Promoting Inquiry-Based Teaching in Laboratory Courses: Are We Meeting the Grade?

Over the past decade, repeated calls have been made to incorporate more active teaching and learning in undergraduate biology courses. The emphasis on inquiry-based teaching is especially important in laboratory courses, as these are the courses in which students are applying the process of science. To determine the current state of research on inquiry-based teaching in undergraduate biology laboratory courses, we reviewed the recent published literature on inquiry-based exercises. The majority of studies in our data set were in the subdisciplines of biochemistry, cell biology, developmental biology, genetics, and molecular biology. In addition, most exercises were guided inquiry, rather than open ended or research based. Almost 75% of the studies included assessment data, with two-thirds of these studies including multiple types of assessment data. However, few exercises were assessed in multiple courses or at multiple institutions. Furthermore, assessments were rarely based on published instruments. Although the results of the studies in our data set show a positive effect of inquiry-based teaching in biology laboratory courses on student learning gains, research that uses the same instrument across a range of courses and institutions is needed to determine whether these results can be generalized.     

“成人护理”课程的立体式教学探讨

目的:探讨立体式教学在成人护理教学中的应用效果。方法:将11级护理专业154名学生以班级为单位分为实验组(72名)和对照组(84名),实验组采取立体式教学方法,对照组进行常规教学,评价两组的教学效果。结果:实验组的病案分析成绩和期末闭卷考试卷面成绩均比对照组高,有统计学意义(P0.05)。结论:在成人护理教学中采取立体式教学对学生的知识点掌握,考试成绩的提高,知识的灵活运用有较好作用。     

主体协同教学：内涵、策略与价值

主体协同教学扎根于坚实的科学理论基础之上,应用并完善于教学实践之中,以现代教育价值观为指导,坚持新课改＂发展为本＂的理念,以主体协同为基础,以信任合作为前提,以合作学习为方式,以适合性教育为原则,以提高学生的思维能力、创新能力为宗旨,以教师、学生、家长等多主体协同、全方位互动为机制,以学生的精神生命参与为动力,倡导主体互补选择策略、目标问题导向策略、教学环节设计策略、独立合作交替策略、知识建构内化策略和措施自我改进策略,理顺并聚合教育力量,优化并整合教学程序,渗透并融合现代教育价值观,突破传统教学的时空局限,以实现提高教学效率、提升教师专业能力、促进学生和谐发展的目的。     

Changes in self-reported academic cheating across the transition from middle school to high school

Changes in early adolescents' self-reported cheating behaviors in mathematics before and after the transition from middle school to high school are examined. Students were surveyed in school regarding their cheating behaviors in math, and the motivational goal structures perceived in their math classrooms. Surveys were completed twice during the eighth grade (during middle school) and once at the end of the ninth grade (at the end of the first year in high school). Results indicated that self-reported cheating did not change in the year prior to the high school transition, but that reported cheating increased after the transition. Additional analyses indicated that across the high school transition, self-reported cheating in math increased for students who moved from high mastery to low mastery-oriented classes after the transition, and for students who moved from low performance to high performance-oriented classes; in contrast, self-reported cheating decreased for students who moved from low to high mastery-oriented math classrooms.     

新馆建设与省级公共图书馆事业发展

新馆建设是公共图书馆的重大发展机遇，应把建设具有特色的开放式，多功能，研究型，公益性的现代化知识中心，信息中心和教育中心，文化中心作为省级公共图书馆的基本发展定位，在新馆条件下，以下四个方面应作为可持续发展的主玫目标；不间断地强化文献资源建设，确保印刷文献与数字化文献建设同步协调发展：充分利用新馆设施与设备条件，努力做到利用率最大化；积极开拓馆外服务，大力拓宽服务面，增强服务辐射力，大力推进以聘任制为中心的用人机制和管理体制改革，全面优化员工队伍素质。     

Serials management: integration and enhancement through reorganization

It is broadly acknowledged that effective serials management supports and requires a close link between the staff in technical and public services. More recently, new technological opportunities combined with changes in library organization and administration have greatly facilitated this linkage. The nature and structure of a library’s organization can aid in and benefit from this connectedness. Departments in the University of Louisville’s public and technical services areas began a cooperative effort to maintain serials records in the online catalog in the early 1990s. With reorganization in the late 1990s, a new team structure emerged which further facilitated this effort. In return, this cooperation and the tools that it has created support the teams in a new user-centered approach to serials management.