The Need for Randomised Controlled Trials in Educational Research

This paper argues for more randomised controlled trials in educational research. Educational researchers have largely abandoned the methodology they helped to pioneer. This gold-standard methodology should be more widely used as it is an appropriate and robust research technique. Without subjecting curriculum innovations to a RCT then potentially harmful educational initiatives could be visited upon the nation's children.     

正义、效率理念与我国民事审级制度安排

我国民事审级制度的改革和重构固然可以用经验主义去分析,同时也要以正义、效率的至高理念来衡定.本文从抽象逻辑意义上探讨得出法律公正和效率价值的实现与相对较多审级之间的同向关系,为我国审级制度由现行的两审终审制改善为三审终审制提供理论逻辑的依据.     

随机对照试验论文英文摘要的质量亟待提高

参照《期刊与学术会议摘要中报告随机对照试验的CONSORT声明》拟定的报告清单,审核了国内4种重要期刊2005—2008年随机对照试验(RCT)英文摘要的报道质量。利用PubMed共查到108篇RCT摘要。经审核报道最好的项目是目的和结论,试验状态、分组例数和干预次之。对RCT执行质量的关键信息描述最差:盲法、随机分组方法和数据分析例数的报道分别为0、1.9%和6.5%。结果表明,RCT摘要报道普遍不完整。建议医学期刊采纳《摘要CONSORT》,制订可行的模板以提高RCT摘要报道的完整性和有效性。     

2000年中国女排参加奥运会资格赛一攻战术的统计与分析

采用文献资料、录像观察、数理统计等研究方法 ,对中国女排参加 2 0 0 0年奥运资格赛的一攻战术进行统计与分析 ,结果发现 :与世界各队相比 ,中国女队的强攻成功率低 ,失误率高 ,快攻的成功率则相对较高     

关于减少高度项目试跳次数的探讨

田径高度项目比赛试跳次数多，时间长，运动员体力消耗大，影响成绩的发挥；起跳高度过高提升幅度大，不能真实反映每个运动员的水平，兼项请假不易掌握，轮次概念认识不一致。高度项目比赛有必要减少试跳次数，提出了减少试跳次数的具体办法。     

浅析我国实行三审终审制度的必要性

审级制度是一国司法制度的重要组成部分，它的设置科学、合理与否，直接关系到司法基本价值目标的实现。由于政治、经济、人才等各种因素的制约，现行审级制度未能发挥其预设的理想功能。二审终审制自适用以来，无论是从理论或是从实践中均出了一些难以解决的问题，从客观上讲，需要以三审终审制取而代之。     

Mediatization,Legal Logic and the Coverage of Israeli Politicians on Trial

This paper investigates the characteristics that point to the mediatization of legal coverage in Israel, and the adoption of media rather than legal logic in the coverage of five trials of key political figures between 1961 and 2012 in two leading Israeli newspapers. Using insights from the literature on the mediatization of political coverage, our analysis focused on the changes over time in the type of dramatization of trial news; in the nature of criticism expressed in the press; in the forms of journalists' interventions and judgments; in the context of the meta-coverage of media advisors and media initiatives by legal actors; and the media's own reflections about these interventions. We found that the mediatization of the legal sphere resulted in a “trial by media” where journalists pass judgments on defendants and present media alternatives to legal procedures. Moreover, meta-coverage of the media strategies of legal actors was accompanied by “counter-interventionism”, i.e., journalistic criticism of their own role in cooperating with the media interventions of legal actors. We suggest that this “counter-interventionism” is tied to the defense of the legal sphere by legal journalists.     

English language teaching in public primary schools in Mexico: the practices and challenges of implementing a national language education program

Over the past 15?years, many state governments in Mexico have initiated local programs to introduce English at the primary school level. In 2009, the Mexican Ministry of Education formalized the Programa Nacional de Inglés en Educación Básica (PNIEB) as part of the national curriculum, based on the argument that increasing the number of English speakers in Mexico is necessary for the country to be globally competitive and to follow the trend in other developing economies of augmenting English instruction in public education. This paper focuses on the implementation of PNIEB and the state programs that preceded it. The authors document the practices and challenges associated with the program based on data collected from interviews with the main stakeholders involved (students and parents, teachers, school principals, and program coordinators) and from classroom observations. The total data-set consisted of over 200 interviews and classroom observations spread over several years from 2008 to 2012. Several challenges are described, including the development of materials, the role of English in relation to other subject areas, and the training of teachers who often speak English but have uneven formal preparation. The status of the teachers, both as second-class citizens within the schools and the instability and irregularities with their contracts, was identified as the most significant challenge to the successful implementation of the programs.