High-quality Curriculum Research Articles

A Tour Guide's Performance Model for Sustainable Heritage at Borobudur

Expanding the workforce in the tourism sector is a key aspect of the Rebuild Tourism for the Future via Sustainable Development initiative of which tour guides may become an essential part. Tour guide positions involve providing detailed explanations about heritage attractions and instructing tourists on acceptable behaviour during their investigation of these sites. This research is significant because tour guides play a crucial role in the preservation of tourism by safeguarding cultural treasures. Research on tour guides involves analyses that explore the subject from the viewpoints of their function, history, and structure. This study aims to enhance our understanding of the ecology of the tourism industry and heritage destinations by developing a model for the competent development of tour guides at Borobudur. Data was collected through participatory observation and in-depth interviews with six tour guides in Borobudur who are members of the Indonesian Tour Guides Association. The data were examined utilising Atlas Ti version 9. The study's findings suggest that implementing a high-quality curriculum and training programmes could lead to an exceptional performance model for tour guides at the Borobudur. The curriculum encompasses the implementation of four key components: (1) the scope of study, (2) content standards, (3) the teaching process, and (4) the assessment process. On the other hand, the training aspect covers four elements: (1) training needs, (2) types of training, (3) trainers, and (4) evaluation

Looking beyond enrollment rates: The long-term influence of preschool science curricula on children’s science achievement

This study provides evidence that what happens in preschool (i.e., preschool curriculum) can have long-term consequences years later. In the current study, we seek to answer the question of whether the inclusion of science in the preschool curriculum is associated with fourth- and eighth grade science achievement scores. Based on science achievement data from the Trends in International Mathematics and Science Study (TIMSS 2015 and 2019 cycles), the quality of preschool science learning opportunities showed long-term impacts on science achievement at the fourth grade level. Even after controlling for enrollment rates, the quality of the preschool curricula was a statistically significant predictor of fourth grade science scores with a high effect size (d=0.74). The observed impacts, however, appeared to diminish by eighth grade. Results from this study suggest that science concepts and skills should be an integral part of preschool curricula and curricular frameworks, and policy makers should allocate resources to provide well-designed preschool education programs with high quality curricula.

Application Analysis of English Personalized Learning Based on Large-scale Open Network Courses

In the context of Big data, large-scale open online courses increase learning paths for learners, but in the face of countless high-quality curriculum resources, it is easy for derivative learners to face the dilemma of rich curriculum resources but difficult to choose resources, which leads to information maze for learners. How to help learners quickly and accurately find their own learning resources in the explosive growth of MOOC resources is an urgent problem in the field of education Big data. However, the traditional Collaborative filtering recommendation technology does not perform well when dealing with sparse data and cold start. The recommendation content is repeated and can not effectively deal with high-dimensional and nonlinear data of online learning users, resulting in low efficiency of resource recommendation. Therefore, the study adopts a deep belief network (DBN) to construct a personalized resource recommendation model. The model combines the learner behavior characteristics with the curriculum resource content attribute characteristics to form the learner feature vector. The parameters of the model are adjusted according to the characteristics of learners. Through experiments, the proposed model has shown good performance. The experiment explored the effects of training set size, learner characteristics, and GPU on model performance. The experimental results show that when the training set proportion is 100%, the RMSE, Accuracy, Recall, and F1 values of the model are 0.76, 0.946, 0.957, and 0.951, respectively. When the model is trained using a training set containing learner features, the RMSE, Accuracy, Recall, and F1 values of the model are 0.75, 0.962, 0.908, and 0.958, respectively. After using GPU to accelerate the model, the running time of the model decreased from 360 minutes to 90 minutes. The results indicate that the model cannot effectively mine data information when the degree of correlation between sample information is low. The richer the relationships between samples, the better the performance of the model. Simultaneously learning hunger feature vectors and learner behavior feature vectors for training can significantly improve the recommendation accuracy of the model. The main contribution of this study is to propose a recommendation method based on DBN classification to replace traditional similarity calculation methods, using DBN's efficient feature abstraction and feature extraction capabilities to fully explore learners' interest and preference for course resources. In addition, in view of the common problems of cold start and data sparsity in traditional Collaborative filtering recommendation methods, the research deeply mines the characteristics of learners' Demographics and curriculum resources' content attributes, and constructs a learner interest model based on DBN combined with learners' behavior characteristics, which effectively solves the problems of cold start and data sparsity, as well as the inaccurate expression of learners' interest preferences for curriculum resources.

Augmenting the quality of Acehnese knowledge-based EFL material through a 4D model

Integrating local knowledge into English learning material is crucial in this globalized era as it has multiple functions, such as building students’ identity, motivating them to learn, making them attached to their culture, and preserving their local knowledge. Anchored by the curriculum theory, this study systemically developed an Acehnese Islamic cultural knowledge-based lesson material for learning English by students at senior high school and analyzed its quality based on the curriculum perspective. In doing so, this study involved EFL teachers using Tiagarajan’s 4D (Define-Design-Develop-Disseminate) model for developing the English learning material as a supplementary material for senior high schools. Local knowledge, such as Molod Nabi, Meuleumak, and Toroyong, was selected to be its content. Its quality was then assessed based on the quality criteria of a curriculum product, such as validity and practicality. The results revealed that the Acehnese local culture knowledge-based EFL lesson material for senior high schools is valid based on the teachers’ perceptions. It contains state-of-the-art knowledge and is practical for teaching English to foster the deradical characters of senior high school students. In conclusion, using the 4D model in collaboratively developing the local knowledge-based EFL English lesson material is beneficial for producing high-quality curriculum products.

Digging Deeper into Student–Teacher–Scientist Partnerships for Improving Students’ Achievement and Attitudes about Scientists

A feature of student–teacher–scientist partnerships (STSPs) involves students working with scientists for the purpose of helping them learn more about how scientists work and think. Previous research on STSPs has generally focused on identifying the best practices of partnerships and on identifying challenges of these partnerships. The study reported here employed a cluster-randomized trial design to test the effectiveness of the PlantingScience STSP that combines high-quality curriculum, teacher preparation, and online mentoring by professional scientists. The results of the current study show that students who participated in the PlantingScience STSP showed significant improvements in science content knowledge and attitudes about scientists compared with students in the control group. The study sample was highly representative, demographically, to the U.S. population of high schools. These results add to the limited empirical evidence about the effectiveness of STSPs on student outcomes related to science achievement and attitudes.

Emerging stronger

Pentucket Regional School District serves three small suburban communities north of Boston. Historically, its student performance had been quite high, but had been declining steadily for about a decade. The district had started reversing those losses, but the pandemic set it back. Now, however, the district has emerged even stronger; in most cases, student achievement already exceeds pre-pandemic levels. The reasons: new, high-quality curricula in multiple areas; a strong system of implementation supports; and a data-driven approach to help teachers address the specific needs of individual students. Assistant Superintendent Brent Conway explains how they did it.

Multimodal Corpus Construction and Research of Intercultural Communication Based on Multiple Regression Equation

Abstract To promote the transformation of education and teaching concepts, guide the reform of teaching content and teaching methods, and promote the joint construction and sharing of high-quality curriculum teaching resources in colleges and universities through modern information technology, improve the quality of talent training and serve the construction of a learning society. Using video analysis and website research methods, the author takes the cross-cultural communication courses offered by 22 universities in the national excellent resource sharing courses published by the multimodal online corpus of “Love Course Network” as the research sample, taking the playability of teaching videos, noise level, picture definition, multimedia courseware playing, utilization of curriculum resources and network interaction as research contents, the construction and application of teaching videos are analyzed in depth. The results show that, in the construction of intercultural communication sharing courses, there are still problems such as poor playability of teaching videos, noise and poor picture clarity.

Practice and Exploration of “Internet Plus” in School Teaching Management

“Internet plus” is a new form of economic and social development driven by innovation in knowledge society 2.0. With the continuous deepening of the reform of talent training mode, the concept of mixed teaching is gradually taking root in people's minds. To promote the development and reform of the school’s teaching management, Zhongliang Xiangyun Branch of Chengdu Longjiang Road Primary School has improved the school’s teaching management ability and level as a whole by utilizing the high-quality innovative educational resources provided by the Tsinghua University project team's Internet platform. The school utilizes the high-quality curriculum resources provided by Tsinghua University’s Internet platform to continuously optimize teaching methods and measures, and explores the goal of a smart classroom around core literacy. We focus on deep learning, combined with the concept of the new national curriculum standards and the requirements of the digital transformation of education, to propose a new idea of smart classroom teaching in schools. We use online research and learning resources to enrich teacher training paths and provide talent support for classroom reform. In addition, the school combines offline research and training platforms to improve the teaching level of teachers and enable their growth. We rely on online teaching management services to improve the management level of cadres and teachers, and further ensure the high-level implementation of school classroom teaching and the high-quality development of classroom teaching. These measures have effectively promoted the education and teaching ability and level of all teachers in the school and successfully promoted the development of school teaching management towards a more scientific and efficient direction.

Factors That Affect Student Outcomes in U.S. Geography Education

The ideal of U.S. public education as “a great equalizer” remains unrealized across large swaths of the country. Young people in schools are at varying levels of educational advantage and disadvantage owing to wide gaps in learning opportunities and disparate access to high-quality curriculum. Unequal educational achievement has also been linked to inequities affecting some students before they enter school due to socioeconomic circumstances, prejudice, and discriminatory social systems and structures. In this study, we begin to partition the various factors that account for inequality in student outcomes in the context of U.S. geography education. Using large-scale data sets provided by the National Center for Education Statistics within the U.S. Department of Education, we developed a two-level statistical model to analyze the extent to which geography achievement in eighth grade varies systematically with contextual opportunity to learn (OTL) factors and the relative poverty level of neighborhoods around schools. Hierarchical linear modeling was used to account for data clustering, producing an achievement estimate for each predictor and controlling for the effects of all other predictors. Statistically significant OTL predictors included instructional exposure, taking geography prior to eighth grade, teaching experience, and the availability of computers in classrooms. Schools located in neighborhoods with higher income-to-poverty ratios outperformed schools in neighborhoods closer to the federal poverty threshold. Controlling for OTL and school neighborhood effects accounted for some of the geography achievement disadvantage associated with race and other student characteristics. Geographers can further explore these relationships with formal mediational models and educational programs based on equity-oriented frameworks.

Research on the Reconstruction of Teaching Content System and Specific Measures of Basic Computer Courses from the Perspective of Autonomous Controllable Platform

In order to implement the educational policy in the new era, the paper proposes to reconstruct the teaching content system of basic computer courses. It aims to form an employment ability tree that can benchmark the actual job demands with the guidance of the precise connection between the supply side of talent training and the future demand side of enterprises. Starting from the preset training needs of technical talents on autonomous controllable platforms in China, and faced with the practical problems by the teaching of basic computer courses, the teaching content is reconstructed by the three-step method of “update - feedback - continuous learning”. In the process of concrete implementation, the knowledge map of “point, line and plane” is established and the PDCA cycle model of “plan-do-check-action” is adopted to implement teaching; Bring together, build and share high-quality curriculum resources to improve teaching quality. Highquality course resources are gathered, built and shared to improve the teaching quality.

은유 분석을 통한 유아교사의 교수매체에 대한 인식

Objectives This study investigated the perception of early childhood teachers’ teaching media through metaphor analysis. Through this study, it is intended to present the direction of the selection and use of teaching media for high-quality curriculum operation.
 Methods This study used a metaphor analysis method. The metaphor analysis method is to examine the metaphor expression and the reason for metaphor together through a semi-structured sentence completion questionnaire. To this end, a metaphor analysis survey was conducted on 180 early childhood teachers. The questionnaire was composed of the sentence “Teaching media of the 2019 revised Nuri curriculum is ( ). Because, ( ).” The collected data were analyzed according to the metaphor analysis procedure to categorize the types of metaphors.
 Results The research results were divided into ‘perception of teaching media from children’ perspective’ and ‘perception of teaching media from teachers’ perspective’. First, perception of teaching media of early childhood teachers from the perspective of children were found to be ‘something that children can manipulate and touch directly’, ‘what changes according to childrne’ thoughts’, ‘encouraging voluntary participation of children’, ‘growing children’. Second, perception of teaching media of early childhood teachers from the perspective of teacher were found to be ‘giving directions to play support’, ‘reflecting the professionalism of the teacher’, ‘making the revised nuri curriculum run efficiently’, ‘everything around children’ life’.
 Conclusions These results suggest that the selection and use of teaching media should be centered on children, and that efforts should be made to develop teachers’ professional perspectives on teaching media.

A Call for Simplification and Integration of Doctor of Pharmacy Curricular Outcomes and Frameworks

Pharmacy education faces an upcoming revision of accreditation standards designed to outline degree program requirements for training the next generation of pharmacists. At the same time, pharmacy educators are increasingly expected to integrate multiple other educational frameworks and recommendations from distinct groups into their curricula. With this list of expectations constantly expanding and changing, education leaders are forced to spend valuable time and resources trying to satisfy "checklists" instead of enhancing their programs. The following commentary discusses concerns about the growing complexity of the standards and frameworks used in the accreditation process, overlap and redundancy in these various requirements, and relevant comparisons between pharmacy and medical education. We outline recommendations regarding purposeful integration of frameworks with the goal of simplifying accreditation requirements and enhancing program flexibility to deliver innovative, high-quality curricula.

Teaching Reform of Double-center & Three-cycle Hybrid Mechanical Specialty

The ability of college students to discover, propose and solve engineering problems in machinery has become an essential part of a contemporary college education. Therefore, the teaching reform focusing on cultivating College Students’ ability to propose and solve engineering problems has become an essential part of a college education. Taking mechanical students as an example, this paper constructs a teaching content and method with “students” and “theory, engineering” as the double centres, combined with “pre-class”, “in-class” and “after class”, in which the teacher put forward the relationship between curriculum knowledge points and mechanical engineering problems, guide students to discover actively, learn and apply curriculum knowledge points, and put forward practical solutions to engineering problems in combination with mechanical engineering related issues. To achieve the goal of teaching engineering problems based on theoretical knowledge and practical operation, we should combine the “Internet plus” modern teaching tools to create “Online & Offline” mixed interactive courses and high-quality curriculum resources, forming the circular multi-dimensional closed-loop teaching mode of “student, theory, engineering” cycle, “pre-class, during-class, after-class” cycle and “before class test, instruction, after class test” cycle, which the students’ ability to master knowledge points in the teaching process.

Reaching for consensus about preschool curricula

The need for equitable access to high-quality preschool has recently gained unprecedented attention. As states and districts strive to expand access while promoting quality, curriculum quality has emerged as a critical component of preschool programs that promote young children’s learning. Yet many educators make curricular decisions with insufficient guidance on what constitutes curricular quality. Indeed, deep divisions in the field are evident regarding how to define quality in preschool curricula. Jeanne L. Reid and Sharon Lynn Kagan explore the areas of consensus and disagreement among early education leaders. They argue that — using guidance from a study at the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine and drawing from international models of curriculum frameworks — the field can move toward consensus on what constitutes a high-quality curriculum and thus help to fulfill the promise of equitable access to high-quality preschool.

Analysis of College Course Scheduling Problem Based on Ant Colony Algorithm.

Ant colony algorithm is a new evolutionary algorithm, which is gradually applied due to its easy robustness with other methods and excellent distributed computing mechanism. Currently, the application field of ant colony algorithm has been infiltrated by a single TSP problem. Ant colony algorithm moves the algorithm toward the optimal solution through the combination of positive feedback and negative feedback. This paper briefly analyzes the basic characteristics of the basic idea and principle of the ant colony algorithm to apply it to the ant colony problem. Abstract the course scheduling problem, transform the course arrangement problem into the maximum matching problem of solving the bipartite diagram, and discharge the high-quality curriculum that basically meet the needs.

국가 교육과정 총론 문서 장-절-항의 새로운 구성안 제안 연구1)

This study aimed to present the new document composition system, especially of chapter-section-paragraph for the development of better national curriculum frameworks. For this, this study established the major perspectives of development through preceding researches. After comparatively analyzing the composition system of previous national curriculum frameworks of Korea, this study proposed the future tasks in the exploratory dimension. Also, by comparatively analyzing the national curriculum frameworks of Finland and Britain, and the case of IB(International Baccalaureate) known as high-quality curriculum framework, this study drew the implications for the national curriculum frameworks of Korea. In order to propose the new document composition of chapter-section-paragraph of national curriculum frameworks based on such literature review and comparative study, first, the content validity was verified by conducting a survey on the researchers’ basic ideas targeting some experts in curriculum. The finally-developed composition system was composed of major areas such as Curriculum Platforms, Curriculum Frameworks, and Curriculum Guidelines including total three chapters, 19 sections, and 60 paragraphs, which presented the characteristic or differentiated parts from the past. This study has a bit of limitation as the close verification of validity should be followed up because of the enormous research scope. However, this discussion of curriculum could become a chance to trigger every researcher’s deliberation by questioning about ‘What kind of curriculum is good?’.

How does lesson study promote district education reform? – A case study of a district in Shanghai

PurposeLesson study (LS) is generally regarded as a pathway for teachers' professional development and a method for teachers' instructional research. LS has been regarded as having the potential to drive large-scale reform but little is known about how it does so from a district level. Therefore, this paper aims to reveal how lesson study promote district education reform.Design/methodology/approachThis study offers an in-depth case study of how District Y of Shanghai, China, took LS as the primary method in promoting its District Project of Building Curriculum Leadership in Schools. By analyzing the key project documents and achievements in project promotion, and interviews with the major Project leaders at District and school levels, this study explored the practice and impact of LS as a tool to promote district reform.FindingsIn the District Project, LS has been a medium to address each individual school's real problems of practice and turn them into reform vision and reform will in alignment with District goals. Five levels of school curriculum texts have been planned, designed, translated, implemented, reflected on, updated and mutually adjusted systematically through LS to ensure consistency in transforming District reform vision into classroom practice. Different models of teaching-research community building were found in sampled project schools and professional expertise was built with district support to promote reform. The curriculum leadership development through LS has shaped reform leader schools and formed a collection of LS exemplars circulated in schools as high-quality curriculum packages, which laid the foundation for district-wide reform.Originality/valueThe innovative practice of LS in China's education reform has expanded its reach from within one classroom to the entire district curriculum system and made it an important tool to drive large-school district-based education reform.

Development of Criterion for Test and Assessment of Academic Results of High-Quality Curriculum for Students Majoring in Basketball of Sport Training Discipline under Bac Ninh Sport University (Vietnam)

The research process has developed the criterion for test and assessment of academic results of high quality curriculum for students majoring in Basketball of Sport Training discipline in each module in accordance with the curriculum’s practical conditions aiming to accurately assess learners' competencies and ensure the enhanced quality of training for bachelors of Bac Ninh Sport University.

Research on the Construction of Electronic Intelligent Manufacturing Specialty Group in Higher Vocational Colleges under the Background of "Double- High Plan"

Higher vocational colleges should build a high-level professional group from the perspective of professional group and Industrial Synergy according to the changes in the demand for technical talents due to economic, social and industrial development, so as to improve the adaptability and pertinence of talent training. The electronic intelligent manufacturing professional group of Chongqing C Vocational College explores the modern apprenticeship system and "1 + X" certificate system in the talent training mode. Build a "platform + module" curriculum system on the curriculum system. Curriculum resources: colleges and enterprises jointly build, open and share high-quality curriculum resources, virtual teaching resources and teaching resource library. Enhance the industry influence of professional group leaders, cultivate backbone teachers of technical experts, and build a team of high-quality part-time teachers. Build a productive training base and virtual factory with industry-leading enterprises, and build a practical teaching base combining education and training. Deepen the integration of industry and education by building a four party collaborative education management mechanism of "government, administration, enterprises and colleges", a college enterprise collaborative education management mechanism, promoting the coordinated development of professional chain and industrial chain, and creating a platform for the integration of industry and education. The construction scheme of professional group is effective.

A retrospective review of the community medicine needs from osteoporosis services in Canada

BackgroundComprehensive, real-world osteoporosis care has many facets not explicitly addressed in practice guidelines. We sought to determine the areas of knowledge and practice needs in osteoporosis medicine for the purpose of developing an osteoporosis curriculum for specialist trainees and knowledge translation tools for primary care.MethodsThis was a retrospective review of referral questions received from primary care and specialists to an academic, multi-disciplinary tertiary osteoporosis and metabolic bone clinic. There were 400 referrals in each of 5 years (2015–2019) selected randomly for review. The primary referral question was elucidated and assigned to one of 16 pre-determined referral topics reflecting questions in the care of osteoporosis and metabolic bone patients. The top 7 referral topics by frequency were determined while recording the referral source.ResultsThe majority of referrals (71%) came from urban primary care. The most common specialists to request care included rheumatology, oncology, gastroenterology and orthopedic surgery (fracture liaison services). Primary care referrals predominantly requested assistance with routine osteoporosis assessments, bisphosphonate holidays, bisphosphonate adverse effects/alternatives, fractures occurring despite therapy and adverse changes on bone densitometry despite treatment. Specialists most often referred patients with complex secondary bone diseases or cancer. The main study limitation was that knowledge needs of referring physicians were inferred from the referral question rather than tested directly.ConclusionBy assessing actual community demand for services, this study identified several such topics that may be useful targets to develop high quality knowledge translation tools and curriculum design in programs training specialists in osteoporosis care.