Technical adequacy of tests used by professionals in simulated decision making

A critical issue in current assessment efforts is the widespread use of technically inadequate tests. This study looked at the technical adequacy of tests chosen by 159 school professionals during a computer simulation of placement decision making. An analysis of the results suggested that initially school personnel tended to select devices with technically adequate reliability and validity as often as they selected devices with inadequate reliability and validity; however, as decision making continued, technically inadequate devices were selected more often. More emphasis on the importance of technically adequate assessment devices is needed in training school professionals.     

Prior Sexual Victimization and Disclosure of Campus Sexual Violence Among College Students

Using survey data from a large, public university, the authors examined the relationships of precollege sexual violence experience to revictimization and disclosure. Among victims of campus sexual violence, those with prior sexual victimization were no more or less likely to disclose to campus resources and were less likely to disclose to peers. Results suggest that institutions need to be prepared to support students with a range of victimization experiences. There is also a need for earlier and expanded sexual violence education and awareness efforts.     

The geography of music preferences

Considerable attention has been paid to America’s political and economic divides. These divides revolve around class and location, with more affluent, more educated and denser places leaning more open-minded and liberal and less affluent, less educated and less dense places leaning more conservative. We contend that such divides are also reflected and reinforced by preferences, attitudes and predispositions for culture. More specifically we argue that Americans’ preferences for music will reflect dimensions of these political and economic divides. To test this proposition, our research examines the geographic variation of five key categories of music preferences across 95 of the largest US metropolitan areas. We use factor analysis to identify and map geographic variation of musical preferences, and we use both bivariate correlation analyses and regression analysis to examine the associations between metro-level musical preferences and key economic, demographic, political, and psychological variables. We find that musical preferences generally reflect and reinforce America’s broader economic and political divides.     

缅甸的海运科技教育

缅甸海地区具有东南亚典型的渔业资源,若开和德林达依海岸是珍珠文化发展理想场所,沿岸区域盛产出口石油和天然气．如果具备相应的专家技术与管理,从海运范围划分出去的渔业资源将会在未来扮演很重要的角色．缅甸海运科学与技术教育发展的主要目的是：充分利用资源,改进海运交通网络结构和达到海运安全、海运环境保护和安全方面的全球化标准．描述不同部门的不同机构处理的海事事务及其责任．2002年8月1日建校的缅甸海事大学是专门为海事交通部门培训胜任的造船师与工程师的学校．缅甸海事大学为了建设高效的海事团体将进行更广泛的国际合作．     

An exploration of the validity and potential of adult ego development for enhancing understandings of school leadership

An adult ego development (AED) perspective accepts that the way adults interpret and interact in the social world can change during their life-span. This article seeks to analyse the validity and potential of AED for enhancing understandings of educational leadership practice and development. We analysed the AED literature and interviewed 16 individuals in senior leadership positions in the English school system. The interviews enabled them to explore the notion of AED and to reflect on their own sense-making capability and their experience of school leaders they considered to be in the different stages of AED. Educational leaders judged to be in the different AED stages were encountered by respondents to varying extents and were experienced and valued differently. Those considered to be in the later AED stages appeared to be more highly valued and their sense-making capabilities may have substantial value in the complex working environment of schools. The analyses showed that: AED has a considerable role in educational leadership practice; can inform the analysis of educational leadership practice and development; and has valuable explanatory power.