河南省高职院校学生课余体育锻炼现状分析

通过对河南省高职院校学生课余体育锻炼的现状研究,发现学生课余时间进行体育锻炼的次数偏少,每次锻炼时间较短;锻炼项目主要集中在跑步、篮球、乒乓球、羽毛球等项目;而影响学生课外锻炼的主要因素是没时间,场地器材不足,没有锻炼习惯等;提出完善学校体育场地器材;积极提高学生的体育态度;培养学生体育锻炼的意识和习惯;努力提高教学效果,使学生掌握进行体育锻炼的一到两项体育运动项目,为终身体育打基础,从而促进学生健康水平的提高.     

Jordanian Preservice Primary Teachers' Perceptions of Mentoring in Science Teaching

Quality mentoring is fundamental to preservice teacher education because of its potential to help student and novice teachers develop the academic and pedagogical knowledge and skills germane to successful induction into the profession. This study focused on Jordanian preservice primary teachers' perceptions of their mentoring experiences as these pertain to science teaching. The Mentoring for Effective Primary Science Teaching instrument was administered to 147 senior preservice primary teachers in a university in Jordan. The results indicated that the greater majority of participants did not experience effective mentoring toward creating a supportive and reflexive environment that would bolster their confidence in teaching science; further their understanding of primary science curriculum, and associated aims and school policies; help with developing their pedagogical knowledge; and/or furnish them with specific and targeted feedback and guidance to help improve their science teaching. Substantially more participants indicated that their mentors modeled what they perceived to be effective science teaching. The study argues for the need for science-specific mentoring for preservice primary teachers, and suggests a possible pathway for achieving such a model starting with those in-service primary teachers—much like those identified by participants in the present study—who are already effective in their science teaching.     

对高职教育课堂教学评价的几点思考

课堂教学评价是根据一定的教学目标,运用有效可行的技术手段,对课堂教学活动的效果和影响进行价值判断,以优化和改进教学活动的过程.高职教育课堂教学评价须遵循一定的原则,其一级指标是教师、学生和教学内容;要以元评价为补充.     

完善高校公共艺术教育教学体系,促进大学生全面发展

高校公共艺术教育是促进大学生全面发展不可或缺的组成部分,而高校公共艺术教育的现状不容乐观,各个高校公共艺术教育的发展也很不平衡。必须尽快完善高校公共艺术教育教学体系,通过培养学生的学习兴趣;加强教师队伍建设;加大公共艺术教学投入等方式努力改进高校公共艺术教育现状,努力培养德智体美全面发展的社会主义建设者和接班人。     

The Constructivist Roots of Moral Education

The success of doctoral student mentoring is largely dependent upon faculty members, but structural and institutional obstacles compound deficiencies in the performance of all participants. University leaders must emphasize the value of mentorship in stimulating positive learning conditions and stress the importance of recognizing faculty members engaged in teaching beyond the classroom. Without organizational attention to a quality mentoring program and rewards for mentoring efforts, some faculty members perform as trainers, illusionists, tricksters, and escapists, potentially turning academia into a doctoral circus. If the quality of doctoral mentoring in today's academia is to improve, systemic change is crucial.     

提高大学生优秀传统文化素质的途径及实效性初探

提高大学生中国优秀传统文化素质,就必须确立正确的舆论导向,并将中国优秀传统文化教育纳入教学计划,就要在高校思想政治理论课中渗透中国优秀传统文化教育的内容。要充分发挥课堂教学的教育主渠道作用,使课堂教学与课外阅读相结合;要创造良好的校园文化环境并作为载体,使大学生时时处处感受中国优秀传统文化的氛围和熏陶;要大力支持和组织好以优秀传统文化教育为中心的校园文化活动;要重视并促进教师的人格垂范作用,以此带动大学生中国优秀传统文化素质的提高。     

论大学生考试作弊的防治

考试作弊与贷款不还已成为当代大学生两大诚信危机。大学生考试作弊有着深刻的社会原因和心理原因,要彻底解决这个问题,必须坚持以人为本,改革教学方式、提高教学艺术,激发学生学习兴趣,改革考试方式,减少大学生作弊机会,从源头上防止作弊;充分发挥思想政治教育工作优势,提高大学生思想道德素质尤其是诚信素质,使其自觉地远离作弊。     

Validation of an Instrument for Measuring Students’ Understanding of Interdisciplinary Science in Grades 4-8 over Multiple Semesters: a Rasch Measurement Study

So far, not enough effort has been invested in developing reliable, valid, and engaging assessments in school science, especially assessment of interdisciplinary science based on the new Next Generation Science Standards (NGSS). Furthermore, previous tools rely mostly on multiple-choice items and evaluation of student outcome is linked only to their raw scores in standardized tests. In addition, educational research on student science achievement always limits in certain grade/subject according to application of raw scores. This study provides a way to design, validate, and further improve an instrument to assess student understanding in interdisciplinary science across grade and time. Meanwhile, student learning growth is investigated. The data are collected from elementary/middle school student survey from an Interdisciplinary Science and Engineering Partnership (ISEP) in Northeastern part of the USA. The results show a generally good quality of instrument through various aspects of empirical evidence, such as dimensionality, model-data-fit, and validity. Finally, student learning growth in understanding interdisciplinary science shows a sharp increase between elementary and middle school. The study sheds light on developing more reliable and valid instruments in assessing student science understanding based on the new standards and it also provides suggestions of implementation in both educational research and practice.     

An Evaluation of Factors Regarding Students’ Assessment of Faculty in a Business School*

Student faculty ratings are used at most institutions of higher learning for three important reasons. First, the ratings provide direct feedback to the faculty, and this enables faculty to adjust their teaching styles. Second, the ratings provide the administration with information intended to assist in guiding and mentoring faculty toward more effective pedagogical performance in the classroom. Third, the ratings also provide the administration with information to be used in the reappointment, tenure, and promotion processes, as well as for assignment of salary range adjustments and teaching awards. To be of real value, however, all of this is predicated on the use of a valid and reliable faculty‐rating instrument along with a system designed to provide both the faculty and the administration with norming reports that allow for appropriate comparisons of ratings. This article reports such a study conducted within a large department of a business school and recommends that the process used be adapted by other business school departments and other academic units across the university and at other universities to ensure a more universally appropriate usage of students’ ratings.     

Teachers’ Perceptions of their Mentoring Role in Three Different Clinical Settings: Student Teaching,Early Field Experiences,and Entry Year Teaching

The purpose of this study was to determine the differences in mentoring across three different clinical settings: student teaching, early field experiences, and entry year teachers. Eighteen teachers with mentoring experience in all three clinical settings were selected and interviewed. The teachers’ expectations for teacher development, mentoring relationships, and mentoring strategies differed across all three clinical settings. In addition, their confidence, their relationship with mentees, and their mentoring strategies were influenced by two features of the clinical setting: (a) the amount of time for mentoring interactions, and (b) the expectations for the mentee. To improve mentoring, the authors recommend (a) lengthening clinical experiences, (b) providing support for creating positive relationships, and (c) providing professional development specific to each of the three clinical settings.     

人文关怀与大学生人文素质的培养

人文关怀是学生工作的终极目标,是教育可持续发展的需要,对学生人文素质培养和健康人格的形成有着重要作用,高校学生工作必须体现人文关怀.体现人文关怀,加强对学生人文素质的培养,是落实科学发展观、构建和谐社会和知识经济时代对人才素质的基本要求,是高校学生工作的现实任务.所以,高校学生工作必须通过各种途径加强人文关怀,提高学生的人文素质.     

What a difference mentoring makes: service learning and engagement for college students

Colleges are increasingly interested in ways to better engage students in their academic careers. This article reports 20 college students' experiences as mentors for at‐risk fourth‐graders through a mentoring program called The Learning Connection (TLC), run by the Community Services Office at Moravian College. The study describes students' voluntary participation in service learning activities as a source of student engagement, the characteristics of the TLC mentoring program, the process by which student mentors reported their experiences over the course of the academic year, and the benefits of the mentoring program through the eyes of the college student mentors. At the beginning of the mentoring experience, mentors reported that the primary reasons for mentoring were to make a difference in a child's life and supplement classroom learning. At the end of the academic year, mentors reported that mentoring taught them important lessons about children, themselves, community work and the value of mentoring. Mentor feedback supports mentoring, specifically, and service learning, generally, as a source of student engagement for college students.     

高职院校教学质量存在的问题及对策

高职的教学质量是高职发展的生命线,高职必须把提高教学质量作为第一追求.近几年高职的师资数量、教师素质、教学管理、生源等问题尖锐凸现,影响到高职的教学质量,我们必须正视现实,探讨提高教学质量的对策.     

Characteristics of effective exams—Development and validation of an instrument for evaluating written exams

Students’ feedback is common in teaching evaluation, but there is no documented instrument enabling instructors to systematically gather relevant student feedback on written exams in higher education. Three studies are described to develop a valid instrument for evaluating written exams. Study 1 analyzes characteristics of effective written exams from the perspective of students and instructors, using qualitative content-analysis. This informs study 2, which analyzes and revises the structure of a questionnaire via exploratory factor analysis. In study 3, confirmatory factor analysis and cross-validation are conducted to confirm the structure found in study 2. Central factors are “Transparency”, “Composition of the exam” and “Students’ workload”. Students’ feedback as assessed by this questionnaire provides reliable feedback to improve the quality of exams.     

Effective Practices for Mentoring Beginning Middle School Teachers: Mentor's Perspectives

In order to improve student achievement, school systems must provide new teachers with support to become effective teachers more quickly. Educators frequently use mentoring to support new teachers and reach the goals of improved classroom performance as well as teacher retention. The intention in this study was to provide insights into the mentoring of beginning teachers working in the middle grades. In this exploratory case study, three elements of a mentoring model deemed necessary for the implementation of effective mentoring for middle school teachers are presented. First, the mentor must forge a trusting relationship with the new teacher. Second, the mentor must support and guide the new teacher in creating a classroom environment that is supportive of learning. Third, the mentor must be able to support and guide the new teacher in instructional strategies appropriate to the content and context of the classroom. Furthermore, this research highlighted a need for mentors to receive ongoing training in classroom management, instructional practices, and relationship building in order to remain effective mentors. Without effective trained mentors programs will fail to meet their goals of improving instruction and retaining teachers past their induction year.     

A diagnostic assessment for introductory molecular and cell biology

We have developed and validated a tool for assessing understanding of a selection of fundamental concepts and basic knowledge in undergraduate introductory molecular and cell biology, focusing on areas in which students often have misconceptions. This multiple-choice Introductory Molecular and Cell Biology Assessment (IMCA) instrument is designed for use as a pre- and posttest to measure student learning gains. To develop the assessment, we first worked with faculty to create a set of learning goals that targeted important concepts in the field and seemed likely to be emphasized by most instructors teaching these subjects. We interviewed students using open-ended questions to identify commonly held misconceptions, formulated multiple-choice questions that included these ideas as distracters, and reinterviewed students to establish validity of the instrument. The assessment was then evaluated by 25 biology experts and modified based on their suggestions. The complete revised assessment was administered to more than 1300 students at three institutions. Analysis of statistical parameters including item difficulty, item discrimination, and reliability provides evidence that the IMCA is a valid and reliable instrument with several potential uses in gauging student learning of key concepts in molecular and cell biology.     

宿舍学长制对高年级学生德育功能的提升探究——以北京化工大学为例简

本文从高年级学生个体的主观性、主导性和主动性的视角出发,研究宿舍学长制对高年级本科生培养质量的内在提升作用,旨在通过改进高年级学生教育服务方式,探讨宿舍学长制对高年级学生的德育教育意义。     

Intimations of the 21st Century

By happenstance rather than design, what began as a single study intended to refute the validity of student ratings of instruction turned into a 30-year quest into the nature of college teaching. Although I found that student ratings can be affected by seemingly extraneous variables such as instructor reputation, I quickly realized that the validity issue was not as simple as it first appeared, raising further questions such as: Was the student ratings questionnaire used in my study valid to begin with? Is instructor reputation simply a nuisance variable, even though it affects the validity of student ratings? Are students seduced by instructor reputation only under certain conditions? and so on. Oddly enough, a number of researchers, including myself, initially became interested in studying college teaching by attempting to demonstrate the invalidity of student ratings despite a research.     

高等学校学生处分正当性论纲

高等学校学生处分由于涉及到学生受教育权的剥夺与限制、涉及到学生名誉的损害,对其正当性的置疑已经成为当前社会关注的焦点和学界讨论的热点。在正确认识高等学校学生处分的概念与特征的基础上,以目的、实体与程序三个维度为视角,合理剖析高等学校学生处分的正当性,对高等学校学生处分运行机制的合理建构有着重要的意义。目的正当是高等学校学生处分正当性之前提,实体正当是高等学校学生处分正当性之基础,程序正当是高等学校学生处分正当性之保障。而三者的有机统一构成高等学校学生处分正当性的根源。     

基于自主管理模式的高校机房学生管理员培养方法研究

计算机机房是高校重要的实践教学场所,用户对机房的服务需求不断提高。通过自适应学习能力、团队协作能力的培养,建设了一支具有自我管理、自主学习能力的学生管理员队伍。学生管理员协助老师提高机房管理和维护效率的同时,其自身的计算机专业实践能力和综合素质得到了提高。