Professional knowledge or motivation? Investigating the role of teachers’ expertise on the quality of technology-enhanced lesson plans

In an expertise study with 94 mathematics teachers varying in their relative teacher expertise (i.e., student teachers, trainee teachers, in-service teachers), we examined effects of teachers' professional knowledge and motivational beliefs on their ability to integrate technology within a lesson plan scenario. Therefore, we assessed teachers' professional knowledge (i.e., content knowledge, pedagogical content knowledge, technological knowledge), and their motivational beliefs (i.e., self-efficacy, utility-value). Furthermore, teachers were asked to develop a lesson plan for introducing the Pythagorean theorem to secondary students. Lesson plans by advanced teachers (i.e., trainee teachers, in-service teachers) comprised higher levels of instructional quality and technology exploitation than the ones of novice teachers (i.e., pre-service teachers). The effect of expertise was mediated by teachers' perceived utility-value of educational technology, but not by their professional knowledge. These findings suggest that teachers’ motivational beliefs play a crucial role for effectively applying technology in mathematics instruction.     

“互联网+教研”形态研究：内涵、特征与趋势

“互联网+”推动教研发展,引发教研形态转型。文章在梳理网络技术支持教研形态演化发展的基础上,提出“互联网+教研”是信息化教研发展的高端形态,其内涵表现为:以多维空间的开放互通,优化教研生态环境;以智能技术的创新应用,拓展教研活动场域;以教师学习方式变革,促进教研形式创新;以促进教师高水平专业成长为核心,推动教师质量和教育质量的内涵式发展。同时,从教研主体、环境、内容、过程及评价五个方面分析了“互联网+教研”的关键特征。最后,文章提出以下研究发展趋势:以研究范式转型来构建“互联网+教研”理论体系;重视人工智能技术与教研应用的创新融合;开展大数据驱动的“互联网+教研”服务的综合效能评估。     

试论研究生教育与文献需求的满足

知识经济时代的到来，使我国研究生教育出现了新局面，掌握研究生对献的需求规律，并提供针对性的服务，是培养研究生创新精神和创新能力的可靠保障。     

Affordances of video-based professional development for supporting physics teachers' judgments about evidence of student thinking

This study explores the affordances of a video-based professional development workshop for supporting physics teachers' content-specific judgments about evidence of student thinking. We rated both the quality of teachers' discussions and the judgments that resulted as they discussed video clips highlighting student thinking. We found that teachers' judgments were related to the quality of their discussions. Quantitative and qualitative analyses suggest that elaborated focus questions and interactions with colleagues may support teachers with relatively little physics teaching experience in using their collective wisdom to engage in a situation-specific skill necessary for responsive teaching.     

Teacher learning in a combined professional development intervention

The study examines geometry teachers' video club discussions in a two-year professional development intervention that combined lesson study, video clubs, and animation discussions to promote teacher noticing of students' prior knowledge. Most discussions pertained to student conceptions (78%), followed by pedagogy (19%). Discussion of students' prior knowledge surfaced only when talking about student conceptions or pedagogy. There was statistically significant evidence that teacher-initiated discussions of students' prior knowledge were more substantial than facilitator-initiated discussions. The findings suggest that the professional development model and the facilitators’ moves promoted and sustained teacher noticing of student thinking throughout the intervention.     

“一带一路”沿线国家来华留学生国际化人才培养若干思考

“一带一路”倡议的顺利推进为我国高等教育的国际化发展提供了重大战略机遇,设计出具有针对性、可行性和创新性的来华留学生国际化人才培养规划是促进高校国际化发展的重要举措。文章基于“一带一路”沿线国家的人才需求及特征分析,思考“一带一路”沿线国家来华留学生培养课程体系及人才培养模式,通过建立“四位一体”课程体系和“三阶段七模块”人才培养模式,创新课程体系建设,拓宽人才培养渠道,提高来华留学生的培养质量与水平。     

高职教师专业能力标准的探讨

《高职教师专业能力标准》阐明了高职教育教师应具备的素质、知识、能力的核心要素,彰显了高职教育的本质特征与高职教育教师的特殊性,体现了高职教育教师＂学生为本＂、＂师德为先＂、＂双师素质＂＂终身学习＂四大特色,其构建符合国家有关高职教育的法规、法律、政策,体现出政府和公众对高职教育教师的希望,对引领高职教育教师专业发展具有针对性、实效性和可操作性。     

应用技术大学背景下制药专业企业实习的建议-以钦州学院为例

“应用技术大学”是新建本科院校发展的必然趋势,实践教学是构建“应用技术大学”的薄弱环节,特别是企业实习目前存在实习计划针对性不强、缺乏专业教师的指导和培训等问题。可以通过加强专业实习教师队伍建设、建立小型制药工艺校内实训基地、加强实习的管理制度等措施可解决企业实习中存在的问题。     

面向市场需求进行光源与照明专业方向建设

高校的专业人才培养工作需要与产业需求形成对接机制才能从根本上解决毕业生就业难的问题;半导体照明产业作为光源与照明产业的当代发展形态,正面临专门技术人才严重缺失的局面,高校尤其是地方高校需要积极面对这一市场需求进行光源与照明专业方向建设;新型照明技术的发展对专业人才培养提出了新的要求,对光源与照明专业方向的建设需要进行相应的思考与探讨.     

城市交通拥堵问题的供求分析——以福建省福州市为例

随着经济的发展,城市公私车辆数目急剧增长,相对而言,由于土地的固定供给及诸多客观条件的限制,交通基础设施的增长却异常缓慢。二者的矛盾不可避免地引发了城市拥堵问题,并且呈不断恶化的趋势。试以福州市为例,从经济学视角来探析城市拥堵问题的症结所在,并据此提出相关对策。