School grades and students’ emotions: Longitudinal models of within-person reciprocal effects

Based on control-value theory, we expected reciprocal associations between school grades and students' achievement emotions. Existing research has employed between-person designs to examine links between grades and emotions, but has failed to analyze their within-person relations. Reanalyzing data used by Pekrun et al. (2017) for between-person analysis, we investigated within-person relations of students’ grades and emotions in mathematics over 5 school years (N = 3,425 German students from the PALMA longitudinal study; 50.0% female). The findings from random-intercept cross-lagged modeling show that grades positively predicted positive emotions within persons over time. These emotions, in turn, positively predicted grades. Grades were negative predictors of negative emotions, and these emotions, in turn, were negative predictors of grades. The within-person effects were largely equivalent to between-person relations of grades and emotions. Implications for theory, future research, and educational practice are discussed.     

网络环境下高校图书馆参考咨询工作的新思路

通过与传统参考咨询服务的比较分析,从服务内容、手段、方式等方面阐述了网络环境下高校图书馆参考咨询工作的新特点。并就如何做好咨询工作进行了探讨,提出网络环境下高校图书馆参考咨询工作的对策。     

决策咨询视域下的教育监测实践探讨

在教育管办评分离的背景下,教育监测作为信息公开和决策咨询的重要基础环节,对于开展科学的决策咨询研究,提供高质量的决策咨询服务具有重要意义。 基于决策咨询的视域,定位于教育监测服务决策咨询的实践,教育监测要遵循需求导向、整体建构、结论可靠的原则;以服务决策为目标,可以分为基础型监测、诊断型监测、评估型监测、问计型监测;采取牢固树立服务意识、坚 持大数据意识、确立多路径意识三大策略进行优化。     

The determinants and impact of private tutoring classes in Vietnam

Private tutoring is a widespread phenomenon in many developing countries, including Vietnam. Using the Vietnam Living Standards Surveys 1997–1998 and 1992–1993 for analysis, this paper finds evidence that private tutoring in Vietnam is a necessity in the household budget for both primary students and lower secondary students, and the trend to attend private tutoring is stronger at higher education levels. There is no evidence of gender discrimination in expenditure on private tutoring. Ethnic minority students spend less on private tutoring at the primary level but not at the lower secondary level, as do students living in rural areas. However, spending on private tutoring would fall significantly if the qualifications of primary school teachers are increased. Private tutoring is found to have significant impact on a student's academic performance, but the influence is larger for lower secondary students. This paper contributes to the available estimation techniques by extending the simultaneous Tobit model of Amemiya [(1974). Multivariate regression and simultaneous equation models when the dependent variables are truncated normal. Econometrica, 42(6), 999–1012] to a joint Tobit-ordered probit econometric model to address the possible endogeneity of household spending on private tutoring.     

Managing and mobilising talent in Malaysia: issues,challenges and policy implications for Malaysian universities

ABSTRACT

The future of Malaysia as a high-income and competitive nation largely depends on its pool of highly skilled human capital. Hence, the issue of human capital development has taken centre stage in numerous reform agendas of Malaysia. This paper seeks to provide examples of policy initiatives aimed at facilitating the management of highly educated talent in Malaysia. It subsequently considers the role of higher education institutions, particularly the universities, as attractors, educators and retainers of intellectuals, in shaping talent. In conclusion, we argue that more significant underlying shortcomings of talent development are derived from the still transitional nature of the reforms and incomplete structural changes occurring in the national system, and that a change in mindset is the first necessary step towards nurturing and developing a human resource talent pool.     

How Do Transfers Survive after “Transfer Shock”? A Longitudinal Study of Transfer Student Departure at a Four-Year Institution

Prompted by the notion of “Transfer Shock”, numerous studies examined academic performance of transfer students at senior institutions. However, few studies are found that examine how the varying nature of semester GPAs impact subsequent persistence behavior of transfer students after the initial drop in their college GPAs. Using an institutional data set, this study longitudinally investigated departure behavior of transfer students at a senior institution. Particular attention was given to how entry at different times and semester GPAs affected transfer student departure. Results indicate that during their first semester, sophomore and junior transfer students were 73% less likely to depart than freshman transfer students. After controlling for explanatory variables, higher semester GPAs were positively associated with higher persistence rates throughout the observation period.

高校学报国际化进程中的问题及应对策略

作为学术期刊的高校学报逐步走向国际化是国家发展的需要,是学报可持续发展的需要.因此,对期刊国际化的内涵应作深入研究,从而制定出编辑出版国际化的应对策略,以使我国学术期刊能够有更大的发展空间,在国际学术期刊的舞台上占据重要位置.     

新世纪信息咨询服务发展的趋势及对策

在新世纪的知识经济时代，信息咨询服务将会发挥越来越大的作用，本文重点探讨了信息咨询服务的发展趋势及适应发展应采取的具体措施。     

百度学术搜索与超星发现系统比较分析及评价

本文针对百度学术搜索提出的“高校图书馆计划”, 致力于知识发现, 连接用户与图书馆的信息服务的目标, 通过引入超星发现系统进行比较分析, 对百度学术搜索系统在收录数据、检索功能、检索结果排序、数据挖掘服务、题录引用与导出、全文获取途径等方面进行实证分析, 考量百度学术搜索作为国内首个拥有亿级别索引量的互联网学术平台的中文学术资源搜索和服务能力。通过比较分析显示, 百度学术搜索需借鉴超星发现系统进一步优化和完善, 以期为国内学术平台研究、学术资源搜索平台的建设实践、性能评价等提供参考。     

The relationship between race and library anxiety among graduate students: A replication study

Despite the large volume of literature on racial differences in academic performance between African Americans and Caucasian Americans at various educational levels, there has been a dearth of research examining whether the academic library experience is an important variable that helps explain the racial differences observed in educational outcomes. To date, only one empirical study has examined the racial differences in library anxiety among college students. Specifically, Jiao et al. [Jiao, Q. G., Onwuegbuzie, A. J., & Bostick, S. L. (2004). Racial differences in library anxiety among graduate students. Library Review, 53(4), 228–235] found that African-American graduate students reported statistically significantly lower levels of library anxiety associated with three library anxiety dimensions than did their Caucasian-American counterparts. However, because the two racial groups selected for the study differed in the types of institution they attended, the researchers were unable to conclude whether the differences found in the library anxiety levels were the result of race or the groups’ educational experience/aptitude. Therefore, the present study replicated Jiao et al.’s earlier research while addressing this concern. Findings revealed that the African-American graduate students (n = 25) reported consistently lower levels across all five dimensions of library anxiety than did the Caucasian-American graduate students (n = 155). These two studies suggest that racial differences in library anxiety exist in the college student population.