The zone of proximal creativity: What dynamic assessment of divergent thinking reveals about students’ latent class membership

Divergent Thinking is a domain-general mental attribute closely associated with creativity that can be quantified through the use of text-mining algorithms. Past research has shown that students’ Divergent Thinking is malleable in response to relatively simple contextual prompts. In addition, there is substantial variance in the degree to which individual students’ Divergent Thinking is malleable, suggesting the presence of a student-specific zone-of-proximal-development in relation to creativity. Here, we adopted a dynamic assessment paradigm that included multiple conditions under which student Divergent Thinking was measured and fit a latent profile analysis model to that dynamic assessment data. We found that, although on average the Originality of student responses can be augmented through a prompt to generate surprising or unusual ideas, three latent classes emerged that differed significantly on their patterns of augmentation. These three latent classes were termed: (a) Conventional Thinkers (7.80% of the sample), whose response to the Divergent Thinking task were highly constrained and unoriginal across all conditions (b) Prompted Shifters (66.56%), whose Originality significantly increased across conditions, and (c) Idea Generators (25.64%), whose responses were highly original across all conditions. These latent profiles were validated in regard to personality characteristics and domain-specific creative activities, with Idea Generators reporting significantly more Openness and Intellect, less Industriousness, and more creative activities across the domains of Literature, Music, Sports, Visual Art, Science, and Cooking than did the other latent classes.     

坦桑尼亚县域与城乡交通通达水平空间格局特征

坦桑尼亚是"一带一路"倡议通向非洲、辐射非洲内陆的重要门户，它在快速城市化过程中面临交通基础设施严重短缺问题。基于坦桑尼亚公路、铁路、机场、港口、人口和城市分布数据，运用GIS空间分析技术，结合交通通达指数模型，从县域与城乡两个层面对坦桑尼亚交通通达水平的空间格局特征进行定量分析。研究发现：1）坦桑尼亚县域交通通达水平空间分布极不均衡，高值连片区主要位于东北沿海和维多利亚湖沿岸，低值连片区主要位于中央铁路线中段以北、中央铁路线南部的广大地区；2）受地理区位、资源禀赋、殖民历史、政府政策等影响，城市与乡村地区之间的交通通达水平差异十分显著。研究结果有助于坦桑尼亚制定区域交通发展政策和优化资源配置，同时对中-坦产业精准对接和产能转移具有一定的促进意义。     

大学生群体极化现象的社会心理学分析

群体极化现象是指群体成员一开始具有某种偏向,在经过讨论后群体朝偏向的方向继续移动,直至形成极端的结果。大学生是一个特殊的群体,他们朝气蓬勃、富于激情,看重个人名誉,充满正义感,具备较强的集体观念,组织性纪律性强。大学生的这些特征也使得这一群体在事实上更加容易发生极端化的情况。防治大学生群体极化要从重视传统,加强极端化后果教育,注重观点和意见的多样性与平衡,融入协商民主理念等多个方面共同着手。     

Using video to promote early childhood teachers' thinking and reflection

This article examines findings from a qualitative study employing group stimulated-recall interviews using video-recordings of early childhood teachers to elicit their thinking and reflections about their teaching interactions. It focuses on the value of video to enable teachers to reflect on their practices and the extent to which collectively viewing recorded episodes allows negotiated understandings of their own and other teachers' practices. Whilst these findings suggest that video and collective dialogue are useful professional learning tools for teachers to examine and improve their teaching, structural and relational challenges exist that may impact on how effectively such tools are used.     

和谐社会和社会风险的理性思考

介绍了有关社会风险的理论,分析了我国当前社会风险的特点,提出防范社会风险、构建和谐社会的新思路和新举措。     

俄语教学中思维能力的培养

语言、教育和学习都能促进思维的发展。作为语言教学的俄语课程有其自身的特点,在培养思维的概括性、逻辑性、层次性等方面发挥着重要作用。     

历史转型期的文化反思——《霜叶红似二月花》思想意蕴新探

《霜叶红似二月花》继承“五四”思想革命的思想传统和以鲁迅为代表的“五四”启蒙主义的文学传统 ,从思想文化的高度 ,通过对历史题材的精心选择、对家庭生活的重点描写 ,对历史转型期的生活进行了深刻的文化反思 ,表现出作者对反封建思想革命重要性的体认 ,在茅盾的小说创作中具有独特深刻的思想意蕴     

数学教学反思初探

数学教学反思是对数学教学的反思性活动,是数学教师继续教育、提高教师素质和能力以及更好地在教学实践中帮助学生获得知识的非常重要的手段和途径.本文主要论述了数学教学反思的涵义、作用和方法.     

三角恒等式证明的教学探索

三角恒等式证明问题,是中专阶段的一个难点,在三角恒等式的证明中,若能把握住一些常用的变换和原则.则能使思路开阔,从而使问题变得易解决。     

数学教学中的数学美探究

论述了数学教学中数学的统一美、对称美、简单美、奇异美、抽象美等特征，给学生以美的享受，提高他们的抽象思维和形象思维能力。