Achieving equivalence: a transnational curriculum design framework

Transnational education is now essential to university international development strategies. As a result, tertiary educators are expected to engage with the complexities of diverse cultural contexts, different delivery modes, and mixed student cohorts to design quality learning experiences for all. To support this transition we developed a transnational curriculum design framework that synthesises knowledge about what impacts on curriculum design. This framework aims to help academic developers communicate complex educational concepts and foster international communities of practice. It guides cyclical implementation that is focused on achieving equivalent and quality educational outcomes for students regardless of their location across the globe.     

教学网站有效性评价问题研究

随着教学网站的迅猛发展,其有效性的评价问题引起了世界范围的广泛关注。该文研究目的是基于网络教学的理论及特点,提出教学网站有效性评价的评价要素,并用统计学方法制定出比较合理可行、具有可操作性的指标体系。     

International large-scale assessments: what uses,what consequences?

Abstract

Background: International large-scale assessments (ILSAs) are a much-debated phenomenon in education. Increasingly, their outcomes attract considerable media attention and influence educational policies in many jurisdictions worldwide. The relevance, uses and consequences of these assessments are often the focus of research scrutiny. Whilst some argue that the assessment outcomes provide an effective basis for informed policy-making, critics claim that the use of international assessment data can result in a range of unintended consequences, such as the shaping and governing of school systems ‘by numbers’.

Purpose: This article explores and analyses the arguments about the uses and consequences of ILSAs. In particular, the discourse about the assessments’ consequential validity will be discussed and evaluated.

Sources of evidence: Literature relating to the uses and consequences of large-scale assessment was analysed, with a focus on research on the consequential aspects of validity.

Main argument: Much research suggests that ILSAs have unintended consequences that affect and influence educational policy. However, the influences on educational policy are complex and interwoven: for example, it is not clear-cut whether effects such as converging curricular are, necessarily, direct consequences of large-scale assessments. Further, it is suggested that a beneficial consequence of large-scale assessment is the infrastructure they provide for studies in the social sciences, although caution must be applied to causal claims, in particular because of the cross-sectional design of the assessments.

Conclusions: The considerable literature discussing the uses and consequences of large-scale assessments tends to point out potential negative aspects of the studies. However, it is also apparent that large-scale international assessments can be a valuable resource for studying global trends and evolving systems in education. Despite the extensive debates around large-scale assessment outcomes both in the media and in educational policy arenas, empirical educational research all too often appears underused in the discussion.     

翻译等值过程中避免信息流失的策略探讨

翻译意味着信息传递。最理想的翻译是将原语信息完全传递到译文中去,使译文读者获得与原文读者相同的感受。然而,绝对等值的翻译,即没有信息流失的翻译是很少存在的。本文试图从文学作品翻译角度探讨在翻译等值过程中避免信息流失的策略。     

Teacher professionalism and student evaluation of teaching: will better teachers receive higher ratings and will better students give higher ratings?

The use of student evaluations of teaching performance has been an important but controversial tool in the improvement of teaching quality during the past few decades. Although student evaluations of teaching are implemented in many faculties, not everyone is convinced of the desirability and utility of these ratings. In this paper, we present the results of a study with regard to the existence of a higher‐order factor that might influence students' perceptions of teaching and, thus, explain the variance in teacher rating scales. A second question concerns the effect of students' grades on teacher ratings and of other factors influencing this relationship (for instance, students' overall grades).     

曲线拟合问题的空间理论基础

曲线拟合问题至今尚未确立精确度概念．本文利用泛函分析理论，确立了曲线拟合问题的空间理论基础，给出了曲线拟合间题的精度概念和构造满足指定精度要求的拟合曲线的方法．     

集合的划分与第二类Stirling数

非空集合A上的等价关系与A的划分是一一对应的,但A上的二元关系有2|A A|种,直接确定划分特别是不同划分不容易。文章用第二类Stirling数研究划分的种类的计数。并用指数生成函数讨论了S2(n,m)的计算。给出Stirling数展开式:S2(n,m)1m!∑m-1k=0(-1)k(m　m-k)(m-k)n     

二阶曲线的几何定义与代数定义的等价性

建立了有关二阶曲线的 3 个引理,进而论证了二阶曲线的几何定义与代数定度的等价性.     

A study of the validity of four types of student ratings of college teaching assessed on a criterion of student achievement gains

The purpose of the study was to investigate relationships between student ratings of college teaching using four types of student rating instruments and pre- vs. post-student achievement gains in 36 sections of an undergraduate analytic geometry and calculus course. Student rating instruments used varied according to type of items (high vs. low inference) and focus (students rating their own perceived growth vs. rating the instructor). Data were collected on 799 students (66% freshmen; 16% sophomore; and 15% juniors) at the University of Florida, and relationships were analyzed using the Pearson product-moment correlation technique. Significant relationships were not found between student ratings and student achievement.     

从等效译论看汉语歇后语的翻译

作为翻译学中最重要的理论之一，等效翻译理论在翻译实践中的运用日益受到关注。翻译的等效也成为译者在翻译实践所力求的目标，本文从等效翻译的角度来探讨汉语歇后语的翻译。