Adolescents’ autonomous functioning and implicit theories of ability as predictors of their school achievement and week-to-week study regulation and well-being

Research on students’ motivation has mainly focused on interpersonal differences rather than on the ongoing, intrapersonal dynamics that forge students’ everyday life. In this five-month longitudinal (diary) study, we recruited a sample of 179 high school students from Greece (35.8% males; M_age = 16.27; SD = 1.02) to investigate through multilevel analyses the ongoing dynamics of students’ motivation. We did so by examining the relation between autonomous functioning and aspects of study regulation (namely, study efforts and procrastination) and well-being (namely, subjective vitality and depressive feelings). After controlling for perceived competence, we found week-to-week autonomous functioning to relate positively to study efforts and subjective vitality and negatively to procrastination and depressive feelings. Interestingly, implicit theories of ability - the degree to which one believes that ability is fixed or amenable - were found to moderate the week-to-week relations of autonomous functioning to study efforts and homework procrastination. In particular, autonomous functioning co-varied positively to study efforts and negatively to homework procrastination only among students who believed that ability is malleable. Also, beliefs that ability is fixed predicted poorer grades, lower mean levels of study efforts, and higher homework procrastination. The results underscore the necessity of taking a more dynamic view when studying motivational phenomena and the importance of jointly considering the implicit theory framework and self-determination theory.     

Critically reflexive dialogue and praxis: Academic/practitioner reflections throughout a formative evaluation of Circles® USA

Reflections about the use of critically reflexive praxis by academic/practitioners are offered based on a case study of a formative evaluation of Circles^® USA, a nonprofit organization coordinating initiatives across the U.S. working to move families out of poverty. Critically reflexive praxis is theorized as featuring several themes including acknowledging different levels of context, critical dialogue with collaborators, engaging cultural difference and intersectionalities, problematizing power relations and relationships among researchers and collaborators, and occurring throughout the research project. Examples of critical dialogic reflexivity and navigating common tensions that emerge throughout such community engagement projects are detailed during three phases: planning and design; fieldwork and interviews; and outcomes, applications, and implications.     

关于提高教师职业自我效能的思考

自我效能理论(self-efficacy theory)是个体对自我能力的信念程度,它在一定程度上影响着个体职业效能的发挥。教师的职业自我效能影响到教师专业发展方案的设计、应对突发事件和调控情绪的能力。教师职业自我效能的提高,要寻找选择职业的意愿,构建教师职业生涯目标体系,从工作中感受成功。     

试论21世纪教师应具备的职业意识

教师是社会群体中特殊的职业,它担负传承人类文明、培育一代新人的神圣使命,其职业本质和道德规律要求教师必须具备树人意识、师表意识、奉献意识、创新意识和合作意识。惟有此,方能使教师的职责得以实现,使学生受到良好的教育。     

保安员队伍稳定性研究

我国现代保安服务业兴起于２０世纪８０年　代中期，是实行对内搞活、对外开放和商品经济发展的产物。文章通过以武汉市保安服务总公司保安员为研究对象，运用社会学、社会心理学理论，分析影响他们职业稳定性的内在因　素和职业环境的若干因素，并且提出解决问题的相应对策。     

试论职业资格考试对教育供求的调节

职业资格证书制度属于国家考试制度,学历证书制度属于国家教育 制度,二者对教育供求的调节产生了不同影响。在学历社会向资格社会转轨过程 中,要实现职业资格考试对教育供求的有效调节,就必须研究职业资格考试与教 育供求调节的关系,改革国家教育培训制度,更好地适应劳动力市场的需要,这是 优化人力资源配置、加强人力资源能力建设的重要课题。     

Floating collection in an academic library: An audacious experiment that succeeded

Can a floating collection thrive in a large multicampus academic research library? Floating collections have been successful in public libraries for some time, but it is uncommon for academic libraries and unheard of for a large academic library system. This article will discuss the investigation into the feasibility of a floating collection at Penn State University Libraries, its implementation, and continuation for a period covering 2009 through 2015. Attaining the floating collection, limited to monographs in the general stacks of campus libraries, proved to be easier to implement than imagined and resulted in unintended benefits as well as some surprises.     

毕业综合实践教学中全程导入法的应用

针对以技术应用能力为主线的高职教学所存在的弊端，在毕业综合实践教学中采用全程导入法可以更好地实现高职以就业为导向的人才培养目标。具体实施步骤是：专业教师明确本专业具体岗位的应职应岗能力要求，对新生进行启蒙教育；学生选定毕业就业方向和相应的综合实践任务，进行综合训练。