With the reform of the New National College Entrance Examination(Gaokao),the nongraded education will become an inevitable trend.In senior high school,the traditional test-oriented education is popular.The knowledge i...With the reform of the New National College Entrance Examination(Gaokao),the nongraded education will become an inevitable trend.In senior high school,the traditional test-oriented education is popular.The knowledge is mainly taught by the teachers,and the students passively absorb it.This study examines a problem-oriented Socratic experiment in nongraded English teaching in senior high school.The teachers seek output from students,who respond by interpreting questions,fostering critical thinking,and enhancing problem-solving skills.This teaching experiment indicates that the Socratic method has a significant positive effect on cultivating nongraded senior high English students’critical thinking under the New National College Entrance Examination.展开更多
Upon the latest reform to the college entrance examination in China(i.e.,Gaokao),high schools began implementing an optional class system.Under this scheme,students’time slots become complex,thereby increasing the di...Upon the latest reform to the college entrance examination in China(i.e.,Gaokao),high schools began implementing an optional class system.Under this scheme,students’time slots become complex,thereby increasing the difficulty in formulating a suitable timetable from the available ones.To address this problem,the coursescheduling model was improved.On the basis of the original hard constraints,the“concurrent group”was considered,and the softer constraints were regarded as optimization goals,such as“teaching plans synchronously”,“no idle periods in the timetables of teachers”,and“evenly distributed lessons”.Given these soft constraints,the model becomes more practical.In this study,a two-phase tabu search algorithm was proposed to solve the problem.The proposed algorithm uses the characteristics of the graph coloring model to eliminate redundant calculations in the neighborhood search process,thereby effectively improving computational efficiency.Fifteen practical instances of different scales were selected for testing to verify the effectiveness of the algorithm.The proposed algorithm can formulate high-quality available timetables(The average satisfaction rate of soft constraints is more than 71%)in a short period.展开更多
基金This research is funded by 2021 Postgraduate Scientific Research Innovation Project of Hunan Province Key Project—Diagnosis and Evaluation of High School Students’Critical Thinking Quality in English(Project approval No.QL20210120)the 2022 Hunan Province General Higher Education Teaching Reform Research Project—Research on the Cultivation Path of English Learners’Critical Thinking Ability From the Perspective of Curriculum Ideology and Politics(Project Approval No.HNJG-2022-1299).
文摘With the reform of the New National College Entrance Examination(Gaokao),the nongraded education will become an inevitable trend.In senior high school,the traditional test-oriented education is popular.The knowledge is mainly taught by the teachers,and the students passively absorb it.This study examines a problem-oriented Socratic experiment in nongraded English teaching in senior high school.The teachers seek output from students,who respond by interpreting questions,fostering critical thinking,and enhancing problem-solving skills.This teaching experiment indicates that the Socratic method has a significant positive effect on cultivating nongraded senior high English students’critical thinking under the New National College Entrance Examination.
基金supported by the National Natural Science Foundation Program of China(Grant Nos.:72122006 and 71771099).
文摘Upon the latest reform to the college entrance examination in China(i.e.,Gaokao),high schools began implementing an optional class system.Under this scheme,students’time slots become complex,thereby increasing the difficulty in formulating a suitable timetable from the available ones.To address this problem,the coursescheduling model was improved.On the basis of the original hard constraints,the“concurrent group”was considered,and the softer constraints were regarded as optimization goals,such as“teaching plans synchronously”,“no idle periods in the timetables of teachers”,and“evenly distributed lessons”.Given these soft constraints,the model becomes more practical.In this study,a two-phase tabu search algorithm was proposed to solve the problem.The proposed algorithm uses the characteristics of the graph coloring model to eliminate redundant calculations in the neighborhood search process,thereby effectively improving computational efficiency.Fifteen practical instances of different scales were selected for testing to verify the effectiveness of the algorithm.The proposed algorithm can formulate high-quality available timetables(The average satisfaction rate of soft constraints is more than 71%)in a short period.
