Reading Rescue: A follow-up on effectiveness of an intervention for struggling readers

The authors examined whether Reading Rescue continues to be an effective literacy intervention and factors that impact its effectiveness. Data were collected on 143 first-grade students, tutored by 104 tutors at 38 schools. There was significant growth on all foundational skills (ps?ps?d?=?1.62 sight words, d?=?1.68 oral reading/comprehension). Student-level factors of Individualized Education Program status, program completion, number of session, and invented spelling; tutor-level factors of sessions delivered and years of experience; school level factors of school size and percentage of language minority students all predicted grade-level passage or word reading (all ps?2007 Ehri, L. C., Dreyer, L. G., Flugman, B., &; Gross, A. (2007). Reading rescue: An effective tutoring intervention model for language-minority students who are struggling readers in first grade. American Educational Research Journal, 44(2), 414–448.[Crossref], [Web of Science ®] , [Google Scholar]) study. Efforts should focus on ensuring program completion and increasing program exposure in neediest schools.     

Science diaries: a brief writing intervention to improve motivation to learn science

This study investigated the hypothesis that prompting students to self-assess their interest and understanding of science concepts and activities would increase their motivation in science classes. Students were randomly assigned to an experimental condition that wrote self-assessments of their competence and interest in science lessons or a control condition that wrote summaries of those same lessons. Writing activities were 10?min long and were given approximately once a week for eighteen weeks. Student motivation was assessed via self-report surveys for achievement goals and interest in science before and after the intervention. Students in the experimental condition showed higher endorsement of mastery goals and reported greater situational interest in science topics after the intervention compared to students who summarised the lessons. Increases in situational interest predicted higher individual interest in the domain. Results indicate an instructional practice requiring just 3?hours out of a semester of instruction was sufficient to achieve these effects on motivation in science classes.     

寓教于剧:e时代的大学生文化素质教育研究与实践

在天津大学文化素质教育立项试点的前提下,以建设特色英语第二课堂为切入点,探讨了关于加强大学生文化素质教育的改革新路子,力争通过寓教于剧,对提高大学生的业务水平、文化品位及团队精神等诸方面素质起到一种“催化剂” 的作用,更好地为培养跨世纪的高素质人才服务。     

远程教育中的流媒体技术

众所周知,远程教育已经成为教育开放的四个领域之一.而随着我国现代化教育水平的提高,一个新的历史机遇正出现在面前.目前,我国的远程教育尤其是现代远程教育正在蓬勃发展.随着网络技术的发展及网络环境的完善,流媒体(stream Media)技术作为互联网中视音频传输的核心技术越来越普及,而这一新技术的在远程教育中的应用,必将给网络教育带来了新的活力和生机.     

新课程背景下高师教育与高中教育良性衔接的对策

普通高中新课程实验,对高师院校的教育教学提出了挑战.面对挑战,必须对高师院校的教育教学进行新的思考,从教育目的的制定、课程内容的编制、课堂教学的方式方法、课程评价体系的重建等诸方面进行改革和探索,以期和高中教育更好地衔接,培养更多的新型师资.     

云南电大开放教育教学质量与成招生教学质量比较研究

通过对云南电大开放教育模式和传统成人教育模式的学习者教育特征、毕业生考试成绩、学生流失率和毕业率等的比较研究，开放教育模式教学质量明显高于传统函授教育（成招生）教学质量。     

试析课堂教学评价中的心理偏差及调控

课堂教学评价过程中,评价者的认知偏差影响到评价结论的准确性,评价对象的心理偏差也会使评价失真,从而导致评价结果的不准确。要能更好地发挥课堂教学评价的功能,需对评价者进行培训,改善评价管理工作,转变评价对象的认识,提高评价对象的参与程度,帮助评价对象提高心理调控能力,从而降低或消除评价者与评价对象的心理偏差。     

流式多媒体服务器及其在远程教育中的应用

因特网技术的发展极大的促进了远程教育的发展.在远程教学中，多媒体课件是主要的教学手段.新式流式多媒体服务器的出现，极大地改善了多媒体信息在网络中的传播，在未来的远程教育中，将具有广阔的应用前景.     

The linguistic construction of expert identity in professor–student discussions of science

This study examines how participation in a verbal exchange during an inquiry-based classroom activity allows three college students and their science instructor to use linguistic signs (choices of words, grammatical structures, discursive structures, prosody and poetic discourse) to construct authority and expertise. Our work explores linguistic and interactional processes of identification (the dynamic construction and transaction of expert identity) and examines how discursive strategies adopted by the professor at different moments of the verbal exchange influence the students’ subsequent discursive practices and perceptions of authority. We adopt a dialogic, socio-constructivist perspective on identity, viewing personal identities as being partially constructed via interactional positioning. Our findings reveal that the attainment of expertise involves two different types of language-mediated processes: the transmission of a professional vision or intension and the emergence of a perception of agency among students. The former is centered on referential-denotative meanings of speech (elicitation of standard account and operational definition) while the latter requires effective use of pragmatic–performative functions of speech (non-evaluative and more than minimal recipient practices). Consideration is given to the need for science instructors to be able to utilize pragmatic functions of language strategically to encourage students to position themselves within the identity of science expertise.     

学法指导与学习素质

通过《学法指导》课程的教学实践，从组织教学内容到学生的“学”等几方面，讨论分析了精心设计教学过程，蕴《学法指导》于同步教学之中的重要意义和可操作性，并总结了所取得的教学效果。