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and humanistic deprivation of the mentioned group of adolescents. The problem of deprivation
and its psychological analysis remains actual and important for general understanding of
determinants of psychical development of the harmonic personality.
1096 ORAL
Educational psychology
Chair: Christopher Correa, USA
1096.1 The investigation and research of the personality characters of the middle school elite
teachers, Xiaoqin Wang, Jiang Xi Institute of Education, China
To investigate and understand the mental quality and personality characters of the middle school
elite teachers. Method: To make a poll in the middle school elite teachers by 16PF. Result: On the
whole the middle school elite teachers have excellent personality characters. Particularly indicate
the following aspect sociability, excitement, sophistication etc. but they are not so good at the
aspects experiment, Independence, nervousness, concernedness and there exist sexual differences
in the personality characters of the middle school elite teachers. Conclusion: It is important to
utilize and promote their excellent personality characters and overcome their passive ones.
1096.2 Using conditions and validity of classroom cooperative learning, Lu Sun, Dianzhi Liu,
Southwest China Normal University, China
Nowadays, cooperative learning has become a popular teaching model in China. However, the
more frequent it is used, the more possible the misuse and the overuse of it will happen. According
to several classroom teaching cases, this research analyzed the using conditions and validity of the
cooperative learning and recovered that: the using conditions included resource-sharing,
creative-thinking-using, important, hard or troublesome points-teaching; for the validity of this
teaching model, teachers should pay more attention to the thinking, inspectation and the
examination from the beginning to the end of the cooperative learning.
1096.3 Teacher beliefs across cultures: Interviews with Chinese and American teachers,
Christopher Correa, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA
This study compares the beliefs and values of elementary mathematics teachers in the United
States and China. Analysis of 40 interviews suggests cultural differences among Chinese and
American teachers in their discussion of the use of practice and repetition, views about student
ability, and the use of hands-on/discovery methods. We propose that teachers’ many ideas and
beliefs concerning education are interconnected and form a coherent system of beliefs and values
related to education. We suggest this finding is important and relevant to efforts to reform
education because stable and culturally-shared configurations of beliefs may be resistant to
change.
1096.4 Responding to poor students: The influence of teachers’ social axioms, implicit theories
of intelligence, and attributions, Allan B. I. Bernardo, De la salle University-Manila, Philippines
The study explores the relationships among social axioms, implicit theories of intelligence,
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