Making a Difference: Using peers to assess individual students' contributions to a group project

Overcoming the potential dilemma of awarding the same grade to a group of students for group work assignments, regardless of the contribution made by each group member, is a problem facing teachers who ask their students to work collaboratively together on assessed group tasks. In this paper, we report on the procedures to factor in the contributions of individual group members engaged in an integrated group project using peer assessment procedures. Our findings demonstrate that the method we used resulted in a substantially wider spread of marks being given to individual students. Almost every student was awarded a numerical score which was higher or lower than a simple group project mark would have been. When these numerical scores were converted into the final letter grades, approximately one-third of the students received a grade for the group project that was different from the grade that they would have received if the same grade had been awarded to all group members. Based on these preliminary findings we conclude that peer assessment can be usefully and meaningfully employed to factor individual contributions into the grades awarded to students engaged in collaborative group work.     

中小学教师工作-家庭冲突的特征分析及建议

采用自编中小学教师工作-家庭冲突（WFC）问卷考察中小学教师工作家庭冲突现状。研究发现：WIF显著高于FIW,报告WIF严重的人数的百分比远高于FIW严重的百分比。工作-家庭冲突存在显著的性别、年龄差异;在学校因素中,学校类型、是否是班主任、周工作时间和工作规律性与WFC显著相关。在家庭因素中,是否与父母、孩子同住,是否有人帮做家务与WFC显著相关。并根据研究结果对学校提出了相应的管理建议。     

建立高校家庭经济困难学生二元资助体系研究

2007年开始,国家对高等学校家庭经济困难学生的经济资助力度大幅增加,高校通过＂奖、贷、助、补、减＂,开始建立新的资助体系。因此,如何构建完善的高校家庭经济困难学生资助体系,并提出改善思路,对开拓富有实效、与时俱进的助学工作新格局具有重要的理论和实践意义。     

设施园艺专业《设施养殖学》本科教学改革与探讨

《设施养殖学》是研究动物在相对可控环境条件下,采用工程技术手段,进行高效生产的一门综合性课程,是石河子大学农学院设施园艺专业的必修课程。文章通过结合传统和目前最新的教学方法和教学手段以及评价体系将《设施养殖学》的新内容、新理论、新思维讲授给学生。我们发现该课程的改革对于促进学生的学习和掌握新知识新技能,提高分析问题能力和解决问题能力的锻炼与培养以及现场课堂教学效果都成效显著,值得在非畜牧兽医专业的教学中推广应用。     

高校工程建设档案工作不容忽视

高校工程建设档案工作是高校管理的一项重要内容。目前,高校工程建设档案管理工作在立卷、归档中还存在诸多问题。高校工程建设档案管理工作必须实现法制化、系统化和科学化。     

高校学报特色谈

高校学报要具有竞争力必须要有自己的特色 ,要形成自己的特色可以通过设立特色专栏、学报版式的个性化、吸收外稿等途径来实现     

基于不同学习风格的英语教学设计

认知心理分析研究表明:在二语习得中,学习者个人的学习风格在一定程度上影响着学习效果。因此,教师在进行课堂教学设计时,要针对不同学习风格的学生采用相应的教学策略。同时,认知因素和非认知因素也极大地影响着学生的语言习得,教师应该充分利用学生认知因素和非认知因素来进行英语教学设计。     

佐佐木健一自然美思想研究

佐佐木健一作为日本当代著名美学家,享有极高的国际声誉。他是继大西克礼、植田寿藏、竹内敏雄、今道友信之后,取得可观成果、成就突出的日本美学家。在其整个美学体系之中,自然美思想独树一帜。文章将其自然美思想分成三个阶段进行研究:初始阶段、成熟阶段和拓展阶段。通过论述其自然美定义的发展变化,分析其自然美思想的本国理论起源和对西方环境美学的借鉴,从而洞悉日本自然美学的发展现状,这对于同处于东方文化圈的我国自然美学发展很具有借鉴意义。     

抗强电磁干扰可直接启停电机逆变电源的研制

由于中频无源电焊机机内发电机不能发出50Hz的工频交流电,所以在野外施工中不能利用焊机内的发电机给现场的检测仪器和泥浆泵等设备供电.如果给中频无源焊机配备50Hz工频逆变电源,将会使该设备具有更高的使用性和性能价格比.本文研制了中频无源焊机内置2KW工频逆变电源,并且很好的解决了抗干扰问题,提高了工频逆变电源工作的稳定性.     

Assessing twenty‐first century skills through a teacher created video game for high school biology students

As twenty‐first century skills become a greater focus in K‐12 education, an infusion of technology that meets the needs of today’s students is paramount. This study looks at the design and creation of a Multiplayer Educational Gaming Application (MEGA) for high school biology students. The quasi‐experimental, qualitative design assessed the twenty‐first century skills of digital age literacy, inventive thinking, high productivity, and effective communication techniques of the students exposed to a MEGA. Three factors, as they pertained to these skills, emerged from classroom observations. Interaction with the teacher, discussion with peers, and engagement/time‐on‐task while playing the MEGA suggested that students playing an educational video game exhibited all of the projected twenty‐first century skills while being engrossed in the embedded science content.