学习共同体生成的若干基本问题思考

本文主要阐述了学习共同体生成的若干基本问题,论述了学习共同体的意涵及相关概念的关系,学习共同体生成的价值,同时提出了学习共同体的生成原则和把握要点。     

Using inquiry-based instruction to encourage teachers' historical thinking at historic sites

This study explores the use of inquiry-based instruction for constructing historical understanding in historic site-based teacher professional development programs. In an historic site-based professional development workshop, fifteen teachers of grades 5 through 12 engaged in guided inquiry with documents drawn from said historic site. Participants showed significantly increased curiosity about the site and use of problem-solving strategies in interactions with the site and staff, but no improvement in other elements related to historical thinking at historic sites. Improvements correlated to neither length of teaching experience nor testing group characteristics, indicating broad applicability for improving historic site-based professional development programs.     

Supporting students' preparation for the viva: their pre-conceptions and implications for practice

In universities theories and concepts are created and used within a disciplinary context, and some understanding of this context is necessary if students fully are to make sense of their studies. Thus, we investigate computer scientists' perspectives on their discipline. Biglan characterises Computer Science as being hard, rather than soft and as being applied, rather than pure. Therefore, Computer Science is associated with the engineering disciplines. Although many computer scientists support this view, others see the discipline as being identified more properly with Mathematics and/or the sciences. We suggest some reasons for the difference of opinion and highlight the implications for what students might learn about the disciplinary context.     

NOTES ON ONGOING RESEARCH IN SPECIAL EDUCATION

ABSTRACT

With the support of Unicef and Unesco, the Romanian Ministry of Education has since 1993 been operating a programme to promote the educational and social integration of children and young people with special needs. In a comparatively short time the programme has grown from a pair of pilot projects to comprise a number of interactive elements which include a Joint European Project within the EU's TEMPUS programme, as well as provision for networking, and for describing, monitoring and generalizing experience of good practice. In this process a ‘philosophy’ of integration has developed which is appropriate to Romanian realities and which offers the possibility of an integration project to everyone concerned with special needs. The paper stresses the importance of the voluntary organizations and their new cooperative relationship with the institutions, and of the role of the universities in professional training. The paper ends with a discussion of the barriers and supports to integration, together with some conclusions about the significance and future of the programme.     

Educating the educators: developing those who support learning for students with additional learning needs

This article reports findings from a research project which developed and introduced the Enhanced Learning Support Assistant Programme (ELSAP) as a source of professional development for learning support assistants who were supporting students with additional learning needs in a college of further education in England. The purpose of this article is to share findings from the project and to highlight the benefits experienced when learning support assistants can participate in professional development activity. The research project was a mixed methods study with participants drawn from learning support assistants within one college of further education in England. Data were collected throughout the 14‐week intervention. Findings indicate that the programme had a positive effect on participants' confidence, sense of professional identify and of being valued, as well as improving their ability to perform their role.     

Judgment‐Based Scoring by Teachers as Professional Development: Distinguishing Promises from Proof

The engagement of teachers as raters to score constructed response items on assessments of student learning is widely claimed to be a valuable vehicle for professional development. This paper examines the evidence behind those claims from several sources, including research and reports over the past two decades, information from a dozen state educational agencies regarding past and ongoing involvement of teachers in scoring‐related activities as of 2001, and interviews with educators who served a decade or more ago for one state's innovative performance assessment program. That evidence reveals that the impact of scoring experience on teachers is more provisional and nuanced than has been suggested. The author identifies possible issues and implications associated with attempts to distill meaningful skills and knowledge from hand‐scoring training and practice, along with other forms of teacher involvement in assessment development and implementation. The paper concludes with a series of research questions that—based on current and proposed practice for the coming decade—seem to the author to require the most immediate attention.     

多科性大学图书馆的专业文献建设--源于大学学科专业结构调整的思考

针对多科性大学在专业结构调整中呈现出的新增专业多、重点学科建设突出的特点，探讨多科性大学图书馆专业文献体系规划，对体系各组成部分在建设中的关键问题进行分析并提出建设性对策，介绍广东外语外贸大学图书馆专业文献建设实践过程的一些体会。     

复合型人才与图书馆员职业生涯规划

图书馆为适应数字化的发展趋势需要高素质复合型人才。图书馆引进了高学历人才后，要提供符合其发展需求的平台，促使其在岗位上为图书馆业务建设贡献力量．职业生涯规划是一种有效的人才管理方法，值得借鉴。     

长尾理论在图书馆的应用

通过对图书馆数字资源利用率的统计,发现存在和传统文献利用率“二八”现象不同的长尾现象。对产生这一现象的原因进行了分析,并讨论了这一现象对于图书馆读者服务和资源建设的启示。     

再论图书馆学理论研究与建构的方法论问题——对我国"图书馆精神"研究与争鸣的反思

本文从哲学方法论角度对业界图书馆精神的研究与争鸣现象进行了反思,认为学术研究与争鸣应首先明确论题中的主要概念,遵循逻辑学基本原理;要应用联系与发展的历史观与唯物辩证法去思考图书馆精神研究现象,从现象中把握本质。文章在明确了“图书馆精神”诸概念与揭示了业界图书馆精神研究的本质的基础上,对程焕文、于良芝的图书馆精神理论进行了评析,并对黄俊贵与程焕文的图书馆精神争鸣发表了自己的见解,对黄俊贵的论点做了简要批驳。