Pupil participation and the home–school relationship

Schools are required to develop policies and practices in line with the principles of both partnership with parents and pupil participation. However, there is increasing recognition of the potential tensions that may exist between these two principles. This paper reports on a study that aimed to explore the question of how schools might develop their home–school relationships in ways that enhance rather than constrain pupil participation. It focuses on the perspectives of children aged 6 to 16 years (with and without special educational needs), parents and teachers concerning children's involvement in decision-making at home and at school, and their participation within the home–school relationship. The findings highlight the need for schools to develop a coherent view of what active participation means for children and a vocabulary to communicate about this not only with pupils and staff across the whole school, but also with parents. They demonstrate that there is scope for two-way support between parents and teachers in relation to the promotion of children's involvement in decision-making both at home and at school. Further, they illustrate the complex and evolving three-way partnership between parent–child–teacher that is central to the home–school relationship. While it is acknowledged that children may rightly wish to keep a distance between aspects of home and school life, it is argued that there is a need for schools to give explicit consideration to the place of pupil participation within the home–school relationship.     

We make the road by walking together: New teachers and the collaborative and context-specific appropriation of shared social justice-oriented practices and concepts

This study examined the work of a collaborative group of six new United States-based social studies teachers from the same social justice-oriented teacher education program (SJOTEP). Shared practices and concepts introduced previously in the SJOTEP were developed and appropriated to their classrooms and schools in consideration of the local context, through the collaborative problem-solving process of the group. It is argued that SJOTEPs and TEPs committed to issues of diversity, democracy, inclusion, and/or equity should be collaboration-based, teach a coherent and consistent social justice-focused curriculum, and provide post-graduation collaborative support and research it.     

Universities and government‐sponsored contract research: an Australian case study

Based on interviews, this article provides a case study of the experiences of academic staff at one Australian regional university in undertaking contract research projects sponsored by government departments and agencies. Academics from a surprisingly diverse range of disciplines are attracted to government‐sponsored research for a variety of reasons but particularly important is the financial support provided for research projects and postgraduate research students. Projects vary in scale, amounts of funding involved and purposes, with research activities covering a wide range of different activities including collection and analysis of data, provision of documentation on good practice, design of implementation strategies, evaluations, organisational reviews and policy recommendations. Overall, respondents are highly positive about their experiences, despite problems such as delays in payment of funds, inappropriately restricted timelines, frequent changes in senior agency personnel, unrealistic expectations, and restrictions in the use of data and publication of results. While many academics from different disciplines provide policy recommendations and carry out evaluative studies, few are well informed about the extent to which their work is actually utilised.     

加快培养高技能人才推动新疆经济发展

通过对高等职业教育的发展进行探讨,作者认为必须从实施人才强国战略的高度,进一步认识面临的形势与任务,加快培养高素质、高技能的人才。     

扩大汽车责任保险第三人的范围

《保险法》没有明确规定汽车责任保险第三人的范围,然而,在保险实务中扩大汽车责任保险第三人的范围,具有必要性、可能性。     

讲述老百姓自己的体育故事——论央视《体育人间》的叙事特色

选取我国体育纪录片《体育人间》中3个系列片为主要研究对象,通过对其文本进行分析,结果发现:《体育人间》偏重使用第三人称叙事,其限制性视角促成了其栏目的平民定位,并有助于形成客观的叙事态度及叙事的同步性。     

影响六省市重点项目后备人才培养与就业途径比较研究

采取文献资料、访问调查法、数理统计法,通过对不同层次运动员、教练员进行调查,就目前后备运动员培养和优秀运动员就业进行研究.     

Validating Student Score Inferences With Person‐Fit Statistic and Verbal Reports: A Person‐Fit Study for Cognitive Diagnostic Assessment

The goal of this study was to investigate the usefulness of person‐fit analysis in validating student score inferences in a cognitive diagnostic assessment. In this study, a two‐stage procedure was used to evaluate person fit for a diagnostic test in the domain of statistical hypothesis testing. In the first stage, the person‐fit statistic, the hierarchy consistency index (HCI; Cui, 2007 ; Cui & Leighton, 2009 ), was used to identify the misfitting student item‐score vectors. In the second stage, students’ verbal reports were collected to provide additional information about students’ response processes so as to reveal the actual causes of misfits. This two‐stage procedure helped to identify the misfits of item‐score vectors to the cognitive model used in the design and analysis of the diagnostic test, and to discover the reasons of misfits so that students’ problem‐solving strategies were better understood and their performances were interpreted in a more meaningful way.     

旅游应用型人才培养的再思考

旅游人才供需现状令学界和业界堪忧,主要原因在于旅游人才培养存在一些问题。分析了旅游人才培养中存在的几个问题;对学者提出的解决措施,如实习、提高师资水平、"订单式"模式和"工学交替"模式等,进行了冷静的思考,认为这些措施本身还有问题需要深思。     

六省市重点项目后备人才培养、场馆设施和经费来源及使用政策的研究

竞技体育的发展离不开"人、财、物"三大要素。"物"这里指的是体育场馆设施,是培养技竞体育人才的物质基础;"财"是培养技竞体育人才的经济基础,两者不可缺一。只有扩大资金来源渠道,合理配制和使用有限的财、物资源,为培养高质量、高水平、强竞争力的竞技体育人才奠定基础。