WISC-R examiner errors: Cause for concern

While errors on the WISC-R are conceived primarily in terms of internal consistency and stability over time, examiners make mistakes that contribute to the inaccuracy of test scores. Studies to date mainly have investigated general scoring errors, rather than specific items most prone to error. Investigation of graduate students' test protocols indicated numerous scoring and mechanical errors that influenced the Full Scale IQ scores on two-thirds of the protocols. Particularly prone to error were Verbal subtests of Vocabulary, Comprehension, and Similarities. More importantly, specific items on subtests in which numerous mistakes occurred were noted, as well as the most likely type of error for each item. These findings have implications for the education and training of assessment specialists.     

中国哲学专业研究生培养目标浅议

与中国哲学专业自身的理念和特点一致,中国哲学专业研究生培养目标应有三个主要的方面,一是培养具有独立人格和自由精神的个体,二是培养具有社会责任感和担当意识的学者,三是培养能创造性诠释和推动中国哲学发展的人才,这些是现今一般中国哲学专业研究生培养中所缺少但却极为重要的目标。     

关于提高研究生培养质量的若干思考

近些年来,我国的研究生教育发展迅速,招生规模扩大很快,随之而来的培养质量问题也日益凸显出来。研究生培养过程中应注重的五个环节:生活质量是基础,课程建设是途径,导师队伍建设是关键,严格学位论文是“物化形式”,加强管理是重要保证。     

用赏识教育培养优秀研究生

本文分别从用赏识教育的作用、赏识教育的实施以及注意的问题这三方面着手,阐述用赏识教育培养优秀研究生。     

Criteria for granting research training awards to graduate students

Survey data from 458 former health science graduate students were examined for correlations between variables that might be used in selecting research training award recipients and successful training outcome defined as a highly productive research career. Scores on six research outcome variables were used to cluster respondents into two groups: active and less-active researchers. After exploring factors underlying thirteen predictor variables, discriminant analysis was employed to identify predictive strength. There were no significant direct or indirect correlations between posttraining research activity and either the overall undergraduate academic grade of respondents or the amount of encouragement they received from the sponsors of their graduate award applications. An additional seven variables also showed no significant correlation with research career outcome. They were science hobbies as a child; undergraduate prizes and awards; summers spent in research; undergraduate publications; prestige and research orientation of undergraduate environment; and prestige of graduate institution. Four variables that showed promise as useful indicators of posttraining research activity were investigative personality; research orientation of the graduate environment; focused energy personality; and, to a lesser extent, preuniversity interest in science.     

加强工科研究生培养的实践环节

实践环节是工科研究生培养的重要组成部分。随着我国研究生教育规模的迅速扩张,教育资源日趋紧张,研究生的实践条件十分有限,加强工科研究生实践环节的培养已经成为当务之急。笔者对工科研究生实践能力培养的重要性和提升研究生实践能力的措施进行了探讨。     

Pedagogy for partisanship: research training for Black graduate students in the Black intellectual tradition

Current and former students of two professors in a southern research university and a community educator, all participants in an African-centered research collaborative/apprenticeship, describe what and how we study together and our struggle to use our knowledge and research in service to our community. We uplift the works of key Pan-African/Black/Africana Studies/Nile Valley scholars to illustrate the African epistemic foundation of our collaborative/apprenticeship. We describe how we utilized the methodology of narrative inquiry to explore our experiences as participants in the HeKA (Heritage Knowledge in Action) research collaborative and how HeKA has provided ways of knowing and being centered in our culture and heritage. We present our findings, which include some of the dilemmas of Black doctoral students and emerging scholars engaged in HeKA and how this collaborative/apprenticeship serves as an emancipatory praxis to enable the next generation to realize their goals of partisan research and pedagogy in higher education.     

基于QFD的研究生培养质量保证模型

针对研究生培养质量控制的需求,研究了服务于高校研究生培养的质量规划保证模型。该模型以满足研究生社会需求质量为目标,以QFD理论为基础,结合高校研究生培养系统,通过层次演化分解和逐层映射的方法,确定了研究生培养各QFD阶段的控制目标及其控制方法手段策略选择,可为培养单位的研究生培养质量管理活动实践提供理论支持,丰富我国研究生培养质量研究理论体系。     

论研究生培养机制的系统构建

研究生培养机制改革是当前研究生教育理论研究与实践的热点和难点问题.笔者从研究生培养机制的内涵入手,论述了研究生培养机制改革的意叉,并对研究生培养机制从学理上进行了系统构建,以资为当前的实践提供参考与借鉴.     

研究生国际化培养的实践与思考

研究生国际化培养是指在研究生的课程学习、论文工作与实践交流等环节中采用国际合作手段进行培养的一种方式。笔者结合实践,阐述了研究生国际化培养需以“人才培养”为中心,促进学生与教师共同提高;需以“双方受益”为原则,推进学科发展与国际认同度提升;需以“平台搭建”为依托,推动培养环境建设与管理服务改进。     

加强培养过程管理提高研究生培养质量

系统地阐述了培养过程管理的具体内容,指出深化培养过程管理是提高研究生培养质量的重要保证。     

基于交叉学科的研究生创新人才培养研究

通过阐述交叉学科的特性,分析交叉学科在研究生创新人才培养中的地位和作用,从而进一步探讨交叉学科与研究生创新人才培养的战略构建问题。     

我国研究生培养模式研究十年

近10年来对于高校研究生教育的研究主要集中在对研究生培养模式的研究上,这一现象的出现是与我国经济、科技发展对人才需求的变化相适应的。研究生培养模式的研究体现出注重概念分析,总结研究生培养模式的类型,借鉴国外研究成果,重视层次类型分析的特点。研究已经取得了一定的进展,总的研究趋势也是与国际上对研究生培养模式的多样化发展的趋势相一致的,但还存在一些亟待解决的问题。对此,笔者提出了自己的建议。     

ESA模式医学科研型研究生阶梯式实验培训探索

秉承"素质教育和创新教育"理念,探索建立在ESA模式下开展对医学科学学位型研究生进行阶梯式科研实验培训。展开问卷调查明确培训方向、编写实验培训讲义、进行基础式岗前培训、系列式实验技术实训、依托科研项目的针对式指导,以及微课微信碎片式、在线虚拟仿真学习,并且举办系列科研讲座及沙龙活动。以阶梯式层次培养使研究生得到较为规范的生物安全、生物医学系列技能训练。     

基于研究生能力培养的应用数学专业课程教学实践

分析了目前研究生的学习动机与学科要求之间的矛盾,指出学科对研究生5种能力的要求。以专业课《脉冲微分方程及其应用》为例,实践了将研究生能力的培养融入课程教学。     

非全日制研究生培养中亟诗解决的若干问题及对策

在分析了我国非全日制研究生教育的特点、现状和培养过程中存在的亟待解决的若干问题后,提出了一种适合我国国情的非全日制研究生培养和管理的模式.     

Choosing Canadian graduate schools from afar: East Asian students’ perspectives

This study seeks to explain why and how international graduate students from East Asia choose to come to Canada to pursue advanced education. A synthesis model is developed to explain their decision-making process, while a push–pull model is used to understand the strengths of and relationships among various factors that influence the choice of a country, institution, program, and city. The research sample comprised 140 students from China, Hong Kong, Japan, Korea, and Taiwan who enrolled in graduate programs at two large Ontario universities. The research findings reveal the influence of Institutional Academic Pulling Factors, Institutional Administrative Pulling Factors, the Canadian Environment, the Economics of Canadian Education, and the ease of Visa/Immigration. The research shows a three-stage process, guided first by the focus of the program (i.e., research-oriented vs. professional programs). Other factors—country, institution, and city—interplay simultaneously at the later two stages.     

Better educational website interface design: the implications from gender-specific preferences in graduate students

This study investigated graduate students’ gender‐specific preferences for certain website interface design features, intending to generate useful information for instructors in choosing and for website designers in creating educational websites. The features investigated in this study included colour value, major navigation buttons placement, and navigation mode. In this study, 56 graduate students in a north‐eastern research university in the US volunteered to evaluate 30 pairs of web page screenshots or website prototypes, and to indicate on the questionnaires their preferences within each pair of prototype. Each participant's preferences for the three features were coded and categorised for chi‐square tests of independence to determine the relationships between gender and the investigated design features. The findings of gender effects on graduate students’ preferences for the aforementioned features were presented and discussed.     

Earnings expectation and graduate employment: Evidence from recent Chinese college graduates

Chinese college graduates have faced increasing labor market competition since the expansion of tertiary education. Given rigid market demand, graduates with realistic earnings expectations may experience a more efficient job search. Using the 2008 MYCOS College Graduate Employment Survey, this study finds that a 1 000 yuan reduction in a graduate’s reservation wage can significantly increase the probability of finding a job by 66% and increase the likelihood of being employed six months after graduation by 92%. In addition, the gap between the reservation wage and the market wage has a positive impact. By slightly adjusting earnings expectations, college graduates can significantly improve job search efficiency. Market wages should be seen as reference points when adjusting income expectations.