Factors that influence university students’ intention to use Moodle: a study in Macau

Educational technology research and development - Moodle is widely used in higher education institutions in this digital age. With the growing popularity of Moodle use in education, this study...     

Transformative Learning Through an Online Global Class Project in Teacher Education

This exploratory research study aimed to understand teacher candidates' experiences and perspectives in a global class project and to explore a way to develop global understanding in a teacher education program, by means of technology rather than study abroad. Using a qualitative approach, seven U.S. education majors were given opportunities to communicate online with teacher candidates in South Korea, while creating and discussing a concept map and movie presentation about “good teaching” on the Learning Management System. Results showed how the preservice teachers' global perspectives of education were developed through the project, and confirmed the significance of instrumental and communicative learning in transformative learning as well as direct communication and comparison with people from a different context using a carefully designed task-based course and immersive learning environment.     

刘熙载的词品说及其生成的学术背景

刘熙载的词品说，是一个意义非常丰富的理论见解，在正变观上修正了婉约为正的传统偏见；在创作论上主张自出机杼，反对雕琢刻划；在人品与词品的关系问题上，要求以封建伦理观念作为品词的标准，暴露出他在艺术见解上的保守性。     

无机化学实验教学的改革与实践

本文介绍了在无机化学实验教学改革中 ,以整体性教育思想为指导 ,以素质教育为目的 ,加强学生综合能力培养 ,努力提高无机化学实验教学质量的实践和认识     

Tutor Versus Peer Group Assessment of Student Performance in a Simulation Training Exercise

The performance of a group of third‐year higher diploma students from the Department of Hotel & Tourism in a simulation training exercise was assessed separately by the tutor and peer group, using an identical checklist. Ninety‐six pairs of tutor and peer group assessment marks were obtained and compared. Results showed that there was some degree of agreement between tutor and peer group markings, although the level of congruence was somewhat less than reported in earlier studies. However, when the tutor and peer group average marks were converted to grades, agreement was found in only 46.9% of the cases and the level of agreement between the two gradings was not statistically significant. Significant differences were also found in the variability of tutor and peer group markings. Furthermore, there were indications that peer group markings tended to be more stringent than tutor markings in the higher mark range, but relatively more lenient in the lower mark range. This trend was particularly obvious when the tutor and peer group marks were converted into grades. Implications of the findings are also discussed.     

使用有限元法预测针织结构复合材料热-弹性性能(英文)

预测纺织增强复合材料的热弹性性能是一项十分重要和复杂的课题 .本文采用有限元方法对玻璃纤维针织结构增强复合材料的正交各向异性热弹性性能进行了预测分析 ,并和试验结果进行了比较 .为了得到针织线圈增强结构的三维空间形态 ,本文考虑了相邻线圈之间的相互滑移作用和大位移变形 ,采用不考虑摩擦作用的接触单元建立线圈有限元模型 .     

从英汉互译实例浅析"功能对等"翻译标准

近年来,美国语言学家兼翻译家Nidar的“功能对等”理论成为翻译理论领域的主流。该理论现已被广泛采纳并应用于社会生活各个领域的翻译,它对从事翻译工作的人士或第二语言学习者具有重要的指导意义。分别以词汇、语句和语篇为基本翻译单位,通过对比英汉两种语言在形式、语义和语用等方面的异同和两种语言人们的审美和情感倾向性的异同,来探讨翻译中如何运用“功能对等”这一翻译标准。     

Memory for everyday information in students with learning disabilities

This study compared students with and without learning disabilities (LD) on their recall of academic information and information encountered in the students' everyday lives. The academic recall measures included a sentence listening span test, a rhyming words working memory test, and a visual matrix working memory task. Students' cued recall of all the tasks was also measured. The everyday working memory tasks included a dance episode event recall test; a library procedure recall test; and recall tests of commonly found objects, such as a coin, a telephone, and a McDonald's sign. Compared to students without LD, students with LD performed poorly on both the academic recall tasks and the everyday recall tasks. These results support the notion that some students with LD may have working memory problems that affect their performance on tasks other than reading. The results of the cued recall showed that the availability of cues significantly decreased the ability group differences on many of the academic and everyday tasks. This result replicates prior research findings that students with LD do not use retrieval strategies effectively and that some students with LD may have a production deficiency that affects their retrieval of previously encoded information.     

Differential effects of three professional development models on teacher knowledge and student achievement in elementary science

To identify links among professional development, teacher knowledge, practice, and student achievement, researchers have called for study designs that allow causal inferences and that examine relationships among features of interventions and multiple outcomes. In a randomized experiment implemented in six states with over 270 elementary teachers and 7,000 students, this project compared three related but systematically varied teacher interventions—Teaching Cases, Looking at Student Work, and Metacognitive Analysis—along with no‐treatment controls. The three courses contained identical science content components, but differed in the ways they incorporated analysis of learner thinking and of teaching, making it possible to measure effects of these features on teacher and student outcomes. Interventions were delivered by staff developers trained to lead the teacher courses in their regions. Each course improved teachers' and students' scores on selected‐response science tests well beyond those of controls, and effects were maintained a year later. Student achievement also improved significantly for English language learners in both the study year and follow‐up, and treatment effects did not differ based on sex or race/ethnicity. However, only Teaching Cases and Looking at Student Work courses improved the accuracy and completeness of students' written justifications of test answers in the follow‐up, and only Teaching Cases had sustained effects on teachers' written justifications. Thus, the content component in common across the three courses had powerful effects on teachers' and students' ability to choose correct test answers, but their ability to explain why answers were correct only improved when the professional development incorporated analysis of student conceptual understandings and implications for instruction; metacognitive analysis of teachers' own learning did not improve student justifications either year. Findings suggest investing in professional development that integrates content learning with analysis of student learning and teaching rather than advanced content or teacher metacognition alone. © 2012 Wiley Periodicals, Inc. J Res Sci Teach 49: 333–362, 2012     

西部地方高校校园文化建设探析——基于“两加一推”背景下的贵州高校校园文化建设调查

西部很多省区经济社会发展之所以落后于全国,人才匮乏、教育滞后是一个带有根本性质的重要制约因素。"十二五"时期,是西部各省区奋力赶超、大有作为的重要战略机遇期。本文立足贵州"两加一推"战略背景,对贵州地方高校校园文化建设进行调查,查找分析存在的问题,提出对策建议,以期能够给决策者决策和教育工作者开展教育工作提供一些有用的信息,为地方社会经济发展提供更好的人才智力支持。