Chinese university EFL teachers’ beliefs and practices of classroom writing assessment     

《Studies in Educational Evaluation》2020

This study investigates the extent to which university teachers’ beliefs about classroom writing assessment are congruent with their self-perceived practices in English-as-a-foreign-language (EFL) contexts, and what factors contribute to belief-practice inconsistencies. Drawing on data from a survey of 136 Chinese university EFL writing teachers and ten teacher interviews, results showed a degree of belief-practice alignment regarding assessment for learning (AfL) practices that make learning explicit, but belief-practice discrepancies were more salient. AfL practices that empower students to take responsibility in writing assessment were perceived to be more important than assessment of learning practices; however, the reverse was found in teachers’ practice. Impacts of micro-level factors including assessment training, teaching experience, student attributes, meso-level school factors, and macro-level assessment culture are discussed, and implications are drawn.  相似文献   

An exploration of the relationships between elementary school teachers’ humor styles and their emotional labor     

《Teaching and Teacher Education》2020

Teaching requires emotional labor. Humor is a promising but under-explored means of coping with such labor. A questionnaire was administered to 302 primary teachers to assess three kinds of emotional labor (surface, deep, and genuine acting) and four humor styles: two adaptive (affiliative and self-enhancing) and two maladaptive (aggressive and self-defeating). Affiliative and self-enhancing humor were positively correlated with emotional labor, whereas aggressive and self-defeating humor were negatively correlated with such labor. These results can help raise awareness of teaching’s emotional demands, and encourage teacher-training and professional-development programs to showcase appropriate ways, including humor, of coping with workplace emotions.  相似文献   

Teachers’ epistemic cognition in situ: Evidence from classroom assessment     

《Contemporary educational psychology》2020

Assessment tasks require the coordination of multiple knowledge-related goals for various audiences, and therefore provide an authentic context to observe teachers’ epistemic cognition in practice. In this instrumental case study, we investigated seven, fifth grade English Language Arts teachers’ epistemic cognition as they evaluated students’ classroom assessments. Our analyses revealed that the components of epistemic cognition identified in the literature emerged in these teachers’ assessment processes. Moreover, we found evidence that teachers’ epistemic cognition was iterative and nuanced, and required shifts in aims and reliable processes. This resulted in teachers forming new kinds of “epistemic matters” and questions beyond those ideas noted in existing models of epistemic cognition. Significance and implications are discussed.  相似文献   

Global citizenship education in conflict-affected settings: Implications of teachers’ views and contextual challenges for the Lebanese case     

《Teaching and Teacher Education》2020

Despite embracing GCED themes, the Lebanese National Curriculum faces multifaceted challenges rooted in conflict. The 1997 curriculum is still in effect with revision attempts encumbered. Interviews with 56 public school teachers in Lebanon confirm prevalent knowledge transmission practices of prescribed civics content and lack of support for progressive teaching and critical dialogue. Findings suggest few teachers prioritise GCED constructs, while most promote nationalistic citizenship notions contributing to marginalisation. Moving forward, teacher education should develop teaching practice and mindsets for sustainable GCED with the intent of emancipating teachers and students from the limitations of national curricula.  相似文献   

Why care about caring? Linking teachers’ caring and sense of meaning at work with students’ self-esteem,well-being,and school engagement     

《Teaching and Teacher Education》2020

Research on teacher-student relationships shows their impact on students. However, it typically focuses on teachers’ interactions and instruction, with less attention to motivations/feelings. Specifically, almost no quantitative research has focused on teachers’ caring for students, despite its potential importance. The present multilevel study, comprising 675 students in ages 15–17 and their 33 homeroom teachers, linked students’ feelings that their teacher cares for them with their self-esteem, well-being, and school engagement and indicated that teacher-student relationships quality mediates these links. Furthermore, students’ reports on teachers’ caring were associated with teachers’ sense of meaning at work, suggesting its role in enhancing caring.  相似文献   

A multilevel examination of an instrument measuring school renewal via teachers     

《Studies in Educational Evaluation》2020

The purpose of the present study was to assess an instrument that uses responses from teachers to measure principal behaviors on the critical educational issue of school renewal. To account for the data hierarchy of teachers nested within schools, we employed a multilevel confirmatory factor analysis and estimated multilevel reliabilities at both teacher and school levels to examine the instrument. With 2765 teachers from 148 schools, the instrument showed acceptable structural validity. Specifically, we found that when teachers provide responses as indicators of school renewal, the instrument can generate a valid and highly reliable measure or estimate of school renewal at the school level. However, data analysis at the teacher level attempting to use teacher perceptions of school renewal as either dependent variables or independent variables should be avoided because of the low reliability at the teacher level.  相似文献   

Comparing teaching practices,teacher content knowledge and pay in Punjab     

《International Journal of Educational Development》2020

This study utilises a unique school based survey of public, private and Public Partnership Programme (PPP) schools in Punjab, Pakistan to identify the correlates of: teacher behaviour in the classroom, teacher content knowledge mastery, and teacher pay. The study finds that private school teachers are associated with lower classroom observation scores than public school teachers, and both private and PPP school teachers are less likely to exhibit content knowledge mastery in Urdu than public school teachers (however, this is not the case for math and English). Public school teachers recruited after the introduction of test-based teacher recruitment are 30 percentage points more likely to demonstrate math content knowledge mastery than teachers recruited prior to test-based recruitment. The study also finds evidence of a pay gap between male and female teachers in both public and PPP schools after controlling for other characteristics. Teachers’ math content knowledge scores were found to be statistically significant correlates of teacher pay for private school teachers, but not for PPP or public school teachers. For female PPP school teachers, having higher academic qualifications is associated with higher wages however, this is not the case for male teachers in these schools.  相似文献   

An examination of the effects of a short course aimed at enabling teachers in infant,junior and secondary schools to alter the verbal feedback given to their pupils     

Jeremy Swinson & Alex Harrop 《Educational studies》2005,31(2):115-129

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英语作文和论文评语的语句策略     

尹康敏 《四川教育学院学报》2006,22(5):72-76

英语作文和论文评语是英语教师思想水平，教学意识，质量观和教学能力的综合体现。老师在评语中表现出的态度、情感、准确性直接影响学生的写作情绪和兴趣。首先对学生的作文或论文的评语要落在一个“赏”字上，要把学生看作一名作者，一名思考者。对作文和论文进行评价是教育过程的一个环节，所以，突出评价的发展性功能是作文，尤其是论文评价改革的核心。评语的质量重于数量，要掌握好批语的量。如何使用眉批。如何写出高水平的总评语，除了教师应具有的爱心，还要有一定的技巧，这些技巧可以使学生更加明确写作的方法，存在的问题，解决的方法和自己已取得的提高。因此掌握这些技巧需要我们教师在平时的教学活动中不断摸索并加以提高。  相似文献   

我院师资培训的效果分析与措施改进     

查方能  郑柏松  卢华丽 《黄冈职业技术学院学报》2008,10(2):56-57

本文根据学院新时期师资建设新要求,结合近年师资培训实际情况,分析了师资培训的积极效果和存在的问题,并针对师资培训存在的问题,提出了打造学院名师、打造精品课程特色等五点意见。  相似文献