构建现代远程教育质量保障体系的若干思考

如何保证和监控教学质量是关乎合格人才的培养、现代远程教育的生存和发展的根本问题;规范教学过程、建设高水平的专兼职教师队伍和优秀的教学资源是保证教学质量的关键。只有科学地实施教学过程,构建质量保障体系,教育质量才能得到保证,现代远程教育才会健康有序的发展。     

School monitoring and quality assurance in the New Zealand school system

This article reports on the New Zealand education quality assurance and school monitoring system, including its framework, and responsibilities of agencies. It first gives an outline of the education system in New Zealand, and then introduces the role of school charters and levels of schooling. To ensure the quality of schools, the methods of school self-review and external reviews of schools are used by the New Zealand government. Schools are given a list of obligations that they have to follow. Assessment policies and the school curriculum are designed to support learning. Fubuki Sakura formerly called William Leung     

Inter-agency cooperation in the quality assurance of transnational education: challenges and opportunities

This paper presents the findings of a study undertaken by the United Kingdom Quality Assurance Agency for Higher Education (QAA), with support from the International Network for Quality Assurance Agencies in Higher Education (INQAAHE), aimed at investigating the challenges and limits to cross-border cooperation in the quality assurance of transnational education. The study builds on the outcomes of the recently concluded Erasmus Mundus project Quality Assurance of Cross-Border Higher Education (QACHE) and in particular the QACHE Toolkit developed as part of the project to foster cooperation between quality assurance agencies in quality assuring transnational education. Based on the responses to a survey sent to QAA’s partner agencies in key sending and receiving countries of transnational education, the study extract recommendations to agencies to help them developing viable strategies for inter-agency cooperation, identifying concrete ways in which they might or might not cooperate across borders.     

A review of higher education reform in modern Japan

A number of different parties in Japan have been discussinghigher educational reform for over thirty years. Many of theseideas finally started to take form in the 1990s as the Ministryof Education's University Council began implementing many of thepropositions that had been put forth during the deliberations ofthe 1970s and 1980s. As Japan enters the 21st century, its18-year-old population has decreased by over half a million since1992. It will decrease another 300,000 by the year 2010. This has added an increased urgency to make reforms, especially atthird-tier universities, which are now starting to have troublerecruiting students. Japan's Ministry of Education would alsolike to bring the quality of its university educational standardsup to par with the rest of the advanced nations. Moreover, industryis demanding a new breed of employee – and one much different thanthe Japanese educational system has been known to produce. Finally, a new generation of Japanese is starting to reach adulthood, who – raised on consumerism, and material abundance – have acompletely different value system than their parents' generation. This paper looks at the present higher education reform movement and its history extending back approximately thirty years. It then goes on to offer some suggestions as to what more can be done to alleviate many problems still inherent in the system.     

高等职业教育质量管理体系构建研究——以南京城市职业学院信息技术系为例

高等职业教育是我国高等教育中的重要形式之一,有效的质量管理体系可以保证高等职业教育的质量水平.文章以南京城市职业学院信息技术系为例,研究基于PDCA循环模式的高等职业教育质量管理体系构建的过程,研究构建“环形”模式的高职教育质量管理体系,为保障高等职业教育质量水平提供参考.     

“道”、“德”的层次性与学校德育改革

中国传统的道德哲学具有丰富的层次性和深刻的内涵。当前我们必须重新思考我国学校德育的改革 ,培养新的道德主体 ,以走出学校德育的困境     

本科教学工作水平评估对高校教学工作影响的调查研究

对上海水产大学和上海师范大学教学科研人员和教学管理人员进行的问卷调查表明,本科教学工作水平评估对教学工作的影响是积极的,建立评估制度是保障高等教育质量的有效措施。调查揭示了评估对教学工作影响的一些特点:教学管理人员对评估影响的肯定程度高于教学科研人员;评估对教师教学和教学管理的影响大于对学生学习的影响;评估对教学工作的外在影响强于内在影响;评估对教学工作的影响随时间推移会逐渐减弱。     

A critical analysis of the INQAAHE Guidelines of Good Practice for higher education quality assurance agencies

The International Network of Quality Assurance Agencies in Higher Education’s Guidelines of Good Practice by higher education quality assurance agencies need substantial revision before they can be considered adequate by stakeholders in any national higher education system. Various revisions are proposed in this article. But the International Network of Quality Assurance Agencies in Higher Education also argues that adoption of its Guidelines of Good Practice has international significance in that the decisions about higher education quality made by agencies which comply with them can be accepted at face value universally. This conclusion, however, cannot be accepted until the Guidelines of Good Practice are amended to address the processes whereby each agency can become comfortable with the criteria and standards which the others impose in their respective jurisdictions. This article also maintains that, even if the Guidelines of Good Practice were technically perfect, agencies and/or governments ought to subject any proposals for their implementation to the discipline of rigorous risk management processes.

我国高等教育质量保证模式的建构策略

我国现有的以政府控制为显著特征的高等教育质量保证模式,在实际运行中产生了理论和实践上的诸多问题,改革势在必行。应逐步实行市场化策略,培育与建立评估市场。政府应变“行政管理”为“政策调控”,变“统包统揽”为“多边共识”,高校应从他律走向自律,社会则应从缺席到参与。     

The politics of education policy in England

In this appreciative discussion paper I provide an overview of the reforms made to education in England, and engage with the politics of education through examining the simultaneous and inter-related processes of politicisation, depoliticisation and repoliticisation of educational matters. I engage in a discussion of the papers in this special issue through this framework.     

高考改革中的综合评价问题

在各类考试评价中,高校招生考试的影响最为广泛而重大。推进我国高考综合评价改革,需要认真探究其保障条件,选择适宜的改革途径。既要重视健全学生日常学习成绩的有效考核机制,也须建立相应的学校诚信与社会诚信的保障体系。走渐进改革之路,可避免考试评价制度大起大落所带来的严重负面影响,极大地降低高考改革的教育成本与社会成本。     

关于建设我国高等教育质量保证体系的若干思考

加强科学管理,建设科学完善的高等教育质量保证体系,是高等学校提高教学质量的重要措施之一。高等教育质量保证离不开教学评估。创新高等教育质量保证体系,应在对以往本科教学评估进行科学、系统评估(元评估)的基础上进行。高等教育质量保证体系由内部质量保证体系和外部质量保证体系构成,其中内部质量保证体系是基础,外部质量保证体系是动力。面对新的形势和环境的变化,我们应努力探索新的高等教育质量评估范式。     

疗治教育痼疾的探索：日本“宽松教育”述评

"宽松教育"是一种通过给学生提供宽松氛围以培养其生存能力、创新能力的教育理论和实践。"宽松教育"的演进可以区分为"局部实施"、"全面实施"及"调整"三个阶段;为确保"宽松教育"目标的达成,日本政府围绕教育内容、教育时间等采取了一系列措施,但总体来看,"宽松教育"的实施效果并不理想。"宽松教育"是疗治现代教育痼疾的一次探索。作为一种教育理念,"宽松教育"具有一定的合理性;不过,"宽松教育"在实施过程中也出现了某些失误。     

借鉴日本高校实验室管理经验,加强我国高校开放实验室管理

伴随着我国高校实验室的开放，一些相关问题随之而来。抓好开放实验室的管理，我们要学习日本高校先进的开放实验室管理经验。我国高校进行开放实验室建设，要从目标定位、制度建设，仪器设备管理和技术队伍管理等方面来进行优化配置。     

日本中小学道德教育途径和方法对“三生教育”的启示

＂三生教育＂主张通过多种途径、多种方法进行,其途径和方法同日本中小学道德教育有相似之处,但在具体实施层面还不够成熟。当代日本中小学道德教育可供＂三生教育＂借鉴的途径和方法主要有：统合所有教育时间和活动,制定学校、家庭和社会三位一体的教育体制;让学生接触自然和社会,通过活动增强学生的实践体验;根据国情、地区特点及学生思想状况,有针对性地设置课程;突出学生主体性,加强师生的交流和沟通;等等。     

Evaluating assessment quality in competence-based education: A qualitative comparison of two frameworks

Because learning and instruction are increasingly competence-based, the call for assessment methods to adequately determine competence is growing. Using just one single assessment method is not sufficient to determine competence acquisition. This article argues for Competence Assessment Programmes (CAPs), consisting of a combination of different assessment methods, including both traditional and new forms of assessment. To develop and evaluate CAPs, criteria to determine their quality are needed. Just as CAPs are combinations of traditional and new forms of assessment, criteria used to evaluate CAP quality should be derived from both psychometrics and edumetrics. A framework of 10 quality criteria for CAPs is presented, which is then compared to Messick's framework of construct validity. Results show that the 10-criterion framework partly overlaps with Messick's, but adds some important new criteria, which get a more prominent place in quality control issues in competence-based education.     

流亡日本与梁启超国民教育思想的形成

在流亡日本期间,梁启超对中国国民性的认识发生了转变.梁启超的国民教育思想具有以下特征:首先,将国家主义作为第一义,却又正面切入了个人的问题;其次,针对中国国情强调"以新守旧","以内化外","导奴隶就国民";再次,以改革教育来改造国民性,以改造国民性来改造国家,具有文化启蒙的浓厚色彩.     

日本第三方教育评估制度的运行机制、模式与启示

日本是继美国后第三方教育评估发展较为成熟的国家。研讨日本各第三方教育评估机构的官方文件和相关政策,并以日本主要的认证机构——大学基准协会（JUAA）为例进行分析,可以发现日本第三方教育评估包括三种模式,其运行机制注重高校自我评估和高校内部质量保障体系的建设。这对于我国开展第三方评估的法律法规建设、准入机制和多元化发展等工作具有启示作用。     

高等教育质量保障规制体制的理想类型、变革趋势与启示

长期以来,高等教育质量保障有赖于学术自治与自律机制的建立,受同行评议机制与声誉机制的控制。然而,受高等教育规模扩张与国家政治经济体制变革的影响,这种传统的学术自我规制体系能否保障与提高高等教育质量开始受到广泛的质疑。以学术界利益为旨归的私人规制体制、风险与标准导向的市场型规制体制以及基于绩效责任逻辑的政府规制体制三种类型的高等教育质量保障规制体制先后确立。三种规制体制在规制标准的制定、信息搜集以及行为矫正机制等规制要素方面具有迥异的规制逻辑与特征。规制实践的经验表明,倾向于自我规制与国家规制的规制体制均存在缺陷。基于学术自由与公共利益辩证统一的诉求,三种规制体制均开始强调自治与法治、自律与他律的有机整合,并呈现出合作规制的变革趋势。中国高等教育质量保障规制体制的变革应立足于法治的原则、思维和方式,增强政府公权力的法治规约,以实现国家监督与大学自主之间的合作与平衡。