英语专业学生听力与词汇能力的相关性研究

词汇是语言学习的基础,是听力能力提高的关键。本文通过对英语专业学生的词汇与听力测试成绩的相关性进行研究,发现英语专业学生词汇能力与听力能力之间确实存在显著的正相关,本文通过对一例英语专业大二学生的听力成绩分析,对英语专业院校重视词汇在听力教学中的地位予以肯定,同时也对当前听力教学和词汇教学的结合提出几点建议。     

What Do Test Score Really Mean? A Latent Class Analysis of Danish Test Score Performance

Latent class Poisson count models are used to analyse a sample of Danish test score results from a cohort of individuals born in 1954–1955, tested in 1968, and followed until 2011. The procedure takes account of unobservable effects as well as excessive zeros in the data. We show that the test scores measure manifest or measured ability as it has evolved over the life of the respondent and is, thus, more a product of the socioeconomic status of the parents and the human capital formation process than some latent or fundamental measure of pure cognitive ability. We find that variables which are not closely associated with traditional notions of intelligence explain a significant proportion of the variation in test scores. This adds to the complexity of interpreting test scores and suggests that school culture and possible incentive problems make it more difficult to understand what the tests measure.     

Segregated school effects on first grade reading gains: Using propensity score matching to disentangle effects for African-American,Latino, and European-American students

Increasing evidence from observational studies indicates that students attending minority segregated schools are at risk for constrained performance in reading. However, analyses of data gathered under observational conditions may yield biased results. Using data from the Early Childhood Longitudinal Study, 1998–1999 Kindergarten Cohort, this study used propensity score matching to address selection bias due to students’ observed socio-economic, literacy, and social-emotional background characteristics, allowing for a less biased estimate of minority segregated schooling on African-American, Latino, and European-American students’ reading gains in first grade. We found that African-American students attending segregated schools made less gain in reading across the first grade year than African-American students in non-segregated schools. There was no evidence for significant negative effects of segregation on reading gains for Latino and European-American students.     

A Methodology for Calculating Prestige Ranks of Academic Journals in Communication: A More Inclusive Alternative to Citation Metrics

The problem of how to rank academic journals in the communication field (human interaction, mass communication, speech, and rhetoric) is one of practical importance to scholars, university administrators, and librarians, yet there is no methodology that covers the field's journals comprehensively and objectively. This article reports a new ranking methodology based in empirical criteria. The new system relates independent measures of the prestige of the field's doctoral departments to information about where faculty members from those departments have published scholarly articles. This new approach identifies the field's most influential journals as those that more frequently publish the work of the field's top scholars and programs as perceived by their peers. This system was used to compute prestige weights (P-weights) for 65 communication journals. P-weights were found to be strongly correlated with ISI Web of Science journal impact factor scores and can be used to identify an overall prestige hierarchy for communication journals as well as prestige rankings by subject specialty.     

Evolving,Not Extinct: Music Reference in the 21st Century

As reference work changes dramatically due to computer technology, tangible reference collections are disappearing from academic libraries in many fields. Such is not the case in music research libraries, however. While many important online music reference resources exist, many print resources remain vitally important, and because of limited funding, they are unlikely to be digitized soon. Music libraries and music reference collections are currently a combination of traditional and online resources, enhanced by human expertise. This beneficial combination should be maintained.     

关于2007年女子板球亚锦赛中国队与孟加拉队击球得分的对比分析

研究表明,本届比赛中孟加拉队主要依靠5名击球员全面、高效的击球得分获得比赛胜利,而中国队仅依靠胡婷婷等队员的个人发挥;中国队缺少高水平投球配合的击球练习而导致的经验不足是影响中国队员击球得分的主要原因。建议全面提高投球训练等方法来进一步提高中国女子板球队的击球得分能力。     

Selection as contract to teach at the student's level. Experiences from a South African mathematics and science foundation year

The selection of students is a critical issuecurrently facing South African higher educationinstitutions. The identification and selection ofdisadvantaged students with the potential to succeedin mathematics- and science-based study is aparticularly pressing problem. The new South Africanhigher education law requires that selection is donein a fair and transparent manner. Selection has to befollowed by adequate support for selected students tosucceed in their study programmes. Issues of accessare closely coupled to issues of retention andsuccess. The research results discussed in this paperillustrate how these issues can be successfullyaddressed and how selection fairness and effectivenessmay be optimised under the constraints of selectionefficiency. An optimal solution can be found bydeveloping test specifications and selection cut-offvalues based on the teaching programme for which theselection is done. The resulting close fit betweenselection testing and teaching after selection leadsto a reasonable expectation of success for selectedstudents in the study programme. Under suchconditions, selection can be seen as a contract toteach at the student's level.     

2004年欧洲足球锦标赛各队技术与进球关系的综合评价

对2004年欧洲足球锦标赛决赛阶段各队主要技术的运用情况进行统计，运用逐步回归法对比赛的12项主要技术与进球的关系进行综合评价，得出助攻和射进指数是影响进球数主要因素的结论，并对训练工作提出建议，以期为各级足球队的训练提供一定的理论参考。     

我校近十年生源质量呈攀升之势

本运用回归分析和时间序列的方法，对我校近十年来的招生分数进行趋势分析和周期分析，通过分析，准确了解我校新生现状，为学校的新生招收以及教育教学的改革作决策参考之用。     

第10届全运会优秀女子蹦床运动成绩与技术的分析研究

以参加第10届全运会女子蹦床项目资格赛和决赛运动员为研究对象,对运动员比赛中的成绩与技术及执行新规则情况进行分析研究。结果表明：我国优秀运动员第Ι、Ⅱ套动作编排基本符合新规则的要求;决赛成绩好于资格赛,成绩的提高主要反映在动作质量方面,“技术储备”好于“难度储备”;进一步强化动作技术质量,发展、提高动作的难度,是我国优秀运动员备战2008年北京奥运会重点解决的问题。