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International Review of Education -     

历史探究教学研究

探究教学是教师“探究教”和学生“探究学”相结合或相统一的活动,即教师指导学生进行探究学习的活动。历史探究教学与历史科学密不可分,历史科学又与历史知识特点、历史学科特点密不可分,同时,历史探究教学又与历史研究关系密切。因此,研究历史探究教学,首先要了解历史科学、历史知识的特点、历史学科特点和历史研究的特点,以及它们对历史探究教学的制约。     

语料库方法在语用学研究中的运用

提要:语料库方法被称为现代语言学研究的三大方法之一,本文基于调查发现,该方法在国外语用学研究中的运用比例相对较高,而在国内运用比例却总体偏低,这一局面与国内语用学研究的主要话题和分析单位的性质有一定的联系。要拓展该方法在国内语用学领域的应用,需要适当回归语言本体,更多地关注语言的语用属性研究。另一方面,与国内相关研究主要关注二语学习者对语用标记语的习得情况不同,国外采用语料库方法开展的研究涉及的话题范围更为宽泛,新词新义、幽默、指示语、言语行为的语调、隐喻和转喻等话题都在考察之列,这一发现对未来中国语用学研究具有借鉴意义。     

Presenting technical information: A survey of research findings

This paper reviews research investigations into various aspects of the presentation of technical information. It considers the objectives of different readers who may be consulting the information as a reference work or who may need to assimilate the information in its entirety. Ways of using headings, summaries and questions to achieve these differing objectives are discussed. The review also considers the usefulness of alternatives to prose, such as flow charts, tabulation schemes and graphic presentations. It is concluded that although there is no single best presentation format, and although the research literature is in many places incomplete, nevertheless there are a number of studies demonstrating the advantages of particular presentation formats in specific circumstances. The results of these studies need to be given due weighting where decisions are taken about the appropriate way of presenting any technical information.     

Biochemical engineering education in Japan: A survey of the status as it is

This article is a summary of the survey questionnaire about 'biochemical engineering' education in Japanese universities. The questionnaire was distributed to the academic professors whose research fields include, whole or partly, biochemical engineering, within the author's understanding. Almost all these professors are members of a section specializing in biochemical engineering research, a suborganization of the Society of Chemical Engineers, Japan. Some of these professors are also members of the Society for Bioscience and Bioengineering, Japanese Society for Food Science and Technology, etc. The surveyed fact data are from 35 questionnaires returned from 50 dispatched. This number is considered sufficient to realize the present status of biochemical engineering education in Japan.     

National survey of hospital child protection teams in Japan

This study aimed to investigate the penetration rate of child protection teams (CPTs) in medical institutions and associations between CPT functions and hospital services. We collected data in October of 2015 from 377 hospitals in Japan offering pediatric organ transplantation. The questionnaire included questions regarding the existence of a CPT, the number of child maltreatment cases discussed and reported per year, CPT functions including 21 items about staffing, manuals, meeting, prevention, education, and collaboration, and the services provided by the hospital. Of the 377 institutions, 122 (32.4%) answered the survey. There were significant associations between CPT functions and the number of pediatric beds (r = .27), number of pediatricians (r = .27), number of outpatients (r = .39), number of emergency outpatients (r = .28), and emergency medical care (p = .009). In a multiple regression analysis, CPT functions were significantly associated with the number of CPT members, pediatric outpatient numbers, and pediatric emergency outpatient numbers. Japan has no CPT guidelines that outline what CPTs should offer in terms of structure, staffing, functions, and systems. Hospitals with many pediatric and emergency outpatients are expected to play major roles in providing services such as specialty care, intensive care, and education. They are also expected to play a role in detecting and managing child maltreatment, and have, by their own initiative, improved their capacities to achieve these goals.     

The research function of universities in Japan

Japan has long led the trend towards privatization of Research andDevelopment (R&D). With the recent establishment of corporate R&Dfacilities overseas, this has become more international in character. Therelative impoverishment of Japanese academic science has only recently begunto be addressed by the government. Despite the neglect, there appears to bea gradual increase in Japanese academic research, but international researchcollaborations are still quite limited in number. There are growing tieswith industry, but industry has been slow to recognize the value of graduateschool training. Stronger links may promote greater research activity, butwithout reforms to the structure of the education system and Ministry ofEducation policies, Japan will not be prepared to meet the challenge of the21st century, and the need for a highly-skilled, innovative workforce.     

Absence of males in maltreatment research: A survey of recent literature

This paper provides a review of research in the area of physical maltreatment with respect to the degree to which males are represented in research samples. The systematic, comprehensive review includes 126 articles published between the years 1989 and 1994 in nine primary journals. Results show that adult males are dramatically underrepresented in this research. Specifically, males were included in fewer than one-half (47.7%) of the 77 articles reviewed and the total number and percentage of males in research samples was significantly less than the number and percentage of females. Only three studies included males exclusively, yet 40 studies involved solely female participants. Of the studies that did include men, only 37.5% provided an evaluation of gender differences. Research involving abused children showed a much greater representation of male subjects than research with adult participants. Only four of 49 studies of abused children were based exclusively on girls; a full 62.8% included an equal representation of boys and girls.     

Data management in educational survey research

Author or co-author of numerous works on the use of computers and databases in education, including contributions to The International Encyclopedia of Education.     

Current educational technology research trends in Japan

To examine trends in educational practice research, this article conducted a survey and analysis of factors affecting the review of research papers in the field of the educational technology in Japan. Two factors, namely, practical orientation and theoretical orientation, were extracted from 63 survey responses, and scores from members of a Japanese academic society were compared with the scores of its editorial board. Results show that the two factor scores were not correlated to each other, and they are independent measures for any evaluation or review of research articles. Also, there was no significant difference between society members and editorial board members, i.e., their preferences when reviewing research papers were identical. For the second part of this study, a group composed of anonymous members of an editorial board conducted a paper review of 12 published “practical papers” and 11 published “general papers.” Results indicated that there was no significant difference between the two categories. The final rating scores of these 23 papers were analyzed using a decision-tree rating model. Results also indicated that for publication, papers need to contribute to theoretical research, in addition to contributing to basic educational practice research in educational technology.     

A survey of video game players in a public,urban research university

A survey was conducted in a public, research university located in a large and diverse metropolitan area in the southeastern part of the USA. The purpose of the survey was to determine both the positive and negative personal, educational, social, and work related consequences of playing video games. Nearly two‐thirds of the 203 participants in this study were of Hispanic heritage. A majority of the sample of participants was derived using a school intercept, as opposed to mall intercept, strategy. The remaining participants were obtained using snowball, and convenience sampling techniques. Statistically significant differences between males and females were found in the areas of communication, decision making in daily lives, leadership skills, collaborating, functioning in a team, and giving directions to others. These differences were favorable to males.     

Professional standards for survey research

This paper concludes that it is time for institutional research to address the issue of standards for the conduct of surveys. In reaching that conclusion, it argues that executing surveys is one of the most common activities of institutional research (IR) and one of the least served in IR literature; that as a craft, survey research is an orphan without a home in an academic discipline and therefore without a clear articulation of standards in its own right; and that as practiced in IR, survey research faces special technical problems and challenges not embraced in much of the general-survey research literature. Finally, it asks, but does not answer, how such a lofty goal as the pursuit of standards might be attained.