Using focus groups to evaluate a multiyear consumer health outreach collaboration

Objectives:Academic health sciences librarians sought to evaluate the efficacy and future of the Health Information Specialists Program, a five-year consumer health information outreach collaboration with public libraries across the state.Methods:Five focus groups were held with participants from all five years of the program. Thirty-four participants from the program attended. Facilitators used structured interview guides consisting of eleven questions regarding the impact of the collaboration on participants'' abilities to connect themselves or others to health information; the usefulness of materials or knowledge gained and its applications; any consumer health outreach projects that arose from the program; and suggestions for future topics, formats, or modifications. Data was hand-coded and analyzed using the framework analysis methodology for qualitative research.Results:Participants reported feeling improved confidence and comfort in providing health information services to their patrons. Numerous instances of knowledge transfer—in their personal lives, with their colleagues, and for their patrons—were described. Participants reported improved abilities to both find and evaluate consumer health information, and many adapted class materials for their own programming or teaching. Suggestions were provided for future class topics as well as a program website.Conclusion:Based on data from the five focus groups, the Health Information Specialists Program has positively impacted participants in a number of ways. Primary among these were self-reported improvement in both health information retrieval skills and the ability to evaluate the reliability of health information online, as well as in the confidence to help patrons with their health information needs.     

钠熔法元素定性分析实验的探讨

本文对有机化合物元素定性分析方法钠熔法实验的异常现象进行探讨并提出解释。     

《不要温驯地走人那个良宵》的前景化解读

迪伦·托马斯是英国20世纪最具影响力的诗人之一.他在诗歌创作中表现出独特的主题开掘和语言变异,是英国现代主义诗歌创作的先驱.依据文体学理论,通过前景化视角分析和解读托马斯的抒情诗<不要温顺地走入那个良宵>,为读者分析和欣赏诗歌提供了新的视角,实现了诗歌分析和解读中意义、形式、体现的有机结合和主题、词汇、句法、韵律的统一.     

当代优秀中学教师职业素质要素的调查研究

该调查目的是了解目前中学教师,中学生,师范生对当代优秀中学教师素质要素的认识,为构建当代优秀中学教师职业素质结构提供依据。调查结果表明,师生们认为中学优秀教师的首要素质是启发式教学能力,语言表达能力,其次是教师的教育信念和敬业,乐业,献身精神,再次是科学化素质,最后是教师的心理素质,身体素质。     

Facilitating or Impeding Acculturation: A Qualitative Study on Mobile Social Messaging in First-Generation Chinese Immigrants’ Everyday Lives

ABSTRACT

Previous research indicated that communication through media has been intertwined into immigrants’ everyday lives and become an essential part of their acculturating practices. However, no research has been conducted to examine how innovative, ethnic social media play a role in Chinese immigrants’ acculturation process in terms of social capital. In order to fill the research gap, a qualitative study was conducted to explore how Chinese immigrants use social messaging to accumulate social capitals to facilitate their acculturation process. Thirty face-to-face in-depth interviews were conducted among Chinese immigrants to collect data. Findings revealed that Chinese immigrants tend to consider acculturation as a complex and long process in which they navigate through and position themselves in the unfamiliar cultural system. The ethnic social medium – WeChat, and in particular, its social messaging plays an essential role in shaping Chinese immigrants’ acculturation experiences by assisting them in garnering both bonding and bridging social capitals.     

隐性目标决策问题的表示与研究进展

分析隐性目标决策问题的三个特点:一是存在着难以数量化、结构化表示的隐性(定性)指标;二是决策者偏好随着决策过程的进行可以调整改变;三是可行解空间大、可行方案数目多,不能直接进行穷举比较决策方案的优劣。对隐性目标决策问题进行了数学描述和分类,并对其求解方法——交互式进化计算的研究成果进行了分类归纳,为实际隐性目标决策问题求解提供参考。     

基于AHP的高职实践课程体系研究

以就业为导向，构建科学合理的、以职业岗位能力为核心的实践课程体系，是实现高职人才培养目标的重要保证。利用层次分析法（AHP）原理，可以构建AHP实践课程体系模型，通过定量计算与定性分析相结合的方法，得出各实践课程的重要性排序，从而构建实践课程体系。     

高校创业教育研究:回顾、分析及前瞻

采用质的研究方法对2000年至2006年7月国内核心期刊出现的高校创业教育研究进行检索、编码和讨论。从研究主题、内容和研究方法上进行回顾和分析,对未来国内高校创业教育研究提出展望。     

教育叙事研究:是什么与怎么做

叙事研究是质的研究的一种形式。关注教育叙事研究的意义在于:它提醒研究者面向实事本身或从实事本身中寻找内在的"结构",而不过多地用外在的框架有意无意地歪曲实事或滥用实事。教育叙事研究既可以显示为真实的叙事,也可以显示为虚构的叙事;教育叙事研究既可以叙述故事,不对故事做评论或解释,也可以对自己讲述的或他人讲述的故事进行再评论和解释。叙事研究无论采用历史研究的方式,还是采用调查研究的方式,其基本路径都是收集资料—解释资料—形成扎根理论,其重点是分析资料并形成扎根理论。     

教育研究中扎根理论的价值本真与方法祛魅

扎根理论作为一种质性研究范式,自21世纪初被引至国内教育研究领域后,便得到广泛应用。就实践论、方法论、本体论三重逻辑而言,教育研究中扎根理论应然的价值表征为以价值与事实的勾连,化解教育研究危机;以定量方法和定性方法的调和,缓冲教育研究的方法范式之争;以艺术与科学的融合,廓清教育学的本质属性。然而,在相关研究的实然样态下,扎根理论在实践论、方法论、本体论层面上分别暴露出应用形式桎梏、人文情怀缺位及扎根精神淡薄的问题。为此,教育研究者亟需对扎根理论进行祛魅,一要创生扎根理论的"时代风格",助推实践过程的"理论自觉";二要重塑扎根理论的"人文情怀",警惕方法层面的"花拳绣腿";三要重视研究过程的"扎根精神",回归扎根理论的"初心终旨",以实现扎根理论在我国教育研究中应然价值本真与实然价值追求的统一。