THE USE OF LEARNING PROFILES IN ASSESSMENT AND IN THE EVALUATION OF TEACHING

This paper reports how individual students respond to a nine‐week course in plant anatomy using two teaching techniques: self‐instruction and group interaction.

Students vary widely in their responses to teaching by these techniques. Over the four years of the study (1975–78) four major patterns of response have emerged. These are described as learning profiles. The profiles are composed from curves depicting the attainment of individual students, measured in seven weekly assessment tests given during group sessions. The assessment tests measured performance in four capacities, based on Bloom's criteria, viz. recall of knowledge, comprehension, application and short‐chain problem solving. Learning curves for each of these four capacities were obtained for each individual student. Other variables, e.g. general ability, age, sex, anxiety, motivation, time spent etc. were also determined for each student.

The purpose of the course is to train students to solve problems in plant anatomy. Although strategies for solving long‐chain problems were not practised in groups, the component skills used in their solution were practised in the weekly test items.

From the profile types — i.e. the patterns of individual response to the teaching ‐ it was possible to make some prediction about performance in the final examination, although this examination was predominantly one to test capacity to solve long‐chain, multi‐step problems.     

THE ROLE OF SPEAKING IN ENGLISH TEACHING

This essay discusses the role of speaking in English teaching and the qualities promoted by spoken interactive exercises.     

THE TEACHING OF ENGLISH IN SECONDARY SCHOOLS

Most research into religious education has concentrated upon older children, but this paper reports findings obtained from the teachers of junior (seven to II years old) school children. From the content of religious education lessons and the overall religious sub‐cultures of classroom and school, conclusions are drawn about the religious socialization process of the child. A distinction is made between the child's own religious quest for meaning and the Christian culture which is generally accepted in Britain and taught in school. The child's religion is divided into the cognitive and the emotive while the socialization process is treated as cognitive, explicit and implicit. The general conclusion reached is that religious education lessons do not respond to the child's own cognitive level and are thus likely to confuse, whereas the religious life of classroom and school leads to an emotive affinity with Christianity. Thus ambivalence towards the Christian religion is produced in the child.     

基于英语戏剧表演的大学英语教学模式实证研究

英语戏剧表演以面部表情、手势、动作等为载体进行语言交流,它既能激发学生学习英语的兴趣,提高学生英语交际能力,又能使学生更好地了解英语国家的文化,所以被看成是一种行之有效的英语教学模式。本文结合英语教学理论与教学实践,从理论和实证两方面探讨了这种教学模式应用于大学英语教学的可行性,并分析了对英语教学的典型意义。     

英语广播在英语学习中的作用和利用

收听英语广播在英语学习具有不可低估的作用,是广大学生学习英语中可以利用的有效途径。英语广播有利于英语听说能力的培养;英语广播有利于英语阅读能力的培养。只要技术条件允许,收听在线英语广播是最佳选择,我们应该善于利用。     

THE TEACHING OF ENGLISH LITERATURE IN SECONDARY SCHOOLS

The educational needs of mentally handicapped children in the ‘new’ day special schools are examined from three major perspectives. First, as a result of the examination of questionnaires received from headteachers of 88 schools; second as a result of the examination of the skills of 151 mentally handicapped children in 44 of these schools, and third as a result of an examination of questionnaires completed for 52 parents of mentally handicapped children. The results of the investigation highlight the effect of these schools being in the ‘educational wilderness’ until April, 1st, 1971; the low level of achievement in certain social skills, and parental problems and attitudes.     

浅谈原声电影在大学英语教学中的应用

作为一种新型的多媒体教学手段,英文原声电影在大学英语教学中得到越来越多的运用。本文通过对原声电影特点的简单分析,阐明了原声电影的引入在培养学生学习兴趣,熟悉英语语言环境,了解英语文化背景,开拓学生视野等方面所起到的作用。同时,对原声电影在大学英语教学中可能出现的问题提出了有效的解决方法,从而使学生可以在一个相对活跃的气氛中学习英语,提高语言应用能力。     

对本科教学合格评估背景下高校教学秘书队伍建设的思考

本科教学合格评估对新建本科院校加强本科建设,深化教育教学改革提出了新的任务和更高的要求.教学秘书作为高校院系教学管理一线工作者,在高校教育教学工作处于重要地位,应大力加强教学秘书队伍建设以适应新的形势.在本科教学合格评估背景下高校教学秘书队伍建设存在一些问题,新形势下应采取有效措施如何加强教学秘书队伍建设.     

英文写作教学改革新方法探索

作者根据长期英文写作教学的实践,结合中国学生的实际,运用语言学习中的认知理论及二语习得理论,探索出一套提高学生英文写作能力和水平的教学新的方法：教学内容上,抛弃传统的基础知识板块,确立写作方法和技能在教学中的核心地位;教学主体上,改以教师为中心为以学生为中心;教学过程中,坚持师生互动的原则;教学手段上,变单一语言交流为多媒质的集体介入.     

试析大学英语教学中的模糊语言

模糊语言是一种广泛存在于人类语言交际中的语言现象,是语言的基本特征。有时模糊语言可以比精确的表达更准确、更具有说服力,帮助说话者达到交际目的,因此受到了语言学家们的高度重视。文章试图通过具体的例子来分析模糊语言的语用功能特点,探索模糊语言的使用给大学英语教学带来的积极影响。     

高职英语教学模式改革中的两大问题

英语学习教学模式改革中存在两大问题。我们首先弄清教学模式改革的目标是什么,其次要找到教学模式改革采用的教学方法。     

浅谈图象在电磁振荡教学中的应用

电磁振荡是高中物理<电磁振荡和电磁波>一章的重点内容,本文叙述了"图象"对分析电磁振荡过程中,各物理量之间的变化及对应关系的作用,并通过实例进一步指明利用图象分析物理现象的重要性.     

英语教学中学生的主体地位分析

学生的主体地位在英语教学中是至关重要的。本文以教育学、心理学为依据,结合自己的英语教学,对体现学生的主体地位,发挥教师的指导作用进行了探讨、分析和论述,建设性地提出了一些策略。     

THE USE OF COMPUTERS IN ASSESSMENT IN HIGHER EDUCATION

The use of the computer and in particular the micro‐computer, by the student provides the opportunity for a significant review of the syllabus and the way in which it is taught. The commercial use of the computer should make us re‐evaluate the content of certain syllabuses, particularly those dominated by mathematical modelling.

Structural Analysis, in the disciplines of Civil and Structural Engineering is a particular case in point since virtually all of the professional numerical analysis of structures is now carried out by a computer. If this is the case, we must seriously ask ourselves why we are teaching the students to carry out lengthy calculations which will never be used in practice.

The computer may be the engine of change for the syllabus content but it offers in return facilities for learning, particularly in formative assessment, unavailable before.

The student may use the computer to test various ideas about the way a structure works under various loading conditions and thereby acquire an understanding of structural behaviour which may not be available in the design office.     

论高职高专英语教学中的情感功能

本文结合高职高专院校学生的特点,谈谈如何结合英语课堂教学的各个环节和教师的人格魅力培养学生积极的情感态度,激发学生的学习兴趣,从而促进英语学习.     

教师教学专业知识特征分析

教学是一种个体化程度很高的、情境性、经验性极强的活动，它的内在特征往往显现在具体的课堂教学情境中，反映出鲜明的实践性；教学作为一种特殊的化传递活动时，它的某些专业知识是通过内隐学习方式获得的，其专业品质的提高依靠于通过经验的积累而产生的缄默知识。这种缄默性特征使得教学专业知识在一定程度上不能以语言的方式来加以传递和陈述。     

母语在专业英语教学中的作用

母语运用在英语教学中是个颇具争议的问题。本文分析了母语对第二语言习得的影响,以及母语运用对专业英语教学的必要性,指出我们在教学中应趋利避害,因势利导,尽可能发挥母语知识对外语学习的积极作用。