The graphics calculator as a teaching aid in statistics

This article explores some ideas for the imaginative use of a graphics calculator in introductory statistics teaching.     

基于网络服务的数字图书馆集成技术

提出基于集成网络服务的数字图书馆的概念模型，并分析实现该模型的技术机制-网络服务概念框架和现有标准与技术，包括SOAP、WSDL、UDDI、WSFL。     

Teacher help for conceptual level raising in mathematics

A field study with 16-year-old students in senior general secondary education was undertaken with the following research question: “Do students working in pairs on investigation tasks with the computer attain more conceptual level raising in mathematics when they are supported by a teacher who stimulates their interaction (process help) than when they are supported by a teacher who gives mathematical help (product help)?” Students in both conditions improved, but the two types of help showed no significant difference in level raising. Also, students in both conditions had serious problems with the learning materials, and wanted the teacher to explain and correct more. For students at this level of education, learning with investigation tasks in small groups appears to be very difficult.     

浅析研究性学习

研究性学习已被正式纳入新的《课程标准》。我们可以从自身生活和社会生活中或者直接从教材中选择课题。我们也从图书馆、网络等方面获得一些有力的参考资料。在研究性学习中 ,教师还能够对研究性学习作一定的指导 ,学生间也可以互相合作 ,共同讨论。但我们也清楚地看到学校领导、学生本身、家庭、社会等多方面的错误观念也制约着研究性学习的发展。教师素质、研究设备等多方面硬、软件的限制也在制约着研究性学习的进展 ,而且当前的评价标准还有待提高     

英语短语动词的认知语义研究——以get off为例

短语动词由动词加上一个或两个小品词而构成。从传统的观点看,不能从动词的表面知道其意义,但事实上并非如此。本文从认知的视角,运用概念合成理论、认知隐喻和转喻理论对短语动词get off的认知语义进行分析研究,研究发现：（1）短语动词get off的语义是由动词和小品词的意义通过概念合成得出来的;（2）短语动词getoff的语义扩展是通过隐喻、转喻或二者交叉实现的;（3）get off的概念意义可概括为：离开就是出去;离开就是逃脱;离开就是停止;离开就是反对。（4）在短语动词get off的意义中,动词get反映的是动作本身,而小品词off则蕴含了动作的方向和路径。     

Peer tutoring in conceptual design

A peer tutoring scheme has been introduced into the Department of Engineering at the University of Liverpool to help 2nd year undergraduate students tackle conceptual design problems. Conceptual design is an iterative process consisting of a series of generative and evaluative stages, which gradually converge on a preferred conceptual solution. Students are generally less comfortable with the task of generating, evaluating and presenting ideas and this leaves them less able to tackle a conceptual design project without the help and intervention of available teachers or experts. Formally, the students were taught through lectures, coursework and critique sessions. Peer tutors were trained to facilitate group sessions whereby the students were able to discuss ideas, evaluate new concepts, generate solutions and learn to communicate more effectively within a non-threatening environment. The students developed problem-solving skills, became more confident and took more responsibility for their own learning. The peer tutoring process also had a positive effect on the tutors, who felt they had become more responsible and employable, improved their communication and leadership skills and deepened their own understanding of design, as a result of the peer tutoring experience.     

Teacher candidates’ epistemological beliefs, dispositions, and views on teaching as persuasion

Alexander and her colleagues proposed teaching as persuasion as a guiding metaphor for conceptual change pedagogy (Alexander, Fives, Buehl, & Mulhern, 2002). However, there is reason to suspect that the term persuasion can have negative connotations for some individuals ( Dole & Sinatra, 1999; Murphy, 2001). Therefore, we examined 182 primarily preservice teachers’ views of teaching as persuasion, and related those views to their openness/resistance to new ideas as measured by selected epistemological belief scales and dispositional measures. Consistent with our hypotheses, our results indicated that teacher candidates who believed that knowledge evolves, that beliefs can be revised, and that learning is a process of constructing knowledge were more open to persuasive teaching. Our findings provide support for Murphy’s (2001) view of persuasion and suggest further that the teaching as persuasion metaphor would be more successful embedded in an instructional context designed to broaden teachers’ epistemological worldviews.     

习语变体认同及其加工模式建构的概念合成理论阐释

英语习语变体的理解加工是一个意义在线重构的过程,通过对相关传统加工模式的评述,在概念合成理论的框架下对该过程作出阐释,从而构建新的模式。     

Understanding educational transfer: theoretical perspectives and conceptual frameworks

Educational transfer is an important and growing body of literature in the field of comparative education. Work from the last decade has focused on the stages of the borrowing cycle, and the context, causes and rationales for education borrowing. This recent work has contributed to earlier research on the role of multilateral organizations in education development and transfer. Rather than reviewing in comprehensive detail the substance, agents or mechanisms of educational transfer, this paper provides an overview of the field’s main theoretical lenses and conceptual frameworks, focusing on the stages, processes and forms of educational transfer. Throughout the paper we link related literature from disciplines other than education to account for education policy changes. The paper concludes with a discussion of future lines of research on educational transfer.