Media counseling: A new frontier for health professionals

The authors are co-hosts of a popular open line radio show in Western Canada. In this article the term media counseling is explored and strategies in bringing expertise from the fields of Psychology and Psychiatry to the public are outlined. The authors have been convinced of the value of their approach, and outline purposes, as well as providing data relevant to this radio show That's Living.     

The relative efficiency of charter schools: A cost frontier approach

Charters represent an expansion of public school choice, offering free, publicly funded educational alternatives to traditional public schools. One relatively unexplored research question concerning charter schools asks whether charter schools are more efficient suppliers of educational services than are traditional public schools. The potential relative efficiency advantage of charters vis-a-vis traditional publics is one of the mechanisms that supports the hypotheses that charters could improve performance for their students while using the same or fewer resources, and that the systemic effect of charters could lead to improved outcomes for traditional public students without requiring an increase in education sector resources.     

Taking stock of taking equity: The last frontier of university technology transfer

This paper addresses the question of what potential success factors are relevant when developing and managing higher education–business partnerships. To shed light on this question, the paper presents a review of research literature on the possible success factors in university–industry relations. To shed further light on the factors identified in the literature, this paper reports on an empirical study of cross‐sector collaboration between four regional universities and energy firms in Norway. The empirical study should be seen as a “relevance check” of the factors identified in the extant literature on university–industry collaboration, within the particular context of education‐related partnerships. Based on the review and case studies, implications for management and further research are discussed.     

The influence of the frontier on American political oratory

This paper discusses three perspectives of intentionality—the encoder, decoder, and interactional—relevant to issues in interpersonal communication. Each perspective provides a different way of both conceptualizing and researching intentionality. The encoder perspective examines various ways in which intentionality manifests itself within human consciousness while the decoder perspective is primarily concerned with the way in which interactants attribute intentions to one another. Finally, the interactional perspective argues that intent manifests itself as part of a negotiated process between interactants and therefore encompasses both the individual encoder and decoder orientations.     

明代北部边防中火器应用状况及其局限

在明代北部边防中,火器的配备和使用经历了一个起伏的过程。火器的应用使边军战斗力有所提高,守御能力增强,但火器应用并没有改变明王朝北部边防被动的局面。火器配备、管理方面的缺陷,战术利用的不足以及战略决策的失误都影响到火器威力的充分发挥,使火器应用未能达到一个更高的水平。     

The effective use of student time: a stochastic frontier production function case study

The relationship between student study time allocation and examination performance is little understood. We model the allocation of student time into formal study (lectures and classes) and self study and its relationship to university examination scores using a stochastic frontier production function. This case study uses unique time budget data and detailed personal records from one university in Spain. The results suggest that, within the formal system of teaching in Spain, both formal study and self study are significant determinants of exam scores but that the former may be up to four times more important than the latter. We also find that self study time may be insignificant if ability bias is corrected for.     

Teacher pedagogical beliefs: The final frontier in our quest for technology integration?

Although the conditions for successful technology integration finally appear to be in place, including ready access to technology, increased training for teachers, and a favorable policy environment, high-level technology use is still surprisingly low. This suggests that additional barriers, specifically related to teachers' pedagogical beliefs, may be at work. Previous researchers have noted the influence of teachers' beliefs on classroom instruction specifically in math, reading, and science, yet little research has been done to establish a similar link to teachers' classroom uses of technology. In this article, I argue for the importance of such research and present a conceptual overview of teacher pedagogial beliefs as a vital first step. After defining and describing the nature of teacher beliefs, including how they are likely to impact teachers' classroom practice I describe important implications for teacher professional development and offer suggestions for future research.     

对教育本质的反思与追问:高教研究的重要前沿

一我们今天来讨论“高等教育前沿问题”,首先要明确它的含义和它的指向。前沿是指高等教育学科研究的前沿,它既包括理论研究的前沿,也包括实践研究的前沿。我们需要把握研究动态,厘定前沿领域,明确主攻方向。至少要知道前沿领域在哪里?哪些问题是值得研究的、真正的、具有科学意义的问题,避免低水平的重复,避免就一些似是而非的问题纠缠不休。能否不断确定学科研究的前沿领域并在前沿研究中取得进展,往往是一个学科是否成熟的分水岭。而人们在前沿问题研究中取得重要的突破,主要由于三种情况:其一,由于打破思维定势,另辟蹊径,或者对已有的理…     

Farmer education and efficiency: a frontier production function approach

A stochastic frontier production function is constructed and used to measure the effect of farmer education on farm productivity in Guatemala. The frontier function follows the Corrected Ordinary Least Squares method of Forsund et al. It allows for efficiency to he measured against a standard derived from the operations of the most efficient farmers. Results show that in Guatemala a threshold effect exists, with four or more years of schooling causing an increase in productivity. In contrast, an ‘average’ production function analysis found no significant effect.     

化学学科的前沿--超分子化学

超分子化学是上世纪八十年代末才兴起的一门新兴边缘学科 ,它迅速地与有机化学、生物化学和新型材料科学结合起来 ,为生命科学的研究和新技术、新材料的开发开拓了一个崭新的领域。     

Efficiency in the community college sector: stochastic frontier analysis

This paper estimates technical efficiency scores across the community college sector in the United States. Using stochastic frontier analysis and data from the Integrated Postsecondary Education Data System for 2003–2010, we estimate efficiency scores for 950 community colleges and perform a series of sensitivity tests to check for robustness. We find that community colleges have become more efficient over time, but no evidence of economies of scale. We also find significant variation in efficiency across colleges, with only part of this variation explained by exogenous differences by state and across student characteristics.