论加缪的荒谬的存在

加缪的哲学散文《西西弗的神话》从哲学上最严肃的问题自杀入手引出荒谬的这个中心话题,引出了荒谬的产生及其原因,荒谬的概念的界定以及面对荒谬的三种态度。     

Learners＇ and teachers＇ conceptions and dispositions of mathematics from a Middle Eastern perspective

The paper discusses an on-going research project that studies students＇ and teachers＇ conceptions and dispositions of mathematics. Conceptions are the views that students hold on a subject, and what they believe is required in learning and doing the subject. Dispositions are the beliefs or tendencies to exhibit a frequent, conscious and voluntary behavior directed towards learning a subject. The participants are high school students, higher education students and mathematics teachers. The study utilizes self-reporting tools as well as focus groups and interviews in a three-stage research model. This is a work on progress. Results to date are briefly discussed.     

分子生物学及生物技术实验教学创新体系的建立与实践

按照国家生命科学与技术人才培养的目标和要求,建立有利于培养创新性人才的实验教学体系,已成为实验教学改革所面临的重要任务。我们通过实验教学体系的建设与改革,实验教学水平和教学质量有了显著的提高,为培养基础扎实并有很强实践能力的宽口径人才做了一些有益的探索。文章总结了近几年来分子生物学及生物技术实验教学创新体系的建立与实践的经验及成果。     

《规划纲要》改革路径与现代国民教育体系构建方略

<国家中长期教育改革和发展规划纲要>所要推进的是一场整体性、全面性、系统性,在原理上有原创性新发展的"三级教育改革",负有崇高的社会历史使命.而在改革的态度确定之后,<规划纲要>的历史使命能否实现,最为关键的问题就是改革路径的设计和选择.作为全面建设小康社会整体目标中的教育发展目标和新世纪我国教育改革与发展的基本载体,现代国民教育体系的构建关系到<规划纲要>的改革路径.深入探讨现代国民教育体系的构建方略,有助于确定2012年、2020年等中长期时间节点上的国家教育发展战略目标,安排相应的实施步骤,保障<国家中长期教育改革与发展规划纲要>的实现.     

Comparative study of middle school students’ attitudes towards science: Rasch analysis of entire TIMSS 2011 attitudinal data for England,Singapore and the U.S.A. as well as psychometric properties of attitudes scale

We report here on a comparative study of middle school students’ attitudes towards science involving three countries: England, Singapore and the U.S.A. Complete attitudinal data sets from TIMSS (Trends in International Mathematics and Science Study) 2011 were used, thus giving a very large sample size (N?=?20,246), compared to other studies in the journal literature. The Rasch model was used to analyse the data, and the findings have shed some useful light on not only how the Western and Asian students responded on a comparative basis in the various scales related to attitudes but also on the validity, reliability, and unidimensionality of the attitudes instrument used in TIMSS 2011. There may be a need for TIMSS test developers to consider doing away with negatively phrased items in the attitudes instrument and phrasing these positively as the Rasch framework shows that response bias is associated with these statements.     

生物类三大本科专业人才培养模式的比较研究

本文对生物工程、生物技术和生物科学三大本科专业的培养目标、素质和知识结构、课程设置、技能要求、实践教学环节,以及实验实践条件配制等人才培养模式方面进行比较阐述,提出了三个层面三个层次的实践教学体系;生物通用实验室以满足生物科学专业教学为主、专业性实验室以满足生物技术和工程专业教学为主、实训实践基地以满足生物工程专业教学为主的建设目标,使用实行预约登记制;强化学生自主学习能力培养,推进学生个性发展和完善等思路,为生物类三大本科专业人才培养模式的制定提供参考.     

中国生物科技伦理制度建设及政策建议

介绍我国生物科技伦理制度建设的总体状况以及国际社会在生物科技伦理制度建设方面的先进经验,并结合我国实际提出了具体的政策建议。     

基于SNA的生物技术产业集群技术结构研究——以波士顿集群为例

论文使用USPTO1976年至2006年的专利引文数据库,以波士顿生物技术产业集群为背景研究了集群技术结构.采用社会网络分析方法,以密度、中心度、中介度、派系等指标研究集群技术结构.研究发现大学、医院和企业皆为集群主要技术源;企业有很强的技术中介作用;次级群体之间存在着较频繁的技术交流并形成小团体,小团体中医院拥有最多的专利,医疗设备企业则起着关键的技术转化作用.     

PBL模式在生物技术专业细胞生物学教学中的应用

细胞生物学是生物技术专业的基础课,发展迅速,且与其他生命科学交叉渗透,难于理解。为了激发学生的学习热情,提高学生分析问题和解决问题的能力,同时提高课堂教学质量,在细胞生物学的改革实践中,在传统教学的基础上,引入了PBL模式教学。实践证明PBL模式教学取得了较为满意的效果,同时也存在一些不足。     

The Challenge in Teaching Biotechnology

Agriculture, industry and medicine are being altered by new biotechnologies. Biotechnology education is important because todays students and citizens will make decisions about the development and application of these new molecular biologies. This article reports an investigation of the teaching of biotechnology in an Australian state, New South Wales (NSW). In NSW few students were electing to answer examination questions related to biotechnology, suggesting that few students were studying the topic. This study looks at why electives relating to biotechnology are chosen or not chosen by students and teachers, with the intention of developing a greater understanding of the requirements for provision of a successful unit of study in this subject. Data was obtained through a survey of secondary science teachers, interviews with teachers and two case studies of the teaching of a biotechnology unit. Teachers reported a range of obstacles to the teaching of biotechnology including the difficulty of the subject matter and a lack of practical work that was suited to the content of the teaching unit. If biotechnology is worth learning in school science, then further research is needed to identify ways to promote the effective teaching of this topic, which teachers regard as important for, and interesting to, students but which most teachers choose not to teach.