“Can you tell me more about this?”: Agentic written feedback,teacher expectations,and student learning

Teachers are not only tasked with communicating facts, figures, and skills to their students, but they are also responsible for equipping students to be self-sufficient learners who believe in their own capacity to learn and improve. In this paper, we propose that written feedback that offers students agency (what we call ‘agentic feedback’) can be a way for teachers to build more independent and self-efficacious learners, and to instill in students the trust that their teacher believes in them. In the first study, we develop a novel qualitative coding scheme to measure the degree of agency offered in teachers’ written feedback (N = 136) and produce a coherent ‘agentic feedback’ variable. In the second study, we find that middle and high school students (N = 1,260) are sensitive to the amount of agency provided in teachers’ feedback: they perceive that agentic feedback affords more choice and requires more effort for revision, encourages greater learning and improvement on writing, and that teachers who offer more agentic feedback have higher expectations. We discuss implications for future research and application in classrooms.     

Heterogeneity Analysis on the Influence of the Supply of Teachers on the Academic Performance of 15-Year-Old Students: Based on PISA 2018 Samples from Four Provinces and Municipalities in China

The quantitative and qualitative supply of teachers has a significant influence on student academic performance. Based on the samples collected from four provinces and municipalities in China for the Program for International Student Assessment (PISA) 2018, this study analyzes the effects of the supply of teachers on the academic performance of 15-year-old students through a hierarchical linear model (HLM) as well as a quantile regression model. The study has found that the shortage of teachers and the proportion of teachers with a master’s degree significantly affect student academic performance, and the supply of teachers with higher degrees has a decreasing marginal benefit on student academic performance; its best marginal benefit on student academic performance is achieved when the proportion of teachers with a master’s degree reaches about 75%. For students in different academic performance subgroups, the marginal benefit of an increase in the proportion of teachers with a master’s degree in schools is higher for “top students” than for “students with learning difficulties.” In terms of the difference between urban and rural areas, the shortage of teachers in rural schools is more prominent than that in urban schools, and teachers with higher degrees tend to cluster in core cities. The marginal benefit of an increase in the proportion of teachers with a master’s degree is higher for improving student academic performance in rural areas. Therefore, it is recommended to design a policy of differentiated compensatory earnings for rural teachers, and efforts should be enhanced to promote programs for supporting high-quality teachers. In addition, the allocation of teachers should follow the principle of “differentiated equity,” and more differentiated teaching strategies should be adopted for students with different academic abilities.     

Performance Analysis and Future Prospect of China’s Anti-bullying Policy and Practice: Evidence from PISA 2015 and PISA 2018

This paper analyzes the performance of China’s anti-bullying efforts with the data on school bullying in the Program for International Student Assessment (PISA) 2015 and PISA 2018. It is found that China has fully demonstrated its high performance in anti-bullying actions with all three key performance indicators dropping dramatically, namely the prevalence of bullying, the index of exposure to bullying, and the percentage of frequently bullied students. Further, from the perspectives of personal characteristics and school features, two rounds of PISA data are adopted to make the longitudinal diachronic comparison and the cross-national horizontal comparison, followed by the analysis of the occurrence and development patterns of school bullying. Five suggestions are put forward for the deployment of China’s anti-bullying action plan.     

数据挖掘在学生成绩数据中的应用研究

针对课程设置与课程成绩之间的关系,通过比较分析可以发现学生成绩背后所隐藏的有价值信息。通过对学生成绩数据的挖掘,可以发现隐藏其中的关联规则,得出有实际价值的规则及结论,从而为教学管理人员优化课程设置提供决策支持。     

对大学生篮球运动员专项体能诊断与评价研究综述

以大学生篮球运动员的体能为视角,通过对篮球运动的项目特征和大学生篮球运动员体能与专项体能特征进行分析,使我们进一步明确体能与专项体能的内核,认清篮球运动员专项体能的本质。通过对大学生篮球运动员专项体能的诊断与评价,了解当前我国大学生篮球运动员的体能状况,为专项体能训练水平的提高提供支持。     

“卓越计划”视域中的大学生综合素质培养探索

大学生综合素质包括人文素质、专业素质、道德素质、发展潜力素质和身心素质。在"卓越工程师教育培养计划"视阈中,要提高大学生综合素质,必须转变教学方式,加强校园文化建设,加强人文教育,加强产学研合作,提高教育者素质,转变行政模式。     

Family-support goals drive engagement and achievement in a collectivist context: Integrating etic and emic approaches in goal research

Much of the goal research in educational psychology has focused on top-down etic approaches with little emphasis on the use of bottom-up emic methods to uncover culturally-relevant phenomena. The aim of this study was to combine etic and emic approaches and to explore how goals derived from both approaches drive engagement and achievement. Study 1 was a qualitative study which aimed to examine the different types of goals that students spontaneously generated in school contexts. Wanting to help the family (which we labeled as family-support goal) was one of the most commonly-endorsed goals indicating its psychological salience for Filipino students. Study 2, a cross-sectional study, demonstrated that family-support goals were distinct from achievement goals. Study 3, a prospective longitudinal study, found that family-support goals positively predicted subsequent engagement and achievement. Study 4 replicated the results of Study 3 on a different sample of students after taking into account several relevant covariates (e.g., parental relatedness, relational self-construal, social desirability) thus ruling out the possibility of third variable confounds. Taken together, family-support goals were more salient predictors of optimal learning-related outcomes followed by mastery-approach goals. Results of the current study highlight the importance of taking culture into account in examining student motivation.     

在创先争优活动中加强对大学生党员教育的实践探索

新时期加强对大学生党员的教育是高校党建工作的主要任务,这也是党中央号召在基层党组织和党员中深入开展创先争优活动的具体要求。在大学生党员中深入开展形式多样的创先争优活动,多角度地加强学生党员的教育。这对端正学生党员的入党动机,加强学生党员的党性修养,发挥学生党员先锋模范作用,为把他们培养成中国特色社会主义事业合格建设者和可靠接班人具有深远的现实意义。     

商科专业硕士教育质量标准化内涵及指标筛选

在全球化背景中,对高层次应用人才有着旺盛需求的态势,中国高校商科专业硕士教育发展迅猛,质量水平参差不齐,需要关切高校商科专业硕士教育的质量保障和评估活动。在比较不同商科专业硕士教育的专项质量评估的基础上,对高校商科专业硕士教育质量标准化的内涵与外延进行辨析,从我国商科专业硕士教育实际出发,择取我国高校商科专业硕士教育质量标准化评估的指标体系,对我国高校商科专业硕士教育质量标准化评估活动提出发展建议。     

Temperament and socio‐communicative orientation

This study investigated the relationship of scores on temperament dimensions for both three‐ (Eysenck, 1985) and five‐factor (McCrae & John, 1992) models with scores on two dimensions of socio‐commu‐nicative orientation (Richmond & McCroskey, 1990). The Eysenck Personality Inventory and the Five‐Factor Model measure have previously been validated as measuring genetically‐based dimensions of temperament. Substantial variance in scores of both assertiveness and responsiveness were predictable by each of the temperamental models. These results suggest that socio‐communicative orientation (self‐perceptions) is likely genetically based. There is a need for additional research employing twin designs, and ultimately direct genetic testing, to confirm these results.