Trends in speech

Proposed to meet the often voiced objection that speech courses graded on a contract system stress only the quantity of work and exclude any quality controls, this plan establishes groups of tasks requiring different levels of cognative functioning by the students and assigns final letter grades for satisfactory completion of the corresponding levels.     

Trends in speech

This article employs Kenneth Burke's notion of interlocked moments to examine the speech, “Sources of Our Strength,” delivered by Senator George S. McGovern on October 11, 1972, at Wheaton College in Wheaton, Illinois. A clear rhetoric of change emerges, indicating a quest for redemption as the preeminent motive inherent in McGovern's discourse.     

Developments in technical education

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The paper highlights the urgent and radical questions and problems which postmodernism poses for educational studies in general, and the philosophy of education in particular. First, it outlines and interrelates the legacies of modernism in social and cultural theory. Next, it describes the reactionary anti‐modernism of the Right, and contrasts this with traditionalism. It is argued that the current political and economic context of education is largely anti‐modernist, not traditionalist. The stirrings of radical doubts about modernism are described and contrasted with the antimodernism of the Right. A salient theme to this point is the variety of conceptions of the relationship between knowledge and power. Mature postmodernism is characterised centrally in terms of a reconceptualisation of that relationship. The metamorphosis of the concept of the self in postmodernism is described and related to new problems about ethics and a newly emerging importance for the aesthetic. Finally, the paper argues that while the fundamental issues for philosophy of education are unchanged ‐problems about instrumentalism and various issues of autonomy ‐ these are radically recast in postmodernism, and present new difficulties.     

Developments in statistical education

This paper describes recent work carried out by the Schools Council Project on Statistical Education. The Project advocates a problem-solving approach towards the teaching of statistics in secondary schools (11–16 years age range). It sees statistics as an interdisciplinary subject primarily concerned with data. The article illustrates these important aspects with teaching materials which have been developed and tested extensively in a variety of schools. Finally an evaluation and assessment of the project's work is presented.The author worked with the project for three and a half years and has made extensive use of working documents produced by the project team in preparing this paper. He would particularly like to thank the director, Mr. Peter Holmes, for permitting the use of these documents. The author was formerly at the School Council Project on Statistical Education, University of Sheffield, Sheffield, England and is now at the Mathematics Department, Polytechnic of the South Bank, London SE1 0AA, England.     

Education Developments in Thailand

The 6-3-3 pattern of educational system of which the first 6 years are compulsory has been used in Thailand since 1978. The recent extension from 6 to 9 years of compulsory education has been described as an effort to produce better quality manpower in order to respond to the nation's economic and technological development. Another important development in recent educational practice is an attempt to put an end to the disparity in quality between the urban and rural schools. This is to ensure that the necessary manpower will be of the same quality. The author also argues that all concerned parties should curb their heated debates, at least for the time being, on the inequality between students graduating from schools under the new compulsory education program and students graduating from the normal secondary school system, gaining access to higher education. The demand for equal access to tertiary education should be the next issue to be tackled, soon after the necessary manpower has reached the level required.     

癌症免疫治疗进展综述

在过去三十年,癌症的免疫学研究和免疫治疗取得了重大进展。一个重要的进步就是识别人类癌症抗原对癌症患者引起的自发性免疫反应。迄今已知的大部分免疫原性人类癌症抗原属于睾丸癌抗原家族,这种抗原蛋白在各种类型癌症中均有表达,但正常组织不表达（除胚胎细胞外）。癌症免疫治疗的目的就是通过接种相关抗原联合免疫佐剂诱导或激发肿瘤特异性免疫反应。免疫佐剂与抗原联合应用可诱导强效的免疫反应,或者显著提高原有的免疫反应。免疫治疗对于早期癌症患者可能是有益的,因为在此阶段免疫逃逸不明显。     

论胜任特征及其研究新进展

上世纪七十年代“胜任特征”的概念提出以来,有关胜任特征的研究与应用越来越引起人们的关注。从胜任特征的概念出发,对西方学者有关管理人员胜任特征模型的研究及其他领域胜任特征研究的成果进行了简单的综述,指出了目前存在的问题以及对今后研究的展望。     

Two Improtant Developments in Equipment

Eumig of Austria have shown in public for the first time their type AVM 711 sound film projector for Super 8mm. film in a cartridge. The showing was at NAVEX-69, the National Audio-Visual Aids Exhibition, at the National Hall, Olympia, London.     

我国环境监测器的应用发展

20世纪80年代,环境保护工作开始被重视,环境监测仪器随之也备受重视。随着我国环境监测的自动化、网络化发展,环境监测仪器则要求更加科学、先进。