Improving college students’ evaluation of text learning using idea-unit standards

When recalling key definitions from class materials, college students are often overconfident in the quality of their responses. Even with commission errors, they often judge that their response is entirely or partially correct. To further understand this overconfidence, we investigated whether idea-unit judgements would reduce overconfidence (Experiments 1 and 2) and whether students inflated their scores because they believed that they knew answers but just responded incorrectly (Experiment 2). College students studied key-term definitions and later attempted to recall each definition when given the key term (e.g., What is the availability heuristic?). All students judged the quality of their recall, but some were given a full-definition standard to use, whereas other students first judged whether their response included each of the individual ideas within the corresponding correct answer. In Experiment 1, making these idea-unit judgements reduced overconfidence for commission errors. In Experiment 2, some students were given the correct definitions and graded other students’ responses, and some students generated idea units themselves before judging their responses. Students were overconfident even when they graded other students’ responses, and, as important, self-generated idea units for each definition also reduced overconfidence in commission errors. Thus, overconfidence appears to result from difficulties in evaluating the quality of recall responses, and such overconfidence can be reduced by using idea-unit judgements.     

《周易》古经"明德慎罚"观辨析

"明德慎罚"是西周初年周公提出的重要法律思想。从《周易》古经中的类似表述来看,其已有明显的"明德慎罚"观。"明德"思想反映在《恒》九三、《益》九五等爻辞中;《临》卦中有对人民实施德教的内容。《周易》古经的"慎罚"观在西周刑罚适用原则中也有体现。西周的"以德配天"、"明德慎罚"的法制思想后来深深扎根于中国传统政治和法律理论之中。研究《周易》古经中"明德慎罚"的法律观,探究它所涉及的西周法制,不仅能为我们研究西周法制提供宝贵的史料,也能更好的梳理商末周初法律思想的变化脉络,进一步印证这一思想对西周社会、政治和法制的影响。     

《周易》与管理:体与用

讨论<周易>与管理的关系,必须看到它并没有把人看作需要外在规范来束缚和管理的对象,也没有直接谈论西方管理学所讨论的管理的具体环节.<周易>与管理的关系乃是一种体用关系,它只是在阐明"体"的前提下启示"用",其一切启发都是围绕着对和谐这一最高境界的追求展开的.按照西方管理学的模式解读<周易>的做法远离了<周易>的精髓和主旨,其结果必然使讨论流于庸俗,伤害<周易>的基本精神.     

"人造美女"热的冷思考

"人造美女"是对美的本质的亵渎,是对女性价值全面性的否定,同时也是对医学人道主义和医学伦理基本原则的全面践踏.作为一名医务工作者,应该避免经济利益的驱动,全心全意地践行医德誓言,把治疗伤疾、维护人们的身心健康作为自己的神圣信条和基本准则.     

The Sociocultural Attitudes Towards Appearance Questionnaire-3: a confirmatory factor analysis

The Sociocultural Attitudes Towards Appearance Questionnaire-3 measures awareness and endorsement of societal appearance standards. The instrument has been subjected to exploratory factor analyses but to date no studies have reported a priori tests of its hypothesized factor structure using confirmatory factor analysis (CFA). The aim of the present study was to subject the SATAQ-3 to a CFA. Results from a non-clinical convenience sample of 369 women revealed an adequate fit of the model according to conventional criteria. However, detailed residual analysis indicated a significant lack of fit which was explainable by one mis-specified item and shared method variance due to similarities in item content. It was concluded that, with the removal of the mis-specified item, the degree of misfit was tolerable and the intended four-factor solution provides a satisfactory and parsimonious representation of the data.     

从中外医学教育标准的差异看医学生的人文素质培养

通过中外医学教育标准在知识目标、技能目标、职业价值观上的若干差异的比较,探讨人文素质,包括医生职业价值观念、医学人文知识、“批判性思维”能力和交流技巧、沟通能力的培养等在国际医学教育标准的重要地位,并对改进我国医学教育的人文内涵提出建议。     

Epistemic comparative conditionals

The interest of epistemic comparative conditionals comes from the fact that they represent genuine ‘comparative epistemic relations’ between propositions, situations, evidences, abilities, interests, etc. This paper argues that various types of epistemic comparative conditionals uniformly represent comparative epistemic relations via the comparison of epistemic positions rather than the comparison of epistemic standards. This consequence is considered as a general constraint on a theory of knowledge attribution, and then further used to argue against the contextualist thesis that, in some cases, considering a new counter- possibility can raise the epistemic standard of knowledge attribution. Instead, the paper shows that considering a new counter-possibility can only lower the epistemic position of a putative knower. Moreover, since the comparison, by the nature of conditionals, is free from any commitment to the truth-values of specific knowledge attributions, my conclusion is free from the debate between contextualism and invariantism on whether the truth-value of a knowledge attribution can actually vary with context.     

中西医结合治疗骨折的临床思维方法

骨科医生在骨折治疗中需要科学的方法论指导。系统论的思想应用于中西医结合治疗骨折,它能从人体的总体出发,在“动与静”、“筋与骨”、“内与外”、“人与物”四对矛盾的相互作用中,揭示损伤的性质和骨折愈合的规律,有助于获得骨折的最佳治疗原则,有助于提高认识水平和实践能力。     

1980年-2005年我国中西医结合临床研究的方法学评价

为了了解我国1980年～2005年以来关于中西医结合临床研究文献的质量,从中国生物医学文献数据库及维普全文库和中国期刊网全文库中查阅了相关文献,发现国内近年来开展中西医结合临床研究的RCT文献在不断增多,但研究方法学质量偏低,说明有关文献的RCT质量有待进一步提高,研究方法仍需要不断改进。