运用元认知培养学生数学高阶思维

高中数学新课标强调要培养学生问题解决、迁移概括等高阶思维能力,而提高学生数学高阶思维能力的关键在于提高学生的元认知水平。通过培养和锻炼“元认知”,能够有效地进行自我学习的调整和监控,提高数学思维水平。     

当代大学生高阶思维能力缺失及影响因素分析

21世纪对大学生提出了很多新的挑战,需要大学生具备更全面的素质和能力,在大学生能力构成当中,思维能力特别是高阶思维能力尤为重要,因此,关注高校大学生高阶思维能力的发展已成为目前高校人才培养中的一个热点问题。本文首先分析了高阶思维及高阶思维能力的内涵,并通过文献阅读以及调查结果阐述了目前我国普通高校大学生高阶思维能力较差的现状,在此基础上,详细分析影响普通高校大学生高阶思维能力的原因及要素,提出了高校应结合高阶思维能力内涵以及影响因素有针对性地进行培养。     

Mentoring Within the Field of Counseling: A Preliminary Study of Multicultural Perspectives

Although the concept of mentoring is receiving increasing attention in the counseling field, the intersection between multiculturalism and mentoring has not been formally addressed. This article explores mentoring relationships between faculty and students within counselor education from a multicultural perspective. Semi-structured interviews were used to explore African American, Asian American and Latina/o American counselor education graduate students’ perspectives on mentoring. Three similar themes (trust/comfort/honesty; respect; and teacher/student/guide) emerged for all three racial/ethnic groups as important key elements in the mentoring relationship, but with some distinctive culturally relevant variations in emphasis. Also, all three groups to some degree reported that having a mentor who was culturally competent and sensitive was helpful, adding further weight to the view that cultural issues play a role in mentoring relationships. Implications of the findings are discussed.     

高阶思维培养取向的信息技术有效应用评价指标体系研究——以初中数学课堂教学为例

文章在认识到高阶思维能力培养和高阶学习的关系前提下,通过对信息技术有效支持高阶学习的应用特点和数学学习活动中高阶思维能力的外显特征的研究,尝试以数学学科为例,建立了高阶思维能力培养取向的信息技术有效应用的评价指标体系。     

物理教学中运用探究题培养学生高级思维能力

针对近年高考中频繁出现的分值较高的新题型“探究题”,通过界定了高级思维能力,总结培养学生高级思维能力的八种方法。从类比型探究题、聚合型探究题、评价型探究题、实验设计型探究题等探究题的不同题型上分析了探究题的运用可能会为物理教学在如何培养学生高级思维能力方面找到新思路、新方法。     

Informal Learning with Technology: The Effects of Self-Constructing Externalizations

ABSTRACT

Especially in the context of technology-enhanced informal learning, it is crucial to understand how to design information sources in such a way that learners are not overwhelmed by the demands of the learning process, but at the same time are engaged in higher order thinking processes. Guidance aids learners in dealing with the demands of a learning process. The authors examined the effects of different levels of guidance provided by an information source. To this end, the effects of a preconstructed externalization are compared to a self-constructed externalization. Thirty-eight students participated in the study. The results revealed no significant differences between the groups with respect to posttest retention. However, performance in application tasks was promoted by the condition associated with a lower level of guidance. This suggests that having learners self-construct an externalization might be a suitable means to elicit learners’ higher order thinking processes in technology-enhanced informal learning.     

Mentoring circles in higher education

Traditionally, mentoring in higher education institutions has either occurred informally or as a planned program where junior staff members are matched with experienced staff members in a formal one‐to‐one program. While such programs have reported benefits to participants, many miss out on the opportunity. Further, mentoring dyads do little to enhance a more collaborative atmosphere in higher education settings. Alternative mentoring methods do exist and can provide advantages to the traditional approach. Mentoring circles are an innovative example of these alternative methods. The mentoring activity and subsequent evaluation described in this paper sought to explore the perceived benefits of a group mentoring model for academic staff.     

Mentoring: A Convenience or Convergence?

The 27th Delphine Hanna Lecture presented at the 2018 NAKHE Annual Conference.     

Building a support system toward tenure: challenges and needs of tenure‐track faculty in colleges of education

This article describes the experiences, perceptions, and available support systems of untenured faculty from a south eastern United States public university system in their progress toward tenure. Survey results were used to develop a model support system for new faculty. Data were collected from an online survey sent to 191 tenure‐track faculty in colleges of education, yielding a 50% (n = 96) response rate. The following research questions guided this research: (a) What are the expectations for teaching, research and service in the colleges of education surveyed? (b) In what ways are untenured faculty supported and/or mentored? (c) What kind of support system(s) need(s) to be in place to assist new faculty in balancing teaching, research, and service expectations? In this mixed‐methods study, respondents were asked about their workload, expectations for tenure, and formal and informal support they received on the tenure track. Untenured faculty reported stressful and unbalanced lifestyles, and work expectations exceeded assigned workloads for several institutions. A new faculty comprehensive support system model is suggested.     

基于企业信息化建设的高职高阶思维能力培养模式研究

高职院校进行的职业能力培养,将为企业建设储备人才作为目标,是对教学效益的提升最有效的举措,对素质教育的普及也有着积极的作用。以大连旅游线上发展战略研究为契机,从调研企业信息化建设中人才的需求入手,分析高阶思维能力的特点和培养模式,尝试使用Webquest模式进行教学设计的研究与实践,从而探讨适合高职学习者高素质教育的人才培养模式和学习模式,实现校企的有效对接。     

Towards a Comprehensive Account of Effective Thinking

Due to its strong focus on reasoning and argumentation, critical thinking lacks the breadth required of a comprehensive account of higher order thinking. In particular, critical thinking does not promote reflection on the underlying problems or situations that people think about. This paper reviews various proposed additions to and reorientations of the critical thinking paradigm. It presents a conceptual framework that encompasses the most promising extensions as topics in a broadened account of higher order thinking. This account can be understood as an elaboration of problem solving along two dimensions: Problem types, which are generic thinking situations; and problem solving functions, which are generic thinking tasks. The proposed topic-level account of higher order thinking offers a greatly enlarged view of what should be taught in general thinking skills programs.