Ideal versus school learning: Analyzing Israeli secondary school students’ conceptions of learning

This study explored 130 secondary school students’ conceptions of learning using an open-ended task, analyzed both qualitatively and quantitatively. Students’ reality of learning comprised two separate spheres, ideal learning and school learning, which rarely interacted. Generally, students commented more about school than ideal learning. Factor analysis of learning conception categories revealed separate “grand” categories for each sphere and some shared ones. Strikingly, students held complex, deeper conceptions of ideal learning (as self-interest/curiosity, understanding, and knowledge acquisition), but these were separate from their conceptions of school learning as merely the minimal, surface compliance necessary to survive the system by “satisficing” [Simon, H. A. (1955). A behavioral model of rational choice. The Quarterly Journal of Economics, 69(1), 99–118] – satisfying and sufficing – the teachers (grades, task completion, and active class participation). Theoretical and educational implications were discussed regarding classroom instruction to heighten educators’ awareness of students’ thinking about learning.     

试论中小学教师的学习

在现代知识社会,学习对中小学教师具有特殊重要的意义。学习效果在一定程度上取决于个体对学习的理解和学习方式。理论性学习可以培育教师的学科理论素养,提高理性思考能力。研究性学习属于以高阶思维为主要认知活动的高投入性学习。合作性学习可以促进个体知识经验的聚合和视界的融合,从而实现知识共享。社会化学习是个体学习社会知识,并不断内化和再创造的过程。教师应端正学习态度,提高学习内驱力,将工作和学习融为一体,相得益彰。     

本能教育、研探教育对学校教育的启示

把大教育分为本能教育、研探教育、学校教育进行比较,得到如下启示.1.教育目的和目标必须符合受教育者身心发展规律.2.教育内容必须强调基础性、生动性、多样性.3.传承教育方式不能全盘否定,单一传承模式必须改革.4.受教育者的主体地位和作用必须充分肯定.5.教育者素质直接关系教育结果.6.要建立新型师生关系.     

在校青少年学习习惯的强制养成

从学生的主要任务出发,运用观察法、逻辑思维法,对学生学习习惯的养成途径进行了分析,指出在此问题上容易出现差错的几种认识,并具体列举了学习习惯强制养成的相关措施,为中小学教师特别是班主任老师提供教学管理的新视点。     

试论中学数学的研究性学习

研究性学习是当前新课程改革的亮点 ,也是人们关注的热点。本文通过对研究性学习产生的历史以及我国提出研究性学习的时代性的阐述 ,揭示了研究性学习的内涵。数学研究性学习的特点体现在 :较高的抽象性、广阔的开放性、较深刻的探究性以及非常有利于培养钻研精神。开展数学研究性学习要以促进学生思维发展为根本 ,培养数学创造性思维。     

中学生英语学习情况微探

英语是高考的重要科目,所以很多家长都很重视孩子的英语学习,但是英语学习要掌握正确的方式方法,方能达到事半功倍的效果。     

学校数字化学习资源库的有效利用

数字化学习资源已成为支持学校教育教学活动中不可或缺的基础资源.研究和探索有效利用数字化资源库的方法和途径,有利于节约教育资金、提高数字化学习资源的利用率、促进新课程改革、优化课堂教学、实现信息技术与学科的有机整合.     

Models for optimizing and individualizing school learning

Two psychological traditions—correlational studies of individual differences and experimental studies of stimulus variation—have failed to make educational research a useful applied science. The two traditions must be integrated within an emerging field of study—social environments of learning. Based on parsimony and predictability, two general models and seven special models are proposed that identify the empirically testable assumptions of instructional programs purporting to optimize or individualize school learning.

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Résumé Deux traditions psychologiques—les études de correlation des différences individuelles et les études expérimentales de variation de stimulus—n'ont pas réussi à faire de la recherche éducationnelle une science appliquée utile. On devrait intégrer ces deux traditions dans un nouveau domaine d'études—les environnements sociaux d'études. Basés sur la parcimonie et la prédictabilité, deux modèles généraux et sept modèles spéciaux sont proposés afin d'identifier les assomptions des programmes instructionnels qu'on peut mettre à l'épreuve et qui visent à l'efficacité optimum ou à l'individualisation de l'apprentissage dans les écoles.

     

探究性学习与中学生物教学

探究学习是一种参与性和体验性的、并在教师指导下开展的创造性活动。学生通过自主地参与获得知识的过程,培养学习知识所必需的探究能力,形成科学概念,养成探索未知世界的积极态度。在生物教学中,教师运用探究学习过程,能让学     

Coping with school failure and self-regulated learning

The aim of the study was to explore whether students can be classified in groups according to their coping strategies in dealing with school failure and to assess relationships between coping strategies and various components of self regulated learning. The sample consisted of 470 high school students (15 to 18 years old). The students responded to two self-report questionnaires: The School Failure Coping Scale and The Components of Self-Regulated Learning.     

The effects of rigidity on school geometry learning

This study attempts to explain certain difficulties which ninth grade students face in tackling geometrical problems to prove, by relating them to general and to specific rigidity and cognitive style variables. The specific Geometrical Rigidity (GR) construct was conceived as comprising a perceptual component named Geometrical Functional Fixedness (GFF) and a conceptual component named Geometrical Method Embeddedness (GME). The general rigidity constructs were SDI and BRT that were derived within the Field Theory of K. Lewin and the Gestalt Theory respectively. The cognitive style construct was articulated-global style (measured by EFT). The results show that (a) GFF and GME are mutually independent (b) GR and its components have small negative correlations with SDI (c) GR and its components have insignificant correlations with BRT (d) GR and its components have strong negative correlations with articulated-global style (e) school geometry achievement has strong negative correlations with GR and its components, positive correlations with SDI and EFT, and insignificant correlations with BRT (f) GR is a potent and efficient predictor of future failure in school geometry learning. These results confirm the conceptual analysis of GR and indicate that GR has an independent existence as a cognitive style construct rather than a personality trait.     

中学生物探究性学习方式运用之我见

在传统的生物教学中,教师和学生处于被动孤立的局面,对教师的教学质量和学生的学习效果影响很大,特别是对处于成长期中学生的思维品质和科学素养的形成极为不利。而探究性学习方式则坚持“以人为本”的思想,从学生发展需要的实际出发,通过最大限度地激发学生的主观能动性,以达到全面提升教师的教学质量和提升学生的各种思维能力、探究能力之目的。本文将以探究性实验为例来论述探究性学习方式在中学生物教学中的运用及对中学生物教学的重要影响。     

Redesigning problem-based learning in the knowledge creation paradigm for school science learning

The introduction of problem-based learning into K-12 science classrooms faces the challenge of achieving the dual goal of learning science content and developing problem-solving skills. To overcome this content-process tension in science classrooms, we employed the knowledge-creation approach as a boundary object between the two seemingly contradicting activities: learning of science content and developing problem-solving skills. As part of a design research, we studied a group of Grade 9 students who were solving a problem related to the Law of Conservation of Energy. Through the lens of the activity theory, we found that students’ understanding of the intended science knowledge deepened as they made sense of the disciplinary-content knowledge in the context of the problem and concurrently, the students successfully developed solutions for the problem. This study shows that developing problem-solving competencies and content learning need not be disparate activities. On the contrary, we can harness the interdependency of these two activities to achieve dual goals in learning.     

菲律宾华裔中学生中文学习态度调查分析

本研究采用自编问卷,按比例选取菲律宾22所华校的2050位华裔中学生,从对其中文学习态度的认知、情感与行为倾向三成分进行广泛的调查分析后得知:当代菲华中学生中文学习态度总体不佳。华语教学应积极挖掘学生尚存的"母语基因",注重培养融入性学习动机,以充分调动起华裔学生中文学习的积极性。     

高中语文自主学习能力培养策略

自主学习是一个新的概念,是高于语文新课程改革的殷切呼唤,也是适应社会发展的迫切需要;自主学习能力不仅提高素质教育水平,同时也有利于培养学生终身学习的习惯;自主学习强调的是一个过程,而不是结果,它需要持之以恒。对于个人和社会都有促进作用。