Directed collaboration patterns in funded teams: A perspective of knowledge flow

Collaborations in funded teams are essential for understanding funded research and funding policies, although of high interest, are still not fully understood. This study aims to investigate directed collaboration patterns from the perspective of the knowledge flow, which is measured based on the academic age. To this end, we proposed a project-based team identification approach, which gives particular attention to funded teams. The method is applicable to other funding systems. Based on identified scientific teams, we detected recurring and significant subgraph patterns, known as network motifs, and under-represented patterns, known as anti-motifs. We found commonly occurred motifs and anti-motifs are remarkably characterized by different structures matching certain functions in knowledge exchanges. Collaboration patterns represented by motifs favor hierarchical structures, supporting intensive interactions across academic generations. Anti-motifs are more likely to show chain-like structures, hindering potentially various knowledge activities, and are thus seldom found in real collaboration networks. These findings provide new insights into the understanding of funded collaborations and also the funding system. Meanwhile, our findings are helpful for researchers, the public and policymakers to gain knowledge on research(ers) evolution, particularly in terms of primordial collaboration patterns.     

Assisting,Instructing, Assessing: 21st Century Student Centered Librarianship

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For librarians at the University of North Florida, there was a need to move beyond information literacy instruction to one-on-one and small group research consultations to aid in student success. By staffing the research desk with staff and students, librarians were able to open their calendars to allow more time for in-person, phone, and online consultations to aid in meeting the research goals of students at the institution. After assessing the research consultation program for two years, there has been a positive correlation between research consultation usage, satisfaction in completing assignments, and student success measures throughout the university.     

Sport-for-development: A comprehensive analysis of theoretical and conceptual advancements

Over the past decade, the field of sport-for-development (SFD) has experienced significant growth and diversification across research and practice. In this review paper, the authors provide a comprehensive analysis and discussion of the theoretical and conceptual developments within SFD, addressing a gap in the literature. Following a sport-focused review of SFD literature, the authors first identify five theoretical and conceptual frameworks that have emerged from within the SFD space. As a second step, they analyze and discuss scholarly work that has utilized these theories and frameworks. Building on a comparison of key messages, themes, and concerns, the authors highlight that to date, limited SFD scholarship has truly applied, extended, or challenged existing frameworks and conceptualizations. Motivated by this review, they posit several conceptual advancements, and offer directions for future research and theoretical development.     

浅谈太极拳教学在农村中小学体育教学中的应用

太极拳是一种体育运动,也是一种武术,更是一种强身健体的项目,在中国有着悠久的历史。农村中小学把太极拳作为传统项目的教材,在很多方面有很大的推广价值。为进一步探索农村中小学体育特色工作的新思路,高标准推进教育教学工作,我们选择了太极拳训练为体育特色。笔者常年从事体育教学,对太极拳教学有着丰富的教学经验,如何在农村中小学体育教学中打好太极拳我感觉至关重要。太极拳不仅能强身健体还能培养学生的情操,提升校园文化建设,更能磨炼学生的意志,树立正确的人生观和价值观,本文对太极拳教学在农村中小学体育教学中的认识提出了自己的观点。     

Diaspora as method: Inter-Asia Cultural Studies and the Asian Australian Studies Research Network

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What is the place of the diasporas within the Inter-Asia Cultural Studies movement, and how can Asian diasporas in the West contribute to Inter-Asia's intellectual project of “problematising Asia”? Developing a notion of diaspora as method, this essay highlights the complementary relationship between the Asian Australian Studies Research Network and the Inter-Asia Cultural Studies network. It argues that the Inter-Asia network has much to gain from embracing the Asian Australian diaspora as an interlocutor with shared priorities and concerns, and that Asian Australian studies can also productively learn from Inter-Asia's alternative model of institutionalisation, thereby expanding its theoretical and methodological frames of reference.     

微助教在教学中的应用

随着信息技术的快速发展和教育理念的不断更新,符合信息化教学时代背景的学习型微信公众平台——微助教应运而生,成为教育界的新星,从而真正实现个性化教学,为教学改革注入新的活力。文章将对微助教的功能特色以及利用其辅助大班课堂教学的优势进行简单的总结概述,并对其做出简要的分析,提出一些理解与看法。     

Methods for assessing higher education research team collaboration: comparing research outputs and participant perceptions across four collaborative research teams

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This article suggests that situations in which multiple research teams are convened under similar conditions present an opportunity to discover factors that lead to productive collaboration. It argues that social network analysis of research team outputs becomes more valuable when paired with data about research participant perceptions; and that any variables used as indicators of collaboration need to be calibrated using datasets from multiple studies with cross-team comparisons. The article provides an example of the kind of methodology needed to achieve this, describing a study with data from four research teams based at an Australian university campus, reporting their research performance over four years under conditions in which many variables were controlled and with results augmented by a survey of participant perceptions. Findings from the study indicate that there were exceptions to hypothesized associations between participant perceptions of collaboration and specific social network analysis measures over co-authorship data. The article suggests that, given the methodological challenges of studying research teams in the field, multiple datasets combining findings such as those in the present study are a path towards the development of indicators of productive higher education research collaboration.     

The link between student-perceived teacher talk and student enjoyment,anxiety and discursive engagement in the classroom

This study seeks to understand the emotional connection of teachers' academically productive talk (APT) with student learning from the students' perspective. Using a sample of 2,225 students (N_{7th grade} = 1,146 and N_{8th grade} = 1,079) from 16 middle schools in a city of China, we investigate the relationship between students' perceptions of their teachers’ APT, student emotions (enjoyment and anxiety) and their discursive engagement with others in the mathematics classroom. Results from structural equation modelling and mediation analysis show that after controlling for gender, family resources and mathematics achievement, student-perceived teacher APT was positively associated with their discursive engagement with classmates. Furthermore, student enjoyment and anxiety in class mediated the relationship between student-perceived teacher APT and student discursive engagement with classmates. Multi-group analysis revealed that the model was invariant across genders and grades, indicating that the associations were applicable to male and female students as well as to seventh and eighth graders. These findings shed light on the emotional relationship of teacher APT with the discursive engagement of their students. Although prior research observes a positive relationship between teacher productive classroom talk and student discursive engagement primarily through classroom observations and teacher reflections, this study provides evidence from the students’ perspective and highlights the mediating role of student emotions in the relationship.     

成果导向的学校体育质量监测结构及运行机制研究——芬兰经验与启示

成果导向是芬兰学校体育质量监测依据的主要理念。芬兰学校体育质量监测机构与政府没有隶属关系，监测人员可分为报告质量、体育课程质量、体育教师质量、体育教学质量、体育设施质量6种监测类型；监测人员经过严格的选聘程序、分类化的专业培训之后，可以根据成果导向的学生体育学习监测框架，从省级、县级、区级3个不同层面开展监测工作，监测程序由政府进行认证与规范。成果导向的芬兰学校体育质量监测结构由早期、中期、后期、执法、突击与合并6种监测类型及其相应的指标和内容构成，各类型之间环环相扣、相互补充。通过借鉴芬兰经验，突出成果导向，有利于提升学校体育质量，强化我国学校体育督导的目标性与规范性，有助于优化与改善我国学校体育质量的现有督导结构及运行机制，使其更加关注学校体育成果细化和转化的导向，促使督导评估指标朝向可测化和具体化方向发展，进而更好地发挥督导成果在助力学校体育发展方面的各类功能。     

Towards a Framework for Evaluating the Research Performance of Chinese Double First-Class Universities

The study focuses on the research performance of Double First-Class (DFC) universities in China. A theoretical framework based on economic theory and the Analytic Hierarchy Process (AHP) method for a novel evaluation model is proposed. The model is performed on a sample of 41 participant DFC universities in China. Using data collected from these universities, it was found that there is no consistency between performance ranking, input ranking, and output ranking, with the best ranked universities far from the most efficient. These findings provide empirical evidence of DFC universities’ research performance situation and suggest strategies that the government can use to propel their sustainable development.