A Focus Group Activity for the Research Methods Class     

《Communication Teacher》2013,27(1):9-12

Objective: To give students an understanding of how focus group research differs from one-on-one interviewing and survey methodology

Course: Research methods  相似文献   

Science Curricula and the Organization of Secondary Schooling     

Nataša Pantić  Theo Wubbels 《课程研究杂志》2013,45(1):61-87

This paper explores the substance of competence-driven changes in teacher education curricula by testing the possibility of using a framework distinguishing between the German pedagogical culture of Didaktik and the Anglo-Saxon Curriculum culture to describe the substance of these changes. Data about the perceptions of competence-driven changes in teacher education curricula has been collected in 30 in-depth interviews with teacher educators, student teachers, and their school mentors in Serbia, and analysed with the help of qualitative data processing software. The coding procedures involved classification of utterances into five groups relating to the perceptions of (1) teacher evaluation, (2) teacher competence in subject matter, pedagogy, and curriculum, (3) understanding of the education system and contribution to its development, (4) teacher competences in dealing with values and child-rearing, and (5) changes in teacher education curricula related to these groups of competence. The perceptions in each group of utterances were interpreted in terms of their alliance with Didaktik or Curriculum cultures. The findings indicate that the framework cannot be used as a continuum since the utterances aligned with the two cultures co-exist in the individual responses, but could be useful as a reflection tool in teacher education curricula.  相似文献   

Evidence for the Validity of a Social Connectedness Scale: Connectors Amass Bridging Social Capital Online and Offline     

Christopher J. Carpenter  Franklin J. Boster  Michael Kotowski  Jonathan P. Day 《Communication quarterly》2013,61(2):119-134

One of the key characteristics of effective opinion leaders is that they are highly connected; they know many people and have numerous weak-tie relationships. Two studies were conducted that found evidence consistent with construct validity. The first (N = 35 and N = 57) found that connectors knew more people from a randomly selected list of names. A second study, with two surveys, was created (N = 561 and N = 189) such that the connectedness scores of some of the subjects in the first survey could be linked to how many subjects knew them in the second. Results indicated that those with higher connection scores were more likely to be known by others. Moreover, in the second survey, measures of Facebook use and bridging social capital were found to be associated substantially with connector scores.  相似文献   

The Swiss “Tina Fey Effect”: The Content of Late-Night Political Humor and the Negative Effects of Political Parody on the Evaluation of Politicians     

Jörg Matthes  Adrian Rauchfleisch 《Communication quarterly》2013,61(5):596-614

This article investigates the content and effects of political humor on late-night television. Besides conducting a systematic content analysis of a Swiss late-night show, this article examines the effects of late-night political parody on competence evaluations of politicians. An experiment manipulated the televised parody of a politician and measured political knowledge. Results show that exposure to a televised political parody decreased competence ratings of politicians only for individuals high in political knowledge. The reason is that viewers must already have an understanding of current political affairs to “get the joke”—that is, the implicit message transported by the parody. The implications of such a negative “Tina Fey Effect” are discussed.  相似文献   

CBI理念与电影片段教学在高职英语教学中的应用     

吴筱明 《湖北广播电视大学学报》2008,28(3):24-25

CBI理念是基于某种主题或某个学科进行外语教学的一种理念,英语电影作为英语语言与文化的统一体,为CBI理念的应用提供了极具灵活性与伸缩性的操作平台。将电影片段引入高职英语教学,能调动学生学习积极性,营造轻松、积极互动的课堂氛围,促进学生的英语应用能力的提高,为高职英语教学课堂模式改革提供参考。  相似文献   

外国留学生汉语口语交际策略调查   总被引：1，自引：0，他引：1  

章文君  梁丽  陈新芳 《金华职业技术学院学报》2008,8(1):34-38

通过定量研究和定性分析相结合的方法对金华地区百余名留学生汉语口语交际策略的使用情况进行调查,以群体和个体两个视角。分析留学生汉语习得过程中口头交际策略的表现形式、心理原因等,探究汉语水平、母语背景、认知风格等因素对留学生选择交际策略的影响、作用,为教学中提高留学生的汉语口语交际能力提供建议。  相似文献   

Perception of competence: risk and protective predictors following an e‐self‐advocacy intervention for adolescents with learning disabilities     

Efrat Kotzer 《欧洲特需教育杂志》2013,28(4):443-457

The purpose of this study was to identify predictors of competence among adolescents with learning disabilities (LD) who participated in a virtual supported self‐advocacy programme within the risk and protective paradigm. The sample consisted of 374 adolescents with and without learning disabilities, students of the 7th to 9th grades, at 15 schools across Israel. The adolescents were divided into three groups, matched by age and gender: 111 adolescents with LD who participated in a five‐month virtual‐supported intervention, and two comparison groups: adolescents with LD (N = 115) who did not participate in the program and adolescents without LD (N = 148). The self‐perceptions of adolescents were assessed using the following questionnaires: basic psychological skills (competence and relatedness); hope and loneliness. Following the intervention, higher competence scores were reported by students with LD who participated in the programme. At that time (the end of the academic year), the predictors of the groups of students with LD for the competence measure were their level of competence at the beginning of the period, their belonging to the group who participated in the intervention, their loneliness and hope. Comparisons with predictors of the group of students without LD, and with predictors of competence at the beginning of the year, emphasized the importance of risk factors (loneliness) and the protective factors (hope) for students with LD. In addition, the results focused attention at the contribution of the participation in an e‐supported self advocacy programme for enhancing competence among students with LD.  相似文献   

Positive biases in self-assessment of mathematics competence, achievement goals, and mathematics performance     

Caroline Dupeyrat  Christian EscribeNathalie Huet  Isabelle Régner 《International Journal of Educational Research》2011,50(4):241-250

The study examined how biases in self-evaluations of math competence relate to achievement goals and progress in math achievement. It was expected that performance goals would be related to overestimation and mastery goals to accurate self-assessments. A sample of French high-school students completed a questionnaire measuring their math achievement goals and their perceived competence in math. Students’ math grades for the three trimesters of the school year were collected from school records. Bias in self-evaluations was computed by comparing students’ rating on the ‘perceived competence in math’ scale with their actual math achievement as measured by their second trimester math grades. Students were classified into one of three groups (over-raters, accurate raters, or under-raters) depending on whether their self-perceptions of competence in math were higher than, similar to, or lower than their relative math achievement in their class. As expected, overrating of one's performance was related to performance goals. Furthermore, the over-raters were the only group who progressed in their math achievement from Trimester 2 to 3. No relation was found between mastery goals and accurate self-assessment.  相似文献   

湖北省现场统计研究会2010年学术年会会议论文选——基于区组设计的建模评分方式研究     

钟绍军  徐春艳  胡红群 《襄樊学院学报》2010,31(11):20-23

数学建模竞赛试卷的评分方式的合理性与公正性一直是大家关注的焦点.传统的评分方式的最大弊端在于阅卷老师的差异会对试卷的最终得分有一定的影响.根据区组设计的思想,对每位阅卷教师的差异性进行提取,并应用方差分析法进行假设检验.若不同阅卷老师的评分没有显著性差异,就可以用传统的算术平均法计算得分;否则,就应该对学生的试卷得分进行调整,以消除不同阅卷老师评分的差异性,从而保证公平.  相似文献   

《高等教育自学考试答题卡综合管理系统》的开发与应用     

冯筠 《中国考试》2010,(2)

应对当前大规模考试,计算机辅助管理势在必行。通过几年的实践,《高等教育自学考试答题卡综合管理系统》契合了自学考试科目多管理复杂的特点,提高了工作效率,是一个适合于大规模、多学科、同时进行信息采集与识别的处理软件。今后自学考试的阅卷管理也要与时俱进,跟上时代的发展,可以进行网上阅卷的尝试。  相似文献