The Mystery Room: discovering the flexibility of an information literacy-based educational escape room

Abstract

The Mystery Room is an educational escape room based on information literacy and applied to multiple audiences, including first-year students and library student employees. In this article, we explain how we developed the game, its theoretical underpinnings, and why it’s a flexible workshop for a variety of audiences.     

一年级医学生的心理健康状况及人格影响因素

为了解一年级医学生的心理健康状况及其人格影响因素.采用SCL-90、EPQ、SES、UCLA孤独量表对入学半年后的709名福建医科大学一年级医学生进行测查.研究表明:建医科大学一年级医学生心理健康状况优于全国大学生,但稍差于全国青年;"肯定有症状"的检出率为16.22%,主要症状为强迫、人际敏感和抑郁,男生的敌对、偏执...     

我国高等院校新生教育研究

高校第一年教育,又称“大学第一年教育”(FYE)。随着我国高等教育进入大众化,我国对于高等教育的研究不再只满足于数量要求。新时代,我们希望通过各界努力,使我国高等教育实现高质量发展。高校第一年教育研究具有重要意义,大体体现在以下几个方面:学生对于大学和社会的认知、专业技能的掌握、未来职业选择、人生规划;高校教师教学目标的设计、教学能力的评价、师德的遵守;高校培养目标的制定、课程的设计、质量水平的评估以及我国高等教育教育目标制定、高等教育的质量水平、高等教育的普及化等。     

美国图书馆元素养培养模式创新——以新生馆员职位为视角

[目的/意义] 以现有研究成果为基础,从"新生"馆员具体工作入手,探讨国外元素养教育问题。[方法/过程] 通过内容分析法、案例分析法,对国外图书馆"新生"馆员招聘广告进行分析,对国外元素养教育所起到的作用进行剖析,探究国外元素养课程教育模式。[结果/结论] 认为必须糅合元素养,加强个性化、深入化、全面化、可循环化元素养教育建设,将信息素养"植入"学生脑海中,将元素养模式贯穿于日常学习生活中,逐步提高全民元素养能力。     

Transcultural analysis of the effectiveness of a program to promote self-regulated learning in Mozambique,Chile, Portugal,and Spain

The current investigation aims at assessing the effectiveness of an intervention program designed to enhance self-regulated learning (SRL) strategies at the university level, with students from different cultural, linguistic, and educational backgrounds. The central tool of the program is a set of letters in which a fictional first-year student describes his experiences as an SRL student. The program was implemented in four universities in different countries and continents (Portugal, Spain, Chile, and Mozambique), with an experimental group and a comparison group at each university (263 students from experimental groups and 247 from comparison groups). Findings display the effectiveness of the program in enhancing a set of motivational variables related to the study process and the use of SRL strategies. Data were consistent across the different cultural and academic contexts in which the program was implemented. The implications of these findings for university administrators and faculty are discussed.     

A case study of a college-wide first-year undergraduate engineering course

Introductory engineering courses are either programme specific or expose students to engineering as a broad discipline by including materials from various engineering programmes. A common introductory engineering course that spans different engineering programmes raises challenges, including the high cost of resources as well as the lack of background courses of first-year students. This paper presents the design, implementation and evaluation of a first-year common engineering course that uses low-cost materials to expose students to a structured engineering design process. The course is explicitly designed to satisfy the Accreditation Board for Engineering and Technology criteria for engineering programmes. Our experience with the course shows that not only students are able to follow a structured design process successfully but we also believe that most of the ABET criteria are being delivered through the course.     

How to facilitate freshmen learning and support their transition to a university study environment

Most freshmen enter universities with high expectations and with good motivation, but too many are driven into performing instead of true learning. The issues are not only related to the challenge of comprehending the substance, social and other factors have an impact as well. All these multifaceted needs should be accounted for to facilitate student learning. Learning is an individual process and remarkable improvement in the learning practices is possible, if proper actions are addressed early enough. We motivate and describe a study of the experience obtained from a set of tailor-made courses that were given alongside standard curriculum. The courses aimed to provide a ‘safe community’ to address the multifaceted needs. Such support was integrated into regular coursework where active learning techniques, e.g. interactive small groups were incorporated. To assess impact of the courses we employ the feedback obtained during the courses and longitudinal statistical data about students' success.     

初一学生数学学习动机和坚持性:数学——性别刻板印象的影响

为探究数学—性别刻板印象对初中生数学学习动机和坚持性的影响以及性别差异,采用外显数学刻板印象量表、内隐数学—性别联想测验、数学学习坚持性量表和数学学习动机量表,对初一学生进行测查.结果显示:(1)总体上,初中生不存在外显数学刻板印象,而存在内隐数学刻板印象;(2)性别调节外显数学刻板印象与数学学习动机的关系,并且进一步影响学生的数学学习坚持性.具体而言,男生的外显数学刻板印象通过提高学习动机影响学习坚持性;而对于女生,外显数学刻板印象却会降低学习动机影响学习坚持性.但内隐数学刻板印象并不存在类似调节和中介效应.在教育实践中,教师应充分重视数学刻板印象给男、女初中生数学学习活动带来的不同影响,并实施有效的预防和弥补措施.     

‘My work is bleeding’: exploring students’ emotional responses to first-year assignment feedback

This paper explores the emotional responses that assignment feedback can provoke in first-year undergraduates. The literature on the link between emotions and learning is well established, but surprisingly research on the relationship between emotions and feedback is still relatively scarce. This article aims to make an additional contribution to this emerging field. Semi-structured interviews with 24 first-year undergraduate students from the Humanities and Social Sciences department in a post-1992 institution were conducted. The interview narratives identified how the emotional impact of feedback was related to: prior experiences of education, the significance participants attached to the feedback received on their first assignment and how their interpretations of feedback comments were linked to beliefs about themselves as learners. The implications of these experiences on student ‘belonging’ and learning are discussed. The underlying themes that emerged from the findings are the polarised emotions of anxiety and confidence. Based on the findings, the paper concludes by making recommendations for reconceptualising feedback on first-year assignments. It suggests that a holistic assessment approach, which incorporates timely feedback indicating if students are ‘on the right lines’ with low-stakes assignments, is a practice that may both reduce anxiety and increase confidence to support students.     

地方院校英语专业新生自主学习能力现状调查——以长治学院为例

针对长治学院2011级英语专业本科新生自主学习状况进行调查,发现大学新生的自主学习意识薄弱,自主学习能力较低,但他们意识到自主学习能力对学习效果有很大作用,力求通过教师指导和自身努力提高自主学习能力。因此本文最后以阅读课为例就如何使学生学会学习、主动学习、主动发展、实现自主学习等问题进行了思考。