Moral rationality and intuition: An exploration of relationships between the Defining Issues Test and the Moral Foundations Questionnaire

Explorations of relationships between Haidt’s Moral Foundations Questionnaire (MFQ) and indices of moral decision-making assessed by the Defining Issues Test have been limited to correlational analyses. This study used Harm, Fairness, Ingroup, Authority and Purity to predict overall moral judgment and individual Defining Issues Test-2 (DIT-2) schema scores using responses from 222 undergraduates. Relationships were not confirmed between the separate foundations and the DIT-2 indices. Using the MFQ moral judgment items only, confirmatory factor analyses confirmed higher order constructs called Individualizing and Binding foundations. Structural models using these higher order factors fitted the data well, and findings indicated that the Binding foundations significantly positively predicted Maintaining Norms and negatively predicted both overall moral judgment (N2) and the Postconventional Schema. Neither Individualizing nor Binding foundations significantly predicted Personal Interest. While moral judgments assessed by DIT-2 may not be evoking the MFQ foundations, findings here suggest the MFQ may not be a suitable measure for capturing more advanced moral functioning.     

The importance of communication in teaching: A systems-theory approach to the scaffolding metaphor

Scaffolding as a metaphor for support of learning processes places focus on the relationship between the psychic and social aspects of those processes. This paper examines the conceptualization of this relationship in activity theory and in operational constructivism. The importance of a distinction between psychic processes, language and communication is especially emphasized and discussed in relation to understandings of empathy, inter-subjectivity, and distributed cognition.     

Review of Current Periodical Literature

This article examines the connections between No Child Left Behind (NCLB) and the Effective Schools Research Movement. Using historical methodology, the authors argue that although both were premised on building capacity, over time the reform that became NCLB evolved to focus on accountability. This shift disconnected the reform from its research base, resulting in its failure to bring about equity. To save NCLB, policymakers and scholars should reconnect reform efforts with research and adopt policies that favor inspection.     

任务型教学法在大学英语听说课中的应用

任务型教学法通过使学生在完成相关任务的过程中,提高第二语言的实际使用能力,加深对语言结构的理解。这种教学方法尤其适合大学英语听说课的互动式教学模式。教师根据学生的能力水平布置相应的教学任务,学生以查找资料,小组讨论,交换观点等协作方式,在语言的实际使用过程中完成任务。与传统授课模式相比,任务型教学法可以有效提高大学英语听说教学的效果。     

软土地基上联合基础的流变效应研究

文章运用Marc软件中的广义Kelvin粘弹性模型对连梁式联合基础在竖向荷载作用下地基的沉降和应力进行三维模拟和计算,得出粘弹性地基的沉降与应力随时间变化的结论。     

Private foundations,philanthropy, and partnership in education and development: mapping the terrain

There has been increasing interest on the role of private foundations in education finance and delivery. We argue that this is due to a macro-policy context of stagnating levels of official development assistance for education and an uncritical acceptance of a logic of neutrality and the efficiency and effectiveness of of partnerships and philanthropy. This paper reports on the results of a literature review on private foundations in education and development. It found significant contestation against the claims of neutrality, efficiency, effectiveness. It also identifies salient methodological and substantive issues for the development of a research agenda on the issue.     

教师权威弱化的原因及教师权威的运行基础

教师权威的弱化是教育发展和社会进步的必然．也是促进受教育者全面发展的要求。赫尔巴特认为“心智屈服于权威,权威能拘束儿童超出常规的活动。”杜威说“为了控制一定的秩序．权威都是不可少的”。可见教师权威在教育活动中不可或缺。     

基于NI myDAQ的电子技术基础课堂教学

针对电子技术基础课程中工程实践教育面临的问题,以情境教学法作为教育理论基础,以NI myDAQ设备为工具,探索一种全新的教学方法,并付诸教学实践。这种新的课堂教学方法将工程实践教育拓展到课堂上,不仅有助于提高学生的工程实践能力,让学生从书本理论过渡到工程实践,而且有利于学生工程创新意识的培养。     

砼框架结构抗震设计中浅基础设计探讨

砼框架结构抗震设计中浅基础的设计是众值烈度(多遇烈度)下的弹性基础设计,多遇地震作用均应参与组合,柱根设计内力为众值烈度(多烈度)下处于弹性状态时,最不利组合内力经内力调整设计的延性框架柱根内力,浅基础的设计按弹性基础设计时不需要考虑基础的延性要求,设计计算应遵循地基基础抗震设计原则,满足地基基础抗震设计要求。