Four Perspectives on Flipping the Statistics Classroom: Changing Pedagogy to Enhance Student-Centered Learning

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The term “flipped” or “inverted” classroom includes a broad range of pedagogical innovations, and has recently received a significant amount of press. Although flipping an entire course might be a more extreme step than most are able to take, we discuss modular ideas for change that can be more easily implemented. This paper offers the perspective of four faculty members at different institutions who have all flipped material in statistics courses that were already highly interactive and activity-based. We share common pitfalls and core ideas that were found among diverse environments.     

翻转课堂教学设计与实践问题研究

在对国内外关于翻转课堂理论与实践的研究成果分析的基础上,针对我国当前翻转课堂实践中存在的问题,首先阐述翻转课堂教学设计理念、方法、策略,然后从教师和学习者两个角度指出使用翻转课堂教学模式和翻转课堂学习模式的注意要点,最后给出了翻转课堂教学设计流程,对其中涉及的教师活动和学生活动进行阐述,旨在为教师进行翻转课堂教学设计和实践提供一定的借鉴和参照。     

Flipping an Algebra Classroom: Analyzing,Modeling, and Solving Systems of Linear Equations

The present study investigated whether flipping an algebra classroom led to a stronger focus on conceptual understanding and improved learning of systems of linear equations for 54 seventh- and eighth-grade students using teacher journal data and district-mandated unit exam items. Multivariate analysis of covariance was used to compare scores on three factors, analyze, model, and solve systems of linear equations. We found comparable statistically significant learning gains in both treatment groups. We found that the focus on conceptual understanding was similar in the flipped and control classrooms, and the learning gains were statistically significant and similar in both groups. Explicit attention to the substance of the at-home videos and in-class activities is needed to use the flipped classroom model to successfully shift the instructional focus from procedural to conceptual understanding.     

“材料科学基础”课程实验教学的翻转课堂

本文以"材料科学基础"课程实验为对象,以学生为中心,尝试将翻转课堂教学法应用于实验教学中,将实验课堂交给学生,培养学生的综合实践能力。运行结果表明,采用翻转课堂教学法可以提高实验课堂的时间利用效率,有利于学生掌握实验知识。运行结果表明翻转课堂教学法在实验教学中取得了较好的效果。     

翻转课堂模式在高中生生涯规划课程中的应用探析

现阶段,我国科学技术发展速度逐渐加快,人们已经开始将信息技术运用在教育事业中,翻转课堂教学形式随之应运而生,教师在帮助高中生进行生涯规划课程中,将其运用于课堂教学,以此提升生涯规划教学质量。文章主要分析翻转课堂的特点,从而促进翻转课堂教学模式在生涯规划课程中得发展与应用。     

基于翻转课堂模式的教学设计及应用研究

随着信息技术和教学理念的不断更新,翻转课堂成为国内外教育界的热门话题。它打破了传统的教学模式,为教学改革的开展注入了新的活力。文章提出了翻转课堂的教学模型,以“计算机应用基础”课程为例,设计了较为完整的基于翻转课堂模式的教学设计方案,并予以实施。在教学实践中,采用对照实验和问卷调查研究方法,对学习效果进行分析。实践证明,翻转课堂教学模式对提高学生成绩以及增强学习兴趣有积极作用。     

《水产食品化学》课程混合式教学模式的探索

文章提出了基于翻转课堂理念的混合式教学模式,包括传统的课堂讲授、部分翻转课堂和完全翻转课堂三种混合形式,并依据此模式对水产食品化学课程进行了教学设计与实践,对解决课程问题,提高教学质量以及促进教学改革具有一定的借鉴意义和参考价值。     

Time Scales and Academic Excellence

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While not representative of all students, those who demonstrate a sense of entitlement demand a great deal of instructors' time and energy. Our article places student entitlement in its social context, with specific attention to the prevalence of the consumer mentality, grade inflation, and the self-esteem of the student generation. We then outline several strategies for dealing with entitlement behavior. We suggest that greater clarity in standards and assessment, combined with specific requirements guiding teacher-student interactions and general efforts to resocialize students and faculty, will help to curb these behaviors.     

支持翻转课堂的网络教学系统模型探究

依据翻转课堂教学的要求,在对网络教学视频加工整合和对习题答案呈现方式优化的基础上,通过学习动态一览表实现学习监控的可视化,进而构建出支持翻转课堂教学的网络教学系统模型,最后详细地阐述基于该系统模型的翻转课堂的教学过程。该系统为翻转课堂教学提供了强有力的信息技术支持,有利于降低翻转课堂实施难度,提高学习效率和教学效果程。     

Freshman Disorientation

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A Provocative Collection The War against the Intellect: Episodes In the Decline of Discourse By Peter Shaw Iowa City: University of Iowa Press, 1989, 181 pages, $22.50 hardcover, $10.95 paperback. Reviewed by Robert L. Spaeth

Giving Freshmen What They Deserve The Freshman Year Experience M. Lee Upcraft, John N. Gardner and Associates San Francisco: Jossey-Bass, 1989, 443 pages, $32.95 Reviewed by Roy Starling     

基于微课的机械CAD/CAM翻转课程教学改革

文章将翻转课堂教学形式引入到机械CAD/CAM课程的教学中,针对机械CAD/CAM课程的教学现状和所面临的挑战,把微课与课堂授课相结合,从课前准备、课中讨论、课后持续作用和课程学习情况综合评价这四个环节入手,提出了基于微课的翻转课程教学改革实施方案,这对该课程教学内容的完善、教学质量的改进、教学水平的提高具有重要意义。     

Fostering Instructor Knowledge of Student Thinking Using The Flipped Classroom

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In this article, we share a model of flipped instruction that allowed us to gain a window into our students’ mathematical thinking. We depict how that increased awareness of student thinking shaped our mathematics instruction in productive ways. Drawing on our experiences with students in our own classrooms, we show how flipped instruction can be used to design experiences that help students make sense of mathematics during class sessions.     

基于翻转课堂的继电保护实验教学模式设计

为解决当前继电保护实验课程教学模式中存在的被动式教学问题,并结合保护实验课程综合性、系统性强的特点,文章提出基于翻转课堂的继电保护综合实验教学模式。通过录制工程实践中保护人员操作的视频并上传视频库,学生可以先通过观看视频,加深对继电保护实验的了解,然后通过课堂教学与教师形成良好互动,解决教师提出的问题,在学院继电保护实验室实践操作完成保护实验后并撰写实验报告。借助翻转课堂,可以调动学生学习的积极性和主动性,使学生掌握的知识更加灵活,培养应用型人才。     

基于MOOC的全生命周期翻转教学方法研究

基于翻转课堂和SPOC教学理念,从教学观念、教学模式、教学手段和激发学生内在学习动力4个方面,对翻转课堂教学模式的核心要素进行深入分析,给出基于翻转课堂的全生命周期SPOC教学实践过程的相关设计方法和案例。教学实践发现,应用翻转课堂教学模式能有效激发学生学习热情,获取更好的学习效果,一定程度改变传统MOOC学生参与度低、教学重心前置、效果不理想的状况。     

Including Inquiry-Based Learning in a Flipped Class

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Flipped classrooms and inquiry-based learning (IBL) have each become popular in their own right, leading to a natural question: Why not combine these two great ideas? Although flipping a class usually involves students reading or watching videos before class, and IBL focuses on allowing and encouraging students to develop material on their own, both styles emphasize active learning and critical thinking through activities such as group work and presentations while minimizing lectures. In this article, I discuss ways that the two teaching styles can complement each other and be implemented concurrently, with some examples from my flipped calculus II course. Throughout this discussion the focus remains on ways to keep students engaged and how to instill deep content knowledge.     

Teachers’ differing perceptions of classroom disturbances

Background: Efficient classroom management and adequate discipline are major issues for teachers in schools worldwide, with the guiding of students’ behaviour as one of the primary challenges. Teachers’ knowledge, skills, attitudes and behaviour play central roles in the appropriate handling of classroom disturbances.

Purpose: The purpose of this study is to explore how practising teachers perceive classroom disturbances and to compare their views to those presented in the literature. By clarifying typical perceptions, this research is intended to give individual teachers tools to develop their insights by comparing their perceptions with those of other teachers.

Sample: The empirical material was collected by interviewing 14 home economics teachers in Finland. Home economics is a school subject that involves individual and group work as well as theoretical and practical work. In Finland, home economics is a compulsory subject for students aged 13–15 years, which are challenging ages in regard to classroom management.

Design and methods: The empirical research was completed via deep, qualitative theme interviews for data gathering and phenomenography for analysis.

Results: The analysis identified five dimensions in which interviewees expressed varying views of classroom disturbances: who or what disturbs, whose work is disturbed, why students disturb, who is responsible and how to prevent classroom disturbances. Based on the various perceptions within each dimension, the main perceptions for understanding classroom disturbances can be condensed into four categories: unavoidable nuisance, deficient resources, the matter of atmosphere and educational task.

Conclusions: Teachers who wish to develop their classroom management skills may use these findings as tools to compare their perceptions with those of other teachers. This knowledge may also be useful for developing teacher education.     

Qualitative review synthesis: the relationship between inattention and academic achievement

Background: A body of literature has emerged that links inattentive symptoms of attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) to poor academic achievement. Major variation across studies renders conclusions about this relationship complex.

Purpose: This review will provide a qualitative synthesis of these studies that (1) use community samples and (2) examine inattention as a separate dimension from hyperactivity/impulsivity. The aim of this review is to ascertain whether the relationship documented between inattention and academic outcomes in ADHD also holds for the dimensional trait of inattention as manifest in non-clinical community samples of children and adolescents, taking into consideration both academic achievement and academic performance across age.

Design and methods: A comprehensive search was carried out using two databases. The PRISMA guidelines were used to report the search steps. The QUIPS tool was used to rate the quality of studies, followed by a best evidence synthesis to summarise these results.

Results: Out of 1748 citations found, 27 articles met the specific inclusion criteria. Results point to a strong effect according to the best evidence synthesis: 7 studies that have low risk of bias found that teacher-rated inattention is significantly predicative of poor academic achievement in community samples of children.

Conclusions: This review provides support for a consistent, negative relationship between classroom inattention as reported by teachers and both standardised academic test achievement and classroom performance outcomes for children in preschool (moderate evidence), elementary school and longitudinally from elementary to high school. The average relationship was stronger when classroom performance was measured, as compared to standardised achievement. However, the quantitative strength of relationship has not been confirmed with a meta-analysis due to heterogeneity and too few high-quality studies identified. Variance across the studies in terms of the strength of association suggests that other unexamined factors (e.g. cognitive function or motivation) may be contributing to this relationship. Implications for educators and clinicians who work within the school setting are discussed.     

Figures of speech in the physics classroom: a process of conceptual change

Background: This study investigates the role of figures of speech in the process of conceptual change in the physics classroom. Purpose: Its objectives are to examine what teachers and students perceive to be the advantages in using figures of speech in teaching physics concepts, what they perceive to be the challenges in using them, and how teachers use these in their classrooms to minimize the challenges faced. Sample We chose a purposive sample of 95 students and nine teachers of physics, in four schools in Lebanon. Design and methods: A mixed-method approach was used. Interviews were conducted with physics teachers; questionnaires were distributed to students, and non-participant classroom observations were carried out. Results: Teachers viewed figures of speech as a tool that helps them transmit abstract physics concepts to students in a simpler and concrete way. Questionnaires and non-participant observations revealed several examples of figures of speech used and the positive responses of students towards them. Conclusions: The study suggests several ways to overcome the drawbacks. This study highlights the urgent need for all stakeholders to work collaboratively to include figures of speech in the curriculum to enhance the process of conceptual change in the physics classroom.     

When transnational curriculum policy reaches classrooms – teaching as directed exploration

ABSTRACT

The purpose of this article is to explore how education policy that is both enabled and constrained by transnational policy flows and national policy built up by social, cultural and historical traditions are enacted through curriculum at the classroom level. The focus is on how policy rationality embedded in the structure and content of curriculum is transformed into certain rationalities in classroom teaching. By understanding lessons as ‘curriculum events’, the study reveals a dominant classroom discourse of recitation and similar triadic communication patterns, which is in accordance with other classroom studies. However, in the article it is argued that the version of teaching that emerges in this study, interpreted in a broader context of an international standards movement, can be understood in terms of directed exploration based on the teacher’s role as an explorer of what the students know, think and understand in relation to the acquisition of knowledge prescribed in the curriculum’s knowledge requirements. Even though the form of recitation is well known, the reason for choosing this teaching repertoire is somewhat new and can be related to the teacher authoring a basic oral text in accordance with assessment standards.