Eliminating counterexamples: A Grade 8 student’s learning trajectory for contrapositive proving

This study uses a teaching experiment and retrospective analysis to develop a learning trajectory for improving a Grade 8 student’s ability to construct, critique, and validate contrapositive arguments. The study is predicated on the hypothesis that adolescents perform poorly on contrapositive reasoning tasks because they lack sufficient ways of justifying contrapositive argumentation as a viable mode of argumentation. By studying a student’s actions and comments as she develops, critiques, and validates not-the-conclusion-implies-the-conditions-are-impossible arguments for conditional claims, a promising learning trajectory for contrapositive argumentation is developed. The student’s learning trajectory demonstrates how a conception of contrapositive proving as eliminating counterexamples can be useful in developing, critiquing, and validating contrapositive arguments.     

Field-based hypotheses on advancing standards for mathematical practice

The Common Core State Standards in Mathematics (CCSSM, 2010) are organized around two types of standards: the standards for mathematical content and standards for mathematical practice. The central goal of this paper is to present cognitive and instructional analyses of standards for mathematical practice through a discussion of field-based activities with inservice secondary mathematics teachers and students. A potential value of the study is that it provides researchers with specific field-based hypotheses on advancing standards for mathematical practice.     

化学系统性思维的背景、应用与特征*

当今地球与社会系统所面临的可持续发展、气候变化、环境退化等全球性挑战问题,用还原主义方法不足以应对,需要化学教育等领域的工作者采用系统性思维方法。梳理了国外学者在应用化学系统性思维理解化学学科系统复杂性、化学学习系统层级性、化学教育系统整合性的研究进展。概述了化学系统性思维具有重视跨学科关联、整体综合思考目标系统问题、强调可持续发展的全球观念等特征。建议加强化学教育内外部系统的协作,注重各学段化学课程与教学的跨学科、系统性,重视学生解决化学问题的认识方式差异。     

基于NVivo的卓越化学教师课堂教学创新能力评价*——以东芝杯教学技能创新大赛为例

研究采用视频分析法,利用NVivo软件,以东芝杯教学技能创新大赛的化学组选手为对象,从教学理念、教学情境、实验设计和教学手段等4个维度,评价卓越职前化学教师课堂教学的创新能力。结果发现:教学理念新颖,但具体落实尚有不足;情境创设生动,但主题与学生的联系不够紧密;实验设计别致,但在水平上还有提升空间;教学技术手段先进,但还需要深度融合。研究为创新型卓越化学教师的培养提供了启示。     

初中化学“溶液”的项目式教学*——白砂糖的梦想之路

以“白砂糖的梦想之路”为项目学习主题,呈现了初中化学“溶液”的项目教学案例。基于棒棒糖的制作过程开发了系列学习任务,有助于学生在真实的问题情境中发展核心素养和构建灵活的知识基础。     

化学实验失败体验:教育现象学的视角

近10年来，教育现象学在我国迅猛发展，得到愈来愈多的关注，教育现象学已逐渐形成一套较为成熟与可操作的研究方法与步骤。运用教育现象学研究方法对学生实验失败体验进行研究，得出根本主题：化学实验失败（包括实验意外）体验丰富，其增强或消减受多种因素（老师指导、同伴合作与竞争、自身、时间长短）的单一与相互影响。并从空间性、实体性、时间性、相关性等维度对根本主题的意义进行了论述。并与国际相关研究进行了比较，最后指出了该方法的适用范围和应用前景。     

Viscoelastic response and interlaminar delamination resistance of epoxy/glass fiber/functionalized graphene oxide multi-scale composites

Graphene oxide (GO) was functionalized using three different diamines, namely ethylenediamine (EDA), 4,4′-diaminodiphenyl sulfone (DDS) and p-phenylenediamine (PPD) to reinforce an epoxy/glass fiber (EP/GF) composite laminate, with the aim of improving the overall composite mechanical performance. Different mechanical characterization techniques were used to determine the mechanical performance, including: tensile stress strain, double cantilever beam (DCB) mode-I fracture toughness and dynamic mechanical thermal analysis (DMTA). Scanning electron microscopy (SEM) was used to support the results and conclusions. The results demonstrated remarkable enhancements in the mechanical performance of EP/GF composite laminates by incorporation of functionalized graphene oxide (FGO) nanofiller, whilst the mechanical performance of the GO reinforced composite only improved marginally. Finally, the mechanical performance of the EP/GF/FGO multi-scale composites was found to be dependent on the type of FGO functional groups; of which EDA exhibited the highest performance. These investigations confirmed that the EDA-FGO-reinforced EP/GF composites possess excellent potential to be used as multifunctional engineering materials in industrial applications.     

全日制化学教育硕士的PCK水平调查研究*

以美国埃里克森学院PCK量化工具为研究基础设计调查问卷,选取离子反应第1课时的电离概念教学片断,以河北某高校学科教学(化学)专业37名教育硕士为研究对象,要求被试者在对视频片断进行观摩的基础上作答9个开放性问题。研究发现:全日制化学教育硕士PCK整体和各维度知识处于“基本的”水平,在教学内容知识维度表现最佳,在学生知识、教学策略知识维度稍差一些,在把握概念关系、调整教学策略等能力活动上的表现有待发展。针对研究发现,结合化学教育硕士的专业属性及培养过程中的问题,提出构建“教师专业学习共同体”,干预化学教育硕士PCK结构的改善;依托教学案例情境载体功能,帮助化学教育硕士进行PCK的深度建构;开展基于研究性反思的教学实践,促进化学教育硕士PCK螺旋式提升等3条建议。     

自制光电比色计及其在中学化学实验中的应用

针对大多数中学缺乏光电比色计和分光光度计的现状,基于朗伯比尔定律和3D打印技术自制光电比色计,测定透明有色溶液的吸光度和浓度。利用自制光电比色计测定了琥珀酸亚铁片中铁的含量和硫酸铜晶体中结晶水的含量,实验结果表明自制光电比色计的精度高、准确性好。将3D打印技术引入化学实验创新改进,体现了跨学科融合和创新设计的思想。