Students Promoted Despite Test Failure

No Child Left Behind (NCLB) dictates students in Grades 3, 5, and 8 pass state tests to be promoted. Accordingly, most state education codes require students to pass reading and math exams for promotion. The majority of those who fail, however, appear to be promoted anyway. This article addresses core questions concerning the paradigm under which NCLB operates, what it means to promote or retain a student, and the consequences of these actions.     

Garden-Based Learning: An Experience With “At Risk” Secondary Education Students

The reengagement of disenchanted secondary students is one of the priorities of the educational system. Over a six-year period (2003–2004 to 2008–2009), 63 disruptive and low-performance secondary school students were integrated into a two-year garden-based learning program, which took place in southeastern Spain. This article intends to assess the quantitative and qualitative changes in both academic outcomes and personal behavior brought about by the experience. Results show that school failure decreased substantially, while the dropout rate was reduced from an initial 30% to zero in some years. Disruptive episode control improved significantly in the classroom, where teachers observed a decided improvement in students' skills, self-esteem, and self-confidence.     

Early School-leaving in Spain: evolution,intensity and determinants

Spain has one of the highest levels of early school leaving and educational failure of the European Union. The purpose of this paper is to analyse the anatomy of early school leaving in Spain and its characteristics. In order to do so, in the first part we discuss the measurement problems related with this concept and the evolution of drop-out rates in Spain. We argue that the published figures of early school leaving slightly underestimate the phenomenon, and discuss the impact of the increase in immigration rates on the level of educational failure and its very unequal distribution in terms of gender. In a second part, using data from the Labour Force Surveys of 2000 and 2007, we explore the factors behind educational failure by means of a logistic regression. The results of this model confirm the explanatory power of social reproduction hypotheses, but also show that there are important aspects of the patterns and recent evolution of early school leaving which cannot be explained by a single theoretical approach.     

Follow the Judas sheep: materializing post-qualitative methodology in zooethnographic space

High stakes examinations have been identified as a significant source of stress for secondary school students; however, there is little data accounting for, and explaining, the experiences of examination stress. This study aimed to further the understanding of examination stress in secondary school students by conducting interviews with 34 students in their final two years of compulsory schooling in England, following a programme of study towards their school leaving qualification, the General Certificate of Secondary Education. Findings suggested that the appraisal of examinations as stressful was idiosyncratic, differing from one student to another. Eight distinct but related elements of examination stress were identified, which included the anticipation of failure, poor competence beliefs and the extent to which academic credentials are valued. Examination stress was also gendered, both in its subject‐specific nature and in the way the experience was described by students.     

华银铝选矿生产工艺流程设备故障类型分析及处理方案

主要对华银铝矿山选矿生产工艺流程设备故障问题进行归纳、分析,着重论述设备故障问题的原因分析及解决方法。     

大跨度屋顶通廊钢桁架梁极限承载力分析

某高层建筑项目屋顶设一长方块实体。为充分利用建筑空间,将该实体设计为钢结构通廊,采用两片高4.5m、跨度32m的钢桁架梁支撑。该梁承受竖向荷载及较大的风荷载的作用,为保障结构的安全可靠,对其进行了极限承载力研究,结果表明,该桁架梁具有良好的承载力,能满足受力要求。     

桂林供电局视频会议系统优化方案研究

文章针对桂林供电局现有视频会议系统,结合桂林供电局光传输网和综合数据网系统等通信资源,通过分析研究,提出一套视频会议系统优化方案。解决原有系统带宽小、不稳定、画面卡等问题。优化了承载通道,提高可靠性,预留了扩容空间,为后期高清视频会议系统建设做好准备。     

Breaking away to find a way: poverty and school failure in a Spanish adolescent life-history

This article is part of a biographical research study, and explores the social path that an adolescent from a marginal background in Malaga (Spain) has travelled throughout his life. The research shows a class differentiation that divides society in two: you, who control the means of production, impose your culture, and define the policy and the school; and we, who live in poor houses and districts, learn in the street and do things that are worthy of punishment – the bad ones. School failure, the result and cause of this division, leads to social failure, provoking ‘guerrillas against the good ones’ (teachers, peers, guards, police, judges, etc.) of youngsters who have learned to devalue themselves as people and as a group: youngsters who have to break away to find a way.     

心智游移及其相关现象的测量

心智游移是一种常见的非自主内源性意识体验,在人类意识系统中占重要地位,近年在意识及神经科学研究领域引起广泛关注。心智游移类似现象的测量主要从白日梦、自发思维、认知失误及心神不宁等现象入手,研究其频率、内容结构及功能等方面的特征。总结国外研究结果,分析各类现象与心智游移的关系,对于全面了解心智游移现象,明晰其概念及促进心智游移特征的进一步研究具有重要意义。     

The Comparative Study of The Pragmatic Failure between Chinese and English on the Basis of Politeness Principle

In this paper, on the basis of the pragmatic failure and the politeness principle, I mainly explored the pragmatic failure between Chinese and English on the basis of the five politeness principles.