Can social integration in schools be mandated: Evidence from the Right to Education Act in India     

《International Journal of Educational Development》2020

Although Affirmative Action policies have been enforced in many countries, their consequences are highly understudied, especially in the context of developing economies. Section 12(1)(c) of the Right to Education (RTE) Act enforced in 2009 is the first attempt to introduce affirmative action in primary schools in India. The act requires all private schools to reserve at least twenty five percent seats for children from economically weaker sections. To understand the effect of the act on i) social integration and ii) academic outcomes, we asked 1500 children (grades one to three) from four schools to answer friendship surveys and short tests in Mathematics and English. The schools in our sample vary considerably in constitution and were intentionally chosen to understand the impact of the act in different school settings. The friendship surveys show strong homophily i.e. non-RTE students cite other non-RTE students as friends, while RTE students chose to be friends primarily with other RTE students. Trends in test scores reveal that students admitted under the RTE quota score significantly lower than non-RTE students. However, RTE students who have a higher share of non-RTE friends have better test scores, suggesting that affirmative action may have a positive influence on learning outcomes for RTE children. Further we note that commitment from the school authorities and systematic monitoring and evaluation of the implementation of the act will go a long way in bringing out some of the benefits that this act was designed to achieve. Our findings have important policy implications with respect to ensuring proper implementation of the Section12(1)(c) of the RTE act in schools across the country.  相似文献   

A longitudinal quantitative investigation into the concurrent validity of self and peer assessment applied to English-Chinese bi-directional interpretation in an undergraduate interpreting course     

《Studies in Educational Evaluation》2018

One of the productive lines of research on self-assessment (SA) and peer assessment (PA) concerns their concurrent validity with respect to a criterion measure. However, similar research has rarely been conducted for spoken-language interpreting. This article therefore reports on a longitudinal study that investigated the validity of self and peer ratings on three performance dimensions of English-Chinese consecutive interpretation (i.e., information completeness, fluency of delivery, and target language quality), taking teachers’ ratings as a yardstick. Major findings include: although the students as a group were unable to replicate teachers’ ratings, they were able to rank-order their performances in a fairly accurate manner and improved their SA and PA accuracy over time. Interpreting directionality seems to moderate the correlational strength of self/teacher ratings and peer/teacher ratings. These results are discussed in relation to previous literature, and pedagogical suggestions are provided to improve SA and PA for bi-directional interpretation.  相似文献   

近十年来国内河西地区历史地理研究概述     

许德庆 《河西学院学报》2011,27(4):21-26

近年来国内河西地区历史地理研究的各种成果较多,但学界对其梳理不多,文章拟分别从河西地区历史自然地理状况、河西地区历史经济地理、河西地区历史文化地理、河西地区城镇地理等方面研究概况进行回顾,以就教于学界。  相似文献   

Connecting feedback to self-efficacy: Receiving and providing peer feedback in teacher education     

《Studies in Educational Evaluation》2021

Feedback can play a vital role in fostering teacher self-efficacy. Social comparisons and feedback valence (positive vs. negative feedback) are assumed to have a large impact on self-efficacy. Therefore, how pre-service teachers perceive social comparisons and feedback valence in peer feedback and the extent to which pre-service teachers (bachelor/master students) and teacher trainers incorporate comments that can have an impact on self-efficacy into their peer feedback merit investigation. Two studies were conducted. The first showed that peer feedback consisting of a social comparison and with positive feedback valence resulted in greater willingness to improve and positive affect. The second study revealed that teacher trainers’ feedback was more specific, whereas bachelor students’ feedback contained more social comparisons than did master students’ and teacher trainers’. Future research and practical implications are discussed.  相似文献   

Keeping plagiarism at bay—A salutary tale     

Ben R. Martin  other Editors of Research Policy 《Research Policy》2007,36(7):905-911

This editorial examines the question of whether plagiarism may be on the increase in the social sciences and, if so, what needs to be done to keep the problem in check. It was prompted by the discovery of an alert reader in June 2007 that a 1993 paper in Research Policy appeared to have plagiarised a 1980 article in the Journal of Business. The allegation was investigated, and it was agreed by the Editors that the 1993 paper constituted a clear and serious case of plagiarism. However, the author concerned has published over 100 articles and books. Already, two other publications have been judged by the editors of the journals concerned to have plagiarised previous publications. Two more are under investigation, but the great majority of the remainder still remain to be checked. The fact that academic misconduct on this scale has gone unchecked over such a prolonged period raises serious issues about the efficacy of the processes used to police the conduct of researchers. Furthermore, the unexpected discovery that a paper by the author under investigation appears itself to have been plagiarised poses a fundamental question as to whether plagiarism may be far more common than previously assumed. The editorial concludes that a measured degree of vigilance and a greater willingness to pursue any well-founded suspicions of research misconduct are required by editors, referees, publishers and the wider academic community if the scourge of plagiarism is to be kept at bay.  相似文献   

科技期刊审稿专家的评价和改进措施     

刘凤华  陈立敏  李启明 《中国科技期刊研究》2016,27(8):857-862

【目的】通过对审稿专家的评价进而提出优化审稿专家的措施。【方法】 选取《中华微生物学和免疫学杂志》2011—2015年267位审稿专家7756条审稿记录,统计267位专家的审稿数量、审稿时滞及审稿结论。【结果】 通过统计和分析,5年间审稿篇次>31篇的66位专家是期刊的核心审稿专家,其中,审稿时滞在3周以内的专家占92.5%;审稿时滞上,就所有专家而言,74.2%的能在3周内审回稿件;审稿结论上,拒审占5.0%,无具体审稿意见或审稿意见过简无针对性的占10.5%。【结论】 要保证期刊的核心专家队伍,必须从专家和编辑两个层面进行改进。对专家适当取舍,保证核心审稿专家的数量;同时编辑应做好服务工作,重视专家的知识回报。  相似文献   

Learning design and learning analytics in mobile and ubiquitous learning: A systematic review     

Gerti Pishtari  María J. Rodríguez-Triana  Edna M. Sarmiento-Márquez  Mar Pérez-Sanagustín  Adolfo Ruiz-Calleja  Patricia Santos  Luis P. Prieto  Sergio Serrano-Iglesias  Terje Väljataga 《British journal of educational technology : journal of the Council for Educational Technology》2020,51(4):1078-1100

Mobile and Ubiquitous Learning (m/u-learning) are finding an increasing adoption in education. They are often distinguished by hybrid learning environments that encompass elements of formal and informal learning, in activities that happen in distributed settings (indoors and outdoors), across physical and virtual spaces. Despite their purported benefits, these environments imply additional complexity in the design, monitoring and evaluation of learning activities. The research literature on learning design (LD) and learning analytics (LA) has started to deal with these issues. This paper presents a systematic literature review of LD and LA, in m/u-learning. Apart from providing an overview of the current research in the field, this review elicits elements of common ground between both communities, as shown by the similar learning contexts and complementary research contributions, and based on the research gaps, proposes to: address m/u-learning beyond higher education settings, reinforce the connection between physical and virtual learning spaces, and more systematically align LD and LA processes.  相似文献   

国内外大学院长系主任研究文献综述     

虞宝桃 《教育学术月刊》2011,(6):34-37

在大学组织结构中,院系是大学学术系统中的基础单位。院长系主任在院系中起领导作用,院长系主任研究是大学组织管理理论与实践中的学术热点。文章在对院长系主任研究的国内外文献进行回顾的基础上进行了简要述评,提出进一步研究值得关注的问题。  相似文献   

文献综述的归类划分与特征辨析--体育学硕士研究生能力培养和学术规范的反思     

王广虎  贺鑫森  王岗 《成都体育学院学报》2015,(6):1-8

文献综述依据综述的目的和文本的性质可分为：学术性文献综述与研究性文献综述。学术性文献综述,是在学术层面、因学术问题而作的文献综述,其成果可以直接在学术刊物上发表。学术性文献综述具有以下文本特征：强调权威性以保证学术基调和保持学术品味;强调经典性以明晰学术走向和把握学术格局;强调前沿性以判断学术态势和突破学术僵持;强调导向性以凸显学术预测和实现学术引领。研究性文献综述,不是相对独立的、完整意义上的研究,而是为保证研究流程有理、有据、有效进行的必要学术准备,具有较大的研究从属性,通常是不能直接或不宜直接在学术刊物上发表。对于硕士研究生的培养,研究性文献综述具有以下阶段特征：选题阶段立足发现问题;开题阶段立足提出问题;结题阶段立足认识问题。  相似文献   

形成性评价在英文报刊阅读教学中的实践探讨     

邹德平 《山东教育学院学报》2015,30(3)

英文报刊阅读课程主要针对学生的阅读、翻译和语言综合运用能力进行培养.形成性评价运用于英文报刊阅读课程中,可以通过跟踪学习过程有效整合语言知识技能目标、文化目标和人文素养目标三者的达成度评价,这样不仅能够弥补以书面考试为主的终结性评价方式的不足,而且也有利于充分激发和维持学生的英语学习热情,培养学生的自我评价能力,发挥学生学习的主观能动性,培养学生的思辨能力、自主学习能力、自我管理能力和自我约束能力,在获得成就感的同时增强学习英语的自信心.教学实践证明,在英文报刊阅读教学中采用教师观察、自评互评、学习档案、访谈等形成性评价手段,能够充分尊重学生个体差异和学习优势,提升学习效果.与此同时授课教师可以及时发现英文报刊阅读教学中存在的问题,及时改进教学,提升教学效果.  相似文献