Reconceptualising educational assessment in South Africa — testing times for teachers     

John Pryor  Cassius Lubisi 《International Journal of Educational Development》2002,22(6)

This paper explores some of the problems arising when Continuous Assessment (CA) is grafted onto established pedagogic practices. It focuses on three issues: teachers' restricted understandings of assessment, teachers' emphasis on criteria that demonstrate concern with social control, and some of the problems connected with peer assessment. Two vignettes derived from fieldwork associated with a project to improve the quality of primary education are used to raise the issues. We argue that the development of desired practices is hampered above all by tacit values in tension with those underpinning the new curriculum. These values, together with the complexity of curriculum design, create serious problems of manageability and interpretation, which can only be addressed through detailed interactive in-service training, aimed at reconceptualising teachers' notions of assessment.  相似文献   

Instructional methods and languages in class: A comparison of two teaching approaches and two teaching languages in the field of intercultural learning     

《Learning and Instruction》2016

The article presents the results of a quasi-experimental intervention study with a 2 × 2 factorial design. We implemented a problem-based intercultural learning unit in four secondary schools (grades 9 to 12) and varied the teaching approach (analytical/affective-experiential) and the language of instruction (German/English). The learning unit covered six 45-min lessons and was conducted in nine school courses (n = 143). Five additional school courses (n = 66) served as a control group. In all experimental groups, students engaged with critical incidents. These were either analysed (analytical focus) or acted out as role plays (affective-experiential focus). In addition, students analysed film clips (analytical focus) or participated in a simulation game (affective-experiential focus). The experimental groups outperformed the control group in the post-test, which required the analysis of critical incidents. Both teaching approaches were equally effective; however, students evaluated affective-experiential learning more positively. Using a foreign language for teaching did not impair performance.  相似文献   

Global convergence or national variation? Examining national patterns of classroom instructional practices     

Yoonjeon Kim 《Globalisation, Societies & Education》2019,17(3):353-377

The world culture framework posits a convergence in the organisation of education across the world. On the other hand, scholars observing teaching practices inside classrooms find significant variation among nations and regions of the world. This study examined the global change patterns of classroom practices at the between- and within-country levels, drawing on teacher reports from the Trends in Mathematics and Science Study. Results indicate clear between-country convergence toward more student-centred and conceptual instruction. But a nation’s degree of conformity or resistance to this model was contingent upon other nation-specific factors, including centralised curriculum control or world regional location.  相似文献   

The Combined Effects of Instructor Communicative Behaviors,Instructor Credibility,and Student Personality Traits on Incivility in the College Classroom     

Brian Klebig  Joanna Goldonowicz  Elisa Mendes  Ann Neville Miller  James Katt 《Communication Research Reports》2016,33(2):152-158

This study investigated the combined role of instructor communication variables (nonverbal immediacy and self-disclosure), instructor credibility (competence, caring, and trustworthiness), and student personality traits (extraversion, neuroticism, agreeableness, conscientiousness, and openness) in predicting students’ uncivil behaviors in class. A total of 406 students completed online questionnaires regarding the instructor of the class they attended prior to the one in which the study was administered. Personality and instructor behavior variables contributed approximately equally to explaining variance in student incivility. Students’ conscientiousness and agreeableness had direct negative relationships with incivility, whereas instructors’ amount and negativity of self-disclosure had direct positive relationships with incivility.  相似文献   

对课堂教学设计中教学目标阐明的思考   总被引：5，自引：0，他引：5  

王丽华 《现代教育技术》2003,13(6):66-69

教学目标阐明在整个课堂教学设计中占据着很重要的地位。该文在概述教学目标阐明的已有研究后,反思了新的时代背景下教学目标阐明中存在的主要问题,并对此提出了个人的思考。  相似文献   

析远程英语学习者之学习策略   总被引：6，自引：1，他引：6  

王平 《开放教育研究》2006,12(1):88-91

本文通过问卷调查,分析研究了远程英语学习者的学习策略。结果表明:远程学习者常用的英语学习策略有:自我管理策略、记忆策略和语法策略等。许多成人学生在英语学习中不善于合理使用各种策略。作者认为在远程英语教学中要注意培养学生运用策略的能力,另外必要对面授辅导课给予足够的重视。  相似文献   

Managing physical education lessons: an interactional approach     

Dean Barker  Claes Annerstedt 《Sport, Education and Society》2016,21(6):924-944

Physical education (PE) lessons involve complex and dynamic interactive sequences between students, equipment and teacher. The potential for unexpected and/or unintended events is relatively large, a point reflected in an increasing amount of scholarship dealing with classroom management (CM). This scholarship further suggests that unexpected and disruptive events negatively impact on learning and can have deleterious effects on teacher health. Despite considerable potential for these kinds of events, many PE lessons occur in structured, organized ways. The broad purpose of this paper is to consider how classroom action becomes ordered in PE contexts. To this end, an interactional approach is put forward including the specific analytic concepts of directives, epistemic authority and deontic authority. To exemplify the approach, the micro-dynamics of a situation in which a group of students are building a human pyramid is examined. The examination draws attention to: how the teacher engages in a series of interactions with the students to move the sequence forward; how the students themselves achieve order through their interactions with one another; and how the characteristics of the activity help to organize the students' behaviors and limit possibilities for action. The discussion is located against a backdrop of current CM scholarship. Reference is also made to two aspects of social context: the increasing prominence of managerial discourse in educational arenas and the significance of student-centeredness in pedagogical theory. Both aspects appear to influence how order can be achieved in PE today. The analysis raises issues related to pedagogy, management and authority which are addressed in the final two sections of the paper.  相似文献   

浅谈电教媒体在物理教学的应用     

胡勇兵 《中国教育科研与探索》2007,(1):82-83

将电教媒体技术引进到教学中去。充分应用电教媒体，激发学生学习物理的浓厚兴趣。充分利用课堂时间，提高知识的信息量。优化教学手段，突破重点、难点。  相似文献   

Content teaching: innovative and traditional practices     

Orna Heaysman  Dorit Tubin 《Educational studies》2019,45(3):342-356

Innovative teaching is sometimes perceived as opposite of traditional teaching, since it is regarded as student-centred and takes on the form of guided construction. This distinguishing feature led to an expectation that traditional teaching practices will be replaced with innovative ones for the purpose of fostering learning. The goal of the present research is to examine this issue by taking a closer look at teaching practices within an innovative learning environment, and their implications for teachers and teacher educators. Our qualitative research was conducted in a secondary school which has implemented such a learning environment. The data analysis is based on sociolinguistic discourse analysis. The findings reveal a variety of teaching practices, which allows teachers to choose the most suitable one for a particular learning requirement. We conclude in proposing to adopt a more complex approach to teaching, and to relinquish the dichotomy between traditional and innovative teaching practices. Theoretical and practical implications of this proposal are presented in the discussion.  相似文献   

以课堂交互软件促进大学教学质量——学习者采纳意愿及应用效果     

张进宝  马婧  姬凌岩 《现代远程教育研究》2011,(4):83-88

PowerPoint用于课堂教学,已经成为大学教学中的常规活动。然而,电子演示文稿在大学课堂中的应用还存在信息单向流动、交互少等问题。基于PowerPoint的课堂互动软件提供了一种经济、方便的解决方案。教师和学习者对这种解决方案的接受度如何？Microsoft Interactive Classroom和UW Classroom Presenter两种课程交互软件在课堂教学中的试验显示：教师和学生在首次接触此类软件后均表现出较高的采纳倾向;课堂交互软件有助于学习者个性需求表达和满足,可以提高学习者的课堂参与度。但是当前已有的课堂交互类软件在功能完备性、实用性以及灵活性上尚不能有效满足教师和学生的需求。  相似文献