The traditional student-oriented course evaluation has been the major assessment method on teaching effectiveness worldwide.Useful as it is,it has been widely and continuously criticized for not being a fair,accurate,...The traditional student-oriented course evaluation has been the major assessment method on teaching effectiveness worldwide.Useful as it is,it has been widely and continuously criticized for not being a fair,accurate,and reliable measurement.In search of a more objective assessment method on teaching effectiveness that also reflects the impacts of context-based learning,we propose a theoretical approach from a unique perspective that recognizes teaching effectiveness as a result of the interplays between teacher,student,and context.The approach can be used to compute as well as to predict teaching effectiveness using machine and deep learning technologies,which brings strategical benefits to institutional management.In addition,we install into the approach a mechanism using tokens as incentives to assure the quality of subjective data input.The application framework for the approach is proposed leveraging blockchain.Each implementation of the framework by an establishment is a decentralized application that runs on its chosen blockchain.It is envisioned that the implementations together will form a collective ecology on context-based relative teaching effectiveness,which has the potential to fundamentally impact other academic practices besides teaching effectiveness measurement.The theoretical approach provides a common language to delineate teaching effectiveness from the context-based relative perspective and is customizable during implementation.The teaching effectiveness assessment using the approach downplays the roles played by bias(subjectity)and hence is more objective than that by traditional student-oriented course evaluation.展开更多
This paper attacks the conservatism of grammar teaching in China.It takes the example of teachingnon-restrictive clauses in English and demonstrates that a communicative approach can and should beapplied even to such ...This paper attacks the conservatism of grammar teaching in China.It takes the example of teachingnon-restrictive clauses in English and demonstrates that a communicative approach can and should beapplied even to such a linguistic subject.A procedure is suggested in which group work and problem-solving activities attempt to raise students’awareness of grammar problems and encourage them to findtheir own solutions.展开更多
基金The work in this paper is jointly funded by Tianjin Municipality Natural Science Foundation(18JCYBJC44500)the National Social Science Foundation of China(No.20BTQ084).
文摘The traditional student-oriented course evaluation has been the major assessment method on teaching effectiveness worldwide.Useful as it is,it has been widely and continuously criticized for not being a fair,accurate,and reliable measurement.In search of a more objective assessment method on teaching effectiveness that also reflects the impacts of context-based learning,we propose a theoretical approach from a unique perspective that recognizes teaching effectiveness as a result of the interplays between teacher,student,and context.The approach can be used to compute as well as to predict teaching effectiveness using machine and deep learning technologies,which brings strategical benefits to institutional management.In addition,we install into the approach a mechanism using tokens as incentives to assure the quality of subjective data input.The application framework for the approach is proposed leveraging blockchain.Each implementation of the framework by an establishment is a decentralized application that runs on its chosen blockchain.It is envisioned that the implementations together will form a collective ecology on context-based relative teaching effectiveness,which has the potential to fundamentally impact other academic practices besides teaching effectiveness measurement.The theoretical approach provides a common language to delineate teaching effectiveness from the context-based relative perspective and is customizable during implementation.The teaching effectiveness assessment using the approach downplays the roles played by bias(subjectity)and hence is more objective than that by traditional student-oriented course evaluation.
文摘This paper attacks the conservatism of grammar teaching in China.It takes the example of teachingnon-restrictive clauses in English and demonstrates that a communicative approach can and should beapplied even to such a linguistic subject.A procedure is suggested in which group work and problem-solving activities attempt to raise students’awareness of grammar problems and encourage them to findtheir own solutions.
