College Entrance Examination Reform Concerning Children of Migrant Workers

近期,各省区市"异地高考"方案密集出炉,主要内容为允许外来务工人员随迁子女在当地参加高考.然而,社会各界尤其是学生和家长们的不同表态说明此次改革并不完美.     

给八景起八个美名

化彩三台 命名/刘奕珩 入南校门即见主教楼,为"山水化育"北京化工大学新校区核心景观第一景. 取传统建筑中轴线法,借南低北高地势,将主教楼与图书馆、燕山山脉依势展开.取传统园林建筑"框景"法,做中空镜框状,远收燕、屏两山,近看图书馆红楼云岭之台.又建主教楼于雄基高台之上,春夏秋三季修葺花台.远眺重景,登高移步,中轴远近...     

Using mindful movement in cooperative learning while learning about angles

Unlike studies on cooperative learning that have focused on the verbal communication aspect of learning, this study focuses on the non-verbal aspect—mindful movement, which is the use of body movement to aid academic learning. Our research examined the link between five learning activities occurring within a cooperative group of children using mindful movement and improvement of their academic achievements in the study of angles in geometry class. The learning activities were: (a) physical contact with the studied environment; (b) using visual and kinesthetic modeling; (c) socio-kinesthetic interaction; (d) sustaining the movement-aided learning activity; (e) non-learning behaviors. 261 learners from eight-second and third grade classes in six different schools participated in the research. The experimental group included 158 learners from five classes. The control group included 103 learners from three classes. It was found that, compared to the conventionally taught control group, the experimental group using mindful movement in cooperative learning reached significantly better results in studying angles. Additionally, a significantly positive correlation was found between each of the five variants of learning activities and improvement in academic achievement.     

Critical Analysis of Primary Literature in a Master’s-Level Class: Effects on Self-Efficacy and Science-Process Skills

The ability to think analytically and creatively is crucial for success in the modern workforce, particularly for graduate students, who often aim to become physicians or researchers. Analysis of the primary literature provides an excellent opportunity to practice these skills. We describe a course that includes a structured analysis of four research papers from diverse fields of biology and group exercises in proposing experiments that would follow up on these papers. To facilitate a critical approach to primary literature, we included a paper with questionable data interpretation and two papers investigating the same biological question yet reaching opposite conclusions. We report a significant increase in students’ self-efficacy in analyzing data from research papers, evaluating authors’ conclusions, and designing experiments. Using our science-process skills test, we observe a statistically significant increase in students’ ability to propose an experiment that matches the goal of investigation. We also detect gains in interpretation of controls and quantitative analysis of data. No statistically significant changes were observed in questions that tested the skills of interpretation, inference, and evaluation.