System‐perpetuating asymmetries between explicit and implicit intergroup attitudes among indigenous and non‐indigenous Chileans

The present research demonstrates a dissociation between explicit and implicit intergroup evaluation in the reciprocal attitudes between indigenous (Mapuche) and non‐indigenous Chileans. In both social groups, the explicit measures of attitudes towards the respective in‐group and out‐group were compared with the Implicit Association Test scores. The results indicate that the members of the low‐status minority might explicitly express a moderate evaluative preference for their in‐group but might implicitly devalue it. Conversely, the members of the high‐status majority might implicitly devalue their out‐group but might explicitly express no bias. These results are theoretically framed in terms of system justification, conventional stereotypes and motivated correction processes.     

汉语儿童英语口语发展及口语任务的影响作用

本研究选取小学二、四、六年级共96名学生,通过自我介绍、被试主动发问、看图说话和角色扮演四种任务对其英语口语产出的流利性、精确性和复杂性进行了测查,研究结果发现:(1)流利性在自我介绍、主动发问和看图说话任务上,年级发展趋势不显著,但是在角色扮演任务上,随着年级的增长,流利性随之增加;精确性的年级发展趋势不显著;复杂性随着年级的升高而升高;(2)小学儿童的口语流利性在四个任务上从高到低为角色扮演、主动发问、自我介绍和看图说话;在对话任务上的精确性显著高于独白任务的精确性,并且看图说话任务的精确性最低;英语口语的复杂性在自我介绍任务上最高,其次是主动发问,角色扮演与看图说话任务的口语复杂性最低。     

A Case Study of Participatory Action Research in a Public New England Middle School: Empowerment, Constraints and Challenges

PAR recognizes teachers and students as co-creators in a learning process that builds self-efficacy essential to long-term educational success. In enabling contexts, PAR projects also allow teachers to critically deconstruct societal power, examine how these dynamics are reproduced in the classroom, and work against the silencing of student voices. This case study describes the process of implementing an inquiry-based PAR model into a formal urban middle school program intended to reduce drop out rates. The anthropologist/researchers employed participant observation, interviews, and review of student work to explore the dynamics, challenges, and constraints confronted during the process. The intervention demonstrated the gap between practice and theory in a middle school environment marked by well-defined hierarchies and roles as well as high-stakes testing.     

Participatory Action Research (PAR) in Middle School: Opportunities, Constraints, and Key Processes

Late childhood and early adolescence represent a critical transition in the developmental and academic trajectory of youth, a time in which there is an upsurge in academic disengagement and psychopathology. PAR projects that can promote youth's sense of meaningful engagement in school and a sense of efficacy and mattering can be particularly powerful given the challenges of this developmental stage. In the present study, we draw on data from our own collaborative implementation of PAR projects in secondary schools to consider two central questions: (1) How do features of middle school settings and the developmental characteristics of the youth promote or inhibit the processes, outcomes, and sustainability of the PAR endeavor? and (2) How can the broad principles and concepts of PAR be effectively translated into specific intervention activities in schools, both within and outside of the classroom? In particular, we discuss a participatory research project conducted with 6th and 7th graders at an urban middle school as a means of highlighting the opportunities, constraints, and lessons learned in our efforts to contribute to the high‐quality implementation and evaluation of PAR in diverse urban public schools.     

Enhancing Students' Engagement by Increasing Teachers' Autonomy Support

Engagement refers to the behavioral intensity and emotional quality of a person's active involvement during a task. Recognizing the benefits highly engaged people experience, we tested whether classroom teachers could incorporate the relatively foreign concept of autonomy support into their motivating styles as a way to promote their students' engagement during instruction. Teachers in an experimental group and teachers in a delayed-treatment control group received information and guidance consistent with self-determination theory on how to support students' autonomy. Over a series of 3 classroom observations, trained raters scored each teacher's autonomy support and 2 measures of their students' engagement–task involvement and influence attempts. Trained teachers displayed significantly more autonomy-supportive behaviors than did nontrained teachers. Further, the more teachers used autonomy support during instruction, the more engaged were their students. This was true on both measures of engagement.     

小学教师科学素养的调查研究

为了解大连地区小学教师科学素养的现状,采用自编调查问卷对265名大连市城乡小学教师进行了调查研究。结果表明:1)本、专科学历小学教师的科学素养明显高于中专学历的教师;2)小学教师较好地掌握了小学水平的科学知识,但对中学以上水平的科学知识掌握较差;3)教师的科学素养水平没有表现出随教龄的增长而提高。     

中学生学习动机类型和对自身学习能力评价的关系

对4个地区1万多名中学生的学习动机类型和对自身学习能力的评价进行了调查,结果发现:1当前中学生中具有内部学习动机者并不多,持外部学习动机的中学生为数甚多.2中学生对自我学习能力的评价普遍较低,中学生认为自身考试的能力要强于课上和课下学习的能力.3外部动机占优势的中学生对自己考试能力评价最高;内部动机占优势的中学生对自己课下学习能力的评价最高.不同年级的学生由于学习任务的需要,可能表现出与学习动机类型不一致的对自我学习能力的评价,在具体的动机类型中,还可能表现出性别优势.     

不同学习自控力的初中生在成败中的表现

该研究用实验的方法,探讨了不同学习自控力的初中学生在成败的情景中的表现。目的是想了解成功与失败对不同的自控水平产生什么样的影响;结果是：(1)在成功的条件下,反应的正确率比较高;而在失败的情景中,正确率就比较低;它表明：成功使人沉着冷静,反应的正确率就比较高。然而,这种短暂的失败并没有使人气馁,反而使他更想成功;所以,期望值还不低。(2)自控力高的被试期望值高于自控力低的被试,说明在具体的活动中,其结果并不能简单地、直接地影响一个人的自控力;相反,自控力的高低会对活动的进程与结果起调节作用。     

不同语言理解能力中学生的抑制加工

该研究使用移动视窗技术考察了初二和高一年级中的高低语言理解能力学生在完成句子一探测词语义适合度判断时抑制句子尾词与探测词之间语义联系干扰的抑制加工能力。结果表明：(t)在BOA为100ms条件下所有个体都不能有效压抑无关信息干扰;而在SOA为850ms条件下．不同语言理解能力个体表现出抑制加工能力的差异。(2)高一年级学生的抑制加工能力优于初二年级。     

初中学生类别建构中的知识效应研究

采用类别建构的实验范式,选取具有家族相似性结构的人工类别材料,考察了已有知识对初中学生类别建构的影响。实验结果表明,当类别特征能够在已有知识的基础上形成主题时,初中学生倾向于按主题建构类别,而且在主题愈突出时这种趋势愈为明显;并且,主题性质对不同领域材料的类别建构的影响是一致的。