Religion and Science

The authors discuss the challenges of creating an integrated, interdisciplinary team-taught course. This case study focuses on conflict arising from interdependency, when interdisciplinary teams determine course content and negotiate identity, relationship, and process issues. Although no formulaic solutions can resolve such conflicts, the study makes suggestions that can help achieve integration and collaboration when disciplines join forces.     

Engaging New Faculty in the Scholarship of Teaching

This article describes how scholarly teaching projects were conceived, implemented, and evaluated by junior faculty from a variety of disciplines at a medium-sized midwestern university. The authors explore: considerations in designing scholarly teaching projects, methods used to evaluate teaching effectiveness, and outcomes of the teaching projects. Finally, two of the teaching projects illustrate how junior faculty with diverse courses, class sizes, and teaching concerns approached the task of improving their teaching.     

培养大学生法律素养的教学实效性思考

大学生是未来社会建设的主力军,大学生法律素养的高低关系其素质是否能全面发展和我国依法治国战略的实现。文章首先分析了培养大学生法律素养的必要性;在此基础上,提出当前大学生法律素养教育方面还存在教学目标定位不清、教学内容选取自主性较强,缺乏逻辑性、教学实效不高等问题,并对此进行了分析;最后,有针对性地指出提高大学生法律素养教学实效性的出路,即教学目标定位上,以法律素养教学为立足点,教学内容围绕＂培养法律素养公民＂选取,教学方法上把握合理有效性原则。     

A Study of Faculty Perceptions of Summer Compressed Course Teaching

Students take summer and compressed courses for a variety of reasons and research indicates that learning outcomes in these courses are similar to those gained in traditional semester or quarter courses. This quantitative study was an attempt to clarify faculty perceptions about summer compressed courses. One hundred and fifty-one faculty members teaching at a large, multicampus institution completed a survey addressing teaching methodology, approaches to student assessment, and other pedagogical issues relating to such courses. It was determined that many faculty did make adjustments in teaching methods and approaches to student assessment. In addition, perceptions were different between experienced/tenured faculty and inexperienced/nontenured faculty.Mark Kretovics is an Assistant Professor of Higher Education Administration and Student Personnel at Kent State University. He received his Ph.D. from Colorado State University and his research interests include the assessment of student learning, business practices in higher education, distance education, and pedagogical issues in compressed courses. Mark had over 20 years of administrative experience within higher education before transitioning into his current faculty role. Alicia R. Crowe, Ph.D. is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Teaching, Leadership, and Curriculum Studies at Kent State University. Her areas of interest and research include teacher education, social studies education, teacher learning, and technology integration. Eunsook Hyun, Ph.D. is Associate Professor in the Department of Teaching, Leadership, and Curriculum Studies at Kent State University. Her area of research interests include teacher education, critical pedagogy, curriculum theorizing, and higher education curriculum     

“学生评教”意欲何为

学生评教本应体现学校民主、以学生为本,促进教师专业成长。但在学校普遍实施的“学生评教”实践中,却并没有体现以学生为本、教师为本,而是以管理为本。管理主义单独以效率为中心的价值取向不仅影响教育组织目标的实现,而且管理主义中的人性假设与教育中的人性假设存在着很大的矛盾。“学生评教”应走出这种管理主义的误区,充分体现出高校管理的本质是为教育服务。     

A Bootstrap Experiment on the Statistical Properties of Students' Ratings of Teaching Effectiveness

This paper examines the effects of two background variables in students' ratings of teaching effectiveness (SETs): class size and students' motivation (as surrogated by students' likelihood to respond randomly). Resampling simulation methodology has been employed to test the sensitivity of the SET scale for three hypothetical instructors (excellent, average, and poor). In an ideal scenario without confounding factors, SET statistics unmistakably distinguish the instructors. However, at different class sizes and levels of random responses, SET class averages are significantly biased. Results suggest that evaluations based on SET statistics should look at more than class averages. Resampling methodology (bootstrap simulation) is useful for SET research for scale sensitivity study, research results validation, and actual SET score analyses. Examples will be given on how bootstrap simulation can be applied to real-life SET data comparison.     

高职院校ESP师资队伍建设探究

ESP(应用英语)教学需要既具有扎实的专业知识,又精通英语的复合型教师。本文在调查分析高职ESP师资现状的基础上,从跨专业、校企合作教学、ESP虚拟教学团队和学校政策支持几个方面探讨适合地方普通高职院校ESP师资队伍建设的策略,以期对相关院校ESP师资队伍建设有所启示。     

Junior College Innovation and Teaching Improvement

Although interdisciplinary efforts in teaching and research are promoted as a possible antidote to increasing disciplinary separatism in colleges and universities, evaluations of interdisciplinary efforts in the classroom, particularly those spanning the traditional science-humanities divide, are not frequently documented. This article describes the development, execution, and assessment of a unique effort in interdisciplinary teaching in which four doctoral candidates from widely varying home disciplines collaborated to create and teach a “truly interdisciplinary” course for first-year students centered on the pervasiveness of humankind's quest for immortality. Assessment of the course indicates several desirable student outcomes, including the development of a more mature world view and appreciation for different epistemologies, which recommend the continuation of this and similar interdisciplinary efforts. While students at times found the enormous number of disciplines potentially related to the central topic overwhelming, at the conclusion of the course, they largely identified the exposure to new perspectives as an exciting and worthwhile academic experience. Similar interdisciplinary efforts in the classroom are encouraged, though ample course development time is recommended to maximize success.     

Improving Teaching Practice Through Interdisciplinary Dialog

This study presents the results of a self-study of interdisciplinary work that has generated profound changes in our teaching practices. The research grew out of an interest in exploring the nature of our work and the practices that contribute to its success. Our self-study revealed that our work process consists of five stages and is the product of careful weaving of our different disciplinary lenses. The five stages are creating a collaborative environment, initial inquiry, shared inquiry, scholarly connection, and in practice and beyond. We describe these stages in detail, illustrating our use of dialog, reflection, and scholarly inquiry across our disciplines to improve our teaching.     

The Students' Faculties

In this paper, we question how we might disrupt positivist research paradigms that preclude students from engaging and experiencing ownership in the research process. We question what we, as professors, could do to facilitate the transition from traditional research reporting to a disposition of inquiry that allows for ambiguity and discovery in the research process.

Evidence presented was gathered over the course of a two-year qualitative research project completed in a capstone education course. Like most capstone courses, we required a summative research paper, but student work suggested they had minimal interest or enthusiasm for the project. However, by redirecting our students' research interest from traditional research reporting to the generation of authentic research questions drawn from their student teaching experience, a solution emerged. The students' questions provided the basis for the ensuing qualitative inquiry project that afforded them a new and authentic type of inquiry.

This paper describes the process our students engaged in to complete this qualitative inquiry, including the identification of the research question and analysis of field notes and documents. It concludes by sharing samples of the students' research questions and findings that illustrate the authentic inquiry and ownership they experienced as a result of the project.     

Effectiveness Ratings of Counselors without Teaching Experience

Counselors without teaching experience were compared with counselors from the same graduate counselor education program with teaching experience and with other first-year counselors raters had known. Ratings were made in school employment settings by supervisors, principals, and associates of the rated counselors by indicating their relative effectiveness on each of five dimensions. On the first three, counselors without teaching experience were rated as effective or more so than other first-year counselors the raters had known. On the fifth—overall performance—two-thirds of the nonteaching counselors were rated as more effective. It was concluded that teaching experience does not seem to be necessary for the preparation of competent school counselors. It is recommended that biases and requirements against the employment of counselors without teaching experience be eliminated.     

创新英语教学方法 培养学生核心素养

为了适应时代的要求,十八大首次提出"把立德树人作为教育的根本任务。"基于这一根本任务,提出了"核心素养",要求各个学科都把培养学生的核心素养作为教学的基本任务,小学英语也是如此。教师应在小学英语课堂中多运用戏剧教学促进学生在真实的情境中运用语言,提高运用语言的能力。渗透国内外文化知识来拓宽学生的视野,培养学生的文化意识。利用跨学科教学提升学生综合运用语言的能力。利用开放性问题,激励学生主动思考,培养学生的思维品质。     

南开大学学生评教工作的开展及有效性研究

本文介绍了近4年来南开大学基于学生信息员队伍的学生评教工作开展的基本情况、多元机制和评教信息反馈模式,同时论述了通过学生信息员工作进行随堂评教的有效性及其在促进学校教学质量提升方面的意义。针对学校进一步推进学生评教工作,让学生参与学校教学管理工作,充分发挥其在教学质量监控体系中的重要作用,本文提出了几点建议。     

熵值距离的离群点检测及其在学生评教中的应用

离群数据检测是找出与正常数据不一致的数据。学生评教中由于某种原因,会出现一些评教噪声数据。针对学生评教中噪声数据的特征,提出了一个基于熵值距离的离群点检测算法,该算法通过比较每个数据点所对应的熵值和整个数据集的熵值,来判断数据点的离群程度。仿真结果表明该算法对学生评教中出现的噪声数据具有较好的过滤效果。     

培养学生自主学习,提高历史教学的有效性

要培养学生的自主学习,提高历史教学的有效性。可从以下几方面入手：一、教师的教学能力及知识的提高是培养学生自主学习的前提;二、科学制定教学目标及教学设计,让学生有方向性和目的性;三、采用情境导入教学,激发学生的学习兴趣;四、鼓励学生提出问题,培养创新思维;五、做好教学的总结和评议。     

我国高师教育学教材发展趋势

随着改革开放和教育事业的发展,教育学教材改革和建设被当作要着力解决的问题提了出来,这是不断发展的社会主义教育实践对教育理论的呼唤。今后我国高师教育学教材发展的趋势是:教材体系要做到科学和简约;教材内容要不断充实更新,实现教材内容的科学化和现代化;坚持继承与创新,实现教育学教材的现代化。     

我国高师教育学教材发展趋势

随着改革开放和教育事业的发展,教育学教材改革和建设被当作要着力解决的问题提了出来,这是不断发展的社会主义教育实践对教育理论的呼唤。今后我国高师教育学教材发展的趋势是：教材体系要做到科学和简约;教材内容要不断充实更新,实现教材内容的科学化和现代化;坚持继承与创新,实现教育学教材的现代化。     

大学教师成为教学学术型教师之路径探讨

大学教师成为教学学术型教师的路径主要源自大学、大学管理者和大学教师自己，具体包括：大学、大学管理者和大学教师自己要认识与重视大学教学学术，学校要对教师开展职前和在职教学培训，大学教师要学习教学、进行教学实践、反思教学以及研究教学。     

谈中专学校如何加强创新教育

文章结合本校素质教育加强创新教育的实践，略谈如何加强创新教育的体会。