A Comprehensive Analysis of High School Genetics Standards: Are States Keeping Pace with Modern Genetics?     

Dougherty MJ  Pleasants C  Solow L  Wong A  Zhang H 《CBE life sciences education》2011,10(3):318-327

Science education in the United States will increasingly be driven by testing and accountability requirements, such as those mandated by the No Child Left Behind Act, which rely heavily on learning outcomes, or "standards," that are currently developed on a state-by-state basis. Those standards, in turn, drive curriculum and instruction. Given the importance of standards to teaching and learning, we investigated the quality of life sciences/biology standards with respect to genetics for all 50 states and the District of Columbia, using core concepts developed by the American Society of Human Genetics as normative benchmarks. Our results indicate that the states' genetics standards, in general, are poor, with more than 85% of the states receiving overall scores of Inadequate. In particular, the standards in virtually every state have failed to keep pace with changes in the discipline as it has become genomic in scope, omitting concepts related to genetic complexity, the importance of environment to phenotypic variation, differential gene expression, and the differences between inherited and somatic genetic disease. Clearer, more comprehensive genetics standards are likely to benefit genetics instruction and learning, help prepare future genetics researchers, and contribute to the genetic literacy of the U.S. citizenry.  相似文献   

灯塔     

Wendy 《初中生》2015,(24)

那是个风雨大作的夜晚,指挥官从驾驶室出来走到船长面前说道:“船长,船长,我们的海航线上有灯光,而且它们一动也不动.” “它们一动也不动是什么意思?叫人把它们移开.告诉他们立即让灯光向右偏些.”  相似文献   

小学语文教科书中的爱国主义语篇的概念意义构建研究     

夏锦萍  Wendy L.BOWCHER 《江西师范大学学报(哲学社会科学版)》2015,(2):121-124

人教版语文第一册中有四篇课文是以传递爱国主义价值观为宗旨的。选取其中《我多想去看看》作为研究对象,运用符际互补理论框架,研究如何通过文字和图像符号系统的相互作用和相互配合,形成连贯的语篇,分析结果表明,文字图像之间的符际关系着重在"国旗"、"地点"、"升旗仪式"以及"观礼"等方面;在小学语文教材中可以通过文字和图像符号系统的互补形成连贯的多模态语篇并传导主流价值观。  相似文献   

Parental perspectives and challenges in inclusive education in Singapore     

Meng Ee Wong  Kenneth K. Poon  Sarinajit Kaur  Zi Jia Ng 《Asia Pacific Journal of Education》2015,35(1):85-97

Relatively little work has focused on inclusive education in Singapore. This study examines the experiences and perceptions of parents whose children with disabilities are attending mainstream secondary schools in Singapore. Data was drawn from interviews with 13 parents of children with mild disabilities. Our findings reveal that parental perspective on inclusive education in Singapore is not only about classroom support but also reflects a deeper concern about whether their children with disabilities will emerge from school as contributing individuals in society. While parents strive to effectively include their children with disabilities in mainstream classrooms, there were dichotomies in their (1) understanding of disabilities, (2) expectations of school support, and (3) expectations for their child with disabilities. Given that academic and social prowess is a critical prerequisite to have a shot at entering the meritocratic Singapore society, the tension parents experience is to gauge a reasonable amount of pressure to exert on their children, the school and themselves as they assert their children's educational entitlements within an imperfect but evolving state of inclusion.  相似文献   

Learning to learn together: cooperation,theory and practice     

Wendy Jolliffe 《Education 3-13》2015,43(1):1-4

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Secondary Science Teachers’ Beliefs and Persistence: A Longitudinal Mixed-Methods Study     

Sissy S. Wong  Julie A. Luft 《Journal of Science Teacher Education》2015,26(7):619-645

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Science Teachers’ Response to the Digital Education Revolution     

Wendy Nielsen  K. Alex Miller  Garry Hoban 《Journal of Science Education and Technology》2015,24(4):417-431

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Instructional leadership practices in Singapore   总被引：1，自引：0，他引：1  

Foo Seong David Ng  Thanh Dong Nguyen  Koon Siak Benjamin Wong  Kim Weng William Choy 《School Leadership & Management》2015,35(4):388-407

This paper presents a review of the literature on principal instructional leadership in Singapore. The authors investigated the dimensions of instructional leadership in the practices of Singapore principals and highlighted the strategies these leaders adopt to enact their instructional roles. Singapore principals were found to play an active role in defining the school vision and promoting the school climate. However, in the areas of curriculum implementation and classroom instruction, the middle management team in the school played more active roles as compared to principals. Five broad conclusions were discussed to provide perspectives on instructional leadership practices in Singapore. This paper also highlighted limitations on current instructional leadership research in Singapore and pointed to areas of future research.  相似文献   

心理社团在高职院校心理健康教育中的作用     

陈曼  韦雪华  邓士婷 《河北能源职业技术学院学报》2015,15(1)

高职生因其特殊性,其心理健康问题已日益成为社会所关注的问题之一。心理社团这一新型心理互助组织也就应运而生,改变了以往只有专业教师是主角,学生只是服务对象的状况。依托心理社团,注重发挥心理社团在心理健康教育工作中的作用,不断完善心理社团建设,对完善心理健康教育,促进学生人格完善,茁壮成长具有重要意义。  相似文献   

《间谍》中的空间结构与空间权利     

钱曼 《海外英语》2015,(6)

被英国评论家利维斯誉为英语小说中的经典的《间谍》是约瑟夫·康拉德政治三部曲中的一部。小说围绕炸毁格林威治天文台这一政治恐怖活动展开。该文拟在空间理论批评下,对《间谍》中的政治空间结构与空间权利的关系加以分析,得出空间不仅仅是政治活动发生的场所,空间本身便蕴含权利、空间关系反映社会关系的结论。  相似文献