基于学习者视角的远程学习服务质量概念模型

学习者理应成为教育服务质量评价的主体,但此类实证研究在我国远程教育领域并不多见。本文首先在分析国内外已有相关实证研究的基础上,提出了远程学习服务质量概念的假设模型;然后,基于对上海电大两所有代表性分校的580名远程学习者的问卷调查数据,通过SPSS的探索性因子分析、结构方程模型的验证性因子分析和高阶因子分析,不断修正和完善假设模型,获得了上海地区远程学习服务质量概念模型。研究表明,从学习者角度来看,远程学习服务质量主要由教学服务质量、管理服务质量、学习网站质量、学习支持服务质量、学习资源质量五大因子构成。本文的发现可以为远程教育质量保障研究更加关注学习服务质量研究提供基于学习者视角的基础性的理论依据,也可为办学机构重视学习服务满意感提供实践价值,同时也对政府评价远程教育、学习者选择教育服务具有重要的借鉴意义。     

关于学习控制的定量分析

本文根据著名教育技术学家瑞奇鲁斯 (C .M .Reigeluth)的影响学习控制的主要因素 ,将其进行量化处理 ,并设计出相应的计算公式 ,然后根据学习控制定量分析调查结果 ,计算学习控制的量化数据 ,利用定量分析的方法 ,指导教师制定和实施相应的教学策略。     

Revisiting Zhang’s scale of transactional distance: refinement and validation using structural equation modeling

Transactional distance has been defined as barriers to students’ engagement with learning in the online environment. This research updates Zhang’s (2003) scale of transactional distance, which quantified the extent of the barriers, in light of the massive changes in today’s web-based learning environment. The resulting revised scale of transactional distance (RSTD) is a parsimonious version with 12 elements (compared to 31 original) that measure the transactional distance between student and teacher, student and student, and student and content. The RSTD has excellent factorial validity and reliability, yields better fit statistics, and is easier and less time-consuming to apply. The transactional distance values are unique predictors of student satisfaction, which is correlated to learning and persistence (a major concern with massive open online courses). This information can form the basis for a systematic approach to improving the design of today’s contemporary open, flexible, distance education courses and thus serve as a valuable tool for researchers and educators alike.     

教育学硕士生学习动机的实证研究

采用质的研究方法,以华中地区某重点高校教育学硕士生为调查对象,通过非参与式观察和深度访谈对教育学硕士生学习动机进行实证研究。研究发现,硕士生学习动机呈现出明显的外在实用主义倾向和内在自我满足倾向。前者以职业追求、经济驱动、文凭获取为主,反映当前大部分硕士生的学习动机状况;后者侧重于自尊和修身养性的需要,虽然也有典型的个案代表,但已处于非主流地位。同时,硕士生学习动机还受到就业压力、学科性质、导师指导、教师授课和学习兴趣等主要因素的影响。     

基于能力提升的高职院校主题班会模式研究——以晋城职业技术学院为例

晋城职业技术学院主题班会活动开展以来,学生的学习能力、职业能力、沟通能力等均有显著提升。课题组通过实践调研、访谈、观看经验交流会等形式,从高职院校学生应具备的基本能力、主题班会的模式选择、主题班会如何促进学生能力提升等方面进行了分析。     

Teachers’ reflections of cooperative learning (CL): a two‐year follow‐up

Although teachers often report that they subscribe to cooperative learning (CL) to help students attain social and academic goals, research indicates that they often have difficulties implementing and sustaining their commitment. The purpose of this study is to report on the reflections of seven middle‐year teachers who had embedded CL in their social science curriculum for the past two years to investigate their responses to this pedagogical practice, and to gauge their perceptions of how students with behavioural and learning needs responded to it. Data from the interviews indicated that all teachers believed that their lessons were more interesting, the children learned more, they felt more confident, and they often learnt to work more closely with their colleagues. However, all teachers did note that CL needed to be well planned, students needed to be prepared to work in groups, and teachers’ expectations needed to be explicitly stated if the benefits attributed to CL were to be realised.     

我国古代蒙学识字教材的历史沿革

首先通过界定，筛选出我国古代具有代表性的识字教材，并在此基础上将我国古代蒙学识字教材的发展历史分为雏形期；定型期；承袭期三个阶段。进而对每个阶段的识字教学思想、发展概况进行梳理，对其历史沿革过程中的规律进行总结。