Finding the missing Einsteins: Expanding the breadth of cognitive and noncognitive measures used in academic services

Education researchers, policymakers, and practitioners are concerned with identifying and developing talent for students with fewer opportunities, especially students from historically marginalized groups. An emerging body of research suggests “universally screening” or testing all students, then matching those students with appropriate educational challenges, is effective in helping marginalized students. However, most tests have focused on two areas: math and verbal reasoning. We leverage three nationally representative samples of the U.S. population at different time points that include both novel cognitive measures (e.g., spatial, mechanical, and abstract reasoning) and non-cognitive measures (e.g., conscientiousness, creativity or word fluency, leadership skill, and artistic skill) to uncover which measures would improve proportional representation of marginalized groups in talent identification procedures. We find that adding spatial reasoning measures in particular—as well as other non-cognitive measures such as conscientiousness, leadership, and creativity—are worthwhile to consider for universal screening procedures for students to narrow achievement gaps at every level of education, including for gifted students. By showing that these nontraditional measures both improve proportional representation of underrepresented groups and have reasonable predictive validity, we also broaden the definition of what it means to be “gifted” and expand opportunities for students from historically marginalized groups.     

浅谈心理护理的技巧

心理护理是整体护理重要组成部分,为了完成整体护理要求,要实行心理护理.要做好心理护理,护士必须具备高尚的护理道德素质、才智素质、心理素质,良好的人际关系素质等,对病人温柔可亲,富有同情心.学习护理心理学知识,掌握各种病人的心理特点,有效的使用语言性技巧和非语言性技巧,通过与病人交往与沟通,建立和维持良好的护患关系,达到好的护理效果.     

The Use and Misuse of Standardized Testing: A Whiteheadian Point of View

First an overview is given about the actual national and international situation concerning standardized testing. Then two major reasons are presented why accountability systems based on standardized testing have become so widespread: (a) the missing validity and reliability of teachers’ assessment of students’ achievement, and (b) the important role standardized testing plays for out-put management in educational systems.On the basis of these considerations Alfred North Whitehead’s critical remarks on external standardized testing are presented. Whitehead’s main point is that external standardized testing limits the freedom of teachers to adapt to the complex, situation specific circumstances in order to obtain a maximum of the creative learning process for students who are conceived as specialists. Instead external testings lead to “teaching to the test.” As a consequence, the attitude of creative, adventurous exploration is undermined and substituted by simple pattern recognition, narrow visions, and even boredom. Finally, the question is raised whether there is any possibility of developing a measurement tool which on the one side meets scientific test criteria, and on the other side is still flexible enough to do justice to needs of individual schools – which according to Whitehead are the essential educational unit – and not vice versa, as it is the case at present with external standardized testing. That such a flexible approach to evaluation is possible is demonstrated by the presentation of the basic ideas of the MSS (Module Approach to Self-Evaluation of School Development Projects) which has been developed and examined in ten schools by the author and his collaborators.     

磁共振安全教育在科研扫描人员中的实施与评估

磁共振安全包括受检者安全及设备安全,重庆医科大学附属第一医院放射科团队通过对进行磁共振科研扫描的人员实施标准化的磁共振安全教育,包括课上部分(理论知识、现实案例展示)和课下部分(磁共振岗位实习),可以保障受检者及设备的安全,保证科研扫描工作的顺利进行。不足之处有:科研扫描人员仅能进行基本的科研扫描,而且一旦出现危及受检者安全或设备安全的情况,容易引起纠纷。     

Retooling Education: Testing and the Liberal Arts

The motivation and methodology for measuring intelligence have changed repeatedly in the modern history of large-scale student testing. Test makers have always sought to identify raw aptitude for cultivation, but they have never figured out how to promote excellence while preserving equality. They’ve settled for egalitarianism, which gives rise to “culturally fair” tests that substitute vagaries for knowledge, deprive students of any real appreciation for language, and trivialize education. Robert Jackson yearns for traditional oratorical approaches to schooling that venerate and imitate essential, time-tested masters. Unfortunately, he writes, such an education defies measurement with today’s multiple-choice instruments.

SP口头反馈对医学生OSCE成绩影响初探

方法:将考生随机分为两组,实验组先进入有SP反馈的长站,再进入没有SP反馈的短站;时照组先进没有SP反馈的短站,后进入有SP反馈的长站.同时使用问卷调查学生对SP反馈的正确性和帮助大小的看法.结果:对照组和实验组的SP短站成绩差异无显著性,第一SP长站和第二SP长站间的成绩差异有显著性.问卷调查结果显示,90%的学生积极评价SP反馈.结论:SP反馈有助于提高相同结构和相同任务站点的成绩,但对于不同结构不同任务站点的成绩影响还需要进行更严格的设计的研究.     

Coping With the Unexpected in Childbirth: A Thematic Analysis

This article reports original research that describes new mothers'' experiences of birth and maternity care. Qualitative data were collected through a survey on birth satisfaction, which included space for women to provide comments about their birth and experience of care. Thirty-nine women provided comments that were analyzed using the thematic analysis method. Two themes emerged from the women''s experiences: “Unexpected birth processes: expectations and reality” and “Coping with birth: the role of health-care staff.” Participants described unexpected birthing processes, their experiences of care, and maternity care staff''s contributions to coping with birth. Implications for practice for childbirth professionals include promotion of physiologic birth, respectful person-centered care during all phases of perinatal care, and the value of childbirth preparation.