教师背景变量对教师教学效果影响的多层线性分析

用《教师教学效果评价问卷(学生版)》问卷对高校181名教师的教学效果进行调查,用多层次分析法对影响教师教学效果的教师背景变量:教师性别、年龄、学历、职称、所教专业、年级、班级大小以及课程类别对教师教学效果影响程度进行分析,目的在于通过用多层分析法更合理分析教师背景变量对教学效果产生的影响,为客观比较教师教学效果之间的差异提供依据。研究结果表明:(1)多层次分析法得到比传统回归分析和方差分析更合理更准确的结果;(2)教师背景变量教师中性别、学历、专业以及所教班级的大小对于教师教学效果评价效果没有显著影响;(3)教师职称、年龄、所教学生年级、课程类别对教师的教学效果有显著影响;(4)所考察的教师水平背景变量对教学效果各个维度教师水平总变异的解释率介于3351%-4278%之间。     

教师问题行为的初步探索

通过对现有中学教师问题行为概念的分析整合和访谈,初步确立了教师问题行为的基本维度,以此为基础编制问卷,并对1274名中学教师进行测查,采用探索性因素分析和验证性因素分析对教师问题行为的结构进行剖析.结果表明:(1)中学教师的问题行为可以分为三个维度:认知问题、行为问题与适应问题;(2)这三个维度由10个因子组成,它们是粗暴行为、教学观、放任敷衍行为、职业道德、学生观、职业观、职业适应、情绪、人际关系和不公正感受;(3)本研究自编的教师问题行为问卷具有较好的信度、效度和可用性.     

大学生无聊倾向问卷的初步编制

在文献分析基础上,结合国外常用的无聊倾向量表,通过开放式问卷、访谈等方法,编制适用于我国大学生的无聊倾向问卷。并对972名大学生进行测查,采用探索性因素分析对无聊倾向性的结构进行剖析。结果表明:(1)问卷分为两个维度:外部刺激和内部刺激;(2)这两个维度由6个因子组成:单调性、约束性、孤独感、紧张感、自控力和创造力;(3)问卷具有较好的信效度,是测量大学生无聊指数的有效工具。     

基于教师描述的幼儿个性结构的验证性因素分析

该文以自然语言的方式,采用开放式问卷(n=1347)、理论分析等方法编制幼儿个性发展教师评定问卷,并通过探索性因素分析(n=715)、验证性因素分析(n=927)得出,教师评价的幼儿个性结构由智能特征、认真自控、情绪性、亲社会性四个维度11个特质构成。问卷具有较好的信度和效度。     

核心自我评价对大学生两种创业意向的预测作用

为探讨核心自我评价对大学生创业意向的影响机制,采用核心自我评价量表、创业自我效能感量表和创业意向问卷对264名大四毕业生进行测量,并运用相关分析与回归分析考察变量间关系。结果表明:(1)核心自我评价与创业效能感和两种大学生创业意向均显著相关;(2)核心自我评价完全通过创业效能感间接影响大学生生涯追求型创业意向;(3)核心自我评价对大学生生涯备择型创业意向的影响中,创业效能感起部分中介的作用。     

自编《中小学生非智力因素教师评价量表》的信、效度研究

通过自行编制的《中小学生非智力因素教师评价量表》,以天津市4所中、小学校的4个年级365名学生为被试考察了该量表的质量。研究结果表明：(1)《中小学生非智力因素教师评价量表》具有较高的信度;(2)《中小学生非智力因素教师评价量表》所构想的非智力因素结构模型是完全可以接受的,即有较好的结构效度。     

评价中心测评的评分误差分析研究

本研究应用概化理论对评价中心中的评分误差控制问题进行了系统的分析探讨,得出了以下研究结论：(1)总体上,在评价中心(以LGD为例)测评中,评价员对研究设计的测评维度的评分基本反映了被试的真实能力水平,测量误差较小;(2)评价员对合作能力、应变能力和总体印象等维度的评价标准的理解具有较高的一致性,但对决策能力等维度的评价标准的理解存在一定的偏差;(3)在评价中心(以LGD为例)测评中,采用4名评价员能达到预期的测量目标,符合测评应用的经济性、有效性原则。     

大学生孤独感结构特点的初步研究

采用自编的大学生孤独感结构问卷,对大学生孤独感结构的特点进行了初步研究,结果表明：大学生孤独感与其自我同一性发展有关系;大学生在孤独感结构问卷的各维度和总分上的得分存在性别、生源、学科门类、学历层次、年级、学校性质等人口学变量上的差异,但差异的表现是复杂多样的;大学生孤独感并不总是消极的,更多的大学生认为适度的孤独感可以为其提供动力,因而也具有积极意义。     

大学生学习责任心问卷的编制

目的:编制大学生学习责任心问卷。方法:通过访谈和开放式问卷调查法,编制了大学生学习责任心问卷,并对其进行探索性因素分析和验证性因素分析。结果:(1)探索性因素分析表明:大学生的学习责任心由学习责任认知、学习责任情感、学习责任意志、学习责任动机、学生角色责任行为以及学生能力责任行为6个维度组成;(2)验证性因素分析表明:所提取的6个维度与构想的模型拟合较好,该问卷具有较好的结构效度。(3)问卷的内部一致性系数为0.917,各维度的内部一致性系数在0.712~0.850之间;问卷的分半信度为0.808,各维度的分半信度在0.607~0.845之间。结论:大学生学习责任心问卷具有较好的信度和效度,可作为测量大学生学习责任心的有效工具。     

大学生情绪归因模式建构的实证研究

通过对135名大学生进行访谈及开放问卷调查编制出预测问卷,对354名大学生进行施测。结果表明:(1)大学生具有一个七维度的情绪归因模式;(2)测试工具信效度良好。     

Validating a “spurning scale” for teachers

Based on a model on helpers’ reactions to rejection of their help, a spurning scale for teachers was constructed, comprising items that examine teachers’ perception of spurning of their help/advice by students and colleagues. Three avenues were taken to assess the validity of the scale: The relationships of the spurning scores with burnout scores; the relationships of spurning scores with job (dis)satisfaction and with job turnover; and relationships of spurning scores with job stresses from different sources. In-service teachers enrolled in a teacher training program were invited to fill out a questionnaire that contained these variables. Results suggest that the spurning scale is valid.     

Gender and gender role differences in student–teachers’ commitment to teaching

Low commitment to teaching amongst teachers is a problem facing the teaching profession in many countries. Gender might be an important factor in explaining what kinds of prospective teachers are attracted to teaching. This empirical study examined the relationship between student–teachers’ gender, gender roles and commitment to teaching within the context of a large, university-based teacher education program in Tanzania. A self-report questionnaire was administered, comprising commitment to teaching items, gender as a demographic variable and items from Bem sex role inventory (BSRI). Cluster analysis on the masculine and feminine scale of the BSRI indicated three clusters: (1) highly androgynous students with high scores on both masculine and feminine scales, (2) medium androgynous students with relatively high scores on both masculine and feminine scales, and (3) low androgynous students with low scores in relation to the other two groups on both masculine and feminine scales of the BSRI. More female than male student–teachers reported to be highly androgynous. Covariance analysis showed that gender roles were significantly related to commitment to teaching and to intention to enter the teaching profession. Highly androgynous student–teachers reported significantly more commitment to teaching and higher intentions to enter the teaching profession compared to medium and low androgynous student–teachers. No significant relationships were found between gender, on the one hand, and commitment to teaching and the intention to enter the teaching profession, on the other hand. Findings are discussed in the context of teacher and teacher education in Tanzania.     

How Much Does Creative Teaching Enhance Elementary School Students' Achievement?

This study examined the relationship between creative teaching and elementary students' achievement gains. Forty‐eight upper elementary school teachers' classroom instruction was observed and evaluated over the course of 8 different lessons throughout the year. For each teacher, during each lesson, both a creative teaching frequency score and a quality score were derived. These scores were then used as predictor variables in a structural equation model to determine the magnitude of the relationship between creative teaching and classroom achievement gains in reading, language, and mathematics. Our results demonstrated that (a) the majority of teachers do not implement any teaching strategies that foster student creativity; (b) teachers who elicit student creativity turn out students that make substantial achievement gains; and (c) classrooms with high proportions of minority and low‐performing students receive significantly less creative teaching.     

Uncovering the links between prospective teachers’ personal responsibility,academic optimism,hope, and emotions about teaching: a mediation analysis

Prospective teachers’ sense of personal responsibility has not been examined together with their academic optimism, hope, and emotions about teaching in a single study to date. However, to consider hope, academic optimism, and emotions about teaching together with personal responsibility is important to uncover the factors affecting prospective teachers’ commitment to teaching. Indeed, this is an international concern that occupies educational researchers and policy makers from a diverse range of countries. Thus, this study aimed to examine the relationships between prospective teachers’ personal responsibility, academic optimism, hope, and emotions about teaching, with the intention to explore the mediating roles of hope and academic optimism in the relationships between emotions about teaching and personal responsibility. A total of 455 prospective teachers voluntarily participated in the study. Correlation, regression, and structural equation modeling analyses were conducted in order to explore the relationships between research variables. Results showed that the prospective teachers’ emotions about teaching, academic optimism, hope, and personal responsibility were significantly related to each other. Results also showed that the relationships between prospective teachers’ emotions about teaching and responsibility for student motivation, achievement, relationships with students, and teaching were strongly and positively mediated by their academic optimism; whereas the relationships between PTs’ emotions about teaching, responsibility for student achievement, and teaching were moderately and negatively mediated by their hope. Implications for teacher education and directions for future studies were also discussed in the present study.     

Novice teachers’ experience of teaching: a dynamic aspect of burnout

This article addresses the question of how novice teachers perceive their work environment and how their perceptions affect burnout. Data were obtained from a questionnaire administered to novice teachers at the beginning and at the end of the school year. It was found that (1) novice teachers experienced high levels of burnout as early as the beginning of their first year of teaching; (2) novice teachers’ perception of their work environment at the beginning and at the end of their first year significantly and meaningfully explained their sense burnout; (3) three variables contribute to predicting burnout at the beginning and at the end of the first year of teaching: (a) lack of appreciation and professional recognition from students; (b) lack of appreciation and professional recognition from the public, and (c) lack of collaborative and supportive ambience.     

A sustained analysis of the behaviors of schooling

Educationally significant behaviors of students, teachers, and supervisors were directly assessed daily for a fiscal year in a residential school in which the results of behavior analysis research are applied to all levels of schooling. The variables assessed included those found to be concomitantly related to effective schooling as determined by the educational research literature, and functionally related to effective teaching as determined by the literature of behavior analysis. Weekly summaries of the following variables were analyzed for each of two daily shifts of teachers and supervisors: (a) number of trials presented and correct number of trials, (b) number of instructional sessions conducted, (c) number of learning objectives achieved, (d) percentage correct in each of three curricular areas, (e) weekly teacher observation scores, and (f) the total and rate per hour of supervisors' task accomplishments. There were strong positive correlations between: (a) instructional sessions and learning objectives, (b) teachers use of behavioral techniques in weekly observations by supervisors and students' achievement, (c) number of supervisor tasks completed and number of instructional sessions conducted by teachers, (d) number of teacher observations by supervisors and teachers' performance during observations, and (e) number of student objectives attained and number of tasks completed by supervisors. The assessment is the most comprehensive and sustained analysis of the daily behaviors of schooling. The relationships found between students and teacher behaviors replicate the effects of numerous experiments but do so in a total school setting. The relationships found between supervisor and student behavior have not been demonstrated in prior research. There is a need for similar school wide assessments in other types of schools to determine the generality of the relationships obtained in the present article.     

The ethnic match between students and teachers: evidence from a vignette study

The ethnic match between teachers and students is widely believed to be beneficial for the achievement of ethnic minority students, who often lag behind their ethnic majority peers. In a quasi-experimental vignette study, we investigated whether preservice teachers who shared the same ethnic background as the student in the vignette had different judgments of the achievement, working and learning habits, and other social variables of the target student than ethnic majority preservice teachers and preservice teachers who had an ethnic minority background different from that of the student. Additionally, we asked about the causes of ethnic disparities. The preservice teachers who shared the same ethnic background as the target student more favorably judged the student’s language proficiency in his mother tongue and perceived the student as more proficient in mathematics, science, and general competence than the two other teacher groups. Moreover, the causal attributions showed that the preservice teachers with the same background as the target student generally perceived the causes of the student’s lower school success as multifaceted. The results reveal that simply having a teacher with an ethnic minority background is not sufficient for benefitting ethnic minority students. Only teachers who have the same ethnic background as the students might contribute to the reduction of ethnic disparities in school.     

PREMARITAL BREAKUPS IN A TURKISH SAMPLE: PERCEIVED REASONS,ATTRIBUTIONAL DIMENSIONS AND AFFECTIVE REACTIONS

The present study aimed to investigate the causal attributional dimensions used in the dissolution of premarital romantic relationships by using the subjects' own ratings, and to examine cultural influences on such dimensions. Twenty-two items tapping dimensions revealed by previous research were prepared and administered to 135 Turkish students who have broken up a relationship within the past year. Respondents' ratings of their perceived principal reason for dissolution were subjected to factor analysis which revealed the following six factors: self-control, partner's control, control external to the relationship, partner's lack of caring, instability, and transitoriness. The relationship between negative emotional reaction to the breakup and attributional dimensions and other dating-related variables revealed that the intensity of involvement and attributing the dissolution to external factors increases, whereas, initiating the breakup decreases the negative emotional impact of such an experience. The results of the study were greatly overlapping with the findings reported in the western literature. The implications of the results were discussed in relation to research in heterosexual relationships.