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The purpose of this paper is to identify the factors that predict students perceptions of their institutions success in achieving a positive climate for diversity. This study examines a sample of 544 students at a large, public, predominantly White Mid-Western institution. Results show that students perceptions of the institutions ability to achieve a positive climate for diversity is a reflection of students precollege interactions with diverse peers and the institutions ability to incorporate diversity-related issues into its curriculum. Results also indicate that these perceptions differ by race and gender. Implications for institutional researchers are discussed. 相似文献
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Matthew Kearney 《Research in Science Education》2004,34(4):427-453
This paper focuses on the use of multimedia-based predict–observe–explain (POE) tasks to facilitate small group learning conversations. Although the tasks were given to pairs of students as a diagnostic tool to elicit their pre-instructional physics conceptions, they also provided a peer learning opportunity for students. The study adopted a social constructivist perspective to analyse and interpret the students conversations, focussing on students articulation and justification of their own science conceptions, clarification of and critical reflection on their partners views, and negotiation of new, shared meanings. Two senior science classes participated in this interpretive study. Data sources were mainly qualitative and included audio and video recordings of students small group discussions at the computer, interviews with selected students and their teachers, classroom observations, and student surveys. Findings indicate that the computer-based POE tasks supported students peer learning conversations, particularly during the prediction, reasoning and observation stages of the POE strategy. The increased level of student control of the POE tasks, combined with the multimedia nature of the program, initiated quality peer discussions. The findings have implications for authentic, technology-mediated learning in science. 相似文献
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This study examined the interaction between college students attachment orientation and mentors relational style in the prediction of students behaviors and perceptions in academic mentoring and of their subsequent academic achievement. Ninety college students were administered the Adult Attachment Interview and their professors-mentors completed the Attachment Style Questionnaire. Students displayed more adaptive behaviors and perceptions in mentoring and earned higher grades when their attachment orientation was in contrast to their mentors relational style. Implications for the practice of academic mentoring in college are discussed. 相似文献
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Ruth Neumann 《Higher Education》1993,25(2):97-110
This paper reports selected findings from the first stage of a study on the research role within academic work in Australian universities. These findings come from the interview component of the study and discuss the perceptions that senior academic administrators hold on research and scholarship. The analysis of the interviews indicates that research covers a wide and varied range of activities across the disciplines found in a university and therefore needs to be defined broadly. However, research has three major attributes: new knowledge, enquiry and publication of results and views. Scholarship was perceived to be part of the research process, providing the context for good research by adding the element of breadth to the depth of research. In addition, scholarship describes the manner of pursuing a serious, sustained line of enquiry as well as the dissemination process. 相似文献
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This paper analyzes the interpretations of equality and the equal symbol of the third-grade children who participated in a year long whole-class socio constructivist teaching experiment. These children initially interpreted the equal symbol as a command to perform an arithmetical operation; it was less natural to them to interpret it as a relational symbol to compare two quantities. By the end of the school year, children were able to conceptualize the quantitative sameness of two numerical expressions and describe it by using the phrase is the same as, the words equal or equals, or the symbols = or =s. These children expanded their conceptualizations of equality due to their active role in class discussions, the arithmetical tasks that took into account children's difficulties, and the teacher's intellectual sensitivity to strike a delicate balance between the force of teaching and the freedom of learning (Freudenthal, 1991, p. 55). 相似文献
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Erich Wittmann 《Educational Studies in Mathematics》1980,11(4):383-392
The paper investigates conceptual relationships between the Continuous and the Discrete. Differentiation, integration and the fundamental theorem of calculus are based on corresponding operators and a corresponding theorem with functions on finite domains (discrete functions). The final section discusses the possibilities for introducing elements of a discrete analysis into the mathematics curriculum. 相似文献
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Five suburban community colleges in a metropolitan area collaborated on a survey to parents of high school graduates of the class of 2002 who attended the colleges in fall 2002. The study was undertaken to learn more about parents roles in their students selection of community colleges, to give insights and information about this important community college constituency, and to assist community colleges to shape more effective ways to foster positive and supportive opinions among parents of potential students. Parents want the community college to provide students with credits and grade point averages enabling transfer, overestimate their students academic skills as measured by course placement tests, engaged in a number of college-choice activities, and indicate that factors associated with lifestyle and money were major reasons for selecting the community college. Associations between parents social capital and perceptions of their students academic abilities were found for a number of dependent variables examined. The study also revealed important differences in how participating institutions record and calculate key measures such as credits earned and grade point averages. 相似文献
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Taken in aggregate, bigger university departments did disproportionately well in the 1992 U.K. Higher Education Research Selectivity Exercise (RSE). A number of reasons are reviewed whereby such an economies of scale effect might apply both in general and with respect to the RSE. A methodology is developed whereby the RSE performance of the UK's universities across academic units can be attributed to size and non size components, the relative importance of which are then calculated for each of the old universities, paying attention to their independent designations as research and teaching institutions. Possible implications for academic planning by universities are drawn out. 相似文献
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This paper problematises confidence as a frequently used explanation for performance in the mathematics classroom. I report on an interview-based study of how some English Advanced level (16+) students who have chosen to study mathematics, and their teachers, speak about confidence with respect to the learning of mathematics. I outline what constitutes confident learners for these teachers and, differently, for their students and what the students feel teachers could do to improve the students confident state. I discuss the implications of this for the education of prospective teachers of mathematics. 相似文献
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This study has reviewed the last two decades of student conception research in solution chemistry pertaining to aims, methods of exploring students conception, general knowledge claims, students conceptions and difficulties, and conceptual change studies. The aims of solution chemistry studies have been to assess students understanding level of solution chemistry and in some studies compare understanding based on age and year at school or college. The methods of exploring students conceptions consisted of interviews, paper and pencil surveys (open-ended questions and multiple-choice questions), free writing and drawings and the validity of these methods have been highlighted. The general knowledge claims synthesized in this study are students (a) attending to mechanical events, (b) preference for everyday language usage over chemical language, (c) confusing solution chemistry with non-related concepts, (d) lack of sub-microscopic explanation for macroscopic observation, (e) difficulty with visualizing and representing sub-microscopic ideas, (f) difficulty with symbolic representations, (g) inconsistent explanations, (h) development of student understanding with age, and (i) development of conservation reasoning with age. To incorporate students conceptions, conceptual change studies have used strategies such as worksheet, analogy, collaboratively working with a teacher, hypermedia, and group exploration. The results of conceptual change studies generally have had a positive impact enabling students to consider their ideas and develop plausible models of solution chemistry. For improvement of student learning in chemistry, this review of solution chemistry studies sheds light on teacher thinking and capacity building with respect to explicitly incorporating students conceptions into chemistry curriculum; practicing research-based strategies; forging links among types of chemical knowledge; collaborating for experimental teaching; and conducting further research. 相似文献
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W. A. Suchting 《Science & Education》1995,4(1):1-22
Scientific thought is regarded here as both a type of goal-directed behaviour (practice) and its product, and the question of its nature posed in terms of that goal and of means appropriate for achieving it, preferably with regard to an existing paradigm (exemplar) such as the Galilean-Newtonian. Empiricism, a widely received view of the nature of science, is examined and rejected, as is the general idea that scientific thought has philosophical foundations. The question of the actual or possible scientific status of the human sciences is raised and some methodological guidelines for an answer to it suggested.This paper is a version of one commissioned for the forthcoming International Handbook of Science Education edited by Ken Tobin and Barry Fraser (Kluwer Academic Publications). Thus it deals in a condensed way with wide-ranging and complex matters that would ordinarily be treated separately and at greater length. (Editor) 相似文献
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Research conducted in several countries has shown consistent patterns of performance on change, combine and compare word problems involving addition and subtraction. This paper interprets these findings within a theoretical framework that emphasizes the development of empirical, logical and mathematical knowledge. 相似文献
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Multikulturelle Und Transkulturelle Erziehung: Zwei Wege Zu Kosmopolitischen Kulturellen Identitäten
Schöfthaler Traugott 《International Review of Education/Internationale Zeitschrift für Erziehungswissenschaft/Revue internationale l'éducation》1984,30(1):11-24
Zusammenfassung Zu den wenigen universell akzeptierten Zielen in der Bildungspolitik werden Sicherung kultureller Identität und soziale Integration gerechnet. Es wird gezeigt, daß sie von gegensätzlichen Positionen in Anspruch genommen werden. Der daraus resultierende Prozeß einer Erosion universeller Werte wird anhand von Bildungsprogrammen für kulturelle Minoritäten in den Vereinigten Staaten, in Australien und in der Bundesrepublik Deutschland untersucht.Als kulturübergreifende Ursache dafür wird ein Dilemma erwünschter und unerwünschter Effekte von Identitätssicherung und Integration bestimmt: Eine gezielte Förderung der Bildungschancen kultureller Minoritäten trät zur Sicherung bedrohter kultureller Identitäten ebenso bei wie zur Segregation; ein Verzicht auf solche Förderungsmaßnahmen erleichtert soziale Integration nur um den Preis einer Verringerung von Chancengerechtigkeit.Als mögliche Auswege werden zwei Strategien interkultureller Erziehung diskutiert, die sich beide an kosmopolitischen Identitäten orientieren, jedoch Majoritäten in unterschiedlicher Weise ansprechen. Die sogenannte multikulturelle Erziehung wird charakterisiert durch das Ziel einer allgemeinen Erweiterung kulturellen Wissens, für Minoritäten ergänzt durch die Ausbildung neuer Techniken des Wissenserwerbs. Davon wird das Konzept einer transkulturellen Erziehung abgehoben, das die Veränderung der Deutungsmuster und Denkstile bei Angehörigen kultureller Majoritäten wie Minoritäten zum Ziel hat.In der Analyse der theoretischen und bildungspolitischen Hintergründe beider Strategien wird das kompensatorische Stigma besonders untersucht, das multikulturelle Erziehung für die kulturelle Mehrheit entweder wenig attraktiv erscheinen läßt oder auf Maßnahmen zur farbigeren Curriculumplanung reduziert. Dagegen wird eine Weiterentwicklung der transkulturellen Konzepte bikultureller und bikognitiver Erziehung als Ausweg aus dem Dilemma von Identität und Integration vorgeschlagen.
Preserving cultural identity and achieving social integration are among the few universally accepted objectives of educational policy and — as the article shows — support two mutually-opposing positions. As a result, there has been a gradual devaluation of universal values, which is examined by comparing educational programmes for culture minorities in the USA, Australia, and the Federal Republic of Germany.The underlying cross-cultural dilemma is manifested in some desired and undesired effects of preserving identity and encouraging integration. On the one hand, promoting educational opportunities for cultural minorities contributes towards safe-guarding endangered cultural identities but also towards cultural segregation. On the other hand, not to adopt such promotional measures may facilitate social integration but only at the price of equality of opportunity.As ways out of the dilemma, two strategies of intercultural education are discussed which, although they are orientated towards cosmopolitical identities, are at the same time attractive to majorities and minorities in different ways. The so-called multicultural education is directed towards expanding cultural knowledge generally, which — in the case of minorities — is achieved through additional development of new techniques of learning. The concept of transcultural education differs from this insofar as it aims at changing the interpretative patterns and modes of thought of members of cultural majorities and minorities alike.In analysing the theoretical background and the educational policies behind both strategies, emphasis is placed on the stigma of compensation which either makes multicultural education seem less attractive to the cultural majority or reduces measures to the colourful planning of curriculum. In contrast to this, further elaboration of the transcultural concepts of bi-cultural and bi-cognitive education, as a way out of the dilemma of identity and integration, is proposed.
Résumé La préservation de l'identité culturelle et l'intégration sociale comptent parmi les quelques objectifs de la politique de l'éducation acceptés universellement et corroborent, comme le montre l'auteur de cet article, deux positions opposées. Le résultat en est une diminution progressive des valeurs universelles, que l'on examine en s'appuyant sur les programmes éducatifs destinés aux minorités culturelles aux USA, en Australie et en République fédérale d'Allemagne.Les conséquences désirées et non désirées de la préservation de l'identité et de l'intégration sont considérées comme dilemme trans-culturel. D'une part, la promotion des facilités d'accès à l'éducation pour les minorités culturelles contribue à la préservation des identités culturelles menacées. D'autre part, le refus de telles mesures promotionnelles peut faciliter l'intégration sociale mais seulement au prix de l'égalité des chances.En tant que solutions possibles, on examine deux stratégies d'éducation interculturelle qui, bien qu'elles soient orientées vers des identités cosmopolites, touchent cependant de différentes façons les majorités comme les minorités. La soi-disante éducation multiculturelle est axée sur le développement général des connaissances qui, dans le cas des minorités, est complété par le développement de nouvelles techniques d'apprentissage. Le concept d'éducation trans-culturelle diffère de ceci dans la mesure où il vise le changement des modes d'interprétation et de la façon de penser des membres des majorités culturelles comme des minorités.Dans l'analyse des données de base théoriques et des éléments des politiques de l'éducation des deux stratégies, on place un accent sur le stigma compensatoire qui, soit fait paraître l'éducation multiculturelle moins attrayante pour la majorité culturelle, soit réduit les mesures prises pour une planification colorée du curriculum. En revanche, le développement des concepts trans-culturels d'éducation biculturelle et bicognitive est proposé en tant qu'issue du dilemme de l'identité et de l'intégration.相似文献
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Philip G. Altbach 《Higher Education》1991,21(3):305-323
Foreign study is a multifaceted phenomenon - its impact is felt on academic institutions in both the host and sending countries, on the economies of nations, and of course on the individuals involved. With more than one million students studying abroad, foreign study has assumed considerable importance in higher education planning. This article considers the many aspects of foreign study and discusses the interrelationships of these elements. The policies of the host nations, for example, have an impact on higher education planning in the sending countries. The non-return of foreign students, traditionally referred to as the brain drain, is considerably more complex than was once thought since Third World graduates settled in the industrialized nations often retain contacts with their home countries and increasingly return after a period abroad. This article also considers the various push and pull factors which determine the constantly changing flow of foreign students.This study was supported by the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development, Centre for Educational Research and Innovation. It was presented at the International Seminar on Higher Education and the Flow of Foreign Students, convened by the Hochschul-Informations-System, with support from the Federal Ministry of Education and Science and the Lower Saxony Ministry of Science and Arts in Hannover, Germany on 26th–28th April 1990. 相似文献
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summary This article presents a case study class response to Mildred Taylors now classic and widely read novel, Roll of Thunder Hear My Cry. Through data collected during one school year, the ways urban, adolescent students use their contemporary lenses to interpret the literary theme of confronting, overcoming and challenging racism are discussed. The participants responses are organized into four reader response categories that explicate the complex and interactive interpretations developed by the children while reading the novel. In addition to providing insights about the participants textual understanding, pedagogical findings indicate that the book can also be used to explore the nature of racism while creating a safe space to confront and more deeply understand racisms impact on the past as well as the students current reality. 相似文献
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Shu-Nu Chang Mei-Hung Chiu 《International Journal of Science and Mathematics Education》2005,3(1):117-140
Scientific literacy and authenticity have gained a lot of attention in the past few decades worldwide. The goal of the study was to develop various authentic assessments to investigate students scientific literacy for corresponding to the new curriculum reform of Taiwan in 1997. In the process, whether ninth graders were able to apply school knowledge in real-life problems was also investigated. Over the course of our two-year study, we developed authentic assessments to investigate a stratified random sampling of 1,503 ninth graders levels of scientific literacy, including scientific cognition, process skills, application of science, habits of mind, nature of science, and attitude towards science. The purpose of this article is to discuss three different formats of authentic assessments: multiple-choice, open-ended, and hands-on test items, which we developed to investigate scientific cognition. To validate the three formats of authentic assessments, students performance on these three assessments were compared with the science section of Taiwans Academic Attainment Testing (STAAT), and the values of Pearson correlation coefficient were all at the significant level, ranging from 0.205 to 0.660 (p<0.01). We found that our three authentic assessments were better in evaluating students authentic abilities in science than standardized tests (such as STAAT). Further authentic assessments, particularly the hands-on activity, benefited low-achieving students. Concerning the common themes tested in the authentic assessments, students performed better in a multiple-choice test than an open-ended test on electricity and heat and temperature. In addition, two themes of chemical reactions and reactions of acid and base with indicators were performed best in a hands-on test than in the other two tests. In this article, we provide evidence that authentic assessments could be developed in different formats to investigate students scientific cognition as part of the national test. Of these formats, the multiple-choice, open-ended, and hands-on test items are all shown to be sensitive in their evaluation of students cognition in science. 相似文献
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This study was aimed at clarifying relations between the way students learn and personal, contextual and performance variables. Students from seven different academic disciplines completed the Inventory of Learning Styles (ILS). Besides, data about their age, gender, academic discipline, prior education and exam performance were gathered. Regression and correlations analyses were used to analyse the data. The results showed that students learning patterns were indeed associated with personal and contextual factors such as academic discipline, prior education, age and gender, but that the different learning patterns had different sources. Second, students learning patterns proved to explain an important part of the variance in their academic performance. However, the results also revealed that exams as usually used in the first years of higher education hardly capitalise on students use of critical, analytical and concrete processing strategies. 相似文献
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There is a growing interest in the mathematics education community in the notion of abstraction and its significance in the learning of mathematics. Reducing abstraction is a theoretical framework that examines learners behavior in terms of coping with abstraction level. It refers to situations in which learners are unable to manipulate concepts presented in a given problem; therefore, they unconsciously reduce the level of abstraction of the concepts involved to make these concepts mentally accessible. This framework has been used for explaining students conception in different areas of undergraduate mathematics and computer science. This article extends the applicability scope of this framework from undergraduate mathematics to school mathematics. We draw on recently published research articles and exemplify how students behavior can be described in terms of various interpretations of reducing abstraction level. 相似文献
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There are considerable differences among mathematics teachers with regard to the quatlity of their way of developing mathematical knowledge in the classroom. Such differences are analysed. To develop mathematical meaning requires both a consistent presentation of the mathematical symbols and of the referential meaning of these symbols with respect to the given task. On the basis of this conception we assume that the quality of teaching will differ according to how teachers cope with the relation between these two sides of meaning. From a sample of 26 teachers, an expert teacher and a non-expert teacher were selected by means of classroom observation with scales of instructional quality variables. For each of these two teachers, two lessons introducing probability (sixth grade) are analysed. For this purpose, teacher and student contributions are coded. For the expert teacher, graphic visualizations of the development of mathematical concepts across time show soft transitions between the different aspects of mathematical meaning. These transitions are made possible by a consistent explication of the relation between formal symbols and the given mathematical task. In the case of the other teacher, explication of the relationship between the object side and the symbol side of mathematical meaning is much rarer, and there are sudden switches from one aspect of meaning to another. Further differences concern the handling of student contributions.We gratefully acknowledge the help of Wolfgang Barz, Regina Dietrich and Claudia Krüger with recording, transcribing or coding lessons. For their comments on draft versions of the paper the authors thank Deborah Ball, Jere Brophy, Willibald Dörfler, Alexander Gruza and two anonymous reviewers. 相似文献
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The Carnegie classification system has served as a framework for research on colleges and universities for more than 30 years. Today, the systems developers are exploring criteria that more effectively differentiate among institutions. One approach being considered is classifying institutions based on students educational experiences. This study explored whether it is possible to create a typology of institutions based on students experiences. Results indicated that such a typology could be created, and the types were somewhat independent of institutional mission (i.e., Carnegie classification)Paper presented at the annual meeting of the Association for Institutional Research, Boston, MA (May 2004) 相似文献