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Sherry A. Southerland Scott Sowell Margaret Blanchard E. M. Granger 《Research in Science Education》2011,41(3):299-317
It is well established that many teachers are resistant to take up the messages of reform if these messages require them to
substantially shift their teaching practices. What accounts for this resistance? One well established explanation is that
teachers lacks the self-efficacy required to attempt something new in their teaching—they simply do not feel capable of effectively
enacting the messages. However, there are a host of studies describing teachers with high self—efficacy who remain resistant
to messages of change. The purpose of this article is to address the gap in the application of self-efficacy to understand
the change or lack of change of science teachers’ practice through the introduction of a related construct, pedagogical discontentment. This construct reflects a state of cognitive conflict that exists when an individual recognizes a mismatch between her/his
science teaching pedagogical goals and classroom practices. One potential result of this mismatch is that a teacher problematizes
her teaching practices, prompting an increased receptivity to reform messages. Building on existing literature, we present
vignettes of four hypothetical teachers who exemplify variations of pedagogical discontentment. When combined with self-efficacy,
pedagogical discontentment provides a useful lens to understand teachers’ consideration and adoption of messages of reform. 相似文献
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Pauline Davey Zeece 《Early Childhood Education Journal》2008,35(6):565-569
Using an example of a toddler’s developing understanding of an apple, this article illustrates how children integrate all
elements in their interpersonal and built environments to support their emerging literacy skills. Otto (2007) and others provide evidence from emergent literacy research that documents observations and exploration by infants, toddlers,
and young children and suggest that the ways in which children participate in early literature-related activities influence
the knowledge they construct. Twenty-two children’s books—including five for apple discoverers—are recommended and reviewed. 相似文献
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K. Ann Renninger Ming Cai Mark C. Lewis Margot M. Adams Katherine L. Ernst 《Educational technology research and development : ETR & D》2011,59(2):229-247
As hypermedia, online teacher professional development (TPD) should ideally support diverse learners to work with online content
effectively because it involves multiple representations and a nonlinear format. Differences among participants in motivation
and learning provide challenges for design. The present study is a use-inspired, mixed-method study of 164 teachers’ motivation
and learning in an unmoderated online workshop. It addresses participants’ demographic and motivational profiles, participation
in this type of workshop (e.g., the frequency, duration, and focus, as well as their work with technology-enhanced, nonroutine
challenge problems and journal assignments), the predictive value of the initial questionnaire, and implications for design.
Findings indicate that while three clusters of motivational profiles could be identified (low interest, low self-efficacy,
and less math; low interest, high self-efficacy, and more math; high interest, high self-efficacy, and more math), whether
the teachers continue to participate appears to be related to the structure and content of the workshop, not just these profiles.
Findings are interpreted as suggesting that the potential of hypermedia lies in its designers’ abilities to support participant
stake by providing for multiple ways into thinking and working with disciplinary content—design that both accommodates and
supports those with differing strengths and needs. Implications for studying motivation and learning online are also discussed. 相似文献
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Sebastian Kuntze 《Educational Studies in Mathematics》2012,79(2):273-292
Although teachers’ professional knowledge and instructional beliefs are known to have a variety of subcomponents, research
on the structure and interrelations of these subcomponents is relatively scarce. This article presents some findings of a
preliminary, quantitative empirical study examining the relationships between mathematics teachers’ views concerning specific
classroom situations, their content domain-specific pedagogical content beliefs and their more global instruction-related
beliefs. The findings suggest that global beliefs—in terms of cognitive constructivist or direct transmission views of teaching
and learning, on the one hand, and beliefs about the stability of individual mathematical abilities, on the other—can impact
teachers’ content domain-specific beliefs and their views related to videotaped classroom situations from introductory lessons
on geometrical proof. 相似文献
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Leanne Dalley-Trim 《The Australian Educational Researcher》2012,39(2):193-205
This paper investigates the ways in which young women come to view gender as being an influence upon their future lives—their
aspirations and expectations for the future. In doing so, it draws upon 327 surveys completed by year 12 female students,
typically 17 years of age, in a range of schools across the State of Queensland, Australia. The paper details key features
of the young women’s survey responses—the dominant storylines evident in the data—as a means of illustrating how they have
come to dismiss gender as an influence. Further, the paper illuminates the power and pervasiveness of neoliberal discourse
in ‘New Times’, the ways in which the young women surveyed embrace neoliberalism and its imperative of individualisation and
do so in ways that locate gender as irrelevant in their imagining and enacting of their life biographies. Finally, the paper
explores the implications of such research findings for these—and other—young women. 相似文献
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Research on student learning in higher education suggests that threshold concepts within various disciplines have the capacity
to transform students’ understanding. The present study explores students’ understanding in relation to particular threshold
concepts in mathematics—integral and limit—and tries to clarify in what sense developing an understanding of those threshold
concepts involves a transformation of understanding in relation to ways of thinking in mathematics. Drawing on data collected
in interviews with students taking a basic course on calculus the analysis offers an initial characterisation of students’
understandings as algorithmic. It then proceeds to construct a more fine-grained theoretical account for how these understandings
develop in the course of the interview, suggesting that the transformative aspects of threshold concepts may be conceptualised
in terms of shifts in students’ contextualisations allowing the development of conceptions at different levels of abstraction
simultaneously interacting to shape students’ awareness of the ways of thinking and practising in the subject. 相似文献
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Schools in England have been required to adopt and adapt an ongoing series of policy initiatives: some however are offered
on an ‘opt-in’ basis. This paper examines one such ‘offer,’ that of Creative Partnerships, a programme which provides schools
in designated deprived areas the opportunity to work with creative practitioners in order to change both classroom practice
and whole schools. We report here on the snapshot phase of a national study, using a corpus of multi-method qualitative data
from 40 schools. We suggest that headteachers saw different opportunities in the CP offer but what actually happened in the
school related to three interwoven strands: the situatedness of the school, the headteacher’s stance towards change, and the
architecture of change management. Our analysis, which highlights the ways in which many of the schools were unable to ‘spread
and embed’ the pedagogical changes supported through CP, suggests that the majority of heads could benefit from involvement
in explicit discussion about ‘unofficial’—and more democratic—approaches to leading and managing change. 相似文献
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This paper takes up understandings of organisations where practices constitute and frame past and present work, as well as
future work practice possibilities. Within this view, work practices, and thus organisations, are both perpetuated and varied
through employees’ enactments of work. Using a practice lens, we are particularly interested in the ways workers simultaneously
maintain and alter practices in their workplace—we characterise this as re-making one’s job. This perspective challenges ways
in which managers often depict jobs and everyday work—as rational, linear and easily describable. We suggest that workers
at various levels of responsibility contribute more to the formation of organisational practices than is often assumed. The
processes of re-making jobs and remaking organisational practices create tensions that we posit as sites for learning. This
paper addresses these issues through a focus on work practices in two Australian organisations that have been undergoing significant
cultural change. 相似文献
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Assessment for learning in Singapore: unpacking its meanings and identifying some areas for improvement 总被引：2，自引：1，他引：1
Kelvin Tan 《Educational Research for Policy and Practice》2011,10(2):91-103
This article examines the meanings and impact of ‘Assessment for Learning’ initiatives in schools against the back drop of
assessment reform in Singapore since 1997. It is argued that Assessment for Learning’ is understood in different ways, and
these different meanings do not always benefit students’ learning. The different meanings of ‘Assessment for Learning’ in
Singapore are unpacked, and three areas for improvement for Assessment for Learning are suggested—clear standards for effective
feedback practices, assessment for sustainable learning and assessment for integrating holistic learning. 相似文献
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Nadia Leroy Pascal Bressoux Phillippe Sarrazin David Trouilloud 《European Journal of Psychology of Education - EJPE》2007,22(4):529-545
According to self-determination theory, when teachers establish an autonomy supportive climate in the classroom, students
demonstrate high levels of self-determination and are intrinsically motivated. The aim of this study was to identify factors
leading teachers (N=336) to report that they create such a climate. We conducted a path analysis in order to examine the respective
roles of teachers’ implicit theories, their seniority, and their perceptions of pressures at work. We also attempted to find
out whether these personal and contextual variables have a direct influence or are mediated by teachers’ self-efficacy. Our
first finding was that a theory of academic ability as a fixed trait caused a drop in the teachers’ reported support for autonomy.
On the other hand, the belief that academic abilities can be improved through students’ own efforts indirectly favored an
autonomy supportive climate by acting positively on the teachers’ self-efficacy. Also, seniority had a significant positive
effect on autonomy support that was direct, but was also mediated by self-efficacy. Finally, perceived pressures had a negative
impact on reported autonomy support, but their influence was also mediated by self-efficacy. 相似文献
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While Where the Wild Things Are may be Maurice Sendak’s most popular book, In the Night Kitchen is arguably the greater work. Though his journey in Wild Things shares many of the elements of Mickey’s adventure in Night Kitchen—swinging between the protagonist’s initiatory verbal assertions and silent, completely pictorial spreads that indicate his
eventual dominance over his environment—Max’s story is ultimately only a narrative of the self. Where the Wild Things Are is a beautiful exploration of how Max (the maximum boy) is able to use an imaginative journey to create an individual personality that fills the world around him. But Mickey
must confront something more than merely a projection of his own desires. Mickey, unlike Max, is diminutive in his fantasy
world, and his adventure is a true dream shaped willy-nilly by his lived experience, not a daydream tailored to defend the
ego. The story told as Mickey learns to navigate the Night Kitchen is essentially a social narrative—more realistic, more
challenging, and with greater overall dividends than Max’s adventure. We can see this in the ways In the Night Kitchen combines four sorts of ingredients—Sendak’s own life, the psychology of dreaming, popular culture, and the immigrant experience—into
a subtle, captivating tale of the self and society.
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Kate McInally 《Children‘s Literature in Education》2008,39(3):187-200
Novels that prioritise the connectedness and strength of girls’ friendships without employing the pervasive trope of “mean
girls”—those who typically divide in order to conquer other girls—are potentially empowering in their refusal to perpetuate
limited and binary accounts of adolescent femininity. While Ann Brashares’ cult novel (now film), The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants (2005a; originally 2002) appears to be representative of this textual shift, underpinning the overt call to value girls’ relationships
is a deeply conservative, assimilationist narrative that relies on an acceptance of traditional patriarchal values. This article
analyses the ways in which the novel appropriates “multicultural difference” to valorise, sustain and naturalise the central
position and authority of patriarchy in the lives of young girls, regardless of their cultural heritage.
Kate McInally currently works as a research fellow, and teaches children’s literature at Deakin University, Burwood, Australia.
Her particular research interests are feminist, queer and Deleuzean theory, representations of girl–girl desire in young adult
fiction, and multicultural children’s fiction. 相似文献
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Towards a research training curriculum: What, Why, How, Who? 总被引：3，自引：0，他引：3
Our purpose in this paper is to investigate the ways in which the work of research higher degree supervision is being reshaped from within and outside universities. Our interest is in the means by which new ‘content’ and ‘process’ knowledge — and thus a new set of pedagogical tasks and relationships — are being configured in the field of higher degree research. The outcomes of research training have traditionally been products of a one-on-one supervisory relationship, that is, academic apprentice-to-disciplinary mentor. This is especially the case in the fields of arts/humanities. Any ‘curriculum’ necessary to such a model has been both implicit and at the discretion of the disciplinary ‘master’. 相似文献
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In mathematics education, a vast amount of research has shown that students of different ages have a strong tendency to apply
linear or proportional models anywhere, even in situations where they are not applicable. For example, in geometry it is known
that many students believe that if the sides of a figure are doubled, the area is doubled too. However, also history of science
provides several cases of thinkers who inadequately postulated linear relations to describe situations. This article focuses
on secondary school students’ over-reliance on linearity in physics. Now and then, science educators report students’ tendency
to assume and impose linear relations in physics, but—as far as we know—no substantial efforts were undertaken to study this
phenomenon systematically. We conducted an empirical investigation aimed at identifying the competence of 8th- and 11th-graders—before
and after being taught the relevant physical topics—to qualitatively grasp various situations in physics, as well as their
tendency to quantify that qualitative insight linearly. The results provide an ambivalent picture of students’ overuse of
linearity in physics: Although linear reasoning is sometimes used as a default strategy, even after instruction that addresses
the relevant physical contents, this study also indicates that context is taken into account more often than is suggested
by research on mathematical problem solving. 相似文献
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Posing questions about an article might improve one’s knowledge—a cognitive function, or monitor one’s thought processes—a
metacognitive function. This study focuses on guided question posing while using a metacognitive strategy by 12th grade honors
chemistry students. We investigated the ways by which the metacognitive strategy affected students’ skills to pose complex
questions and to analyze them according to a specially designed taxonomy. Our learning unit, Case-based computerized laboratories, emphasizes learning through chemical case studies, accompanied by tasks, that call for posing questions to which the answer
cannot be found in the text. Teachers equipped their students with a metacognitive strategy for assessing the quality of their
own questions and characterizing them according to a three-component taxonomy: content, thinking level, and chemistry understanding
levels. The participants were 793 experimental and 138 comparison chemistry students. Research instruments included interviews
and case-based-questionnaires. Interviews with students revealed that using the metacognitive strategy the students had been
taught, they were capable of analyzing the questions they generated with the taxonomy. The questionnaires showed that students
significantly improved their question posing skill, as well as the complexity level of the questions they posed. A significant
difference was found in favor of the experimental group students. Stimulating students to generate complex questions with
a metacognitive strategy in mind enabled them to be aware of their own cognitive process and to self-regulate it with respect
to the learning task. 相似文献
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Labour perspectives on the new politics of skill and competency formation: International reflections
Peter Sawchuk 《Asia Pacific Education Review》2008,9(1):50-62
Skill/competency approaches to workplace-based policy seek to assess and train for discrete individual competencies with the
goal of increasing employability and productivity. These approaches have become increasingly prominent across a range of advanced
capitalist countries. A substantial critique has emerged over this same period regarding issues of instrumentality and social
control, as well as the failure of skill/compentancy approaches to articulate a meaningful understanding of human learning
capacities. In this article, these critical perspectives are clarified further by a review of contributions to understanding
the skill/competence question emerging from sociology of work literature. Building from these critiques, this article outlines
recent experiences with and perspectives on skill/competency frameworks amongst different national labour movements. Included
in this outline is a more detailed, comparative analysis of Norway and Canada; here we see the lofty ‘new’, ‘knowledge economy’
rhetoric — in two countries where one might expect to see it blossom in application — brought down to earth by the realities
of industrial relations, employer intransigence and intra-labour movement differences. ‘Skill/competence’ proves to be a floating
signifier that, amongst both employers and labour, stands as a proxy for ‘power/control’ struggles. Degenerating in this way,
from a labour perspective, the new politics of skill/competency formation is seen to have spiraled toward irrelevance in Norway
and Canada; awaiting, in both countries, a re-invigoration through attention to changes in the participatory structure of
the labour process itself. 相似文献
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Determining the candidate teachers’ opinions regarding self-efficacy towards alternative assessment will be beneficial in
that this will improve their competencies while using these approaches in their applications within the classroom. In this
article, the development and validation of the “Self-efficacy towards Using Alternative Assessment Scale” (SUAAS) is introduced.
The SUUAS is a 26-item scale for assessing candidate teachers’ self-efficacy towards using alternative assessment. Data collected
from 424 candidate teachers provide evidence for the validity and reliability of the scale. The results provide evidence for
a valid and reliable self-efficacy scale with 3 factors, which are named as “Self-efficacy towards Using”, “Self-efficacy
towards Challenges” and “Self-efficacy towards Using Sources”. The Cronbach’s alpha value of the entire scale has been found
as 0.89, while those of the sub-factors are 0.88, 0.86 and 0.71, respectively. Followed by additional validation studies,
the SUAAS will serve as a valuable tool for both instructors and researchers in education to assess teachers’ and candidate
teachers’ beliefs related to their self-efficacy towards using alternative assessment approaches. 相似文献
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Fumei Weng France Cheong Christopher Cheong 《Education and Information Technologies》2010,15(4):333-353
The purpose of this study is to examine the combined effect of self-efficacy and academic integration on higher education
students studying IT (Information Technology) majors in Taiwan. We introduced self-efficacy, which is a psychological factor
that affects students’ academic outcomes, as a new factor in Tinto’ theory, a well-known framework in student retention research.
Academic integration is the main proposition of Tinto’s theory affecting students’ decision to dropout. Students from different
populations have various reasons from dropping out of their studies. An examination of the relationship between self-efficacy
and academic integration is useful to understand the effect of self-efficacy on academic outcomes on the IT student population
in Taiwan. Data from a Taiwanese national survey database conducted in 2005 was used to achieve the research objective. A
total of 2,895 records were extracted from 75,084 students in public and private institutions studying in two IT-related Majors,
namely Information Management (IM) and Computer Science (CS). MANOVA was used to analyze the interaction effects between academic
integration and self-efficacy. The independent variables were institution types and students’ majors. The results showed that
students from public institutions have higher levels of self-efficacy than students from private ones. Another finding is
that IM students seem to have better study strategies and habits than CS students. However, CS students were found to have
better collaboration and satisfaction with their institutions than IM students. Team projects, counselling services, and flexible
teaching and learning strategy are suggested to enhance students’ academic integration and self-efficacy. 相似文献
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Carina M. Rebello Marcelle A. Siegel Stephen B. Witzig Sharyn K. Freyermuth Bruce A. McClure 《Research in Science Education》2012,42(2):353-371
The purpose of this investigation was to explore students’ epistemic beliefs and conceptual understanding of biotechnology.
Epistemic beliefs can influence reasoning, how individuals evaluate information, and informed decision making abilities. These
skills are important for an informed citizenry that will participate in debates regarding areas in science such as biotechnology.
We report on an in-depth case study analysis of three undergraduate, non-science majors in a biotechnology course designed
for non-biochemistry majors. We selected participants who performed above average and below average on the first in-class
exam. Data from multiple sources—interviews, exams, and a concept instrument—were used to construct (a) individual profiles
and (b) a cross-case analysis of our participants’ conceptual development and epistemic beliefs from two different theoretical
perspectives—Women’s Ways of Knowing and the Reflective Judgment Model. Two independent trained researchers coded all case
records independently for both theoretical perspectives, with resultant initial Cohen’s kappa values above .715 (substantial
agreement), and then reached consensus on the codes. Results indicate that a student with more sophisticated epistemology
demonstrated greater conceptual understandings at the end of the course than a student with less sophisticated epistemology,
even though the latter performed higher initially. Also a student with a less sophisticated epistemology and low initial conceptual
performance does not demonstrate gains in their overall conceptual understanding. Results suggest the need for instructional
interventions fostering epistemological development of learners in order to facilitate their conceptual growth. 相似文献
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Stanislaw Schukajlow Dominik Leiss Reinhard Pekrun Werner Blum Marcel Müller Rudolf Messner 《Educational Studies in Mathematics》2012,79(2):215-237
In this study which was part of the DISUM-project, 224 ninth graders from 14 German classes from middle track schools (Realschule)
were asked about their enjoyment, interest, value and self-efficacy expectations concerning three types of mathematical problems:
intra-mathematical problems, word problems and modelling problems. Enjoyment, interest, value and self-efficacy were assessed
before and after a ten-lesson teaching unit promoting modelling competency related to the topics “Pythagoras’ theorem” and
“linear functions”. The study aimed to answer the following research questions: (1) Do students’ enjoyment, value, interest
and self-efficacy expectations differ depending on the type of task? (2) Does the treatment of modelling problems in classroom
instruction influence these variables? (3) Are there any differential effects for different ways of teaching modelling problems,
including a “directive”, teacher-centred instruction and an “operative-strategic”, more student-centred instruction emphasising
group work and strategic scaffolding by the teacher? The findings show that there were no differences in students’ enjoyment,
interest, value and self-efficacy between the three types of tasks. However, teaching oriented towards modelling problems
had positive effects on some of the student variables, with the student-centred teaching method producing the most beneficial
effects. 相似文献