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新加坡的中学实行浮动学制 学生的智力存在着个别差异。这种差异,随着年龄和学识的增长而逐渐明显起来。为了适应中学生之间的智力个别差异,新加坡教育当局自1980年起推行在中学并设“普通班”、“快班”和“特快班”三种班级的新体制。普通班是为智力属于一般水平的学生而开设的,快班为智力超过一般水平的学生开设,特快班为智力特别优异的学生开设。     

女娲 名叫王小蕾

该死的快班、慢班 升入初三,我们的天就塌了。学校为了提高升学率,按照学生的成绩优劣重新分班。初三年级9个班,分成了4个快班、4个普通班和1个慢班。初三（9）班成了慢班。     

论高校学生学业成绩评定方法的改进

衡量学生学习情况的好坏，应改变传统的学业成绩评定方法，可采用双向细目表来命题，评卷要按预定的程序和方法。论题的评分方法可采用相对评分法和分析评分法，同时，评分时还应考虑各门课程的相对重要性程度即权重，在总分求和时要考虑各门课程的权重。     

美国中小学不设班干部

女儿刚到美国时,还在上小学。头一天放学回来,笔者问她:"同学都认识了吧?班长啥样?""班长?没班长。"第二年,她跟着我们搬家,转到另一个州上七年级,头一天放学回来便说:"别说班长了,连班都没了!"这究竟是怎么回事呢?居然没有固定的班集体美国公立中学基本实行学分制。同时入学的孩子,上的未必是同样的课。每门课程一般又分3种班:"普通班""快班"和"荣誉班",校方按成绩分班。这样,每个学生的课程表都独一无二,有几门课,就要跑几间教室:这节课跟这一批同学在A教室上"快班"数学,下节课跟另一批学生去B教室上"荣誉班"社会学,     

高职英语听说课建设之路探索

文章在针对海南政法职业学院英语快班学生进行的一次随机问卷凋查基础上．分析学生对英语听说能力的认识、学院英语听说课现状及英语第二课堂建设问题并提出建议,以期对推动高职英语听说课程建设有所帮助。     

论大学英语分级教学中普通班的翻译教学

大学英语实行分级教学后,许多院校只针对以较高或更高要求为学习目的的快班学生开设翻译选修课,而对于占学生主体的普通班学生,翻译教学仍延续了改革前的边缘状态.本文从教学指导思想、教材和教学法三方面分析了造成这种尴尬状况的原因,并提出了相应的解决办法.     

女娲名叫王小蕾

该死的快班、慢班 进入初三。我们的天就塌了。学校为了提高升学率,将我们按成绩优劣重新编班。初三年级九个班,分了四个快班。四个普通班,一个慢班。初三（9）班成了慢班。     

女娲名叫王小蕾

该死的快班、慢班进入初三,我们的天就塌了。学校为了提高升学率,将我们按成绩优劣重新编班。初三年级九个班,分了四个快班,四个普通班,一个慢班。初三(9)班成了慢班。     

师生情感对提高教育教学质量的重大意义

重视发展学生的智力因素是提高教育教学质量的关键,但如果单方面强调发展智力因素而忽视非智力因素的培养,也会影响教育教学质量的提高和学生的全面发展。据对北京的两所普通中学文理科快班的121名学生,进行以高考分数线为标准的“非智力因素对学生学业成绩普遍影响”的调查,其结果如下:     

快慢分班的道德问题

很多学校为了追求升学率,以因材施教为借口,在新生入学时将他们编人快班和慢班(或重点班与普通班)。现在《义务教育法》明文规定在义务教育阶段不准分快慢班,但各学校"智慧无穷",发明了诸如"特长班"、"实验班"、"火箭班"、"雷锋班"等等掩人耳目的名称,对国家的法律规定阳奉阴违。更有甚者,班级编号有时候也可以作为快班、慢班的"代号",比如"(1)班"在一些学校     

过程控制在大学课程考核中的新探索

传统的大学课程考核总是在课程结束后采取"一考定终身"的方式,存在着许多弊端,而过程控制能充分考虑学生在课程学习过程中的表现,能更真实地反映学生的学习效果,从而成为当前课程考核的主流。结合土木工程的专业课程,探讨在课堂、课后和实验、实践等教学环节,通过对学生的出勤、提问、测验、课后作业、论文专题和实验、实践等方面实施过程控制的探索,在此基础上给出平时成绩,并结合课程的特点按照一定的权重将平时成绩与期终考核成绩结合起来,以综合评定学生的课程成绩,从而起到更加真实、全面反映学生学习效果的目的。     

IDENTIFICATION OF MATHEMATICAL TALENT AND PROGRAMMATIC EFFORTS TO FACILITATE DEVELOPMENT OF TALENT

The Johns Hopkins University Center for Talented Youth (CTY) identifies students who reason well mathematically and/or verbally and offers summer and academic year programs of rigorous academic course work. Gender differences in test performance, even though not as large as previously reported, are noticeable, particularly among the highest test scores. The majority of students benefit from summer program participation, and have increased access to more advanced course work. No differences were found between 1982 and 1991 male and female populations in class ranking, liking of mathematics, or perception of support from peers, family members, and teachers. However, the lack of support from the peer group underscores the academic isolation of this group of students.     

Resilience does not predict academic performance in gross anatomy

Few studies have evaluated resilience in an academic environment as it relates to academic success or failure. This work sought to assess resilience in regular and remedial students of gross anatomy during the first and second semesters of medical school and to correlate this personal trait with academic performance. Two groups of students were compared: the first group included first‐year medical students in the regular course, and the second group included first‐year medical students who did not pass the regular anatomy course and so were enrolled in the remedial course. Both groups completed anonymous surveys designed to gather demographic data and establish scores on the Connor‐Davidson resilience scale, which includes 25 statements rated zero to four on a Likert scale (maximum score 100). The average resilience score was the same for both groups, 80 ± 9. The average anatomy grades differed significantly between regular students (67± 15.0) and remedial students (61 ± 12.0). While there was no overall correlation between resilience score and anatomy grade, regular students with resilience scores of 75 or greater showed slightly better academic performance than their classmates. Similarly, remedial students with resilience scores of 87 or greater faired better academically. Resilience does not predict academic performance in gross anatomy, and further work is necessary to identify those intrinsic and extrinsic factors that influence students' achievements. Anat Sci Educ. © 2010 American Association of Anatomists.     

互动式教学在药用高分子材料课程中的应用

为了改变传统“填鸭式”教学方法,在“药用高分子材料”课程中采用网络辅助教学及学生上讲台作学术报告等教学形式开展师生互动式教学。一方面提高了学生的学习积极性,有利于培养学生的独立思考、自主获得知识和信息的能力;另一方面,有利于培养学生的竞争意识和团队协作观念;另外,在课堂上的讨论和辩解,有利于培养学生的应变能力。     

基于学业成绩表现的高考历史选考群体差异性分析

2014年启动的新一轮高考综合改革实行选考,学生被分成诸多不同的选考群体。为了解选考群体学生成绩的差异性,以山东省2017级历史选考学生群体为研究对象,对2019年高中学业水平选择性考试适应性测试数据进行分析,对10所高中学校选考历史科学生进行问卷调查。结果显示,历史选考学生群体在学业成绩上与其他科目选考学生群体之间、历史选考学生群体内部各子群之间存在比较明显的差异,这一差异与文综/理综模式下的学生差异相比,具有变量增多、不确定性更强、复杂程度更高的特点。针对选考模式下学生群体差异性的新特点,应以促进学生全面而有个性的发展为价值取向,推行基于选课走班的差异化课堂教学,建立适应新时代要求的人才培养和评价模式。     

“对分课堂”在大学英语教学中的应用研究

为有效开展讨论式、参与式教学,将"对分课堂"教学模式应用在大学英语教学中,在两个实验班和两个对照班开展实证研究,比较学生的前、后测成绩,通过问卷调查学生对"对分课堂"教学模式的认知。研究结果表明,该教学模式能显著减少学生之间的成绩差异,促进学生课堂参与,提高英语学习成绩。大学生对这一教学模式持欢迎态度。     

Enhancing Students’ Learning Process Through Self-Generated Tests

The use of new technologies in higher education has surprisingly emphasized students’ tendency to adopt a passive behavior in class. Participation and interaction of students are essential to improve academic results. This paper describes an educational experiment aimed at the promotion of students’ autonomous learning by requiring them to generate test type questions related to the contents of the course. The main idea is to make the student feel part of the evaluation process by including students’ questions in the evaluation exams. A set of applications running on our university online learning environment has been developed in order to provide both students and teachers with the necessary tools for a good interaction between them. Questions uploaded by students are visible to every enrolled student as well as to each involved teacher. In this way, we enhance critical analysis skills, by solving and finding possible mistakes in the questions sent by their fellows. The experiment was applied over 769 students from 12 different courses. Results show that the students who have actively participated in the experiment have obtained better academic performance.     

Gender Differences in Performance on Mathematics Achievement Items

Gender differences in performance on three types of mathematics test items were investigated using data from students with three different course backgrounds. Eight randomly equivalent samples of high school seniors were each given a unique form of the ACT Assessment Mathematics Usage Test. Only students with three specific profiles of high school mathematics coursework were considered in the analysis. The three background conditions ranged from little mathematics (Algebra I only) to a modest background (two Algebra courses and Geometry) to a full mathematics program including Introductory Calculus. For each background condition, examinee performance was analyzed in a 2 (Gender) x 3 (Item Category) x 8 (Test Form) split-plot factorial design. The results indicated, that, at each of the studied background levels, females performed less well than males on geometry (strategic, geometric) and reasoning (strategic, nongeometric) items. On the other hand, females performed as well as males on algorithmic, operationsoriented items.     

Allowing course compensation in higher education: a latent class regression analysis to evaluate performance on a follow-up course

Abstract

In this study, the consequences of allowing course compensation in a higher education academic dismissal policy are evaluated by examining performance on a second-year follow-up (i.e. sequel) course that builds on material from a first-year precursor course. Up to now, differences in the consequences of compensation on student performance across groups of students who portray different unobserved study processes were not considered. In this study we used a latent class regression model to distinguish latent groups of students. Data from two undergraduate curricula were used and latent classes were formed based on similar patterns in averages, variability in grades, the number of compensated courses, and the number of retakes in the first year. Results show that students can be distinguished by three latent classes. Although the first-year precursor course is compensated in each of these latent classes, low performance on the precursor course results in low performance on the second-year sequel course for psychology students who belong to a class in which the average across first-year courses is low and the average number of compensated courses and retakes are high. For these students, compensation on a precursor course seems more likely to relate to insufficient performance on a sequel course.     

Do secondary school-leaving English examination results predict university students’ academic writing performance? A latent profile analysis

Abstract

Secondary school-leaving English examination results are often regarded as indicators of students’ competence to study in English-medium universities, which is usually demonstrated through source-based academic writing. In English as a second or foreign language (ESL/EFL) contexts, many English-medium universities require local undergraduates to enrol in an academic writing course, unless they received outstanding English results in secondary school-leaving examinations. This study investigates the relationship between ESL undergraduates’ secondary school-leaving English examination results and their academic writing performance through latent profile analysis. Results show that students can be grouped into four classes of academic writing performer (AWP), namely Complex-AWP, High-AWP, Medium-AWP and Low-AWP. Surprisingly, the Complex-AWP group had the highest means in structure, argument and language, but the lowest in citation. Secondary school-leaving English examination results can generally predict students’ class membership in language, argumentation and, to some extent, structure, but not citation. An important implication is that students with high English proficiency do not necessarily do well in all aspects of academic writing. This study can inform university senior management on how to set policies about who needs an academic writing course and provide appropriate training in various aspects of academic writing for university students with diverse English proficiency.