Content and impact of articles published by school psychology faculty

School Psychology faculty members are expected to publish articles in peer‐reviewed journals that impact the fields of education and psychology. Both the content and the impact of the articles school psychologists publish may change across time and differ from other disciplines. The current analysis sought to understand average article impact, content, and research focus, and to describe those articles that have the highest impact factor. All of the articles (n = 3670) published by school psychology faculty between January, 2010 and December, 2015 were collected and examined. Three reviewers were trained over 2 hr to read abstracts and to classify the content of those abstracts. The literature was systematically classified into four categories: assessment, consultation, intervention, and professional issues. The title, keywords, and abstract were used to find the category of best fit for each publication. The majority of articles published fall into the broad category of Professional Issues. The average article is cited 17.68 times in Google Scholar and 4.9 times in Web of Science. These data will be useful to understand publication content trends and identify gaps in research.     

Participatory creativities: developing a research design for children’s pastoral encounters with the natural world

ABSTRACT

In this paper, the author discusses the interrelationship between creativity, children’s experiences of the natural world and pastoral education. Based on a research design developed whilst undertaking a professional doctorate in education (EdD), and grounded in a theoretical framework of children’s rights, the author explores the creative uncertainties of collaboratively researching children’s educational experiences with nature. The paper considers the ways in which the research design supports a pastoral care agenda, whilst encouraging the emergence of ‘creative artefacts’, alongside the extent to which the focus of the research, encounters with the natural world, might be deemed pastorally minded in its own right. The children who have participated in the research then draw the paper to a close, sharing what their involvement in the project has meant to them. Images and excerpts of children’s own creative reflections are offered as illustration of the powerful confluence of the Creative and the Pastoral.     

Computer science and engineering: utilizing action research and lesson study

ABSTRACT

This article explores one group’s use of action research (AR) and lesson study in three US university-level computer science courses affecting 85 undergraduate computer science and engineering students. It offers an overview of three areas including AR, lesson study, and engineering soft skills. The research group identified a problem: undergraduate engineering student soft skill understanding. The group collaborated to enhance participant engagement with this problem by utilizing one lesson focused on soft skills over three research lesson iterations in three distinct university semesters (2017-2018). Field notes were the main data collection method. Observational field notes were recorded in the three research lesson iterations, and themes from the notes were identified. The group valued peer interactions, and the research lesson adaptations as well as pedagogical changes were based on evidence. Four themes were identified, and participant comments were considered as the lessons became more focused . The research group argues that AR and lesson study are separate and distinct ventures based on this yearlong experience, which is counter to some other literature presented. Implications are large for all stakeholders interested in AR, lesson study, soft skill utilization, conflict management, and participant learning impact. Possibilities for enhanced participant engagement exists with honed lesson pedagogy.     

Peer Teachers With Autism Teaching 3D Modeling

ABSTRACT

Few autism programmes address the needs of adolescents and young adults, and those that do are unlikely to include individuals with autism in the design and evaluation of the programme. This study involved nine youth with autism (ages 16–25) in the development and evaluation of a peer teaching programme where they taught three-dimensional modelling to other students with autism spectrum disorder. The methodology was participant-oriented research where the students with autism were co-designers and programme evaluators in the research. This approach highlighted their unique strengths and abilities and shifted the power such that they were leaders and not simply the recipients of knowledge from instructors. Four themes emerged through the qualitative analysis of the students’ perceptions of the peer teaching programme: 1) the meaning of peer teaching, 2) motivations for peer teaching, 3) challenges and 4) coping with the challenges of the role.     

我国教育研究的主题透视与演进逻辑——基于2006-2017年国家社科基金教育学项目的量化分析

基于对我国近12年国家社科基金教育学项目的量化分析发现,中国特色教育研究的主要内容聚焦在:教育改革与发展、课程与教学研究、教师成长与教育、德育与人才培养模式、国际经验借鉴与本土化、教育信息化与"互联网+"等领域;政策导向与学术导向两大逻辑主线互相作用与有机组合,形成高政策导向-高学术导向逻辑、高政策导向-低学术导向逻辑、低政策导向-低学术导向逻辑、低政策导向-高学术导向逻辑等具体的逻辑演进路径,多类型演进逻辑驱动下的教育科学研究体现着学科进步与实践诉求相互促进、重点聚焦与全局关注齐头并进、时代回应与历史梳理相得益彰的研究特征。     

新媒体平台下增强大学生党支部理论学习的探索

在党中央提倡创新精神的时代背景下,学生党建工作也需要创新思路和手段以便把学生党支部理论学习的内容、质量提升一个新的台阶,而以新媒体为媒介平台开展学生党支部学习生活正是学生党建工作的一种创新,符合党建创新的精神。通过建设新媒体平台创新学生党支部理论学习思路与实践,有利于加强学生党建工作的成效,进一步提高学生党员理论素养。     

我国混合学习研究现状与问题分析——基于CNKI核心期刊文献计量和可视化分析

作为一种新的学习方式,近年来混合学习引起了国内外研究的高度关注。系统地探究我国混合学习的研究现状与问题,对进一步深入研究我国混合学习以及教育教学改革具有重要意义。本文基于文献计量法、内容分析法和聚类分析法,对混合学习领域核心期刊上近十年的论文从时空分布、核心期刊、作者、研究热点和趋势进行系统分析发现:对混合学习深层次基本理论的探究和实践应用研究依然是研究热点,但是研究的深度、广度和影响力有待进一步加强;对混合学习资源建设和教学要素的研究相对比较匮乏。研究发现,后续混合学习研究领域或将更加关注从资源建设和教学要素的角度,去探究提升混合学习内生动力的机制、教育大数据和学习分析技术在混合学习中的应用以及深度学习与混合学习的融合。     

来华留学生的自我呈现:途径与机制

来华留学生的跨文化交流会影响其留学体验,基于新制度主义社会学视角,研究采用质性研究方法对来自北京师范大学的14位来华留学生进行了访谈、观察和实物收集,探究其自我呈现的途径及作用机制。研究发现,来华留学生以学习场域的边缘人、交往的分化者、精神空间的建构者、情感能量的获得者、反身性的调适者五种角色进行自我呈现。恰适性逻辑与结果性行为逻辑共同构成的社会适应逻辑作用于来华留学生个体的行为选择与身份表达。因个体行为与制度间的高度互动性,影响其自我呈现的制度构成包括规制性的安排与惯例、规范性的交往规则、文化-认知性的社会框架。所以高校不仅要在规制性层面进行政策调整,还应当对文化-认知与情感层面予以关注,从而促进来华留学生的跨文化适应。     

农学专业学位硕士研究生案例教学模式探讨——以食品新产品开发课程为例

我国专业学位硕士的数量接近硕士研究生总数的三分之二,社会和企业对专业硕士实际解决生产问题的能力要求较高,案例教学是提高专业硕士研究生解决问题能力的有效途径。因此,在农学专业学位硕士研究生教育中应加强案例教学,并不断探讨案例教学模式对研究生的培养作用和意义。本论文将以农学专业学位硕士的食品产品开发课程为例,分析此课程的案例教学模式,并探讨案例教学的教学特点和实施方法,为促进案例教学发展奠定基础。