Information Literacy: The Missing Link in Early Childhood Education

The rapid growth of information over the last 30 or 40 years has made it impossible for educators to prepare students for the future without teaching them how to be effective information managers. The American Library Association refers to those students who manage information effectively as information literate. Information literacy instruction has been a priority in many secondary schools since the American Association of School Libraries published the Information Literacy Standards for Student Learning in 1998. Although these standards were written for grades K-12, information literacy is still not the focus in many early childhood classrooms. This article discusses the importance of information literacy instruction in early childhood education. Research suggests that early information literacy instruction, using informational texts and collaborative, teacher–librarian curriculum planning, promotes critical thinking and increases the ability to problem-solve—two skills necessary for survival in today’s Information Age.     

Metacognitive Experiences: The Missing Link in the Self-Regulated Learning Process

The measurement of online self-regulation processes is a very important issue and in this rejoinder to Ainley and Patrick (this issue) I am arguing that including measures of metacognitive experiences, in conjunction with measures of other affective experiences, in various phases of task processing can increase the reliability and validity of online measures and our understanding of the self-regulation process. Furthermore, behavioral and performance measures as well as thinking aloud protocols can enrich not only the reliability and validity of our measures but also our awareness of the factors involved in the formation of the various facets of subjective experiences, be it affective or metacognitive.

The Missing Link: The Lack of Citations and Copyright Notices in Multimedia Presentations

Many of the projects and assignments we have our students complete for our classes include a multimedia presentation. Why are we not teaching our students how to cite their sources for these presentations? Writing style (APA, MLA, or Chicago) does not matter. Regardless of whether it is a paper or multimedia presentation students should always cite their sources, otherwise plagiarism is occurring. This is a skill we must teach and demand that our students take responsibility for when completing multimedia presentations. This article covers a brief overview of copyright law, provides helpful resources for students and teachers, and outlines a model that can be used in citing sources in multimedia presentations. This model goes beyond the producer required credit slide to argue for the inclusion of “in product/text” citations for multimedia presentations.     

An Interview Protocol and Scoring Rubric for Evaluating Teacher Performance

This paper introduces an interview protocol, administration procedures, and scoring rubric for evaluating teacher performance. Procedures used to develop and adminis ter the protocol and scoring rubric and subsequent validity and reliability studies are reported. All evidence suggests that the protocol and scoring rubric are aligned with professional standards and focus on a teacher's assessment of and ability to modify instruction to improve student learning. These findings support the viability of the interview protocol as an effective method of evaluating teacher performance.     

中学数学典型案例分析:教师教育理论与实践的纽带

职前数学教师教育要打破理论与实践割裂的局面,实现教学行动与学科教学知识的统一.中学数学典型案例分析是联系理论与实践的纽带,是职前教师专业成长的有效路径.     

Enhancing Teacher Performance: The Role of Professional Autonomy

Current teacher accountability initiatives such as those included in the “No Child Left Behind” legislation in the United States create particular difficulties that impact deleteriously on the performance of professional educators. The quality of public education is undermined when teachers are held accountable to an external authority rather than to themselves, their colleagues, and their professional associations. In this article, and in response to this concern, we argue that for teachers to strengthen their classroom performance, policy renewal is required on two separate fronts: first, we must restructure teachers’ working conditions to support autonomous professional activity related to education; and second, teachers, both individually and collectively, must accept the concomitant responsibility to pursue personal professional development to improve their pedagogical work.     

任务复杂度、任务难度对口语表达的影响

针对任务复杂度和任务难度问题,文章将信息理论引入口语表达的研究中。从语言学习的信息处理模式入手,以试验的方式,统计的方法分析了任务复杂度、任务难度对中国学生英语交际中语言表达准确性的影响;研究任务复杂度与记忆性之间的相互关系;找出影响任务复杂度、任务难度的具体因素。     

美国绩效标准本位教师教育课程理念与实践探析

美国绩效标准本位教师教育课程理念与实践的变革体现为四个维度:教师观,强调教师是从事复杂工作的专业者;知识观,认为教学知识是复杂的情景化知识;教学观,倡导教学要基于情境,以学生为中心展开;评价观,主张教学评价要注重个体发展和整体质量。美国教师教育相关院校和机构依据上述理念,基于自身特点选择并调适相应的教师教育标准,对教师的职责、教学理论及评价方式等进行多方面改革探索,实践中改革者在各维度所做的改变和尝试可为我国教师教育课程标准的优化和教师教育课程的构建与实施提供启示。     

地方高校教师绩效考核指标体系优化分析

通过对地方高校现行绩效考核指标体系的分析,从而确定优化措施和方法,进而优化教师绩效考核指标的内容和权重,使其更适合地方高校为地方经济发展培养实践性人才的办学特色。     

情感关怀:班主任专业化的基本内容

一名优秀的专业化的班主任,必须真诚地关怀、充分地理解学生,用真挚的情感去促进学生的身心成长。一、情感关怀的重要意义苏霍姆林斯基在《给教师的建议》中指出:“任何时候都不要忘记:你面对的是儿童极易受到伤害的、极其脆弱的心灵,学校里的学习不是毫无热情地把知识从一个头脑里装进另一个头脑里,而是师生之间每时每刻都在进行的心灵接触。”心理学的研究也表明,如果任课教师能     

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。     

教师绩效工资制的潜在影响

教师绩效工资制虽有其合理的地方,但易被理解为以货币为标尺度量教师工作绩效的工资分配方式。其潜在后果,一是降低教师对工作的特殊品质的兴趣,进而降低甚至夷平教师工作的品质;二是使作为手段的货币目的化、教育目的手段化,使教师的教育人格逐渐消遁,而市场人格却逐渐突显;三是使教师以前受良心驱策的纯粹利他行为后来出现时都会带上清清楚楚的算计性,使教师自行抑制甚至贬斥、否弃他人无法作硬性规定的由良心驱策、心灵觉悟而生成的纯粹利他行为。     

Credentials Versus Performance: Review of the Teacher Performance Pay Research

In this article we examine the economic case for merit or performance-based pay for K–12 teachers. We review several areas of germane research. The direct evaluation literature on these incentive plans is slender; highly diverse in terms of methodology, targeted populations, and programs evaluated; and primarily focused on short-run motivational effects. It is nonetheless fairly consistent in finding positive program effects. The general personnel literature highlights potentially significant selection effects of employee compensation systems. This is particularly relevant for teaching, because a growing body of production function research points to large, persistent, but idiosyncratic differences in teacher productivity. Thus, along with motivation effects, there is potential for substantial positive long run selection effects from teacher performance pay systems. The evaluation literature is not sufficiently robust to prescribe how systems should be designed (e.g., optimal size of bonuses, mix of individual vs. group incentives). However, it is sufficiently positive to support much more extensive field trials, pilot programs, and policy experiments, combined with careful follow-up evaluation.     

教师评价:注重绩效,还是促进发展

从上世纪80年代中期开始,西方国家先后开始了新一轮的教育改革,改革的核心是问责与教师专业发展。受这两种思想的影响,绩效式教师评价与发展性教师评价成为教师评价的两种主要形式。这两种教师评价模式有内在逻辑及实施的约束条件,当前,执着于长期目标的新课程改革应需要更多的发展性教师评价。     

美国教师教育:从能力本位到标准本位

美国自20世纪50、60年代以来,由于社会各方面的变化,基础教育发生了几次重大的改革,正是由于基础教育改革的推动,教师教育也相应地进行了改革.其中有两次重大的教育改革,即能力主义的基础教育改革和标准评价运动的基础教育改革,教师教育也由能力本位转变到标准本位模式.本文主要通过比较这两种教师教育模式,探讨美国教师教育的变革.     

Teacher Performance Appraisal in Thailand: Poison or Panacea?

This research focuses on the examination of problems related to the national teacher performance appraisal system by the Thai Ministry of Education. It highlights major problems of the current performance appraisal system by delineating the weaknesses and pitfalls of the current appraisal system. The findings indicate problems to three major types; problems from the mismanagement of the system; problems arising from the evaluators; and problems arising from the applicants. These problems are the major constraints in accelerating education devolution and development. Therefore, Thailand’s Ministry of Education should find the way to improve its method of teacher performance appraisal.     

作业分布后服务机中的任务调度策略分析

分布计算系统中子任务的分布策略影响了系统的效率,而作业分布后服务机中的任务调度策略也是影响整个系统效率的一个重要因素,本文对此作了较详细的分析,并提出衡量分布系统的任务分布效率的参考方法-延迟因子及几种调度策略。