The roles of a university professor in a teacher study group     

Hui-Chin Yeh  Hsiu-Ting Hung  Yi-Ping Chen 《Asia Pacific Education Review》2012,13(3):435-447

The opportunities in which university professors collaborate with the practicing school teachers in a teacher study group are few. This study investigated how a university professor facilitated a collaborative teacher study group to enhance teachers?? professional growth. Five primary school teachers and a university professor collaborated on incorporating Reader??s Theatre into the design and revision of the curriculum in a teacher study group. This study not only identified the roles of the university professor but also highlighted how this outside stimulus facilitated the process of teachers?? professional dialogues in this teacher study group. Five roles of the professor in the teacher study group were identified, including content expert, information provider, thought challenger, discussion facilitator, and caring listener. The discrepancies toward the roles that the professor in the teacher study group should serve between the elementary school teachers and the university professor were analyzed and reported. Implications were drawn for both classroom teachers and university professors.  相似文献   

A Critical Review of Content-Analytic Papers in ACA- and APA-Sponsored Journals from 1980–2011     

Emily Donald  Kok-Mun Ng 《International journal for the advancement of counseling》2014,36(1):1-16

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Conceptual Understanding of Causal Reasoning in Physics     

Woei Hung  David H. Jonassen 《International Journal of Science Education》2013,35(13):1601-1621

College students often experience difficulties in solving physics problems. These difficulties largely result from a lack of conceptual understanding of the topic. The processes of conceptual learning reflect the nature of the causal reasoning process. Two major causal reasoning methods are the covariational and the mechanism‐based approaches. This study was to investigate the effects of different causal reasoning methods on facilitating students’ conceptual understanding of physics. 125 college students from an introduction physics class were assigned into covariational group, mechanism‐based group, and control group. The results show that the mechanism‐based group significantly outperformed the other two groups in solving conceptual problems. However, no significant difference was found in all three groups performance on solving computational problems. Speculation on the inconsistent performance of the mechanism‐based group in conceptual and computational problem solving is given. Detailed analyses of the results, findings, and educational implications are discussed  相似文献   

Diagnosing students' mental models via the Web‐Based Mental Models Diagnosis system     

Tzu‐Hua Wang  Mei‐Hung Chiu  Jing‐Wen Lin  Chin‐Cheng Chou 《British journal of educational technology : journal of the Council for Educational Technology》2013,44(2):E49-E51

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Multimodal assessment of and for learning: A theory‐driven design rubric     

Hsiu‐Ting Hung  Yi‐Ching Jean Chiu  Hui‐Chin Yeh 《British journal of educational technology : journal of the Council for Educational Technology》2013,44(3):400-409

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Family,schools and Taiwanese children's outcomes     

Chih-Lun Hung 《Educational research; a review for teachers and all concerned with progress in education》2013,55(2):115-125

Background Educational reform is a major challenge facing schools in Taiwan. The new educational reform requires that every primary school must have parental involvement programmes in their school schedules, and to support these new programmes, there is a need for research to examine the extent and nature of parental involvement in primary schools in Taiwan, and to investigate the impact of parental involvement on pupil outcomes.

Purpose The purpose of the study was to examine the extent to which parents' involvement in schooling is related to primary pupil outcomes, after taking into account differences in family social status and family structure, and the children's perceptions of their school learning environments.

Sample For the analyses data were collected in 2001 from 261 6th-grade Taiwanese students, 128 boys and 133 girls, from four primary schools in the Taichung City school district. The average age of the children was approximately 11 years.

Design and methods In the analysis of the research model, a quantitative approach was adopted, in which each student completed two questionnaires and two academic achievement tests. The first questionnaire included questions to assess family social status, family structure and parents' involvement in their children's education. In the second questionnaire there were questions to measure pupils' self-concept and perceptions of their schools' learning environments. The data were analysed using multiple-regression techniques to examine relationships among family social status, family structure, parental involvement, the school learning environment and pupils' school-related outcomes.

Results The findings suggested that: (a) children's academic achievement is related to their family social status and perceptions of immediate family learning environments, and (b) children's self-concept is associated with their perceptions of classroom learning environments, parents' aspirations and parents' involvement at home. These propositions indicate the differential nature of the relationships among family and school environments and measures of children's school outcomes.

Conclusions In the Taiwanese context, by showing the particularly important association between Taiwanese family environments and children's school outcomes, the present investigation supports the educational reform movement that encourages schools to involve parents more intimately in shared responsibilities.  相似文献   

An analysis of continuous teacher development in Hong Kong     

Ho Ming Ng 《教育政策杂志》2013,28(6):657-672

Education in Hong Kong has developed rapidly since the 70s in parallel with the economic boom. To support such development, the government has invested heavily in initial teacher education and will soon impose professional training and graduate qualifications as prerequisites for entering the profession. Continuous teacher education (CTE), generally regarded as equally important as initial teacher education if not more so, is not given comparable emphasis. This paper aims to study CTE in Hong Kong, including its policy, practice and provision at the system level. Some special features of the system are identified and scrutinized, including ad hoc, policy led, and competence based. The centrally provided CTE is also closely examined in terms of its relevance to the profession, impact on schools, and cost‐effectiveness. The paper ends with a close look at its latest developments, obstacles encountered and prospects.  相似文献   

Reflecting science education across diverse Asian contexts     

Venus Hung 《Studies in Science Education》2013,49(2):207-215

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Conceptualizing the use of online technologies for gifted secondary students     

Wan Ng  Howard Nicholas 《Roeper Review》2013,35(3):190-196

In an era where technology is advancing at a rapid pace, and where information is readily accessible on the World Wide Web, educators should be capitalizing on these resources for gifted students. This paper proposes a conceptual framework to support individualized and independent learning within a network of peers that will provide challenging interactions through extensive use of online learning. Online resources and technologies promote the exploration of new concepts and sharing of new learning with a group of motivated and “like‐minded” peers.  相似文献   

Multicultural early childhood education: practices and challenges in Malaysia     

Hooi San Phoon  Melissa Ng Lee Yen Abdullah  Anna Christina Abdullah 《The Australian Educational Researcher》2013,40(5):615-632

Multicultural early childhood education is necessary in a culturally diverse country like Malaysia. Preschool teachers play an important role in implementing multicultural education in the classroom. This paper reports the findings of a self-report questionnaire involving 854 preschool teachers in Malaysia. The preschool teachers disclosed their current multicultural education practices as well as the challenges they encountered when implementing multicultural education. While the majority of teachers claimed that they implemented multicultural education, a closer examination revealed that most of them used the tourist or contribution approach which focuses on only the outward manifestations of a culture when dealing with multicultural education. The transformation or anti-bias approach was used by only a small number of teachers. The teachers identified some challenges in multicultural education implementation, such as lack of instructional resources and the lack of stakeholder support. Thus, it is important to ensure teachers develop more critical understandings of multicultural education through teacher education training and programs. Other efforts to help teachers overcome challenges in implementing multicultural education include producing and developing more instructional materials and learning aids, which are suitable for young children and appropriate for the local context. Preschool teachers also need stakeholders to give more support and to acknowledge the importance of implementing multicultural early childhood education.  相似文献