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15 April 2000, Volume 16 Issue 2

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Research on The Measurement Of Goal Orientation And It’s Impact on Academic Performance

徐方忠, 朱祖祥, 林芝

Psychological Development and Education. 2000, 16(2):  1-6. 

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This paper revised the Button goal orientation Questionnaire and studied the relation between goal orientation and academic performance.The reliability and validity of the revised questionnaire were desirable.58 college students who were at 2 grade were sampled,goal orientation questionnaire was administered for them,performance data were obtained from all subjects being studied in this term,partial correlation analyses revealed that,the relations between performance goal and academic performance,and between learning goal and academic performance were different across all the subjects,and its' were also different with different subject's difficult level.This suggested that relation between goal orientation and performance can changed with the resource acquired.

Effects of Mind Factors on Academic Achievement of High School Pupils

Psychological Development and Education. 2000, 16(2):  7-12. 

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The degree of effect of mind factors,suth as prior knowledge、learning strategy、intelligence and non-intellectual factors et al.,on academic achievement as well as its mechanism with junior high school pupils was examined with questionair method and scale method.The analyses of data revealed that :1)there were significant positive correlations between mainly mind factors and academic achivement;2) the direct factors led to pupils' differences on acadiemic achievement were prior knowledge、learning strategy and non-intellectual factors and the degree of effect of prior knowledge was obvously stronger than that of learning strategy and non-intellectual factors;3)an important indirect effect of intelligence and non-intellectual factors on academic achievement by prior knowledge,not by learning strategy,was found.

Developmental Features of Advertisement Cognition of the Students in Primary and Middle School

陆跃祥, 陈勃

Psychological Development and Education. 2000, 16(2):  13-16. 

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Advertisement Cognition Questionnaire was administered to 783 students in primary and middle school.The results indicated significant grade differences existed in cognition level of advertisement importance,advertisement belief,and advertisement intention.Significant gender differences were found only in advertisement belief.The trajectory of advertisement cognition development presented critical period.

The Influence of Awareness of Isomorphic Problems and Students’ Cognitive Style on Geometry Problem-solving Transfer

杨卫星, 王学臣, 张梅玲

Psychological Development and Education. 2000, 16(2):  17-21,27. 

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The relation between middle school students' cognitive style and their geometry achievement, and the awareness of the related isomorphic problems on geometry problem-solving transfer had been examined in the experimental research.Results suggested that during the process of geometry problem solving,the level of the awareness of the related isomorphic problems was one of the major factors that influenced the problem-solving transfer no matter what kind of cognitive style the students had.The relation between middle school students' cognitive-style and their geometry achievement was positivly correlated.

Influence of Scheme Instruction on Reading Abilities Inference Abilities and Self-Efficiency among Grade 4and Grade 5 Students

张向葵, 暴占光, 关文信

Psychological Development and Education. 2000, 16(2):  22-27. 

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With 160 Ss selected from grade 4 to grade 5 in primary school of Yi Fu,Song Yuan City,the study aimed to investigate the influence of schema instruction on self-efficiency,inference abilities and reading abilites of Ss.Results indicated:(1)Scheme instruction was better than the normal teaching method,which improved subjects reading abilities significantly.(2)The scheme instruction was more helpful in grade 5 students' inference abilities.(3)Scheme instruction improved students'self-efficiency significantly.

Experimental Research of the Advance Organizers Strategies in History Classroom Teaching of Middleschool

Psychological Development and Education. 2000, 16(2):  28-32. 

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The Advance Organizer is an important conception of educational psychologist D.P.Ausubel. Teaching withadvance organizer strategies can benefit a lot to students' learning of meaningful verbal material by helping them build some connections between new and previous knowneldge.This research tries to test the theorical hypothesis by natural experimental method.We chose middle school students as subjects,Chinese history knowledge as materials.The results show:The average progress in the experimental class is greater than in the controlled class,and this kind of effect is gained mainly by improving students' understanding.

Design of ARCS Interests Scak

郭德俊, 马庆霞, 赵凤贞, 袁惠萱, 林海波

Psychological Development and Education. 2000, 16(2):  33-37. 

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This study was theoretically based on Keller's ARCS model,and the items were presented by the form of motivating strategy.ARCS interest survey(A-10,R-14,C-15,S-13)was developed by means of open-ended survey and interview.Three hundred forty-nine 4th-and 5th-grade students responded to ARCS interest survey.One hundred fifty-nine 4 th-grade students of them also responded to IMMS and CES&CIS.Items were conducted by factor analysis,and forty-nine items were identified (A-10,R-13,C-14,S-12).The results showed high reliability and validity.The results also showed that attention was related to relevance,and confidence was related to satisfaction.

The Reliability and Validity of Noncognitive Questionnaire for College Students

Psychological Development and Education. 2000, 16(2):  38-43. 

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The 10 noncognitive factors,which are selected according to their relation to intelligence,are identified by the rational analysis and the interview with both psychological or educational experts and college students.Items are edited according to their definitions.After revising several times of the items,the final version is decided.The data showed that this questionnaire is reliable and valid.As for the construct validity,further study is needed.