Food or Thought? Assessing Internal and External Factors Affecting Evaluations of Instructor Effectiveness

Within the broader literature concerned with potential bias in student measures of instructor effectiveness, two broad types of bias have been shown to operate in a course: internal and external. Missing is an assessment of the relative influence of each bias type in the classroom. Do internal or external types of bias matter more or less to student measures of instructor effectiveness? This question is of interest to those who recognize that many forms of bias operate in the classroom simultaneously and to great effect on course evaluations. Through the combination of quasi-experimental and survey methods, we attempt to do something not done before — simultaneously measure and compare the effects of one internal and one external type of bias to which we refer, following convention in the literature, as an internal factor and an external factor. Our findings indicate that, while both factors studied are important, perception of instructor partisanship (internal factor) is more influential on student course evaluations than our external factor (experimental treatment — literally a chocolate treat). The upshot is that American government instructors should be especially careful stating partisan positions in class.     

When are Students Ready for Research Methods? A Curriculum Mapping Argument for the Political Science Major

For many political science programs, research methods courses are a fundamental component of the recommended undergraduate curriculum. However, instructors and students often see these courses as the most challenging. This study explores when it is most appropriate for political science majors to enroll and pass a research methods course. The hypothesis posits that the number of prior introductory-level political science courses can be a strong precursor to research methods success, even for those who are upper-class students and majors. This hypothesis is tested by analyzing data from six sections of an undergraduate research course offered at a midsized public university. The results demonstrate that students are most likely to succeed in their research methods course if they are majors with at least five previous political sciences courses completed. Recommendations for course prerequisites and specific curriculum mapping are offered in light of these findings.     

Study in blue: trauma,affect, event

As contemporary student activists in the United States embrace a vocabulary of trauma and microaggressions, some critics on the left consider this a depoliticizing move symptomatic of the university’s growing thralldom to neoliberalism. The author argues that such criticism neglects how talk of trauma and microaggressions attempts to affectively manage structural violence’s failure to manifest in the form of discrete, identifiable, and extraordinary events. To illustrate this, she turns to the poetry of Claudia Rankine and the performance art of Emma Sulkowicz as aesthetic treatments of racial microaggression and sexual trauma, respectively. Rankine’s and Sulkowicz’s works belong to an emergent genre the author calls the coincidence report, in which subjects with no proof of structural violence except for their own feelings must cope with what happens when an event doesn’t. Ultimately, both artists sideline attempts to reconstruct the event in favor of redistributing specific affects throughout their respective publics. In both cases, these affects are blue – that is, depressive (Rankine) and obscene (Sulkowicz). Subjects in the blue find themselves ambivalently attached to living politically in the shadow of an event even as they detach from the fantasy that political life is less disappointing, depressing, or deflating than it actually is.     

网络环境下的高职学生信息素质教育

信息素质涵义包括信息意识、信息能力、信息道德、信息观念等。随着互联网技术的飞速发展 ,国际间的竞争更加剧烈 ,对人的综合素质和能力提出了更高的要求 ,学习成为终身需求 ,网络对高职学生既有正面影响 ,也有不可忽视的负面因素 ,要积极地采用各种措施 ,提高高职学生的网络信息素质。     

大学生犯罪研究述要

自我国恢复高考制度以来,被称为"天之骄子"的大学生群体,出现了人们不愿看到的大学生犯罪现象。这种现象的研究历经三个发展阶段。总结大学生犯罪现象研究中存在的问题,以便把握大学生犯罪的未来走势,将有利于大学生的成长,也将有助于高等学校及高等教育事业的发展。     

关于心理干预在提高助学贷款还款率方面的思考

国家助学贷款在解决贫困大学生困难和维护社会稳定方面起到积极作用，但由于借贷学生违约率较高，影响了国家助学贷款制度的正常运行，其中不仅有经济方面的原因，还有心理方面的原因。在充分了解学生的心理感受和心理问题的基础上，利用心理干预的各种手段和措施，妥善引导学生正确的价值取向，促进学生健全人格的形成，让心理干预在提高助学贷款还款率方面发挥应有的效用。     

女中学生师生交往的现状与问题分析

师生交往对女中学生的社会技能、自我意识、学业成绩和心理健康等均有重要的影响。调查显示，目前女中学生师生交往过程中存在的问题主要有：师生交往范围狭窄、频度低；师生交往的情感性因素匮乏；女中学生对教师的信任度低；女中学生主体性发挥不够；女中学生交往自我效能感低。     

学校与学生间法律关系探析

学校与学生之间的法律关系颇受学界争议。本文试图从现有观点评析出发,先破后立得出结论。并在主体和内容——权利义务关系层面对二者间的法律关系作全面论述。     

浅谈高职院校大学生学生工作着力点

用科学发展观统领学生工作，深入开展大学生思想政治教育。以“教、学、做”为架构，以“实用型、技能型、职业型”为培养目标，深入开展大学生课内课外学习活动，大力加强学风建设。以学生党团建设为核心，培养和造就学生骨干。以“岗位成才率、事业成功率”为指标，指导学生快乐学习、健康成才。同时，加强辅导员队伍建设。     

提高贫困村党组织领导新农村建设能力的若干思考

中国几千年的历史证明,谁争得了农民,谁就能争得天下.我国是拥有9亿农民的大国,也是一个贫困人口较多的国家.解决广大农民的民生问题是建设新农村的重点和难点,提高贫困村党组织领导新农村建设能力是建设和谐农村的关键.新农村建设给贫困村党组织提高领导能力提出了新的要求和新的挑战,迫切需要提高贫困村党组织领导新农村建设的能力