Breaking the tyranny of office hours: Overcoming professor avoidance

ABSTRACT

Studies have found that Faculty–Student Interaction (FSI) has many positive benefits for students including academic support, professional development, mentoring, and career planning. Research-intensive universities exhibit the lowest levels of faculty–student interaction within higher education. This article utilises qualitative methods to explore faculty, student, and staff perceptions of faculty–student interactions, particularly those that take place out of the classroom, at a research-intensive public U.S. university. We identify social distance between faculty and students based on unequal status within a rigid, hierarchically-organised culture as a key barrier to FSI. We then discuss methods that some of the faculty in our study used to mitigate their social distance with students in an effort to increase FSI.     

The scholarship of teaching: A comparison of conceptions held by experts and regular academic staff

Over the past decade the scholarship ofteaching has received considerable attention inthe higher education literature as a reactionto the widely cited Carnegie Foundation'sreport ``Scholarship Reconsidered'; however, theconcept has remained devoid of a unifieddefinition. A recent Delphi study conductedwith a selective group of scholars whoseexpertise lies in the area of universityteaching and learning indicated the extent towhich these ``experts' agreed with each other onimportant features and unresolved issues theyassociate with the scholarship of teaching. Building on the results of the Delphi study,the present article discusses the results of asecond survey comparing these ``experts' 'conceptions with those of a larger group ofscholars whose expertise lies in a differentacademic field (``regular academic staff'), inorder to identify the similarities anddifferences in the conceptions of thescholarship of teaching held by each of the twogroups. While regular academic staff werefound to associate the scholarship of teachingmore with good or effectiveteaching ``experts' pointed to notions such aspeer review and scholarly standards. Thediscussion of the results focuses on the notionof consensus reached within and betweenthe two groups. It is argued that in order topromote changes in policy with respect to whatis to count as scholarship, identifying andreporting ``experts' ' conceptions, thoughclearly necessary for promoting moreenlightened discussions on the issue, willremain insufficient. Policy change in academeis more likely to ensue as a result of thewider academic community reaching consensus onthe meaning, and nature, of the scholarship ofteaching. The wider academic community includes``experts', as well as colleagues in departmentsand disciplinary associations. The articleconcludes by exploring the notion of consensusthrough the lens of critical social theory.     

高校学术创新团队建设应注意的问题

高校科技要出更多的原创性科研成果，就必须抓住机遇，建设强有力的学术创新团队。因此，目前学术创新团队的建设已成为高校十分重要的任务和目标。处理好学术创新团队的定位、人员组成、团队文化等问题是学术创新团队建设成功的关键。     

以科研促教学的探索与实践

教学和科研是高等学校教师的基本任务。如何把科研与教学结合,以科研促教学是值得探讨的问题。本文结合长江大学文理学院外语学部的具体实践,阐释了高校以科研促教学的途径和成效。     

基于CAJViewer的学术文献使用技巧

学术文献保存格式除了传统的PDF外,还包括CAJ、KDH、NH、CAA、TEB等格式,CAJViewer作为一款专门的文献浏览软件,通吃这些文献格式,具有浏览页面、查找文字、文本识别、邮件传输等九大功能,可取代AdobeReader阅读器对PDF的浏览功能,也不需要单独使用OCR软件而进行文本识别,灵活使用其功能,可极大地方便用户对学术文献的浏览和使用。     

论大学教师学术创新力的基础:学术综合交叉能力

学术综合交叉能力是大学教师创新力的重要心理基础。本文从大学教师学术综合交叉能力的必要性、大学教师学术综合交叉能力的内涵以及大学教师学术综合交叉能力提高的策略三方面论述了大学教师创新力的重要基础。大学教师学术综合交叉能力的研究应该引起大学教师学术创新力研究领域的关注。     

影响德国大学创新力的制度与观念解析

在世界范围内,德国高等教育向人们展示的不仅是其创新的显力,还有其绵延不绝的创新潜力。本文从制度与观念等维度对影响德国大学创新力的因素进行了探讨,对支撑德国大学创新力的独特理念和推动德国大学创新力的动力网络与制度保障进行了较为全面的分析。     

论学术自由的理论基础

学术自由之于发展高深学问的重要性,已是教育界的普遍共识。但学术自由重要性,学术自由的理论基础并非不证自明。为了避免学术自由被怀疑、误解,无疑要从理论上进行阐述。基于此,本文拟从学术自由的概念、理论基础及保障自由等方面作深入探讨。     

An investigation of Taiwan University students' perceptions of online academic help seeking, and their web-based learning self-efficacy

This study was conducted to investigate Taiwan University students' perceptions (including experience, confidence and preference) of online academic help seeking (OAHS) and students' level of web-based learning self-efficacy (WLSE). Two instruments, OAHS questionnaire, consisting of information searching, formal and informal query scales, and WLSE questionnaire, including general and functional scales, were then validated through collecting the responses from 300 university students. Results indicate reciprocal relations between experience, confidence and preference in students' online academic help seeking behaviors. Students' academic help seeking behaviors were related to their general self-efficacy in a web-based course setting. Students' functional WLSE was related to their perceptions of information searching for OAHS. Findings of this study also imply that students' experience of seeking help from informal online channels is prominent when they participate in a web-based course.     

教师期待与学生学业成绩:基于班级层面的研究

通过对优秀教师与普通教师对比实验的案例与数据分析,文章发现:在班级层面上优秀教师比普通教师对学生的期待值高;高期待的优秀教师在课堂里会通过提供积极的学习与情感环境来提高班级学生整体学习成绩;高期待的教师对学生学习态度的感知度和学生学习态度之间成正比例关系,从而论证了该研究的前提假设:教师对班级层面学生学习期待的高低对学生学业成绩具有重要的影响。