英国职前教师教育伙伴合作模式的质量保障

随着伙伴合作模式在英国职前教师教育领域的日趋成熟,加强伙伴合作模式的质量保障也成为英国职前教师教育领域的新举措,具体表现为英国政府对伙伴合作模式的政策支持、大学对伙伴合作的管理、大学与中小学教师之间的协调与合作以及伙伴合作模式的多方评价等。这些质量保障举措有效地提高了英国职前教师教育的质量,确保了伙伴合作模式的有效运作。     

外部因素如何影响农户清洁能源初次应用行为——来自农户微观数据实证

基于负责任的环境行为模型和技术接受模型,构建外部因素影响农户清洁能源初次应用行为的概念模型;在此基础上,运用江西省612个农户调查数据研究外部因素影响农户清洁能源初次应用行为的作用机理。研究表明:经济激励、清洁能源产品属性、感知因素(感知应用清洁能源的有用性与易用性)、环境问题认知对农户清洁能源初次应用行为有显著的正向影响;经济激励、自愿活动和清洁能源产品属性对农户感知因素有显著的正向影响;经济激励、自愿活动对农户环境问题认知也有显著正向影响。研究还发现,对农户清洁能源初次应用行为影响最大是经济激励政策;对农户环境问题认知、感知因素影响最大的都是农户的自愿活动。     

What makes or breaks competitive research proposals? A mixed-methods analysis of research grant evaluation reports

The evaluation of grant proposals is an essential aspect of competitive research funding. Funding bodies and agencies rely in many instances on external peer reviewers for grant assessment. Most of the research available is about quantitative aspects of this assessment, and there is little evidence from qualitative studies. We used a combination of machine learning and qualitative analysis methods to analyse the reviewers' comments in evaluation reports from 3667 grant applications to the Initial Training Networks (ITN) of the Marie Curie Actions under the Seventh Framework Programme (FP7). Our results show that the reviewers' comments for each evaluation criterion were aligned with the Action's prespecified criteria and that the evaluation outcome was more influenced by the proposals’ weaknesses than by their strengths.