高职高专教育教学质量的过程监控研究

目前,我国高职高专院校的教育教学质量监控体系存在着诸如评价观念相对落后;目的不清;主体存在缺陷;评价尺度不够科学合理等问题。为改变这种状况,要依据高职办学规律,构建层级式具有操作性的教学环节质量标准体系;强调学生主体,构建有效的教学过程信息采集和处理系统;构建快速有效的即时反馈调控系统。     

Theoretical Perspectives on Gender in Education: The Case of Eastern and Southern Africa

In recent years, throughout Eastern and Southern Africa, there has been a proliferation of research on gender in education. It is possible to point to a wide variety of publications, courses and programmes planned and organized by universities, national governments, international organizations, non-governmental organizations and the private sector relating to this field. This article examines the feminist and gender theories underpinning all these endeavors. The theories are assessed for their potential capacity to assist in elucidating the complex relationship between gender and development within the region.     

The International Consortium for Educational Development in Higher Education

The affective dimensions of intimacy and emotional labour in academic development are explored utilising two methodological resources: autoethnography and narrative practice. An excerpt from the author’s reflective professional journal infused with affect and emotion is analysed utilising theories of intimacy in modernity, emotion work, and professional intimacy. The journal excerpt is ‘restoried’ to produce narrative lines that provide insight into the journal entry. The article concludes by proposing a ‘pedagogy of intimacy’ as an analytical space that values both skill and care.     

Promoting academic development: a history of the International Consortium for Educational Development (ICED)

This essay traces the history of the International Consortium for Educational Development (ICED) through document analysis and email interviews with founding and prominent ICED members. It also provides a summary of the themes and locations of all the ICED conferences.     

Monitoring Educational Quality through Performance Indicators for School Practice

This article discusses the management of quality in education systems. Indicator systems are discussed in the section that follows and the relationship between indicators, development and accountability is addressed in the context of the strategic management of improvement in school systems. A system of indicators developed to monitor the effectiveness of practice is then discussed. The final sections of the paper discuss these indicators in serving a dual purpose of school development and quality management. These indicators were developed to continuously monitor and review the quality of the education provided for students. Information from the monitoring of the effectiveness of school practice and functioning is discussed in the final section.     

The Tunisian Educational Reform: From Quantity to Quality and the Need for Monitoring and Assessment

The Tunisian education system, like that of many other Southern nations of intermediate wealth, finds itself pulled in opposing directions. While quantitative advances at different levels of instruction have been easily achieved, a reorientation towards qualitative matters is nowadays more than ever necessary. Reforms at the secondary level, and the perspectives that they open up in terms of an improvement in the quality of educational services for young people, will receive special attention in this article. Radical changes in the traditional status of school inspectors are needed. Furthermore, a new national agency for monitoring and evaluating students' outcomes and schools' performance is indispensable.     

教育质量监测试题的评价与反思

教育质量监测试题的质量关系到基础教育质量监测的科学性与权威性。评价认为,教育质量监测试题在思想与立意、目的与功能、结构与形式、指标与属性等方面具有一定优势,但也存在一致性难以兼顾、科学性论证缺位、利害性不易权衡的不足。针对其不足,提出拓展一致性分析、加强科学性论证和寻求利害性平衡的建议与策略,为我国的考试改革和教育质量监测提供重要借鉴。     

南宋浙东学派功利主义教育思想述评

南宋浙东学派的学者在教育方面提出了一系列关于教育和教学的理论和观点，形成了具有朴素唯物主义色彩的比较系统的功利主义教育思想，其中有不少精辟、独到之处，对于今天的教育实践仍具有借鉴和指导意义。     

Macroeconomics, (Adult) Education, and Poverty Eradication in Southern Africa

The Millennium Summit held in New York in September 2000 outlined the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs). The first of these involves the eradication of extreme poverty and hunger, setting two targets: halving by 2015 the percentage of the world’s populace in 1990 with income less than US-$1 a day (i.e., cutting this percentage from 27.9 to 14%); and halving the share of people who suffer from hunger. As for education, the MDGs seek to ensure that all children can complete primary schooling by 2015. Drawing on examples from selected southern African countries, the present study examines the need to strengthen economic support for (adult) education as an instrument of poverty eradication. It argues that human capital is one of the fundamental determinants of economic growth, and that this economic resource is essentially determined in both qualitative and quantitative regards by education.     

Macroeconomics, (Adult) Education, and Poverty Eradication in Southern Africa

The Millennium Summit held in New York in September 2000 outlined the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs). The first of these involves the eradication of extreme poverty and hunger, setting two targets: halving by 2015 the percentage of the world’s populace in 1990 with income less than US-$1 a day (i.e., cutting this percentage from 27.9 to 14%); and halving the share of people who suffer from hunger. As for education, the MDGs seek to ensure that all children can complete primary schooling by 2015. Drawing on examples from selected southern African countries, the present study examines the need to strengthen economic support for (adult) education as an instrument of poverty eradication. It argues that human capital is one of the fundamental determinants of economic growth, and that this economic resource is essentially determined in both qualitative and quantitative regards by education.     

高等教育教学与学习的国际交流平台——国际教育发展联盟

国际教育发展联盟(简称ICED)作为一个国际性的教育联盟,成立的目的在于促进世界范围内高等教育教学、学术和教师的发展。成立至今,ICED通过增加世界各地成员组织的数量、举办委员会会议和国际大会等形式,不断地扩大其对世界范围内高等教育的影响,为世界高等教育发展活动提供了一个国际性的交流平台。     

构建完善的成人高等教育教学质量监控体系

成人高等教育的快速发展在一定程度上适应了社会发展对人才的需求,但同时也带来新的教育质量问题。教学质量是高等学校办学的生命线,要确保成人高等教育教学质量,必须建立健全适合本校特点的成人高等教育教学质量监控体系。该文主要从完善的成人高等教育教学质量监控体系的构建及运行这一层面进行探讨和实践。     

Extra tuition in Southern and Eastern Africa: Coverage,growth, and linkages with pupil achievement

The phenomenon of extra tuition is witnessed in many countries and some educationalists have described it as a parallel education system. However, the incidence and impact of extra tuition have often not been studied systematically, especially in Africa. In this article cross-national data for six African education systems (Kenya, Malawi, Mauritius, Namibia, Zambia and Zanzibar) collected by SACMEQ, the Southern and Eastern Africa Consortium for Monitoring Educational Quality, have been used to assess: (a) the incidence and growth of extra tuition, (b) the characteristics of students who received extra tuition, and (c) the association between extra tuition and student achievement. The analyses presented in this paper showed that extra tuition was a widespread phenomenon in all six education systems, and that receiving extra tuition was positively associated with the socio-economic levels of students’ home backgrounds. The association between tuition and student achievement was mixed. The issues and challenges associated with tuition have been discussed and some suggestions for further research made.