The effect of anticipated achievement feedback on students' semantic processing as indicated by the N400 cloze effect

The present study examined the effects of anticipated achievement feedback on students' semantic processing on the neural level, using event-related brain potentials (ERPs). Participants (N = 79) anticipated either self-referential or normative achievement feedback regarding an announced upcoming test. Additionally, their performance expectations (low vs. no expectations) were orthogonally manipulated. Subsequently, students' on-line semantic processing was assessed by measuring the N400 cloze effect, a component in the EEG signal of which the amplitude is associated with semantic processing. Within the low performance-expectation condition, no effect of anticipated feedback on semantic processing was found. Within the no-performance-expectation condition, participants anticipating self-referential feedback showed a more widely distributed N400 cloze effect than participants anticipating normative feedback. The results confirmed the hypothesis that the mere expectation of a particular type of feedback can affect students' semantic processes.     

Implementing Conferences in College English Writing Class:The Effects of the Negotiated Input

The current study is to examine the interactional effects of writing conferences focusing on negotiated patterns of revi?sion in a college English writing class. Fifteen participants were required to w...     

An Overall Study on Automated Writing Evaluation

Automated Writing Evaluation (AWE) program is designed to provide instant scores based on automated writing scor?ing engine along with diagnostic feedback. Five main AWE programs are introduced, four i...     

"国家的艺术形象"与"艺术的国家形象"--兼谈人民大会堂《江山如此多娇》的文化内涵

人民大会堂是我国最高的政治活动中心,又是最高的艺术殿堂,艺术与政治相互关系的理论上的阐释,在这里得当了最有效的实证;人民大会堂里的中国画如果被称谓“艺术的国家形象”,确切地说是最能代表着“国家的艺术形象”;人民大会堂的《江山如此多娇》画作,无论是创作主体,还是作品展示场地及其化内涵,都可以说是政治与艺术结合的结晶。     

运算放大器工作状态的判断及分析

在电子技术教学中,分析运算放大器系统时,应根据运算放大器系统的反馈情况,判断它的工作状态;分析工作状态时,要充分考虑运放系统是处于线性区还是饱和区。线性区可按虚短或虚地原则处理,饱和时不能按虚短原则处理,应用“虚短”和“虚地”时应注意“虚短”是“虚地”的特殊形式。     

A coach’s political use of video-based feedback: a case study in elite-level academy soccer

This paper examines the video-based pedagogical practices of Terry (pseudonym), a head coach of a professional junior academy squad. Data were collected through 6 in-depth, semi-structured interviews and 10 field observations of Terry’s video-based coaching in situ. Three embracing categories were generated from the data. These demonstrated that Terry’s video-based coaching was far from apolitical. Rather, Terry strategically used performance analysis technologies to help fulfil various objectives and outcomes that he understood to be expected of him within the club environment. Kelchtermans’ micropolitical perspective, Callero’s work addressing role and Groom et al.’s grounded theory were primarily utilised to make sense of Terry’s perceptions and actions. The findings point to the value of developing contextually grounded understandings of coaches’ uses of video-based performance analysis technology. Doing so could better prepare coaches for this aspect of their coaching practice.     

Floating collection in an academic library: An audacious experiment that succeeded

Can a floating collection thrive in a large multicampus academic research library? Floating collections have been successful in public libraries for some time, but it is uncommon for academic libraries and unheard of for a large academic library system. This article will discuss the investigation into the feasibility of a floating collection at Penn State University Libraries, its implementation, and continuation for a period covering 2009 through 2015. Attaining the floating collection, limited to monographs in the general stacks of campus libraries, proved to be easier to implement than imagined and resulted in unintended benefits as well as some surprises.     

信息反馈与汉语修辞

言语交际。信息传递，不都是简单的、单向的、固定的、一次性的。更多的。因此而更有现实意义和理论价值的，乃是那些复杂的、双向的、随机的、多次传递方能完成的。因此，判定某处修辞是成功的还是失败的，必须考察其在一个复杂的修辞流程中所起的作用，视其所造成的到底是正反馈还是负反馈。如若其所造成的是正反馈，那么，不管它多么生动、形象，都是失败的修辞；如若造成的是负反馈，那么，不管它多么朴拙、背谬，都是成功的修辞。     

University,Knowledge and Regional Development: Factors Affecting Knowledge Transfer in a Developing Region

The role of knowledge in the current knowledge economy cannot be overly emphasised. Successful regions are continuously being linked to excellence in the production, accumulation, and application of knowledge. Universities have increasingly been at the centre of such knowledge production, application and transfer. Yet, there is little research and evidence in this regard pertaining to less developed countries. The paper aims to fill this gap. The study uses the conceptual notion of knowledge transfer to interrogate the engagement level between the university and its region. Using a qualitative approach comprising the use of primary and secondary data, the authors capture some of the factors affecting knowledge transfer. Highlighting both supply-side and demand-side factors, the authors argue in favour of a nuanced and complex negotiation of the knowledge-development interface between universities as knowledge producers and regional stakeholders as knowledge users. Such negotiations should take cognisance of local realities.     

齐国兵学文化与《孙子兵法》

齐国大地军事家辈出,兵法著作内容宏富,孙武生长于泱泱大国的古老齐国,齐国是中国的兵学发源地,先秦的主要兵书出自齐地,孙武的兵学思想上承源远流长的齐国兵学传统流脉,深深承受于地域文明滋养,深深打上了齐文化的印痕。在中国兵学发展历史上,从姜尚到孙武再到其后的孙膑,形成了源远流长而又一脉相承的齐国兵学文化传统。