Not just another evaluation: a comparative study of four educational quality projects at Swedish universities

In this study, four recent self-initiated educational quality projects at Swedish universities are compared and analyzed. The article focuses on how the universities have handled the tension between external demands and internal norms. The aim is to contribute to an improved understanding of quality management in contemporary universities. On the one hand, the projects are found to be built on similar rationales associated with accountability, reputation building and strategic management. This is interpreted as a response to the shared external policy context. They are also found to mirror similar ambitions regarding raising the status of education. On the other hand, the projects are found to differ considerably in their actual design, methodology, implementation, stakeholders and outcomes. This is interpreted as an active adaptation to the unique internal academic norms and cultures that exist in each university.     

Education of prison inmates: course experience,motivation, and learning strategies as indicators of evaluation

Course experience, motivational beliefs, and self-regulated learning strategies may be considered to be important indicators of education quality. Inmates taking education in prison may also experience particular problems related to the learning environment and to their own learning difficulties. The present study investigated the level of these variables and the relationship between them among 534 inmates under education in Norwegian prisons. The results showed that the prison inmates are generally quite satisfied with the education quality, that they are highly motivated, and use appropriate learning strategies. However, many of them experience that problems such as lack of access to computer equipment and the security routines in prison interfere with their education. A structural equation modelling (SEM) analysis showed that motivational beliefs were mediators between course experience and self-regulated learning strategies. These findings were discussed with respect to improvement of the education quality in prisons and to theoretical issues with relevance beyond the prison context.     

论思想政治工作的与时俱进

与时俱进是马克思主义的实质与发展动力，也是以马克思主义为指早的中国共产党的各项工作其中包括思想政治工作必须遵循的原则。思想政治工作的性质与地位内涵了与时俱进的要求，党的发展历程证明了思想政治工作与时俱进的必要。新世纪初国际国内的重大变化，使社会思想呈现出了新的特点，给思想政治工作提出了新的要求，思想政治工作应做好应对工作。     

框架扰动的一些注记

文献[1]中的框架概念和主要结果之一（定理1）及对它的论证值得商榷。本文指出它的不足和欠明晰之处，并对其进行了澄清，给出了正确论证。     

我国商业银行信贷供求矛盾及对策

我国商业银行信贷资金供求目前存在严重的结构性矛盾，并以信贷集中的方式体现出来。本文从商业银行新增贷款现状、信贷集中现象的负面效应、信贷供求矛盾的基本成因等各个侧面，对我国商业银行信贷供求矛盾作了较为详尽的分析，并据此提出了若干对策建议。     

Towards professionalisation? Restructuring of administrative work force in universities

This article examines the restructuring ofadministrative staff in universities throughempirically documenting such processes andproviding a theoretically foundedinterpretation and analysis of change. Theempirical material is drawn from a context ofNorwegian universities the last two decades.Two major changes can be observed in thisperiod. First, a period of steep growth inuniversity administration in early 1990sfollowed by a period of moderate growth and insome cases even decline. The second dominantdevelopment pattern in the 1980s and 1990s isthe change within administrative staff,which could be interpreted as a professionalisation of administrative staff.The article concludes by presenting possibleexplanations to the structuring of theadministrative work force in universities onthe basis of different theoretical approachesto organisational change.     

Between the Academic Mathematics and the Mathematics Education Worlds

Change is always difficult, and there is no great doubt that teachers need time to come to terms with it. This fact is, however, too often forgotten. In the spirit of my earlier work, this paper is shaped by an action research perspective. It provides some insights into the learning experiences of a group of eleven experienced secondary mathematics teacher, who were enrolled in a Perspectives on Mathematics Education two semesters course, within the context of a Masters on Mathematics Teaching programme, held at a Department of Mathematics, in a Portuguese University. The first part of the paper highlights the conflicting pressures and stresses suffered, during the first semester course, by the participating teachers. Confrontation with new ideas about both mathematics and mathematics education, as well as work overload, had a damaging impact on the teachers’ self‐confidence and morale. The second part of the paper covers the second semester course by addressing three fundamental questions for teachers, which aimed at helping the students bridge the academic mathematics and the mathematics education worlds. Finally, brief scenarios of three participating teachers’ professional development throughout the course are discussed in order to illustrate the challenges they had to face and the possibilities the course (and the Masters programme) offered to promote individual change.     

陈庄体及其在明代诗坛的历史地位

明初的“陈庄体”诗,崇尚理性,追求理趣,是宋诗之余裔,其祖邵雍《击壤》,评诗作诗,以是否合道适理为主要标准,其造语平淡,境界自然,是宋诗以比兴之体,发义理之秘,借景物以吟咏性情,于意象探天人之理诗风的延续。陈庄体脱胎于宋诗但又力图破宋诗之藩蓠,虽重理趣但极少发议论,虽重性理但又反性情作为诗有无风韵的前提。其“自得”理论,把宋诗对自然规律的谐适之理转为对个性自我的张扬,表现出古代诗歌由重理趣向重个人情趣的重大转变,其对“格调”的重视,打破宋人主理不主调的格套,影响了其后的前后七子。其力主情精、崇尚自然之诗思,对明后期重个性的诗歌思潮又有一定的开启作用。     

浅析电视的清晰度

简述清晰度概念和电视系统数字化的各种优点 ,及现行世界上所采用数字电视的标准 (包括图像格式、扫描格式 ) ,并对标准电视与高清晰度电视的清晰度 ,及对决定电视清晰度的因素进行分析比较