Participatory creativities: developing a research design for children’s pastoral encounters with the natural world

ABSTRACT

In this paper, the author discusses the interrelationship between creativity, children’s experiences of the natural world and pastoral education. Based on a research design developed whilst undertaking a professional doctorate in education (EdD), and grounded in a theoretical framework of children’s rights, the author explores the creative uncertainties of collaboratively researching children’s educational experiences with nature. The paper considers the ways in which the research design supports a pastoral care agenda, whilst encouraging the emergence of ‘creative artefacts’, alongside the extent to which the focus of the research, encounters with the natural world, might be deemed pastorally minded in its own right. The children who have participated in the research then draw the paper to a close, sharing what their involvement in the project has meant to them. Images and excerpts of children’s own creative reflections are offered as illustration of the powerful confluence of the Creative and the Pastoral.     

Students with special educational needs within PISA

Abstract

Since 2003, the Programme for International Student Assessment (PISA) has included students with special educational needs (SEN), identified as those with functional disabilities, those with cognitive/behavioural/emotional disabilities and those with limited test language proficiency. While the number of countries and included students has increased with each test administration, the percentage of students with SEN remains extremely low. The inclusion of these students is not an intentional PISA design parameter but rather a response to the interaction between the need to maintain strict sampling criteria and country-level educational mandates to include SEN students in standardised testing. Based on the analysis of student participation and performance across four cycles of PISA (2003–2012), this paper examines the challenges that exist in current PISA procedures related to: student sampling, eligibility and identification; assessment methodology; and reporting results. PISA practices, their limitations for scientific inferences and recommendations for design improvements are given.     

包装设计的教与学

在包装设计教学中，应引导学生在设计理论的指导下进行实践，宏观把握设计新思维、包装新概念，进行市场调查，循序渐进有步骤地训练完成系列包装设计，最终为商品建立完美的视觉形象，在学习的过程中，使同学们不断提高创意策划能力、执法表现能力，形成专业技能优势。     

楞次定律CAI课件的设计

在当前的素质教育中，多媒体CAI辅助教学运用日趋广泛，并在教学中起着重要的作用。但作为多媒体CAI的开发者，必须考虑多媒体CAI的设计原则以及哪些内容需要用课件来表达。不应盲目去追求多媒体CAI课件，而是要结合课堂教学的需要，有选择的进行此项工作。本文结合楞次定律课件的设计加以分析。     

几种整流变压器和电炉变压器绕组起始参数计算

介绍了几种常用调压形式的整流变压器和电炉变压器各绕组起始参数的计算方法，分析了在不同分接位置各参数的变化规律。     

CAI课件设计制作应注意的几个问题

根据园艺专业《植物学》CAI课件设计制作体会，结合现代远程教育理念，分析了CAI课件设计制作时应注意的三个问题。     

NTM方法在非线性贝叶斯动态模型中的应用

将NTM方法应用于非线性贝叶斯动态模型，给出了它的递推公式以及随机变量的数字特征的计算，与蒙特卡洛方法相比提高了效率和精度.     

论民间书法的文化品格

当今书坛，民间书法倍受关注。本文通过对民间书法的个性、价值取向、美学特征以及史学价值等文化品格的分析，认为人们重新审视民间书法，是平民意识的觉醒，中国书坛，也将会由经典书法独领风骚转而变为民间书法与经典书法备显风姿，民间书法热潮过后，必然会迎来一个创作的高潮。     

Optimal Design for Two-Level Random Assignment and Regression Discontinuity Studies

An important concern when planning research studies is to obtain maximum precision of an estimate of a treatment effect given a budget constraint. When research designs have a multilevel or hierarchical structure changes in sample size at different levels of the design will impact precision differently. Furthermore, there will typically be differential costs of enrolling additional units at different levels of the hierarchy. The optimal design problem in multilevel research studies involves determining the optimal sample size at each level of the design given specified design parameters and a specified marginal cost of recruitment at each level. The current work extends existing results by considering optimal design for (a) unbalanced random assignment designs and (b) regression discontinuity designs.     

指数场合下定时截尾竞争失效产品步加试验的优化设计

对指数场合下定时截尾竞争失效产品步加试验的优化设计进行了研究，并得到了优化设计的方案。推广了D.S.Bai,Y.R.Chun(1991)的结果。