Calculating the power of alternative choices by school leaders for improving student achievement

This paper addresses a wicked problem faced by leaders wanting to be evidence informed in their choices of school improvement priorities and the most productive leadership practices to enact in pursuing those priorities. While local contexts will always be central to these choices, results of research ought to provide useful points of departure. But determining what relevant evidence recommends, local context aside, is far more difficult that the admonition to be ‘evidence informed’ seems to imply and the research community has offered few systematic solutions to the problem. This paper offers one possible solution, the calculation of ‘Power Indices’ using, for the purposes of illustration, evidence about the effects of a selected set of potential school improvement priorities (teachers’ emotions) on student learning, in combination with evidence about the effects on teacher emotions of a selected set of transformational leadership practices. Results argue for the value of a unique line of future research enabling school leaders to make choices about both school improvement priorities and how they might best pursue those priorities that systematically reflect the results of relevant evidence.     

学生主体性若干基本概念辨析

就学生主体性的结构和内涵进行了探讨，认为学生的主体性是一个完整的有机系统，它包括自主性、能动性和创造性。     

德国卡塞尔大学工科教育的特色与启示

德国的工科教育为德国培养了高素质的科技人才,使德国几十年来一直跻身于世界经济强国前列。德国卡塞尔大学工科教育的主要特色是注重学生能力特别是创新能力的培养,注重理论学习与实践紧密结合,注重教师队伍的建设。这对我国高等工科教育大有启发。     

“尊重学生”的管理机制

为了使尊重学生的原则落到实处,需要教育管理制度的保证。为此,学校可以尝试在管理机制上进行改进,包括施行组织结构扁平化,内部顾客链和倒金字塔组织模式,双向闭合评价模式。为使这些管理机制有效发挥作用,学校应该从整个制度建设出发系统考虑。     

Influence of improved teaching practices on student satisfaction ratings for two undergraduate units at an Australian university

To track the quality of instruction delivered at the University of Western Australia, the university surveys all units using its Students’ Unit Reflective Feedback (SURF) metrics, and faculties use these metrics to benchmark student satisfaction. Consequently, teaching staff are actively encouraged to adopt teaching practices that will increase the average levels of these metrics. Using a ‘before-after’ approach, we compared these metrics before and after the implementation of improved teaching practices that addressed specific weaknesses identified through student responses for two undergraduate units. Despite the implementation of improved teaching practices, SURF scores did not increase significantly for the two units assessed, due possibly to the components of the academic programme covered by the SURF questions, the field-based nature of the units, and the difficulty in measuring an increase in the SURF scores of units which already score highly. This poor sensitivity of the SURF metrics to the implementation of improved teaching practices could have implications for their use for performance assessment by the university.     

高等师范院校学生两项资助政策的研究

按国家有关政策的规定，师范生享受专业奖学金和免缴学杂费、住宅费的待遇。通过调查25个省、市、自治区的35所师范院校近几年执行上述两项资助政策的实际情况，提出改革现行资助政策的设想：收费政策与其他院校并轨；在学资助与职后资助并举，以职后资助为主。     

Starting and Sustaining an Undergraduate Research Program: The SURIEM Experience at Michigan State University

Abstract

Mentoring undergraduate students in research is both rewarding and challenging. In this paper we present how we established a summer Research Experience for Undergraduates (REU) program in the mathematical sciences at Michigan State University. A goal of our REU is to include students who are at an early stage of their study of mathematics. We share our experiences in recruiting students, designing research projects, and mentoring our participants. We discuss the challenges we faced and the solutions we found while working with a diverse group of undergraduate students from across the nation.     

谈高校动态电子学籍档案的建立

本文系统阐述建立动态电子学籍档案能提高学籍档案的管理效率、检索速度和查准率,充分发挥学籍档案的信息功能,学籍档案数字化是档案信息上网的基础,建立动态电子学籍档案是建设数字化档案馆的一种探索,对其他各门类档案的数字化也具有一定的借鉴作用。     

浅议师生间的文化冲突

教师与学生群体间的文化冲突在学校最为普遍和常见,并主要表现为代际文化冲突和目标文化冲突,其实质则是文化角色冲突、文化价值冲突和文化内涵冲突。要处理好这种文化冲突,应在保留师生间建设性文化冲突的同时,积极整合两者间的对抗性冲突。     

略论高校学籍管理

本结合学籍管理在高校工作中的地位和作用，探讨了学籍管理应遵循的基本原则，并针对性地提出学籍管理工作中应注意的若干问题。