Exploring the relationship between pedagogical content knowledge (PCK) and sustainability of an innovative science teaching approach

This study identified common patterns in Pedagogical Content Knowledge (PCK) of three exemplary teachers who have voluntarily sustained the implementation of an argument-based inquiry approach, and explored how those patterns relate to their sustained implementation. Results indicate that teachers’ orientations aligned with argument-based inquiry, especially as to how students learn, are essential for their sustained implementation. Their orientations are strongly connected with two other components of PCK (i.e., Knowledge of Student Understanding and Knowledge of Instructional Strategies and Representations), which mutually interact with the sustainability of the implementation.     

Assessing the Sensitivity of Weighted Least Squares Model Fit Indexes to Local Dependence in Item Response Theory Models

Given the relationships of item response theory (IRT) models to confirmatory factor analysis (CFA) models, IRT model misspecifications might be detectable through model fit indexes commonly used in categorical CFA. The purpose of this study is to investigate the sensitivity of weighted least squares with adjusted means and variance (WLSMV)-based root mean square error of approximation, comparative fit index, and Tucker–Lewis Index model fit indexes to IRT models that are misspecified due to local dependence (LD). It was found that WLSMV-based fit indexes have some functional relationships to parameter estimate bias in 2-parameter logistic models caused by violations of LD. Continued exploration into these functional relationships and development of LD-detection methods based on such relationships could hold much promise for providing IRT practitioners with global information on violations of local independence.     

‘The students do not know why they are here’: education decision-making for Syrian refugees

This case study, conducted collaboratively between education scholars and education practitioners, describes and analyses the ways in which Syrian refugee teachers and an NGO are developing and implementing non-formal education (NFE) programming in three refugee settlements in Lebanon. Utilising the INEE Minimum Standards for Education in Emergencies, we analyse teachers’ and programme administrators’ decision-making processes regarding curriculum, language of instruction, and pedagogy as well as how and why these decisions are made in the absence of a guiding framework or policy for NFE. We also consider the ways in which the nation-state writ large still helps to influence these decisions in the ‘global era’.     

College/University Counseling Centers Supporting Study Away: Challenges and Opportunities

Research points to significant numbers of students on college campuses experiencing mental health distress and an ever increasing number of college students who are choosing to make an off-campus educational experience a part of their college careers. When we consider both of these trends together, it is quite apparent that a significant number of students with mental health concerns will spend periods of time studying away from campus, with converging concerns among college mental health and study away professionals about how to best support these students. This article seeks to outline both challenges and opportunities inherent in the collaboration between campus professionals in supporting students with mental health issues before and during their study away experiences.     

Patenting and US academic research in the 20th century: The world before and after Bayh-Dole

The dramatic growth of patenting and licensing of publicly funded research by American research universities in the closing quarter of the 20th century has stimulated some of the highest-profile debates in science and technology policy today. The issue of what aspects of academic research should be public - and what private - lies at the heart of each of these debates. The movement of academic scientists into commercialisation of discoveries and inventions has been extolled by some as a new model of academic research, one which facilitates economic and social returns from universities. At the same time, this trend has been criticised by others as representing a socially inefficient ‘privatisation’ of academic research and as a threat to the ethos of science itself. This paper places these debates in historical context, with a review of changes in American universities’ patenting policies, procedures and practices throughout the 20th century, an assessment of the logic underlying the passage of the Bayh-Dole Act of 1980, and an overview of its effects on economic returns from university research.     

知识管理: 知识经济时代高等学校管理改革的新范式

知识经济催生了知识管理,高等学校作为特殊的知识密集型组织,同样迫切需要知识管理战略的有效支撑。在剖析高等学校实施知识管理战略必然性基础上,阐述了高等学校知识管理的内涵和特征,并结合我国高等教育管理的现状,提出了营造文化氛围、创新组织结构、改进激励机制、建立知识库、构建数字化校园等基于知识管理的高校改革的几点设想。     

对事业部体制下企业核心能力管理问题的探讨

事业部制自产生以来就日益在产业界得到了广泛的应用，并成为企业组织结构的标准模式之一。然而欧美、日本等国家的一些大企业在其事业部制实践中逐渐认识到传统事业部制在核心能力管理上存在着一定的缺陷，并通过一些探索性的实践对事业部制的修正与发展进行了努力。本文对事业部制下企业核心能力管理问题进行了进一步的分析和探讨，以期为我国事业部体制的发展和完善提供借鉴与参考。     

第五方物流理论在应急响应时效优化中的应用

根据第五方物流系统优化理论,对第五方物流系统进行优化,构建第五方物流模型,包括第五方物流体系功能结构模型和第五方物流信息系统结构模型,从而建立应急物流保障体系,并对应急响应时效优化项目进行实证分析,对创新协同服务应急物流组织模式、运营模式、保障模式、服务模式的可能性进行具体的研究。实证分析结果表明 ,可以实现应急物流保障体系系统优化的目标,为客户提供供应链系统集成、流程优化和资源协同服务。     

全球研发网络等级分工的形成——基于发达国家对全球生产的控制转移视角

随着知识更新周期缩短及科技新兴国家的崛起,发达国家通过将科技新兴国家纳入到自身原来相对封闭的研发创新体系中,能达到降低科技新兴国家挑战与利用科技新兴国家创新要素的结合。与过往研究全球研发网络分工的文献不同,本文主要立足发达国家对全球生产的控制正从一般产业技术研发领域过渡到核心产业技术研发领域的判断,对全球研发网络分工问题进行研究。基于IT产业的全球研发价值等级分工分析及IT产品的利润分配分析,本文的研究发现,发达国家影响国际技术进步方向的能力及整合全球各国研发创新要素的能力,已为其构建影响和控制全球生产的全球研发网络提供了理论基础。发达国家企业抢占的研发垄断利润使得发达国家对全球生产的控制,进一步具备了从     

人力资源价值计量模型HRVMM试析

本文从人力资源价值角度,考虑人力所能带来的未来收益及其创新能力。从绩效评价因子和潜能因子两方面入手,初步构建了人力资源价值计量模型HRVMM,对人力资源管理具有若干重大意义。