大学生自主学习策略的调查与分析

采用＂自主学习策略量表＂、＂成就目标定向量表＂、＂学业自我效能感量表＂和＂大五人格量表＂对河南省三所本科院校在校生进行随机调查,结果表明,成就目标定向、学业自我效能感、大五人格与自主学习策略存在显著相关,学业自我效能感和成就目标定向是自主学习策略运用的有效预测指标,大五人格中的神经质因子对自主学习策略的运用有负向预测作用。了解大学生自主学习状况,可为高校教学工作的有效开展提供依据。     

高职三维动画课程教学改革的探索

近年我国高职动画专业遍地开花,动漫产业园区也如雨后春笋般出现,但是动画行业人才需求与供给之间存在着巨大的差异。为了解决这个矛盾,提高高职学生的就业率和就业质量,本文提出了高职三维动画设计课程＂基于工作过程的项目驱动＂教学法改革并对教学过程进行了设计,使毕业生在动画领域上手快,效率高,能够在工作中可持续发展。     

基于Podcasting的泛在学习研究

泛在学习理念为教育改革提供了新的视角。Podcasting作为新一代网络媒体,契合泛在学习的要点,在网络、3G通讯、数字资源和智能终端技术的支持下,能够构建泛在虚拟学习环境,其应用于教育领域具有重要的现实意义与价值。     

高校学生自导学习及模式探究——从学习者的角度

随着现代社会的快速发展,对人的学习方式提出不同的要求,而自我导向学习是适应未来社会需求的有效途径之一。从自导学习的相关概念出发,探讨高校学生自导学习的可行性和必要性,并提出相适应的自导学习模式。     

建构主义理论指导下的高职英语口语教学策略

建构主义理论强调要以学习者为中心,通过学生的自主学习、协作学习和情境教学等,让学生主动建构自己的英语口语交际能力和语用能力,为大学英语口语教学提供了新的模式。教师应在建构主义理论指导下,积极更新教学策略,改变传统教学模式,提高教师自身素质,并激发学生学习英语的兴趣和动机。     

论高职会计专业“双模块、双循环、双证书”教学模式

为了使高职会计专业教学与会计准则国际趋同等效工作相适应,必须实施＂双模块、双循环、双证书＂教学模式。为此,教学内容应将会计职业资格证书考试内容与企业用工标准进行整合,进一步完善评价机制,以突出教学内容的社会性、公益性和职业性,逐步实现职业教育引领职业发展。     

Closing the Gap: Fostering Successful Research‐Practice Partnerships in Counselor Education

Research‐practice partnerships offer counselor educators an opportunity to generate scholarship that can promote client welfare and create systemic change in practice and policy. The purpose of this article is to articulate strategies for building and sustaining research‐practice partnerships, as well as suggest methods for evaluating these partnerships.     

The Arts and Open‐Mindedness

Open‐mindedness is typically considered an intellectual virtue that brings humans into (closer) contact with reality and its complexities. In this essay, Susan Verducci expands the ways we typically think of cultivating open‐mindedness in classrooms to include the practice of engagement with the visual and performing arts. Working with the arts allows students and teachers to perceive and embody realities they would not normally experience. Specifically, the arts enable the drawing forth and exploration of multiple and subjective interpretations; the arts can therefore be uniquely productive in opening minds by helping one negotiate human perceptual constraints, by providing opportunities to enter standpoints other than one's own, and by encouraging the practice of living with uncertainty and ambiguity.     

Studying children's knowledge base of one-sided levers as force amplifiers

Attention to core concepts in science and engineering in early education has grown recently, and understanding levers as force amplifiers can be recognized as one of these. Previous studies focused on two-sided levers and do not provide sufficient information about children's knowledge of levers as force amplifiers, nor about their learning and its support from an education perspective. It is important to consider load distance and force distance separately, as may be done in one-sided levers, to understand children's knowledge of levers as “simple machines” thoroughly. Moreover, children's zone of proximal development and the possibilities to foster their knowledge should be explored to understand important features of teaching. We thus directed two studies with 6- to 7-year-old children. In study 1, we conducted a paper-and-pencil test in the context of wheelbarrows (N = 370; age M = 6.62). We investigated whether it is possible to empirically separate the features load, load distance, and force distance as well as to determine their level of difficulty. Our study showed that children's concepts of the three aspects load, load distance, and force distance are fragmented, with children finding it continuously more difficult to judge load, load distance, and force distance correctly. In study 2, we developed a 20-min intervention with a controlled 2 × 2 pre-post follow-up design for exploring the zone of proximal development of 304 6- to 7-year-old children in the domain of one-sided levers as force amplifiers, focusing on force distance and load distance. We implemented a structured learning environment that encouraged the children to manipulate wheelbarrows and supported them with pictures and/or verbal prompts. 6- to 7-year-old children had a higher learning gain when they were exposed to scaffolds that combined pictures and verbal prompts in the posttest as well as in the follow-up test four weeks later compared to the control group.     

An examination of the interactions between museum educators and students on a school visit to science museum

Today, science is a major part of western culture. Discussions about the need for members of the public to access and understand scientific information are therefore well established, citing the importance of such information to responsible citizenship, democracy, socially accountable scientific research and public funding (National Research Council [2009] Learning science in informal environments: People, places, and pursuits. National Academies Press). In recent years there has been an increased interest in investigating not just what visitors to informal environments have learnt after a visit, but also how visitors interact and engage with exhibits during the visit (Davidsson & Jakobsson [2012] Understanding interactions at science centers and museums: Approaching sociocultural perspectives. Rotterdam: Sense Publishers). Within the field of school visits to science museums, however, interactions between students and museum educators (MEs) remain relatively unexplored. In our study of such school visits, we are mainly interested in the interactions that take place between three agents—the students, the museum educator and the physical setting of the exhibit. Using moment-to-moment fine grain analysis of multiple interactions allowed us to identify recurring patterns between students and the museum educators around exhibits, and to examine the MEs’ mediational role during the interactions, and the practices they employ to engage students with exhibits. Our study revealed that most interactions between MEs and students consist of technical explanations of how to operate the exhibits. The interactions that do move past this stage often include two main practices, which the MEs use to promote students’ engagement with the exhibits: physical instruction and engaging the students emotionally. Understanding what is actually happening in the learning process that occurs during students’ interactions with exhibits can help museum educators and exhibit designers improve the experiences of students on school visits.