The validity of student ratings of teaching quality: Factorial structure,comparability, and the relation to achievement

Student ratings are widely used to assess teaching quality in primary and secondary education. This necessitates a thorough examination their validity and reliability in such contexts. To this end, we present validity evidence for using student ratings of teaching quality based on their factorial structure, comparability across grades and subjects, and relation to achievement. Based on data from the 2019 Trends in Mathematics and Science Study (TIMSS) and its national extensions in Norway (N = 3951 5th graders and N = 4575 9th graders), we could confirm a theoretically assumed three-dimensional factor structure (i.e., classroom management, cognitive activation, and supportive climate). Moreover, classroom management and supportive climate were more comparable across grades and subjects then cognitive activation. Finally, classroom management was associated with achievement across all groups, whereas other dimensions showed mixed results, especially across grades. Overall, the findings indicate that students, especially in Grade 9, can provide a valid assessment of teaching quality.     

从跆拳道运动的发展审视中小学武术教育

文章在指出中小学武术教育存在问题的基础上,从跆拳道运动教育体制、精神教育和技术教学分析其对中小学武术教育的启示,以期为中小学武术教育改革提供有益的参考。     

中医药对原发性骨质疏松症的治疗现状

在收集了近年来中医药治疗骨质疏松症（OP）的相关文献基础上,从中医基础理论出发,对病因病机及治疗药物等方面进行归纳,并提出对中医药治疗该症的建议,以期对今后该领域的研究提供参考。     

浅谈如何把握幼儿早期教育的“度”

我们知道,幼儿教育跟小学教育是两个不同的领域,它需要不同的教学理念、教学方法和教学手段,但在现实中,幼儿教育的“小学化”倾向正日益严重,不少幼儿园的教学手段尤其是私人幼儿园几乎跟小学一模一样。这种倾向,对于幼儿的健康成长是福还是祸？是喜还是忧,值得家长、幼儿园乃至全社会的深思。     

晋江市小学开展轮滑运动的可行性实证研究

积极探索创设新型体育课程,有利于促进学校体育课程教学目标的实现,增强青少年儿童身体素质。采用调查问卷法、访谈法、文献资料法和数理统计法等,对晋江市小学开展轮滑运动的可行性进行实证研究。从教师、学生、家长三个层面对晋江市小学开展轮滑运动的有利条件、影响因素、发展前景等方面进行了全面客观的调查实证分析。调查结果显示,晋江市小学生对轮滑运动的喜爱和接受程度高,晋江市各地小学学生参加轮滑运动的数量和水平具有明显差异,学校师资和场地条件较好,学生家长支持度高。晋江市小学开展轮滑运动具有较强的可行性。     

区域农村小学英语教学现状调查与策略研究

本文通过对湖北省荆门市沙洋县农村小学英语教学现状调查，获得了大量的一手材料，发现了一些问题。针对这些问题，提出了一些解决的策略。     

陕西省中小学体育卫生工作与学生健康现状研究

运用问卷调查法、访谈法、文献资料法、数理统计等研究方法,对陕西省参加全国学生体质与健康调研的好、中、差代表地区,即西安、汉中和延安三地市30所中小学体育卫生工作的现状和学生群体的健康状况进行研究。揭示了当前中小学体育卫生工作中存在的问题及其对学生健康状况的影响,为体质与健康研究的深入发展提供依据。     

海南省黎族中小学生与全国汉族中小学生体质对比分析

通过对海南省黎族中、小学生同全国汉族学生之间的体质对比分析,调查了海南省黎族学生的体质现状,就如何提高其群体健康水平进行了研究。结果表明:黎族中、小学生身体形态、身体机能发育落后于同龄全国汉族学生,身体素质整体水平高于汉族。     

Development of lexical tone awareness in Chinese children with and without dyslexia

This paper describes two studies that examined the lexical tone awareness of Chinese children both with and without dyslexia at different primary school ages.Study 1 examined the contributions of lexical tone awareness to distinguish children with and without dyslexia with respect to their Chinese character reading skills. Two hundred and seventy Chinese children participated in Study 1. Ninety of these were children with dyslexia (equally recruited from second, fourth, and sixth grades). Moreover, ninety children functioned as a chronological-age control group, and an additional ninety children functioned as a reading-level control group. The participants were tested for nonverbal intelligence, Chinese character reading, and cognitive-linguistic skills and lexical tone awareness. Our results revealed a later developmental ceiling in Chinese children with dyslexia than in those without dyslexia. Furthermore, children’s lexical tone awareness could serve to distinguish children with dyslexia from typically developing children in all primary school years.Study 2 compared the lexical tone awareness and Chinese character reading skills of Chinese children with dyslexia both before and after introducing the Perceptual Training Method. The participants in this study consisted of all the participants with dyslexia from Study 1, and the measurements were the Chinese character reading test and the lexical tone awareness task from Study 1. Our results revealed that only second-grade children with dyslexia gained substantially from the training on both lexical tone awareness and character naming, whereas those in the fourth grade obtained a significant improvement only on lexical tone awareness.     

Factors influencing electronic health record adoption by physicians: A multilevel analysis

In Canada, the healthcare system remains paper-laden, and EHR adoption by physicians lags behind many other industrial countries. Recent reviews identified individual and organizational factors as having the most important influence on EHR adoption and proposed taking a multidimensional perspective to study these adoption determinants. However, most studies have focused on physician EHR adoption measured at the individual level.ObjectivesFirst, we used a multilevel regression model to assess whether organizations' characteristics influenced physician behavioral intention to use EHR. Second, we sought to identify individual and organizational factors that explain physician intention.MethodsWe conducted a prospective cross-sectional study among physicians in 49 primary healthcare organizations in four regions of the province of Quebec (Canada). We first analyzed relationships between individual and organizational variables and intention. Second, we performed multilevel modeling to explore organizational characteristics' impact on physician intention to use EHR.Results278 completed questionnaires were returned from the 31 organizations that had at least 5 participants (response rate: 39.8%). Questionnaires showed satisfactory psychometric properties. The multilevel modeling found no significant overall influence of organizational level on physician intention to use EHR. Second, six of the individual level constructs had a positive and strongly significant impact on physician intention.ConclusionIn the Quebec context, organization-level seems to have no significant impact on EHR adoption by physicians. Hence, particular strategies are more likely to succeed if they target individual physicians rather than organizations.