International Journal of Social Science and Education Research
International Journal Of Social Science and Education Research (IJOSSER) is a monthly online, international, peer-reviewed journal. All articles published are rigorously and fast reviewed meeting the Journal Quality standards. IJOSSER is dedicated to publish empirical, academic, theoretical and review research articles that contribute to the practice in management, economics, education and social sciences. Scope of the journal includes: Anthropology, Communication studies, Economics, Education, Geography, History, Law, Linguistics, Political science, Psychology, Sociology, etc.
Rethinking Informal Social Support: Differential Effects of Family, Peer, and Neighborhood Relationships on Older Adults’ Subjective Well-being
Population aging has increased research attention to older adults’ subjective well-being in social work and public policy. Previous studies have mainly emphasized the positive effects of social support, while the differences between various types of social relationships have received less attention. Using data from the Chinese General Social Survey (CGSS) 2021, this study examines the relationship between informal social support and subjective well-being among 1,865 older adults aged 60 and above. OLS regression and Ordered Probit models were used for empirical analysis. The results indicate that different forms of social support have different associations with older adults’ well-being. Family support shows a consistent positive association, with both economic and emotional support contributing to higher levels of subjective well-being. However, peer support does not show the expected positive relationship. Instead, frequent gatherings with friends are associated with lower subjective well-being, suggesting that social interaction may also bring certain interpersonal and psychological pressures. Neighborhood support shows limited effects after family support is controlled. This study challenges the assumption that social support universally improves well-being by highlighting the differentiated effects of various social relationships. The findings suggest that elderly care services should focus not only on expanding social interaction but also on improving the quality and experience of social relationships.
Older adults; Subjective well-being; Informal social support; Family support; Peer support; Neighborhood support.
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Teaching Reform and Practice of Ideological and Political Education in the Numerical Analysis Course
In response to the demands of emerging engineering education development and the fundamental task of fostering virtue through education, this study focuses on prominent problems existing in the teaching practice of the Numerical Analysis course. These problems include rigid integration of curriculum ideological and political elements, insufficient value guidance, the long-standing imbalance between theoretical teaching and practical training, weak engineering ethics awareness among students, and a unitary teaching evaluation model. Guided by the teaching philosophy of "Consolidating theoretical foundation through rigorous numerical thinking, and shaping students' values through practical cultivation", this study constructs a four-dimensional curriculum ideological and political education system that integrates the cultivation of scientific spirit, patriotic consciousness, engineering ethics, and innovative practical awareness. This study implements a series of teaching reforms, including restructuring the dual-threaded teaching content that integrates professional knowledge and ideological and political education, innovating a diversified teaching mode that combines case-driven teaching, project-based teaching and blended learning, and establishing a three-dimensional teaching evaluation system covering knowledge mastery, ability development and ideological literacy. The proposed teaching reform effectively achieves the trinity educational goal of integrating value guidance, knowledge imparting and ability cultivation. At present, remarkable practical results have been obtained: students have won 4 discipline competition awards, completed 2 provincial college student innovation training projects, obtained 5 software copyrights and published 4 academic papers; the teaching team has also undertaken 3 provincial and ministerial-level teaching reform projects. This practice provides solid support for the cultivation of high-quality application-oriented engineering talents.
Curriculum ideological and political education; blended teaching; case-driven teaching; engineering ethics; patriotism.
Structural Priming and the Developing L2 Construct-i-con: A Critical Review of Representation, Association, and Change
Construction-based accounts characterize second-language (L2) grammar as a construct-i-con, a network of learned form–function pairings. Structural priming, the influence of a recently processed structure on later production or comprehension, offers a way to examine how this network is organized and how it changes. This critical review brings together within-construction, L2-internal cross-structural, and cross-language priming and attempts to discuss about what each design can show about representation, what factors condition the effect, and when priming supports a developmental claim. There is disagreement over the processes underlying structural priming: residual activation may cause recently accessed information to be temporarily more accessible, but implicit-learning theories view persistent or cumulative priming as adaptation to experience and therefore view cumulative priming as an implicit learning. Since these processes can coexist, a priming effect shows a context-dependent influence, not a permanent network link. Three patterns emerge: first, increased experience tends to lead to generalization across lexical items, although item-specific knowledge remains active; second, transfer between L2 constructions and languages is selective: development may strengthen licensed relations while reducing carry-over based only on a repeated string or an incompatible L1 pattern; third, immediate production, delayed production, and online prediction often diverge. Large effects therefore need not indicate mature representations; low baselines, rare structures, and unexpected verb–structure pairings can all increase priming. The state of an L2 construct-i-con is better determined by what an effect carries, where it stops, and how long it lasts than by its size alone.
Structural priming; second language acquisition; construct-i-con; construction learning; cross-structural priming; bilingual representation; implicit learning.
A Review of Empirical Research on Enhancing Communication Skills in Special Needs Children through the Integration of Picture Exchange Communication System and Video Modeling
Picture Exchange Communication System (PECS) and video modeling are classic strategies for improving communication skills in special needs children, but the effect of their combination still requires further exploration. Reviewing nine empirical studies integrating the PECS and video modeling, this paper summarizes findings across six dimensions: participants, design, goals, settings, strategies, and outcomes. Based on this analysis, four recommendations are proposed: First, Attending to individual differences and focusing on female participants and adolescents; Second, Basing interventions on needs and focusing on authentic natural social contexts; Third, Deepening combined strategies to leverage comprehensive advantages; Fourth, Focusing on long-term maintenance and generalization. This analysis provides insights for empirical research on communication skills intervention for special needs children in China.
Picture Exchange Communication System; Video Modeling; Special Needs Children; Communication Skills.
A Curriculum-based Ideological and Political Teaching Design of Introduction to British Literature Based on the BOPPPS Model
Curriculum-based ideological and political education serves as a core approach for universities to fulfill the fundamental task of fostering virtue through education and help college students develop a correct world outlook, outlook on life and values. To optimize the teaching mode of Introduction to British Literature, fully motivate students’ autonomous learning and improve classroom education effectiveness, this paper takes the in-depth integration of curriculum-based ideological and political education and professional teaching content as the core orientation. Supported by the BOPPPS instructional model, it systematically explores the integration paths of ideological and political elements and optimized teaching design for Introduction to British Literature from six complete teaching segments: Bridge-in, Objectives, Pre-assessment, Participatory Learning, Post-assessment and Summary. The study reveals that the curriculum-based ideological and political teaching system constructed on the basis of the BOPPPS model can effectively break the limitation of traditional literature teaching that overemphasizes knowledge imparting while neglecting value guidance. It realizes the organic integration of knowledge imparting, ability cultivation and value shaping, and substantially improves the educational quality. This research can provide feasible references for the teaching reform of curriculum-based ideological and political education and regular educational practice in foreign literature courses.
Course-based ideological-political education; teaching design; British literature.
Technology-Enhanced Simulation and 3D-Enabled Learning in Orthopaedic Postgraduate Education: Challenges and Practical Priorities
Orthopaedic simulation is often discussed as a choice between a screen, a printed model and a virtual-reality system. That choice comes later. A teaching session first needs a clinical task, such as selecting cup landmarks, explaining an acetabular reduction sequence or keeping a drill within a safe corridor. This perspective examines recent work on virtual simulation and three-dimensional (3D) models in postgraduate orthopaedics. The evidence is encouraging for selected procedural and anatomical outcomes, but it is heterogeneous and gives limited guidance on transfer to patient care. We use the case as the unit of curriculum design. The learner interprets the images, commits to a plan, rehearses the relevant step and then accounts for errors. A subsequent case should alter something clinically important rather than repeat the same geometry. Kern's curriculum framework, deliberate practice, debriefing, validity arguments and entrustment provide reference points for planning and assessment. The practical conclusion is modest: use the least complex medium that exposes the decision or action requiring practice, and do not treat a simulator score as clinical competence.
Orthopaedic postgraduate education; Technology-enhanced simulation; 3D-enabled learning; Competency-based education; Surgical training.
Beyond Surface Reading: Mapping Deep Learning Research in Junior Secondary English under the Core Competency Perspective
The 2025 revised edition of the Compulsory Education English Curriculum Standards(2022 Edition), hereafter referred to as the New Curriculum Standards, places core competencies at the center of the overall goals of English education and calls for junior secondary English reading instruction to move beyond a narrow model of language-knowledge training. Instead, reading instruction is expected to promote discourse-based meaning construction, the development of thinking,and transferable language use. Taking studies on deep learning in junior secondary English reading published between 2021 and 2026 as its main object of analysis, this paper adopts thematic retrieval, source-text verification, and thematic review to examine the development of this field over the past five years. The review shows that existing studies have effectively promoted a shift in junior secondary English reading instruction from superficial extraction of textual information to deeper construction of discourse meaning. Nevertheless, the field still faces several challenges,including unclear definitions of key concepts,insufficient alignment between teaching strategies and the developmental characteristics of junior secondary learners, a lack of empirical classroom evidence,and underdeveloped assessment systems and tools. This paper argues that deep learning in junior secondary English reading should take discourse themes as its central anchor, textual evidence as the basis for reasoning,cognitive scaffolding as continuous learning support,and authentic tasks as the endpoint of language transfer. Future research should further deepen the construction of internal mechanisms,accumulate classroom-based evidence, accelerate the development of specialized assessment tools, and regulate the boundaries of intelligent technologies in teaching contexts.
Junior secondary English reading; deep learning; core competencies; activity-based approach; integration of teaching, learning and assessment.
A Study on Narrative Reconstruction in Junior High History Textbooks from the Perspective of Exchanges and Mutual Learning Among Civilizations
The 2022 Compulsory Education History Curriculum Standards, and their 2025 revisions, clearly state that the teaching objectives of history should help students develop an international outlook. Given the above circumstances, it has become necessary to rethink the discourse in textbooks and emphasize the importance of reciprocal knowledge sharing and mutual cultural development along the Silk Road in junior high school history teaching reform. The 2024 updated national unified junior high school history curriculum adopts the concept of mutual learning among civilizations as its main thread and has reconstructed the logical structure of the unit "The Qin and Han Dynasties: Sino-Foreign Exchanges". Based on the analysis of text, images and sidebars in the 2017 and 2024 versions, this study has found a fundamental change in the pattern of internal discourse: it has shifted from a structure of one-way cultural dissemination to bilateral interactive exchange, and at the same time, it has moved from a Central Plains-centric view to a perspective of various civilizational coexistence. In light of the teaching of history, this study presents some practical ways to promote students' sense of cross-cultural literacy.
Intercultural Exchanges and Learning; Academic Curriculum; Middle School History Syllabi; Silk Road.
Accountability and Learner Identity Cues in Video-Based Learning: Effects on Achievement, Motivation, and Satisfaction
The effectiveness of video-based learning depends on instructional design features as well as on learners' psychological states and the situational cues present during learning. This study examined whether accountability and learner identity cues affect learning achievement, motivation, and satisfaction in an online video-based learning task. We randomly assigned 120 participants to four experimental conditions, using a 2 (accountability: high, low) × 2 (learner identity: high, low) between-subjects design, so that each condition had exactly 30 participants. During the experiment, the participants watched a five-minute teaching video about Erikson's personality development stage. After watching the video, we asked them to complete the measurement of learning achievement, learning motivation, learning satisfaction and accountability perception. The test of accountability manipulation showed that this manipulation was successful. From the results, the independent variable of accountability had a significant main effect on the three outcome variables of learning achievement, learning motivation and learning satisfaction. The score under the condition of high accountability was significantly higher than that under the condition of low accountability. The main effect of learner identity did not reach a significant level on any of the outcome indicators. The interaction between accountability and learner identity had a significant impact on learning motivation and learning satisfaction, but had no significant effect on learning achievement. We further conducted a simple effects analysis on learning satisfaction, and found that under different accountability conditions, the effect of learner identity was not the same. Overall, these findings highlight accountability as a useful cue to support short video-based learning; at the same time, it can also be seen that learner identity cues work differently depending on the specific situation, and its effect is mainly produced in the process of interaction with accountability.
Accountability; learner identity; video-based learning; learning achievement; learning motivation; learning satisfaction.
Synergistic Strategies for Labor Education and Mental Health Education in Primary and Secondary Schools
The synergistic value of labor education and mental health education has been highlighted in the context of the parallel development of five-domain education in the new era, but the isolated implementation of the two in primary and secondary education practice has weakened their effectiveness in educating people. This study focuses on solving the practical problems of effective synergism between the two, and analyzes the mental health value of labor education and the internal logic of the two by using the literature research method, combining the Marxist labor view and embodied cognition theory, etc. The study points out that there are limitations in the current domestic and international studies such as insufficient cross-cultural adaptation, lack of systematic research in primary and secondary schools, and weak localized theoretical constructs. At the same time, a hierarchical and progressive synergistic strategy system of labor education and mental health education in primary and secondary schools is constructed from the dimensions of curriculum, teaching, teachers' qualifications, and school-family-society collaboration, so as to provide primary and secondary school educators with an operable implementation plan, realize the bidirectional empowerment of both labor education and mental health education, assist primary and secondary school students in shaping the correct value of labor and fostering a healthy mental quality, and promote the optimization of the education system as a whole as well as the implementation of the integration of the five education systems.
Labor education; mental health education; primary and secondary schools; synergistic strategies; integrated five-dimension education.
Underground Reading and Existentialism in the Swaying Seventies: An Analysis of the Narrative Prose Style of Bei Dao's Waves
In the 1970s, the private reading of so-called "Yellow Cover Books" and "Grey Cover Books" constructed a specific intellectual sphere. The internal circulation and reading of translated Western modernist works,particularly existentialist ones, were “swaying” in the face of enormous social pressure.This construction of a very harsh environment is echoed in Bei Dao’s novel Waves , whose main character similarly encounters physical sensations of thirst,heat and contraction generate its peculiar narrative prose style. In this paper we analyze the text taking into account both the historical situation and the author’s biography,integrating a consideration of its special literary and historic interest with diffe.
Path Research on the Synergistic Effect of Ideological and Political Education and Professional Education in Physiological Psychology
The deep integration of ideological and political education with professional education constitutes the core pathway for higher education institutions to fulfill their fundamental mission of moral cultivation and talent development. As a foundational core course for Applied Psychology majors, Physiological Psychology embodies distinctive interdisciplinary, practice-oriented, and health-service attributes—making it a natural and effective vehicle for achieving the organic integration of value guidance, knowledge transmission, and competency development. Addressing current pedagogical challenges—including the disjunction between moral and intellectual education, the rigidity of conventional teaching methodologies, and the inadequacy of existing educational assessment frameworks—this paper proposes a synergistic education model structured around “one central thread, two supporting platforms, three progressive stages, and four-dimensional evaluation.” Specifically, the model: (1) reconstructs curriculum content to foster symbiosis between disciplinary knowledge and value orientation; (2) integrates learning–practice–application resources to diversify and enrich pedagogical carriers; (3) innovates an interactive teaching paradigm centered on “three integrations and three promotions”; and (4) establishes a multi-dimensional, process-oriented evaluation system to strengthen formative guidance and holistic development. Through this integrated approach, the model successfully advances the concurrent enhancement of students’ professional core competencies and ideological-political literacy.
Physiological psychology; ideological and political courses; professional education; synergistic education.
Can Cyber‑Hugs Replace Real‑World Warmth? A Study on the Psychological Mechanism of Virtual Social Compensation Among Generation Z College Students
Generation Z college students are experiencing a profound social paradox: virtual connections are unprecedentedly extensive, yet real‑world loneliness keeps spreading. Based on Compensation Theory, Social Comparison Theory and Parasocial Interaction Theory, this study systematically analyzes the occurrence mechanism and psychological path of virtual social compensation. The study finds that frustrated real‑world social demands constitute the "push force" for compensation; the anonymity, instant feedback and spatial design of virtual environments constitute the "pull force" for compensation; and individual differences such as field cognitive‑style determine how easily compensation can be activated. The compensation effect presents three differentiated paths: substitutive satisfaction provides short‑term emotional buffering; the paradox of "more compensation brings greater loneliness" within a vicious circle is jointly driven by upward social comparison and the degradation of real‑world social skills; empowerment spillover needs to be understood under the framework of spectrum dynamic demands — compensation swings among three states of "sanctuary‑sandbox‑bridge", and positive transfer can only be realized under the "bridge" state. The demarcation of boundaries depends on the level of self‑differentiation, the depth of compensation content and real‑world ecological support. This paper holds that the governance approach for virtual social compensation lies not in cutting off connections, but in guiding compensation to upgrade from "emotional consumption" to "social practice".
Virtual social compensation; Generation Z; social comparison; parasocial interaction; spectrum dynamic demands.
Research on Virtual Simulation Scenario Development and Collaborative Rescue Training of Chemical Park Fires for Undergraduate Emergency Response Majors
Fire and explosion incidents in hazardous chemical industrial parks are characterized by their sudden onset, rapid progression, numerous secondary risks, and the need for high levels of interagency coordination. Traditional in-person drills and written contingency plans struggle to replicate complex incident scenarios in a low-risk, low-cost, and end-to-end manner. Taking the “August 12” Extraordinary Major Fire and Explosion Accident at the Port of Tianjin as a typical case study, this paper addresses issues in undergraduate emergency response practical training—such as a lack of diverse scenarios, imprecise alignment between theory and practice, and insufficient resource sharing—by developing a virtual simulation scenario for fires in hazardous chemical industrial parks and a multi-agency coordinated rescue drill plan. Based on a post-incident analysis of the case study, the research identifies key elements such as hazardous chemical types, park layout, fire and explosion progression, rescue routes, personnel evacuation, and environmental monitoring. Using 3ds Max and Unity 3D, the study visualizes three-dimensional scenes, dynamic fires, traffic congestion, and rescue operations; In accordance with the emergency response command procedures for hazardous chemical accidents, the study designed roles and tasks for emergency command, fire and rescue, medical aid, public security and traffic management, environmental monitoring, and technical support, forming a collaborative drill process comprising “alert reception and assessment—on-site reconnaissance—cordoning and evacuation—firefighting and search and rescue—medical and environmental response—termination and debriefing.” Furthermore, this scenario was integrated into the “Four Categories, Five Levels, and 4R Phases” practical teaching framework, establishing a resource organization model tailored to course experiments, comprehensive design, professional skills training, and competition-based innovation. Research indicates that virtual simulation scenarios of fires in hazardous chemical industrial parks can effectively enhance the visualization of accident processes, the intuitiveness of contingency plan execution, and the effectiveness of multi-role collaborative training, and can serve as a model achievement in the development of virtual simulation-based practical teaching systems for undergraduate emergency response programs.
Hazardous Chemicals Industrial Park, Virtual Reality, Fires and Explosions, Coordinated Rescue, Practical Instruction, Emergency Drill.
Application of 3DEC Numerical Simulation Method in Experimental Teaching of Mine Safety Engineering
An in-depth understanding of mining models, the mining-induced evolution characteristics of three-dimensional principal stresses, as well as stress states and instability failure modes, is critical for students to grasp the disaster-causing mechanisms of roof disasters, gas disasters, water inrush disasters and other hazards in mine safety engineering. Compared with the traditional mechanical analytical method, field in-situ stress test data analysis method and triaxial compression test method, the 3DEC numerical simulation method can characterize the stress distribution and failure morphology during mining more accurately. It possesses advantages such as high consistency with engineering practice, strong teaching visualization and low experimental cost. Taking the N00 mining method for longwall mining as the research object, this study adopts a teaching approach combining theoretical analysis and 3DEC numerical simulation to systematically reveal the mechanical response characteristics of rock masses at key positions under this mining method. The results show that: (1) In view of the mechanical property that rock masses resist compression but are vulnerable to tension, the directional hydraulic roof cutting technology can realize hydraulic fracture generation with low disturbance. (2) Under the combined effect of cutting fractures and mining disturbance, the three-dimensional principal stresses of immediate roof rock blocks on the goaf side present a dynamic evolution characteristic of “increase–decrease–increase”, accompanied by obvious deflection of mining-induced principal stress directions. (3) The mining-induced failure mode of roof rock blocks on both sides of the goaf is tension-shear composite failure, while that in the central area is shear failure. Teaching practice demonstrates that introducing the 3DEC numerical simulation method into the experimental teaching of mine safety engineering is highly feasible. This method enriches teaching approaches and provides effective research methods and implementation paths for students to understand the mechanisms of engineering disasters.
Mine safety engineering; N00 mining method; experimental teaching; principal stress evolution; 3DEC numerical simulation.
The Writing of Eros in the Irish Millennial Generation in Normal People
Irish emerging writer Sally Rooney’s second novel, Normal People, tells the story of a romantic relationship, from their high school life to their university years, between Marianne and Connell, two Irish youths. Indeed, under the surface of the love story lies a contemplation on how individuals establish intimate relationships against the Modern existential crisis. Based on the examination of the intimacy between the two lovers, this paper investigates the dilemma of eros, which is commonly seen among the Irish millennial, and further proposes possible approaches to the construction of intimate relationships in the new era.
Sally Rooney; Normal People; intimate relationships; the dilemma of eros.
A Study on the Factors Influencing Older Adults’ Willingness to Adopt Health Information in Human-AI Hybrid Interaction Contexts
With the accelerated penetration of AI agents driven by large language models such as ChatGPT and DeepSeek into the healthcare field, human-AI collaborative hybrid interaction has become the mainstream form of online medical services. Against the macro backdrop of an aging society and the rise of the “Silver Economy,” it carries significant expectations for enhancing the health and well-being of the elderly population. Therefore, an in-depth exploration of the key influencing factors and mechanisms underlying users’ adoption of AI-generated health information holds substantial theoretical and practical value. This study is grounded in the Stimulus-Organism-Response (S-O-R) theoretical framework, integrating the Elaboration Likelihood Model (ELM) and the Unified Theory of Acceptance and Use of Technology (UTAUT) to construct a multidimensional theoretical model. Through validation using structural equation modeling, it not only expands the application of human-computer interaction and information adoption theories in the contexts of smart healthcare and aging but also provides empirical evidence and targeted insights for AI health tool designers to optimize age-friendly interactive experiences, as well as for policymakers to establish a scientific and inclusive regulatory and service system for “Internet + Healthcare.”
Online Healthcare; Human-AI Hybrid Interaction; Health Information Adoption; Silver Economy.
Research on Bottlenecks and Improvement Paths of Digital Transformation in Higher Vocational Colleges from the Perspective of Organizational Inertia: Oriented by the Demand for New Quality Productive Forces
The development of new quality productive forces has raised higher requirements for talent training models, governance systems and service capabilities of higher vocational colleges. Digital transformation has become a vital approach for higher vocational colleges to improve governance efficiency, optimize the allocation of educational resources, and strengthen their capacity to serve regional industries. Nevertheless, during the digital transformation process, higher vocational colleges are generally confronted with such challenges as rigid organizational structures, institutional path dependence, insufficient data governance capacity and lagging digital cultural development, which generate prominent organizational inertia and hinder the effectiveness of digital reform. Based on the theory of organizational inertia and oriented toward the demands of new quality productive forces, this paper analyzes the formation mechanism and action mechanism of organizational inertia in the digital transformation of higher vocational colleges, constructs a four-dimensional driving model of "technology empowerment – organizational restructuring – ecological collaboration – evaluation guarantee", and explores the paths of digital process reengineering and institutional innovation combined with the practical scenario of innovation and entrepreneurship incubation bases. The study concludes that higher vocational colleges should break through organizational inertia by upgrading digital infrastructure, optimizing organizational structures, promoting school-enterprise collaborative innovation and constructing a digital governance evaluation system, so as to advance their digital governance capacity and provide support for cultivating high-quality technical and skilled talents adaptable to the development of new quality productive forces.
Organizational Inertia, Digital Higher Vocational Colleges, New Quality Productive Forces, Digital Governance.
Exploration of Hybrid Teaching Mode of Machine Learning Course under the Background of Smart Education
Based on the needs of machine learning course teaching, and on the basis of breaking through the limitations of traditional teaching, this paper constructs a hybrid teaching mode of "intelligent diagnosis, dynamic adaptation and multi-dimensional interaction". With the help of learning analysis technology and intelligent algorithm, the teaching content is accurately layered, the learning path is personalized, and the teaching effect and students' classroom learning experience are improved by relying on online and offline multi-dimensional interaction scenarios. It is a reform idea and implementation framework of machine learning course teaching to integrate the new concept of education and teaching into it, which has very important practical significance.
Smart education, machine learning courses, hybrid teaching model; teaching reform.
Generative AI-Enabled Formative Assessment in a Higher Vocational Surveying Programming Course: Design and Initial Practice
Programming courses in higher vocational geomatics education ask students to combine Python syntax with surveying computation fundamentals, data-processing workflows, and engineering-quality standards. In many cases, assessment of traditional assignments is both delayed and oriented toward final results, which makes it hard to pinpoint issues such as algorithmic mistakes, code-quality shortcomings, and each learner’s specific needs. This study proposes a generative AI–enabled formative assessment model for the Surveying Programming (Python) course. Using a platform that was developed in-house, the model integrates rule-based checks, test cases, domain-specific rubrics, large-language-model analysis, and teacher review to create a closed loop that supports task design, code submission, intelligent evaluation, personalized feedback, revision, learning analytics, and ongoing instructional improvement. The model was first piloted in the spring 2026 term in Engineering Surveying Class 2401 (n = 42). Data aggregated from five assignments were analyzed descriptively. The platform dashboard showed a 95% assignment completion rate, an overall average score of 84.6, and four students who required additional attention. Mean assignment scores rose from 78.1 on the first task to 88.9 on the fifth task. The most frequently recorded problems were file-reading exceptions (28%), non-standard variable naming (22%), and loop-boundary errors (18%). Overall, these results offer early evidence that the model is feasible for providing timely, domain-informed feedback and for turning programming-process data into actionable teaching information at the class level. Because this study involves only one class and relies on descriptive platform data without a control group, the findings should be viewed as implementation evidence rather than proof, in a causal sense, of improved learning effectiveness.
Generative artificial intelligence; formative assessment; surveying programming; higher vocational education; code feedback; learning analytics.
Research on Virtual Simulation Experimental Teaching of Audit Decision-Making Based on Multi-Party Dynamic Games
To address the challenges of traditional audit experimental teaching, including limited access to real-world scenarios, high trial-and-error costs, long experimental cycles, and difficulties in presenting multi-party dynamic games, this study constructs a virtual simulation experiment course for audit decision-making based on multi-party dynamic games. The course takes a virtual enterprise operation environment as the carrier, integrates game theory in economics, process design incorporating industrial chain thinking, and experimental economics perspectives, and develops a virtual simulation experiment system covering the entire process of audit decision-making, comprehensive evaluation, and experimental report writing. By embedding artificial intelligence technologies such as DeepSeek, the course achieves deep integration between audit decision-making and intelligent assistance. The course adopts a blended online and offline teaching mode, supporting multi-role collaboration, simulation of multi-party dynamic games, human-computer interaction, and whole-process evaluation. It effectively enhances students' audit judgment, decision-making, and comprehensive practical capabilities, providing an innovative experimental teaching model for cultivating high-quality talents in finance and economics in the era of digital intelligence.
Multi-party dynamic games; Virtual simulation experiment; Audit decision-making; Experimental teaching.
Technique, Manners, and Essence: A Cross-Cultural Analysis of Eastern and Western Archery Systems
Archery could do a lot more than help people survive or fight in the ancient times. It became a cultural basic transportation tool, by which various societies were able to articulate cosmological structures and structure behavior.Over thousands of years the archery systems in the East and the West were vastly different- not only in the technique or equipments, but also in the rituals and educational systems, and even in the metaphysics.This study investigates such discrepancies through two lenses of analysis: the first adhering to the emerging rationale of the discrepancies, and the second tracing them across cultures, thereby showing how the archery operates simultaneously as both an embodied practice and a semiotic construction based on historically specific sociopolitical structures and worldview assumptions.
Archery culture; Ritual archery; Competitive archery; Cross-cultural comparison.
Current Status and Prospects of Research on Justice Sensitivity
Justice sensitivity is a stable personality trait that characterizes individual differences in the ease of perceiving unjust events and the intensity of reactions to them. After nearly three decades of development, this research field has formed a mature four-dimensional structure model, including the dimensions of victim, observer, beneficiary, and perpetrator, which profoundly reveals differentiated psychological and behavioral responses due to different roles individuals play in unjust events. This report systematically reviews the conceptual evolution of justice sensitivity, the theoretical logic of the four-dimensional structure, and introduces internationally mainstream and locally adapted measurement tools. The core part of the report integrates empirical findings from two levels—individual psychology and behavior, and intergroup relations—and emphasizes the "self-oriented vs. other-oriented" dimensional differentiation effect that runs through them. Based on a systematic review of existing literature, it identifies limitations in current research, including coverage of research subjects, methodological paradigms, cultural adaptation, mechanism integration, and practical application, and provides prospects for future research directions, aiming to provide solid theoretical references and forward-looking guidance for deepening and innovating domestic research in this field.
Justice sensitivity; four-dimensional structure; prosocial behavior; group attitudes; justice perception.
Research on the Integration of Thematic Teaching of Middle School History Units and Excellent Classroom Construction
Under the background of the continuous promotion of new curriculum reform and the continuous strengthening of the core literacy of history subjects, middle school history classes are no longer satisfied with the teaching of a single knowledge point, but pay more attention to the comprehensive construction of students' historical development vein, historical interpretation methods and value judgement ability. Unit thematic teaching takes the theme as a clue, and systematically integrates the content of textbooks, historical situations, learning tasks, historical resources and evaluation activities, which helps to change the problems of fragmented content, shallow activities and scattered goals in traditional history classes. The construction of excellent classroom emphasises the high quality, high efficiency and high educational value of classroom teaching, and requires teachers to realise the unity of knowledge learning, ability improvement and literacy development in limited classroom time. The two have strong consistency in teaching philosophy, goal orientation and implementation method. Based on this, this article analyses the integration of thematic teaching of middle school history units and excellent classroom construction, and explores its inherent value, real problems and practical path, in order to provide reference for improving the quality of middle school history classes.
Middle school history; unit thematic teaching; excellent classroom; historical core literacy; classroom construction.
The Effect of Academic Burnout on AI Dependence: The Mediating Role of Self-Efficacy
AI tools have become part of ordinary university study. Students use them to locate material, clarify difficult ideas, prepare drafts, and work through assignments. This convenience is useful, but it also makes it easier to hand over parts of the learning process to a system. Drawing on 548 valid questionnaires, the present study examined the association between academic burnout and dependence on AI, with general self-efficacy considered as a possible mediator. Burnout was positively related to AI dependence and negatively related to self-efficacy, whereas self-efficacy was inversely related to AI dependence. The regression results showed that burnout remained a significant predictor of AI dependence after demographic variables and self-efficacy were controlled. Bootstrap analysis further identified a significant indirect effect through self-efficacy; this pathway accounted for 14.52% of the total effect, so the mediation was partial rather than complete. The findings suggest that problematic AI reliance cannot be addressed only through rules about technology use. Support for students who are exhausted by study, together with opportunities to regain confidence through successful independent work, may be equally important.
Academic Burnout; AI Dependence; Self-Efficacy; Mediating Effect; College Students.
Enhancing College English Teachers’ Instructional Adaptability through Positive Psychological Resources
In today’s college English classroom, many teachers face a familiar set of problems. Students may look at the screen but lose attention quickly. Some students avoid speaking because they are afraid of making mistakes. Others depend too much on translation apps or wait for the teacher to give the answer. These situations make teaching adjustment a real part of daily work, not just a theoretical issue. Based on positive psychology, psychological capital theory, teacher adaptability studies, and research on language teacher emotion regulation, this paper discusses how positive psychological resources may support college English teachers’ instructional adaptability. The paper focuses on hope, optimism, resilience, self-efficacy, professional meaning, and supportive relationships. It argues that these resources help teachers keep teaching goals in mind, read classroom problems more calmly, control negative emotions, and choose more suitable teaching strategies. The paper also suggests practical ways to improve classroom interaction, language scaffolding, feedback, teacher learning communities, and school-based support.
Positive psychological resources, college English, instructional adaptability, emotion regulation; teacher development.
Research on the Intervention Effect of Music Group Counseling on School Weariness Among Left-behind Children
Left-behind children constitute a special group that has emerged during China's urbanization process. The detection rate of their school weariness is as high as 21.9%, seriously affecting their academic development and mental health. Existing research indicates that self-compassion can buffer the negative impact of school weariness on problematic behaviors, while music therapy possesses unique advantages in emotional regulation and subconscious exploration. This study aims to explore the intervention effect of music group counseling on school weariness among left-behind children and examine the possible mediating role of self-compassion. Utilizing literature research, theoretical analysis, and program design methods, this study integrates self-compassion theory and music-guided imagery theory to construct a mechanism model of music group counseling and design a six-session music group counseling program. The research reveals that music group counseling can alleviate school weariness by enhancing self-compassion levels, with its mechanism including emotional expression, self-acceptance, group support, and mindfulness cultivation. This study theoretically deepens the understanding of the mechanism of self-compassion and provides a new approach for intervening in school weariness among left-behind children in practice.
Left-behind children; weariness towards learning; music group counseling; self-compassion; intervention study.
Parent-firm AI Adoption and Foreign Subsidiary Performance
This paper examines whether artificial intelligence (AI) adoption by parent firms improves the performance of foreign subsidiaries. Using a matched panel of Chinese A-share listed parent firms and overseas subsidiaries during 2018-2024, we link annual-report-based AI adoption to subsidiary return on assets. Fixed-effects estimates show a positive relationship between parent-firm AI adoption and subsidiary performance. Two instrumental-variable strategies, based on peer adoption and a shift-share design, support the main result, although the shift-share estimate is less precise. Mechanism tests suggest that AI adoption improves performance partly through stronger inventory discipline. The effect is weaker in faster-growing host economies and stronger in resource-dependent host economies.
Artificial intelligence, Foreign subsidiaries, Subsidiary performance, Knowledge transfer, Multinational enterprises.
Research and Practice on the Teaching Reform of Programming Courses Enabled by AI: --A Case Study of “Python Fundamentals and Applications”
This paper analyzes current issues in programming courses at applied undergraduate institutions. The issues mainly includes the outdated teaching content and lacking practical abilities, outdated teaching methods, over-reliance on artificial intelligence (AI) tools, lack of computational thinking and innovation ability, the assessment method is simplistic, etc. This article explores and proposes a set of innovative teaching reform plans in four aspects: the reconstruction of the teaching knowledge system, the teaching model, the teaching resources and tools, and the assessment and evaluation. All these are carried out under the empowerment of AI. Based on the AI assistant provided by the FanYa platform, a "comprehensive integration of classroom and extracurricular activities, combined with online and offline elements" interactive and exploratory blended teaching model is constructed. Through specific implementation methods such as project case-based teaching, hierarchical task design, and human-computer collaborative programming, and by adopting a multi-dimensional and full-process goal achievement assessment and evaluation system, the aim is to systematically enhance students' engineering practice and innovative collaboration abilities. This research provides a theoretical-depth and practically feasible reference model for the reform of programming courses in computer-related majors of applied-type universities.
Artificial Intelligence; Python; Blended Learning; Curriculum Reform.
Graduate Education Scale, Training Output, and Regional Innovation: An Analysis Based on Structural Effects and Market Environment
Against the background of building China into a leading country in education and pursuing innovation-driven development, the role of graduate education in regional innovation has become increasingly prominent. Based on provincial panel data for 31 Chinese provinces from 2005 to 2022, this paper uses a two-way fixed-effects model to examine the empirical relationship between graduate education scale and regional innovation, and further analyzes training output, educational structure, and differences in market environment. The results show that the direct effect of graduate education scale on regional innovation is not stable, and scale expansion alone cannot fully explain improvements in regional innovation. The number of graduate degree recipients and training efficiency have significant positive effects on basic research, indicating that training output is an important dimension for understanding how graduate education serves knowledge production. Structural variables such as the doctoral share and the doctoral-master ratio have positive effects on regional innovation, especially basic research, but scale expansion and structural optimization do not simply reinforce each other. Market heterogeneity and interaction tests show that the innovation effect of graduate education scale is more evident in low-marketization regions, with particularly significant intergroup differences in basic research. Supplementary analysis also shows that university R&D expenditure and university R&D projects mainly promote basic research output. The findings suggest that graduate education should serve regional innovation by shifting from mere scale expansion toward structural optimization, quality improvement, and stronger regional adaptation.
Graduate education; regional innovation; training output; educational structure; market heterogeneity.