Networked Services of NIT libraries in India: A study

The main purpose of the paper is to find out the provision of providing Networked Services (NSs) among National Institute of Technology (NIT) libraries in India. Methodology used for collecting data was questionnaire. The survey findings indicate that the majority of libraries prefer to provide communication network services (telephone, Internet, e-mail, facsimile etc), online journals (90%), automated catalog system (85%), multimedia databases (85%) and support (70%) services rather than the other services. Concerning the zone wise performance, south zone (80%) libraries are more potential than the other zone libraries in providing NSs.     

Gender balance in teaching debate: tensions between gender theory and equality policy

This paper draws on findings from a research project funded by the Scottish Executive which analysed the gender balance in teaching and explored the underlying reasons for the decline in the number and proportion of men, particularly in secondary schools. As in other developed countries, such as Australia, the USA and Canada, the proportion of men entering teaching has declined fairly rapidly over a ten‐year period. At a time when women are participating in paid work in greater numbers than ever before, their concentration in certain areas of work, particularly in the service sector and the ‘caring’ professions, is increasingly apparent. Despite the clarity of this trend, it is evident that responses from academics and policy‐makers have been very different, with some policy‐makers linking the declining proportion of men in teaching with the problem of boys’ underachievement and a perceived ‘crisis in masculinity’, whilst some feminist writers have questioned these views, drawing on recent gender theory which questions the utility of the binary categories of ‘man’ and ‘woman’, instead suggesting that gender is performed and may have little to do with the body of the person who is involved in the particular performance. Sex and gender thus become decoupled, with the focus on individual actors freely choosing the version of gender they wish to practice. This line of argument suggests that the sex of the teacher is irrelevant; what really matters is the way in which they perform gender in the classroom. Work on the gender balance in teaching therefore provides an opportunity to reflect on underlying tensions in gender theorising and policy‐making. The paper begins by considering tensions between modernist and post‐structuralist accounts of sex and gender. Having outlined the underlying theoretical tensions, it then goes on to consider the accounts given by teachers and students of the reasons for their own choice of teaching as a career, their experiences in teaching and their views of the reasons underlying the declining proportion of men in teaching. The aim is to consider whether students and teachers believe that sex is an important variable structuring their lives, including their decision to become a teacher and their experiences of working as a teacher, or whether they regard gender as something which is chosen from a wide repertoire of options and is relatively free from the constraints of embodiment. In relation to research on the gender balance in teaching, the paper concludes by suggesting that there is a need to make use of the idea of gender as performance, whilst at the same time holding on to the foundational concepts of ‘woman’ and ‘man’. This is necessary to monitor and understand the career paths and underlying power relations of women and men in teaching and to transform these over time.     

Assessing Reading Comprehension: The Effects of Text-Based Interest,Gender, and Ability

Previous research has established that interest in a text is related to better comprehension and recall, but the impact of interest on comprehension in testing situations has not been widely investigated. This study used Hierarchical Linear Models (HLM) to examine the relationship between students' interest in reading passages and their performance on reading comprehension test items over those passages. The study involved 19,735 students in Grades 4 through 8. Stimuli consisted of 98 different reading passages. A small but significant relationship between interest and test performance was found, which was stronger for girls and for students of higher ability levels. A second HLM analysis was employed to explore whether certain passage characteristics were associated with higher or lower interest. The implications for test construction are discussed.     

基于移动学习的大学英语写作翻转教学的实践与思考

基于移动学习的大学英语写作翻转教学,从设计到实践整个过程,是一种行之有效的教学模式。实践研究发现,移动信息技术为大学英语的翻转教学活动提供了个性化、协作式学习环境,使不同学习程度的学生能够打破学习时空界限,激发了学生英语写作学习动机和实践热情,使他们能积极有效地内化所学的知识和技能,提高英语写作教学的有效性,从而提高大学英语写作的教学质量。     

央视奥运报道浅析

中央电视台2008年北京奥运会电视报道中,在节目转播、策划、制作等方面实现了创新和突破,节目收看人数与收视率都创历史新高,实现了奥运传播最大化的战略目标。但前方记者的漏洞百出、解说员的失误频频,也折射出央视优秀专业人才的匮乏。     

对培养"小教大专生"科学素质的认识

本针对小教大专生社会科学素质和自然科学素质出现严重的不均衡性,根据我国教育“三个面向”、可持续发展和科教兴国战略,提出全面培养小教大专生的科学素质,并根据作多年的教育教学实践提出全面培养小教大专生科学素质的途径和方法。     

采用实时线性模型的微博话题预警分析

[目的/意义]微博在当前信息传播中起着重要作用,为有效预测微博热点及舆情导控,建立实时线性预警模型。[方法/过程]将采集的指标进行缺失值和异常值的处理后,对微博话题热度与大V影响力因子进行因子分析与逐步回归的比较,筛选出公共影响因子;再对其加权,探索不同权重调节因子下的最佳定量公式;用此公式每次输入当前时刻起前3小时的数据,预测当前时刻起后30分钟的加权值对应的话题词,每隔10分钟重新更新一遍参数。[结果/结论]实验证明该预测模型能大大降低数据采集解析和预测时间,保持较好的准确率,并可通过选择合适的阈值,进一步提升精确度。     

Dimensional analysis

Dimensional analysis is a useful tool which finds important applications in physics and engineering. It is most effective when there exist a maximal number of dimensionless quantities constructed out of the relevant physical variables. Though a complete theory of dimensional analysis was developed way back in 1914 in a seminal paper by Buckingham, systematic procedures necessary to construct a sufficient number of dimensionless quantities have become available only recently. In this article, we describe with an example the steps involved in the Szirtes algorithm which is fairly simple to understand and quite straightforward to use.     

关于农民培训的研究综述

对近年来学术界、理论界就国内外农民培训的研究探索进行归纳总结,在对这些成果进行系统总结的基础上,简要评析总体研究现状,并指出当前亟待进行深入研究的问题,以期为进一步的研究提供参考.