New Dimensions to Psychosocial Development in Traditionally Aged College Students

Why do so many traditionally aged college students engage in inappropriate behaviors, even when they are smart enough to know better? To answer this question, Gregory S. Blimling looks at some of the latest neuroscience research and, in doing so, introduces a new dimension to understanding psychosocial development in college students—developing the capacity for self‐regulatory cognitive control.     

游在石油中……

过去一段时间，人们关注的焦点毫无例外地聚集在墨西哥湾沿岸，因为泄漏的石油已经开始被冲上岸边的海滩和湿地。但是就在上周，当我潜入距离路易斯安那州南部的帕斯阿卢特湿地几英里远的浮油层时，我可以从另一种方式来看这次石油泄漏带来的后果。我亲眼目睹的是一个极为离奇、极为恶心的场景，它远远超出我可以想象到的程度。     

Delivering Effective Instruction Via the Web

Abstract

In view of the phenomenal growth of the World Wide Web, web‐based instruction has gained a great deal of popularity in many educational discussions. Creating effective instruction via the web requires that faculty spend a great deal of time planning and developing strategies to address this new environment with new instructional techniques. Web‐based instruction is comprised of three stages: design, development and delivery. The purpose of this article is to describe the steps necessary successfully to take a traditionally taught graduate course to an effectively taught web‐based course. This article describes the web‐based experiences of faculty that learned first hand the opportunities and challenges associated with web‐based instruction.     

Using metaphor to probe students' conceptions of chemistry learning

Changing students' views of themselves as learners and the learning strategies they use requires methods to make their views regarding teaching, learning and their roles as learners explicit to themselves and to teachers. This was an interpretive study that investigated students' metaphors for themselves as learners within a Year 11 chemistry classroom. Students' metaphors were found to be congruent with their views of learning and their learning processes as evidenced from multiple data sources. In making students' views explicit, metaphors can provide valuable information for practicing teachers and researchers who aim to investigate and enhance students' learning processes and encourage metacognition.