Dealing with disagreement: The roles of topic familiarity and disagreement explanation in evaluation of conflicting expert claims and sources     

《Learning and Instruction》2020

Learners may increasingly encounter conflicting expert reports. However, little is known about how they deal with this challenge. We examined how learners' familiarity with a controversial historical topic affects their epistemic judgments of conflicting expert claims and sources, the interplay of their claim and source evaluation strategies, and their meta-epistemic understanding of the legitimacy of the disagreement (absolutist, multiplist, and evaluativist perspectives). In two studies, topic familiarity increased agreement with belief-consistent expert claims and the perceived trustworthiness of the expert who presented these claims. Topic familiarity also impacted the coordination of evaluation strategies and led to greater reliance on knowledge-based validation. However, topic familiarity did not affect meta-epistemic understanding of the legitimacy of the controversy. In the second study, reading an explanation about reasons for disagreements between historians resulted in higher evaluativism. Teaching about expert disagreement may be a productive approach for promoting appreciation of the diversity of knowledge.  相似文献   

Effectiveness of a school-based intervention to prevent child sexual abuse—Evaluation of the German IGEL program     

《Child abuse & neglect》2018

BackgroundChild sexual abuse (CSA) is a problem with severe consequences for victimized children. A variety of interventions have been developed and implemented over the last decades to prevent CSA. However, most of them have not been systematically evaluated to determine their effectiveness. The IGEL program is a school-based intervention to prevent CSA in third-grade primary school children in Germany.MethodsThis study was conducted using a quasi-experimental design, in which almost 300 children and their parents from eight intervention and four control schools were surveyed three times (pretest, posttest, 3 months later). In order to measure outcomes, a questionnaire was developed based on validated instruments to assess the knowledge, courses of action and self-protective skills of the children. Furthermore, increased anxiety and generalized touch aversion were examined as potentially harmful side effects of the program.ResultsThe results clearly demonstrate increased CSA-related knowledge and courses of action in children from the intervention group compared to the control children. These effects were medium-sized and sustained for at least three months after the last session. No meaningful negative side effects were detected in the evaluation for either the children or parents.ConclusionThe outcome evaluation indicates that the IGEL program is an effective intervention in terms of knowledge about CSA and known courses of action, and may therefore contribute to the prevention of CSA in primary schools. Despite this positive core finding of the intermediate outcomes, some adaptations of the program to children with different cultural backgrounds were made prior to further dissemination.  相似文献   

Towards a Framework for Evaluating the Research Performance of Chinese Double First-Class Universities     

XU Changqing 《Frontiers of Education in China》2020,15(3):369

The study focuses on the research performance of Double First-Class (DFC) universities in China. A theoretical framework based on economic theory and the Analytic Hierarchy Process (AHP) method for a novel evaluation model is proposed. The model is performed on a sample of 41 participant DFC universities in China. Using data collected from these universities, it was found that there is no consistency between performance ranking, input ranking, and output ranking, with the best ranked universities far from the most efficient. These findings provide empirical evidence of DFC universities’ research performance situation and suggest strategies that the government can use to propel their sustainable development.  相似文献   

《现代文员基础》课程网络教学实验报告     

钟畅民 《安徽广播电视大学学报》2006,(1):48-51

在《现代文员基础》课程教学中,针对学生不能正常到校学习者比例较大和该课程缺少多媒体教学资源的情况,设计了激励上网学习的形成性考核制度,促进学生完成在线作业和进入讨论区进行答疑、讨论、交流。并将实验情况进行了总结,对课程网上教学的若干现象和问题作了初步研究,得出了相应的结论。  相似文献   

教师工作满意度的调查研究     

吕国光 《黄冈师范学院学报》2008,28(2):114-118

运用修订的“教师工作满意度问卷”（Teacher’s Job Satisfaction Inventory）对600多名中小学教师在教学满意、环境满意、升迁满意、收入满意、管理满意等5个方面的情况进行调查。研究结果发现：被调查教师对工作是基本满意的;总平均分之间不存在性别差异,但存在极其显著的城乡差异,农村教师较城市教师对教学工作更为满意;学校类型和任教学科对教师工作满意度总体上没有影响。  相似文献   

湖北省普通师范院校开设特殊教育课程研究报告     

柳树森 《襄樊职业技术学院学报》2002,1(4):59-62

对在普通师范院校开设特殊教育课程的必然性与可行性、途径、方法和模式尤其是课程建设的研究成果进行了系统归纳和提炼，旨在为教育决策提供依据。  相似文献   

北京城市学院师资队伍现状调研报告     

Wu Min 《北京城市学院学报》2007,(3):29-34

本调研报告是2005年5月学校教育科学研究课题立项《北京城市学院师资队伍建设与管理问题的研究》的主要成果。本报告在对学校师资队伍现状进行了全面、细致调研的基础上,对师资队伍的特点和主要问题进行了分析,并提出了相应的对策及建议。  相似文献   

On the value of data-based decision making in education: The evidence from six intervention studies     

《Studies in Educational Evaluation》2021

Although some studies have investigated the impact of data-based decision making (DBDM) on student achievement, the overall findings are not straightforward, because of the studies’ methodological flaws and their mixed results. This article first presents a breakdown of the DBDM concept as applied in the Dutch context. Next, it explains the theoretical foundations of DBDM in feedback and goal-setting theory and then discusses various factors influencing DBDM effectiveness. The results of six Dutch DBDM interventions with an explicit focus on student achievement effects of DBDM and with strong research designs are then presented. Significant positive effects on student performance as measured by means of standardized tests are reported for four interventions. The interpretation of student progress data from student monitoring systems does not seem to be problematic for teachers, if they are deliberately trained for it, but teachers do find it difficult to translate student progress data into tailor-made instruction.  相似文献   

The conundrum research-practice partnerships face with system variability     

《Studies in Educational Evaluation》2021

Variability is inherent in educational phenomena. Research-practice approaches face a conundrum of how to deal with variability. It can be positive, providing evidence for effective innovation in local sites, but interferes with a goal of consistent effectiveness. Our methods for capitalizing on variation have become sophisticated, and solutions to the unwanted facets of variability are emerging. A working model for how to think about variability and setting expectations about the tolerance levels is proposed.  相似文献   

基于核心素养的初中英语作业设计与评价研究     

高晓静 《天津教育》2021,(8):87-88

作为初中英语教学中的关键组成部分,作业的设计和评价至关重要,合理化的作业设计能够起到良好的指导作用,对于巩固学生们的学习成效有着正面的影响。本文结合当前初中英语作业设计现状,重点分析核心素养视角下初中英语作业设计和评价的路径。  相似文献