Revisiting the Bi-Factor Model: Can Mixture Modeling Help Assess Its Applicability?

This article revisits from the perspective of finite mixture modeling the increasingly popular bi-factor model applied in contemporary behavioral and social research. It is pointed out that in a population with substantial unobserved heterogeneity resulting from a mixture of latent classes, and where the unidimensional model holds along with models that markedly differ from the bi-factor model, the latter may turn out to be spuriously plausible. To raise caution about this possibility, an example of a 3-class setting is provided, where correspondingly (a) the single (global) factor model, (b) a model with a global factor and a single local factor, and (c) a model with a global factor and two local factors hold, while the bi-factor model with a global factor and three local factors is also plausible for the analyzed data overall. Examination of population heterogeneity prior to testing the bi-factor model is therefore recommendable in empirical research, in order to avoid spurious findings of its plausibility when ignoring substantial unobserved heterogeneity in studied populations.     

基于资源整合的研究生和本科生教务管理系统

随着高校研究生教育的发展和信息化建设的深入,很多高校开始考虑统筹建设研究生管理系统和本科生教务管理系统。此文详细讨论了这个问题：先分析了研究生培养和本科生培养的目标、过程的特点和不同,在此基础上分析了研究生教务管理和本科生教务管理的关系,然后提出了基于资源整合的“蝴蝶形”研究生教务管理和本科生教务管理系统框架,最后对如何统筹建设研究生和本科生教务管理系统提出了建议。     

在高职院校管理中导入质量管理体系的研究与实践——以苏州工业园区职业技术学院为例

质量管理体系以其在现代管理中的优越性被产业界广泛接纳和认可。在作为与产业界结合最为紧密的高等教育类型——高等职业教育中引入质量管理体系,具有重要意义。苏州工业园区职业技术学院进行大胆尝试,把借鉴、创新的成果引入ISO9000,全方位规范管理过程,构建教学质量保障体系,实现了行业标准与产业标准的融合。     

基于授权理论的大学班级管理模式

为了减少大学教师的班级管理工作负担,应以管理学的授权理论为基础,建构大学班级授权管理模式,也就是教师先用适当的方法选拔、培训、任命和监督班干部,然后把班级日常管理工作的职权授予班干部,授权后教师只参加班级的重要事务和例外事项管理,以及保持对学生的激励和与学生的沟通。大学班级授权管理不但可以减少教师的压力,而且还可以改善班级管理工作绩效并培养学生的自我管理能力。     

Re-conceptualising the concept of a nexus? A survey of 12 Scottish IS/IM academics’ perceptions of a nexus between teaching,research, scholarship and consultancy

Abstract

This article starts with a personal perspective written by Stephen Rowland. This is responded to in each of the four contributions which follow. In order to stimulate debate from a wide basis of experience, Catherine Byron, Frank Furedi, Nicky Padfield and Terry Smyth were invited to respond as academics from very different disciplinary backgrounds and types of Higher Education institution in the UK.

In a brief conclusion to the article, Stephen Rowland draws together the contributions. Questions are raised for further discussion, reflection and research amongst those concerned to develop higher education teaching, and to resist the managerialist discourse which dominates in this field.

We hope that the article will stimulate debate amongst readers of the journal from different parts of higher education at a time when the very purpose of higher education is itself in a state of flux. We suspect that the issues raised here apply in many countries and would particularly welcome a response from readers not in the UK.     

新时期高等教育管理制度优化的对策思考

我国高等教育经过十几年的锐意改革己取得了长足的发展。高校的管理行为正在从被动的、行取的、封闭的传统管理模式向以人为本、体现大学精神和人文素养为核心的文化管理模式转型。为了保证高等教育能够规范有序、持续健康地向前发展,在教师聘任制度改革中,必须确立学术权力的核心地位,并适度引入教育经营理念,加强校企合作,树立品牌意识,为高等教育进入良性循环和可持续发展赢得生机与活力。     

新时期高等教育管理制度优化的对策思考

我国高等教育经过十几年的锐意改革己取得了长足的发展。高校的管理行为正在从被动的、行取的、封闭的传统管理模式向以人为本、体现大学精神和人文素养为核心的文化管理模式转型。为了保证高等教育能够规范有序、持续健康地向前发展,在教师聘任制度改革中,必须确立学术权力的核心地位,并适度引入教育经营理念,加强校企合作,树立品牌意识,为高等教育进入良性循环和可持续发展赢得生机与活力。     

论高校班主任工作的六个重心

做好高校班主任工作,对于培养一个健康、向上的班集体有着举足轻重的作用.     

对新时期高校班级管理创新的几点思考

新时期高校面临重大的机遇和挑战,班级管理也应该主动进取,与时俱进,克服传统模式的弊端。本文拟从树立“大教育”观、发挥学生和班主任的创造性和开拓进取的精神、把加强和改进班级管理工作相结合三个方面,谈对新时期班级管理创新的几点看法。     

高职院校班主任工作探析

随着高职教育改革的不断深入,班主任工作在高职学生管理中的作用显得尤为突出。如何根据高职院校学生的特点做好班主任工作,已成为高职院校教育工作者亟待探讨解决的问题。根据实际工作,从注重学生引导教育、建立班级管理制度、提高自身素质等几个方面探讨班主任工作。     

基于积极心理学的五年制高职班级管理研究

通过对海底捞的员工管理进行分析,从积极心理学的视角挖掘海底捞员工管理模式成功的核心要素,并尝试将积极心理学的理论体系运用到五年制高职班级管理中。针对五年制高职学生入学时总体较为消极的心理状况实际,力求营造积极的环境,培养积极的人格,给予积极的情感体验,有助于班主任更科学地管理班级,充分体现积极是一种爱,是一种过程的体验,让学生能够积极、幸福的成长。     

我国当代高等教育办学体制分析

本文通过分析我国当代高等教育办学体制的内涵,介绍了我国高等教育办学体制发展的历史和现状,从对高等教育办学体制改革中的制度安排分析出发,进而探讨了高等教育的投资者、举办者、规制者之间的关系与责任,并对未来我国高等教育办学体制的市场化、多元化、竞争性和合作性的可能趋势特征作了展望。     

Factors related to study success in engineering education

Recent studies on student learning in higher education have paid attention to the relationships between characteristics of the learning environment and students' study orientations and study success. The purpose of the present paper is to examine these relationships in university level engineering education. The data were collected from Lappeenranta University of Technology, Finland, by means of an Internet survey (n=394). Grade point average, credits per semester and students' qualitative evaluation of their learning outcomes were used as indicators of study success. The findings of the study indicate that students' perceptions of their learning environment were related to their study orientations which, in turn, were related to study success. Having a deep study strategy was the most important predictor of study success. Having a surface strategy, doubt about one's abilities and lack of regulation were factors negatively related to study success. Meaning-oriented and self-regulated students using a deep strategy showed the best success in their studies and externally regulated students using a surface strategy the worst. The findings of the study suggest that the learning environments in Lappeenranta University of Technology encourage deep learning.     

高职《管理信息系统》课程教学探讨

高职《管理信息系统》课程要从培养目标、培养方式、教学内容等方面体现高职教育的特点,其教学内容分为理论、分析设计、应用开发、专家讲座几部分。在具体的教学组织中,任课教师要具备广博的知识,采用灵活多样的教学方法,选择恰当的时间开设课程,创造机会让学生积极参与社会实践。