李幼卿助建琅琊寺的宗教文化意义

李幼卿任滁州刺史,助建琅琊寺,这与中国宗教文化发展有着密切的联系。琅琊寺内,同时祀奉着释迦牟尼佛祖和玉皇大帝,这是佛、道宗教文化在滁州的汇集,体现出中华文化兼容并包的特征。琅琊寺依山抱水,风景秀美,其丰富的文化内涵,有待于进一步探究。     

英国中小学资金管理原则与策略探究

英国中小学资金管理经历了由外部控制到自主抉择的发展过程。最优价值原则作为英国地方政府提供服务的基本原则，同样适用于中小学的资金管理。在遵循该原则的前提下，英国中小学管理者采取了一系列的资金管理策略。部分校外机构为学校资金管理提供了广泛的支持，同时也行使了对它们的监督。     

湖南民办教育的回顾与展望

党的十一届三中全会以来,湖南民办教育大体经历了四个时期,即"恢复发展期"(1978-1991年:党的十一届三中全会以后到小平同志南巡讲话之前),"快速发展期"(1992-1996年:小平同志南巡讲话以后到国务院《社会力量办学条例》颁发之前),"发展与规范并重期"(1997-2002年:国务院《社会力量办学条例》颁布以后到全国人大常委会《民办教育促进法》颁布之前),"依法促进发展期"(2003年国家正式颁布《民办教育促进法》以后).     

Disruptive silence: deepening experiential learning in the absence of technology

Technology plays an integral role in the lives of the majority of the US population. As technology becomes integrated into young people’s lives, questions arise regarding its effects on learning. This exploratory study draws on interviews with students who attend university in the United States to determine how separating students from technology deepens experiential learning. Participants were interviewed following a study abroad course to New Zealand, during which they were disconnected from technologies such as cell phones, the Internet and social media. In the interviews, students discussed their feelings of being disconnected and describe how disconnecting impacted their overall experience. Participants agreed that disconnecting from technology had positive effects on experiential learning and the global experience. Major themes that emerged include students’ enhanced immersion and engagement, the value of disconnection in providing opportunities for personal growth and the difficulty of initial separation from technology as a result of conditioning.     

The relationship between individual instructional characteristics and the overall assessment of teaching effectiveness across different instructional contexts

There is an ongoing debate in the student evaluation of teaching literature about whether an overall rating or factorial dimensions of teaching effectiveness should be used in personnel decisions. Marsh and his colleagues have advocated the use of a weighted average approach to computing overall evaluations. A policy-capturing experiment was carried out where students in three different instructional contexts made overall evaluations of hypothetical instructors based on a manipulation of the teaching factors in Marsh's SEEQ. The results indicated (1) amount learned was consistently the most important factor affecting overall evaluations; (2) course difficulty was consistently the least important factor affecting overall evaluations; and (3) there was a strong similarity among the three groups in the relative importance of the various teaching factors in arriving at an overall evaluation. The implications of this research are discussed, as well as directions for future research.     

图式在大学英语写作教学中的应用

写作是一种输出性的语言应用能力，在它在新世纪对于国际性的英语语言学习来说越来越显得重要，因此，如何在有效地提高大学生英语写作水平便是大学英语教师所不可回避的一个重要课题，本度图独辟蹊径，率先提出将“图式”运用于大学英语写作教学中，即通过激活学生 已有的写作“图式”和帮助学生建立新的写作“图式”来提高大学生的英语写作质量和效率。     

The Performance of the Mantel-Haenszel Procedure Across Samples and Matching Criteria

This study examined the reliability of the Mantel-Haenszel indexes across different samples of test takers as well as across sample sizes and investigated whether these indexes are robust to item context effects. Mathematics data from the Second International Mathematics Study (SIMS; 1985) for U.S. eighth-grade students were analyzed. The results suggest that the MH D-DIF is robust to item context effects. However, larger sample sizes than those used in this investigation (N = 141-167 for the focal group) may be necessary to obtain stable estimates from the Mantel-Haenszel procedure.     

Who are Rural Students? How Definitions of Rurality Affect Research on College Completion

Research in Higher Education - Given a revived national discourse about rural populations, more educational research on rural students is necessary, including ways that rural students transition to...