Students’ academic motivation: relations with parental warmth,autonomy granting,and supervision

In this investigation we assessed the relationships between perceptions of parenting and student’s academic motivation and success. College students completed a series of questionnaires assessing perceptions of parental warmth, autonomy granting, and supervision, and perceptions of academic control. Findings revealed different models for males and females. For females, perception of control was predicted by parental warmth and supervision. For males, only parental warmth was a significant predictor of perceptions of control. Perception of control predicted grade point average for both males and females. Parenting probably influences the development of motivational beliefs during childhood and adolescence and these beliefs continue to be important into the college years. Additionally, our findings of gender differences suggest that the effects of parenting may be moderated by the child’s gender.     

园林计算机辅助设计工学结合课程开发初探

为培养学生职业能力,提高学生借助计算机绘制园林设计图的能力,笔者探讨了《园林计算机辅助设计》工学结合课程开发．课程开发小组在分析学生学情和园林专业典型工作任务的基础上,围绕课程开发原则,以一个典型的园林项目为载体,将知识内容紧密结合在工作过程中讲授,并制定学习要求,采用项目任务等新的考核方式来综合评价学生的学习质量．     

民办本科高校非计算机专业C语言程序设计教学探索

从非计算机专业学生的现状和特点出发,分析民办本科院校非计算机专业C语言程序设计教学的现状,通过实例分析的方法,引出新的课堂教学思路和理念,旨在有效提高民办本科院校C语言程序设计语言的教学水平和学生的学习效率.     

Students’ and teachers’ perceptions: initial achievements of a Project-Based Engineering School

A unified academic model based on the project-based learning (PBL) methodology was implemented, in the 2012–2013 period, in the School of Engineering at Universidad Europea de Madrid. The purpose of this paper is to explore whether teachers and students participating in the capstone projects feel that the objectives for which this methodology was designed for are being achieved. The data were collected through interviews to participants at the end of the PBL experience. The results are encouraging, as students seem to be more motivated, and they say that they are experiencing deeper learning, and have developed key competitive skills required for their professional lives. Findings also suggest that teachers face positively the PBL as a learning approach since they perceive that students obtain a deeper learning, develop transversal skills with the projects and are more engaged with their studies. Implications and recommendations for the future of the model are also discussed.     

Intelligent design: student perceptions of teaching and learning in large social work classes

Research into the effects of large classes demonstrates that students are disadvantaged in terms of higher order learning because interactions between teachers and students occur at lower cognitive levels. This has significance for social work education, with its emphasis on the development of critical thinking and problem solving, both higher order cognitive skills. This paper reports on quantitative and qualitative research that explored social work students’ perceptions of different teaching and learning strategies in a large mental health course designed with reference to principles of student‐centred learning and constructive alignment. Findings revealed that well‐integrated design, relevance to the real world and teacher enthusiasm were seen as most useful by students, rather than particular learning strategies per se. Higher satisfaction ratings and grades were also associated with this student‐centred course compared with an earlier traditional lecture‐style course. The paper concludes that design based on the interplay between diverse learning activities, including lecture input, strengthened the student‐centred orientation of learning and recommends further research that compares learning outcomes associated with these contrasting approaches to professional education.     

Student perceptions and use of feedback during active learning: a new model from repeated stimulated recall interviews

As active learning pedagogies continue to increase in popularity in higher education, new questions have emerged about how instructors can manage all of the associated ‘moving parts’ of active learning, including how and when to deliver feedback. Currently, little is known about how students perceive the effects of verbal feedback during in-class activities. This study examined two large sections of introductory biology held in an active learning SCALE-UP (Student-Centred Active Learning Environments with Upside-down Pedagogies) classroom. Thematic analysis of repeated stimulated recall interviews with 15 students (72 total interviews) uncovered three main categories of feedback effects that students perceived: assure, alert and add (AAA). These three categories were supported by repeated stimulated recall surveys with a larger student population (262 students). We describe each category, quantify the frequency of each category in the target course, outline the students’ perceived impact of each on examination preparation and performance, and conclude with implications regarding how understanding students’ perceptions of their feedback experience may help instructors to deliver student-centred feedback during active learning.     

The direct and indirect effect of motivation for learning on students' approaches to learning through the perceptions of workload and task complexity

The present study investigates the direct and indirect influence of motivation for learning, as understood by the self‐determination theory, on students' approaches to learning. Concerning the direct influence of motivation, results show that autonomous motivation is positively related to a deep approach to learning and negatively to a surface approach. Motivation also has an indirect effect on students' approaches to learning through the perceptions of workload and task complexity, in particular through the perception of a lack of information. The greater the extent to which students are autonomously motivated, the less they perceive that they have a lack of information and the less they are inclined to adopt a surface approach to learning.     

基于工作过程的程序设计类课程开发

参照高职软件人才培养目标,围绕工作任务分析与行动领域内各知识点,分析VB程序设计类课程的教学任务,将其课程知识体系分为vB编程知识群和扩展知识群两个部分.在工作任务、职业能力及课程知识体系的分析基础上,设计冒泡排序、定时器、聊天程序、记事本和学籍管理系统5个学习项目,每一个学习项目又进一步分解成若干个学习型工作任务,学习与实践交替,使学生不断提高编程能力.     

从培养创新能力入手改革程序设计实践教学

本文通过计算机专业的《程序设计的活动课》的教学实践,探讨了该课程的教学方法,交流笔者在该课程教学中的体会。     

程序设计教学浅析

笔者结合自己的教学实际,从阅读、仿写、程序写作和上机实验四个步骤谈谈程序设计课程的教学体会。     

高师数学教育专业程序设计语言教学探讨

分析了当前高师数学教育专业程序设计语言教学内容与课程设置的现状与不足,阐述编程训练的重要性,提出将程序设计语言教学分为基础教学和提高教学阶段,探讨教学改革中所采取的措施。     

以工作过程为导向探索高职动态网站设计与开发课程改革

《动态网站设计与开发》课程教学改革的出发点是提高学生的动态网站设计与开发的能力。课程以3个典型的学习项目为核心,按照实际工作的设计与开发过程将项目分解为若干个子任务,并按照任务实施来组织教学,教学实施采用了项目化教学、情景导入和小组协作学习等教学方法。