Examining the impact of four teaching development programmes for engineering teaching assistants*

As current graduate instructors of labs and class discussions, teaching assistants (TAs) play a critical role in Science, Technology, Engineering, and Math (STEM) undergraduate education, especially as some graduate students may choose a faculty career in the future. Because of the importance of TAs and their development as scholars and instructors, we sought to determine the most effective methods of preparing engineering TAs at two research universities. We compare the impact of a teaching orientation with one of four teaching development programmes (Pedagogy Course, Advanced Practice Teaching, Workshop Attendance with Written Reflection, or Mid-Semester Student Feedback with Written Reflection) on engineering TAs’ teaching efficacy and definitions of active learning. Results indicated that the Pedagogy Course consistently increased TAs’ teaching efficacy and attitudes toward teaching compared with the other programmes. We also found that stand-alone Mid-Semester Student Feedback with Written Reflection enhanced TAs’ efficacy for reflection and beliefs about teaching. We discuss implications for providing teaching development for graduate students and directions for future research.     

高职学生心理健康水平现状的调查研究

通过调查杭州下沙四所高职院校共906名大学生的心理健康水平现状,采用分层整群抽样、深度访谈、一般情况调查表、症状自评量表（SCL-90）等问卷调查和spss统计分析的方法进行分析研究,认为高职大学生的心理健康水平分别受性别、出生地、是否独生、家庭结构和父母文化程度等因素影响。     

高职院校顶岗实习“四位一体”管理模式的构建

通过调查掌握高职院校顶岗实习学生管理现状,从学校、企业、政府和学生四个方面提出学校＋企业＋政府＋学生＂四位一体＂的顶岗实习学生管理新模式。     

工学结合背景下高职专业人才培养与职业标准的对接——以岭南职业技术学院为例

高等职业技术教育根本特性在于职业性与技术性。专业人才培养要立足于职业性与技术性,需要提高教育教学质量,实现专业人才培养与行业、企业标准对接。在分析工学结合背景下高职专业人才培养的现状基础上,提出专业人才培养与职业标准对接的内涵,指出专业人才培养与职业标准对接的必要性。构建与职业标准对接的专业人才培养不只是与教学环节的单一对接,而是需要进行深度产教融合、课程体系的构建、课程内容整合与刷新等一系列贯穿于人才培养全过程的一个系统性工程。     

仪器分析实验教学模式探索与实践

针对仪器分析实验学生仪器操作时间少、积极性不高、教学效果不佳的情况,从教学模式、教学内容、教学方法、教学管理等方面提出了具体的改进措施,有效地提高仪器分析实验教学质量。     

Capturing teacher priorities: Using real-world eye-tracking to investigate expert teacher priorities across two cultures

Classroom teaching is complex. In the classroom, teachers must readily attend to disruptions and successfully convey new tasks and information. Outside the classroom, teachers must organise their priorities that are important for successful student learning. In fact, differing gaze patterns can reveal the varying priorities that teachers have. Teacher priorities are likely to vary with classroom expertise and can conceivably change with culture too. Therefore, the present study investigated expertise related and cultural teacher priorities by analysing their gaze proportions. To obtain this data, 40 secondary school teachers wore eye-tracking glasses during class time, with 20 teachers (10 expert; 10 novice) from the UK and 20 teachers (10 expert; 10 novice) from Hong Kong. We analysed gaze proportions during teachers' attentional (i.e., information-seeking, e.g., teacher questioning students) and communicative (i.e., information-giving, e.g., teacher lecturing students) gaze. Regardless of culture, expert teachers' gaze proportions revealed prioritisation of students, whereas novice teachers gave priority to non-instructional (i.e., not students, teacher materials, or student materials) classroom regions. Hong Kong teachers prioritised teacher materials (e.g., whiteboard) during communicative gaze whereas UK teachers prioritised non-instructional regions. Regarding culture-specific expertise, with Hong Kong experts prioritised teacher materials more than UK experts who, in turn, did so more than UK novices. We thus demonstrate the role of implicit teacher gaze measures as micro-level indicators of macro-level and explicit aspects of instruction, namely teacher priority.     

高职大学生就业压力、择业效能感及其关系研究

采用随机抽样的方式对武汉职业技术学院2010届毕业生进行调查,采用问卷调查的方式了解了高职学生的就业压力源、择业效能感状况,并探讨了两者之间的关系。通过相关分析、t检验、方差分析、回归分析,结果表明,（1）高职学生就业压力普遍较大,其中缺乏求职帮助、专业供求矛盾、自我认识与定位成为就业压力最显著的三个来源。（2）高职生的就业压力有如下特点：女生压力大于男生,文科学生比理工科学生更多面临缺乏求职帮助和专业供求矛盾的压力。城市生在职业素质评价和就业心理预期两方面的压力显著高于农村生;非学生干部就业时的总体压力要普遍高于学生干部。（3）高职学生的择业效能感普遍不高,其中高职大学生在职业目标筛选方面的自信心最强。（4）高职大学生中,文科生在信息收集和制定计划两方面的择业效能感要显著低于理科和工科学生;高职生的择业效能感没有性别、城乡生源、是否学生干部等差异。（5）高职大学生就业压力和择业效能感之间有着密切的相关,其中,职业素质评价、自我认识与定位的压力越小,则高职大学生更有择业效能感。     

我国高等教育布局结构面临的挑战及对策建议

本文对我国高等教育布局结构中面临的各种挑战进行分析,指出当前我国高等教育布局结构中存在如下主要问题：片面追求高校综合化;人才培养结构与专业结构的发展定位不适应;行业类专门院校服务能力明显下降;新建本科院校办学特色作用发挥不突出。针对这些问题,文章提出了下列对策建议：加强系统的整体规划,落实有效的评估与监测调控;加强分类指导,建立相关标准;建立起新的体制机制,加强高校与行业企业的联系;建立人才需求预测及预警机制。     

合作活动学习:教育硕士课程的教学样式创新

针对讲听式学习的弊端,合作活动学习作为教育硕士课程的一种新的教学样式得以创生,并形成了学生经验驱动型、学科经验驱动型和教师经验驱动型三种具体类型。经过实践探索,合作活动学习效果显著,具有增强学生的研究意识与能力、促进学生的学习投入以及活跃和拓展学生的思维等优势。     

元评估视域下我国高等教育质量评估体系构建策略

通过文献分析发现,高等教育质量元评估研究的关注度波动提升,但发表总量不高;学术共同体初步形成,但学术合作网络稳定性和持续性不强;研究方向紧跟国家政策,其价值取向从科学化、计量化转向关注人本、促进质量提升和多元化,但研究成果与改革实践互融互促有待加强。可以通过创建“元评估”章程提供制度保障、根据教育改革目标任务完善程序机制、形塑元评估理念与文化等举措加快推进中国特色高等教育质量评估体系构建。