Implementation Quality: Lessons Learned in the Context of the Head Start REDI Trial

This study uses data collected in the intervention classrooms (N = 22) of Head Start REDI (Research-based, Developmentally Informed), a randomized clinical trial testing the efficacy of a comprehensive preschool curriculum targeting children's social-emotional competence, language, and emergent literacy skills delivered by teachers who received weekly coaching support. Multiple dimensions of implementation (Dosage, Fidelity, Generalization, and Child Engagement) were assessed across curriculum components. Results indicated that REDI Trainers perceived significant growth in teacher implementation quality over time but that patterns differed by implementation dimension. Dosage and Fidelity of all intervention components were high at the beginning of the year and remained so over time while Generalization was low at baseline but increased significantly across the year. Variation in implementation was associated with variation on several child outcome measures in the social-emotional domain but not in the language and literacy domains.     

开拓创新办出特色--中国教育学会教育理论刊物专业委员会2003年年会纪要

2003年10月14～18日，中国教育学会教育理论刊物专业委员会年会在大连召开。40多家刊物的60余位代表参加了会议；部分教育期刊界的前辈赵德强、荆世华、赵翰章、刘明、涂乃登等应邀出席会议。本次会议的主题是：学习“三个代表”重要思想，交流办刊经验；     

Lessons Learned from PISA: A Systematic Review of Peer-Reviewed Articles on the Programme for International Student Assessment

International large-scale assessments are on the rise, with the Programme for International Student Assessment (PISA) seen by many as having strategic prominence in education policy debates. The present article reviews PISA-related English-language peer-reviewed articles from the programme’s first cycle in 2000 to its most current in 2015. Five literature bases were searched, and results were analysed with SPSS. Results map the frequency of publications according to journal, country, and scientific discipline. They also summarise major themes within three identified categories: secondary analysis, policy impact, and critiques. Findings indicated that studies based on the PISA dataset has led to progress in educational research while simultaneously pointing to the need for caution when using this research to inform educational policy.     

A Systematic Approach to Instruction: Innovative and Sensitive

An approach of this nature is by definition innovative if only because of its prior absence. In order for this kind of instruction to take root and survive, a high degree of sensitivity must be demonstrated by the architect and implementors of the instruction.     

整体化有序设计单元教学探讨

整体化有序设计单元教学致力于以单元为模块,在设计教学时既做到目标为本、统揽全局,又实现有序操作、步步落实。它旨在改变"说做相悖"的经验式备课方式、"重细节轻整体"的教学思维、"做中学"与"用心想"双峰对峙的教师培养和学习模式,其五个操作步骤为:钻研课程标准,分析教材;整合单元内容,编制目标;分析学习起点,洞察学情;预设评估要求,拟订量规;选择教学策略,形成方案。     

应用道路勘察新技术帮助学生加深对道路规划设计课程有关概念的理解

在道路勘测设计教学过程中,平面交叉口的竖向设计以及相交道路的超高变化和过渡一直困扰大学生。为了更好地使得学生对上述问题有深刻和直观的理解,利用三维激光扫描技术对实际平面交叉口进行扫描,然后重建交叉口的模型,这样学生们对于交叉口范围的高程以及相交道路超高的变化和过渡等都有了清晰的认识,取得了理想的效果。     

试论KISS原则在教学系统设计中的把握

“KISS”原则就是“简单化”原则。如何在复杂的教学系统中把握KISS原则,将会直接影响教学的效果。它贯穿于整个教学过程中,尤其是在教学目标、学习者分析和教学媒体的选择等等几个方面。     

深化教学改革 提升教学质量

云南电大的开放教育,需要研究和树立正确的质量观,深化以课程为单元、以专业为主线的教学改革,采取有效对策和实际措施,不断创新工作方法,才能提升教学质量,突出办学特色,实现可持续发展。     

Conjecture Mapping: An Approach to Systematic Educational Design Research

Design research is strongly associated with the learning sciences community, and in the 2 decades since its conception it has become broadly accepted. Yet within and without the learning sciences there remains confusion about how to do design research, with most scholarship on the approach describing what it is rather than how to do it. This article describes a technique for mapping conjectures through a learning environment design, distinguishing conjectures about how the design should function from theoretical conjectures that explain how that function produces intended outcomes.     

抓实教学环节努力提高教学质量

教学工作是学校的中心工作,千方百计提高教学质量是学校工作永恒的主题,这是我校领导班子的共识.近几年来,我校办学规模有了发展,学校领导的精力是一手抓发展,另一手用更多的精力从各个方面切实保证教学工作在整个学校工作中的中心地位,千方百计提高教学质量.     

Building Full-Service Schools: Lessons Learned in the Development of Interagency Collaboratives

Although the history of clinical–school–community collaboration can be traced back to the end of the 19th century, the full-service school movement represents a new era in the quest for more effective ways to deliver human services to children. Building on the personal experience of the authors and the literature concerning the development of integrated service delivery systems, this article outlines conceptual, administrative, fiscal, legal–ethical, and practical issues that can hinder local efforts to develop full-service schools. The systematic analysis of potentially negative influences is presented as something that must be pursued by educational and psychological consultants so that, as the next millennium begins, they will be in a position to help local working groups develop interagency collaboratives that more effectively integrate school and human service systems, increase service use, and promote positive developmental outcomes for children living in high-risk situations.     

Academic and Extracurricular Support for Refugee Students in the US: Lessons Learned

This article examines students’ experiences as resettled refugee and asylee students in international schools in New York City. Specifically, it looks at how teachers and school leaders provide critical academic and extracurricular support to facilitate students’ adjustment to academic environments that differ markedly from those compared in their countries of origin or the countries of asylum visited prior to their arrival in the United States. Drawing on a qualitative study conducted in New York City at two international schools, as well as program staff from an outside organization that often collaborates with international schools hosting refugee and asylee students, the article documents promising practices and offers practical recommendations for teachers working with refugee students.     

Individualized Course‐Specific Strategy Instruction for College Students with Learning Disabilities and ADHD: Lessons Learned From a Model Demonstration Project

Abstract. This 3‐year Model Demonstration Project involved the development and field testing of an individualized course‐specific strategy instruction model with college students with learning disabilities and Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD). The 46 participants received individualized semester‐long strategy instruction by graduate students in special education. A variety of data sources were used to evaluate the implementation of the model as well as the academic success of students who received individualized strategy instruction. Quantitative analyses indicated that the group as a whole as well as the subset of students on probation and suspension significantly improved their grades and sustained this improvement over time. Qualitative analysis identified two factors related to improvement: independent use of strategies and the supportive nature of the strategy instructor–student relationship. Qualitative analysis also identified two factors related to nonimprovement: academic/cognitive skill deficits and emotional/medication‐related issues. Implications of the model for postsecondary education and suggestions for future research are discussed.     

The Rise and Fall of a Required Interdisciplinary Course: Lessons Learned

In order to meet the South Dakota Board of Regents requirements for an upper level writing course with global perspective for all graduates, the administration at the University of South Dakota established an interdisciplinary course to be taken by all majors. Two faculty members from different disciplines were assigned to teach each section with support from an English Ph.D. student. The institution built an active learning classroom for 18 teams of 6 students taught simultaneously in each section. However, after only four semesters, the administration canceled the course. In this article, we offer an analysis of this situation and suggest lessons learned, both positive and negative, during the development, implementation, and redesign of this interdisciplinary course.     

高校人文素质课程体系构建探析

通过人文素质教育课程建设现状的研究,就我国高校课程体系建设的构建原则、实施途径以及评价体系的完善等方面进行了探讨.     

美国儿童早期阅读教学的理论基础分析

自20世纪末以来,美国语言教育界通过反思全语言和拼音教学的论争提出了"均衡"、"融合"、"个性化"的阅读教学,对儿童早期阅读教学的理念进行了改革与重构。行为主义心理学、心理语言学、杜威的进步主义教育思想和图式理论对美国不同时期的儿童早期阅读教学提供了重要的理论依据。从未来的发展看,阅读教学模式和理论基础的整合是早期阅读教学发展的必然趋势。     

关于体育教学质量水平评估方案的设计

为了科学地评估体育教学质量,了解体育教师的教学情况,真正调动体育教师的积极性,进行体育教学质量水平评估非常必要。体育教学质量水平评估必须根据体育教学的特点进行科学的综合评估。本文介绍了我院运用结构化程序进行体育教学质量水平评估的设计与探索。     

Guided Reading: A Research-Based Response to the Challenges of Early Reading Instruction

The purpose of this article was to illuminate for early childhood teacher practitioners how guided reading, as a research-based approach to reading instruction, could address the challenges of early reading instruction. The early years are the focus for the prevention of reading difficulties and research conducted over the past two decades has produced extensive results demonstrating that children who get off to a poor start in reading rarely catch up (Lentz, 1988; Neuman & Dickinson, 2001; Snow, Burns, & Griffin, 1998; Torgesen, 1998; Whitehurst & Lonigan, 2001). One particular research-based strategy, guided reading, is an important “best practice” associated with today’s balanced literacy instruction. The National Reading Panel (2000) argued that balanced approaches are preferable when teaching children to read, based on their review of scientific research-based reading instructional practices used by teachers in classrooms across the country. Additionally, guided reading practices as part of a balanced literacy program conforms to the recommendations on literacy as suggested in position statements by the International Reading Association/The National Association for the Education of Young Children (1998), and the National Council of Teachers of English (2002).     

Key Lessons Learned About Inclusive Education: summary of the 1996 Schonell Memorial Lecture

This article summarises some of the primary content presented in the Sixteenth Schonell Memorial Lecture at The University of Queensland on July 29, 1996. The content addressed four major topics related to the education of students with disabilities in general education classrooms with support, including: (a) characteristics of inclusive education, (b) key lessons learned about inclusive education, (c) tools to facilitate inclusion, and (d) the impact of inclusion on students with disabilities as well as their classmates without disabilities, teachers, and families.