The engineer's role in the city

The European Society for Engineering Education is holding its eighth annual Conference in Paris this year. Our capital is greatly honoured to welcome for a few days the qualified representatives of a great number of European countries. This is the first SEFI meeting in France since your very first Conference in 1973. It is fortunate that this Conference is being held in Paris and that it has been possible to organize it with the close collaboration of the Engineering Schools (Grandes Ecoles) and the active help of the Study Committee for Engineering-training.     

Assessing Differential Item Functioning in Performance Assessment: Review and Recommendations

How can we best extend DIF research to performance assessment? What are the issues and problems surrounding studies of DIF on complex tasks? What appear to be the best approaches at this time?     

Participatory action research: Collective reflections on gender,culture, and language

The focus of this article is the experiences of three undergraduate students who engaged in a participatory action research (PAR) project with a group of preadolescent Latina girls attending a public school in Boston, MA, USA. The aim of the 2-year project was to explore how the girls constructed knowledge about girlhood and other gender-related issues.     

冬奥会五大难忘时刻

悲剧赛道 这一悲伤时刻将永远笼罩着温哥华冬奥会.2月12日,就在开幕式开始前的几个小时,诺达尔·库玛丽塔什维利,一位来自格鲁吉亚的单人雪橇运动员,在训练中通过惠斯勒赛道的最后一个弯道时,撞上赛道内墙,突然弹出,撞上了赛迫外的钢柱,后不治身亡,年仅21岁.     

High-tech industries and competitive advantage in emerging markets: A study of foreign telecommunications equipment firms in china

This paper deals with the issue of competitive advantage among high-tech industries in emerging markets. It is argued that, for high-tech multi-national companies (MNCs) competing in emerging markets, technology leadership generates some very important competitive advantage that past research has not studied sufficiently. Data from 408 foreign-funded firms competing in China's telecommunications equipment industry provides convincing evidence supporting this argument. The results of this study highlight the need for high-tech firms to maintain technology leadership in international markets, including emerging markets. The paper concludes with a discussion on the implications of the findings.     

Inclusion of children with special needs in school-age child care programs

From an ecological perspective, the inclusion of children in school-age child care (SACC) requires collaboration among policy makers, educators, parents, and child care providers. Both typically and atypically developing children benefit from inclusive programs, yet they pose challenges for care-givers primarily due to lack of training, resources, and identification of successful inclusive program components. The process of successful SACC inclusion should be at the forefront of human service and research agendas.