大学新生英语课堂焦虑状况调查

运用定量研究的方法,采用Horwitz等的“外语课堂焦虑量表”,对浙江科技学院119名大学英语新生的英语课堂焦虑状况作了统计分析。结果表明,大学英语新生的英语课堂焦虑度是比较高的。女生焦虑度比男生高,但是没有显著性差异;外语焦虑和外语学习效果之间呈现显著的负相关关系;焦虑程度越高,对于外语学习的负面影响越大。据此提出了一些减轻大学生外语焦虑的方法和建议。     

多元智力策略在幼儿课堂管理中的运用

多元智力理论,打破了以语言能力和数理逻辑能力为核心的传统智力观,为我们提供了一种新的教育观、学生观、教学观和评价观.基于多元智力的视角,可以从获取学生的注意、注意转移准备、活动小组组建、问题行为管理等方面加强幼儿课堂管理.     

应对口语误差的不同态度及其心理学基础分析

对比性地阐明了外语教学中对待口语误差的两种完全不同的态度，分析了这两种态度产生的心理学根源。指出外语教师在课堂教学中恰当地选择应对学生口语误差的策略是外语教学和发展学生口语表达能力的关键因素；同时对课堂教学活动中应对口语误差提出了建议。     

Connecting feedback to self-efficacy: Receiving and providing peer feedback in teacher education

Feedback can play a vital role in fostering teacher self-efficacy. Social comparisons and feedback valence (positive vs. negative feedback) are assumed to have a large impact on self-efficacy. Therefore, how pre-service teachers perceive social comparisons and feedback valence in peer feedback and the extent to which pre-service teachers (bachelor/master students) and teacher trainers incorporate comments that can have an impact on self-efficacy into their peer feedback merit investigation. Two studies were conducted. The first showed that peer feedback consisting of a social comparison and with positive feedback valence resulted in greater willingness to improve and positive affect. The second study revealed that teacher trainers’ feedback was more specific, whereas bachelor students’ feedback contained more social comparisons than did master students’ and teacher trainers’. Future research and practical implications are discussed.     

对贵州省黎平县“民族文化进课堂”工程的思考

随着各少数民族地区经济的发展,各民族之间的交往日趋频繁,各种外来文化涌入少数民族地区,这必然使少数民族文化传承受到了严重挑战。学校教育对少数民族文化传承应发挥主体作用,黎平县“民族文化进课堂”工程实施就是典型例子,它对中小学少数民族文化课程的设置、实施及评价作了初步的探讨,并取得了令人欣慰的成果。     

Evaluating Assistive Technology in Early Childhood Education: The Use of a Concurrent Time Series Probe Approach

As assistive technology applications are increasingly implemented in early childhood settings for children who are at risk or who have disabilities, it is critical that teachers utilize observational approaches to determine whether targeted assistive technology-supported interventions make a difference in children’s learning. One structured strategy that employs observations and which has powerful child progress monitoring implications is the concurrent time series probe approach. Requiring multiple performance measures of a child engaged in a targeted task over time—both with and without a specific assistive technology device—the concurrent time series probe approach can be used to evaluate the effectiveness of assistive technology tools in supporting skill acquisition in the classroom. This approach is described in the context of a case study, with accompanying explanations of how to interpret data and make decisions regarding the effectiveness of the technology.     

Mapping as a tool for understanding the proceedings of an art class

This article presents a visual documentation tool for the observation of art classes. The documentation of an art class, like the documentation of any active class, is a complex task that requires focusing on clearly designated components. Quick structured sketching, as proposed here, is able to reflect varied simultaneous activities of teachers and students within specific learning environments, and enables triangulation with the customary means of documentation. The observations took place in 21 primary school and junior high art classes and the findings enabled the characterization of three different approaches implemented by the teachers.     

Capturing and Enhancing Science Teachers’ Professional Knowledge

This paper reports research from a three-year Australian science teacher professional learning project, the Science Teaching and Learning (STaL) Project, in which groups of science teacher participants (across years K – 12) worked with academics over a one-year period as teacher researchers. Through reflecting on their experiences within the STaL Project and collecting data from their classrooms related to specific science teaching concerns, teacher participants constructed cases around particular aspects of their professional learning. The cases that these participants developed elicited rich insights into their teaching and their students’ learning of science. This paper discusses how the cases were developed by the teacher researcher participants and uses exemplars as a way of illustrating the nature of the professional knowledge developed.     

天津市“空中课堂”试运行阶段应用情况调查与分析

为了解天津市"空中课堂"项目试运行阶段项目应用情况,该研究采用问卷调查的方法,调查了184名不同学校的网上学习者。文章得出7个方面的研究结果:登录平台学习情况,喜欢的教学方式,网上学习参与情况,对选修课程的评价,网上学习中遇到的困难,对学习支持服务的评价以及希望增加的功能。根据调查的结果和数据分析,从课程、主讲教师、学习支持服务、面授辅导和平台支持等方面,对发展和改善网上教学提出了策略性建议。     

Teachers' approaches towards word problem solving: Elaborating or restricting the problem context

This contribution reports about a seven-month long video-based study in two regular Flemish sixth-grade mathematics classrooms. The focus is on teachers' approaches towards problem solving. In our analysis we distinguished between a paradigmatic-oriented (focus on the mathematical structure) and a narrative-oriented (focus on the contextual aspects of a problem) perspective on the problem-solving process. The findings have highlighted that the word problem-solving lessons were more dominated by a paradigmatic than a narrative approach and that interventions in which the relation between the mathematics structure and the realistic constraints of the problem context is addressed, were rare.