Parent and teacher satisfaction with school‐based psychological reports

School psychologists spend a great deal of time translating assessment results into a psychoeducational report. The importance of creating reports that are both useful and understandable to the readers of the report while also being efficient for the school psychologist cannot be overstated. This study examines parent and teacher perceptions regarding the quality, understandability, and usefulness of school‐based psychological reports. Results of the surveys indicate that both parents and teachers perceive psychological reports as focusing more on tests and test scores as opposed to information that helps to understand the child or assists with intervention development. Strategies for upgrading reports to better meet the needs of parent and teacher readers are discussed.     

Activity theory: A framework for design and reporting on research projects based on ICT

We propose using activity theory as a basis for designing and reporting on research projects that focus on information and communication technology (ICT) as a means to support educational processes. Adopting the theory, we describe teaching/learning activities mediated by ICT using a three level analysis: epistemological, methodological, social assistance. The analysis has been applied to the design and reporting of projects in both mathematics education at primary school level and training in technical innovation in commercial enterprises.     

《发展汉语·中级口语Ⅰ》教材对留学生的适用性特征分析

探讨了对外汉语口语教材《发展汉语·中级口语Ⅰ》的编写特色、内容的选择、练习的设计、学生自主性学习能力的培养等方面的优点,并根据新疆师范大学国际文化交流学院的师生使用该教材的情况,提出《发展汉语·中级口语Ⅰ》是一部适合有一定基础的留学生学习汉语口语的教材.     

中西负面报道差异探析

中西方新闻负面报道上存在着差异。西方新闻热衷于负面报道，中国新闻以正面报道为主，负面报道处于次要地位。即使是负面报道，其报道的视角、价值取向与西方也截然不同。本文试图从新闻思维、媒介体制与法制以及文化观念三个方面比较、分析这种差异存在的原因。     

记忆、认知和运动行为

在运动记忆领域中,注意机能、认知表征、表象过程和信息编码等问题日益受到重视.从组织结构、言语标记、心理表象,心理练习和预选动作等5个方面,论述了从认知角度探讨运动记忆问题的研究成果,阐明了现代运动记忆研究与经典记忆研究的巨大差异.     

试论我国职业足球联赛报道的地方色彩和倾向性

地方色彩和倾向性是我国职业足球联赛报道的客观存在和重要特征，论述了这种地方色彩和倾向性的表现形式和形成原因，提出媒体应正确认识和适当表现联赛报道的地方色彩和倾向性。     

楼市迷局媒体乱象——对近期国内房地产报道中诸问题的反思

随着近一年来房价泡沫的破裂和房地产业的调整,楼市成为媒体竞相报道的话题,但总体表现却令人失望。本文试图通过对近期国内媒体房地产报道进行反思,总结其中存在的诸问题并加以简要分析。     

A combined approach to strengthen children’s scientific thinking: direct instruction on scientific reasoning and training of teacher’s verbal support

Inquiry-based lessons have been demonstrated to improve children’s scientific thinking (i.e. reasoning abilities and domain-specific knowledge). Although empirical evidence shows that inquiry-based learning requires instruction, research comes from two approaches that have not been bridged yet: direct instruction of scientific reasoning and teacher training of verbal support. We investigated how these two types of instruction separately or combined strengthened children’s scientific thinking by comparing four conditions: baseline, direct instruction, verbal support, and a combined approach. Effectiveness of an inquiry-based lesson series on scientific reasoning abilities, vocabulary, and domain-specific knowledge (near and far transfer) were studied among 301 fourth graders. Results showed that both approaches strengthened different components of scientific reasoning abilities, and that a combination of instructions was most effective for scientific reasoning abilities, vocabulary, and domain-specific knowledge. Domain-specific knowledge acquisition was strengthened only when both instructions were provided. It can thus be concluded that each type of instruction has unique contributions to children’s science learning and that these instructions complement each other. Our study thus showed that inquiry-based lesson series when preceded by direct instruction of scientific reasoning and scaffolded with verbal support are most effective.     

Verbal energy: attending to poetry

This paper contends that the current English curriculum does not adequately acknowledge the potential of poetry to make meaning through sound. It reflects on how sound may embody or communicate meaning, and seeks enhanced conceptions of this aspect of poetry for pedagogy and the curriculum. It begins with the attention the mainstream press gave to Seamus Heaney's remarks about Eminem, and progresses to consider Heaney's notion of ‘verbal energy’ in the light of developing conceptions of multimodal ‘new literacies’. It suggests that new approaches could accord with an oral heritage approach to poetry while also acknowledging the influence of the communicational environments pupils experience beyond English classrooms. Throughout, the author draws on material that has informed his on‐going Teacher Training Agency‐sponsored project exploring the ways in which pupils approach poetry as sound, soon to be detailed on web resources for the English teaching community.