应用统计学专业的学科建设与实践教学的研究

本文以安徽理工大学为例,为提高学生的统计实践与解决实际问题的能力,介绍了理工科院校如何加强应用统计学专业的学科建设与实践教学。充分利用学校的数据处理相关实验室和校外实践教学基地,强化应用统计学专业与各种计算机软件的结合,拓展应用统计学专业的实践应用领域。这为其他理工科院校的应用统计学专业学科建设与实践教学提供一定的参考依据。     

统计学专业实践教学体系的探索与实践——以河南科技大学为例

经过近10年的探索与实践,河南科技大学统计学专业的理论课程教学和实践教学已形成一套比较科学的体系。目前,该实践教学体系需要在硬件建设、管理制度、课外社会实践训练等方面进行改革和完善。     

工业分析与检验专业实训基地建设的探索与实践

以我校工业分析与检验专业实训基地建设为例,涉及专业实训基地功能的职业性、先进性、示范性、开放性;通过专业实训基地建设的实践,对职业教育教学改革的体会和实实在在的收获。     

统计学专业"四位一体"实践教学体系的探索与实践

专业实践教学体系的构建对于人才培养方案目标的实现,学生专业综合素质和创新能力的培养至关重要。它不同于课程实践教学和社会实践等单层次的实践,是多维的、系统的、层进式的实践体系。以石河子大学统计学专业四位一体专业实践教学体系为例,阐述了其组织架构,协调的组织运行方式和良好的实施效果。同时,反思了该体系实施中的问题,并提出了补充和完善的对策。     

服务创新能力培养的统计学专业实践教学体系的探索与实践

文章探讨了统计学专业实践教学体系的构建。根据办学实践,构建的实践教学体系包含4个逐次递进的实践教学层次,以促进学生基本技能、综合素质和创新精神的培养。通过案例式、探究式、项目化等形式的教学方法改革,积极贯彻融创新能力培养于实践教学的教学理念。同时从实验室、实习基地和实践教学管理制度等方面的软硬件建设来保证实践教学体系的有效实施,保障人才培养目标的实现。     

生物统计学教学改革探索与实践

为了提高生物统计学课程教学质量,在查阅大量文献的基础上,结合多年的教学实践和课程教学特点,针对生物统计学课程教学中存在的与先行课程衔接不足、理论教学与实践教学脱节、学生学习能力差异较大等突出问题,提出选择适合的教材、优化教学内容、利用现代教育技术改革教学手段、加强实践教学环节、改革传统考核方式,以及优化课程教学模式等措施。通过课程改革激发了学生学习兴趣,加深了对课程内容的理解、掌握与应用,取得了良好的教学成效。     

学科与专业、学科建设与专业建设关系辨析

学科建设、专业建设是高校生存和发展的基础，两者既有区别又相互关联，在实践中十分容易混淆。本文在分析学科、专业内涵及其相互关系的基础上，进一步探讨了学科建设、专业建设的内涵及其相互关系，旨在明晰认识，促进高校的学科、专业建设实践。     

制药工程专业实验室建设的探索与实践

基于社会发展对制药工程专业人才的要求,结合学校自身特色和优势,通过优化实验教学平台、科学设置实验内容和完善相应的实验室规章制度、实验教学评价体系,着力建设"绿色化+信息化+工程化"的制药工程实验室,提高培养制药工程专业人才的能力。实践表明:该举措不仅使学生责任意识明显提高、学生实验实践技能也明显增强;同时教师队伍科研教学能力得到提升,服务地方经济能力也得到增强。     

高职服装类专业群建设的实践探索

文章通过对高职院校服装类专业群建设必要性的分析,总结了服装类专业群在建设过程中的特点,并提出了未来建设的目标和方向.     

加强专业建设办出高职特色--盘锦职业技术学院专业建设的实践探索

专业建设是学校最基本的教学建设之一。它对提高学校的整体办学水平和服务水平、保持可持续发展的内在动力、保证人才培养的质量具有重要的作用。本文从专业设置、专业教学改革与建设等方面阐述加强专业建设的实践探索。     

An investigation into excellent tertiary teaching: Emphasising reflective practice

This study is an attempt to understand betterthe complex nature of tertiary teaching byidentifying and investigating the attributes ofa group of excellent teachers in sciencedepartments of the University. In working withthis group of teachers we examined what theysay about their teaching and what theydo in their teaching practice. Ourfindings, as well as confirming much of theexisting literature at primary, secondary andtertiary levels, emphasise the strong linkbetween the teaching practice and researchcommitment of our excellent science teachers;as well as the key roles played byinterpersonal relationships and the `person' ofthe teacher. We propose that purposefulreflective practice integrates the manydimensions of teaching for this group ofexcellent science teachers. We present atheoretical model that can be used to assistnovice or less experienced university academicsin their development and understanding ofteaching excellence at the tertiary level.     

Shifting Identities: An investigation into student and novice teachers' evolving professional identity

This paper focuses on recent and innovative moves towards flexible learning in initial teacher education programmes in England and Wales, as part of the ‘widening participation’ agenda in higher education and in response to changes in teacher recruitment patterns. We take as our perspective our own experience as two course tutors in a higher education institution that introduced flexible routes into its secondary teacher education programme at the beginning of the academic year 2002/2003. Using the university's model for our case study, we have undertaken a small‐scale research project and reviewed the literature describing flexible learning discourses in higher education, to consider the extent to which concepts of flexibility are being translated into practice. In particular we highlight some implications for pedagogy and practice that have become apparent at this early stage in the development of flexible courses and which will have an impact upon their progress in the future.     

Transferring theory into practice: A model for professional development for science education reform

Instituting reform in science education requires teachers who are knowledgeable in science content, process, and inquiry pedagogy. Most elementary and middle-grades teachers are not teaching reform-based science and need training to be able to do so. Project LIFE, a state systemic initiatives professional development program for middle-grades life science teachers, has been successful in improving the science content knowledge, process skills, and attitudes toward teaching science of 90 teachers during the first 3 years of the project. Data collected through classroom observations, surveys, and tests given to students of project teachers and students of matched nonproject teachers revealed a significant positive impact of the project in classrooms. The essential characteristics of the project are described as a guide for individuals planning or delivering reform-based science education professional development. © 1998 John Wiley & Sons, Inc. J Res Sci Teach 35: 73-88, 1998.     

我国MBA教育发展与教学改革探讨

依据目前我国MBA教育发展的特点与存在的主要同题,从办学定位策略、教学内容改革、教学方式三个方面提出深化改革的思路:在定位发展上,提出特色办学是未来MBA教育的主要竞争手段,各办学单位应立足于特色办学,并把提高教学质量作为基本办学理念;在教学内容改革方面,提出改革现有课程结构,增加职业道德与伦理等道德修养课程,同时扩大实务课程的比重的设想;在教学方式改革方面,提出定制化教学、启发教学、教师角色转变等一系列改革新设想.     

Competing priorities in professional development: an Australian study of teacher professional development policy and practice

This paper argues that neoliberal and managerial pressures external to the teaching profession, as well as more progressive and democratic approaches internal to the profession, have simultaneously influenced professional development policy and practice in Australia. In making this case, the paper reviews the nature of the teacher professional development that is supported in federal Australian policies associated with the recently defeated Liberal/National Coalition government (1996–2007) and research into how professional development has been enacted in practice in Australia, during this government's tenure. While acknowledging the significant impact of more neoliberal and managerial approaches and how such policy emphases contribute to the continuation of traditional, systemic/employer provided workshops, the paper also provides evidence of competing, more teacher‐centred approaches.     

教师专业发展与日常教育实践研究

中小学教师所从事的研究应该是日常教育实践研究,这既是新课程改革对教师专业发展的必然要求,又是教师提升自己的专业水平、成为专家型教师的必由之路。     

An investigation into subtraction

This paper arose from research on numerical errors by 6 and 7 year-olds particularly in subtraction. The present investigation covers four categories: 11 year-olds: school-leavers: student nursery nurses: bus conductor trainees. The central questions were whether earlier errors recurred at these later stages and how far feelings towards the subject (sometimes formed when young) affected performance. The sample was small (N=93) but the results at least suggest questions and directions for further work. In each category, for example, over 25 per cent got a very basic subtraction sum wrong. This indicates that some young children are asked to do sums which are beyond their comprehension and the resulting confusion is difficult to remedy later.     

Incorporating creativity into teachers practice and self-concept of professional identity

The study explores what happens to teachers practice and professional identity when they adopt a collaborative action research approach to teaching and involve external creative partners and a university mentor. The teachers aim to nurture and develop the creative potential of their learners through empowering them to make decisions for themselves about their own progress and learning directions. The teachers worked creatively and collaboratively designing creative teaching and learning methods in support of pupils with language and communication difficulties. The respondents are from an English special school, primary school and girls secondary school. A mixed methods methodology is adopted. Gains in teacher confidence and capability were identified in addition to shifts in values that impacted directly on their self-concept of what it is to be an effective teacher promoting effective learning. The development of their professional identities within a team ethos included them being able to make decisions about learning that are based on the educational potential of learners that they proved resulted in elevated standards achieved by this group of learners. They were able to justify their actions on established educational principles. Tensions however were revealed between what they perceived as their normal required professionalism imposed by external agencies and the enhanced professionalism experienced working through the project where they were able to integrate theory and practice.     

Academic professional development practice: What lecturers find valuable

In an increasingly challenging tertiary environment where academics need more than ever to be skilled across a range of areas, including that of teaching, understanding what constitutes effective professional development is crucial. This paper reports on what a group of lecturers at an Australian university find valuable in developing their professional expertise by means of work-embedded events and activities. It was considered important to probe lecturers' understandings in line with constructivist approaches that encourage the involvement of participants in the learning or development process. Particularly where participants are highly educated and self-aware, drawing out their knowledge and practice seems a fruitful way of informing approaches to professional development. The study revealed that lecturers found a wide range of strategies useful in developing their professional expertise, with a predominance of those strategies being collaborative in nature. The paper suggests some practical ways in which universities can support professional development activities which lecturers identify as valuable.