The Purpose of a Standardized Test in Spelling

ABSTRACT

The authors explored the moderating effect of teachers’ expectancies and general sense of efficacy on the relationship between students’ achievement and their cognitive engagement and achievement 1 year later. They used hierarchical linear modeling with a longitudinal sample of 79 mathematics teachers and their 1,364 secondary school students coming from 33 schools serving disadvantaged communities in Québec (Canada). Results indicate that teachers’ self-reported beliefs directly influenced student academic experience. However, they did not influence more importantly low-achieving than high-achieving students. Such findings suggest that in schools serving low socioeconomic status students, teachers should be made aware of the role their attitudes can play on students’ cognitive engagement and achievement. Special efforts should also be made to help them develop positive attitudes toward all students.     

The effects of feedback from students to university instructors: An experimental study

This article reports the results of an experimental study of the effects of students' evaluative feedback to university instructors. Data obtained indicated that feedback from students did not have any significant effects on the instructors' teaching performance and their perception of teaching. Some limitations of the study are discussed with suggestions for further exploration of the problem.     

“发展性学生评价”调查研究

本研究对山东省有一定代表性的2个地区的部分学生、教师和家长进行问卷调查、统计分析。经X2检验：教师、学生和家长对＂发展性学生评价＂的了解状况、必要性认识存在显著性差异;城市和农村对教师、学生、家长对＂发展性学生评价＂的了解状况、必要性认识方面不存在显著性差异;教师和学生对＂发展性学生评价＂在＂评价内容＂和＂评价主体＂方面均存在显著性差异;教师和学生对＂发展性学生评价＂在＂评价标准＂和＂评价手段＂方面均无显著性差异。     

Leading with teachers’ emotional labour: relationships between leadership practices,emotional labour strategies and efficacy in China

Emotional labour has been demonstrated to play a critical role in teaching and leading in the past decade. This study explored the relationships between leadership practices, emotional labour and teacher self-efficacy, with a focus on the mediating role of emotional labour strategies. A sample of 1026 teachers from 3 provinces in China participated in a questionnaire survey. The results show that leadership practices had a negative effect on surface acting and positive effects on deep acting, expression of natural felt emotion and all three aspects of teacher efficacy. Mediation analysis indicates that surface acting and expression of natural felt emotion significantly mediate the effects of leadership practices on teaching efficacy. Implications for school leadership and teacher development are discussed.     

高校学生工作泛化及对策研究

高校学生工作泛化,是新的历史时期我国高等教育改革、发展的产物,它集中表现为高校学生工作的内涵、职责处于不断扩展、派生、交叉、融合态势。学生工作泛化既是挑战,更是机遇。因此,必须对泛化背景下的学生工作职能进行重新审视和认知,对学生工作力量重新整合,对学生工作队伍进行专业化、专家化构建,对高校相关管理制度加以完善。     

美国教师教育中对实习生的评价研究——以马塞诸塞州某州立大学教育学院为例

本研究以美国马塞诸塞州某州立大学教育学院为案例,对美国职前教师教育中实习生的评价体系作了研究。美国职前教师教育中对实习生有系统而全面的评价标准,SIOP和PPA是重要的评价工具,评价指标体系具体、清晰,评价主体多元且权责明确,并且实习成绩与教师资格证的申请紧密相关,这些对我国教师教育中的实习管理都有借鉴意义。     

Student Opinion on Teaching: Threat or Chance for Dialogue/

The majority of research on faculty-student interaction has been primarily quantitative to date and has focused primarily on determining what kinds of interactions students have with faculty. This study furthers the literature on faculty-student interaction, taking a qualitative approach to examine what types of interactions with faculty students find meaningful. Our findings indicate that students appreciate the types of interactions that research shows benefits them the most, suggesting that there is less of a disconnect between the types of faculty behaviors that benefit students and the types of faculty behaviors that students appreciate than many might assume.     

Using summative and formative assessments to evaluate EFL teachers’ teaching performance

Using classroom observations (formative) and student course experience survey results (summative) to evaluate English lecturers’ teaching performances is not new in practice, but surprisingly only a few studies have investigated this issue in a higher education context. This study was conducted in an English department of a large university in Vietnam. The data include: (1) semi-structured interviews with all the full-time lecturers, (2) two department heads and (3) course experience surveys from English as a foreign language (EFL) students (N?=?2886). Three lessons can be learned: (1) formative assessments do not seem to have an effect on promoting better teaching practices when their feedback is not helpful in improving high-stakes summative assessment results, (2) without sharing a common definition of good teaching practices among assessors, summative assessments appear to make the feedback from formative assessments less meaningful and applicable, and (3) as a result, the combination of formative and summative assessments tends to make EFL lecturers’ self-assessment practices less effective.     

The stability of teacher performance in the same course over time

Traditional reliability studies report the stability of teaching performance, as measured by student course/instructor evaluations, as ranging from .40 to .90, depending upon the study. Recently, generalizability theory has been applied to these rating data to more specifically pinpoint sources of error in student course evaluations. The purpose of the present study is to (1) familiarize the reader with some of the work that has been done with student rating data using generalizability theory and (2) to illustrate the use of the theory on a problem that in the past has been examined using traditional reliability estimates. Specifically, the paper addresses the stability of teacher performance across time in the same course.     

高校学生工作绩效评估初探

从人力资源管理学的角度,用绩效评估的办法来考评高校的学生工作,有利于将先进的、科学的理论引入高校的考评中来。绩效评估运用的合理能够对高校学生工作带来一定的激励作用。     

再论高校学生工作的专业化

高校学生工作走专业化之路是大势所趋,但目前存在着将专业化等同于职业化、以专职化替代专业化等误区。实现专业化既需要培训,更要形成专业情意,并在职业发展的基础上,积极争取外部环境的支持。同时,还要分析学生工作专业化的弊端,进行长远制度设计,以推动学生工作的健康发展。     

论高校学生工作的专业化

高校学生工作要适应国际化浪潮、市场经济发展、大众教育推进、高校规模扩大以及学生需求深化的要求,必须走专业化道路。专业化是促进学生工作发展的必由之路,它能够纠正学生工作人员行政化、业余化的倾向,有助于提高学生工作的社会声望,有助于学工队伍的稳定以及学校的发展。学生工作专业化包括职业化和专门化两方面内容。可以通过实行资格认证制度、科学划分职级序列、实施培训进修机制和健全考核晋升体系来建立和完善学生工作专业化。     

免费师范生学习动机与学习情况调查研究

如何提高免费师范生培养的质量,更好地服务于国家民族的振兴是全社会关注的话题,而免费师范生的情况到底如何?本研究以华东师范大学为样本,通过纵(不同年级的免费师范生)与横(免费师范生和非免费师范生)比较的方式来研究免费师范生的学习动机和学习情况,揭示了总体情况向好的趋势但也存在着一定的问题。     

高校学生工作评估体系研究

根据高职教育目标,参照ISO质量体系标准,分别以学生工作者、家长、用人单位及学生个体为评估者,对学生工作质量进行评估,从而构建一个有效、科学的学生工作质量评估体系,为学生工作实践提供参考。