Using learning styles theory in engineering education

Studies have shown that, while learning different concepts, people sometimes take different approaches (learning styles). Accordingly, their performance reflected differently in their academic studies. With the effect of globalisation to the educational environments, the influence of individual learning styles on educational performance is getting more significant. In this study, a learning style assessment tool was used to examine the relationship between students’ learning styles and their performance in engineering education programmes. At the beginning of the programme, 285 students’ learning styles were measured using a learning style assessment tool. Four years after the engineering education, their performance in the programme was compared with their individual learning styles. This study shows that most of the students are assimilators. Divergers and convergers follow the assimilators. The number of accommodators is very limited. The relationship between engineering students’ learning styles and their performance is found: assimilators and convergers performed better than the divergers and accommodators. The performance difference between assimilators and divergers is statistically significant. The results of this study show that the learning style theory is a potential tool for guiding the design and improvement of courses and helping students to improve their individual performance.     

高职院校学籍档案管理的若干思考

学籍档案管理是高职学院一项十分重要,且细致又繁忙复杂的业务管理工作,由于学籍档案管理仍沿用老的管理办法,难以适应新的客观发展形势,导致内部管理衔接欠缺、管理水平低下等问题的产生。分析目前学籍档案管理的特点,指出要不断提升管理队伍的水平,并在实践中不断地总结经验,使学籍档案管理在培养人才中发挥重要的作用。     

浅析室内设计中西风格的对比与结合

当前,在中国经济快速发展的同时,中国与世界的联系也变得日益密切,而在室内设计方面,中西室内设计更是不断融合,共同发展。为了让现代人有一个安全、舒适的室内生活空间,让人们的生活质量得到进一步提高．我们也不得不为之努力．力争在室内设计这方面为人们的幸福生活做出我们应有的贡献。     

高中生生活事件以及应对方式研究

目的：院通过研究高中生生活事件以及应对方式,深入探讨影响心理健康发展的重要因素。过程院使用测量工具《青少年生活事件量表》（ASLEC）和《应对方式问卷》（SCR）对180名高中生的生活事件以及应对方式进行调查。结果院影响高中生的生活事件主要是学习压力、人际交往丧失和健康适应等,在解决方式上男生的“解决问题”因子明显高于女生（p〈0.01）,在求助因子上男生与女生之间比较存在显著差异（p〈0.05）。结论院高中生的生活事件多种多样,大部分高中生能够采用多种方式正确应对。     

浅析化学新课程学习方式的特点及培养策略

化学的新课程已经全面实施,化学新课程改革的显著特征之一就是转变学生的学习方式。改变原来的单一、被动的学习方式,建立和形成充分发挥学生主体性的多样化的学习方式,促使学生主动地,富有个性地学习,新课程特别倡导并强调自主学习、合作学习、探究学习,在本文中,笔者对化学新课程倡导的学习方式的特点、学生能力的培养策略等方面做了详细的阐述。     

中国古代文体功能研究论纲

本文认为文体功能是决定古代文体产生、发展并确立体式的核心要素,进而成为文体辨析、分类的基本依据,关注文体功能有助于研究观念的调整,亦有利于文体学研究的深入展开。在此基础上,文章就文体研究的思路和方法作如下思考:一是以文体功能为标准确立研究对象,避免自设樊篱;二是关注古代文体功能的特殊性及其影响,即与古代礼仪文化制度的关系;三是强调在文体功能的个案研究中寻找并丰富观察古代文体的视角,扩大解释的可能性。     

Does gamification satisfy needs? A study on the relationship between gamification features and intrinsic need satisfaction

Gamification is increasingly used as an essential part of today’s services, software and systems to engage and motivate users, as well as to spark further behaviors. A core assumption is that gamification should be able to increase the ability of a system or a service to satisfy intrinsic needs, and thereby the autotelicy of use as well as consequent change in beneficial behaviors. However, beyond these optimistic expectations, there is a dearth of empirical evidence on how different gamification features satisfy different dimensions intrinsic needs. Therefore, in this study we investigate the relationships between the user (N = 824) interactions with gamification features (immersion, achievement and social -related features) and intrinsic need satisfaction (autonomy, competence and relatedness needs) in Xiaomi and Huawei online gamified communities that represent two large technology product-related online brand communities in China through a survey-based study. The results indicate that immersion-related gamification features were only positively associated with autonomy need satisfaction. Achievement-related features were not only positively associated with all kinds of need satisfaction, but also the strongest predictor of both autonomy and competence need satisfaction. Social-related gamification features, were positively associated with autonomy, competence and relatedness need satisfaction. The results imply that gamification can have a substantially positive effect on intrinsic need satisfaction for services users.