Graduate teaching assistants: motives,difficulties and professional interactions and their relationship to perceived benefits     

Fadia Nasser-Abu Alhija  Barbara Fresko 《高等教育研究与发展》2020,39(3):546-560

ABSTRACT

Graduate students play a major role in teaching in higher education, particularly in undergraduate programs. The purpose of the present study was two-fold: first, to identify graduate students’ motives for working as graduate teaching assistants (GTAs), describe some aspects of their work, and ascertain their perceived benefits; second, to predict GTAs’ benefits as a function of their individual background characteristics, motives, job difficulties, and richness of professional interactions with the course instructor. Data were collected from 189 GTAs who led discussion groups at a large research university in Israel by means of an internet questionnaire. Findings revealed that graduate students accepted the position of GTA mainly for extrinsic reasons, such as salary and convenience. They claimed to have faced few difficulties and that their professional interactions with the course instructors focused more on job responsibilities and less on pedagogical issues. They reported having gained a greater understanding of course content and improved teaching skills due to their experience as GTAs. Richness of contact with the course instructor, motives, difficulties, and faculty match significantly contributed to predicting perceived benefits. The implications of the results are discussed.  相似文献   

高校潜水专业可持续发展影响因素研究——以岭南师范学院为例     

黎明 《体育科技文献通报》2020,(1):158-160

在SWOT总体框架下运用德尔菲法和层次分析法等一些研究方法,去构建研究高校潜水可持续发展的体系,并确立其因素的权重。结果表明从SWOT分析方面去构建一级四个指标优势S、劣势W、机会O、威胁T,二级指标18个因素的体系是能够分析出哪个因素的权重更大,能给予一定的定量分析支持。其中一级指标的优势S是四个指标中最重要的一个因素,能给予决断层学术上的帮助。  相似文献   

Learner self-efficacy,goal orientation,and academic achievement: exploring mediating and moderating relationships     

Toni Honicke  Matthew Fuller-Tyszkiewicz 《高等教育研究与发展》2020,39(4):689-703

ABSTRACT

Within the context of Pintrich’s self-regulated learning model, recent reviews of the literature show that motivational factors are the strongest predictors of academic performance. Even so, gaps remain in terms of which goal orientation constructs area most strongly related to performance, and whether academic self-efficacy is involved in such relationships, either as mediator or moderator. This study addresses these gaps using a sample of 478 university students; 409 females aged 17–62 (M?=?23.28, SD?=?7.22) and 69 males, aged 18–47 (M?=?22.5, SD?=?6.31). Analyses revealed that academic self-efficacy (ASE) mediated relationships between both mastery and performance-approach goal orientation with achievement, though the mediation effect was larger for the relationship involving mastery approach goal orientation. ASE did not moderate the relationship between performance-approach goal orientation and achievement. Findings suggest teaching programmes should foster learning environments that encourage persistence and effort when learning, and consider how course delivery and feedback can enhance academic self-efficacy, regardless of the goal orientation adopted by students.  相似文献   

Unconscious and unnoticed professional practice within an outstanding school for children and young people with complex learning difficulties and disabilities     

Richard Crombie  Lesley Sullivan  Kate Walker  Rebecca Warnock 《Support for Learning》2014,29(1):7-23

This article describes a three‐year project undertaken at Pear Tree School for children and young people with severe and multiple and profound learning difficulties. Lesley Sullivan, the school's head teacher, believed that much of the value within the work of this outstanding school went unidentified by existing approaches to planning, monitoring and evaluation. Richard Crombie, educational psychologist, was engaged to work on the project. Also involved were Kate Walker and Rebecca Warnock, deputy head teachers, as well as the whole staff, children and some parents. The project takes as its starting point that essential, but very often unnoticed and unconscious, professional practice is rooted in implicit processes learnt experientially. We set ourselves the task of finding meaningful frameworks for identifying and developing that practice. This meant close observation within and outside school coupled with feeding back to staff, and their subsequent engagement with and use of explanatory frameworks.  相似文献   

哈佛大学的发展历程、教育理念及启示     

别敦荣  贾杰静 《大学教育科学》2011,(6):76-81

哈佛大学是世界高等教育的典范,兼容了英国的学院观念、德国的研究与研究所制度和美国的民主思想。它所秉持的精英教育、真理与学术至上、自由教育和学术自由等教育理念,既是其370多年发展历史的结晶,又是其超越自我、独领风骚、傲视群雄的内在精神。研究哈佛大学教育理念,有助于科学系统地构建引领我国建设高等教育强国的理念体系,为建设世界一流大学提供借鉴和启示。  相似文献   

英语报刊阅读辅助非英语专业研究生英语教学的研究   总被引：1，自引：0，他引：1  

马旭 《中国现代教育装备》2011,(3):154-156

通过英语报刊阅读活动在非英语专业研究生英语课堂上的实际应用,结合问卷调查和访谈记录结果,探讨英语报刊阅读活动的作用和价值及对研究生英语学习的积极推动和促进作用。  相似文献   

EDA技术与电子类专业课程的融合教学     

鲁娟娟 《中国现代教育装备》2011,(23):104-105

针对电子类课程体系中的不足,提出了EDA技术与专业课程融合教学的思想。EDA技术以Multisim,MaxplusII,Protus和Protel为核心,实现了与理论课、课程实训和综合实训的有机融合,既发挥了EDA技术的新颖性、实用性和可操作性的优点,又弥补了专业课程中教师教和学生学都困难的不足。  相似文献   

注重大学生职业形象塑造,提升高职人才就业竞争力   总被引：1，自引：0，他引：1  

罗恺赟 《读与写:教育教学刊》2011,(3):83-84,5

本文阐述了职业形象的概念及重要意义,并且强调了在高职院校中注重大学生职业形象塑造有利于提升高职人才的就业竞争力,同时对如何提高大学生职业形象设计水平给出了看法,也提出了高职院校在职业形象设计指导过程中存在的问题和解决思路。  相似文献   

培养湖州新农村“专业农民”的对策     

郑宁国  许伟达  王柱国 《湖州职业技术学院学报》2011,9(2):5-8

在“十一五”期间,湖州市新农村建设在科技创新、产业发展、村镇规划建设、基础设施建设、生态环境建设等方面培养了大批“三农”人才,创建了新农村建设的“湖州模式”。这为贯彻落实中共中央国务院《国家中长期人才发展规划纲要（2010—2020年）》“以用为本”的精神打下了扎实的基础。作为目前参与湖州“美丽乡村”建设活动的新农民——农村领军人才,必须学习现代科学知识,围绕湖州农业主导产业发展方向,将自己培养成“专业农民”,让技术变成看得见、摸得着的产业,以增强农业产业化组织的带动能力,发挥专业合作社对广大农户的影响力和带动力。  相似文献   

20世纪90年代以来徽州宗族研究的回眸与展望     

张安东 《巢湖学院学报》2011,13(2):94-100

传统徽州是一个宗族社会,因此对徽州宗族的研究一直深受学界关注。20世纪90年代以来,学者们对于徽州宗族的产生与发展态势、徽州族产与宗族业权、徽州族谱与家谱、徽州宗祠、徽州宗族的社会控制、徽州宗族教育、徽州宗族婚姻、徽州宗族文化等问题均予以较为详尽的考察、分析和探讨。回顾和总结当前的研究状况,有利于今后的研究在更高层面上获得发展。  相似文献