Impact of degree program satisfaction on the persistence of college students

Many theories on college retention recognize the significance of student satisfaction as a positive factor in students’ persistence. Yet, there are few theories that address the relationship of degree program satisfaction to study behaviour and dropout. This paper explores the impact of degree program satisfaction on academic accomplishment and dropout. The impact of degree program satisfaction was studied within a multitheoretical framework. The results of the study show that student accomplishment not only depends on differences in academic ability but also on degree program satisfaction. Decreased degree program satisfaction appears to diminish both study motivation and study behaviour. The authors discuss some implications for current educational practice.     

喷锚支护在高层建筑深基坑支护中的应用

高层建筑深基坑开挖过程中边坡稳定不容易保证,喷锚支护体系是将锚杆与滑裂面以外土体连成一个整体,再通过外拉系统与深基坑边坡组成一个整体受力体,承受主动土压力,利用土层的锚固力,维持被锚固体(边坡)的稳定,从而使得开挖的基坑获得广阔的空间。     

Teachers’ professional selves and motivation for continuous professional learning amid education reforms

Promoting in-service teachers’ continuous professional learning is indispensable to educational reforms that demand knowledge acquisition and practice innovation. Addressing this issue, this mixed-method study examined the relationship between teachers’ professional selves and continuous professional learning. Two hundred and nighty-one practicing teachers completed a questionnaire that assessed their current and future professional selves, learning motives, strategy use, self-efficacy, control beliefs, learning interests and intentions. Cluster analyses found that strongly-committed teachers who held strong professional selves had the most engaged patterns of learning followed by teachers who had moderate and weak levels of professional selves. Study two was a follow-up interview study with eight selected teachers who held contrasting professional selves. Strongly-committed teachers discussed their hoped-for selves while weakly-committed teachers expressed concerns about heavy workload and the selves that they feared. These two groups of interviewees differed in the strategies they employed to complete course assignments.     

浅谈激励教学法在数学教学中的应用

激励就是激发和鼓励。本文分析了激励在数学教学中的作用，并介绍了几种有效的激励辅助手段，旨在数学教学中提高学生的积极性。     

论语码转换的动机

语码转换是现代语言交际中的常见语言现象之一，而一定的交际行为总是受一定的动机支配的。笔者从社会语言学及心理语言学的角度出发对语码转换的动机进行了分类分析，以期加深人们对该现象的认识与了解，从而更好地加以利用，为有效交际服务。     

Understanding teachers’ motivation for and commitment to teaching: profiles of Chinese early career,early childhood teachers

ABSTRACT

To better understand the reasons underlying attrition and the teacher shortage, and to develop ways to attract and retain high-quality teachers in early childhood education, it is necessary to explore teacher motivation and commitment to teaching. Although previous research has investigated various aspects of teacher motivation and commitment to teaching, little attention has been paid to this in the context of early childhood teachers, especially early career teachers. Drawing upon in-depth interviews with 12 early career, early childhood teachers in mainland China, this study aims to examine early career early childhood teachers’ motivation to teach and commitment to teaching in the Chinese context. Four distinct types of early career, early childhood educators were identified: committed passionate, committed compromiser, undecided, and uncommitted. Each of these had unique motives for teaching and different levels of commitment to kindergarten teaching in mainland China. The four types of early career early childhood teachers identified in this study demonstrate the diversity and complexity of teaching motivation and commitment to teaching in the field of early childhood education. The findings from this study can provide implications for policy-makers and teacher educators to enhance novice teachers’ motivation and commitment to teaching in the early childhood context.     

Reasons for suboptimal learning in medical microbiology

Medical microbiology presents a challenge to undergraduate students, mostly due to its extensive content and complexity of unfamiliar terminology. In addition to a narrative review of the literature, we report findings on students’ motivation for and approach to learning in the Infections module of an undergraduate medical curriculum, and their perceived lack of retention of knowledge acquired in the module, as determined by a self-administered, anonymous questionnaire. When students experienced information overload, they reverted to performance goals and the wrong motivation for learning. Their focus turned primarily to being successful in tests and examinations, and they consequently adopted a surface approach to learning. Surface learning and memorisation of facts without understanding its content usually result in moderate retention of knowledge, which could handicap the development of clinical reasoning. However, the concern about students’ perceived poor retention of knowledge can be laid to rest – the prognosis is not discouraging after all.     

论小学语文阅读教学的“深入阅读”模式

在目前的小学语文教学研究和教学实践中,较为普遍地存在着对“阅读”的阐释语焉不详,对“阅读”的理解存在偏差,对“阅读”教学难以驾驭的状况。想要解决这些问题需要回到阅读的原点,在阅读教学中采用“深入阅读”模式,发展小学生的分析力、判断力、思考力和批判力,进而培养他们的创新性思维能力。“深入阅读”模式具有指向理性思维能力的培养、激发学生的“生产性思考”、整体性三个重要特征。     

融合深度学习的无人驾驶多目标检测算法

目标检测是目前计算机视觉领域非常热门的研究方向,是无人驾驶技术重要环节。为提高行车过程中目标检测精度并改善基于单发多目标检测器在训练时出现的正负样本失衡问题,基于车载视频,运用深度学习算法中具有强大性能的SSD模型,通过引入Focal Loss函数设计新的损失函数,解决样本失衡问题;同时在不降低检测速率的情况下,提高检测精度。基于自行采集的车载视频数据集进行实验,结果表明,改进后SSD模型的mAP相较于原始SSD模型提高了3%,达到74%。     

Differential prospective relationships of social-oriented and individual-oriented achievement motivations with achievement goals and affective wellbeing: A 1-year follow-up study

This study aimed to investigate the differential prospective relationships of social-oriented achievement motivation (SOAM) and individual-oriented achievement motivation (IOAM) with student's adoption of specific achievement goals and their affective wellbeing (AWB). A total of 332 Chinese university students (M_age = 19.139; Female = 75%) voluntarily participated in the baseline and the 1-year follow-up surveys of this study. The factor score path analysis results showed statistically significant positive paths from SOAM and IOAM at baseline to performance goals and mastery goals, respectively, at follow-up. Moreover, a statistically significant positive path was found from SOAM at baseline to negative affective experiences, at follow-up, and no association was found between IOAM and AWB, after controlling for achievement goals. The findings suggest the usefulness of raising educators' and parents' awareness regarding the double-edged sword of utilizing socially valued motives to promote performance approach goals in individuals because such values potentially lowering their psychological wellbeing.