壮族抗法英雄传说的史学价值

在中法战争中地处战争前沿的广西涌现出了冯子材、刘永福等抗法英雄。壮族民间口头流传着许多关于抗法英雄的传说,具体、生动地描绘了这些民族英雄在中法战争中的表现,保存了壮族人民有关中法战争的历史记忆,具有珍贵的史学价值。     

高职公共英语大班教学课堂小组互动策略培训研究

公共英语课程是一门教学内容丰富、受众面广、教学成效影响力大的公共基础课程,当课堂学生人数超过80人的大班教学在现阶段高职公共英语课堂教学中成为常态时,教与学的效果均大受影响。因此有必要开展适于公共英语大班课堂教学的互动策略研究。本研究探索在高职公共英语课堂环境下小组互动策略培训对增强小组互动的有效性。     

构图视觉下多媒体课件优化设计探析

多媒体技术的发展极大地改变着当今教与学的方式,多媒体画面语言形式成为时下司空见惯的知识传递方式。分析多媒体课件的一般要求,结合多媒体画面语言理论和信息化传播理论,文章从构图角度系统地分析多媒体课件设计的优化过程。     

图文编排在设计中的作用

编排文字和图形是一门艺术,这门艺术有着悠久的历史,是人类文化的重要遗产,是提高作品的欣赏度的重要环节,能够直接影响到作品的销量、价值评估等。可以说,图形和文字设计是提高作品的诉求力,赋予版面审美价值的一种重要构成技术。由此说来,图文的编排工作也可以说成是艺术创作种类的一种,它是根据人的审美学角度合理的将图片文字编排成一种让人感觉最舒适的模式,以最好的角度来传达作品的核心思想。图形和文字永远是视觉设计的两大重要设计元素。     

The Authored Voice: Emerging approaches to exegesis design in creative practice PhDs

Abstract

In 2004, Robert Nelson noted in creative, practice-led research degrees that the exegesis had been reconceptualised as a cultural contribution to scholarship. He suggested that the challenge this posed was the need for writing to interface effectively with the nature and calibre of the creative work. A decade on from his observation, this article employs a case study to discuss emerging approaches to the exegesis in the work of graphic design doctoral candidates at AUT University in New Zealand. Accepting the multi-perspectival and multi-voiced nature of the practice-led exegesis writer, it discusses approaches to both structure and presentation. In so doing, it also considers specific issues, including negotiated relationships between the role and the nature of the designer’s voice, systems of narration, and issues impacting upon both digital and print formats.     

Estimation of a Nonlinear Intervention Phase Trajectory for Multiple-Baseline Design Data

A multilevel logistic model for estimating a nonlinear trajectory in a multiple-baseline design is introduced. The model is applied to data from a real multiple-baseline design study to demonstrate interpretation of relevant parameters. A simple change-in-levels (ΔLevels) model and a model involving a quadratic function (Quadratic) for the nonlinear intervention phase data were also estimated. In addition, a simulation study was conducted to assess Markov chain Monte Carlo estimation of the logistic model and compare its trajectory recovery with use of the ΔLevels and Quadratic models. While most of the logistic model's parameter values were recovered well, trajectory recovery was very reasonable using the simpler Quadratic model. Results are discussed along with recommendations for practitioners and directions for future research.     

Reexamining the Impact of Nonnormality in Two-Group Comparison Procedures

The authors performed a Monte Carlo simulation to empirically investigate the robustness and power of 4 methods in testing mean differences for 2 independent groups under conditions in which 2 populations may not demonstrate the same pattern of nonnormality. The approaches considered were the t test, Wilcoxon rank-sum test, Welch-James test with trimmed means and Winsorized variances, and a nonparametric bootstrap test. Results showed that the Wilcoxon rank-sum test and Welch-James test with trimmed means and Winsorized variances were not robust in terms of type I error control when the 2 populations showed different patterns of nonnormality. The nonparametric bootstrap test provided power advantages over the t test. The authors discuss other results from the simulation study and provide recommendations.     

General University Requirements at Hong Kong Polytechnic University: evaluation findings based on student focus groups

Under the new four-year undergraduate programme, a general education framework titled ‘General University Requirements’ (GUR) has been developed and implemented since 2012/2013 at Hong Kong Polytechnic University (PolyU). To evaluate the implementation and effectiveness of the GUR in its first year, focus group interviews with students were carried out. In 13 focus groups, 62 first-year students from eight faculties/schools who took GUR subjects in 2012/2013 academic year were interviewed by trained researchers. Results showed that students generally had good perceptions of the GUR in terms of the subject content, teaching methods and the overall effectiveness of the subjects. The interactive teaching and learning initiatives adopted in GUR subjects were particularly appreciated, although students expressed minor concerns on the administration of GUR subjects. The results suggest that the first-year implementation of the GUR at PolyU was generally smooth and successful from the perspectives of the students.     

Students’ use of the interactive whiteboard during physics group work

This paper presents a case study of how the interactive whiteboard (IWB) may facilitate collective meaning-making processes in group work in engineering education. In the case, first-year students attended group-work sessions as an organised part of a basic physics course at a Norwegian university college. Each student group was equipped with an IWB, which the groups used to write down and hand in their solutions to the physics problems. Based on a Vygotskian, dialectical stance, this study investigates how the students used the IWB in the group-work situation. From qualitative analysis of video data, we identified four group-work processes where the IWB played a key role: exploratory, explanatory, clarifying and insertion. The results show that the IWB may facilitate a ‘joint workspace’, a social realm in which the students’ dialogues are situated.