高中生英语学习动机的调查与分析

本研究通过学生英语学习动机的问卷调查,采用SPSS（10.0）软件和独立样本T检验等统计方法,对高中生不同类别的动机差异进行数据分析,并结合对部分学生的访谈,发现高中生英语学习的工具性动机占有主导地位,动机的强弱与高中生英语学习水平的高低、性别的差异以及价值观等因素相关。因此,文章提出了要重视人文性教育,把意义的教育内化于应试的教育之中,实现人文性与工具性的结合,以激发和强化高中生的英语学习动机,提高高中生的英语学习水平。     

分层整群抽样下敏感问题问卷调查技术及其应用

文章提出了属性特征敏感问题在分层整群抽样下的问卷调查技术,讨论了运用该方法所得的敏感属性的比例估计及其估计方差的计算公式,计算出了敏感属性比例95％的置信区间。并在湖南城市学院本科学生在大学四、六级英语水平考试中是否曾作弊情况的实例调查中取得了信誉度较高的成功应用效果。     

关于高职教育教学的几点思考

高职院校在我国蓬勃发展,但高职教育仍处于探索中,尚不够成熟,本文将就作为教学中心的学生感到茫然与被动、教材的弊端、基础课程的窘迫境遇等问题展开思考。     

高校经管类本科毕业论文选题类型的改革探索——调研型论文的教学实践

毕业论文是高等学校本科专业人才培养方案的重要组成部分。近年来论文质量不高,抄袭已经是一个非常普遍的问题。北京城市学院经济管理学部针对学生实际情况和学生就业需求,在毕业论文的改革方面进行了有益的尝试。本文提出了调研型论文的定位与内涵;阐述了调研型论文的过程控制、指导教师队伍建设;论述了调研型论文的突出特色。     

Graduate LIS Students' Attitude Toward University Libraries and Personnel

This is an attitudinal survey that profiles Kuwait University Library and Information Science (KULIS) students' attitudes concerning Kuwait University's (KU's) libraries. It uses the phenomenological approach to analyze respondents' data regarding confidence in their skills and the effect on attitude toward KU's resources. It furthermore explores the attitudes of KU staff and the level of assistance offered to KULIS students. The results show that most of the respondents visited the library to access electronic resources. Some respondents disagreed that the staff had treated the KULIS suspiciously, yet a majority disagreed that the KU library staff was professionally trained to help KULIS students. Several respondents strongly agreed that they were confident in their searching skills. The results of the survey are used to recommend curriculum changes and ways to improve library and other academic support services at academic institutions generally.     

上海市部分中等职业学校体育教学现状的调查与分析

随着社会各界对体育教学越来越重视,我国政府也对体育教学的现代化提出了相应的政策和举措,今天体育健康教学提出了"健康第一"的口号。本文通过对上海市六所中职体育教学现状分析,并根据我国学校体育改革和发展的状况,对体育教育提供理论参考的依据。     

Instrument adaptation in cross-cultural studies of students’ mathematics-related beliefs: learning from healthcare research

Much comparative research into education-related beliefs has exploited questionnaires developed in one culture for use in another. This has been particularly the case in mathematics education, the focus of this paper. In so doing, researchers have tended to assume that translation alone is sufficient to warrant a reliable and valid instrument for cross-cultural research, prompting concerns that a number of necessary equivalences are unlikely to have been addressed. In this paper, we consider the nature of these equivalences before examining the literature of a different field, healthcare research, to synthesise an approach to instrument adaptation that is pragmatic but rigorous. Finally, we demonstrate how this pragmatic approach, incorporating extensive cognitive interviews, enabled us to adapt and refine a mathematics-related beliefs questionnaire, developed in Flanders, for use with students aged 14–15 in England and Spain. Analyses indicate that the instrument so developed is multidimensional, reliable and cross-culturally valid. Some implications are discussed.     

The Heyneman–Loxley effect revisited in the Middle East and North Africa: Analysis using TIMSS 2007 database

Since the controversial finding of the Coleman Report (1966), which was that school resources had little effect on educational outcomes comparing to family background, huge literature has emerged in order to verify the above finding in countries other than the United States. The Heyneman–Loxley work (1983) presented for the first time clear evidence that variation in school resource quality could matter more than variation in family inputs in low and middle income countries. Following this literature, and using TIMSS 2007 data, we attempt in this study to revisit the Heyneman–Loxley hypothesis and the related debate regarding the overall importance of schools in explaining variations in student achievement across Middle East and North African countries. Survey Jackknife regression technique and quantile regressions have been used for the purpose of this study. Our results are in line with those of Baker et al. (2002) showing that the Heyneman–Loxley effect had declined over time.     

How MOOC instructors view the pedagogy and purposes of massive open online courses

Massive open online courses (MOOCs) have proliferated in recent years despite disagreement about the role of MOOCs in higher education and whether student outcomes are satisfactory. Taking a mixed-methods approach, the current study surveys professors who have taught MOOCs (n = 162) in order to better understand how MOOCs are perceived by instructors. Professors’ backgrounds and beliefs about the role of MOOCs in higher education and their perceptions of the experiences of students are discussed. In addition, professors’ satisfaction in teaching MOOCs is reported. The study finds that most MOOC professors are experienced faculty members with relatively little prior experience teaching online, and that they are divided about the purpose of MOOCs in the institutional landscape of higher education.     

Exploring ethical issues associated with using online surveys in educational research

Online surveys are increasingly used in educational research, yet little attention has focused on ethical issues associated with their use in educational settings. Here, we draw on the broader literature to discuss 5 key ethical issues in the context of educational survey research: dual teacher/researcher roles; informed consent; use of incentives; privacy, anonymity, and confidentiality; and data quality. We illustrate methods of addressing these issues with our experiences conducing online surveys in educational contexts. Moving beyond the procedural ethics approach commonly adopted in quantitative educational research, we recommend adopting a situated/process ethics approach to identify and respond to ethical issues that may arise during the conduct, analysis, and reporting of online survey research. The benefits of online surveying in comparison to traditional survey methods are highlighted, including the potential for online surveys to provide ethically defensible methods of conducting research that would not be feasible in offline education research settings.