Online homework impact in undergraduate mathematics and business statistics courses

This evaluation examines the impact on student success rates related to changes in instructional programmes in undergraduate mathematics and statistics courses. Success for students taking courses with a computer-based homework component was compared with success of students who took the course in prior semesters without the computer-based component. Graphical and analytical tools are used to compare results. Results come from multiple semesters of each type of homework application, for both pre-calculus algebra and business statistics courses. Students whose performance is utilised in this study are undergraduate students taking introductory level college mathematics or business statistics courses, with mostly no prior instruction at this level. Comparing the success of the intervention group with the success of the baseline control group, findings support that the students using the computer-based homework instruction are just as successful as those using the traditional method of homework instruction. Utilising the online homework applications, provide several important advantages in today’s universities, including the reduced time for faculty grading, consistency of graded assignments across all sections of a course and most importantly, immediate feedback for students.     

论我国公司社会责任的理论基础与法律规制

公司社会责任理念的提出是对公司以股东利益最大化为目标的传统命题的现代修正。公司不仅具有营利性,而且具有社会性,二者相互依存,辩证统一于社会发展的过程之中,构成了公司社会责任法制化的理论基础。总体而言,我国公司社会责任的相关立法和实践取得了巨大成就,但同时仍然存在着一些不容忽视的问题。只有整合现有的法律资源,健全公司社会责任的法律体系,完善公司社会责任的法律责任制度,强化政府的监管职责,才能弥补我国公司社会责任法制化现存的缺陷,推动公司社会责任运动进一步发展。     

从植物化学成份的比较看单子叶植物的起源问题

  通过对单子叶植物和毛茛科以及”睡莲目”植物中生物碱、甾体化合物、三萜化合物、氰甙 和脂肪酸等五类化学成份的比较分析，作者认为毛茛科与百合目有着密切的亲缘关系，因而支 持单子叶植物毛茛—百合起源的主张，不赞同苏联学者Takhtajan关于单子叶植物莼菜—泽泻起源的观点。     

中共第八届中央委员会对干部工作的积极探索

党的干部工作是党的建设工作的重要组成部分,也是党的革命、建设和改革事业顺利进行的重要组织保证。作为党在新中国成立后产生的第一届中央委员会——第八届中央委员会在履职的13年时间里,对党的干部工作包括干部培训、接班人培养、干部下放锻炼、干部交流、干部能上能下等制度进行了重要探索,有成功的经验也又失败的教训。其成功的经验为当下党的干部工作提供了重要启示。     

Research engagement and educational decentralisation: problematising primary school English teachers’ research experiences in China

Teachers are encouraged to enhance professional competence through reflective practice and they are also asked to undertake research to generate evidence for their professional practices. This paper reports on an inquiry into a group of primary school English language teachers’ research engagement in the province of Guangdong on the Chinese mainland. The inquiry explored the effect of educational reforms on the participants’ research engagement through the use of an open‐ended questionnaire and group interviews. The inquiry revealed that research engagement had become an important part of the teachers’ professional lives. Emerging findings from the inquiry also problematised their research engagement as it was found to have been undermined by a competitive promotion mechanism, the teachers’ conceptualisations of research and challenges in the knowledge dissemination process. The paper ends with reflections on how to make teacher research “educational” for teachers and serve as an effective way for professional development.     

Use of deterministic models in sports and exercise biomechanics research

A deterministic model is a modeling paradigm that determines the relationships between a movement outcome measure and the biomechanical factors that produce such a measure. This review provides an overview of the use of deterministic models in biomechanics research, a historical summary of this research, and an analysis of the advantages and disadvantages of using deterministic models. The deterministic model approach has been utilized in technique analysis over the last three decades, especially in swimming, athletics field events, and gymnastics. In addition to their applications in sports and exercise biomechanics, deterministic models have been applied successfully in research on selected motor skills. The advantage of the deterministic model approach is that it helps to avoid selecting performance or injury variables arbitrarily and to provide the necessary theoretical basis for examining the relative importance of various factors that influence the outcome of a movement task. Several disadvantages of deterministic models, such as the use of subjective measures for the performance outcome, were discussed. It is recommended that exercise and sports biomechanics scholars should consider using deterministic models to help identify meaningful dependent variables in their studies.     

基础数学课改与高师数学教育对策探讨

高师数学教育要面对新课改要更新教育观念,整合和优化专业课程,改变教师的教法,培养学生良好的学习方法,面对不同的学生采取不同的教学模式,实施灵活的、全方位的学习评价方式,使不同的学生都能得到发展,为基础数学教育培养新型合格的教师。     

国外高校网上校史信息分析

国外高校的网上校史信息,除了通过一些常规栏目介绍学校的基本情况和历史概貌,还有丰富多彩的专题,介绍学校的各种特色活动和学校在重大社会变化中的历史功绩。不拘一格的发布方式,便捷的数据浏览、检索和下载功能,重视校史信息的互动性和趣味性,范围广泛、内容深入的网上校史信息资源,传达了以读者为本位的展示理念,这些特点对国内高校网上校史馆的建设均有借鉴价值。     

高职院校图书馆建设的探索与思考——以民办四川天一学院图书馆为例

高职院校图书馆建设是一项长期艰巨的工作,民办四川天一学院图书馆在数字图书馆雏形建设、网站建设、图书馆队伍建设等方面做了积极探索实践,认为民办高职院校的图书馆建设,应该从努力争取学院领导的重视和支持,积极开展学科化、专业化、个性化服务,始终坚持普通高校图书馆建设的总目标和办馆思路,探索自身的发展之路。