试析美国教师专业发展的社会背景     

原青林 《外国教育研究》2003,30(8):49-53

文章在对美国教师专业发展的历史作了简单回顾之后，主要从决定教育政策的社会-政治力量、不同的意识形态取向和教育专业的文化氛围三个方面分析了影响美国教师专业发展的社会背景。  相似文献   

Student perceptions of predictability of examination requirements and relationship with outcomes in high-stakes tests in Ireland     

Jo-Anne Baird  Daniel H. Caro  Therese N. Hopfenbeck 《Irish Educational Studies》2016,35(4):361-379

Entirely predictable examinations are ones for which the questions are known in advance. Some assessments are designed this way, but in public examinations, predictability is subtler. Students familiarise themselves with the requirements broadly: likely topics that will come up, question formats and how to maximise their marks. If students can predict what they have to do, they can memorise performances, such as essays, and restrict their learning to fit only with examination requirements. The danger is that this focus could undermine curriculum aims. Further, examinations that are overly predictable might produce results that do not generalise to other performances or have predictive validity. This paper presents part of a broader project investigating whether the Higher Level Irish Leaving Certificate (LC) examinations were too predictable. Here, the development of a rating scale for students’ views of examination predictability is described. Data were collected from 1002 Irish LC students taking higher level examinations in biology (n?=?536), English (n?=?749) and geography (n?=?387). Students’ views on predictability of the examination could be grouped consistently across subject areas into three factors: valuable learning, predictability and narrowing of the curriculum. Belief that narrowing of the curriculum was a good examination preparation tactic had a negative relationship with examination scores and perceived learning value of examinations was positively associated with students’ scores in biology and English. These findings indicate that the scoring system rewards students who believe they must study the discipline broadly.  相似文献   

The Nature of the Gift: Accountability and the Professor-Student Relationship     

Ana M.  Martínez-Alemán 《Educational Philosophy and Theory》2007,39(6):574-591

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Parent-preschool partnership: many levels of power     

Johanna Einarsdottir  Arna H. Jónsdóttir 《Early Years: An International Journal of Research and Development》2019,39(2):175-189

This study aims to examine the meaning-making of parents in five Icelandic preschools concerning the collaboration between preschools and families. Further, the perspectives of educators on the views of the parents were also sought. The theoretical background was Moss’s ideas of democratic early childhood education and MacNaughton’s ideas of power relationships between parents and educators. Data were gathered in two steps: first, focus group interviews were conducted with parents; and second, focus group interviews were conducted with a group of preschool educators who reflected upon the parent interviews. The parents and educators seemed to have similar experiences and views of the parent-professional collaboration, and of the division of power and knowledge between the two groups. The type of collaboration the parents and the educators described is not in line with democratic preschool pedagogy as explained by Moss. The parents from other cultures who participated in the study were in a marginalised position, and the educators seemed to be unsure about how to communicate with and accommodate families from cultures different from their own. The study reveals power relationships on many levels in the preschool community.  相似文献   

Moving beyond the predictable failure of Ed-Tech initiatives     

Juana M. Sancho-Gil  Pablo Rivera-Vargas  Raquel Miño-Puigcercós 《Learning, Media and Technology》2020,45(1):61-75

ABSTRACT

The development of Information and Communication Technology has created waves of excitement about its power to fix educational problems and improve learning results, prompting a succession of policy efforts to integrate digital technology into education. Educators, schools and corporations are increasingly driving these initiatives. This article makes the argument that a narrow vision of digital technology, which both ignores the complexity of education and wastes valuable public resources, is becoming an obstacle to significant improvement and transformation in education. Utilising our research and experience in the field of educational technology, this paper problematises the common elision of ‘technology’ and ‘digital technology’. From this basis, we then critically reflect on various common approaches to introducing digital technology in education under the guise of promoting equality and digital inclusion. These include national government-led programmes, more recent trends for local school-led initiatives, and the role of non-formal education initiatives led by corporations/foundations. Amidst the varying surface-level ‘failure’ and/or ‘success’ of these approaches, we point to limited underpinning ‘information and knowledge society’ logics in framing the application of digital technology to education. As such we conclude by considering the educational challenges for future Ed-Tech initiatives.  相似文献   

Expertise amiss: interactivity fosters learning but expert tutors are less interactive than novice tutors     

Stephanie Herppich  Jörg Wittwer  Matthias Nückles  Alexander Renkl 《Instructional Science》2016,44(3):205-219

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Hemispheric object naming and interhemispheric transfer functions in reading disordered subjects     

Joan N. Kaderavek  Michael P. Rastatter 《Reading and writing》1996,8(2):161-169

This study measured unilateral, tachistoscopic naming reaction times of normal and reading disordered children to objects representing two levels of picture vocabulary age. Results of an ANCOVA procedure on the latency data showed main effects for group and stimuli, but not visual field. The latency results suggested parallel, central picture naming operations for each group, with the reading disordered children evidencing significantly longer naming reaction times to each level of stimuli. Arc Sine transformed error data were submitted to an analysis of co-variance procedure and showed a significant stimuli x group interaction. Post hoc tests showed accelerated error rates following right hemispheric stimulation, suggesting anomalous interhemispheric transfer of visual images in the present group of reading disordered children. In addition, left hemispheric stimulations produced significantly more naming errors for the reading disordered subjects as compared to the normal children. Such findings may suggest that a group of higher-ordered processing operations may accompany reading disorders.  相似文献   

Book reviews     

Ian Lister  Donald J. McCarty  Arthur Levine  Roy Niblett  Philip G. Altbach  Alec Ross  Brace Williams  V. N. Balasubramanyam  W. W. Sweet 《Higher Education》1983,12(3):359-372

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Assessment and learning in an uncertain world     

Therese N. Hopfenbeck 《Assessment in Education: Principles, Policy & Practice》2018,25(4):351-354

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Pathways to literacy: a study of invented spelling and its role in learning to read     

Ouellette G  Sénéchal M 《Child development》2008,79(4):899-913

This intervention study tested whether invented spelling plays a causal role in learning to read. Three groups of kindergarten children (mean age = 5 years 7 months) participated in a 4-week intervention. Children in the invented-spelling group spelled words as best they could and received developmentally appropriate feedback. Children in the 2 comparison groups were trained in phonological awareness or drew pictures. Invented-spelling training benefited phonological and orthographic awareness and reading of words used in the intervention. Importantly, the invented-spelling group learned to read more words in a learn-to-read task than the other groups. The finding are in accord with the view that invented spelling coupled with feedback encourages an analytical approach and facilitates the integration of phonological and orthographic knowledge, hence facilitating the acquisition of reading.  相似文献