A quasi-experimental study of a peer-assisted strategy-based reading intervention in elementary school

Promising methods of reading instruction for elementary school students incorporate peer-assisted learning routines and reading strategies. In addition, models of reading comprehension point to the importance of various determinants of reading competence such as reading fluency and vocabulary knowledge. Multicomponent reading intervention programs need to be evaluated to determine IF and HOW they unfold their effects on the reading competence of elementary school students on the basis of such theoretical and empirical models. Accordingly, the present study was designed as a quasi-experimental study of a 20-lesson peer-assisted and strategy-based multicomponent intervention for whole-class instruction in elementary school. Linear mixed models and latent growth models were used to analyze the longitudinal data (pre-, post- and follow-up test) on the reading competencies (reading fluency, vocabulary knowledge, reading strategy competence, reading comprehension) and intrinsic reading motivation of students in the intervention (N = 187) and control group (N = 177). The results showed an interaction between the groups and the change in reading comprehension, indicating a significantly increased score in the intervention group at the posttest (d = 0.15) but not at the follow-up test (d = 0.12). The results of the latent growth model point to the importance of designing interventions that explicitly integrate reading strategies, reading fluency and vocabulary knowledge and also foster intrinsic reading motivation. In addition, reading fluency was revealed to be the strongest predictor of reading comprehension and the change in fluency over time was closely linked to reading comprehension development.     

建筑设计课程体系中教学实践的探索--以二年级建筑设计课程为例

本文依据广州大学建筑设计课程教学体系的改革,以二年级建筑设计课程的教学实践为例,围绕阶段培养目标的课题设置、教学过程的阶段控制、设计能力的培养及设计成果评价等几方面进行了探讨与思索,以期指导今后建筑学专业教学的改革工作。     

我国学生体质东西差异变化动态研究——以上海和甘肃为例

为了探讨东西部7~18岁汉族学生体质差异,应用文献资料法和数理统计法,将中国学生体质与健康2000年和2010年两次调研中有关上海和甘肃省7-18岁汉族学生体质数据进行统计和对比分析。结果表明:在2000—2010年的10年间,7~18岁上海城市学生身高、体重优于甘肃汉族城市学生且差异呈缩小趋势,7~18岁上海乡村学生身高、体重优于甘肃乡村学生且差异呈拉大趋势,7~18上海学生胸围与甘肃学生胸围差异呈拉大趋势,7~18上海学生肺活量反超甘肃学生并有差距拉大的趋势,7~18岁上海学生身体素质优于甘肃学生且差异呈现缩小趋势。     

Grade 7 Students Reading Graphic Novels: ‘You Need To Do a Lot of Thinking’

A multifaceted, classroom‐based research project explored how developing Grade 7 students’ knowledge of literary and illustrative elements affects their understanding, interpretation and analysis of picturebooks and graphic novels, and their subsequent creation of their own print texts. Analysis of two sources of data, the students’ written responses to Amulet ( Kibuishi 2008 ), one of the graphic novels read and discussed during the study, and the students’ opinions about the knowledge that is required to read and understand a graphic novel, indicated how the instruction about various graphic novel conventions had impacted the students’ awareness of and knowledge about the structural design of these multimodal texts.     

1949～1956年民主政治发展的法制化思考

1949～1956年，中国共产党领导人民对中国的政治制度进行了彻底的改造和重建，并在基本精神和基本制度层面进行了民主政治的法制化建设，从而使中国民主政治取得了前所未有的大发展。但由于受某些过时经验和观念的束缚，这一时期民主发展的法制化进程出现了非理性化的倾向，主要是政策对法制的冲击。这种主流的规范性与一定程度非理性化并存的特点及其影响，给今天建设社会主义民主留下了一些思考。     

近十年中唐诗歌流派研究综述

中唐时期,是中国古代文学发展史上一个诗歌流派纷呈的时期,概述、梳理近十年有关中唐诗歌流派研究的论文、专著等一系列研究成果,进而分析总结这一时期关于诗歌流派研究的角度、方法、特点,会对今后这一研究的加强和深入起推动作用.     

西林小学少儿男子乒乓球运动员专项素质与技术综合评价研究

为探索一条乒乓球传统运动学校少儿男子运动员训练的成功经验，本研究选择了14项专项素质和技术指标进行研究，运用聚类分析找出影响少儿运动员专项素质和技术的典型指标，计算典型指标中的专项素质和技术的权重值(Ri)，得出专项素质和技术在训练中所应占的百分比，制定出一套对典型指标进行单因素评价和多因素综合评价模型，为传统学校少儿乒乓球运动的科学训练和选材评价提供科学、客观的依据。     

Creating an Ofsted story: the role of early years assessment data in schools’ narratives of progress

This paper explores the growing importance of measures of progress in judgements of schools’ effectiveness in England, with a focus on the role of the early years (settings for children aged 2–5) in providing data for these measures. Qualitative data from a research project involving three diverse school-based and pre-compulsory early years settings are used to explore how teachers and school leaders prioritise the collection of data in their every-day practice, in order to show how children make continual progress. The need for a narrative of progress as children move up through the primary school, an ‘Ofsted story’ for the school inspection service, is discussed alongside recent policy which requires a ‘baseline’ assessment at age four. We argue that there is a reification of progress in schools and early years settings, and that this changes the status of early years within the sector.     

Teachers’ voice,power and agency: (un)professionalisation of the early years workforce

This article examines Slovak early years teachers’ concerns with conceptions of teacher professionalism. It suggests that there is a mismatch between understandings of professionalism, policy aspirations and the attitudes of teachers to their own professionalism, and that this mismatch fuels early years teachers’ sense of agency. These tensions between conceptions of professionalism, teaching practice and actual working conditions have led to a ground-up approach to self-governance within the early years teacher workforce. We analyse teachers’ discussions in an early years online forum of 12,500 members that was started and remains governed by the teachers themselves. It represents in itself a very particular attitude and response to the need to determine what it means to be a professional teacher. This analysis examines intersections of policy, quality and professionalism, and highlights considerations of power and voice, and the complexities of uncertainty and change. The article concludes with the suggestion that teacher attitudes, power and agency are impacted in unpredictable ways by the policy landscape.     

The Greek elementary “What Is Happening In this Class?” (G-EWIHIC): A three-phase multi-sample mixed-methods study

Students’ perceptions of their classroom psycho-social climate (CPSC) have been found to relate significantly to students’ learning outcomes. The What Is Happening In this Class? (WIHIC) being one of most prominent instruments in measuring these perceptions. The purpose of the present study was to thoroughly examine the structure of preadolescents’ perceptions of the CPSC, through an elaborate mixed-methods three-phase design, in the Greek elementary school context. The study included semi-structured interviews with students and teachers, and two large-scale administrations of the qualitatively adapted WIHIC version. Both qualitative and quantitative results supported the seven-subscale structure of the instrument and identified potential issues with the conceptual content of two of the subscales. Quantitative findings also supported the theoretical second-order factorial structure of the instrument, but with different subscale allocation. The advantages of mixed-methodology in the cross-cultural examination of student’s perceptions of the learning environment and implications for research are discussed.