Talent development,work habits,and career exploration of Chinese middle‐school adolescents: development of the Career and Talent Development Self‐Efficacy Scale

This article describes the development of an instrument – the Career and Talent Development Self‐Efficacy Scale (CTD‐SES) – for assessing students’ self‐efficacy in applying life skills essential for personal talent development, acquisition of positive work habits, and career exploration. In Study 1, data were obtained from a large sample of Chinese middle‐school students (N=15,113) in Grades 7–9 in Hong Kong. The CTD‐SES is an 18‐item questionnaire with subscales containing items that address students’ orientations toward developing their own talents, acquiring and applying positive work habits, and exploring their career possibilities. Evidence is provided for internal consistency, temporal stability, and factor structure of the CTD‐SES. Goodness of fit statistics provided support for a three‐primary‐factor‐plus‐higher‐factor model, and this solution was used in the statistical analyses. The data also indicated that students with plans for university study reported significantly higher scores than those without on all three domains of career and talent development. In Study 2 (N=308) Grade 10 high‐ability students’ scores in CTD‐SES were correlated with scores in career decision self‐efficacy and academic performance. The development and validation of CTD‐SES is the first step toward investigating career exploration, work habits, and talent development among Asian middle‐school adolescents.     

论唐弢对文章学的贡献——以《文章修养》为例

唐弢是现代文学史家,也是现代文章学家。统观唐氏的文章学著述,可以发现其贡献主要有三:一,构建了较为科学的文章学体系;二,较为全面地揭示与剖析了关于文章本体的原理与问题;三,较为系统地阐述了文章写作理论。由此可见其文章学家的真面目。     

Tensions and complexities in school-university collaboration

This study, conducted over a one-year period, examined the collaboration practices in a large-scale school-university capacity-building collaborative action research project that was designed to help English language teachers develop the skills needed to deal with the reforms to assessment practices in Hong Kong's school curriculum. The study theorized collaboration as a complex construction that must be understood in the context of the prevailing ideologies shaping professional development practices for teachers. Online data generated from the collaborative action research project were analysed to explore the discursive construction of interpersonal relationships. Critical discourse analysis was used to examine the discursive strategies that were used in the emails of two university researchers and two school teachers to negotiate and manage collaboration practices. It examined the complexities of negotiating collaboration as a social practice in institutional cultures in a non-Western sociocultural setting. The implications of the findings for policy, professional development and future research are discussed.     

A structural analysis of market competition in the U.S. TV syndication industry, 1981–1990

The author explores how the structure of the national television programming market has changed during the past decade and finds that the market has become highly concentrated and is increasingly being dominated by foreign owners. The author argues that the trends provide support for relaxation of prohibitions on television networks’ participation in syndication     

Knowledge building: aligning education with needs for knowledge creation in the digital age

Educational technology research and development - This paper examines the alignment of education with the needs for knowledge creation in the digital age using the Knowledge Building model and...     

短期丙酮酸-肉碱或丙酮酸-肉碱-壳聚糖补充对恒定负荷运动时能量代谢的影响

通过观察恒定负荷运动前后血液中葡萄糖、自由脂肪酸的变化和运动时主观感觉疲劳程度和RQ的变化，研究丙酮酸-肉碱或丙酮酸-肉碱-壳聚糖补充对机体运动时能量代谢和情绪的影响．结果提示：短期丙酮酸-肉碱补充能改善有氧运动中的主观感觉疲劳程度；促进安静时和有氧运动中脂肪的动员及提高脂肪供能的比例；添加壳聚糖后对以上效果没有影响，并且也不能改变高水平的血糖和FFA状况．     

从唐代壁画中体悟油画的创作

本文从探讨古代壁画与油画的关联,来阐明油画并不是欧洲一家独占,色彩是油画的重要语言之一,而壁画对色彩、构图、技巧等方面倒有非常的讲究,它是一种以写实与装饰相结合,具象与抽象为调和,象征与寓意相统一的艺术。全文以唐代壁画艺术为中心,从中国壁画对色彩的研究,到技法的探索,分析了唐代壁画不同时期的风格特点,最后结合唐代壁画的题材、构图、技法、用色来谈一下油画创作,进而由唐代壁画的艺术价值来阐述一下中国油画的发展前景。     

The deficit representation of youth at different levels of curriculum-making: a case study on the Liberal Studies curriculum in Hong Kong

This study explores whether the deficit approach to understanding youth, which has been widely critiqued in contemporary youth studies, could still be a dominant paradigm in an emerging curriculum which emphasises multiple-perspective thinking. The analysis compares the representations of youth in selected reference sources at different levels of curriculum-making of the Liberal Studies (LS) curriculum in Hong Kong. These includes: (1) the official website of the curriculum, (2) the textbooks and (3) the teachers' verbal accounts. The findings indicate that the curriculum contents at the institutional level (the LS official website) do not really favour a deficit representation of youth, but that the contents at the programme level and at the classroom level do intensify that deficit representation. The findings shed light on the discourse of youth in education regimes and inform future research.     

Disciplinary differences and implications for the development of generic skills: a study of engineering and business students’ perceptions of generic skills

Although previous research has examined how generic skills and disciplinary contexts are related, such investigation has not been conducted from students’ perspectives. Implications of disciplinary differences for the design of a generic skills curriculum have also remained unexplored. In this study, a questionnaire was administered to 502 first-year engineering and business students from a Hong Kong university which explored their perceived importance and competence level of their generic skills, as well as their motivation towards developing these skills. The results of engineering and business students were compared which revealed some disciplinary differences. Substantial differences were found in the importance and competency ratings on IT skills and business students gave significantly higher importance ratings on most generic skills than engineering students. This study will help guide curriculum design that leverages the benefits of interdisciplinary programmes and incorporates generic skills as part of learning outcomes within disciplinary contexts.