The impact of collaborative online reading on summarizing skills

The aim of this study was to determine whether, as a result of collaborative-online reading of a chapter from a book of an academic nature, the quality of the collaborative summary that the readers would write would be higher than that written by readers who would both read the same chapter and write a summary in a face-to-face setting. In this study we examined the difference between the summaries written by participants from two groups, each group was divided into subgroups of 3 participants who had read collaboratively a chapter of a book, and collaborated on writing a summary. The participants of the experimental group read the chapter as it appeared in a website for collaborative reading built especially for this study and the participants were asked to summarize the chapter on a shared online digital document. The participants of the control group were asked to read the chapter face-to-face and to collaboratively summarize it in hand writing. The quality of the summaries was evaluated with a tool developed by Rivard (2001). This tool was developed to measure the quality of the summaries. In our study the main and secondary ideas that were supposed to be included in the participants’ summaries were identified by three literature teachers using ten different criteria and the summaries were analyzed by two other judges based on these criteria. The findings indicated that there were significant differences in the majority of the writing indicators being measured with the tool. The findings indicated that collaborative-online reading and writing produce a summary of a higher quality than one read and hand written collaboratively face-to-face.     

中国早期书院与西欧中世纪大学的比较研究

中国早期书院与西欧中世纪大学是东西文化教育发展历史中两颗璀璨的明珠。本文通过对二者的形成机制、办学目的、课程设置、教学方法、管理模式的比较研究，分析了二者的异同，以期对现代的高教改革提供有益的借鉴。     

明代官府公文用纸与档案的保护

明朝的造纸技术集历代之大成，有了长足的发展，公纸的种类也十分繁多。明王朝很重视档案的保护工作，对官府公用纸的种类，规格，质量，来源均做出明确的规定。为保存中国古代化典籍，丰富中国档案库藏做出了贡献。     

利用清华同方TPI数字图书馆平台建立远程开放教育特色数据库

如何将电大特色资料和馆藏进行数字化 ,方便读者 ,提高利用率 ,是目前电大图书馆界面临的问题。中央广播电视大学图书馆利用清华同方数字图书馆TPI系统 ,进行特色数据库建设并加以应用。     

21世纪中国的数学教学

本文探索了新世纪数学教学的目标、内容、组织形式和评价等方面的新趋势     

原癌基因与脊椎动物精子发生

综述了近年来原癌基因c-fos、c-jun、c-myc、c-mos、c-abl、c-kit、c-raf等在精子发生过程中不同时期表达及其作用的研究进展。c-fos、c-jun、c-myc在整个生精周期中均有表达，而c-mos、c-abl主要在成熟精子中有表达。同一种原癌基因在不同种动物生精周期的相同阶段表达也不尽相同。原癌基因调控精子发生的分子机制有待深入研究。     

Parents of Traditionally Aged Community College Students: Communications and Choice

Five suburban community colleges in a metropolitan area collaborated on a survey to parents of high school graduates of the class of 2002 who attended the colleges in fall 2002. The study was undertaken to learn more about parents roles in their students selection of community colleges, to give insights and information about this important community college constituency, and to assist community colleges to shape more effective ways to foster positive and supportive opinions among parents of potential students. Parents want the community college to provide students with credits and grade point averages enabling transfer, overestimate their students academic skills as measured by course placement tests, engaged in a number of college-choice activities, and indicate that factors associated with lifestyle and money were major reasons for selecting the community college. Associations between parents social capital and perceptions of their students academic abilities were found for a number of dependent variables examined. The study also revealed important differences in how participating institutions record and calculate key measures such as credits earned and grade point averages.     

“三个代表”重要思想的理论和实践

学习“三个代表”的重要思想 ,必须坚持理论联系实际的马克思主义学风。要深入把握“三个代表”重要思想的理论根据和实践根据 ,更要研究怎样切实有效地实践“三个代表”。     

邓小平对毛泽东对外战略思想的继承和发展

邓小平的对外战略理论是邓小平理论的重要组成部分。它不仅在新的国际形势下继承和发展了毛泽东的外交战略思想 ,而且为建设有中国特色社会主义的理论和实践提供了一个重要的依据。它从一个侧面反映了邓小平理论和毛泽东思想是一脉相承的 ;同时 ,又是在新的历史条件下对毛泽东思想的丰富和发展