Embedded creative workers and creative work in education

This article is concerned with the many connections between creative work and workers, and education work and industries. Employment in the education sector has long been recognised as a significant element in creative workers’ portfolio careers. Much has been written, for example, about the positive contribution of ‘artists in schools’ initiatives. Australian census analyses reveal that education is the most common industry sector into which creative workers are ‘embedded’, outside of the core creative industries. However, beyond case studies and some survey research into arts instruction and instructors, we know remarkably little about in which education roles and sectors creative workers are embedded, and the types of value that they add in those roles and sectors. This article reviews the extant literature on creative work and workers in education, and presents the findings of a survey of 916 graduates from creative undergraduate degrees in Australia. The findings suggest that education work is very common among creative graduates indeed, while there are a range of motivating factors for education work among creative graduates, on average they are satisfied with their careers, and that creative graduates add significant creative-cultural and creative-generic value add through their work.     

Applying Tablet‐Based Performance Support Application for Technicians’ Training at the Israeli Air Force: A Case Study

Performance support systems are mechanisms enabling users) productivity while reducing training expenses as support is being delivered in real time, often eliminating the need for costly pre‐performance training. Mobile technologies have created new opportunities for improved performance support systems, especially for tasks performed outside the offi ce. This article describes the fi rst mobile learning and performance support initiative taken by the Israeli Air Force. The project included the development and eff ectiveness pilot study of a learning and performance support application delivered via tablet to helicopter engine technicians. The application provided support videos and illustrations of maintenance routines, thereby enabling learning and practicing at the same time. Pilot study results show high performance levels of application users compared to those applying traditional methods. Results also show that self‐effi cacy levels were not aff ected by the successful performance achieved when using the mobile performance support application. Plans to expand mobile support use are also described.     

培养高素质生源选拔优秀设计人才

工业设计在经济建设中发挥着重要作用.设计师应具有较高的文化素质和艺术修养,应是全面发展的高素质人才.而我国的设计教育在招生方式和招生标准方面还存在许多问题,致使生源素质不高,不能选拔出高素质人才.所以必须对传统的招生方式进行改革,发展工业设计要从培养生源和选拔人才抓起.     

Partial reinforcement effects on discrimination learning

Rats were trained on a series of reversals of a successive discrimination in which the percentage of S+ trials ending in food was varied. Changes in the discrimination index occurred more slowly with 50% reinforcement than with 100% reinforcement when the number of training trials was equated across conditions, but were approximately invariant when the conditions were equated with respect to the number of obtained reinforcements. Presentation of free reinforcement during the intertrial intervals reduced the overall rate of discrimination acquisition, but left this invariance unaffected. Invariance in reinforcements necessary to attain acquisition also occurred when different discriminations correlated with different percentages of reinforcement were intermixed within experimental sessions. The failure of the invariance effect to be disrupted by either manipulation suggests that previous accounts of the invariance effect in terms of “comparator” models of conditioning (e.g., Gibbon & Balsam, 1981) are inadequate.     

《古方言词语例释》指瑕

张喆生的《古方言词语例释》对阅读古代献颇有助益。但也存在出条不当，释义不确，义例不合，引有误等问题。     

陕西省乒乓球产业发展道路探析

通过对原陕西省乒乓球队和各种类型的乒乓球俱乐部的调查,探讨了陕西省各地区乒乓球运动产业开展的现状和出现的新情况。结果发现：双轨制下的陕西省乒乓球运动产业发展是由现阶段陕西省的基本情况决定的;陕西省乒乓球运动产业链主体“金字塔”模式基本形成;现阶段陕西省发展乒乓球俱乐部是可行的,但是乒乓球产业化环境并不完善。     

The European university landscape: A micro characterization based on evidence from the Aquameth project

This paper provides a new and systematic characterization of 488 universities, from 11 European countries: Finland, France, Germany, Hungary, Italy, Netherlands, Norway, Portugal, Spain, Switzerland and UK. Using micro indicators built on the integrated Aquameth database, we characterize the European university landscape according to the following dimensions: history/foundation of university, dynamics of growth, specialization pattern, subject mix, funding composition, offer profile and productivity.     

职业院校精准资助工作体系的建构与应用

目前职业院校资助工作存在的突出问题有资助对象认定较为简单、资助实施举措较为单一、资助管理模式较为粗放。据此,文章提出职业院校精准资助工作体系的建构:建构资助对象的精准认定体系、建构资助实施的精准方法体系、建构资助过程的精准管理体系。最后说明了职业院校精准资助工作体系的应用:在资助对象的认定上注重定量与定性结合、在资助实施的方法上满足学生个性化需求、在资助管理的手段上建立信息化工作系统。