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There are increasing demands on universities to develop more meaningful linkages with local communities – from government, from citizens and taxpayers, and from students. But the incorporation of community-oriented praxis into the university mission is not straightforward and requires a significant re-orientation away from ‘traditional’ organizational norms regarding teaching and research. Where community practice involves students, there is a burgeoning literature on situated learning, service learning and problem-based learning; but where community practice relates to research, the literature tends to be very much more disciplinary oriented and the sources are commensurately disparate. Discussions about community perspectives, however, are typically located in another set of literatures altogether. In order to address this deficit, this article reviews the literature on community-oriented research with the intention of providing a more holistic view of the common concerns and issues that arise when universities move their work into communities. This article reveals that – despite different disciplinary origins – the varied literature on community-oriented research illustrates the evolution of consistent principles for good practice. Moreover, it argues that community-oriented research principles provide praxis guidelines for university engagement in communities that are often absent in the literature on teaching and learning or civic engagement. The article then presents a case study of the evolution an integrated institutional response, which combines community-oriented research approaches to teaching and learning and civic engagement, being developed at the University of Limerick, Ireland. 相似文献
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Keith J. Topping Maura Kearney Edward McGee John Pugh 《Mentoring & Tutoring: Partnership in Learning》2013,21(3):353-370
A pilot study is reported of a generic method for tutoring in mathematics, intended to be suitable for use by peers, parents and volunteers in a wide range of applications. Thirty children aged 9–10 years of below average mathematical ability were randomly allocated to experimental or control conditions. Experimental tutees (n=17) were tutored in mathematical problem solving at home by their parent(s) using the method, while control children (n=13) received traditional maths problem homework. Pre‐ and post‐test assessment of both groups involved a criterion‐referenced mathematics test in parallel forms and a scale of attitudes to mathematics. Experimental tutors completed a pre‐test questionnaire on attitudes to mathematics and home‐school links, and experimental tutees and tutors engaged in a post‐test debriefing interview. On the attainment test, the experimental group gained significantly, while the control group did not. Male tutees gained more than females. No significant pre‐post differences were evident on the tutee attitude questionnaire. However, interview feedback from both tutees and tutors was generally positive. Given the brevity of the pre‐ to post‐test interval, the finding of positive differences in attainment was considered encouraging. Recommendations for future research were made. 相似文献
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Proofreading one's own writing is difficult due to the overfamiliarity of one's writing, which has been claimed to conceal errors, even extraneous errors inserted by someone else (as in collaborative writing). In the present research, we examined whether increasing one's familiarity with text can indeed have a negative influence on error detection. Participants were asked to identify word errors in different contexts: a passage that was unfamiliar, previously read, copied, memorised or paraphrased. These tasks represented a continuum of progressively more demanding and time‐consuming activities, which were thought to lead to comparable increases in text familiarity. Greater familiarity with the text to be proofread was expected to improve its predictability and thus the likelihood of overlooking errors. In agreement with the level‐of‐familiarity account, as the delay between memorising and proofreading increased so did the proportion of errors detected per minute. 相似文献
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This paper describes a course, Science, Technology and the Public in the Nineteenth Century, which is both interdisciplinary and co-taught by a biologist and an historian. The rationale for including social history in such a course is to make nonscience majors more aware of both the process of science and its relationship to society. An example of the social history component of the course is offered in a discussion of Louis Pasteur and his adulation by the French public. Since Pasteur's popularity was based as much on nonscientific as on scientific factors, we use his career to illustrate concepts about science in its cultural context that we want our students to understand. The course's content is then presented with reference to objectives we hope to achieve. Finally we indicate how, with our varied backgrounds, co-teaching this course led to a sharing of our cognitive spaces and how this was a positive experience for both ourselves and our students. 相似文献
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In 2000, the Government of the Republic of Ireland introduced a syllabus for second‐level schools (12–15 years) in Social Personal and Health Education (SPHE). Within this SPHE syllabus there is a significant component on Relationships and Sexuality Education (RSE). In terms of diversity and equality it is questionable to what extent this newly introduced syllabus meets the needs of all students who attend second‐level schools in the Republic of Ireland. Furthermore, the research that is reported in this paper will reveal that not only does the new SPHE syllabus not meet the needs of a diverse student population but that through silence on certain behaviours the absence of any teaching about sexual orientation by teachers contributes to homophobic bullying among students in Irish schools. 相似文献
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Elliot P. Douglas Mirka Koro-Ljungberg Maura Borrego 《European Journal of Engineering Education》2010,35(3):247-257
The purpose of this paper is to explore some challenges and promises when the epistemological diversity embedded in qualitative research traditions is introduced to research communities with one dominant research paradigm, such as engineering education. Literature is used from other fields and empirical data are used from engineering education, including the practices of the European Journal of Engineering Education and the Journal of Engineering Education, with the expectation that the ideas that are presented are relevant to a broad range of education disciplines. A number of challenges are identified as the epistemological diversity of qualitative research is introduced to the primarily positivist field of engineering education. Ultimately, embracing epistemological diversity holds the promise of researchers being able to ask: ‘What questions and answers become possible from these newly created positions and what can be learned from these alternative approaches?’. 相似文献
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This qualitative study examines two US interdisciplinary graduate programs which involve faculty and students from different
disciplines. Haworth and Conrad’s engagement theory of quality graduate education was applied. It was found that when interdisciplinary
programs facilitate engagement by supporting diversity, participation, connections, and interactive teaching and learning,
students report positive experiences. Engagement is particularly achievable when an interdisciplinary administrative unit
(e.g., a school or center) grants degrees and serves as a tenure home for faculty. Students earning degrees in traditional
departments had more difficulty connecting interdisciplinary requirements to their disciplinary work, and were often faced
with incompatible program requirements or advice from faculty members. Although they desire to do interdisciplinary work,
the students and faculty in traditional departments are required to meet additional and often conflicting requirements. Engagement
may further be complicated because these participants feel divided between collaborations, social networks, and expectations
that pull them in different directions. 相似文献
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运用“概念图”评价工科学生的跨学科知识集成——以“绿色工程”课程的跟踪研究为案例 总被引：1，自引：0，他引：1
概念图作为一项评测学生跨学科知识集成的工具开始受到工程教育学界的重视.概念图能够呈现学生对多学科概念和概念间的复杂联系的理解.本文通过对"绿色工程"设计课程的为期一年的跟踪研究证明了概念图方法尤其适合评测学生跨学科知识的学习性进步.本研究探讨了在跨学科评定环境中使用概念图出现的问题以及解决问题的建议. 相似文献
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Anglica Risquez Elaine Vaughan Maura Murphy 《Assessment & Evaluation in Higher Education》2015,40(1):120-134
In the context of increased emphasis on quality assurance of teaching, it is crucial that student evaluations of teaching (SET) methods be both reliable and workable in practice. Online SETs particularly tend to raise criticisms with those most reactive to mechanisms of teaching accountability. However, most studies of SET processes have been conducted with convenience, small and cross-sectional samples. Longitudinal studies are rare, as comparison studies on SET methodological approaches are generally pilot studies followed shortly after by implementation. The investigation presented here significantly contributes to the debate by examining the impact of the online administration method of SET on a very large longitudinal sample at the course level rather than attending to the student unit, thus compensating for the inter-dependency of students’ responses according to the instructor variable. It explores the impact of the administration method of SET (paper based in-class vs. out-of-class online collection) on scores, with a longitudinal sample of over 63,000 student responses collected over a total period of 10 years. Having adjusted for the confounding effect of class size, faculty, year of evaluation, years of teaching experience and student performance, it is observed that the actual effect of the administration method exists, but is insignificant. 相似文献