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.     

中学化学基本概念与基础理论的教学策略研究

提出要重视中学化学基本概念与基础理论的教学策略,探索、实践并总结了基本概念和基础理论教学的不同策略和多种方式.     

Many choices,one destination: multimodal university brand construction in an urban public transportation system

Amidst global competition in higher education, colleges and universities adopt strategies that mimic and adapt business practices. Branding is now a widespread practice in higher education; multimodal advertisement is a manifestation of emerging branding strategies for universities. While the visibility of brands in higher education has grown substantially in recent years, its empirical study has lagged. This article reports on the findings from a study that employed social semiotic and multimodal analysis to explore text and visual rhetoric as brand construction strategies in publicly displayed university advertisements. After analyzing photographs representing advertising campaigns from 16 different universities displayed in an urban public transportation system, I suggest that universities construct their brand identity through messages that emphasize multiple choices and convenience, but construct success primarily according to corporate standards and values.     

和谐社会建设中的教育责任

和谐社会是人性健全、追求卓越的社会。教育是人生观、世界观、价值观形成的主要方式,其作用是引领人生,着力培养人的创新精神和实践能力,使人全面发展,产生对人性健全、人生卓越的强烈追求。     

论邓小平对毛泽东教育思想的继承与发展

毛泽东教育思想和邓小平教育思想，是马列主义与中国实践相结合的产物，具有鲜明的现实性、时代性，对中国教育事业的发展和改革产生了巨大影响和推动作用。邓小平在继承毛泽东教育思想精髓的同时，结合不断发展的时代要求，在诸多方面对毛泽东教育思想进行了创新和发展。着重从教育方针、教育的地位与作用、对知识分子的思想、人才培养目标和质量、教育改革和发展思想等五方面进行比较，探讨邓小平对毛泽东教育思想的继承和发展。     

我国股份公司股权结构改革初探——从会计学角度分析

我国股份公司的股权结构改革采取的是渐进式改革的道路。渐进式改革使得中国的经济保持了稳定的增长,渐进式改革在中国可谓是取得了极大的成功。但是,随着市场经济的进一步发展,由于转轨不彻底而带来弊端也越来越明显,最突出的就是股份公司的股权资本结构问题。本文将就股份制公司的股权结构问题展开讨论。     

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.     

陈寅恪论士族文化世家及其意义

陈寅恪多从文化特征讨论中古士族，论述了士族文化世家的家学家风特点及其与地方文化的关系，同时也讨论了唐代科举制度下的山东旧族等文化世家的特点，充分肯定中古士族文化世家对中国文化传承发展的贡献，特别在中古文化融合中的积极作用以及在国家制度文化建设中的主导作用。陈寅恪有关士族文化世家的论述是从文化本位角度研究中国文化与中国社会的发展，其意义远远超出了中古史的研究，对于深入研究中国文化与中国社会发展具有十分重要的意义，开辟了一个新的历史研究领域。     

全面贯彻科学发展观再谱教育基建新篇章

“十五”期间，江苏教育基本建设工作取得了前所未有的成绩，为教育事业的大发展提供了强有力的支撑。“十一五”期间，江苏教育基本建设工作应全面贯彻科学发展观，围绕“十一五”改革发展的目标、任务，又快又好地建设好校园；必须坚持规划先行；坚持历史文化传承与现代文明的有机结合；努力建设江苏校园经典建筑；积极推进高校老校区置换；严格规范学校基本建设管理；建立一支各项素质都很过硬的基本建设工作队伍；理论联系实际，开展基本建设理论科研工作。     

本科生基因工程实验技能培养的改革与实践

以分子生物学为基础的基因工程技术是21世纪重要的生命科学技术之一,对这一技术的学习和掌握是非常重要的.但由于基因工程技术的飞速发展,现代的基因工程实验教学将不能适应时代要求,存在的问题逐渐显现,如资金投入少、知识结构老化、课堂教学内容更新少及学生学习被动等等.因此,有必要针对这些不足进行教学改革来推动基因工程技术的实验教学.相应的主要措施有加大资金投入、更新实验内容、加强师资培训、让学生参与基因工程实验教学的准备、变被动学习为主动学习、基因工程实验教学与科研实践和毕业设计结合等.这一系列的措施有利于教学的改进及对大学生的培养.