Interest in an expository text: How does it flow from reading to writing?   总被引：1，自引：0，他引：1  

Pietro Boscolo  Nicola AriasiLaura Del Favero  Chiara Ballarin 《Learning and Instruction》2011,21(3):467-480

This study investigated the flow of interest in a reading-to-write activity. It was hypothesized that (a) different contents in a text would stimulate different types of interest and (b) different writing tasks would impact differently students’ use of interesting text segments. Participants were 247 11th- and 12th-grade students, who were divided into 6 groups according to a 2 (interesting vs. uninteresting topic) × 3 (type of writing task) design. While reading, students rated novelty, curiosity, impressiveness, importance, and willingness to reflect on each text segment. Participants were then assigned to one of three writing tasks, namely argumentation, text designing, and composition. Results showed that concepts were regarded as important, events/activities as impressive, and evaluations as most worthy of reflection. Topic interest was explicitly expressed mainly in the argumentation condition, where increased topic interest scores after reading and writing were also found.  相似文献   

The cross-lagged relations between children’s academic skill development, task-avoidance, and parental beliefs about success     

Katrin Mägi  Marja-Kristiina LerkkanenAnna-Maija Poikkeus  Helena Rasku-PuttonenJari-Erik Nurmi 《Learning and Instruction》2011,21(5):664-675

This longitudinal study investigated the cross-lagged associations between children’s academic skill development, task-avoidant behaviour in the context of homework, and parental beliefs about their child’s success from kindergarten to Grade 2. The participants were 1267 children. The children’s pre-skills were assessed at the end of the kindergarten year, and math and reading skills at the end of Grade 1 and Grade 2. Parents provided ratings of their beliefs about their children’s school success and task-avoidant behaviour with regard to homework at the end of Grades 1 and 2. The results showed that children’s math and reading skills predicted children’s task-avoidant behaviour regarding homework as rated by mothers, but not by fathers, when autoregressive effects were taken into account. In addition, task-avoidant behaviour predicted the mothers’ subsequent beliefs about their children’s school success but not vice versa. A reciprocal effect was found between fathers’ beliefs about success and children’s task-avoidance.  相似文献   

On the effects of motivation on reading performance growth in secondary school   总被引：1，自引：0，他引：1  

Jan Retelsdorf  Olaf KöllerJens Möller 《Learning and Instruction》2011,21(4):550-559

This research aimed at identifying unique effects of reading motivation on reading performance when controlling for cognitive skills, familial, and demographic background. We drew upon a longitudinal sample of N = 1508 secondary school students from 5th to 8th grade. Two types of intrinsic reading motivation (reading enjoyment, reading for interest), one type of extrinsic reading motivation (competition), and reading self-concept were measured by self-report questionnaires. Cognitive skills (reasoning, decoding speed) and reading performance were assessed using standardized tests and background variables were collected using student and parent questionnaires. Applying latent growth curve modeling, positive unique effects of reading enjoyment and reading self-concept and a negative unique effect of competition on the initial level of reading performance were recorded. Moreover, a positive unique effect of reading for interest on reading performance growth was recorded. One may conclude that enhancing students’ interest might be fruitful in terms of nurturing reading performance.  相似文献   

从差异中窥见相似——从日本高中理科课程的变迁看新课程     

孙新 《课程.教材.教法》2011,(8)

生活单元学习.问题解决时期的日本理科课程的特点表明,形式上矛盾源于引进与继承,实质上是两种文化在教育理念上的碰撞。系统.探究的理科时期,形式上矛盾源于照搬和本土化,实质上是学术化与实用技能训练在教育理念上的碰撞……虽然国情不同、历史背景不同、发展阶段不同,差异看似很大,但中日两国理科课程的变迁确有相似之处。研究日本高中理科课程所处的时代背景、目标、结构与内容,分析其课程地位的变化,了解其现行课程的构成特点以及课程变迁的具体过程,目的在于以此重新思考中国课程变革的历史,以期他山之石,可以攻玉。  相似文献   

日本新修订高中学习指导要领与理科课程的新变化   总被引：1，自引：0，他引：1  

彭蜀晋  林长春 《课程.教材.教法》2011,(9)

2009年3月日本文部科学省公布新修订《高中学习指导要领》,高中阶段的理科课程设置结构、课程类型、修业方式均出现了新的变化,不仅新设了科学与人类生活和理科课题研究两门综合性的课程,而且物理、化学、生物、地学各科课程的目标、内容构成以及学习方式也在新课程理念的影响下发生了新的变化。  相似文献   

清末立宪思潮与近代甘肃法政教育的发轫     

阮兴 《青海师范大学学报(哲学社会科学版)》2011,(4):121-125

清末社会,随着立宪思想的日益兴起,法政知识与法政人才成为社会亟需而倍受重视,法政教育也应时兴起。本文主要考述在清末立宪的社会思潮之下,地处西北边远的甘肃地区法政教育的发轫。  相似文献   

Videobased lesson analysis: Effective science PD for teacher and student learning     

Kathleen J. Roth  Helen E. Garnier  Catherine Chen  Meike Lemmens  Kathleen Schwille  Nicole I.Z. Wickler 《科学教学研究杂志》2011,48(2):117-148

The Science Teachers Learning from Lesson Analysis (STeLLA) project is a videobased analysis‐of‐practice PD program aimed at improving teacher and student learning at the upper elementary level. The PD program developed and utilized two “lenses,” a Science Content Storyline Lens and a Student Thinking Lens, to help teachers analyze science teaching and learning and to improve teaching practices in this year‐long program. Participants included 48 teachers (n = 32 experimental, n = 16 control) and 1,490 students. The STeLLA program significantly improved teachers' science content knowledge and their ability to analyze science teaching. Notably, the STeLLA teachers further increased their classroom use of science teaching strategies associated with both lenses while their students increased their science content knowledge. Multi‐level HLM analyses linked higher average gains in student learning with teachers' science content knowledge, teachers' pedagogical content knowledge about student thinking, and teaching practices aimed at improving the coherence of the science content storyline. This paper highlights the importance of the science content storyline in the STeLLA program and discusses its potential significance in science teaching and professional development more broadly. © 2011 Wiley Periodicals, Inc., J Res Sci Teach 48: 117–148, 2011  相似文献   

Changes in instructors' assessment thinking related to experimentation with new strategies     

Erika G. Offerdahl  Debra Tomanek 《Assessment & Evaluation in Higher Education》2011,36(7):781-795

Formative assessment has been recognised as a critical element in teaching for conceptual development. A case study research design was employed to: (1) characterise the assessment thinking of three science instructors at a research‐based university; and (2) examine the complex relationship between instructor thinking and practice by encouraging experimentation with alternative assessment strategies. Interviews, reflective journals, field notes and course documents were the data sources used to create a single case study that documented the development of these university instructors’ assessment thinking during their experimentation with formative assessment strategies. Throughout two semesters of experimentation, the instructors’ assessment thinking became more sophisticated; they grew to view the purpose of assessment less as a summative activity used for the assignment of marks and more as a tool for diagnosing student learning. However, more sophisticated thinking was not associated with revisions in teaching practice based on formative assessment data. Further investigations are needed to more completely understand the nature of assessment thinking and how assessment thinking influences assessment practices. Implications for professional development of university‐level science instructors include personalised experiences through which instructors can become active participants in gathering evidence of student learning that promotes growth in assessment thinking.  相似文献   

Negative school factors and their influence on math and science achievement in TIMSS 2003     

Tina Vršnik Perše  Ana Kozina  Tina Rutar Leban 《Educational studies》2011,37(3):265-276

The aim of the present study was to conduct an analysis of TIMSS (Trends in International Mathematics and Science Study) 2003 database and to determine how negative school factors, such as aggression, are associated to the mathematical and science achievement of students. The analyses were conducted separately for national and international data. National analyses for Slovenia show significant associations between math and science achievement and the experience of aggressive behaviour. Students who experienced aggressive behaviour scored lower in math and science, both in the fourth and in the eighth grade. The results of the regression analysis show that negative factors, such as aggressive behaviour, are good predictors of educational achievement in Slovenia. International analyses for the selected countries (high‐ and low‐achieving countries from the whole TIMSS population) confirm that this type of finding is culturally impartial as well as valid for the level of achievement both in math and in science.  相似文献   

人文主义对科技时代人身心重建的意义     

梁晓丹 《佳木斯教育学院学报》2011,(3):15-16

21世纪我国科技飞速发展,人们在生活质量得到的提升的同时面临着本能衰退、道德感萎缩、物欲膨胀与精神萎靡等困惑。对此可在了解西方人文主义的含义及其与科技的关系的基础上,尝试利用其积极面,即通过重建人的经验意识、全面关注人、明晰科技与现实中人命运的关系来解决。  相似文献