Making a difference? Measuring the impact of an information literacy programme for pre-registration nursing students in the UK

OBJECTIVES: To investigate whether an information literacy programme for pre-registration nursing students at a UK higher education institution is effective in developing their skills and confidence: examines students' skill levels, factors affecting their confidence, and relationships between skills, confidence and demographic characteristics. METHODS: Quantitative and qualitative techniques were used: pre- and post-tests to measure changes in students' skills and self-assessed confidence levels after two key sessions in their first semester (n = 29); semi-structured interviews to explore factors affecting confidence (n = 5). RESULTS: Findings demonstrated positive impacts on skills and confidence. Key areas of skill development included: identifying journal articles, selecting search terms and evaluating website quality. Factors affecting confidence included: successful 'mastery' experiences in searching for information and the programme itself, especially small-group sessions, handouts and staff support. Evidence on links between skills, confidence and demographic factors was inconclusive. CONCLUSIONS: The study demonstrated the programme's effectiveness and identified areas for development, including the need to help students understand the relative merits of search engines and other sources. Evidence has contributed to a change in departmental policy, making attendance at sessions mandatory. Further studies have been recommended.     

高校贵重仪器网络化管理模式的构建与实践

贵重仪器设备的管理和使用逐渐成为如今各高等院校所关注的问题.为提高贵重仪器设备的使用率,促进资源共享,充分发挥贵重仪器设备的使用价值,暨南大学对此进行改革,改进运行机制和管理手段,建立“贵重仪器设备管理与效益分析系统”,实行网络化管理.该系统具有仪器使用预约管理、仪器使用授权管理、仪器使用收费管理三大功能.同时建立激励机制,培养高技术水平的设备管理人员,形成贵重仪器设备使用与管理的良性循环,使贵重仪器设备更好地为学校教学科研工作服务,更好地创造价值.     

教师压力管理的“员工援助计划”模式探讨

文章借鉴近年国内启动的员工援助计划（EAP）,考虑教师群体和教育工作的特殊性,与中国现行的教育体制和中国文化背景相结合,构建中国式教师压力管理的EAP模式,提出EAP实施的方案和应关注的问题。     

基于汉语的时间推进分析框架

时间推进是语篇发展的基本原则,是语篇连贯的重要手段。但是关于哪些因素影响了时间推进,如何分析时间推进,目前并没有形成一个很好的分析框架。本文采用修辞结构理论,以汉语为分析材料,再现了时间推进和语篇结构的关系,区分出三个层面的时间推进,提出了一个时间推进分析框架。这一分析框架的建立对于第二语言的写作教学具有应用价值。     

The role of social-academic goals in Chinese students’ self-regulated learning

European Journal of Psychology of Education - The role of mastery and performance goals in self-regulated learning (SRL) has received much attention. However, in collectivist and Confucian-heritage...     

新课标高中化学选修教材《物质结构与性质》三种版本的比较研究

根据2003年出版的《普通高中化学课程标准(实验)》编定的高中化学教材已通过审定的有三种版本,分别由人民教育出版社、江苏教育出版社、山东科技出版社出版.高中化学课程8个模块中选修3"物质结构与性质"是属于化学基本理论知识的模块.本文将对新版三种教材(选修3"物质结构与性质")的设计思路、体系结构、栏目设置等方面进行比较研究,以期有助于教师理解新课标、选择教材、教法以及把握教学尺度.     

基于流程管理的实验室经费管理信息系统研究

随着高校对实验室经费的投入增加,如何提高公共资金的使用效益及管理效率,降低管理风险,成为当前实验室建设管理领域的关注热点.从分析目前国内各高校实验室经费管理现状人手,提出了一种新的管理方法——流程管理,并初步探索了基于流程管理的实验室经费管理信息系统的构建方案.     

Tracking club sport participation from childhood to early adulthood

This study examined the strength of tracking sport participation from childhood to early adulthood among the Dunedin Multidisciplinary Health and Development Study cohort. Participation in sport, dance, or gymnastics as part of a club or group (outside of school) was assessed at ages 7, 9, 15, 18, and 21 years. In addition to the traditionally used correlation coefficients, summary statistics (intraclass correlations; ICC) from random effect models and stability coefficients from generalized estimating equations (GEE) were calculated using all the longitudinal data and controlling for the influence of covariates on tracking strength. Correlation coefficients revealed statistically significant tracking of club sport participation (7-21 years) at low levels (r = .07-0.28). The ICC summary statistic (0.23) was consistent with this, while the GEE suggested moderate tracking (0.59). The results of this study suggest that encouraging sport participation during childhood and adolescence may result in a modest increase in the likelihood of participation later in life. However, the substantial movement into and out of sport participation observed here and in other studies cautions against relying solely on sport promotion among youth as a strategy to promote lifelong participation.     

A scale-based approach to interdisciplinary research and expertise in sports

After more than 20 years since the introduction of ecological and dynamical approaches in sports research, their promising opportunity for interdisciplinary research has not been fulfilled yet. The complexity of the research process and the theoretical and empirical difficulties associated with an integrated ecological-dynamical approach have been the major factors hindering the generalisation of interdisciplinary projects in sports sciences. To facilitate this generalisation, we integrate the major concepts from the ecological and dynamical approaches to study behaviour as a multi-scale process. Our integration gravitates around the distinction between functional (ecological) and execution (organic) scales, and their reciprocal intra- and inter-scale constraints. We propose an (epistemological) scale-based definition of constraints that accounts for the concept of synergies as emergent coordinative structures. To illustrate how we can operationalise the notion of multi-scale synergies we use an interdisciplinary model of locomotor pointing. To conclude, we show the value of this approach for interdisciplinary research in sport sciences, as we discuss two examples of task-specific dimensionality reduction techniques in the context of an ongoing project that aims to unveil the determinants of expertise in basketball free throw shooting. These techniques provide relevant empirical evidence to help bootstrap the challenging modelling efforts required in sport sciences.     

SIP及其扩展功能的介绍

SIP(Session Initiation Protocol)是IETF开发和设计的应用层的会话控制协议,它用来建立、改变和终止因特网上一个或多个参与者之间的会话。SIP是基于HTTP(超文本传输协议)的,它被设计成独立于底层的传输协议,并且可以用一些额外的功能来扩展。本文主要介绍的是SIP的架构,PROXY的基本的服务,消息的详细介绍以及SIP的扩展功能SIPNAT。