“Crossing the Rubicon”: Understanding Chinese EFL students’ volitional process underlying in-class participation with the theory of planned behaviour

An extended model based on the theory of planned behaviour (TPB) was used to study Chinese English as a foreign language (EFL) students’ in-class participation. The model included the core TPB constructs (behavioural intentions, attitudes, subjective norms, and perceived behavioural control/self-efficacy) and 2 additional constructs (foreign language classroom anxiety and face-saving) frequently discussed in the literature about Chinese EFL classroom dynamics. A total of 199 Chinese students enrolled in a Sino-American international branch campus were surveyed. The results of a partial least squares (PLS) path modelling analysis revealed that attitudes, subjective norms, perceived behavioural control/self-efficacy, and face-saving explained 46% of the variance in intentions to participate in English in class. Perceived behavioural control/self-efficacy fully mediated the negative indirect effect of foreign language classroom anxiety on intentions. Pedagogical implications and future directions are discussed for implementation purposes.     

A synthesis of research concerning creative teachers in a Canadian context

Effective teachers are often creative ones, yet an examination of creative teaching is largely invisible in the North American creativity literature. Even within education there is little about teachers’ own creative practice. Nonetheless, there are benefits to studying creative teachers: in education it can explicate ways of enhancing teachers’ creativity and enriching praxis; and in psychology it can extend our understanding of social and interpersonal creativity, as well as everyday creativity. This paper reviews 12 Canadian case studies of creative teaching conducted by a creative teaching research group. An in-depth elaboration of two themes, creative person and community, is presented.     

The cross-lagged relations between children’s academic skill development, task-avoidance, and parental beliefs about success

This longitudinal study investigated the cross-lagged associations between children’s academic skill development, task-avoidant behaviour in the context of homework, and parental beliefs about their child’s success from kindergarten to Grade 2. The participants were 1267 children. The children’s pre-skills were assessed at the end of the kindergarten year, and math and reading skills at the end of Grade 1 and Grade 2. Parents provided ratings of their beliefs about their children’s school success and task-avoidant behaviour with regard to homework at the end of Grades 1 and 2. The results showed that children’s math and reading skills predicted children’s task-avoidant behaviour regarding homework as rated by mothers, but not by fathers, when autoregressive effects were taken into account. In addition, task-avoidant behaviour predicted the mothers’ subsequent beliefs about their children’s school success but not vice versa. A reciprocal effect was found between fathers’ beliefs about success and children’s task-avoidance.     

工科院校大学生网络成瘾与人格特征的关系

目的了解工科院校大学生网络成瘾现状及其与人格特征的关系,为多方面理解网络成瘾及其矫治提供依据。方法采取随机抽样的方法从西安市某工科院校抽取学生共262人,用网络成瘾量表和艾森克人格量表对研究对象进行测试。结果网络成瘾检出率为41.8%;男生网络成瘾程度显著高于女生;大三、大四学生网络成瘾程度显著高于大一学生,大三学生成瘾程度显著高于大二学生和大四学生;大学生的网络成瘾程度与神经质、精神质呈显著的正相关,与掩饰性呈显著的负相关,与内外向的相关不显著。结论人格特征在一定程度上可以预测网络成瘾的程度。     

Comparison of teacher talk directed to boys and girls and its relationship to their behaviour in secondary and primary schools

There have been a number of earlier investigations, using differing methodologies, into the extent to which teachers in the secondary school interact with boys and girls and the results have suggested an imbalance in the teachers’ verbal behaviour towards the genders that is quite similar to the imbalance found in teachers’ behaviour in the primary school. The main aim of this study was to devise an investigation using the same methodology as that used in a recent primary school investigation in order to be able to make a fair comparison between the two levels. The results showed considerable differences in the teachers’ verbal behaviour towards the genders in the secondary school from that of teachers in the primary school. Where the primary school data showed teachers interacting more with the boys than the girls and the boys being less on‐task than the girls, the secondary school data showed no such differences.     

Negative school factors and their influence on math and science achievement in TIMSS 2003

The aim of the present study was to conduct an analysis of TIMSS (Trends in International Mathematics and Science Study) 2003 database and to determine how negative school factors, such as aggression, are associated to the mathematical and science achievement of students. The analyses were conducted separately for national and international data. National analyses for Slovenia show significant associations between math and science achievement and the experience of aggressive behaviour. Students who experienced aggressive behaviour scored lower in math and science, both in the fourth and in the eighth grade. The results of the regression analysis show that negative factors, such as aggressive behaviour, are good predictors of educational achievement in Slovenia. International analyses for the selected countries (high‐ and low‐achieving countries from the whole TIMSS population) confirm that this type of finding is culturally impartial as well as valid for the level of achievement both in math and in science.     

通过日志挖掘研究图书馆资源发现服务用户的搜索行为

通过日志挖掘的方法对图书馆资源发现服务用户的搜索行为进行研究。搭建一个搜索日志中间平台,用于产生和记录相关日志信息;用Java编写日志处理程序,将日志信息存储于MySQL数据库中;基于日志结果,从检索方式、查询语言与查询长度、分面点击、查询词修改等方面对用户搜索行为进行分析,希望能对图书馆资源发现服务的部署、应用和优化提供参考。     

基于阅读疗法的大学新生心理障碍综合干预个案研究

针对大学新生心理障碍患者已使用药物治疗的个案背景,选用短篇文献,进行引领阅读启发思考、指导作业强化认知和交流讨论净化心灵的阅读治疗。同时停止使用药物治疗,综合运用＂同伴疗法＂、＂家庭疗法＂、＂体能训练法＂和＂实践领悟法＂等心理治疗方法进行8次治疗。跟踪一年,案主无论在学习还是在人际关系方面表现优良,得到同学和老师的广泛认可。证明：基于阅读疗法的综合干预,是使大学新生心理障碍患者在认知、情感及行为诸方面发生积极变化,消除心理障碍,促进个性成长、人格完善,从而使其达到心身健康的有效方法。     

新式教育与社会脱序——以科举制废停前后江西新式学堂为考察中心

1905年废科举前后,各地兴起办学热潮,但新式学堂应该如何办理,其规模和形式如何,各地却各行其是。究其缘由,新式学堂在发展过程中出现的种种问题,导致各阶层的价值取向发生冲突,社会各界对新式学堂这一新鲜事物所表现出的更多的是一种彷徨与无奈。废科举前后所呈现出的社会紊乱状态,说明转型期新式教育的培养方式导致社会结构逐渐脱序。     

数控机床的故障诊断及处理

由于数控机床涵盖机械、计算机、自动化控制等多个方面的内容,其结构较为复杂,当发生故障问题时需逐一进行排查,进而可能会因故障问题未能及时处理给生产造成经济损失.就数控机床在使用中常见的故障问题的诊断及维护方法等加以概述,以提高对故障的处理效率.