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Unending Greed: The Real Drive of Human Warfare
Get PDFThere must be rivalry if there is life. Humans prioritize animal slaughter, followed by inter- and intra-racial violence, and finally by war over country borders. Finally, war is a result of a concerted effort by a large number of people. Competition for scarce resources is unavoidable as long as human greed prevails. Globally, the rate of change has accelerated and will continue to do so, which will result in tensions that will worsen, and a worldwide war will erupt if without reasonable release of the tension
Mathematics Anxiety and its Impact on Academic Achievement: Research on the Impact Mechanism Based on a Large-scale Assessment in Province Z
Get PDFThe study (published in Educational Research and Experiment) surveyed 42644 eighth-grade students from 11 prefecture-level cities in Province Z. It evaluates the eighth graders’ academic performance in mathematics by measuring their cognitive abilities in learning, understanding, and application in the study of Algebra, Graphics and Geometry, and Statistics and Probability. Manifestations of mathematics anxiety and its impact on student academic achievements are examined. The Mathematics Anxiety Questionnaire includes four dimensions, namely, class anxiety, homework anxiety, problem-solving anxiety, and test anxiety
Differences in Instruction Efficacy Between On-Campus and Online Teaching
Get PDFThe study, published in China Higher Education Research, takes 1630 undergraduates enrolled in 2019 and 2020 in University X as analysis sample. It conducts an empirical analysis of differences in instruction efficacy between on-campus and online teaching from the perspectives of class interaction, teaching atmosphere and student characteristics, and examines the influencing mechanism of online teaching efficacy. The propensity score matching method (PSM) is employed to analyze the differences in instruction efficacy and the degree of difference. In addition, the Poisson regression model is used to examine the factors influencing online teaching efficacy
Parental Involvement, Confidence in the Future, and Adolescent Development: A Comparative Analysis of Native and Migrant Adolescents
Get PDFThe study, published in Education & Economy, is based on Coleman's social capital theory, and takes the 7th graders at the baseline and 8th graders in the second-phase survey in the follow-up educational survey in China as analysis sample. It uses seemingly unrelated regression (SUR) analysis to study the impact of parental involvement on native and migrant adolescents’ cognitive ability, psychology and behavior
Can Increasing Teaching Rewards Improve Teaching Quality? An Empirical Study of 63 Universities Across the Country
Get PDFAlthough teaching and scientific research are both important tasks for college and university teachers, the phenomenon of emphasizing scientific research over teaching prevails. In the evaluation system, universities tend to give more weight to scientific research. As a result, teachers’ scientific research achievements are linked with their appointment, assessment, promotion, and salaries; Insufficient attention to teaching leads to low teaching quality. This study explores the effect of teaching incentives on teaching quality improvement by comparing the teaching incentives in different universities. Ordinary least squares is used to estimate the effect of teaching incentives on academic evaluation of teaching performance
The Coordinated Development of Secondary Vocational School Specialty Clusters and Industry Clusters: Citing Longgang No.2 Vocational and Technical School of Shenzhen as a Case Study
Get PDFWith the implementation of the state’s Plan of Constructing High-Level Vocational Schools and Specialties with Chinese Characteristics, the construction of specialty clusters has become a hot topic. They are critical tools for improving the educational quality of vocational schools by promoting vocational education transformation, upgrading, and innovation. To maximize the effectiveness of specialty cluster development in secondary vocational school curriculum reform, we must first identify the rationale for multi-agency involvement in the development of specialty clusters and then formulate action plans. This article examines the definitions and connotations of specialty clusters and discusses the contexts in which specialty clusters emerged. It examines strategies for developing specialty clusters using Shenzhen’s Longgang No. 2 Vocational and Technical School as an example
Harsh Parenting and Adolescent suicidal Tendencies: Based on A Moderated Mediation Model
Get PDFVarious evidence reveals that teenagers today have become a population with high suicide risk. It is of great theoretical and practical significance to investigate the factors influencing teenagers’ suicide mentality and the mechanism underlying them. Published in Psychological Development and Education, this study examines the relationship between harsh parenting and adolescent suicidal tendencies, based on a questionnaire survey of 4071 secondary students from four middle schools in Xi'an City
Investigation of 7th and 8th Grade Middle School Students’ Environmental Ethics Attitude Levels in Relation to Different Variables
Get PDFOne way to increase people’s positive behaviors toward nature is to ensure that students gain environmental ethics attitude concerning environmental issues. In this regard, the current study investigates the 7th and 8th-grade students’ environmental ethics attitude levels in relation to some variables (grade level, gender, school type). The study employed the survey model, one of the quantitative methods. The current research’s sampling was selected using the stratified sampling method. A total of 723 students (349 seventh graders and 374 eighth graders) attending middle school participated in the current study. The “Environmental Ethics Attitude Scale” was used as a data collection tool in this research. The findings of the current study have revealed that the 7th and 8th-grade students’ environmental ethics attitude levels vary significantly depending on gender in favor of the female students (U(142857) = 560.34; p < 0.001). Moreover, no statistically significant difference was found between the environmental ethics attitude levels of the 7th graders and 8th graders (U(124827) = 63752.00; p > 0.05). In addition, no statistically significant difference was found between the environmental ethics attitude level of the students attending schools located in peripheral districts of the city and that of the students attending schools located in the central districts of the city (U(191838)) = 48993; p > 0.05). The seventh-grade and eighth-grade students’ eccentric environmental ethics attitude mean score and anthropocentric environmental ethics attitude mean score were very close to each other. This shows that the students have environmental ethics attitude yet cannot give up anthropocentric behaviors. Similar studies can be conducted with students from different grade levels
The Relationship between Text Formality and Writing Quality: An Evaluation Based on Coh-Metrix
Get PDFThis study seeks to investigate the relationship between text formality and writing quality by quantifying text formality in EFL English writing. In order to conduct the research, 548 English argumentation compositions were evaluated in terms of the five Coh-Metrix text formality dimensions: narrativity, syntactic simplicity, word concreteness, referential coherence, and deep cohesion. Based on the study, there is only a weak relationship between text formality and writing quality, and some facets of text formality, such as narrativity, word concreteness, syntactic simplicity, and deep cohesion, have varying degrees of influence on writing quality and, consequently, on English writing scores. As per statistics, narrativity has a detrimental effect on writing quality; word concreteness has a significant positive correlation with writing quality; syntactic simplicity shows a relatively small negative correlation with writing quality; deep cohesion has a modestly negative correlation with writing quality; and referential coherence has no correlation with writing quality. It is intended that the findings of this study will have some bearing on how English argumentative writing is taught and learned
Exploring Employment Intentions of College Students in Small and Medium-sized Cities against the Backdrop of High-Quality Economic Development: Taking Huai’an City as an Example
Get PDFAgainst the backdrop of high-quality development of the national economy, the development of each city is also facing transformation and upgrading. Cities need high-quality development, and high-quality talents are the key. The problem of attracting high-quality talents in domestic small and medium-sized cities in high-quality development needs to be solved urgently. This paper takes Huai’an, a third-tier city in China, as an example, to understand the intentions and confusions of college students when they seek employment. The qualitative approach of semi-structured interviews is employed. The study finds that in small and medium-sized cities, factors hindering college students from staying in local cities for employment include that the intensity of the government in publicizing high-quality development has not reached to most college students, the guide courses in colleges and universities meet difficulties in the process of delivery, and college students' own career planning are not guided well. In response to the above problems, this paper puts forward suggestions such as strengthening the positive interaction between schools and college students, enhancing the publicity of high-quality urban development among college students, and closely integrating college students’ career guidance courses with local development. Quality development attracts more high-quality talents