Dealing with Large Classes: A Real Challenge
Dealing with Large Classes: A Real Challenge
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处理大班级：一个真正的挑战
DOI：
10.1016/j.sbspro.2010.12.037
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发表时间：
2010
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通讯作者：
A. Tchantchane
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作者：
Pauline Fortes;A. Tchantchane
处理大班问题对每一位教师来说都是一项真正的挑战：学生多样化、缺乏灵活性、班级气氛管理、难以制定和执行课堂行为(人群控制)、对学生的关注最少、对学生学习的监督有限以及难以让学生参与活动。主要的假设是，有效的教学和产生性学习受到大班额和学生对大班额的负面看法的严重制约。本研究旨在对特大班(150-200人)基础数学教学的有效性进行研究。我们研究的基线是基于从学生调查中收集的数据。整个学期进行了两次调查，以监测学生的期望、动机、自己对成绩的看法、对授课和学习的看法和偏好。我们设计这些调查是为了尽可能准确地检测学生对学习的态度。每个学生的反应，如学生自己的感受，都与整个学期的真实表现相关，通过两次期中考试、每周的课堂作业、小测验、教程和期末考试来衡量。我们的研究将强调针对上述有效学习环境的关键障碍的其他解决方案。对授课时间和教学模式进行了调查和回顾，以此作为解决授课过程中遇到的问题的潜在方案。我们将我们的发现与现有的文献和其他教师的经验进行了比较。研究学生的体验是非常具有挑战性的，除了可以作为高等教育的标准质量之外，它还可以作为质量指标。评估或评估学生的经验、需要和期望可以改善教学表现和取得学习成果。由于大多数关于学生成绩和班级规模影响的研究都是在西方背景下进行的，因此这项研究对阿联酋来说是及时和相关的。
Dealing with large classes constitutes a real challenge to every teacher: diversity of students, lack of flexibility, class climate management, difficulty of setting and enforcing classroom behaviour (crowd control), minimum attention to students, limited monitoring of students’ learning and difficulty in engaging students to activities. The major hypothesis is that effective teaching and producing learning is critically constrained by the large size of classes and the students’ perception about large classes being negative. This research is to engage in a study of the effectiveness of teaching foundation Math for very large classes (150-200 students). The baseline of our study is based on data that has been collected from students’ survey. Two surveys were conducted throughout the semester to monitor students’ expectations, motivation, own perception on performance, views and preferences about the delivery of the lecture and the learning. We designed the surveys to detect accurately as much as possible students’ attitude towards learning. Each student's responses such as the students own perception has been correlated to real performance through out the semester as measured by two midterms, weekly class work, quizzes, tutorials and the final. Our study will highlight other solutions to the above critical obstacles to conducting an effective learning environment. Both the lecturing time and the mode of teaching are investigated and reviewed as a potential solution to the problems encountered during the lecture delivery. We compare our findings to the existing literature and other teachers’ experiences. Studying students’ experience is quite challenging and can be used as a quality indicator in addition to the standard quality in higher education. Evaluating or assessing students’ experience, need and expectations can lead to improvements in teaching performance and achieving learning outcomes. Since most studies on students’ achievements and class size effects are done in a western context, this study is timely and relevant for United Arab Emirates.