology majors: applications of inquiry-based learning in a developmental biology course

Many initiatives for the improvement of undergraduate science education call for inquiry-based learning that emphasizes investigative projects and reading of the primary literature. These approaches give students an understanding of science as a process and help them integrate content presented in courses. At the same time, general initiatives to promote information fluency are being promoted on many college and university campuses. Information fluency refers to discipline-specific processing of information, and it involves integration of gathered information with specific ideas to form logical conclusions. We have implemented the use of inquiry-based learning to enhance and study discipline-specific information fluency skills in an upper-level undergraduate Developmental Biology course. In this study, an information literacy tutorial and a set of linked assignments using primary literature analysis were integrated with two inquiry-based laboratory research projects. Quantitaitve analysis of student responses suggests that the abilities of students to identify and apply valid sources of information were enhanced. Qualitative assessment revealed a set of patterns by which students gather and apply information. Self-assessment responses indicated that students recognized the impact of the assignments on their abilities to gather and apply information and that they were more confident about these abilities for future biology courses and beyond.     

Mathematics for elementary majors

Mr. Higgins describes the preparation in mathematics of Ball State student teachers and invites supervising teachers to submit suggestions for improvement.     

网络条件下新的学习环境

信息技术的发展,尤其是计算机网络的发展,向传统教育提出了挑战。网络环境下的学习具有个性化、协同性、资源丰富等特点,有利于培养学生的自主学习能力和创新精神。网络与教育的结合创造的新的学习环境,将改变传统的教育思想、观念、内容、方法,改变传统的,人才培养模式。     

营造有益创新的教育氛围和环境

心理学研究揭示 ,“心理安全”和“心理自由”是促进创新性发展的基本条件。培养学生的创新性的关键是营造一种全新的 ,有利于创新性发展的氛围和环境 ,并使之成为学生整个生活的背景 ,以保证学生的心理安全和心理自由 ,从而促进学生创新性的发展 ,培养创新人才     

新闻专业通识教育应以培养能力为主

高校通识教育不完全是专业教育的基础。通识教育应注重思维方式这些深层次素质的培养：要注重对能力的培养而不是知识的灌输;要注重与专业教育的联系而不是与之脱节;要注重采取多种形式全面实施。新闻传播类专业尤其应当如此。知识面的拓宽不以量为旨,重要的是要求质,要注意优化知识结构,注重能力的培养：首先是思维能力的培养;其次是以写作能力为主的动手能力的培养。     

Creating an information-rich learning environment to enhance design student learning: challenges and approaches

The use of technology with engineering design students is well established, with shared workspaces being particularly supportive of the collaborative design process. This paper reports on a study where a design knowledge framework involving three learning loops was used to analyse the effectiveness of shared workspaces and digital repositories in supporting design education. The issues discussed include the relationship between knowledge and information structures, the importance of integrating information literacy support, and the need for different systems within the learning environment to support formal and informal storage of resources. These issues are explored within the context of experiences of working in a multidisciplinary team with different approaches, research methodologies, and discourses.     

高职学前教育专业英语学习策略和学习动机研究

学习策略和学习动机是决定英语成绩很重要的两个因素。高职学前教育专业与英语专业的英语学习成就动机、学习策略存在差异。必须采取适当的措施激发学生的追求动机,促进学生更持久、更有效地学习外语;有意识地使用认知策略,培养学生自主学习能力。同时鼓励社交策略的使用,培养英语学习中的记忆策略。     

外语系实施素质教育的举措与设想

教师是实施素质教育的关键,所以要尽快提高年轻教师的学历水平和业务水平.英语课程的设置与课堂的教学改革应把培养、提高学生的教学能力、语言能力和职业能力放在第一位.课下的辅助教学活动则应重视培养学生的创新精神和实践能力,提高学生的会话能力和人际交往能力.     

Creating space for learning: conceptualizing women and higher education through space and time

This paper highlights the strengths of giving visibility to the concepts of space and time in research related to women's lives and higher education. It is based on research that explores the everyday practice and experience of women higher education students at a community college in the north of England. It focuses on the ways in which space and time to study are both socially and personally constructed. The concepts of space and time are drawn on to theorize and analyze women students' experiences and to draw attention to the ‘behind scenes of power and control’ shaping action (Layder, 1993 Layder D 1993 New strategies in social research (Cambridge, Polity)  [Google Scholar], p. 249). Women students from a range of backgrounds are considered, including younger/older, mother/non‐mother and differential class and geographical heritage. The paper highlights three issues. Firstly, the increasingly restricted ground available for academic studies in women's lives, resulting from the restructuring of paid work, social welfare and higher education. Secondly, the hierarchy of values and ambiguous meanings attached to higher education when women attempt to study. Thirdly, the intense negotiations undertaken by women students in order to construct space and time for academic work.     

Self-regulated learning and performance calibration among elementary physical education students

This study examined the effectiveness of a social-cognitive training model of self-regulation on students’ dribbling performance, calibration accuracy, and motivational beliefs. Participants were 120 fifth and sixth graders. Students who sequentially experienced emulative and self-control practice setting either process or performance goals at the emulation or at the self-control level improved their dribbling performance and motivational beliefs from pre- to post-test. Students overestimated their performance except for those in the process goal condition who underestimated it. These findings support the effectiveness of this training model and are discussed with reference to the self-regulation and performance calibration development in physical education.     

项目化导游人才培养研究与实践——以惠州市康辉旅行社为例

提高导游人才培养质量是旅行社人力资源管理的重要议题.项目化人才培养相关研究表明,项目化管理作为一种有效手段,提高了企业人力资源管理的水平.项目化人才培养实践在一定程度上解决了导游供给的数量和质量方面存在的问题.惠州康辉旅行社与惠州经济职业技术学院旅游学院开展合作,尝试以项目化运作模式,搭建培养体系,取得了明显成效,但在...     

Creating spaces for pedagogy: Research as learning

As teacher-educators, we designed and implemented a small study that mapped teacher-education students' understandings of their own identities and how they made sense of ethnicity and class differences among their secondary students while on teaching rounds. While we didn't set out to ‘teach’ our research participants, it was during the analysis of data from the research project, that we began to realise the potential of research to create opportunities for learning. In this paper we speculate on the ‘conditions’ of knowledge production and suggest that the dialogic nature of interviews and focus group discussions can offer pedagogical spaces for learning. Research designs that incorporate opportunities for participants to re-tell narratives over periods of time, may position participants as experts in knowledge production and may reposition them and researchers in more equitable power relations. We present an example of one participant's narrative together with our interpretations to explore how research potentially offers ‘evidence’ of learning. While this is tentative only, we suggest there is a need to create spaces for pedagogy in the design and execution of educational research.     

创造习得环境,培养应用人才--英语演讲比赛活动之思考

通过对“英语演讲比赛”活动的分析,认为这是一种提高学生语言应用能力的有效活动。课外活动和课堂教学相结合,能更好地培养学生的语言实际应用能力。     

The classroom learning environment as perceived by students in Arab elementary schools

In this study, students’ perceptions of the classroom learning environment in Arab elementary schools were investigated. The sample included 261 students from Grades 5 and 6. The questionnaire was developed at an Arab college of teacher education by 16 fourth-year student teachers who were completing their studies toward a BEd degree. Articles on classroom learning environment were distributed to the students, who then wrote items to assess learning environment. The items were evaluated for content validity in relation to the Arab school culture, language, teachers’ teaching, students’ learning styles, teacher–student relations, order and organisation, discipline and behaviours. The Classroom Learning Environment of Elementary Students (CLEES) questionnaire consists of 32 items in four scales: Teacher’s Image, Group Work, Students’ Participation, and Order and Organisation. The CLEES was used in a pilot study in two Grade 5 and 6 classes in order to validate it. The student teachers administered the questionnaire to students in elementary schools. Data were analysed using SPSS (e.g. factor analysis and one-way ANOVA) to validate the CLEES. No significant differences were found between boys and girls in classroom learning environment. However, significant differences in CLEES perceptions were found between students from different grades (Grade 5 vs. Grade 6), age groups and schools. The results are explained in the discussion section in relation to the characteristics of their schools.     

Impacts of instructor and student loci of commitment on biology learning for prospective elementary school teachers

This study explored the dynamic in the loci of commitment of several participants in a university-level biology course developed for elementary school teachers. The analysis concentrated on two instructors with almost opposing loci of commitment. Through both instructors were committed to teaching, one showed commitment to the subject matter (accuracy, quantity, depth) while the other was more concerned with having the students get involved in the topic development. When the instructor focused on the coverage of content, the students and the instructor felt disappointment— each ending the unit expressing reciprocal discontent with the outcome of the unit. This situation eventually proved detrimental to the students' learning and application of biology. Situations where the instructor proved to be more student-oriented resulted in students making sense of relevant ideas, understanding concepts, and incorporating those ideas and concepts into their knowledge web and teaching practice.     

Towards a knowledge‐rich learning environment in preparatory secondary education

In this case study a novel educational programme for students in preparatory vocational education was studied. The research questions were: (1) Which teaching/learning processes occur in a simulated workplace using the concept of a knowledge‐rich workplace? (2) What is the role of models and modelling in the teaching/learning processes? The curriculum project consisted of design and construction tasks. The students were collaboratively involved in the process of designing a tricycle for a real customer. This real‐life activity creates opportunities for students to develop and use models, which can be used in more than in one context. The case study explored how the teachers deal with the students’ explicit and implicit need for knowledge and skills. The main findings are that teachers more often provide this knowledge, rather than guide the students in reconstructing it, and towards the end of the project, knowledge tended to remain situated.     

Curriculum matters: Creating a positive climate for diversity from the student perspective

The purpose of this paper is to identify the factors that predict students perceptions of their institutions success in achieving a positive climate for diversity. This study examines a sample of 544 students at a large, public, predominantly White Mid-Western institution. Results show that students perceptions of the institutions ability to achieve a positive climate for diversity is a reflection of students precollege interactions with diverse peers and the institutions ability to incorporate diversity-related issues into its curriculum. Results also indicate that these perceptions differ by race and gender. Implications for institutional researchers are discussed.