Graduate LIS Students' Attitude Toward University Libraries and Personnel     

Taghreed Alqudsi-ghabra  Elham Al-Dousari 《International Information and Library Review》2019,51(1):9-18

This is an attitudinal survey that profiles Kuwait University Library and Information Science (KULIS) students' attitudes concerning Kuwait University's (KU's) libraries. It uses the phenomenological approach to analyze respondents' data regarding confidence in their skills and the effect on attitude toward KU's resources. It furthermore explores the attitudes of KU staff and the level of assistance offered to KULIS students. The results show that most of the respondents visited the library to access electronic resources. Some respondents disagreed that the staff had treated the KULIS suspiciously, yet a majority disagreed that the KU library staff was professionally trained to help KULIS students. Several respondents strongly agreed that they were confident in their searching skills. The results of the survey are used to recommend curriculum changes and ways to improve library and other academic support services at academic institutions generally.  相似文献   

上海市部分中等职业学校体育教学现状的调查与分析     

陈贵生 《佳木斯教育学院学报》2015,(5)

随着社会各界对体育教学越来越重视,我国政府也对体育教学的现代化提出了相应的政策和举措,今天体育健康教学提出了"健康第一"的口号。本文通过对上海市六所中职体育教学现状分析,并根据我国学校体育改革和发展的状况,对体育教育提供理论参考的依据。  相似文献   

Instrument adaptation in cross-cultural studies of students’ mathematics-related beliefs: learning from healthcare research     

Paul Andrews  Jose Diego-Mantecón 《Compare》2015,45(4):545-567

Much comparative research into education-related beliefs has exploited questionnaires developed in one culture for use in another. This has been particularly the case in mathematics education, the focus of this paper. In so doing, researchers have tended to assume that translation alone is sufficient to warrant a reliable and valid instrument for cross-cultural research, prompting concerns that a number of necessary equivalences are unlikely to have been addressed. In this paper, we consider the nature of these equivalences before examining the literature of a different field, healthcare research, to synthesise an approach to instrument adaptation that is pragmatic but rigorous. Finally, we demonstrate how this pragmatic approach, incorporating extensive cognitive interviews, enabled us to adapt and refine a mathematics-related beliefs questionnaire, developed in Flanders, for use with students aged 14–15 in England and Spain. Analyses indicate that the instrument so developed is multidimensional, reliable and cross-culturally valid. Some implications are discussed.  相似文献   

The Heyneman–Loxley effect revisited in the Middle East and North Africa: Analysis using TIMSS 2007 database     

《International Journal of Educational Development》2015

Since the controversial finding of the Coleman Report (1966), which was that school resources had little effect on educational outcomes comparing to family background, huge literature has emerged in order to verify the above finding in countries other than the United States. The Heyneman–Loxley work (1983) presented for the first time clear evidence that variation in school resource quality could matter more than variation in family inputs in low and middle income countries. Following this literature, and using TIMSS 2007 data, we attempt in this study to revisit the Heyneman–Loxley hypothesis and the related debate regarding the overall importance of schools in explaining variations in student achievement across Middle East and North African countries. Survey Jackknife regression technique and quantile regressions have been used for the purpose of this study. Our results are in line with those of Baker et al. (2002) showing that the Heyneman–Loxley effect had declined over time.  相似文献   

How MOOC instructors view the pedagogy and purposes of massive open online courses     

Suzannah Evans  Jessica Gall Myrick 《Distance Education》2015,36(3):295-311

Massive open online courses (MOOCs) have proliferated in recent years despite disagreement about the role of MOOCs in higher education and whether student outcomes are satisfactory. Taking a mixed-methods approach, the current study surveys professors who have taught MOOCs (n = 162) in order to better understand how MOOCs are perceived by instructors. Professors’ backgrounds and beliefs about the role of MOOCs in higher education and their perceptions of the experiences of students are discussed. In addition, professors’ satisfaction in teaching MOOCs is reported. The study finds that most MOOC professors are experienced faculty members with relatively little prior experience teaching online, and that they are divided about the purpose of MOOCs in the institutional landscape of higher education.  相似文献   

Exploring ethical issues associated with using online surveys in educational research     

Lynne D. Roberts  Peter J. Allen 《Educational Research and Evaluation》2015,21(2):95-108

Online surveys are increasingly used in educational research, yet little attention has focused on ethical issues associated with their use in educational settings. Here, we draw on the broader literature to discuss 5 key ethical issues in the context of educational survey research: dual teacher/researcher roles; informed consent; use of incentives; privacy, anonymity, and confidentiality; and data quality. We illustrate methods of addressing these issues with our experiences conducing online surveys in educational contexts. Moving beyond the procedural ethics approach commonly adopted in quantitative educational research, we recommend adopting a situated/process ethics approach to identify and respond to ethical issues that may arise during the conduct, analysis, and reporting of online survey research. The benefits of online surveying in comparison to traditional survey methods are highlighted, including the potential for online surveys to provide ethically defensible methods of conducting research that would not be feasible in offline education research settings.  相似文献   

四川省地震灾区婴幼儿营养监测状况分析     

李晓杰 《科学中国人》2014,(8):92-95

作者通过对四川省青川县和彭州市两个地震灾区6-24个月龄婴幼儿健康状况的统计分析,发现该地区生长发育状况不佳,存在营养不良现象,其中贫血率较高。经过对比进行营养包6个月干预后的人群统计分析,发现营养状况稍得到改善,其中彭州市目标人群贫血改善明显,由此提出面对四川其它或其它类似贫困地震地区,由于贫困,天灾必然加剧受灾人群的营养状况,特别是贫血率状况,针对这些地区的求援,必须紧迫加强营养包的干预,而且需要持续性的干预,比较可靠的预算应该在灾难期6个月以上方有一定的作用,同时必要的管理措施有利于保证营养干预对象的稳定性,提高营养干预的有效性的。  相似文献   

网络资源调查方法探析     

邢幸 《情报探索》2014,(4):62-64,68

阐述网络资源调查的重要性,介绍关键词调查法、分类调查法、链接调查法等3种主要网络调查方法,为网络资源开发利用提供参考。  相似文献   

大学生对全日制专业硕士认知情况调查——以河南省为例     

杨瑞仙  张璐  朱向林 《情报探索》2014,(2):1-5

通过对河南省在校大学生进行调查,了解大学生对全日制专业硕士的认知情况,发现其对全日制专业硕士的认知存在偏差以及当前全日制专业学位教育的问题,并对社会、学校及学生个人等方面提出建议.  相似文献   

5大社会阶层体育消费意愿和行为的比较研究     

田虹  杨洋  刘英 《北京体育大学学报》2014,37(10):51-55

对比分析了5大社会阶层的体育消费意愿和行为。抽取10个国内城市为城市样本开展大样本调查,共收集4 372个有效样本,并使用SPSS16.0软件进行统计分析。有以下主要发现::1)社会上层的体育消费意愿显著高于其他阶层;2)社会上层的体育消费行为显著高于其他阶层;3)5大社会阶层的体育消费意愿大于体育消费行为;4)体育消费意愿与体育消费行为差异最大的是康复型消费和培训型消费。因此,不同社会阶层对于参与型、实物型和康复型消费意愿与行为差距有不同的差异。这对社会阶层与体育消费的关系研究提供参考。  相似文献