Reviews

Mr Coler was formerly Pricipal of Bede College, Durham, and was Consultant to the Council for Educational Techbology's Colleges of Education Learning Programmers Project 1971–76 Making the Best of It: the final report of the Nuffield Foundation Group for Research and Innovation in Higher Education .
Mr Hallqorth is Director of Wiltshire County Council Library and Museum Service New Media in Public Libraries: a survey of current practices by James W Brown     

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.     

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Lively Elementary Science Programs: A Handbook of Suggestions for Introducing and Maintaining Innovative Science Activities. Submitted to the Massachusetts Advisory Council on Education by Dean K. Whitla, Project Director, and Dan C. Pinck, Associate Project Director. Office of Instructional Research and Evaluation in the Faculty of Arts and Sciences, and the Harvard Graduate School of Education, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts 02138. January 1974. $3.25     

Language in Projects

A Discussion Document and a Case Study prepared by Myra Barrs, Head of English, Camden School for Girls, Angela Hedge, Research Officer, Schools Council General Studies Project, and Martin Lightfoot, Schools Director, Penguin Education     

ASSISTANCE IN HIGHER EDUCATION LEGISLATION: THE LEGISLATIVE REFORM PROGRAMME OF THE COUNCIL OF EUROPE

Between 1989 and 1992, the Council of Europe responded to the perceived need to assist eastern and central European countries to develop a legal basis for their higher education systems that would lead to a workable and equitable balance between state control and university autonomy and academic freedom. Thus the Legislative Reform Project of the Council of Europe got underway in the spring of 1992. The results so far have been very positive. In 1996, the Council on Higher Education and Research of the Council of Europe recommended the continuation of the Project, now known as a Programme, for another four‐year period and its extension to the sectors of science and technology.     

“以结果为基础”的教育在医学教育中的应用——美国威斯康星大学成功应用ACGME能力模型的经验和启示

本文在以结果为基础的教育理念基础上,介绍了美国医学研究生教育认证委员会提出的医学生及医师能力模型,总结了威斯康星大学医学院应用上述模型的成功经验。本研究认为制定严谨而完善的医学生及医师能力标准、针对不同阶段医学生细化操作要求、实施多样化的评估手段是影响以结果为基础的教育在我国医学教育中实施的重要因素。     

Reciprocal learning between Canada and China in teacher education and school education: Partnership studies of practice in cultural context

In this introduction we describe the purpose and structure of the Canada–China Reciprocal Learning in Teacher Education and School Education Partnership Grant Project sponsored by the Social Sciences and Humanities Council of Canada (SSHRC) in 2013?2020, and describe the project’s practice-based methodology along with a discussion of selected preliminary results. The papers presented in this special issue of Frontiers of Education in China animate our discussion by bringing forward important school-based activities and results. The heart of this work is the collaborative activity and voices of Chinese and Canadian educators. We illustrate our concept of reciprocal learning and how we apply this concept in our Partnership Grant Project. We believe that we have heavily benefited from the productive work and impact that has been made in the field of comparative education and we have put our emphasis on Reciprocal Learning as Collaborative Partnership throughout our project.     

建立基于“学”的远程教育质量保证框架——ICDE质量评审的启发和思考

2008年6月,上海电大接受了国际开放远程教育协会(ICDE)的质量评审(Qualityr Audit).ICDE是联合国下属的享有国际权威的远程教育机构.它聘请国际远程教育专家制定质量评审的内容、实施现场的评审.ICDE质量评审的内容和关注点,或许对我国电大教学质量保证能够提供一些有益的启发和思考.     

从教师教育认证委员会产生的合理性看美国教师教育认证的趋势

教师教育认证委员会是美国1997年新成立的教师教育认证机构,并于2001年和2003年分别得到了高等教育认证委员会和美国教育部的承认,对原有的国家教师教育认证委员会的独家认证权构成了挑战。文章试图通过分析新成立的教师教育认证委员会产生的背景及动因表明其存在的合理性,并从中找出目前美国教师教育认证的一些发展方向,进而对我国教师教育认证的发展完善带来启示。     

Pictographs and prereading skills.

This paper draws upon data collected in conjunction with the Schools Council (Great Britain) Research and Development Project in Compensatory Education to demonstrate that a picture reading task can provide a fairly good prediction of the later reading performance of 100 5-year-olds and that it is a sufficiently interesting clinical tool to merit further consideration from nursery and infant school teachers. The test's success seems to relate to its ability to measure differences in children's understanding of the nature and purpose of reading.     

THE ROLE OF THE SOCIAL SCIENTIST IN THE SCHOOL OF EDUCATION

The four coauthors describe the twenty-five-year history of efforts of the Council of Learned Societies in Education (CLSE) to represent the interests of the social foundations of education in the National Council for Accreditation of Teacher Education (NCATE), including the evolution of CLSE into the Council for the Social Foundations of Education and its recent departure from NCATE after a quarter century of successful involvement. The coauthors, each personally supportive of foundational involvement in national accreditation, delineate advantages gained by both CLSE and NCATE during the quarter century of involvement, while also describing concerns and arguments that have led to the current disassociation of the Council for Social Foundations of Education (CSFE) fromNCATE. The article concludes with suggestions for the future and the coauthors' hope that this history and chronicle will provide incentive for reinvolvement of the foundations in national accreditation circles.     

美国《超常教育教师知识与技能标准》及其启示

2006年,美国国家教师教育认证委员会(NCATE)批准了由美国天才儿童协会(NAGC)和特殊儿童委员会(CEC)联合修订的《超常教育教师知识与技能标准》。文章分析了该《标准》制定的背景与过程,介绍了《标准》的内容特点,并阐述了《标准》对中国超常教育的重要启示。     

Interuniversity Coordination and National Regulations on University Admission

Mr. Deppeler is Secretary General of the Swiss Higher Education Conference. This paper was written for the Council of Europe and was presented at the Working Party on Diversification of Tertiary Education, Committee for Higher Education and Research, Council of Europe, Berne, June 1973.     

Commonality among diversity

Senior lecturer, Department of Education, University of Hong Kong; board member, Commonwealth Council for Educational Administration; founding chairman, Hong Kong Council for Educational Administration Author of China's Education on the Move (1990), Planning Basic Education in China: Two Case Studies in the Province of Liaoning (research report for UNICEF, published by IIEP).     

高职院校院系层面“青马工程”质量提升策略研究

在院系层面上对推进"青马工程"进行探索和实践,是"青年马克思主义者培养工程"深入基层、深入群众要求的重要体现。通过阐明"青马工程"的基本内涵,分析院系层面开展"青马工程"的现实状况,总结实践经验,形成在院系层面提升青年马克思主义者培养工程的实施策略。     

由Γ-截面函数确定凸体

In this paper, we prove that any polygon P in R2 containing a fixed smooth. strictly convex and origin-symmetric body Γ whose boundary is real analytic in its interior, can be determined by its Γ-section functions among the polygons.     

远程合作学习项目对学校教育的影响效果分析

本研究采用调查研究的方法,以东西部79所参与中国和联合国儿童基金会“姊妹学校项目”的学校为对象,就项目对学校教育和教学以及师生的影响开展问卷调查。通过实证分析得知,远程合作学习“姊妹学校项目”在引入学校、融入课程与教学后,它影响着师生,为东西部学校带来了学习内容的变革、教与学形式的变革、学校文化的变革,这项为期三年的干预改变了学生,也改变了教师,改变了学校。     

Statistics Within Technician Courses

Two of the newer bodies producing syllabuses for the 16 to 19 year age range are the Technician Education Council (TEC) and the Business Education Council (BEC). Trevor Easingwood, the chairman of the joint BEC/TEC committee for mathematics and statistics, describes the background to the statistics in the TEC courses.     

农远工程教学应用症结的调查研究

当前我国农远工程的深层次推进面临着新的机遇和挑战。该研究的目的重在探索农远工程教学应用的症结。研究采用了调查研究法,收集的数据来自于五个不同省份的市县。该研究认为,创新的信息化教学理论、模式与方法的缺失是农远工程教学应用症结的内因;过高的硬软件技术门槛是农远工程教学应用症结的外因;由农远工程本身引发的多种"两难关系"是农远工程教学应用症结的衍生。