Research on the Lifting Path of Data Literacy Ability of Applied University Teachers under the Perspective of Organizational Learning

With the arrival of the big data era, the modern higher education model has undergone radical changes, and higher requirements have been put forward for the data literacy of college teachers. The paper first analyzes the connotation of teacher data literacy, and then combs through the status quo and dilemmas of teachers’ data literacy ability in applied universities. The paper proposes to enhance the data literacy ability of teachers from the perspective of organizational learning. Through building a digital culture, building a data-driven teaching environment, and constructing an interdisciplinary learning community to further promote the application of the theory and practice of datafication inside and outside the organization, and ultimately improve the quality of teaching.

Evaluation and Empirical Research on Teachers’ Information Literacy in the Context of Smart Education

The development of smart education has led to the integration of emerging technologies such as artificial intelligence with education.It is a prerequisite for teachers to have high information literacy for conducting education and teaching work.This study conducted a questionnaire survey on 412 teachers in a certain area.The results showed that teachers’information literacy is above the middle level,and there are significant differences in information literacy between teaching experience and educational background.The evaluation showed that information ethics,information awareness,and information application have a significant positive impact on professional development,and information knowledge and information awareness have a positive predictive effect on information ethics.

Paths to Enhance Teacher Digital Literacy Under Educational Digital Transformation in China

In the context of the digital transformation of education in the new era,digital literacy for teachers is a new requirement for professional development.Teacher digital literacy encompasses four main aspects:attitudinal literacy,knowledge and skills literacy,instructional application literacy,and innovation and development literacy.Currently,there are several issues with teacher digital literacy,such as a lack of digital responsibility,insufficient digital knowledge and skills,weak digital application skills,and low digital innovation capability.Enhancing teachers’digital literacy is a complex and critical task.Based on the current state of teachers’digital literacy,this paper proposes the following approaches:(1)adherence to digital norms;(2)development of a robust training mechanism;(3)improvement of the evaluation system;(4)strengthening of digital innovation.

Aliteracy Among Teachers?Investigating the Reading Habits of Elementary and Early Childhood Educators

Since the reading habits of both preservice and inservice teachers have been linked to their abilities as reading teachers,aliteracy among teachers is particularly distressing.The purpose of this study was to investigate the amount of leisure time elementary teachers spend reading literature for pleasure.Prekindergarten through sixth grade teachers(N=24)enrolled in a graduate education course logged the minutes they spent engaged in various leisure activities during one week of the summer.Reading literature,defined as the reading of novels,short stories,plays,or poetry in one’s spare time,ranged from 0 to 845 minutes.Of the 13 activities investigated,the highest average amount of time was spent watching movies(M=552.92).Reading literature for pleasure had the eighth highest mean(M=123.13).Pairwise comparisons revealed no significant difference(t=-.795,p<.435)between time spent reading literature and time spent in other non-literature leisure activities.Results or paired samples t-tests indicated that participants spent significantly less time reading newspapers/magazines(t=2.696,p<.013)and reading blogs(t=2.783,p<.011)and significantly more time watching movies(t=-3.287,p<.003)than reading literature for pleasure.It appears that lack of motivation may be a factor in participants’decision to read literature for pleasure as opposed to either lack of time or technological distractions.

Starting from the Heart—Some Thoughts on Ways to Promote Teachers'Intrinsic Professional Happiness

Teachers are engineers of human soul and they are supposed to be a happy occupation.But in fact,the occupational stress becomes greater and greater,the burnout becomes more serious and teachers’happiness is losing.Promoting teachers'professional happiness is not only good for the development of teachers themselves and for the growth of students,but also for the good development of education.So,it is a hot topic to talk about how to promote teachers'professional happiness.From the heart,which means that make the teachers'professional happiness deeper and longer from the intrinsic origin.Building the proper professional ideology,right values and healthy lifestyles,which are good for teachers to know the occupation and relieve the stress,is an important way to promote teachers'intrinsic professional happiness.

Connotation and Interpretation of Professional Literacy of Pre-sci­ence Teachers in Xinjiang

The construction of a perfect evaluation index system of professional literacy of pre-science teachers is the basis of measuring the level of professional literacy of pre-science teachers in Xinjiang.It is of great practical significance to identify the advantages and disadvantages of education of pre-science teachers in Xinjiang.Based on“Professional Standards”and“Certification Standards”,this paper constructs an evaluation index system of Xinjiang pre-science teachers’professional literacy,including 3 first-level indicators and 18 second-level indicators.

A Survey on the Evaluation Literacy of College English Teachers Under the Online Teaching Mode

Under the online teaching model,the evaluation literacy of college English teachers has become one of the critical factors affecting students’learning effects[1].This study uses a self-compiled questionnaire to investigate the current status of evaluation literacy of college English teachers under the online teaching model from four aspects:evaluation awareness,evaluation knowledge,evaluation ability,and evaluation ethics.The results show that college English teachers’overall evaluation literacy level is relatively high,but there are areas for improvement.Based on the survey results,suggestions are put forward to improve teachers’evaluation literacy,such as changing teaching concepts and increasing self-reflection;strengthening training and learning to enhance professional development awareness;conducting cooperative research and emphasizing team strengths.

Rich Connotation,Realistic Dilemma,and Practical Path of Teachers’Digital Literacy in the Era of Digital Intelligence

With the rapid development of information technology and the popularity of the Internet,digital education has become an important direction of modern education reform.Digital education provides a new way and tool for education and teaching,so that teachers and students can make better use of the application of information technology in the teaching process.Teachers’digital literacy has become the key to realize digital education.In the digital age,the level of teachers’digital literacy directly affects teachers’teaching effect and students’learning results.Therefore,improving teachers’digital literacy has become an urgent task of education reform.

Research on the Connotation, Characteristics, and Promotion Path of Teacher Leadership in Higher Vocational Colleges

In vocational education,teacher leadership is an important factor in promoting school development and improving teaching quality.Enhancing teacher leadership has practical significance for the connotative development of vocational colleges.It involves improving education and teaching quality,cultivating high-skilled talents,building excellent teaching teams,enhancing school governance systems,and other areas.The core elements include professional knowledge,teaching innovation,teamwork,and communication skills.The enhancement of teacher leadership can effectively enhance teachers’enthusiasm to participate in educational and teaching reforms as well as promote the overall efficiency of vocational colleges.In order to enhance teacher leadership in vocational colleges,it is necessary to achieve a breakthrough in institutional barriers,combine personal and external factors,strengthen institutionalized teacher leadership construction through a top-down design,and strengthen evaluation and feedback mechanisms to establish a scientific leadership evaluation system and improve teacher leadership cognition.

Language Teacher's Information Literacy in the ICT context

With the rapid development of Information and Communication Technology(ICT),the modern information and communica tion media have been changing the rationale of learning and teaching.Under such circumstances,a person's,especially an educator's in formation literacy plays an important role in their personal and professional development.This essay discusses the influence of the new challenge on EFL(English as a foreign language) teachers'professional development.EFL teachers should be fully empowered to be infor mation literate language educators in the curriculum innovation of TEFL(teaching English as a foreign language).It is suggested that EFL teachers'awareness,attitudes,and personal needs should be taken into account in the process of integrating ICT into their professional practice and self-development.

Polish Teachers in Changing Reality

Authors of the text present Polish context of teachers’ professional promotion and teachers’ competencies. The text also has its empirical dimension-a research about teachers’ sense of life quality has been done. There are teachers’ expressions, collected and quoted during qualitative research. Teachers’ thoughts are concerned about the sense of life quality in the context of working at lower secondary school.

A Study on the Dilemma of Contemporary Teachers'Moral Life

The essence of teachers is to live a moral life with students and create a possible moral life together.At present,the alienation of teachers'moral life has reached an amazing degree.Based on this,at the conceptual level,rediscover the emotional dimension of teachers'moral life in a humanistic way and turn to the inner power of teachers'emotional life.At the practical level,it emphasizes the cultivation of emotional quality of moral life.

Reflections on the Professional Development of College English Teachers under the Internet Hybrid Model

The development of network technology has brought huge changes to all people and industries.In the field of education and professional development of teachers,the application of network technology and the Internet has also created a new opportunity for education at all stages in China.In the reform of education,the related concepts and teaching applications of the Internet hybrid model have gradually begun to be incorporated into college teaching.This article explores the status quo and problems of professional development of college English teachers under the Internet hybrid model,and puts forward suggestions for the professional development of college English teachers under the Internet hybrid model which can be used as reference for the professional development and growth of English teachers.

PCK Study of Middle School Chemistry Teachers in Yan'an Based on the Core Quality of Chemistry Subject

The new round of curriculum reform requires the promotion on the development of students'core literacy,and how the core literacy of chemistry can take root in the chemistry classroom is inseparable from the guidance and nurture of teachers in the teaching process.The"Professional Standards for Secondary School Teachers"clearly stipulates that pedagogical content knowledge(PCK)is regarded as the professional knowledge of teachers.PCK is the core content of teachers'professional knowledge and an important guarantee for teachers to carry out teaching activities.Teachers5 PCK level is not only a direct measure of their teaching achievements,but also an important criterion for guiding novice teachers to become experienced teachers.The research subjects selected for this study are the middle school chemistry teachers in Yan'an City.By using the Delphi method to investigate the understanding of Yan'an middle school chemistry teachers on the core literacy of chemistry and to explore the PCK mastery of middle school chemistry teachers at different stages,it serves to deepen the Yan'an middle school chemistry teachers5 own knowledge and learning of PCK while help to promote the improvement of the teaching level and professional development of chemistry teachers in Yan'an middle schools.At the end of the paper,the relevant suggestions made based on the investigation of the chemistry PCK study of middle school chemistry teachers in Yan'an City on the core literacy of the chemistry subject will improve the overall building level of the middle school chemistiy teachers of Yan'an City.

Teacher Assessment Literacy:How do We Know What We Need to Improve?

Introduction Teacher assessment literacy is regarded as one of the most influential factors in improving student learning in the classroom,in particular a teacher’s ability to collect,interpret and use a range of assessment information to help students monitor and evaluate their learning needs,set achievable goals.

Information behaviors of Chinese K-12physical education teachers:A survey study

Purpose: Given the unique characteristics of physical education(PE) teaching in K-12education,PE teachers' information behaviors deserve special attention.This article reports a survey study of PE teachers' information behaviors,covering information literacy skills and behaviors of information seeking and information use.Design/methodology/approach:A questionnaire survey was conducted of K-12 PE teachers in the Tianjin municipal region of China,with a response rate of 61.9%.Findings:PE teachers lack skills with information retrieval systems in general.The Internet continues to be their primary information source,and they rely more on personal collection and colleagues than the school library for teaching materials.They rarely develop a searching strategy,employ querying tactics,or use advanced search functions,and they tend to be content with finding a few relevant articles.Research limitations:The survey is limited to the Tianjin municipal region in scope.Though attempting to reach 210 participants from 40 schools,it yielded only 130 valid responses.A larger survey covering more regions and with greater responses may be useful.Practical implications:Insights from this study inform the educational and on-job training of K-12 PE teachers to improve their information literacy skills.Originality/value:Little research exists on PE teachers' behaviors of information seeking.This study bridges the gap and enriches our understanding of K-12 teachers' information behaviors.

Age- and Sex-Specific Impact of Health Literacy on Healthy Lifestyle Characteristics among Japanese Residents in a Rural Community

The study aimed to examine age- and sex-specific associations between health literacy (HL) and healthy lifestyle characteristics. The cross-sectional study was conducted to examine a total 1348 Japanese participants (613 male and 735 female) who took the health check-up program in April 2013, at Tsumagoi Village, Japan. Information was collected by self-administered questionnaire on three communicative and two critical HL items, and healthy lifestyle characteristics listed in Bres-low’s seven health practices. In multivariate logistic analysis, high HL (≥18) was significantly asso-ciated with healthy lifestyle characteristics in both non-elderly (<65 years old) and elderly (≥65 years old) [Odds ratio (OR) = 1.40, 95% Confidence interval (CI) = 1.13 - 1.75 for non-elderly, OR = 1.34, 95% CI = 1.02 - 1.76 for elderly], as well as female participants (OR = 1.43, 95% CI = 1.06 - 1.94), while the significance was borderline in male participants (OR = 1.34, 95% CI = 0.96 - 1.88). Among 5 HL items, the ability to extract health-related information was significantly associated with healthy lifestyle characteristics (OR = 1.52, 95% CI = 1.11 - 2.07 for non-elderly, OR = 1.55, 95% CI = 1.04 - 2.30 for elderly, OR = 1.95, 95% CI = 1.28 - 2.97 for female participants. HDL-C concentration in the high HL group was significantly higher than that in the low HL group. Among healthy lifestyle characteristics, proportions of smoking behavior (non-smoker), exercise frequency (twice or more per week), and sleep duration (7 - 8 hours) were significantly higher in the high HL group than in the low HL group. The present study revealed a positive association between HL and healthy lifestyle characteristics, which suggests that people are likely to engage in health-promoting behaviours based on access and ability to understand medical information for both age groups and female participants. Significant findings among female participants may be emphasized since it’s important from the entire family's perspective as women are the caretakers of the family. These findings may indicate the importance of comprehensive assessment, including HL, for health promotion in the community.

A comparative analysis of information literacy curriculum standards in the educational programs of high schools in China and in the United States

Our study aims to take a closer look at China's current information literacy(IL) program standards at secondary schools and to analyze their level of success and/or failures in a comparative way with those of the United States in terms of fulfilling their each other's mission-oriented mandates. Our research findings show that China's current IL standards of high schools contain a disproportionate emphasis on information technology(IT). Moreover, the stipulations of these IL standards are narrowly construed and without being solidly grounded on a broad and comprehensive educational perspective. We also suggest that there are two underlying causes for this set of unsound IL standards in China.Firstly, there is a lack of collaboration between two major competing forces engaged in the curricular development and research of IL in China: Those professionals in educational IT discipline vis-à-vis those in Library and Information Science. Secondly, library professionals have a very limited influence on major socio-cultural policies, even at their own institutions. As a result, this paper recommends the following three possible measures,which may help remedy this situation strategically: 1) Establishing a set of new IL curriculum standards based on an IL-centered educational perspective; 2) establishing a teacher-librarian's training program to promote school librarians' role in IL education; and 3) strengthening the research and development of an online IL education program and an accompanied evaluation mechanism.

The Internet in EFL Teacher Education： Investigating the Possibilities and Challenges in a Pre-service Education Programme

The paper reported on a small-scale qualitative study on EFL （English as a Foreign Language） teacher education with a two-fold objective, investigating the possibility of integrating the Internet for academic purposes in the context of a pre-service English teacher education programme in Egypt, and suggesting some guidelines based on the specific context of Assiut University College of Education. Semi-structured interviews were conducted online with some student teachers （n = 10） and teacher educators （n = 10） at the university to identify their personal viewpoints, experiences and concerns regarding integrating the Internet into this teacher education context. For triangulation purposes, content analysis was conducted on 12 online documents. Results reveal some difficulties, challenges and concerns related to the process and some new forms of literacy needed for this context. Based on this, some guidelines are suggested for integrating the Internet into pre-service EFL teacher education programmes with special reference to the Egyptian context.

Health Literacy at the Elementary School Level

Health literacy measures are well established in school. Nevertheless, the differences between the offers are immense. From individual days for projects to comprehensive programs and codes of practice, such as good healthy school, one can find a broad range of measures in German school settings. Current research results also show that “school” can be a decisive factor to undermine the psychosocial well-being of teachers, students and other school staff. In this contribution, approaches to health promotion and health literacy in elementary schools are presented from different perspectives, which show that the competence modeling for health literacy in elementary schools remains to be investigated. This contribution introduces approaches to health promotion and health literacy, which are relevant for the school setting at the elementary level, from different perspectives.