世界幼教事业发展趋势:国家财政支持幼儿教育

国家财政支持幼儿教育已成为一个世界性的发展趋势。这一趋势的出现基于对幼儿教育重要性的认识、有关幼儿教育的正外部效益的发现和对幼教市场缺陷的揭示。幼儿教育经费整体投入不足、有限资源分配不公、效益不高是我国幼儿教育财政投入体制的主要问题,必须从制度和政策层面加以改进。     

A cross-cultural investigation of teachers’ and reporting officers’ self-ratings on teaching and leadership skills across Singapore and Bahrain

Self-rating bias is particularly likely in organizational behavior research as individuals tend to inflate their expertise, skills and character. This study aims to examine how two culturally diverse groups of teachers and their reporting officers respond to self-ratings of their own teaching skills and leadership skills respectively. It is posited that such response may be culturally based. To ensure validity of comparisons, analyses were done using linear Rasch measures in logits rather than the non-linear raw scores. No significant differences were found between the perceptions of Singaporean teachers and their reporting officers on teaching and leadership skills. The Bahraini data however revealed teachers’ perceptions of own teaching skills were significantly higher than that of their reporting officers. The opposite is true for the Reporting officers’ perceptions of our leadership skills. Bahraini teachers’ perceptions of their own teaching skills were also found to be significantly higher than that of their Singaporean counterparts. The findings support the notion that individuals’ thinking and behavior is influenced by how they process social and cultural information.     

基于城市竞争力理论的西部体育市场开发研究——以成都、西安、重庆与昆明四城市为例

基于城市竞争力的测评系统分析发现,成都、西安、重庆与昆明市是西部仅有的4个进入全国城市综合竞争力排名前50强的城市。通过对4个城市竞争力模式中12个分支系统的分析,西部体育市场的开发与利用需要进行正确的市场定位,并提出“西部体育城市发展圈”的模式、注重城市竞争力给体育市场开发带来的潜在市场、突出城市文化特色发展点等整体建议,并探讨西部4大城市的具体体育特色市场发展点。     

Parental perspectives and challenges in inclusive education in Singapore

Relatively little work has focused on inclusive education in Singapore. This study examines the experiences and perceptions of parents whose children with disabilities are attending mainstream secondary schools in Singapore. Data was drawn from interviews with 13 parents of children with mild disabilities. Our findings reveal that parental perspective on inclusive education in Singapore is not only about classroom support but also reflects a deeper concern about whether their children with disabilities will emerge from school as contributing individuals in society. While parents strive to effectively include their children with disabilities in mainstream classrooms, there were dichotomies in their (1) understanding of disabilities, (2) expectations of school support, and (3) expectations for their child with disabilities. Given that academic and social prowess is a critical prerequisite to have a shot at entering the meritocratic Singapore society, the tension parents experience is to gauge a reasonable amount of pressure to exert on their children, the school and themselves as they assert their children's educational entitlements within an imperfect but evolving state of inclusion.     

Sensitivity of School-Performance Ratings to Scaling Decisions

Policymakers usually leave decisions about scaling the scores used for accountability to their appointed technical advisory committees and the testing contractors. However, scaling decisions can have an appreciable impact on school ratings. Using middle-school data from New York State, we examined the consistency of school ratings based on two scaling approaches that differed in scaling decisions that are important in high-stakes testing contexts. We found that, depending on subject, grade, and year, a switch in scaling approach led to (1) average absolute shifts in ranks of between 50 and 132 positions (median = 69), which are appreciable shifts for a listing of 1,243 schools; and (2) between 7% and 45% (average = 20%) of schools experiencing shifts in assigned performance bands, depending on the classification scheme. Further, the effect of scaling approach was larger when the raw-score distribution has more severe ceiling effect, and in these cases, it was driven primarily by the difference in the location of the highest obtainable scale score from the two scaling approaches.     

Charge It! Translating Electric Vehicle Research Results to Engage 7th and 8th Grade Girls

Journal of Science Education and Technology - Despite attempts to generate interest in science and technology careers, US students continue to show reduced interest in science, technology,...     

初探独立学院高效教务管理的措施--以广西师范学院师园学院为例

独立学院教务管理工作是学校管理工作中的核心部分,如何做到高效的教务管理,是每位教务管理者应思考的问题。本文以广西师范学院师园学院（以下简称“师园学院”）教务管理为例,结合笔者在师园学院教务管理工作中的经验,对独立学院高效教务管理进行探讨,提出几点措施。     

浅谈学前教育专业舞蹈教学中表演意识的培养

高校本科学前教育专业舞蹈教学具有一定的特殊性,其学生大多零基础,柔软性、协调性较差。培养舞蹈表演意识能有效地提高学前教育专业舞蹈教学质量,符合学前教育专业学生特点,使学生未来更好地胜任幼儿园舞蹈教学工作。本文从学前教育专业学生的特点及学习舞蹈面临的困难入手,分析表演意识培养对学前教育专业舞蹈教学的重要意义,提出培养舞蹈表演意识的有效方法,以期为学前教育专业舞蹈教学提供微薄的见解。