Context-Dependent Item Sets

What are item sets and how are they being used in testing? What methods are being used to score them? What are the prospects for future use of item sets?     

数学教学中如何培养学生的反思能力

分析了数学教学中培养反思能力的做法。即说理过程中使用了什么知识、什么思想方法？该命题是否还有其他说明方法？还可以得到什么结论？条件可否特殊化或一般化？题目中的题设和结论是否可以互换？     

国际技术教育课程评价:困境、经验与启示

近年来,随着技术教育成为各国基础教育关注的热点领域,其课程评价日益成为一个共同的焦点问题。技术教育课程应该由谁来评价?评价什么?怎样评价?有哪些合适的评价方式?通过对别国及地区的实践考察,技术教育课程评价应积极建立基于"专业"与标准的国家质量监测体系,努力寻求适合"技术"自身特性的多元评价方式。     

Methods matter: Improving causal inference in educational and social science research: A review article

Professors Richard J. Murnane and John B. Willett set out to capitalize on recent developments in education data and methodology by attempting to answer the following questions: How can new methods and data be applied most effectively in educational and social science research? What kinds of research designs are most appropriate? What kinds of data are needed? What statistical methods are best used to process these data, and how can results be interpreted so that policymakers are best informed? In this review we summarize main contributions of the book, assess the unique value-added of the text, and discuss the usability of it to various potential audiences.     

The Most Important Thing: Students with Reading and Writing Difficulties Talk About their Experiences of Teachers' Treatment and Guidance

Dyslexia is a well-known phenomenon and help and assistance are offered to pupils and students who experience literacy difficulties on a regular basis. But what help do they need and want? In this article the responses people with reading and writing difficulties/dyslexia give to this question are discussed. What, if we take the student's own viewpoint, is the most important thing the teacher can do? The students never mention any particular teaching methods. What appears as important to them is that the teacher sees them as individuals, not just as dyslectics, understands the special difficulties with which each individual must grapple, and provides the students with suitable tools for their learning as well as necessary time and space.     

Comparability of Scores From Performance Assessments

Why is comparability of forms important for performance assessments? Can traditional methods of form equating be used? What problems are likely to arise in equating? Can standards generalize across forms?     

大学英语多媒体网络教学的思考

多媒体网络教学是信息革命的必然产物。随着这门新兴技术的出现,大学英语教学模式也相应地发生了变化,多媒体网络技术是当代教师必须掌握的技能。     

英语专业交替传译教学中记忆训练的认知研究

记忆训练是交替传译教学中的重点。教学中使用的记忆训练方法背后的认知规律是什么?教学中如何运用这些认知规律来指导记忆训练?本文对这些记忆训练方法进行了认知研究,从图式理论对这些方法一一进行了探讨,并对图式理论对口译教学的启示进行了分析。     

Graduate Programs That Prepare Educational Measurement Specialists

What are typical requirements in graduate measurement programs? How d o programs in measurement and research methods differ?     

Essential Assessment Skills in Professional Education of Teachers

What content areas should be included in a testing and measurement course? What skills should teachers learn in each content area? How can this content and these skills be rationalized?     

大文化是大学发展的哲学基础

大学是什么？应该怎么做？如何办？这是每一个管理者关心的问题。大文化是哲学研究的对象，通过对大文化的研究解决上述问题，提出新的大学发展理念和教学革新思路，因此，大文化将是发展大学的哲学基础。     

解读《幼儿园收费管理暂行办法》

制定《幼儿园收费管理暂行办法》有三大目的,即强化管理与监督,规范收费,保障权益。《收费办法》具有三大特点:收费标准三轨制,备案制度多元化,公办园保教成本三方共担。对《收费办法》的疑虑有六点:政策制定者的立场如何,收费标准的重要参照系是什么,幼儿园乱收费的根本原因是什么,相关利益主体是否应参与政策制定,民办幼儿园怎样取得合理回报,幼儿园收费标准是否需要调整。希望各省(区、市)后续出台的文件会对这些问题作出明确界定,以推动学前教育事业健康发展。     

Educational Testing in Poland

What has been the history of educational assessment in Poland? How are the social system, school system, examination forms, measurement theory, and attitudes toward tests related to each other? How are recent efforts at democratization of political systems likely to influence educational testing in Poland?     

Perspectives on Measurement Instruction

How do teachers obtain assessment information? Should our courses emphasize less formal assessment methods rather than formal methods? What nontraditional assessment topics should be added to our courses?     

Quality Assessment Lessons from Australia and New Zealand

This article describes two recent efforts to rank the quality of higher education institutions in Australia and New Zealand. After a brief discussion of goals, methods, and results, the author evaluates each ranking using the following questions: Does this methodological approach achieve its objective? Can other countries use the methodology by extension? What can we learn about a country's higher education system using this approach? The aim is to provide readers with a framework for thinking critically about rankings, and about the role they might play in measuring and influencing higher education quality on a global scale.     

An Enquiry Into the Role and Importance of Ethics in Scientific Research

In this essay the importance of spirituality (or ethics) in the life of a research scientist is explored. The following four questions are considered: a) Why should the problem be studied? What are the benefits? and For whom? b) How should we approach this problem? c) What if the results of this investigation contradict other theories? What should we do in case of disagreements? and, d) What are the consequences of this study? Who or what is going to be harmed? What are the effects on the environment?

     

A History of Social Science Measurement

What are the historic oriains of measurement? What v are the basic requirements for fundamental measurement? What are some common pitfalls to avoid? D o item response models meet these needs?     

课堂教学有效性的几个基础问题

提高教育教学质量,探索课堂教学有效性,有必要弄清楚几个基础性的问题。我们对课堂教学有效性的关注缺失了什么?是否关注了促进公平的前提、教学的教育性和教育的教学性、课堂教学的若干隐蔽范畴?课堂教学有效性的"有效"追求什么?是否弄清了低效负效、真实有效和虚假有效、坚持能力为重的有效?课堂教学有效性的"有效"如何落实?是否转变了基础教育教学的评价观、有效教学的实践观、有效教学的合适方法?     

“产业化之争”中的方法论问题

在高等教育产业化问题上有一些争论。这个争论中，除了观念之别，也有方法之别。其中，确存在方法论问题。我们站在哪个视角？我们作了何种假定？我们如何在讨论着？     

Values and State Ratings: An Examination of the State-By-State Education Indicators in Quality Counts

What are educational indicators? What are the strengths and weaknesses of using such indicators? What do we need to learn about educational indicators?