101 research outputs found
Schreibförderung lernen: Lehramtsstudierende als Schreibcoach/innen - ein Lehrexperiment
No full textDie hohe Diversität (schrift-)sprachlicher Fähigkeiten von Lernenden erfordert, Lehrkräfte differenziert auf den adäquaten Umgang damit vorzubereiten. Dazu wurde ein Seminar entwickelt, das ein sprachdidaktisches Konzept der halbstandardisierten, individuellen Rückmeldung zur Textqualität förderbedürftiger Schüler/innen vermittelt. In einem Lehrexperiment mit Lehramtsstudierenden des Faches Deutsch (BA vs. MA) wurde das Seminar durchgeführt und in einem Prä?Post-Follow up-Design evaluiert. Erste Ergebnisse zeigen, dass sich die Studierenden unabhängig von ihrer Studienerfahrung verbessern und die Nachhaltigkeit der Leistungssteigerung je nach Aufgabenformat variiert.
13.10.2017 | Marei Kotzerke, Moti Mathiebe & Joachim Grabowsk
A Direct Functional Measure of Text Quality: Did the Reader Understand?
No full textAssessing text quality as an indication of underlying skills still remains challenging; irrespective of the approach, many studies struggle with reliability or validity problems. If writing is considered problem-solving, a report must make the reader understand the described situation and call for its mental reconstruction. Therefore, text quality may not only comprise linguistic aspects but also the cognitive-functional power of a text. The presented study aims at exploring the functionality of students’ reporting texts in relation to general text-quality measures, using a corpus of accident reports written by German fifth- and ninth-graders (n = 277) prompted by a pictorial stimulus of a bike accident scenario. An online tool was developed in which 277 university students graphically reenacted the situation from one respective text according to the existence, position, and color of the involved elements. Thereafter, the match of the resulting spatial reconstructions with the original situation was assessed by two raters. While most subscales showed sufficiently high interrater reliabilities, the aggregated functionality score (α =.74) had medium-high correlations with other text-quality ratings and was comparably dependent on grade, education level, and linguistic family background. However, the correlational pattern, regression analysis, and factor analysis showed that the functionality score also contributed unique portions of variance to the assessment of writing skill that were not represented by rating measures. Moreover, the direct indication of whether a text allows for the reader’s adequate cognitive representation is evident. Altogether, the approach of indicating text functionality through practical understanding offers a sound, though empirically laborious, alternative for text-quality measurement. Results are discussed with regard to the didactical strategy according to which students can improve their writing when they observe whether others can make use of their texts
I “moti” della meccanica meravigliosa: ipotesi sul De Arbitriis Mirabilibus
No full textStarting from the circulation and the tradition of the Pneumatikà by Philo ofByzantium, the article considers various versions of the third chapter of the work, trying to explain the meaning and origin of the De Arbitriis Mirabilibus, title of the “unknown” work (to which the author refers) and to be understood in the context of the wonderful mechanics and the theory of vacuum (or “movements” of atoms).Partendo dalla circolazione e dalla tradizione dell’opera degli Pneumatikàdi Filone di Bisanzio, l’articolo prende in considerazione varie versioni del terzo capitolo dell’opera, tentando di spiegare il senso e l’origine del De Arbitriis Mirabilibus, titolo di un’opera “sconosciuta” (a cui lo stesso autore rimanda) e da intendere nel contesto della meccanica meravigliosa e della teoria del vuoto (o dei “moti” degli atomi)
Die größten Einflüsse auf die deutsche Industrie
No full text48 p.The author reviews the influence and role of industry in Germany from the Industrial Revolution to the modern era. She considers four periods: the Nineteenth Century Industrial Revolution through World War I; the post-war 1920s; the rise of the National Socialist German Workers’ Party in the 1930s to the end of World War II; the aftermath of World War II. The author discusses the relationship between industry and government as well as how the approach to rebuilding Germany after World War II differed from the post-World War I period
Teaching perspective taking and coherence generation to improve cross-genre writing skills in secondary grades: A detailed explanation of an intervention
No full textThis paper gives an analytic description of why and how an instructional writing program on the improvement of cross-genre writing skills in German secondary grade level has been designed and implemented. From a diagnostic research phase, and according to theoretical expectations, coherence management and perspective taking proved to be ability components that substantially contribute to text quality across different genres. To train these two abilities in a didactical setting, two 11-unit writing courses were analogously constructed and administered in 5th and 9th grades. There were 12 intervention classes and 12 control classes in each grade, forming 48 classes with 1.145 participants. The decisions that lead to the design of the intervention study and the corresponding didactical settings are explained and justified in detail, and the developed self-learning materials are described in terms of their assumed learning potentials and the underlying didactical principles. Based on the obtained empirical experiences, the intervention is critically evaluated with respect to good intervention research and its proper description
Der Mythos Der Stunde Null Und Die Erinnerung Im Film
No full text76 p.“The Myth of the Zero Hour and Memory in Film." The author reviews three films --Die Brucke (The Bridge, 1959), Abschied Von Gestern (Yesterday Girl, 1966), and Die Blechtrommel (The Tin Drum, 1979)-- and discusses how they reflect Germany's changing attitudes to World War II
The Argument from Underconsideration and Relative Realism
No full textIn this paper, through a critical examination of Wray’s version of the argument from underconsideration against scientific realism, I articulate a modest version of scientific realism. This modest realist position, which I call “relative realism,” preserves the scientific realist’s optimism about science’s ability to get closer to the truth while, at the same time, taking on board the antirealist’s premise that theory evaluation is comparative, and thus that there are no good reasons to think that science’s best theories are close to the truth
An analytical study of composite laminate lay-up using search algorithms for maximization of flexural stiffness and minimization of springback angle
No full textKurepa trees and the failure of the Galvin property
No full textWe force the existence of a non-trivial -complete ultrafilter over
which fails to satisfy the Galvin property. This answers a question
asked by the first author and Moti Gitik
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