高校外语教师专业发展MPC模式对同伴互导理论的拓展

随着我国高校外语教学改革不断深化,改革内容已从教学框架和教学硬件向课程内容及其文化内涵等方面转移,课程实质的重新定位使外语既是工具又作为人文科学课程加以建设和发展.同时,改革对高校外语教师的专业素养也提出更高要求以适应外语教学的工具性和人文性特征.高校外语教师在职专业发展的MPC模式对同伴互导理论的拓展运用,使高校外语教师能在有效模式的支持下及时更新专业知识技能、持续进行在职专业发展.     

Quality Improvement and Health Care

W. Edwards Deming's theories of continuous quality improvement, using statistical analysis to identify problems or errors in operational processes, are in the early stages of development in service organizations after substantial success in industry, especially in Japan. Information on continuous quality improvement for libraries is sparse. The articles in this annotated bibliography will help interested readers learn more about this theory and its application in the health care business.     

COIL on Wheels: A Library Professional Development Roadshow

Professional development for instruction librarians is in danger of coming to a standstill in difficult economic times. COIL on Wheels is a professional development roadshow developed by the Community of Oklahoma Instruction Librarians to allow librarians with budget and staffing issues to benefit from peer training. By matching member librarian interests with institutional needs, librarians can visit institutions in their geographic area to provide their colleagues with low-cost or free training. This article discusses the origins of and rationale for this program and describes a successful implementation of this traveling professional development project.     

Real-Time Peer Review: An Innovative Feature to an Evidence-Based Practice Conference

Many health sciences librarians as well as other professionals attend conferences on a regular basis. This study sought to link an innovative peer review process of presented research papers to long-term conference outcomes in the peer-reviewed professional journal literature. An evidence-based conference included a proof-of-concept study to gauge the long-term outcomes from research papers presented during the program. Real-time peer review recommendations from the conference were linked to final versions of articles published in the peer-reviewed literature. The real-time peer review feedback served as the basis for further mentoring to guide prospective authors toward publishing their research results. These efforts resulted in the publication of two of the four research papers in the peer-viewed literature. A third presented paper appeared in a blog because the authors wanted to disseminate their findings more quickly than through the journal literature. The presenters of the fourth paper never published their study. Real-time peer review from this study can be adapted to other professional conferences that include presented research papers.     

Good Stewards in Trying Times: Benchmarking Peer Collections of Sociology Reference Sources Using LibGuides

This article describes a method for using LibGuides as a tool for collection development by benchmarking peer (Carnegie or other classification) institutions’ reference resource recommendations. The results of this benchmarking can be used to build strong, compact collections. Although the focuses of this study are on building and maintaining of a sociology reference collection, the method transfers directly to other subject areas.     

Using Students to Make Instructional Videos: Report of an Initial Experiment

Librarians employed student assistants and tasked them with the mission of creating library instruction video tutorials for their fellow digital natives. This article describes the benefits of peer instruction and learning within a participatory culture, a culture in which students are not only consumers of content but also creators. It also covers how a university library used these tutorials to teach first-year common experience courses and surveyed 200 students from these courses about their knowledge and comfort levels with specific library services after viewing the videos.     

结构式审稿探讨

同行专家审稿是保证科技学术期刊学术质量的关键环节。针对审稿影响因素以及目前同行审稿存在的问题,提出结构式审稿的概念,并论述其在保证审稿质量方面的合理性及优势,以期有助于审稿规范化和专家审稿质量的提高。     

建立编辑部和审稿专家间的良性关系 ——评优秀审稿专家有感

根据《材料科学与工艺》编辑部2012年度优秀审稿专家评选结果,从审稿专家队伍建设、提高编辑送审能力、调动审稿专家积极性3个方面对编辑部与审稿专家之间的关系进行分析,探讨编辑部如何与审稿专家建立良性关系。     

初中后进生学科偏好成因探析——来自学生的访谈

为了深入了解后进生学科偏好形成的原因,采用质性访谈的方法对来自11所学校的21名初中生进行了研究。结果发现,来自教师的情感支持、学业支持、教学支持对学科偏好影响巨大,家人支持和同辈支持也会产生一定的影响,自我效能感在社会支持对学科偏好的影响中起到一定的中介作用,但后进生在多门科目学习中缺乏良好的社会支持。     

学术期刊行业审稿体系探讨

针对目前学术期刊审稿存在的问题，提出建立学术期刊行业审稿体系的建议，即：以行业为中心、以学会为基础，建立各学会领导下的审稿机构(审稿委员会)，组织专家实施部分审稿工作，审稿委员会与各编辑部原有审稿组织同时运作，使审稿体制趋于完善。