高师院校“现代教育技术”课程改革的探讨

针对目前高等师范教育中“现代教育技术”公共课的现状进行调查分析，指出了存在的一些不足之处，并提出了“现代教育技术”课程改革的一些建议．     

Kindergarten screening results as predictors of academic achievement,potential, and placement in second grade

The ability of a battery of kindergarten screening measures to predict educationally relevant criteria was investigated. Subtest scores on The Vane Test of Language and The Vane Kindergarten Test administered at the beginning of kindergarten were examined and compared to the Metropolitan Achievement Test scores in reading and math, The Otis-Lennon School Ability Test index, and placement into special education or high achievement programs at the end of second grade. A weighted combination of subtests accurately predicted 77% of the children classified as special education students. The same battery also predicted 73% of the children who were classified as high-achieving students.     

Greater expectations: Learning from other nations in the quest for 'world-class standards' in US school mathematics and science

This study examines teachers’ experiences with and opinions on a web‐based, cross‐cultural project. Students from the Czech Republic, Denmark, Macedonia, and Sweden used information and communication technology and international collaboration to explore the links among youth, culture, and the use of alcohol. The data was generated through interviews with the teachers co‐ordinating the project in each of the classes. The teachers’ experiences with the approach as a whole led them to emphasize that the action‐oriented and participatory approach, combined with the use of information and communication technology and international collaboration, brought new, valuable perspectives to their own teaching and to their reflections about emerging new roles and teaching skills needed. The provisions for genuine student participation, authenticity in learning, intrinsic motivation, and the sense of the other were identified by the teachers as the main strengths of the approach.     

Access Patterns of Online Materials in a Blended Course

Patterns in student accesses of online materials and their effects upon student performance in a blended course are examined. Our blended course is an introductory business and economic statistics course where lectures are only available online while the traditional class period is used for complementary learning activities. Timing, volumes, intensity, and consistency of the student accesses of the online lectures are considered. Using bivariate and multivariate analyses, measures of timing and consistency are shown to be related to student performance but volumes and intensity of accesses are not.     

Changing ideas about the periodic table of elements and students' alternative concepts of isotopes and allotropes

The Periodic Table of Elements (PTE) is one of the organizing principles in chemistry. Originally it was a list of elements (as substances). Later, the PTE developed into a list of atoms of the elements. However, isotopes and allotropes are difficult to integrate into the PTE. Therefore, difficulties in understanding these terms can be expected. The investigation set off to study secondary school students' concepts of isotopes and allotropes and how the concepts are linked to the PTE. Three specific research questions were addressed: (a) How do secondary school students describe the relationship between fundamental particles constituting an atom? (b) How do they conceive isotopes? and (c) What are students' concepts of graphite and diamond? Multiple choice items were given to 3074 senior high school students. In addition, six interviews were conducted with senior high school students. The data analysis revealed students' alternative concepts, which distinguished between standard atoms and atoms of isotopes. Standard atoms contain neutrons and protons in equal numbers and are more stable. The atomic masses are expressed as integers. Moreover, students considered graphite and diamond as isotopes. The analysis of the results shows that students actively tried to make sense of what they had experienced. © 2003 Wiley Periodicals, Inc. J Res Sci Teach 40: 257–277, 2003     

Informelles Lernen und Medienbildung

Der Begriff des informellen Lernens wird hier auf den Wissenserwerb im Rahmen der allt?glichen Nutzung von Massenmedien bezogen. Bei der genaueren Betrachtung des Mediennutzungsverhaltens von verschiedenen Altersgruppen erweisen sich sozio-kulturelle Unterschiede als wichtige Pr?diktoren für Mediennutzung und -rezeption. Das Konzept der sozialen Milieus eignet sich zur Analyse sozio-kultureller Differenzen, auch mit Blick auf die Medienbildung. Bei Kindern scheint das Herkunftsmilieu der Eltern einen zentralen Einfluss auf deren Medienbildung zu haben, w?hrend im Jugendalter auch jugendkulturelle Rahmungen bedeutsam werden. Medienrezeption wird dabei nicht als einseitiger Prozess, sondern als kommunikative Interaktion zwischen Medienproduzenten und Medienkonsumenten verstanden. Letztere bringen in der Wahl von Medien, Genres und Rezeptionskontexten auch ?sthetische Pr?ferenzen und ihren sozio-kulturellen Habitus zum Ausdruck.     

Differences in Established Joint Attention in Hearing-Hearing and Hearing-Deaf Mother-Child Dyads: Associations With Social Competence,Settings, and Tasks

The authors examined relations among observed joint attention, maternal report of child’s social competence, setting (home vs. laboratory), task (unstructured vs. semi-structured), and dyad type [hearing mother–hearing child (n = 55, M_age = 25.8 months) vs. hearing mother–deaf child (n = 27, M_age = 26.9 months)]. Hearing child dyads scored higher on joint attention during unstructured tasks, especially in their home environment. Hearing child dyads displayed similar joint attention to deaf toddler dyads when they engaged in a semi-structured task, but higher on these measures during unstructured free play. Unlike hearing children, joint attention was differentially related to social competence in deaf children, with relatively higher versus lower social competence depending on relatively high versus low observed joint attention, respectively.     

庄子和尼采的超越哲学观

作为叛逆哲人,庄子和尼采哲学都是超越哲学,出于对生命之热爱,他们对传统思想观念作了深刻的反省与批判并致力于转换。对两人的本体论、认识论、人生观进行比较,发现尼采提倡昂然的生命力和奋发的意志力与庄子的无争、顺应自然以提高精神境界大异其趣,但他们在各自超越思想中所倡导的个性独立之精神无疑为时代发展带来了强烈的心灵震撼,体现出一种人本主义精神。     

浅议青海社区自治中的居民参与问题

目前,社区自治已经在我省广泛实施,但是,居民对于社区事务参与不足始终是困扰社区自治进一步发展的重要制约因素。本文在对西宁市的社区进行调研的基础上,分析了目前居民参与社区事务的现状,并且从参与式治理的角度提出了解决之策。