Structuring collaboration in mixed-ability groups to promote verbal interaction,learning, and motivation of average-ability students     

Mohammad Saleh  Ard W. LazonderTon de Jong 《Contemporary educational psychology》2007

Average-ability students often do not take full advantage of learning in mixed-ability groups because they hardly engage in the group interaction. This study examined whether structuring collaboration by group roles and ground rules for helping behavior might help overcome this participatory inequality. In a plant biology course, heterogeneously grouped fourth-grade boys (n=164) were randomly assigned to a structured collaboration condition or an unconstrained comparison condition. Results indicated positive effects of structured collaboration on average-ability students’ achievement, motivation, and contribution to the group interaction. Another positive result was that structuring collaboration did not lower the scores of the high and low-ability students on these measures.  相似文献   

Using Activity Theory to inform sessional teacher development: what lessons can be learned from tutor training models?     

Amanda Gilbert 《International Journal for Academic Development》2017,22(1):56-69

Abstract

Sessional teachers in universities are often marginalised by their part-time status, availability for training, and invisibility within the institution’s infrastructure. Nevertheless, tutors as a subset of this group, regularly have access to some training and development. This paper presents a methodological approach for implementing the BLASST framework for sessional staff at a New Zealand university, based on a project to benchmark support for tutors. Using Activity Theory, I discuss tensions associated with developing a training programme for tutors and how such an approach can aid the development of similar models for all sessional teachers.  相似文献   

语法教学新理念--交互性语法教学     

祝敏 《泰州职业技术学院学报》2005,5(5):111-114

通过论述"交互式教学"的定义、教学原理及语法教学的注意事项,提出了"交互性语法教学"的概念及教学技巧.笔者提供了三个教学活动设计方案以进一步说明如何具体实施"交互性语法教学".  相似文献   

The challenges of establishing social learning spaces at a Johannesburg university student residence: Student views     

Najma Agherdien 《Africa Education Review》2016,13(2):64-81

This article reports on two cycles of a Participatory Action Research (PAR) study on student experiences of the process of establishing social learning spaces in a Johannesburg university student residence. We draw on Wenger’s (2009) notion of ‘social learning spaces’ to explore the manner in which students mediate their social and institutional identity, expose power imbalances in terms of decision-making and determine influences on their learning. We argue that learning is facilitated by social engagement and suggest that the conceptualisation and implementation of social learning spaces, although a complex and protracted process, is valuable for students’ social and academic development, particularly in a residence environment. Data were collected via semi-structured interviews, analysed using content analysis, and interpreted through a Cultural Historical Activity Theory (CHAT) lens. The findings point to the complexity of establishing social learning spaces (SLS) in a student residence environment with students experiencing multiple tensions in the process, including struggles with collaborative learning, difficulties in developing agency and the challenges of traversing power relations.  相似文献   

当代大学生德育工作的新趋势--以青年志愿者服务活动为例   总被引：1，自引：0，他引：1  

蓝媛慧 《广东教育学院学报》2006,26(1):28-30

青年志愿者服务活动的蓬勃发展显示了德育工作的新趋势，这主要表现为四个转向：即德育的主体从被动转向主动，德育内容从知性德育转向生活德育，德育的运作方式从个体转向组织，德育实现方式从理论转向实践。深刻认识青年志愿者服务活动的重要性，对于拓展当代大学生德育工作的新思路，加强德育的实效性具有重要的启示作用。  相似文献   

Research and teaching cultures in two contrasting UK policy contexts: Academic life in Education Departments in five English and Scottish universities   总被引：3，自引：0，他引：3  

Rosemary Deem  Lisa Lucas 《Higher Education》2007,54(1):115-133

The paper explores academic staff and departmental research and teaching cultures in the Education Departments of five universities in Scotland and England, countries with increasingly diverging public policies in respect of education. The relationship between research and teaching, how the purposes of universities are defined and the status of research in Education are current UK higher education policy preoccupations. Data is drawn from interviews with 40 academics, observation of department settings, documentation and websites. The analysis draws on the work of Bourdieu, considering the changing habitus of individual academics, their departmental and academic subject context and the forms of symbolic capital now required in Scottish and English Education departments in response to new policies affecting their academic field. The paper also utilises recent literature on the research–teaching relationship. The career trajectories of respondents, their habitus and the forms of symbolic capital that they bring to academic life are examined, as are the extent to which the teaching and research cultures in each of the five departments studied mirror each other and whether these also reflect the two different policy contexts. The themes how academic cultures are shaped and research/teaching connections viewed have international as UK relevance.  相似文献   

Collective reflective assessment for shared epistemic agency by undergraduates in knowledge building     

Yuqin Yang  Qianqian Chen  Yawen Yu  Xueqi Feng  Jan van Aalst 《British journal of educational technology : journal of the Council for Educational Technology》2020,51(4):1136-1154

We examined the facilitation of shared epistemic agency through a knowledge-building (KB) design that included analytics-supported collective reflective assessment (AsCRA). Forty undergraduate students taking a Liberal Studies course at a university in central China used the promising ideas tool and the knowledge building discourse explorer to self-analyze the online discourse they had created in Knowledge Forum® (KF), an online discourse environment; 34 students in a comparison section of the same course used KF but did not use the additional tools. Both classes were taught by the same teacher and studied the same inquiry topics. Multifaceted analysis of students' interaction in and the quality of discourse on KF, an educational online platform, indicated that analytics-supported reflective assessment helped them to develop high-level shared epistemic agency in the KB process. Qualitative analysis showed that AsCRA helped students to focus on high-level goals (idea negotiation, synthesis of ideas and rise above thinking) in KB, and to engage in continuous assessment, reflection, and action planning to regulate and improve their discourse. The findings have important implications for the design of technology-rich environments to support learners, and may help teachers identify the potential uses of such environments to encourage learners to engage in productive collaborative inquiry and develop metacognition and agency.  相似文献   

在中华文化背景下开展基于问题式学习的探究   总被引：13，自引：0，他引：13  

任英杰 《现代教育技术》2005,15(2):45-48

本文通过对基于问题的学习(Problem-Based Learning,简称PBL)的分析,认为这种在西方兴起的教学方式非常有助于促进学生的自主学习、终身学习;但从其实质看,PBL是个案研究性学习的一种形式,本身也有一些不足。本文力求在中华文化背景下,为更加有效的发挥PBL的实际效果,提出完善PBL教学的方法,从而让学生在真实的情境中,获得真正的意义建构,实现素质教育的目标。  相似文献   

国内知名联合参考咨询系统的比较研究     

郭磊  刘梦琦 《新世纪图书馆》2012,(1):31-33

论文以目前国内较为知名的联合参考咨询网"联合参考咨询网"、"网上联合知识导航站"、"NSTL参考咨询系统"、"全国图书馆信息咨询协作网"为例进行分析,通过对四个系统在基础建设、资源特色、服务情况等方面的比较分析,尝试理清国内联合参考咨询系统的发展现状,并针对发展中存在的问题提出建议  相似文献   

基于文献共被引关系的办同过滤文献推荐系统     

李琳娜  张志平  乔晓东  刘春霞 《数字图书馆论坛》2012,(3):33-37

随着数字图书馆的文献数量和种类高速增长,数字图书馆用户迫切需要有效的个性化推荐工具来帮助其在众多文献中发现对其有价值的文献。协同过滤方法是推荐系统广泛采用的推荐技术,但数据稀疏性是影响其推荐效果的关键因素之一。在文献推荐领域,这一问题更加显著。文章提出了一个利用文献间共被引关系的协同过滤文献推荐方法。实验表明所提方法具有较好的推荐性能。  相似文献