Empowering learners with personalised learning approaches? Agency,equity and transparency in the context of learning analytics

Abstract

The emergence of personalised data technologies such as learning analytics is framed as a solution to manage the needs of higher education student populations that are growing ever more diverse and larger in size. However, the current approach to learning analytics presents tensions between increasing student agency in making learning-related decisions and ‘datafying’ students in the process of collecting, analysing and interpreting data. This article presents a study that explores staff and student experience of agency, equity and transparency in existing data practices and expectations towards learning analytics in a UK university. The results show a number of intertwined factors that have contributed to the tensions between enhancing a learner’s control of their studies and, at the same time, diminishing their autonomy as an active agent in the process of learning analytics. This article argues that learner empowerment should not be automatically assumed to have taken place as part of the adoption of learning analytics. Instead, the interwoven power relationships in a complex educational system and the interactions between humans and machines need to be taken into consideration when presenting learning analytics as an equitable process to enhance student agency and educational equity.     

中介组织:现代高等教育管理的重要一环

在当前深化高等教育管理体制改革的过程中 ,借鉴国外发达国家的经验 ,建立和完善高等教育中介组织 ,应该成为我国高等教育的一个重要问题。随着政府管理职能的转变 ,高等教育中介组织将有一个健康发展的环境。转变观念、赋予中介组织以合法性、提高中介组织的素质、加强对中介组织的理论研究 ,则是当前值得我们关注和思考的问题     

论依法规制旅行社掠夺性定价

随着旅游业的日益发展,旅行社的规模不断扩大,数量也不断增加,同时亦引发了一系列严重问题.为了在同行之间争夺旅游市场,各种反竞争现象层出不穷,譬如掠夺性定价就早已成为旅行社之问竞争常使用的手段.通过论述其产生的缘由、对旅游业的弊害,强调应严厉规制这一反竞争现象,遏制旅行社这一杀鸡取卵的做法,从而促进旅游业的健康发展.     

城市网络; 数字化时代; 空间结构; 特征

税务代理制度在我国是一项新生事物, 它对政府加强税务管理, 指导纳税人的纳税行为等都具有重要作用。我们有必要借鉴国外发达国家税务代理制度的成功经验, 为我国税务代理制度的发展献计献策。     

The role of university-based induction in beginning elementary teacher enactment of effective mathematics teaching

The purpose of this paper is to describe the school-based contextual constraints perceived by beginning elementary teachers as they attempted to enact their visions of effective mathematics teaching and the components of a mathematics-specific, university-based induction program designed to support elementary teachers in their teaching of mathematics. A significant number of beginning teachers in the program indicated that curriculum pacing guides and grade level teachers often discouraged their enactment of effective mathematics teaching. We describe the components of the induction program in general and then discuss the specific ways that program mentors, who were elementary teachers with expertise in mathematics teaching, supported beginning teachers in navigating the constraints identified. Data suggest that supporting teachers’ pedagogical agency to navigate local school contexts should be an additional consideration in teacher preparation and induction programs.     

美国高校助学贷款制度研究及启示

助学贷款是当今社会资助理念在高等教育机会均等过程中的具体体现。美国联邦助学贷款是其教育资助的主要形式。通过二级市场和中介机构的运作，美国助学贷款制度形成了一套完备的体系，而这对于我国的助学贷款制度的发展和完善具有重要的借鉴意义。     

The conundrum of low achievement and feedback for learning

Abstract

The literature on improving student engagement with assessment and feedback has a tendency to treat all students as if they are the same. Students with lower levels of attainment are generally under-represented within empirical studies and their feedback behaviours are less well understood. The recent drive to improve student assessment and feedback literacy and the move from ‘feedback’ being information about a task to being a process of understanding and using performance information is a larger conceptual leap for some students than others. In this paper, we consider issues surrounding the transition to new modes of feedback, focussing on what is needed for those who find study difficult and persistently are disappointed by their levels of attainment, to benefit from and take advantage of our feedback pedagogies. We examine literature advocating strategies such as increasing agency, using praise, developing feedback literacy and cultivating a growth mind-set. We argue that students who underachieve may benefit from strong relationships with educators and peers, exposure to feedback rich, low stakes environments, which permit repeated integrations of practice and feedback, and building feedback literacy through peer assessment activities.     

解析信息不对称下的需求者选择

信息不对称现象是市场经济的常见现象,容易导致逆向选择,破坏市场竞争"优胜劣汰"的选择原则.本文剖析市场交易中,需求者在信息不对称下的选择机制,力图为找到解决"逆向选择"问题的作些思考.     

中介机构代理政府采购存在的问题及解决对策

按照《政府采购法》关于政府采购中管理职能与执行职能分离的要求，各部门、各地区在实施政府采购活动中大规模地将政府采购的执行职能委托给社会中介机构，在实践中显示了中介机构在代理政府采购活动中不可替代的作用，但同时也暴露出一些值得注意的问题。本文就这些问题进行了分析，提出目前政府采购中应从慎重选择中介机构入手，加强对中介机构的监督，使政府采购活动走向健康发展的轨道。     

稳定的货币政策为社会传达稳健的政策信号

反对改变货币供应量作为货币政策的中介目标，从货币流通速度等方面讨论了近年来的新情况与新观点，作者认为无论是从可控性、可测性，还是相关性等各方面分析，货币供应量是目前货币政策中介目标的理想选择。