How to sustainably increase students’ willingness to protect pollinators

The current loss of biodiversity requires efforts to increase awareness of pollinator conservation. An important tool is education which often uses the honeybee (Apis mellifera) as an exemplary organism to reach this goal. Any successful module needs to focus on reducing the perceived danger associated with fear, in order to support the willingness to protect them. Using a quasi-experimental design, we investigated the effectiveness of two educational approaches: one by authentically encountering living animals at a beehive, the other by using a remote online beehive. We monitored secondary school students’ (N = 354) perception of bees with respect to interest, danger and conservation as well as situational emotions (interest, well-being, boredom) during both interventions. In both cases positive effects on perception levels were observed, even when already a high willingness to protect bees existed. Using living animals in educational settings is crucial, especially when students’ situational emotions need targeting. However, we achieved similar intervention results in perception levels using a remote beehive, which therefore constitutes an excellent alternative to raise awareness of the conservation of bees as pollinators when working with living organisms is not possible.     

Approaches to studying and perceptions of academic quality in distance education

The Course ExperienceQuestionnaire (CEQ) and a short form of theApproaches to Studying Inventory (ASI) wereadapted for use in distance education and wereadministered to students taking six differentcourses with the Open University. Theconstituent structure of the CEQ was preservedin this distinctive context, and a second-orderfactor analysis confirmed its status as ameasure of perceived academic quality. Thestudents' scores on the individual scales ofthe CEQ and the ASI shared almost half of theirrespective variance. It is concluded thatapproaches to studying in distance educationare strongly associated with students'perceptions of the academic quality of theircourses.     

Factors related to Taiwanese adolescents' academic procrastination,time management,and perfectionism

There is a shortage of studies that explore adolescents' academic procrastination. The author hence attempted to examine the mechanisms determining Taiwanese adolescent students' perfectionistic tendencies, time management, and academic procrastination. A total of 405 eighth-grade Taiwanese students completed a self-reported survey assessing their perceptions of classroom structure, parental expectations and criticism, perfectionistic tendencies, time management, and academic procrastination. Findings of regression analyses indicated that parental expectations and criticism were the key predictors of students' adaptive and maladaptive perfectionism. Students' perceptions of classroom structure also positively predicted their adaptive perfectionism. Moreover, results of hierarchical regressions suggested that perceived classroom structure, parental expectations and criticism, as well as adaptive perfectionism all emerged as predictors of time management. With regard to procrastination on homework and examination preparation, parental expectations and adaptive perfectionism were negative predictors, whereas parental criticism and maladaptive perfectionism were positive predictors. Also, time management negatively predicted academic procrastination.     

从使用者的角度谈词典的检索便捷性

从词典学本身理论出发评论词典的文章很多,真正从词典使用者的地位考虑问题的相对较少。本文主要是从词典使用者的角度入手,从词典检索的便捷性切入,通过对常用的五部英语词典的对比,找出词典在检索方面存在的四个不足:页面过窄,词目混列,义项颠倒和色彩单一,并针对这些不足给出了几点可供今后词典编纂参考的可行性尝试。     

提高大学生学习自我效能感的团体心理辅导策略

自从班杜拉提出自我效能感的理论之后,很多研究者对此做了深刻而细致的研究。学习自我效能感源于班杜拉的自我效能感理论,大学生的学习自我效能感的高低对学业水平和发展有着直接影响。文章从心理辅导层面提出团体心理辅导在提高大学生学习自我效能感中的应用。     

白石咏物词的物我关系

特定的文化背景和江湖漂泊的人生经历构成了白石咏物词对情与景独特的处理方式，其物我同化的审美理想对后代影响深远。     

Benefits of personality characteristics and self‐efficacy in the perceived academic achievement of medical students

This study investigates the joint impact of personality characteristics and self‐efficacy on the perceived academic achievement of medical students on top of their prior high school performance. The sample consisted of medical students in their pre‐clinical years. The students’ grade point average scores at high school were included as control variable in our explanatory models. Based on previous findings in the literature, we selected self‐discipline, social activity and emotional stability from the Five Factor Model of Personality as predictor variables. Furthermore, following the social cognitive theory of Bandura, we added self‐efficacy (students’ belief in their academic skills) as an additional predictor. The logistic regression analyses confirmed the importance of self‐discipline (positively related) and social activity (negatively related) for these students’ perceived academic achievement. Additionally, we found a positive contribution of self‐efficacy. The results of this study (as discussed in the final sections) have implications for support programmes in the practical field.     

资质过剩感对知识型员工越轨创新的影响——有调节的中介模型

基于社会认知理论、自我决定理论和结构紧张理论,运用层次回归分析、Bootstrap法,对专利密集型企业357位知识型员工的调研数据,进行实证检验,结果表明,资质过剩感、创新自我效能对越轨创新具有显著正向影响;创新自我效能在资质过剩感与越轨创新之间起部分中介作用;组织创新氛围感知正向调节资质过剩感与创新自我效能之间的关系,同时正向调节创新自我效能在资质过剩感与越轨创新之间的中介作用.研究结论揭示诱发知识型员工越轨创新行为的前提与边界条件,可为专利密集型企业实施创新驱动转型升级提供人力资源管理的辨识与思考.     

领导创造力期望如何引致越轨创新行为

深入研究越轨创新产生机制,构建以领导创造力期望为自变量、越轨创新行为为因变量、促进定向为中介变量、员工资质过高感为调节变量的研究框架,运用结构方程模型进行实证检验.结果 表明:领导创造力期望正向影响员工越轨创新行为,促进定向在其过程中起中介作用,当员工资质过高感处于较高水平时领导创造力期望对员工越轨创新行为的影响程度随之提高.得到管理启示如下:企业管理者应积极营造支持创新的组织氛围,在管理实践中给予员工支持和承诺,同时对员工资历要有充分了解,并注意在合理范围内控制员工自筹资源的能力以及加强企业内部管理.     

清洁发展机制(CDM)下碳排放价格剖析

针对我国CDM项目的碳排放交易价格明显低于国际碳交易价格,重点研究清洁发展机制下碳排放定价和碳排放现货便利收益。由于碳排放的定价权、询价权及CDM项目的决策权是以碳排放量买方主导,买方利用两个不同碳交易市场信息不对称实现套利行为,买方因持有碳排放现货获得便利收益。