Book reviews

Book reviewed in this article: The Rise of a Central Authority for English Education. Intelligence, Psychology and Education: a Marxist critique. By reason or by drift in higher education? Patterns and Policies in Higher Education. A Special Interest leonard greenbaum. Graduates: the Sociology Of all elite. The Modem University.     

Richard's Progress Towards Literacy

Richard, a 23 year old athetoid, could not read, write or speak intelligibly. Betty Hughes, divisional Co-ordinator for Adult Basic Education, Lincolnshire Education Authority, describes his progress towards literacy and his use of the Electraid     

A Strategy for Early Intervention

An infant school's approach to assessment with teachers using time sampling techniques to observe and record behaviour is described by Mavis Willay, head of Rotherfield Infants School, Inner London Education Authority     

Contents

Nudging Minds to Life: Self-Authorship as a Foundation for Learning Meaning Making and Collegiate Learning Outcomes The Nature of Meaning Making: Constructivist-Developmental Assumptions Self-Evolution and the Journey Toward Self-Authorship Conclusion Assessing Self-Authorship and Its Evolution Assessment Challenges Assessment Formats Four Interviews to Assess Self-Authorship Conclusion Development of the Ten Positions in the Journey Toward Self-Authorship Baxter Magolda's Study Wabash National Study of Liberal Arts Education Nuances of Self-Authorship Trusting External Authority: External Positions Trusting External Authority Tensions with Trusting External Authority Recognizing Shortcomings of Trusting External Authority Developmental Progression in External Meaning Making Entering the Crossroads: Predominantly External Positions Questioning External Authority Constructing the Internal Voice Developmental Progression in Entering the Crossroads Leaving the Crossroads: Predominantly Internal Positions Listening to the Internal Voice Cultivating the Internal Voice Developmental Progression in Leaving the Crossroads Self-Authorship: Internal Positions Trusting the Internal Voice Building an Internal Foundation Securing Internal Commitments Developmental Progression in Internal Meaning Making Using the Self-Authorship Assessment Guide Assessing Student Characteristics and Experience Example of a Phase 1 Summary (Excerpts) Assessing Developmental Meaning Making Example of a Phase 2 Summary (Excerpts) Links Between Development and Experiences Working Through Difficult Summaries The Value of Listening to Students Appendix: Wabash National Study of Liberal Arts Education: Qualitative Research Team References Name Index Subject Index About the Authors     

基于CFA视角的高考数学试卷结构的多维度研究

本文利用验证性因素分析(CFA)对一份高考数学试卷预设能力维度模型与实测数据进行拟合,给出了试题与其所反映的潜在能力维度之间的关系。分析结果表明,试题所反映的能力维度基本符合预设的目标,但试题所考核的能力目标并不十分明显,试题质量还需要进一步提升。分析也表明,验证性因素分析是一种有效的试卷能力维度分析方法。     

Learning to Count: Theory & Practice

Counting activities for children with learning difficulties are suggested David Womack a teacher at Riverside ESN(M) School, Manchester, and a member of a special schools' working party set up by the Manchester Education Authority     

信息化基础保障环境规划研究——以数字化教育部考试中心为例

考试中心在"十一五"期间将建设"数字化教育部考试中心",对信息化基础保障环境提出了更高的要求。本文讨论了信息化基础保障环境的规划,提出了建设高可用运行环境的目标。并在此目标的指导下,对基础保障环境的各组成部分进行了具体的设计,包括高可用网络、高可用服务器架构、统一的存储备份体系、高可靠的机房场地保障等。     

How Education Guidance Centres Can Help

Fiona Green, director, and John Bayley, deputy director, Southwark Education Guidance Centre, describe the work of two education guidance centres run for the Inner London Education Authority. They explain some of the underlying assumptions and show how the centres' approach can be applied to mainstream schools in order to help children with severe conduct disorders.     

Integrating Pupils with Spina Bifida

Miles Halliwell and Bemie Spain, research psychologists with the Inner London Education Authority, discuss the placement of spina bifida children in ordinary schools and how such placements might be facilitated     

信息系统架构规划研究——以“数字化教育部考试中心”为例

本文依据教育部考试中心"十一五"事业发展总体规划的要求,基于对当前成熟应用技术的分析,提出了数字化教育部考试中心信息系统架构。该架构由统一数据层、基础服务层、业务支撑平台层、业务平台层和信息门户五个部分组成,使数字化教育部考试中心的信息系统更具有灵活性、开放型、可扩展性、可持续发展性,为教育部考试中心信息系统的建设提供有力的支撑。     

Managing with SIMS

Information management systems will become increasingly used by schools as pupil assessments and local management of schools develop. David Quaife, head of Delamere School for pupils with severe learning difficulties, Trafford Education Authority, has been using such a system for the past year.     

How Valuable is Home Economics?

Home economics teachers should take a more rigorous look at the contribution they are making to the overall education of the handicapped child, urges Hilary Devereux, inspector for home economics, Inner London Education Authority     

From School to Adult Life

'Positive, broad, sensitive, concerned.' Wilfred Brennan, assistant education officer for special education, Inner London Education Authority, reviews the discussion of the post-school years presented in chapter 10 and the accompanying recommendations     

Helping Pupils who Refuse School

Jean Church, Teacher in Charge, Berwyn Edwards, Educational Psychologist, Clwyd Education Authority, describe a unit for non-school attenders in North Wales and their approach to pupils who go unwillingly to school     

Special Education in the United Kingdom

ALL CHILDREN of school age in the United Kingdom are the responsibility of the Education Authority and must be offered educational provision. About 1.3% of pupils attend special schools; other pupils with special educational needs receive support of various kinds in ordinary schools. The Education Act 1981 is the main legislative instrument concerned with special education: it defined special educational needs, established integration as a key principle guiding service provision and laid down detailed procedures for conducting assessments. Special educational provision is likely to be affected significantly by the general Education Act introduced in 1988 but the precise implications are not yet clear.     

信息安全保障体系研究——以数字化教育部考试中心为例

教育部考试中心在"十一五"期间将建设"数字化教育部考试中心",对信息安全保障提出了更高的要求。本文通过对信息安全风险的分析,提出了划分安全域、建立安全域之间的联系、实施整体安全管理的安全体系构建思路,并设计了包括用户、应用、系统、数据、网络直至物理各层在内的安全技术措施和管理手段的、多层次的整体信息安全保障体系。     

Sex Education for Pupils with Severe Learning Difficulties

This article is based on the dissertation for the degree of B.Ed. (Honours) awarded by Birmingham University in July 1986 to the author when she was a student at Westhill College, Birmingham. Karen Giles is now teaching at Rosemary School, Islington, in the Inner London Education Authority.     

The New Zealand Qualifications Authority takes the credit for education

Education in many Western countries is being reformed. The paper examines the role of the New Zealand Qualifications Authority in the neo-liberal reforms and their revenue gathering from students credits in a contradictory neo-liberal policy context.     

A Primary Solution to Soiling

Veronica Wigley, Inner London Education Authority, William Yule, Institute of Psychiatry, London University, and Michael Berger, St George's Hospital, Tooting, describe a behavioural approach to the treatment of soiling in a primary school     

New Initiatives-and New Hopes?

John Baillie, principal, Southwark College, Inner London Education Authority, traces developments in further education, training and employment for young people with special educational needs since the mid Seventies and discusses the implications of the latest schemes