Targeting Teaching Lecture Capture Learning: Do Students Perform Better Compared to Face‐to‐Face Classes?

Online learning has become more prevalent in colleges and universities as new technology is introduced. One such technology is lecture capture, which allows a live lecture to be recorded and packaged with classroom media and delivered online to many more students than a traditional face‐to‐face class. This article studies the selection process and educational outcome differences between students enrolled in a lecture capture and a face‐to‐face course in economic principles. Students could select either course format, both with the same instructor and course requirements, without capacity restrictions. We find that students’ attitudes toward online learning are the chief determinant of their choice of class over demographics, opportunity cost measures, or past online experiences. Additionally, our findings suggest that lecture capture students perform as well as those who take a face‐to‐face course when not accounting for self‐selection. When selection is taken into account, lecture capture is not significantly worse than face‐to‐face.     

初探阶段性考试在《营销技能综合实训》课程中的实践

在传统考试方式的指导下,教师对于学生学习效果的考核和评估主要是依靠理论笔试的方法,从而导致学生对知识的学习和巩固主要是靠背被动的死记硬背。但是营销类的课程,特别是实训课程除了要求学生牢固掌握理论基础知识以外,更重要的就是理论在实践中的应用。因此,如何有效的考核学生是否已经掌握所学知识是我们教学研究的一个重点问题。本文重点介绍了一种新式的考核方式---阶段性考核方式。针对高职电子商务类学生的特点,初步探索了这种考核方式在营销技能综合实训这门课教学中的应用。     

Flipping the Undergraduate Economics Classroom: Using Online Videos to Enhance Teaching and Learning

The flipped classroom has been proposed as a teaching method with the potential to enhance student learning by removing much of the ‘‘transmission of knowledge’’ from the classroom and replacing this with active learning approaches that enable the assimilation of information. This article analyzes the impact of a flipped undergraduate economics course that leverages an existing suite of online lectures by Khan Academy. The study employs a quasiexperimental design to evaluate the impact of two different flipped treatments on an undergraduate microeconomics principles final exam. Student achievement is compared for students in (i) a “traditional” undergraduate course; (ii) a “complemented” (or partially flipped) classroom including traditional “mini” lectures complemented with online video lectures assigned as homework; and (iii) a flipped classroom. Results suggest that students in both of the flipped courses scored between 4 and 14 percentage points higher on set of common questions and a cumulative final exam.     

地市级电大《现代汉语》面授辅导课教学改革研究

面授辅导是电大的重要教学手段,也是学生强化所学知识,获得疑难问题解答的重要途径。文章针对《现代汉语》的课程特点,主要探讨的是笔者对面授辅导课的一些看法以及在面授辅导课的教学实践过程中尝试使用的具体的教学方法和今后该课程教学的一些设想。同时,本文所说的面授辅导,指的是地市级电大以课程为单位,由学校统一安排教学时间和教学地点的较大范围的集中面授辅导课和学生自发组织的具有一定规模的集中面授辅导课。     

THE EFFECT OF STUDENT CHARACTERISTICS ON ACHIEVEMENT IN INTRODUCTORY MICROECONOMICS IN SOUTH AFRICA

This paper uses OLS regression analysis to examine the effect of student characteristics on performance in Introductory Microeconomics at five South African universities. No consistent race‐effects were found, but Indian students performed significantly worse than Whites at historically‐White universities. Male students outperformed females in general. Older students did better at the historically‐White institutions only. At one university, Black students who speak English as their home language outperformed those who are non‐English speakers. Students who devoted more time to study outside formal classes did better in general. Greater verbal and mathematical ability had large and significant positive effects on student achievement.     

移动学习与高校实验课程整合研究

通过对当前高校教育形式和实验课程学习特点的分析，提出将移动设备引入到高校实验课程的教学过程中。移动学习方式的引入，可以更好地适应当前高等教育形式和改革需求。文中重点论述了移动学习与实验课程整合过程中的学习资源平台建设原则和移动学习活动设计的对话框架。在实践教学过程中，该方法的应用可以更好地提高课堂教学效率，有效地延展学...     

Targeting Teaching: Does the Medium Matter? Online versus Paper Coursework

If individuals process information differently when it is accessed electronically rather than on paper, then the transition from paper to electronic text may affect learning and retention. Using a randomized experiment, we compare learning outcomes of economics students who use electronic teaching tools with students who access the same material on paper. We find that students who submit homework online complete more assignments but have lower classroom attendance rates. However, there is no effect on exam scores. This suggests that while an electronic medium may enable instructional material to be accessed more easily, it does not significantly impact learning.     

利用网络教学提高国际贸易实践教学质量的研究

在国际贸易专业的实践教学体系中,越来越多的主干课程日益引入了利用网络进行的实训教学手段。在注重实际岗位操作的国际贸易专业教学中,充分发挥网络教学的优势,可以大幅度提高实践教学的效果。利用现代化教学手段,有利于教师对学生进行更加科学和量化的考核,以培养更多符合市场需要的国际贸易专业操作型人才。     

Nea presidential address: Economics programs at historically black colleges and universities

Conclusion If we wish to increase the number of students taking economics courses, the number of students majoring in economics and the number of students who want to learn more economics after they finish the required courses we must offer courses that students can understand, courses that answer questions that students either already know to be important or can be convinced are important.     

工商管理类课程实践教学环节探索

在管理类课程的本科教学中,由于学生实践经验与专业感性认识的匮乏,学生在学习时往往难以较好理解和掌握所学课程理论知识,给教学带来一定困难并影响到教学效果。鉴于管理类课程知识体系自身的特殊性,因而只有通过各种形式的课程实践教学活动,教学双方共同互动努力,强化学生专业和课程感性认识,才能为学生很好理解并掌握相关管理理论知识奠定必要基础,取得良好的课程教学效果。     

Compensating for academic loss: Online learning and student performance during the COVID-19 pandemic

The COVID-19 pandemic has led to widespread school shutdowns, with many continuing distance education via online-learning platforms. We here estimate the causal effects of online education on student exam performance using administrative data from Chinese Middle Schools. Taking a difference-in-differences approach, we find that receiving online education during the COVID-19 lockdown improved student academic results by 0.22 of a standard deviation, relative to pupils without learning support from their school. Not all online education was equal: students who were given recorded online lessons from external higher-quality teachers had higher exam scores than those whose lessons were recorded by teachers from their own school. The educational benefits of distance learning were the same for rural and urban students, but the exam performance of students who used a computer for online education was better than those who used a smartphone. Last, while everyone except the very-best students performed better with online learning, it was low achievers who benefited from teacher quality.     

理实一体化在汽车维修教学中的应用

理实一体化教学已广泛应用于职业学校,这种教学方法易被学生接受,改变了传统的汽车维修教学模式,将理论与实习融于一体进行组合教学,形象、直观,便于学生理解和掌握,能明显提高学生的学习积极性。理实一体化在汽车维修教学中占有独特的优势,应积极将该理论应用于汽车维修专业课教学。     

Who Loses HOPE? Attrition from Georgia's College Scholarship Program

Georgia's lottery-funded HOPE Scholarship program provides free tuition to in-state students who can maintain a B average at state universities. However, roughly half of HOPE Scholars lose their support after their freshman year. This study employs student-level administrative data to identify the observed characteristics that systematically relate to scholarship attrition. Conditional on measures of student ability, there are not statistically significant differences between white, black, and Hispanic students. However, there are dramatic differences across academic disciplines. Students majoring in science, engineering, and computing are 21 to 51 percent more likely to lose their HOPE Scholarships than students in other disciplines.     

Does learning longer improve student achievement? Evidence from online education of graduating students in a high school during COVID-19 period

This paper examines the effect of online learning time on graduating students' test scores in a senior high school. Decisions regarding online education, including those related to participation and learning hours, are endogenous due to both reverse causality and omitted variables. This paper is the result of the natural experiment of the outbreak of COVID-19, which made every student to participate in online education when the spring semester began. In addition, this paper uses a value-added model controlling for the scores that preceded online education, which is a sufficient statistic of students' unobserved ability and motivation. If this cannot completely eliminate the endogeneity problem, it should be able to largely alleviate the problem. The results indicate that: online education has positive but limited impacts on test scores on average, particularly those in the subject of math within the natural sciences track; top-tier students are most positively affected by online education; and the benefits of online education vary among students with different backgrounds. The quantile regression suggests that a 10% increase in online education time raises math test scores by more than 0.25 for the students between the 0.60th and 0.80th quantiles. Surprisingly, it is evident that online learning time has a significant negative effect for some students in certain subjects. Finally, online education neither widens nor narrows the inequality of students' test scores.     

Comparing Student Achievement across Experimental and Lecture-Oriented Sections of a Principles of Microeconomics Course

An increasingly popular alternative to the lecture-oriented “chalk-and-talk” approach to teaching principles of microeconomics is the use of classroom experiments. Like other alternatives to traditional teaching methods, there exists little more than anecdotal evidence supporting the effectiveness of the experimental approach. We estimate the effect of participating in classroom experiments on student achievement in a principles of microeconomics course. Nine sections (300 students) participated in the study, two of which (59 students) relied heavily on classroom experiments throughout the semester. The remaining seven sections (241 students) used no experiments. We find that students in the experimental sections experienced significantly higher gains in Test of Understanding in College Economics (TUCE) scores but differed little on other more qualitative outcomes. Additionally, results indicate that certain student characteristics, including gentler, major, and grade point average, can be used to predict a student's likely success when choosing between courses that rely on experiments and those that employ more traditional forms of pedagogy.     

Faculty Gender in the College Classroom: Does It Matter for Achievement and Major Choice?

Many feel that faculty members of the same gender may serve as role models, helping students to perform better in classes and encouraging them to continue in a subject. However, while higher education research has found evidence of positive effects of matching on gender, there are also many findings of zero impact. The main hurdle in this literature is identifying the exogenous impact in the absence of student sorting by gender. This article addresses this difficulty by using institutional data from a private liberal arts institution to examine outcomes for students in courses taught by new faculty members for which the students would not know the gender before registering. Results provide evidence of a role model effect for both genders; students earn higher grades in courses taught by same‐gender instructors in fields traditionally dominated by the opposite gender. Major choice and course‐taking behavior are mostly unaffected by faculty gender.     

大学生思政课认同状况的调查——基于全国53所高校的问卷数据

采用问卷抽样调查方法,对涵盖全国22省53所高校的5300名本科生进行了思政课认同调查.结果表明:对课程总体认同度较高,相对而言学习获得感有待提升;对课程内容认同度较高,其中的民族观教育还需要强化;对思政课教师的素质能力普遍认同,但对其教学创新能力充满期待;对思政课教学方法基本认同,但对其效果评价有一定差异;学习收获认同度整体较高,但理论获得感相对较弱.调查显示,课堂教学、社会环境和个人认知水平是影响认同度的主要因素.建议加强大学生思政课教学内容的学理性阐述,提升思政课教师的信息化教学能力和教学创新能力,增强教学方法改革的科学化技术含量,以不断增强大学生运用理论武器整合社会环境与个人认知之间张力的能力和水平,提升思政课学习获得感.     

论高校辅导员队伍律设存在的问颢及对策

随着国际国内形势的变化,中国市场经济的快速发展和中国高等教育大众化步伐的加快,大学生的数量逐年增多,大学生的各种问题也就越来越多,高校学生辅导员工作面临着许多新情况、新问题,认真思考新形势下开拓学生工作的新思路,积极探索进一步加强学生辅导员队伍建设的新途径,已成为当前高校思想政治工作面临的重要课题。     

Targeting Teaching: Engaged Learning with the Inquiry‐Based Question Cluster Discussion Technique: Student Outcomes in a History of Economic Thought Course

Twenty‐six undergraduate students explored the meaning of the classics (Adam Smith and Karl Marx) and two lesser‐known contributions in ethics and economics (Robert Owen and John Ruskin) in a spring 2007 history of economic thought course. This article introduces the inquiry‐based discussion technique used in the course and presents five question clusters fulfilling requirements for an inquiry‐based discussion. A proposed hypothesis is that the technique increases student understanding of challenging texts. Pre‐ and postdiscussion assessments for five interpretative questions serve as evidence to evaluate the hypothesis. Assessment results lend empirical support to the hypothesized positive impact of the technique on student learning. End‐of‐the‐semester student survey results captured student opinions concerning their learning from the technique. Survey results suggest the students believe that the technique positively impacts aspects of the learning process; the students recommend the discussion technique for future use.     

Sugar and Spice and Everything Nice? Teacher Perceptions of Black Girls in the Classroom

This paper uses national data on eighth grade female students and their English, math and science teachers to examine teacher perceptions of student behavior, such as attentiveness and disruptiveness. Particular attention is paid to differences in perception by student race and socioeconomic status. I find that black female students are perceived as less attentive and more disruptive than their white, Hispanic, and Asian counterparts. Controlling for academic performance and socioeconomic status mitigates the differences in perceptions of attentiveness but not disruptiveness. Further, the perceptions of attentiveness are significantly related to the probability that a teacher recommends a student for honors courses. I discuss the implications of these findings for the educational outcomes of black female students.