School district size and student educational attainment: evidence from Denmark

This paper analyses the effects of the size of school districts on educational attainment of students after compulsory school in Denmark. Using administrative microdata for individual students and their parents, logit models for the probability of obtaining different levels of education are estimated where the explanatory variables include district size, per student expenditure, and a wide range of controls for family background and district socioeconomic characteristics. It is found that attending schools in districts with a population of less than 15,000 (corresponding to less than 1800 students in public primary and lower secondary schools) has negative effects on educational attainment later in life: The probability of completing a secondary education (upper secondary school or vocational education) or a further or higher education is reduced by approximately 3 percentage points compared to having attended primary and lower secondary school in a district with more than 15,000 inhabitants.     

大学教育研究组织的生存依据与职能定位

大学里的教育研究组织不仅为现代大学按教育规律办学提供了教育理论支撑 ,而且是现代大学的宝贵财富 ,是大学提高其知名度的重要力量。失却了这一学科群体与能力 ,很难成就完整意义上的大学 ,很难成就真正意义上的大学精神 ,也很难造就时代需要的大师。因此 ,为了促进大学教育研究组织摆脱尴尬的境地 ,实现可持续发展 ,当前强化其独特职能要做到 :领导重视 ,为其可持续发展提供组织保证 ;定位确切 ,强化它的学术职能 ;因地制宜 ,鼓励和支持学院制模式、独立所模式等多种模式协调发展     

试论Excel在学生考试成绩统计分析中的运用

从易学易用、方便师生操作的角度，并结合学生成绩的特点，采用Microsoft Excel中文版软件帮助进行数据处理和统计分析，探讨了Excel在数据统计分析中的主要应用。     

Agile administrative choreographies for multimode education at the University of Pretoria

This paper responds in part to a special edition of this journal (39/2) on dual-mode provision. We were concerned that contact providers might drift into distance education provision through extending campus-based online learning without first thinking through the underpinning implications of its administrative systems, an issue that was not addressed in the special edition. Proceeding from a pragmatic and constructivist perspective, while adopting a transactional orientation drawing on systems theory and hermeneutics, this paper focuses on the challenge for administrative staff and systems of the changing nature of provision in terms of both the underpinning learning and business models. Based on experience and reflection, we conclude that the move into dual- and multimode provision is inevitable and that this requires agility on the part of both administrative staff and systems that is often overlooked in planning and review processes.     

Implicit knowledge of general upper secondary school in a bridge-building project

Bridge-building activities are practiced widely in the education systems of Europe. They are meant to bridge transitions between lower and upper secondary school and form a mandatory part of the youth guidance system in Denmark. By giving pupils the opportunity to experience the different educational context of upper secondary school, bridge-building activities are meant to facilitate their decision-making on educational paths, but also to attract more and new groups of pupils. However, the premises of the inherent differences of educational contexts and of pupils’ lacking knowledge of upper secondary education can be questioned. In this ethnographic case study of a bridge-building project in a rural area in Denmark, we analyse the implicit knowledge of the general upper secondary school, as it is practiced in a bridge-building project, and how it is experienced by the pupils on the background of their prior knowledge. The analysis is theoretically informed by especially the code concepts of Basil Bernstein.     

教育信息化是实现义务教育优质、均衡发展的必由之路

经济的发展可以推动社会进步,但不能摆脱社会贫富不均、社会矛盾激化的困境。只有促进义务教育均衡发展,使社会全体成员都尽可能享受到优质教育才有可能解决这个问题。当前国内外义务教育均衡发展的理论与实践主要是从＂教育机会均等＂角度,通过加大资金投入改善办学条件、提高学科成绩测试标准并建立绩效责任机制、实施教育专项计划或重大工程等举措,实现教育的均衡发展。教育信息化的基本内涵和特性,使它在提升教育质量、实现义务教育均衡发展方面具有很大的潜在优越性,但要有信息化教学创新理论才能使这种优越性真正发挥出来。＂基础教育跨越式发展创新试验研究＂项目的10年实施经验证明,在信息化教学创新理论指引下,教育信息化确实可以提升薄弱校（特别是农村校）义务教育阶段各学科的教学质量与学生的综合素质,从而促进义务教育优质、均衡发展,使教育公平的目标落到实处。     

教育技术学专业主干课程教材建设问题探析：信息道德教育的视角

信息道德教育是教育技术学专业不可忽视的重要一环。教材中包含的信息道德内容在一定程度上影响着信息道德教育的实施与开展。基于信息道德教育的视角,通过对教育技术学专业8门主干课程教材进行内容分析,发现教育技术学专业现行主干课程教材包含的信息道德内容较少,编排集中,完整性差,重于＂说教＂。课程编著者在今后主干课程教材的建设和修订中,应深入理解信息道德教育的内涵,革新信息道德教育的方法,加强信息道德教育与学科的渗透与融合,以达到良好的信息德育教育的效果。     

新世纪第一个10年中国教育技术学科的国际交往研究

我国教育技术起步较晚,大部分理念和技术都是从国外引入并逐步加以本土化的。国际交往对于我国教育技术的发展具有很大的作用,作为我国首次全方位关注教育技术国际交往的研究,其意义就更为重要。21世纪以来,我国教育技术领域的国际交往越来越频繁,当前的主要途径有国内师生出访交流,国外学者来华作报告、进行合作交流,对国外学者进行专访对话,学者赴外参加国际会议或国内举办国际会议,以及翻译国外著作等。10年来,随着国际合作内容不断丰富,其研究越来越广泛并走向深入,主要集中在学科发展、远程教育和学习模式等10个领域。这些国际交往使我国教育技术学科地位得到巩固和发展,研究领域得到拓展,研究方法更加科学和规范。评估10年的国际交往,今后更应加强实质性合作研究,提高交流实效,重视国际项目合作,避免停留在表面或流于形式,要以一种平等合作、批判性、包容性的态度进行国际交流和对话。