真实性评价中的项目教学——以中央民族大学研究生英语教学为例

研究生英语项目教学法包括项目教学的特点、实施的具体步骤、评价方式及学生的反馈。实践证明项目教学可以有效地调动学生内在的学习动力、培养团队精神,使学生在完成真实任务的过程中学习外语。     

Situated learning in the network society and the digitised school

There is a need to develop a broader view of knowledge to deal with the way in which new digital trends influence the underlying conditions for schools, teaching and subjects. This theoretical article will therefore examine whether a broader view of knowledge, digital literacy and assessment forms can generate new ways of adapted education within Knowledge Promotion Reform and the digitised school. The article is particularly angled towards the implications this may have for both teachers and pupils, but also for teacher education.     

Strategies for using feedback students bring to higher education

This article explores strategies for acting on feedback that students bring to their higher education, by exploring student perceptions on the guidance they received from their teachers in school or college. Whilst assessment issues have been the subject of a range of research studies, it is the contention of this article that little research has been undertaken to identify the strategies that students possess for ‘using’ feedback. This small‐scale research study was stimulated by M.R. Weaver’s 2006 Weaver, M.R. 2006. Do students value feedback? Student perceptions of tutors’ written response. Assessment and Evaluation in Higher Education, 31(3): 379–394. [Taylor & Francis Online] [Google Scholar] finding that only a quarter of students had received guidance on how to use feedback prior to university. This exploration identifies the guidance for using feedback that 350 students in Humanities brought to their degree course. Analysis of responses revealed the strategies that students had been introduced to, identifying nine indigenous categories. Whilst almost 40% of these students indicated they had received guidance for using feedback, scrutiny of responses showed that many of these students confused ‘actual feedback’ with ‘guidance on how to use’ feedback. The implications of such starting positions for students and staff are considered: questioning the adequacy of such a foundation for students to be able to make effective use of the feedback they will receive in their degree course, and finally suggesting initiatives by which staff could enable students to get more out of feedback.     

Formative computer‐based assessment in higher education: the effectiveness of feedback in supporting student learning

A formative computer‐based assessment (CBA) was one of three instruments used for assessment in a Bachelor of Education course at Queen’s University (Ontario, Canada) with an enrolment of approximately 700 students. The formative framework fostered a self‐regulated learning environment whereby feedback on the CBA was used to support rather than measure student learning. The four types of feedback embedded in the CBA included: (a) directing students to a resource, (b) rephrasing a question, (c) providing additional information and (d) providing the correct answer. Although students originally reported positive experiences with the formative CBA, two follow‐up surveys revealed that they found the four types of feedback to be moderately effective in supporting their learning.     

"Anatomizing" reversed: Use of examination questions that foster use of higher order learning skills by students

"Anatomizing" is a new verb some use to describe the breaking apart of a complex entity such as the human body, into isolated tidbits of information for study, which can never equal the complex, integrated whole. Although popular with first-year medical students, this practice of "tidbitting" anatomical information into easy to memorize facts or tables of facts does not prepare medical students for the inevitable task of dealing with the integrated structure-function of the human body, both normal and diseased, as patient managers. Examination questions drive the cognitive methods students will use to learn content. Asking students on examinations for recall of previously memorized tidbits fosters the cognitive learning behavior of only memorization. Examination questions, however, can be constructed that assess student understanding and integration of the content, that is, student use of cognitive and metacognitive methods of higher order learning that will foster high-quality learning producing better practitioners and lifelong learners. This kind of efficient student learning needs to begin in the first year of medical school.Learning more efficiently and at deeper levels of understanding is especially pertinent as the contact hours in anatomy courses continue to decrease.     

高职计算机网络专业实践环节考核方法的探讨

高职教育的特点是强调学生实践能力的培养。实践教学不同于理论教学,其考核评价方法有其鲜明的特点。从实践教学环节的角度出发,摸索出随堂考核法、项目分析法及证书认定法等几种行之有效的实践考核方法,取得了较好的教学效果。     

电子商务专业《网站设计与管理》教学改革的探讨与实践

分析传统教学模式下《网站设计与管理》课程的问题,并提出从项目的选择、教学内容模块化、教学考核过程化等三方面推进课程教学改革。     

经销商评估与选择的专家决策系统

以快速消费品为例,研究了一种计算机辅助评估经销商的专家决策系统。该系统由7个维度和32个标准构成,通过层次分析法在4类典型市场环境下进行指标赋权,并且运用神经网络法仿真来确保评估结果的可信度,最后获得对潜在经销商的综合评估结果。     

Monitoring collaborative activities in computer supported collaborative learning

Monitoring the learning process in computer supported collaborative learning (CSCL) environments is a key element for supporting the efficacy of tutor actions. This article proposes an approach for analysing learning processes in a CSCL environment to support tutors in their monitoring tasks. The approach entails tracking the interactions within the communication platform to identify cues of the participative, social, cognitive, and teaching dimensions of the learning process. Both quantitative and qualitative indicators are employed to achieve a complete and thorough picture of the learning dynamics. A set of methodological and technological tools based on this approach has been tried out in the context of the online component of a blended course in educational technology addressing trainee teachers. The results of the study support the applicability of the proposed approach to content domains where discussion and reflective practice are the most effective learning strategy.     

当代大学生学习适应性研究进展与教育对策

学习适应是指主体根据环境及学习的需要,努力调整自我,以达到与学习环境平衡的心理与行为过程。当代大学生的学习适应主要体现在学习动机、学习能力、教学模式、学习态度和学习环境等五个维度,学习适应测评工具的研究尚处于起步阶段。从学生自身与教育管理部门两方面采取应对措施更有利于提高大学生的学习适应性,国家免费师范生的学习适应问题值得深入研究。