Racial Identity,Centrality and Giftedness: An Expectancy-Value Application of Motivation in Gifted African American Students

This article explores the interaction between racial and ethnic identity, racial centrality, and giftedness and then uses an expectancy-value motivation model as a framework for understanding how the interplay among racial identity, centrality, and giftedness contributes to the motivation of African American gifted students. The analysis begins by defining racial and ethnic identity and discussing their relationship to racial centrality. Next, the interactions among racial and ethnic identity, centrality, and some socio-emotional aspects associated with giftedness are examined. An expectancy-value model then provides a framework for understanding how race centrality, racial/ethnic identity, and giftedness influence the motivational patterns of gifted African American students. Suggestions for future research are provided.     

Increasing Academic Performance of Deaf Students at Alpha University: A Case Study

In partial fulfillment of the requirements for OPWL529‐Needs Assessment in the Boise State University master of science degree in Organizational Performance and Workplace Learning, a team of the first four authors completed a needs assessment focusing on learning accomplishments of hearing impaired students at Alpha University. This case study report describes the needs assessment process and results.     

The Influence of Teacher Expectations about Twice-Exceptional Students on the Use of High Quality Gifted Curriculum: A Case Study Approach

Twice-exceptional students show evidence of high academic performance or potential and also have a disability that impedes their ability to learn. Twice-exceptional students remain under-represented in gifted programs, and some researchers attribute such under-representation to the negative beliefs and low expectations about twice-exceptional students held by teachers. While researchers have begun to investigate the curricular models and instructional strategies that are effective for twice-exceptional students, little research addresses how teacher beliefs and expectations about student ability are reflected in the ways teachers implement such models and strategies for twice-exceptional students in gifted classrooms. Even less research addresses gifted students with emotional and behavioral disabilities. We used a case study of a third-grade teacher using a structured, model-based language arts curriculum to better understand how her expectations about a gifted student with an emotional disability influenced her instructional choices. Using observational and interview data, the case study approach allowed the researchers to personalize the experiences of this teacher and provided a context in which to examine the subtleties of teacher expectations when teaching a gifted student with an emotional disability. Implications for educational practice, particularly the need for comprehensive school-based support systems for students with emotional disabilities, are discussed.     

中美四年级小学生数学学习的比较研究

采用问卷调查法,调查了一万多名美国和中国上海的四年级小学生的数学学习情况,通过卡方检验分析了两国小学生在数学学习的自我评价、数学学习兴趣、课堂活动内容、课堂学习方式和态度等方面的差异。分析这些差异产生的原因和影响,并讨论了我国数学基础教育应采取的对策。     

校长课程领导下的校本课程发展机制探究——以后海小学快乐阅读为个案

以提高阅读能力,丰富学校生活和变革教学方式为目的,后海小学快乐阅读校本课程发展走过六年的探索之路。本研究目的在于刻画此校本课程经历了怎样的发展过程,探究其内在的课程发展机制。在过去五年间通过参与式观察、深度访谈和文件收集的方法采集资料。研究发现,呈现出情境分析模式下校长课程领导教师跟进的课程发展机制。此脉络中校长课程领导是与行政领导的结合体,培育校长课程领导能力是校本课程发展的关键。教师表现出有限的课程领导空间,在开放的学校氛围中,教师课程领导空间的拓展并不在于外在赋权而要依靠内在的专业成长以及提供足够的组织支持。     

Psychological Maladjustment and Academic Achievement: A Cross-Cultural Study of Japanese, Chinese, and American High School Students

American, 1,633 Chinese, and 1,247 Japanese eleventh-grade students, 5 indices of maladjustment included measures of stress, depressed mood, academic anxiety, aggression, and somatic complaints. Asian students reported higher levels of parental expectation and lower levels of parental satisfaction concerning academic achievement than their American peers. Nevertheless, Japanese students reported less stress, depressed mood, aggression, academic anxiety, and fewer somatic complaints than did American students. Chinese students reported less stress, academic anxiety, and aggressive feelings than their American counterparts, but did report higher frequencies of depressed mood and somatic complaints. High academic achievement as assessed by a test of mathematics was generally not associated with psychological maladjustment. The only exception was in the United States, where high achievers indicated more frequent feelings of stress than did low achievers.     

中小学校长课程领导研究综述

随着课程改革和课程问题研究的逐步深入,原来隐藏在课程背后的各种深层次问题逐渐浮现出来,对课程领导的研究也从课程管理的研究中分离出来,成为课程理论研究的一个新兴领域。课程领导对中小学校长提出了更高的要求。因此,对校长课程领导进行研究已成为推进课程改革与课程发展得以顺利进行的需要。     

管理类专业学生创新能力影响因素研究

以某省份管理类专业高年级本科生、学术研究生及MBA学生为研究对象,以学生的学习力和观察联想力为创新能力的两个主要衡量指标,从创新认知、创新环境和创新实践等解析影响管理类专业学生创新能力的关键因素。对收集到的543份有效问卷进行信度分析和效度分析,并采用结构方程模型进行实证分析,揭示了各影响因素之间的相互关系以及对创新能力的影响路径。研究结果表明,创新认知对创新能力有显著的正影响;课堂氛围和校园文化影响学生的观察联想力;创新实践对学生的学习能力有显著影响。     

Promoting Social and Emotional Learning in Second Grade Students: A Study of the Strong Start Curriculum

The promotion of social and emotional learning (SEL) in schools may help prevent emotional and behavioral problems of students. This study evaluated the effects of a SEL curriculum, Strong Start, on the social-emotional competence of 26 second grade students, using a quasi-experimental, non-equivalent control group design. Results revealed statistically significant and meaningful improvements in teacher ratings of students’ internalizing and peer-related pro-social behaviors, particularly for students at greater risk. Conversely, control group students experienced significant worsening of internalizing behaviors and decreased levels of peer-related pro-social behaviors. No changes were reported in externalizing behaviors for either group. Treatment integrity and social validity ratings of Strong Start were high. Limitations and implications of this study are addressed. The authors are listed alphabetically by last name and all shared equally in the preparation of this paper.     

The Paradox of Low Academic Achievement but High Self-Esteem in African American Students: An Attributional Account

Despite evidencing on average lower academic achievement than White students, African American students are usually found to have higher self-esteem. An attributional account is provided to explain this paradox. This account focuses on the expectancies, attributions, and self-esteem of African American college students. The existing literature with regard to attributions, expectancies, and self-esteem is reviewed, and the findings from two recent studies are introduced. Finally, some implications for education are discussed. It is concluded that concerns over threats to self-esteem in African American students may be misplaced. Instead, the data show that African American college students experience increasing doubts that their efforts will be rewarded in ways equivalent to those of White students, and they make increasingly external attributions. The results suggest the need to address the issue of ethnicity and opportunity more directly in our educational institutions.     

略论学术期刊编辑主体的创新素质及其建构

以知识创新为灵魂的知识经济时代呼唤学术期刊编辑主体构建相应的创新素质。这种创新素质应由特定的知识结构、 能力结构、情意品质、精神意向和本职意识诸要素构成。它的建构有赖于编辑主体和有关组织两个方面的努力。     

Nurturing Creativity and Innovation Through FabKids: A Case Study

This paper will report on a case study that was conducted involving Grade 10 learners who were exposed to a high-tech rapid-prototyping environment of a Fabrication Laboratory as part of a FabKids experience. This project must be viewed in the context of a global shortage of key skills placing a higher priority on the initiation and development of a pipeline to attract youth into science, engineering and technology careers. Creativity and innovation feature high on the skills agenda but more importantly preliminary results indicate that learners from a broad range of schools were able to operate effectively in this post constructivist environment. Participants had to apply their knowledge, skill, attitudes and values in order to produce a solution to the challenges provided. The fundamentals of the design process of investigate, design, make, evaluate and communicate were emphasized where the FabKids had to draw on their own collective knowledge using a range of technologies available to them.     

寻求课程的一致性——对美国数学课程焦点的分析与思考

数学教育者与专业数学家之间的长期论战,以及对美国数学教育现状的反思,使得寻求数学课程的一致性成为美国数学教育发展的必然.NCTM发布的《幼儿园学龄前到八年级数学课程焦点:寻求一致性》呈现了学生从幼儿园学龄前到8年级每个年级应该学习和掌握的数学概念与技能.这为美国数学教育的健康发展提供了崭新的思路.同时也为我国的数学教育课程改革提供了一定的启示.     

Collaborative Leadership and Sustained Learner Academic Performance in Secondary Schools: A Blaming Game?

Abstract

This article reports on a study that investigated how collaborative leadership can influence sustained learner academic performance in secondary schools. The key problem resounds about secondary schools that are unable either to sustain or improve learner academic performance when intervention strategies rolled out from the district offices are concluded. The literature pursued in the study covered collaborative leadership from both schools and district education offices and their impact on learner academic performance. Participants were circuit managers, subject advisors, principals and teachers. They completed open- ended questionnaires that sought to explain the relationship between collaborative leadership and sustained learner academic performance. Major findings indicated that participants (at the various levels of leadership) attribute low learner academic performance to all other involved parties except themselves. Thus, collaborative leadership within the school and between schools and district education offices is not enabling sustained learner academic performance.     

小学生学校生活质量(QSL)调查研究——以北京市2248名学生为例

学校生活质量是衡量学校效能的重要因素,可以分为物质条件、校园安全、健康、学习、师生关系、同伴关系、参与和全纳八个维度。通过对北京市2248名小学生学校生活质量进行的问卷调查发现:第一,北京市小学生学校生活质量总体上达到了较高水平,其中校园安全、师生关系、同伴关系三个维度的学校生活质量最高,健康维度最低;第二,小学生学校生活质量在性别、学业成绩、学校位置、学校优劣、择校与否等人口学变量上存在显著差异,且人口学变量在多个维度上存在着主效应和交互影响效应。该研究为分析评估小学生学校生活质量提供了重要的参考指标,建议将学生身体健康纳入到学校管理体系中;对学业成就的追求要建立在健康第一的基础上;要考虑到性别差异和成绩的差异,给予那些处于不利地位的学生更多的关爱和照顾;要给择校生更多的关怀,提高其学校生活质量。     

Developing Dissertation Skills of Doctoral Students in an Internet-Based Distance Education Curriculum: A Case Study

Although preparing doctoral students for completing their dissertations is challenging in an on-campus program, it is even more difficult in an Internet-based distance education curriculum. This article examines the problems encountered and the solutions developed to address this requirement over a recent five-year period at Regent University. It discusses the process used for identifying the competencies needed for completing a doctoral dissertation and for planning how these competencies are taught within an Internet-based doctoral curriculum. The article includes a discussion of the lessons learned thus far, data on the progress of current doctoral candidates, and suggestions for further investigations.     

美国英才教育中的选拔机制:能力要求与方法选择

英才的选拔是英才教育的起点和重点,美国在英才教育选拔方面积累了宝贵的经验。在能力要求上,联邦政策聚焦于智力水平、创新能力、艺术领域、领导能力以及特定学科领域。在此基础上,州政府对英才的能力要求已形成较大共识,但具体关注仍存在差异;在方法选择上,州政府开发并综合运用推选、标准化测验和其他非正式方法。美国的经验对我国英才教育选拔机制的形成与完善具有很强的借鉴意义。     

A Longitudinal Study of Intellectual and Creative Development in Gifted Primary School Children

This research was carried out as part of the Moscow‐Munich Longitudinal Study of Giftedness, and is based on a multidimensional giftedness concept. A total of 73 gifted students in the first grade (7‐8 years old) were selected from 650 students with the help of a two stage procedure, using teachers' checklists and the Russian version of the KFT, a test of intellectual abilities, and a test of creativity. A control group of the same age consisted of 76 unselected pupils. The groups were tested using the same methods in 1991, 1992 and 1993. Intellectual abilities, creativity, motivation, and other personal characteristics were observed. Significant differences between gifted and nongifted students were found in intellectual domains; there were no sex differences in the cognitive sphere, but teachers considered the girls more gifted than the boys; a relationship between cognitive and personal factors was revealed but this was not very stable. The results demonstrated that gifted students need special support and education.