‘Operating on a Basis of Student Consent’: Peter Medway’s Work in Finding a Language

Written nearly 40 years ago, Peter Medway’s Finding a Language continues to be an arresting read, which offers a powerful vision of what might be possible in education. In this brief introduction, I set the work in context, referring to ideas that Pete engaged with and recalling a little of the times.     

高校学生党支部工作的几点思考

随着经济的发展和改革的不断深化,高校学生参与政治的热情有淡化的趋势。高校学生党支部面临着一系列新的挑战。必须加强党支部的培训和发展工作,改变工作方法,增强党支部的吸引力和凝聚力。     

我们该怎样做研究——对课程与教学论主流研究范式的反思

重理论思辨、轻实践研究,研究方法简单粗糙,是当前课程与教学论主流研究范式的两大缺陷。欠缺科学精神、方法意识薄弱、评价机制不健全,是造成当前主流研究范式缺陷的主要原因。基于此,应从六个方面改善课程与教学论主流研究范式:关注对实践问题的微观研究和行动研究;加强方法意识,融入科学精神;建立课程与教学论的方法论体系;转变研究思维方式;改善现有评价体系;加强研究生培养过程中方法意识的培养和方法训练。     

信息技术与新型教学模式的构建

随着信息技术的进步,结合传统教学、实践教学和实验教学模式进行的新型教学模式出现,各种媒体被先后运用到了教学中,使教学变得灵活多样,丰富了课堂教学方式,提高了教学质量。以计算机为中心的互联网、多媒体技术的崛起,给现代教育注入了新的生命,在教育体制、教育方针、教育模式等各方面带来巨大的变革。从理论与现实的角度对信息技术在教学模式中所起的重大作用做出梳理,并指明新型教学模式实现的途径。     

高校二级党组织党务工作与教学科研的关系

文章就高校二级党组织党务工作如何与教学科研结合进行了探讨，分析了服务教学科研的内涵，并提出了服务教学科研的三条途径。     

非英语专业学生口语自我修订情况调查

本文研究非英语专业学生口语自我修订情况,发现大部分学生在口语表达时都有自我修订的习惯,其中包括内容修订和自我纠错。内容修订表明学生在口语表达时逻辑思维能力还需要提高,紧张情绪需要克服。在自我纠错方面,学生对语法错误的纠正多于对词汇和语音错误的纠正,其中,对语音错误的纠正最少。     

Creative Potential within Policy: An Analysis of the 2013 English Literature Curriculum

This article takes as its focus Lefebvre's trialectic of conceived, perceived and lived spaces as a lens through which to scrutinise the 2013 English Literature Curriculum, and to explore the extent to which creative spaces might exist within that curriculum. The article analyses how the curriculum is envisaged by policymakers and how it might be expected to be translated into practice, utilising the wording of the policy document to facilitate an exploration of what its underlying intentions might be. The author's experience of teaching a poem from the new curriculum is used in order to provide illustrative examples of the ways in which teachers’ and learners’ experiences of the curriculum might, in practice, diverge from the direction envisaged by policymakers as teachers negotiate creative spaces within their classrooms.     

An NCME Instructional Module on Data Mining Methods for Classification and Regression

Data mining methods for classification and regression are becoming increasingly popular in various scientific fields. However, these methods have not been explored much in educational measurement. This module first provides a review, which should be accessible to a wide audience in education measurement, of some of these methods. The module then demonstrates using three real‐data examples that these methods may lead to an improvement over traditionally used methods such as linear and logistic regression in educational measurement.     

影响山西高职高专田径队发展的因素研究

通过对山西省第19届大学生田径运动会高职高专组35支参赛队的分析可知:各院校参赛人数水平参差不齐,学校的重视程度可左右田径队的参赛或存在。运动员的选择受各方面的影响,部分院校教练员的职称和人数不合理。运动员的训练时间与文化课较难协调,奖励制度有待完善。     

A Process for Reviewing and Evaluating Generated Test Items

Testing organization needs large numbers of high‐quality items due to the proliferation of alternative test administration methods and modern test designs. But the current demand for items far exceeds the supply. Test items, as they are currently written, evoke a process that is both time‐consuming and expensive because each item is written, edited, and reviewed by a subject‐matter expert. One promising approach that may address this challenge is with automatic item generation. Automatic item generation combines cognitive and psychometric modeling practices to guide the production of items that are generated with the aid of computer technology. The purpose of this study is to describe and illustrate a process that can be used to review and evaluate the quality of the generated item by focusing on the content and logic specified within the item generation procedure. We illustrate our process using an item development example from mathematics drawn from the Common Core State Standards and from surgical education drawn from the health sciences domain.