Professional development for evidence-based SRSD writing instruction: Elevating fourth grade outcomes

Writing is a critical skill for success in all areas of life, but it is one of the least taught skills in school. Teachers consistently report being unprepared to teach writing. In this study, set in a Southern U.S. boomtown, teachers received two days of practice-based professional development for a ten-week implementation of self-regulated strategy development (SRSD), an evidence-based writing intervention, to support student persuasive and informational writing as well as performance on the state standardized writing exam. This multi-site cluster randomized controlled study evaluated the effectiveness of SRSD on student writing outcomes including prompt adherence, elements, and holistic quality. Multilevel modeling analysis was used to evaluate data from 418 fourth -grade students (256 treatment, 162 control) nested across 33 classes (n = 17 treatment taught by 8 departmentalized teachers; 16 control, 9 departmentalized teachers) within 11 schools randomly assigned to condition. Teachers implemented SRSD with high fidelity (M = 92%; range 91–100%). SRSD had a statistically significant and large effect on prompt adherence (p < .001; Hedges’ g = 1.87), elements (p < .001; Hedges’ g = 0.84) and holistic scores (p < .001; Hedges’ g = 0.87), while holding gender and pretest scores constant. Effects of SRSD on all writing measures were not significantly moderated by students’ gender, students’ pretest scores, or schools’ pretest scores. There were complications with teacher observations, especially related to technology. Limitations and future directions are discussed.     

国内图书馆内刊内报的现状调查分析——以2014中国图书馆阅读推广类十佳内刊内报为例

随着图书馆事业的蓬勃发展,我国各级各类图书馆自编自印的阅读推广类报刊已日益成为深入而广泛地开展全民阅读推广工作的重要载体。结合2014年十佳图书馆阅读推广类内刊内报开办的具体实践,论文对国内图书馆内刊内报的现状进行全面调查,探析其特点,剖析其成功经验及存在的问题,以期引起同行的关注,为探求适合我国图书馆内部期刊发展的新路提供一些借鉴。     

排舞对高校校园体育文化建设的影响研究

排舞作为一项新兴的休闲体育项目,集运动、娱乐、艺术于一体,简单易学,广受欢迎。大学生富有时代气息,更有一份激情和活力去学习和感受它。排舞为高校课余生活注入新的元素,并能有效促进大学生的身心健康发展,对培养学生的团队意识,加强组织纪律性,协调人际关系都有积极的作用。文章从排舞促进高校校园体育文化建设三方面即促进高校校园体育物质文化的建设、促进高校校园体育行为文化的发展及推动着高校校园体育精神文化的建设进行了详细论述,突出排舞在丰富校园生活内容,提高大学生的综合素质,提高体育文化内涵的同时对促进高校校园体育文化的建设影响的积极作用,并对其具体促进措施提出建议。     

基于学校属性的现代学校制度设计

学校性格决定了现代学校制度构建的基本方向和总体架构。现代学校各项制度的构建都可以从学校的属性中找到依据，或者说，学校属性是现代学校制度建设正当性的依据。由于学校的性格呈现多元化，或者说学校应具有的价值追求存在多元化，因此现代学校制度应是一个包容多元价值的结构。     

PLCs: Key PD component in learning transfer for teachers of English learners

As part of a two-year long professional development program for in-service teachers leading to endorsement in English as a Second Language (ESL), this investigation examined teachers' perceptions of the role of professional learning communities on their professional development experience, particularly on their sharing and transfer of learning into their instructional practice. Results from this mixed-methods research indicated that teachers perceived their professional learning communities, especially the reflective dialogue enacted during their weekly Try It Out discussion based on peers’ strategy implementations, as the most relevant component of their professional development program to their transferring of learning into their instructional practice.     

基于“信息溶点”理论,深化读者服务工作

针对图书馆专深化服务理论的瓶颈问题,本文引荐"信息溶点"理论,对基于该理论所产生的"馆员专深服务速成训练流程"和"团队训练1+1,1+N馆员服务能力建设特别速效训练方法"予以解读,并以实例探讨深化体育专业读者服务的实践。     

德国世界杯不同位置运动员身高、体重、年龄比较研究

采用文献资料法、数理统计法,对2006年德国世界杯足球比赛不同位置运动员平均身高、体重、年龄等指标进行比较分析。结果表明:不同位置运动员在平均身高、体重、年龄和克托莱指数方面存在显著性差异,其中守门员的各项指数最高;参赛运动员平均年龄差异不明显,都维持在较高的年龄水平上;非洲、美洲、欧洲、亚洲球队不同位置运动员平均身高差异存在显著性;非洲、美洲、欧洲、亚洲球队前锋位置运动员平均体重无差异,其他位置运动员平均体重差异存在显著性。此结果可为足球运动的选材和训练提供可借鉴的科学参考依据。     

我国甲A男子篮球职业俱乐部现状调查研究

本文通过文献资料法、现场调查法、访谈法、问卷调查法、数理统计法对我国甲A男子篮球职业俱乐部的现状进行了调查研究,主要围绕俱乐部的产权制度、经营与管理制度以及篮球产业组织——篮球职业俱乐部联盟的构建进行了调查和研究,针对存在的问题进行了深入分析,并得出相应的结论。     

How can a clinical research approach contribute to knowledge-building for the teaching profession?

This article explains what clinical research is and why it is necessary. The term ‘clinical’ refers to an academic way of solving practical problems. Clinical research starts from a view of science that not only acknowledges the value of rational analysis and empirical research, but also acknowledges the need for human skills and connoisseurship. In education, skills and connoisseurship can be developed by being responsibly engaged in classrooms. The (tacit) knowledge acquired in classrooms enables researchers to perceive more relevant factors in practice and enables them to understand the problems of teaching better. Clinical research is a type of action research in the sense that it acknowledges the epistemic function of doing, thus emphasizing the need for integrating scholarship and craftsmanship.     

The importance of environment for teacher professional learning in Malta and Scotland

Current reforms in the Maltese and Scottish educational contexts can only be fully implemented if teachers radically transform the way they teach. Teacher professional learning is an important mechanism that policy-makers, school leaders and administrators have to achieve this. Teacher professional learning is, above all, situated within the specific social workplace environment of teacher practice. Thus, schools need to be recognised as important sites of professional learning for teachers. In Malta and Scotland teachers were asked about their professional learning to identify how the learning environment within individual schools affects professional learning. In both countries, collaboration and school leadership were key components in determining a school’s learning environment. Data analysis led to the production of examples of expansive and restrictive features. Policy-makers, school leaders and administrators can use these features to examine how schools operate in terms of helping or hindering professional learning in the school environment.