Assessment of attention in school children: teachers' ratings related to tests of attention

The paper provides (1) a teacher-administered rating instrument for inattention without confounding the rating with hyperactivity and conduct disorder, and (2) evidence that the ratings correlate with the scores obtained from cognitive tests of attention. In Study I, the first objective was to investigate the construct validity and the inter-rater reliability of the Attention Checklist (ACL) by factor analysing the teacher ratings of 110 Grade 4 children, obtained by using the ACL. The second objective was to investigate the predictive validity of the ACL by examining the relationship between the scores obtained for the participants from teachers' ratings using the ACL and the scores obtained by participants in the lab-type attention tests. The results of factor analysis showed that a single factor labelled ‘inattention’ underlies the 12 items in the ACL. Examining the differences in performance on attention tests, the ‘low attention’ children as rated by the teachers on the ACL scored lower than the ‘high attention’ children on the objective tests of attention. These findings were replicated in Study II, which was conducted to test further the construct validity and predictive validity of the ACL. This time, only those two tests (Auditory Attention and Visual Attention) that had shown relatively poor discrimination between the high and low attention groups in Study I were, again, administered to another cohort of 97 Grade 4 children, as it was our intention to further challenge the reliability of the ACL. Overall, the results of both studies suggest that comprehensive assessment of attention skills should include both ACL and objective measures of selective attention.     

激发学生认知心理之网页设计的视觉效应

从学生进行网上学习的心理出发,分析如何使用更好的视觉设计,激发学生的学习需求,引导学生高效学习。     

关于Visual FoxPro教学的思考

结合教学实践,阐述对Visual FoxPro教学的思考,探讨如何改进教学思路,合理进行教学内容和实践环节的组织和安排,更快地提高高等院校计算机基础课程的教学水平。     

基于Visual C + +的北京奥运会游泳项目成绩预测方法

采用了一种简便易用、通用性强的数据插值算法，以历届奥运会成绩数据为基础，以灰色理论分析方法为理论依据，对2008年北京奥运会游泳成绩做出了预测。对模型化的算法采用计算机编程方式，并提供可视化界面，大大减少了冗余复杂的数据计算，只需录入历年成绩，程序本身就可自动算出北京奥运会的该项目成绩预测值，极大方便了此预测算法的使用。     

“分享图书经验”在语言教学中的运用

＂分享图书经验＂（Shared Reading Experience）是美国语言教学课堂上常用的一种教学方法。教师使用精心选择的大书,配合一系列的教学设计,培养学生的阅读兴趣,词汇运用,口语表达,思维拓展等直至提高整体语言水平。这种教学方法不仅对于启蒙阶段的母语教学有帮助,也可以借鉴到外语教学中去。     

I am sailing—towards a transactional analysis of ‘body techniques’

In recent years there has been a growing interest in questions related to embodiment and learning. Within the field of ‘body pedagogics’ great efforts have been made to develop theory and methodology that can deal with the corporeal aspects of experience and knowledge without adopting any form of dualistic conceptions of body/mind and organism/environment. This article connects to this body of research. The purpose is to first present a synthesis of James' radical empiricism, Dewey's transactional understanding of experience and learning and Marcel Mauss' concept of ‘body techniques’ and the notion of education embedded in it. Against the background of this theoretical development, and with a Transactional Model of Analyzing Bodying (TMAB), we then show how we can analytically come to terms with different dualistic problems that research into ‘body pedagogics’ has to deal with. We use an empirical example of dinghy sailing to create knowledge about what we learn when learning embodied knowledge, and how this learning takes place. We argue that experience is an important concept for understanding the acting knowing human being, describing how experience is organized and developed and outlining how this organization can be understood as learning. We hold that situations where someone learns to embody certain knowledge are cases of overt actions, in which we can see what kinds of relations are created and how these relations become meaningful for further action.     

“Visual Basic程序设计”的“慕课化”探讨

慕课一出现就受到广泛关注,被视为教育史上的一场数字海啸。当前,国内只有为数不多的高校开设了慕课课程。虽然对慕课的讨论如火如荼,但大规模的慕课并未真正全面展开。本文以对慕课的认识为基础,讨论了“Visual Basic程序设计”“慕课化”的必要性及可行性,并从课程体系构建、平台选择和团队建设三个方面做了初步设计,以提高学生的计算机水平。     

创新高峰体验课程教学范式的路径探讨

设置高峰体验课程是高校教学范式改革的重要措施。当前高校在开设高峰体验课程中存在一些问题,特别是教师在高峰体验课程教学过程中存在内涵不清楚,缺少教学团队,教学目标不明确,教学方式传统,缺乏评估体系等问题。从清晰认识高峰体验课程的内涵,建设教学团队,整合教学目标,创新教学方法,建立评估体系和激励机制等方面入手,是实现高峰体验课程提升学生专业能力与综合素质从而提升高校专业人才培养质量的重要路径。     

“毕节试验”:内涵、经验与启示

以1988年6月国务院批准建立"毕节地区开发扶贫、生态建设试验区"为标志,"毕节试验"摘要:以1988年6月国务院批准建立"毕节地区开发扶贫、生态建设试验区"为标志,"毕节试验正式拉开序幕。经过20多年的实践,取得了巨大的成果,其经验对岩溶贫困地区经济社会又好又快发展具有重大借鉴作用。正式拉开序幕。经过20多年的实践,取得了巨大的成果,其经验对岩溶贫困地区经济社会又好又快发展具有重大借鉴作用。