‘Finally studying for myself’ – examining student agency in summative and formative self-assessment models

Abstract

Promoting student agency has been seen as the primary function for new generation assessment environments. In this paper, we introduce two models of self-assessment as a way to foster students’ sense of agency. A socio-cultural framework was utilised to understand the interaction between student agency and self-assessment. Through a comparative design, we investigated whether formative self-assessment and summative self-assessment, based on self-grading, would offer students different affordances for agency. The results show that while both models offered affordances for agentic learning, future-driven agency was only presented by the students studying according to the summative model. Our results shed light on the interplay of student agency and self-assessment in higher education.     

民主乌托邦:博客传播的逆向思考

博客作为一种网络新传播模式,正在引起众多学者的关注。有研究者指出,博客有利于促成平民话语权的实现、受众向传播者的身份转化、博客作者主体独立性的构建。但博客信息平台兼容公共性与私密性的传播特点,现实世界的名人效应在网络博客世界中的延伸与放大,以及商业政治力量的介入,等等,这些在某种程度上削弱了博客的积极作用,并影响到了博客的未来发展远景。     

框剪结构抗震性能的改善

通过对框剪结构的受力分析，提出了抗震概念设计的一般原则，并针对框剪结构提出了诸多改善抗震性能的措施和设计方法。     

论左翼作家的"群体"情结

左翼作家的"群体情结",是左翼文学政治化倾向体现之一,由左翼文学的亚政治文化特性和当时的历史环境所决定,是文学成员自觉追求的结果,应该予以历史地理解.作家在转移过程中历经抉择痛苦,艺术个性消融、观念转化程度因人而异.个体向群体转移,一定程度限制作家对艺术本质的追求和主体艺术个性的充分发挥,但在推进文学的平民化、大众化方面具有相当功绩.     

Empowering learners with personalised learning approaches? Agency,equity and transparency in the context of learning analytics

Abstract

The emergence of personalised data technologies such as learning analytics is framed as a solution to manage the needs of higher education student populations that are growing ever more diverse and larger in size. However, the current approach to learning analytics presents tensions between increasing student agency in making learning-related decisions and ‘datafying’ students in the process of collecting, analysing and interpreting data. This article presents a study that explores staff and student experience of agency, equity and transparency in existing data practices and expectations towards learning analytics in a UK university. The results show a number of intertwined factors that have contributed to the tensions between enhancing a learner’s control of their studies and, at the same time, diminishing their autonomy as an active agent in the process of learning analytics. This article argues that learner empowerment should not be automatically assumed to have taken place as part of the adoption of learning analytics. Instead, the interwoven power relationships in a complex educational system and the interactions between humans and machines need to be taken into consideration when presenting learning analytics as an equitable process to enhance student agency and educational equity.     

论依法规制旅行社掠夺性定价

随着旅游业的日益发展,旅行社的规模不断扩大,数量也不断增加,同时亦引发了一系列严重问题.为了在同行之间争夺旅游市场,各种反竞争现象层出不穷,譬如掠夺性定价就早已成为旅行社之问竞争常使用的手段.通过论述其产生的缘由、对旅游业的弊害,强调应严厉规制这一反竞争现象,遏制旅行社这一杀鸡取卵的做法,从而促进旅游业的健康发展.     

城市网络; 数字化时代; 空间结构; 特征

税务代理制度在我国是一项新生事物, 它对政府加强税务管理, 指导纳税人的纳税行为等都具有重要作用。我们有必要借鉴国外发达国家税务代理制度的成功经验, 为我国税务代理制度的发展献计献策。     

The role of university-based induction in beginning elementary teacher enactment of effective mathematics teaching

The purpose of this paper is to describe the school-based contextual constraints perceived by beginning elementary teachers as they attempted to enact their visions of effective mathematics teaching and the components of a mathematics-specific, university-based induction program designed to support elementary teachers in their teaching of mathematics. A significant number of beginning teachers in the program indicated that curriculum pacing guides and grade level teachers often discouraged their enactment of effective mathematics teaching. We describe the components of the induction program in general and then discuss the specific ways that program mentors, who were elementary teachers with expertise in mathematics teaching, supported beginning teachers in navigating the constraints identified. Data suggest that supporting teachers’ pedagogical agency to navigate local school contexts should be an additional consideration in teacher preparation and induction programs.     

美国高校助学贷款制度研究及启示

助学贷款是当今社会资助理念在高等教育机会均等过程中的具体体现。美国联邦助学贷款是其教育资助的主要形式。通过二级市场和中介机构的运作，美国助学贷款制度形成了一套完备的体系，而这对于我国的助学贷款制度的发展和完善具有重要的借鉴意义。     

The conundrum of low achievement and feedback for learning

Abstract

The literature on improving student engagement with assessment and feedback has a tendency to treat all students as if they are the same. Students with lower levels of attainment are generally under-represented within empirical studies and their feedback behaviours are less well understood. The recent drive to improve student assessment and feedback literacy and the move from ‘feedback’ being information about a task to being a process of understanding and using performance information is a larger conceptual leap for some students than others. In this paper, we consider issues surrounding the transition to new modes of feedback, focussing on what is needed for those who find study difficult and persistently are disappointed by their levels of attainment, to benefit from and take advantage of our feedback pedagogies. We examine literature advocating strategies such as increasing agency, using praise, developing feedback literacy and cultivating a growth mind-set. We argue that students who underachieve may benefit from strong relationships with educators and peers, exposure to feedback rich, low stakes environments, which permit repeated integrations of practice and feedback, and building feedback literacy through peer assessment activities.