Instructional Research in Reading Comprehension: a Preliminary Observation Study of Reading Comprehension Classes Taught by IE Student Teachers     

Goh Soo Tian 《Asia Pacific Journal of Education》1989,10(2):25-32

Developments in reading research in the last two decades have led to a fuller understanding of the reading process and enabled researchers and practitioners to address the issue of how to improve the teaching of reading comprehension. This paper reviews some of the studies in general classroom instructional research and reading comprehension instruction. It then reports an observation study of reading comprehension instruction carried out by IE student teachers. The findings of the study are discussed in the light of similar studies reviewed in the earlier section of the paper, and implications for classroom practice and further research are suggested.  相似文献   

Patriotism and National Education: Perceptions of trainee teachers in Singapore     

Chee Keng John Wang  Angeline Khoo  Chor Boon Goh  Steven Tan  S. Gopinathan 《Asia Pacific Journal of Education》2006,26(1):51-64

The effective teaching of national education requires from the teacher a sense of commitment and personal conviction. The teacher has to demonstrate confidence in what is said and taught in class and, more importantly, through his or her personal values and convictions. In other words, the teacher is required to be patriotic. This paper examines the different types of patriotism among trainee teachers in Singapore, and how these types of patriotism influence their perceptions of citizenship values, the importance of national education, and the extent to which national education is viewed as government propaganda. The results revealed four homogenous clusters that differed significantly in terms of their perceptions.  相似文献   

The Minnesota International Counseling Institute (MICI) 1989—Present: History,Joyful Moments,and Lessons Learned     

Thomas?SkovholtEmail author  Sunny?Hansen  Michael?Goh  John?Romano  Kay?Thomas 《International journal for the advancement of counseling》2005,27(1):17-33

This article describes the Minnesota International Counseling Institute, a biennial counseling institute created by faculty in the University of Minnesotas Counseling and Student Personnel Psychology Program. One hundred and fifty-two international counseling personnel from 40 countries have participated in the Minnesota International Counseling Institute. After eight Institutes and nearly 20 years, we wish to share our experiences with the international counseling community. The article presents reflection and evaluation by the faculty on our cumulative experiences with the MICI, including history, guiding principles, format, participants, evaluation, successes, lessons learned, and struggles. We hope our experience will be useful to other counseling and human development professionals and adapted by others interested in promoting counseling across cultures.  相似文献   

Gender Difference,Misconceptions and Instruction in Science     

Goh Ngoh Khang  Chan Chee Kai  Chia Lian Sai 《Asia Pacific Journal of Education》1995,15(2):33-41

The study examined into the relationship between gender and students' misconceptions in science. Two different groups were treated with two different teaching strategies, namely, teaching strategy 1, which is basically didactic in nature, and teaching strategy 11, which incorporates students' misconceptions and applies the Generative Learning Model. Two groups of secondary three students (N=26,27; randomly sampled), underwent 6 weeks of instruction, with the respective strategies mentioned above. Each group consisted of male and female students, the numbers of which resulted from the grouping based on their academic achievements. A constructed and validated diagnostic instrument was used as a means to measure the effectiveness of these two teaching strategies. The findings showed that gender differences did not relate well to students' misconceptions in science. The implications of this finding are discussed.  相似文献   

A CROSS CULTURAL STUDY OF LEADERSHIP,SOCIAL MATURITY AND CREATIVE POTENTIAL IN ADOLESCENTS     

Ban Eng Goh  John F. Feldhusen 《High Ability Studies》1994,5(1):39-48

This study investigated relationships among leadership potential, social maturity, creativity, intelligence, and academic achievement among adolescents in the United States and Singapore. Results showed higher intelligence but lower leadership potential among Singapore students and a positive correlation in general between social maturity and intelligence, while creativity was found to be negatively correlated with both intelligence and academic achievement.  相似文献   

Knowledge management support for teachers   总被引：2，自引：0，他引：2  

John M. Carroll  Chun Wei Choo  Daniel R. Dunlap  Philip L. Isenhour  Stephen T. Kerr  Allan MacLean  Mary Beth Rosson 《Educational technology research and development : ETR & D》2003,51(4):42-64

Business organizations worldwide are implementing techniques and technologies to better manage their knowledge. Their objective is to improve the quality of the contributions people make to their organizations by helping them to make sense of the context within which the organization exists; to take responsibility, cooperate, and share what they know and learn; and to effectively challenge, negotiate, and learn from others. We consider how the concepts, tools, and techniques of organizational knowledge management can be applied to the professional practices and development of teachers. We describe a framework for knowledge management support for teachers where the sharing of concrete knowledge scaffolds the attainment of more abstract levels of knowledge sharing. We describe the development of a knowledge management support system emphasizing long-term participatory design relationships between technologists and teachers, regional cooperation among teachers in adjacent school divisions, the integration of communication and practice, synchronous and asynchronous interactions, and multiple metaphors for organizing knowledge resources and activities. This work was supported by the National Science Foundation, REC-0106552.  相似文献   

The cosmopolitan turn in Literature education and its resulting tensions in Singapore schools     

Suzanne S. Choo 《Critical Studies in Education》2020,61(4):512-527

ABSTRACT

In this article, I highlight the emergence of a cosmopolitan turn in Literature education as observed in teachers’ beliefs and practices in Singapore schools. Central to the cosmopolitan turn is the view that Literature education should not be disengaged from real-world connections to others particularly those who are marginalized and oppressed in the world. In the first part of this article, I describe core principles informing a cosmopolitan approach to teaching Literature that is distinct from previous movements. In the second part, I utilize case studies of Literature teachers from four secondary schools in Singapore to discuss key tensions resulting from teachers’ attempts to foster cosmopolitan sensitivities. These tensions point to the propensity for Literature education to prioritize a form of universalism that neglects the dynamic interconnections between national and global identity; to encourage a human capital approach to education where cosmopolitanism is co-opted to strategically benefit elites and to perpetuate passive rather than active cosmopolitan engagement with justice. I suggest that awareness of these tensions can enable educators to develop more holistic and ethically grounded cosmopolitan Literature education where all students can be equipped with critical and empathetic capacities to navigate diverse and conflicting values in our global age.  相似文献   

Secondary school students’ discourse synthesis performance on Chinese (L1) and English (L2) integrated writing assessments     

Zhu  Xinhua  Li  Guan Ying  Cheong  Choo Mui  Yu  Guoxing  Liao  Xian 《Reading and writing》2021,34(1):49-78

Reading and Writing - This study investigates the relationship between three discourse synthesis skills (i.e., quotation, summarization, and connection) and students’ overall integrated...  相似文献   

The Malaysian Teacher Standards: a look at the challenges and implications for teacher educators   总被引：1，自引：0，他引：1  

Pauline Swee Choo Goh 《Educational Research for Policy and Practice》2012,11(2):73-87

Talks of education transformation to improve the quality and outcomes of education in Malaysia culminated in the articulation of standards for teachers. The all new Malaysian Teacher Standards (MTS) launched in 2009 is to establish ??high competency?? standards for the teaching profession and to increase the status of teachers in Malaysia. This article briefly describes the standards that concern teachers and teacher educators alike. It is proposed that there are three challenges to the standards system that teacher educators may face. First, on transforming ingrained beliefs, values and biased perceptions of teaching that student teachers bring to the teaching institution. The second centers on the rhetoric-reality gap of the MTS itself, while the third challenge involves the actual training of teachers. Given these three challenges, this article also outlines several avenues for teacher educators to consider as they set out to better understand and re-design teacher education programs in this standards-based era of educational transformation. The discussion of the challenges and the proposed resources to meet the challenges are by no means exhaustive or acts as a conclusion but rather to create awareness for further discussion and analysis of the implications proposed in this article.  相似文献   

The impact of persuasive SMS on students' self‐regulated learning     

Tiong‐Thye Goh  Boon‐Chong Seet  Nian‐Shing Chen 《British journal of educational technology : journal of the Council for Educational Technology》2012,43(4):624-640

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