Urban High School Student Engagement Through CincySTEM iTEST Projects

Journal of Science Education and Technology - This paper focuses on the notable heightening of underrepresented students’ engagement in STEM education through project-based learning CincySTEM...     

论高校学生档案管理

高校学生档案是国家人事档案的组成部分,也是大学生重要的人生履历,但是在现实生活中,大学生的档案管理还存在着各种各样的问题,如:学生档案管理工作未受到重视;档案工作者整体素质不高;在校大学生档案意识薄弱等.针对这些问题,文章提出了一些具体的、可操作性的措施来加强和改进这方面的工作.     

高中美术鉴赏教学的创新实践

高中阶段的美术教学应注重提高学生的鉴赏能力,培养学生的欣赏和判断能力,促进学生图像识读、美术表现、审美判断、创意实践和文化理解等核心素养的提升。南京外国语学校开设美术鉴赏课并创新教学方式,引导学生学会自主学习、增加团体合作、注重技能训练、学会反思与总结,激发学生艺术审美的能动性,从而促进学生核心素养的发展。     

Art Preferences in Junior High School

Nonparametric and robust statistics (those using trimmed means and Winsorized variances) were compared for their ability to detect treatment effects in the 2-sample case. In particular, 2 specialized tests, tests designed to be sensitive to treatment effects when the distributions of the data are skewed to the right, were compared with 2 nonspecialized nonparametric (Wilcoxon-Mann-Whitney; Mann &; Whitney, 1947; Wilcoxon, 1949) and trimmed (Yuen, 1974) tests for 6 nonnormal distributions that varied according to their measures of. skewness and kurtosis. As expected, the specialized tests provided more power to detect treatment effects, particularly for the nonparametric comparison. However, when distributions were symmetric, the nonspecialized tests were more powerful; therefore, for all the distributions investigated, power differences did not favor the specialized tests. Consequently, the specialized tests are not recommended; researchers would have to know the shapes of the distributions that they work with in order to benefit from specialized tests. In addition, the nonparametric approach resulted in more power than the trimmed-means approach did.     

Productive Influences on High School Student Achievement

Abstract

A secondary analysis of the High School and Beyond (HSB) data was performed in order to retest the private-school superiority hypothesis and to examine determinants of high school achievement. This analysis attempted to explain the fixed and alterable conditions which influence the achievement of 26,279 sophomores in reading, writing, mathematics, science, and civics. Multiple regression and partial correlations indicated that those variables beyond the control of educators (i.e., amount of homework completed, television viewing, parental involvement with education) explained much of the achievement variation. However, variables under school control, such as quantity and appropriateness of academic instruction, were found to explain significant and educationally meaningful amounts of achievement variance. With background variables controlled, private schools did not outperform public schools.     

Behavior-Based Student Typology: A View from Student Transition from High School to College

Research in Higher Education - Several recent studies have successfully identified college student typologies based on individuals’ behaviors. One limitation of past studies has been their...     

Electrifying Engagement in Middle School Science Class: Improving Student Interest Through E-textiles

Most interventions with “maker” technologies take place outside of school or out of core area classrooms. However, intervening in schools holds potential for reaching much larger numbers of students and the opportunity to shift instructional dynamics in classrooms. This paper shares one such intervention where electronic textiles (sewable circuits) were introduced into eighth grade science classes with the intent of exploring possible gains in student learning and motivation, particularly for underrepresented minorities. Using a quasi-experimental design, four classes engaged in a traditional circuitry unit while the other four classes undertook a new e-textile unit. Overall, students in both groups demonstrated significant learning gains on standard test items without significant differences between conditions. Significant differences appeared between groups’ attitudes toward science after the units in ways that show increasing interest in science by students in the e-textile unit. In particular, they reported positive identity shifts pertaining to their perceptions of the beliefs of their friends, family, and teacher. Findings and prior research suggest that student-created e-textile designs provide opportunities for connections outside of the classroom with friends and family and may shift students’ perceptions of their teacher’s beliefs about them more positively.     

Developing Students as Effective Learners: The Student Conditions for School Improvement

This article outlines a Student Conditions instrument which is intended to complement existing IQEA mapping instruments. It briefly conceptualises each condition, using a combination of a review of the literature and findings from empirical research from within IQEA. Data from 6,000 students in 36 schools in various IQEA projects are presented and analysed. It suggests that the findings derived from the conditions survey provide a useful focus for the dialogue between teachers and students which is a critical factor in improving students’ learning.     

Surviving School as a Lesbian Student

This paper discusses the results of research undertaken in 1991 which investigates the barriers to quality education for lesbian and gay youth. The study was sponsored by the Ontario Ministry for Education through a transfer grant to the Ontario Institute for Education. Interviews with lesbian (and gay) students at the secondary level were conducted and information gathered from these interviews helped illuminate the organizational features of schools. The lesbian (and gay) interviewees acted as knowledgeable informants whose experiences in the school system served as the basis from which the study began and which enabled the researcher(s) to detect the various organizational factors that prevented lesbian (and gay) students from recieving an education that would realize their full potential.

     

Improving School Learning: The Student Perspective

Schools struggle to accurately assess nonnative speakers of English using accountability systems that somehow do not capture the complexity of the issues at hand. This article discusses topics surrounding the assessment of English language learners and how these issues have been oversimplified by such processes as the No Child Left Behind legislation. The case is made that English language learning is a complex system, holistic, nonlinear, and constantly evolving; however, current assessment practices do not address this complexity.     

职业高中的学生教学管理策略

在教育蓬勃发展的今天,最重要的是加强学生的管理,培养学生一个良好的学习习惯。一个好习惯的养成使学生会受益终身,对学生一生的发展都有极大的帮助,因此在教育中应着重培养学生良好的学习习惯。但是职业高中的学生不论是基础知识,还是学习习惯、自控能力都是比较差的,这是教师最烦恼的,也是教学管理的难点所在。对职业高中的学生进行了研究,为职业高中的教学管理提出了几点有效的管理措施。     

School Rejectors and Recommenders: Some Student Views on School Effectiveness from an Inner-City Multiracial High School

Books reviewed:

Louise Porte, Behaviour in Schools: Theory and Practice for Teachers

Chris Watkins and Patsy Wagner, Improving School Behaviour

Garry Hornby, Improving Parental Involvement

Carl Parsons, Education, Exclusion and Citizenship

Marianna Csot, People Skills for Young Adults     

成长档案袋:学生综合素质评价的载体——北京市陈经纶中学的实践

实施高中学生综合素质评价已经成为我国一项基本教育政策。北京市陈经纶中学在实施综合素质评价的过程中,经历了从一个分数评价到多个分数评价、从多个分数评价到分类评价、从分类评价到全面评价三个阶段。通过成长档案袋记录学生7个方面的内容,以此为依据全面评价学生在思想品德、学业水平、身心健康、艺术素养和社会实践5个方面的表现。成长档案袋的实施,标志着学校的培养目标实实在在地从追求分数转到育人为本,转到立德树人,转到全人教育,使学校认识到,需要为学生搭建自主成长的舞台,需要搭设与全人教育相配套的全人课程。     

高中英语课堂组织讨论的艺术

课堂讨论是一种多向信息交流活动，是英语教学的一种有效方式。本从英语学科特点出发，探讨了组织讨论在英语课堂教学中的意义，研究了英语课堂讨论的功能和类型以及组织英语课堂讨论的设计原理。     

中学生人际挫折及其应对策略

交往是个体社会化必不可少的条件。人际交往是人们为了达到彼此传达思想、交换意见、表达情感等目的,运用语言符号而实现的沟通。对于处于青少年期的中学生来说,人际交往是他们满足自己的成人感和独立性,产生肯定的情绪体验的重要途径。良好的人际交往能促进青少年社会化进程,促进深化自我认识,是其个性发展与完善的条件,是维持青少年身心健康的重要保证。而人际交往中的挫折则会给青少年带来消极的情绪体验,给学习、生活造成负面影响。一、中学生人际挫折及表现广义的挫折是指一切能够引起人们精神紧张,造成疲劳过度和心理变化的刺激性生活…     

初中生学习主观幸福感的实证研究

目的考查初中生学习主观幸福感的特点,为丰富学校教育评价体系提供实证性支持。在问卷调查的基础上,本研究以529名初中生为被试,探讨了初中生学习主观幸福感的结构。探索性因子分析结果表明,初巾生学习主观幸福感由现行成绩感受、学习体验、环境激励、希望学习成绩等四个因素构成。本研究所编制的《初中生学习主观幸福感量表》在总问卷及各因子上的信、效度均良好,可以作为初中生学习主观幸福感的评估工具。     

后现代主义背景下的高中美术教育

基于4R基础的后现代主义美术课程强调课程是一个不断发展、完善的过程。课程模式主张以学生为中心,创设课堂情境、通过协作、对话的方式促使学生对所学知识进行意义建构,在后现代课程中关术学习成为师生间相互作用、相互建构的动态过程,课程内容更面向现实,面向生活,面向学生,以促进学生个体的成长。     

新疆普通高中美术校本课程的开发和应用解析

新课程改革为新疆的美术教育带来了新的发展机遇,为了进一步完善新疆校本课程的开发并在实践中加以应用,文章对本土美术资源整合进行了探讨,旨在对新疆高中校本课程的开发提供充分的理论依据,便于教育者与各民族学生全面了解本土民族文化,提高精神境界和艺术素质及审美能力.