University Education Faculty Research Articles

The Teaching Effectiveness of Civics Class Based on the Optimization of Integrated Teaching and Deep Learning

Due to the impact of the new crown pneumonia outbreak, offline teaching was conducted to varying degrees in schools and universities nationwide in spring 2020. After the epidemic was effectively controlled, students in various schools around the country returned to school one after another, and offline teaching was resumed. In order to deeply promote it, the School of Marxism of Guangdong Second Normal College developed and built an on-campus online open course on “Outline of Modern Chinese History” and carried out the reform and practice of a hybrid teaching on the basis of abandoning traditional teaching. The reform and practice of online teaching go hand in hand. Information technology is a high-tech product; hybrid teaching is a new thing; reform of Civics and Political Science class should be combined with the actual front-line teaching, for students’ ideas and cognitive characteristics of continuous improvement and student growth. Due to some shortcomings of the process of the current teaching mode of college teaching, such as large evaluation errors and long time, the paper proposed the evaluation method of college teaching mode with the goal of improving the accuracy of college teaching mode evaluation. Firstly, we analyze the current research status of college teaching mode evaluation and find the reasons for the poor results of current college teaching mode evaluation; then, we collect the college teaching mode evaluation data, adopt deep learning algorithm to learn the college teaching mode evaluation data, and establish the college teaching mode evaluation model; finally, we conduct the application example test of college teaching mode evaluation.

Formation of future teachers’ ability to organise educational activities on the basis of pedagogical tasks

The purpose of this research is to determine the ability of future teachers to organise educational activities on the basis of pedagogical tasks. This research was designed in accordance with the quantitative research method. The study group of the research consists of 448 teacher candidates studying in education faculties of various universities in Kazakhstan in the 2021–2022 academic year. As the data collection tool of the research, the scale of the ability to organise educational activities on the basis of pedagogical tasks was developed by the researchers. As a result of the research, it has been determined that pre-service teachers’ ability to organise educational activities on the basis of pedagogical tasks has a medium level of proficiency in the fields of pedagogical content knowledge and organising educational activities. It is seen that there is no significant difference regarding the ability of the teacher candidates participating in the research to organise educational activities on the basis of pedagogical tasks according to the variables of gender and the department they study in. However, it is seen that there is a significant difference regarding the ability of the teacher candidates participating in the research to organise educational activities on the basis of pedagogical tasks according to the class variable. The significant difference determined that it is in favour of pre-service teachers studying in the third and fourth year. In line with the results of the research, it has become necessary to increase the course content in teacher training programmes in order to improve the formation of teacher candidates’ ability to organise educational activities on the basis of pedagogical tasks.
 
 Keywords: Future teachers, pedagogical tasks, educational activities;

VR-Based Innovation of the Ideological and Political Teaching Mode in Colleges.

The current ideological and political (IAP) teaching has some disadvantages, such as emphasizing theoretical form over practical teaching, students' differences in personality and cognition, and lack of interaction between teachers and students. Therefore, this paper first analyzes IAP teaching based on VR communication and summarizes the disadvantages of current IAP teaching and the application advantages of VR technology. Based on the principles of interactivity, practicality, and richness, the IAP teaching system is constructed based on the double-center teaching mode, and the teaching content are designed. In addition, in order to provide a carrier for VR IAP teaching, this paper designs the functional module, development process, and framework of the development of VR venues with red theme, combining with red historical events. The IAP education system proposed in this paper can help to explore the potential and advantages of VR technology that applied to IAP education in colleges and realize the modernization of IAP education.

Effect of Blended Teaching Mode in Colleges and Universities Based on Automation Technology on College Students’ English Performance

In today’s society, the rapid development of information technology has had a profound impact on human work and life as well as on education. In recent years, the rapid development of the Internet and information technology has laid a solid foundation for the digital transmission of information, which has changed the mode of information transmission and improved the efficiency of information dissemination. As an important part of network information dissemination, blended teaching is rapidly developing from an on-demand learning platform to an interactive learning platform and has now become a blended teaching platform in China. The main problem of the current blended teaching model is that the effect of improving performance is not good. In order to solve this problem, this paper introduces automation technology, which can significantly improve the extraction accuracy of information extraction methods in specific fields by using rich domain knowledge and features and complete the extraction tasks at multiple levels. The automation method based on automation technology has great advantages in this regard and effectively improves the English performance. Two groups of voluntary college students were randomly selected to conduct a one-semester blended teaching model designed in this paper to investigate the ’students’ English scores. The average grades of students were 95.2, 96.7, 96.8, and 97.2, respectively, which is a big improvement over the existing system.

Teaching ‘a course without content’: relational agentic orientations to reorganisation of higher education

ABSTRACT The managerial transformation of higher education often means implementing novel modes of teaching and learning, including experiential and collaborative teaching. University teachers’ agency is crucial for managing and enacting changes in higher education. Collaborating as part of these changes requires a specific kind of agency, namely relational agency. The aim of this paper is to conceptualise relational agency by studying the relational agentic orientations of university teachers towards a reorganisation of higher education. The data come from a novel mass course at a faculty of education in a Finnish university, which emerged as part of a major university-wide reorganisation of study programmes. The course is organised and taught collaboratively by a group of teachers, and has no predefined content. A typology of the agentic orientations in the teachers’ interviews was constructed on the base of the intersections between the expansions of different objects of activity (one’s own, others’, partially shared) and the teachers’ evaluation of these expansions (pragmatic-adaptive, critical, developmental-transformative). The teachers focused primarily on student learning and on expanding the object of student learning activity, which extends the focus of relational agency to not only seeking resources in others but also being a resource for others.

Çevrim İçi Öğrenmede Öz-düzenleme Becerisinin Akademik Başarıya Etkisi

Öz-düzenlemeli öğrenme, öğrencilerin kendi öğrenme hedefleri doğrultusunda öğrenmeye yönelik motivasyonları, bilişsel süreçleri ile davranışlarını gözleme, düzenleme ve denetlemeye çalıştıkları süreçtir. Çevrim içi uzaktan öğrenmede öz-düzenleme becerilerinin önemi vurgulanmakta, akademik başarıyla ilişkili olabileceği düşünülmektedir. Ancak araştırmalar çevrim içi öz-düzenlemeli öğrenmenin başarıya etkilerine ilişkin çelişkili sonuçlar ortaya koymaktadır. Mevcut araştırmanın amacı, bir üniversitede eğitim gören öğretmen adaylarının öz-düzenlemeli çevrim içi öğrenme düzeylerini ve bu becerilerin akademik başarıya etkisini irdelemektir. Araştırmanın evrenini, 2020-2021 akademik yılında X Üniversitesi Eğitim Fakültesi’nde 2, 3 ve 4. sınıflarda farklı bölümlerde aktif olarak öğrenim gören 1152 öğretmen adayı oluşturmaktadır. Araştırmanın örneklemini basit tesadüfi örnekleme ile seçilmiş öğretmen adayları arasından geri dönen 207 öğretmen adayı oluşturmaktadır. Öğretmen adaylarının Öz-düzenlemeli çevrim içi öğrenme becerilerine ilişkin veriler ‘Öz-düzenlemeli Çevrim İçi Öğrenme Ölçeği (SOL-Q)’ ile toplanmıştır. Öğretmen adaylarının akademik başarıları çevrim içi eğitim gördükleri 2020-2021 akademik yılı Güz dönemi not ortalamalarıyla değerlendirilmiştir. Yapılan analizler öğretmen adaylarının öz-düzenlemeli çevrim içi öğrenme düzeylerinin orta düzeyde olduğunu, kadın öğretmen adaylarının öz-düzenlemeli öğrenme ortalamalarının erkek öğretmen adaylarından yüksek olduğunu ve öz-düzenleme becerisinin çevrim içi öğrenmede akademik başarının anlamlı bir yordayıcısı olduğunu göstermiştir. Bulgular literatürde var olan benzer araştırmalarla tutarlı sonuçlar ortaya koymakla birlikte çevrim içi öğrenme süreçlerinde öz-düzenlemeli öğrenme geleneksel öğrenme ortamlarına göre farklı sonuçlar doğurabilmektedir.

A Research on the Application of the “Internet Plus Swimming” Teaching Mode in Universities

This study focuses on the reform and development of physical education in colleges and universities in the post-epidemic era, beginning from the design of an innovative “Internet Plus Swimming” teaching mode to enhance the quality of swimming lessons in colleges and universities, and subsequently applying it to the teaching of technical movements in swimming, so as to promote the teaching reform of swimming lessons in colleges and universities, as well as improve the teaching quality. This study showed that the students in the experimental group were better than those in the control group in four aspects: theoretical knowledge of swimming, speed, technique, and students’ independent learning ability. It can be concluded that it is both, effective and feasible to integrate multimedia learning resources, using digital information technology and network mobile devices, to construct the “Internet Plus Swimming” teaching mode and apply it to general swimming courses in colleges and universities in the post-epidemic era.

Integrated Design of College English Teaching Based on Internet and Information Technology

The rapid development of information technology has brought society into the Internet + era. To break the current teaching dilemma, English teaching in colleges and universities needs to keep pace with the times. Based on the characteristics of the Internet + era, we need to strengthen the awareness of the Internet + era and reconstruct the resource advantages and technological advantages of the Internet + era. The English teaching mode in colleges and universities rejuvenates college English teaching, establishes a mode suitable for English teaching in the new era, and comprehensively improves the effectiveness of college English teaching. This research optimizes the teaching design under the guidance of the Internet and information technology and the concept of curriculum integration and applies it to the teaching practice of a college English listening and speaking course. Design-based research is used as the main research method. Under the guidance of the concept of information technology and curriculum integration, first of all, we measure and evaluate the TPACK level informatization teaching ability of English teachers in colleges and universities. Secondly, we design and optimize the whole process of teaching, especially the design and adjustment of teaching procedures. Finally, the research conclusions are obtained through statistical analysis of the data. It is found that the teaching optimization design under the guidance of the concept of information technology and curriculum integration can improve the English listening and speaking ability of college students to a certain extent.

Examining the Relationships Between Parental Acceptance-Rejection, Self-liking, and Self-Handicapping in University Students

In this study, the relationships between parental acceptance rejection, self-handicapping and self-liking in university students were investigated using structural equation modeling. The sample of the study consisted of 356 students who were volunteers attending Uludağ University Faculty of Education and Faculty of Arts and Sciences.The Mother and Father Forms of the Parental Acceptance Rejection Scale, the Self-handicapping Scale and the Self-liking Sub-Scale were applied to the students included in the study, and the results were analyzed using structural equation modeling. As a result of the research, it was determined that maternal acceptance had a statistically significant effect on self-handicapping (β=.31, p<.05) and father acceptance level had a statistically significant effect on self-liking (β=-.29, p<.05). A positive relationship (β=.56, p<.05) was found between maternal acceptance-rejection levels and fathers acceptance-rejection levels. Keywords: Parental acceptance-rejection, Self-liking, Self-handicapping. DOI: 10.7176/JEP/13-17-04 Publication date: June 30 th 2022

An Investigation of the Relationship between Prospective Teachers’ Self-Management and Self-Control Skills, Metacognition and E-Mobile Learning Readiness Perceptions

Abstract Introduction: This study aims to investigate the relationship between prospective teachers’ self-management and self-control skills, metacognition, and e-mobile learning readiness perceptions. Methods: This study adopted a procedural model that was relational screening in nature. This study was conducted with 303 prospective teachers who attended Primary School Classroom Teaching, Primary School Science Teaching, Pre-school Teaching, and Psychological Counseling and Guidance departments in a State University Education Faculty in Turkey. In this study the “Self-control and self-management scale”, the “Metacognition scale” and the “E-Mobile learning readiness scale” were used as data collection tools. It was determined that the data collection tools used in the study were valid and reliable. Results: According to the results of the study, mobile learning readiness perception is positively affected by metacognition. Metacognition is positively affected by Self-management and Self-control Skills. In the study, the effects of e-mobile learning readiness perceptions on both metacognition and self-management and self-control skills were discussed in accordance with the proposed model. Discussion: The aim of this study is to determine the relationships between the variables of prospective teachers’ self-management and self-control skills, metacognition and e-mobile learning readiness perceptions. Four hypotheses in the proposed model were discussed according to the literature. Limitations: This study was conducted only with the participants consisting of teacher candidates at a state university in Turkey. However, the participants of the research can be expanded with different teaching areas of higher education. Conclusions: Prospective teachers’ self-regulation, self-assessment and control skills positively affect their metacognition skills. The metacognition skill of prospective teachers has a positive effect on mobile learning readiness perception.

Chinese EFL Undergraduates’ Pragmatic Competence in English Letter Writing

Pragmatic competence, as an essential part of communicative competence, plays a vital role in people’s daily communication, especially cross-cultural communication. This study aims to investigate Chinese EFL undergraduates’ pragmatic competence in English letter writing according to gender and faculty, and explore four EFL lecturers’ perceptions on pragmatic competence, problems faced by their students and methods used by lecturers in teaching English letter writing. This research is a descriptive research design using QUAN-QUAL model. A letter writing test was employed as one research instrument. Stratified random sampling was adopted to select 450 samples (225 males and 225 females) from three faculties (150 from Chinese Language Faculty, 150 from Management Faculty, and 150 from Education Faculty) in Nanfang College, Guangzhou and Hunan City University. In the real study, students’ writing was graded by one lecturer based on the scoring rubric adapted from Chen’s scoring rubrics for pragmatic competence and IELTS writing scoring rubric in which 5 components were included: choice of vocabulary, grammar, syntax, organization, mechanics. The results of the letter writing test indicated that female students’ pragmatic competence was better than male students’, and the pragmatic competence of students from social science faculty (Chinese Language Faculty and Management Faculty) was better than those from natural science faculty (Education Faculty). Lecturers considered it necessary to teach pragmatic competence in class though only a small proportion of lecturers did it. It is suggested that some teaching approaches such as process approach, modeled writing, revise after writing could be used in class so that students’ motivation is stimulated and better learning results could be achieved.

Mode and Effect Evaluation of Classroom Regulation Under Hybrid Teaching Mode in Colleges

Under hybrid teaching mode, teachers often find it hard to control the rhythm of the classroom, and need to sort out the relationship between various elements in the class. To achieve the ideal teaching effect through classroom regulation, this paper explores the mode and effect evaluation of classroom regulation under hybrid teaching mode in colleges. Firstly, the authors preprocessed and extracted features from the data on classroom regulation indices, and explained the training process and steps of the proposed backpropagation neural network (BPNN). Based on fuzzy comprehensive evaluation (FCE), a state evaluation model was established for classroom regulation, and the construction procedure was detailed for the multi-level FCE model. Next, an index system was constructed for the effect evaluation of classroom regulation under hybrid teaching mode in colleges, and the evaluation process was clarified for the classroom regulation effect. Finally, several experiments were carried out to examine the implementation of classroom regulation measures in different periods, and obtain the evaluated effects of classroom regulation.

Innovation and Discrete Dynamic Modeling of College Music Teaching Model Based on Multiple Intelligences Theory

The development of music teaching mode in colleges and universities needs to take music as the main body and carrier to spread and inherit the music theory system. With the continuous innovation and development of science and technology, the teaching mode and teaching system have also ushered in new changes. How to let students understand the process of music teaching and better appreciate the charm of music is the main problem faced by educators. Faced with the above situation, starting from the theory of multiple intelligences, this paper studies the innovation and discrete dynamic modeling of music teaching mode in colleges and universities. Firstly, this paper discusses the application effect of this method in music teaching based on the theory of multiple intelligences. This paper investigates the actual development of multiple intelligences theory in college music teaching. Combined with the characteristics of multiple intelligences theory, modeling and analysis of students’ interest changes in the intelligent music education model represented by the space vector model are carried out. Finally, this paper studies the discrete dynamic modeling of students’ learning effect after the optimization and innovation of music teaching mode in colleges and universities under the theory of multiple intelligences. The results show that in the innovation of music teaching mode, personalized learning services should be provided based on students’ interests. The theory of multiple intelligences can help teachers to effectively analyze the diversity characteristics and changes of students in teaching activities, and it is of great help to improve students’ musical performance.

Knowledge of Egyptian faculty members about voice care: a national cross-sectional study

BackgroundThe university teaching faculty members are one of the occupational fields in education that are more exposed to voice disorders. The current study aimed to examine the association among vocal symptoms reported by faculty teaching professionals, impact of voice problems on daily activities, their vocal habits, and knowledge on vocal hygiene in relation to specialist consultation and to identify which of the assessed factors triggered the most for medical consultation. An online questionnaire was completed by 420 faculty teaching professionals from 7 universities in Egypt between November 2019 and December 2019.ResultsAll assessed vocal symptoms were significantly associated with specialist consultation (p-value <0.01). Most common bad vocal habits included increased voice loudness (71.2%), talking for long time (69.3%), and frequent throat clearance (54.0%). The most commonly reported preventive measures included avoid screaming (88.3%), stop smoking (87.1%), and taking periods of voice rest (86.4%). The strongest predictor of having specialist consultation was frequent throat clearance, recording an odds ratio of 23.809.ConclusionBased on information obtained from the current study, ideas are suggested for setting up vocal hygiene programs throughout a professional voice career for keeping a healthy voice. Avoid passive smoking and using microphones are considered remarkable adequate methods for healthy voice.

Analysis on Physical Education Class Online Teaching Mode in Colleges and Universities

Physical education class online teaching in colleges and universities is inevitable as result of post-epidemic era and information development in the future. Therefore, this paper starts from current situation of physical education class online teaching in colleges and universities, points out that although colleges and universities have gradually launched online teaching and gotten outstanding achievements, but there are also outstanding problems such as weak concept of online teaching, solidified thinking of physical education class teachers, low quality of teaching resources and backward teaching evaluation. Then analyzes four constituent elements of online teaching in colleges and universities including participants, curriculum resources, network tools and internet interactive platform, builds physical education class online teaching model which contains before- class, in-class and after-class, finally puts forward four strategies including improving participants' quality, optimizing curriculum resource system, developing network tools and building internet interactive platform, which aim to provide reference for improving quality and level of physical education class online teaching in colleges and universities.

Construction of a College Physical Education Teaching Model Using Multiple Intelligences Theory

In recent years, China has comprehensively carried out and implemented the “national fitness campaign.” Sports have been integrated into everyone’s daily life. As a place for cultivating talents, colleges and universities have also begun to reform the physical education teaching mode and cultivate a number of talents with strong competition ability, teaching ability, and adaptability to the society. With the deepening of the reform of physical education teaching mode in colleges and universities, some colleges and universities have introduced the theory of multiple intelligences. By analyzing the concept and content of the theory of multiple intelligences and comparing it with the traditional physical education teaching mode, it fully reflects the advantages of the theory of multiple intelligences in physical education teaching. This paper uses fuzzy mathematics and fuzzy set algorithm to build a teaching model based on the theory of multiple intelligences. Moreover, we study the innovative methods of college physical education teaching, take college physical basketball teaching as the research object, and analyze the students’ sports technology, students’ teaching practice ability, and students’ thinking ability based on the theory of multiple intelligences. Experimental outcomes show that the teaching method guided by the theory of multiple intelligences was designed for the intelligent characteristics of the students in the experimental group, and the teachers and students communicated with each other during the teaching period, which significantly improved the students’ thinking ability.

Can Gamification Influence the Academic Performance of Students?

Gamification along with a whole range of other active methodologies are being incorporated into university classrooms due to their potential benefits for student learning. The aim of this paper was to analyse how a multimodal learning environment based on gamification could affect the final grades of university students in a subject taught at the Faculty of Education in a spanish university. The research was made up of 133 Spanish university students (Mage = 19.60; SDage = 0.43 years old). A quasi-experimental post-test design with a control group was used. The control group and the intervention group consisted of 66 and 67 students respectively. A multimodal gamified learning environment was set up for the intervention group, in contrast to traditional teaching methods which were reserved for the control group. Each one was implemented throughout an academic year. The results revealed statistically significant differences in the final average grade (p &lt; 0.001), with students from the intervention group obtaining higher overall scores. The same occurred in the voluntary learning tasks, with students from the intervention group earning more Health Points (p = 0.006), more Experience Points (p = 0.005), a higher Total Score (p = 0.002) and a higher Level Achieved (p = 0.002). These findings point to the fact that a multimodal gamified learning environment can influence the academic performance of students. However, more scientific research has to be carried out in order to support these findings.

Exploring Teaching Strategies of English-Chinese Translation in Universities from a Cross-cultural Perspective

Due to the localized teaching in China, it is not uncommon that attention has not been paid to the cultivation of students’ cross-cultural knowledge and ability in the teaching of English-Chinese translation. With the trend of “globalization” in the process of social development, the integration of E-C translation with language and culture in the teaching has become an important task in the teaching process of English majors. Such teaching mode in universities should be implemented to integrate Cross-cultural education, help students master the knowledge of translation, and improve their own cross-cultural communication skills. This paper analyzes the current situation of Cross-cultural education in E-C translation teaching, puts forward an effective strategy in universities from a cross-cultural perspective.

The Effect of Heuristics on the Reasoning of the Pre-Service Science Teachers on the Topic of Melting and Boiling Point.

The purpose of this study was to explore the effects of the heuristics on the reasoning processes of pre-service science teachers on the topic of melting and boiling point using the ten heuristic model proposed by Talanquer. In this phenomenographic study carried out in the spring semester of the 2018-2019 academic year, interviews were conducted with 30 teacher candidates enrolled in the Science Teaching Program of Firat University Faculty of Education. Participants were asked to answer three different questions during the interviews. These questions were about the ranking of some compounds according to their melting or boiling points. Six different answer patterns for each question were obtained from the answers. The findings of this study showed that students generally used shortcut strategies instead of analytical/scientific reasoning, as all ten heuristics affected participants' reasoning. This study also revealed that although not included in the model proposed by Talanquer, periodic trends heuristic also influenced participants' reasoning about the melting and boiling point.

Multisensor Data Fusion System for Wushu Sanda Teaching in Higher Education Institutions

Classical data fusion methods can be roughly divided into two categories: one is based on random methods, such as weighted average, least squares, Kalman filtering, Bayesian estimation, DS evidence inference, and production rules; the other is based on artificial intelligence. Intelligent methods include fuzzy logic reasoning, artificial neural networks, and support vector machine methods. This paper introduces, analyzes, and summarizes the advantages and disadvantages of the above methods, as well as the level of use of these methods, and then introduces the current trend of data fusion technology toward the mixed development of multiple methods. This article is aimed at carrying out a research on the innovation of Wushu Sanda teaching mode in colleges and universities based on multisensor data fusion technology. This article puts forward the innovative theory of youth sports training in Sanda in the new era, combined with the current status of physical education in Chinese colleges and universities, and analyzes the practicality of the theory and the effect of system integration. This article accelerates reforms and collects data from four aspects: the policy system at the macro level, the integrated governance system at the meso level, the teacher service system at the micro level, and the digital industry system at the functional innovation level, and proposes innovative strategies for youth sports training and teaching in the new era. The results of the study show that people with 5.99 are more interested in the World Cup, accounting for the largest proportion, while the number of people who are interested in martial arts is the least, only 1.63. The innovative theory of youth sports training in Sanda in the new era improves the training effect of students by 60% compared with ordinary college Sanda training. It can to a large extent protect students from reluctant exercises that do not receive physical education in traditional teaching. Physiologically, it has unique advantages for the development of students. The teaching innovation model of this article can effectively solve the problems of physical education organization difficulty.