Verbal reasoning test scores and their stability over time

As part of an extended study into school assessment practices the use of verbal reasoning tests and their possible contribution to measuring pupil progress is being investigated. One phase of the study has involved testing the stability of individual verbal reasoning scores over time. The findings of this phase are presented here and located within the broader context of intelligence testing. The discussion concludes with a number of questions relating to the use of pupils’ academic achievements as appropriate measures of school success. The ongoing work considers how pupil success could be measured fairly, taking into account individual pupil differences, including both genetic and socio-economic factors. The work being developed has potential for both formative and summative assessment procedures and also as a tool for reporting the achievements of individual pupils and educational establishments. The full work will be published in due course.     

‘Creative destruction’: knowledge economy policy and the future of the arts and humanities in the academy1

Policy conceptualizations of the global knowledge economy have led to the channelling of much Higher Education and Research and Development funding into the priority areas of science and technology. Among other things, this diversion of funding calls into question the future of traditional humanities and creative arts faculties. How these faculties, and the disciplines within them, might reconfigure themselves for the knowledge economy is, therefore, a question of great importance, although one that as yet has not been adequately answered. This paper explores some of the reasons for this by looking at how innovation in the knowledge economy is typically theorized. It takes one policy trajectory informing Australia’s key innovation statement as an example. It argues that, insofar as the formation of this knowledge economy policy has been informed by a techno‐economic paradigm, it works to preclude many humanities and creative arts disciplines. This paper, therefore, looks at how an alternative theorization of the knowledge economy might offer a more robust framework from within which to develop humanities and creative arts Higher Education and Research policy in the knowledge economy, both in Australia and internationally.     

教育信息化环境下教师的作用定位与素质培养

教育信息化是利用信息技术改革传统教育,促进教育现代化的过程,其中起主要作用的因素还是教师。随着媒体技术大量引入教育教学领域,出现了“教师的作用将被弱化甚至取代”的论调。教师作为重要的人力资源,担负着多种重要角色,应采取有效措施,从硬件、软件和相关制度建设方面入手,着力培养教师的信息素养,加快教师的专业化发展,让教师在信息化教学环境中发挥应有的作用。     

情绪与社会能力测评与培养的重要意义

情绪智力理论的问题是将情感性的非认知能力称为智力,而这些能力实际是情感适应机能或自我调节机能,应正确定义为情绪能力.本研究建构了情绪能力的九因子模型.测量结果证实了这一模型的有效性,所编制的情绪能力量表有较好的信度和效度.同时发现情绪能力是学业成绩的一个重要影响因素.研究结果肯定的情绪能力的科学地位,而且对目前存在的偏重认知能力轻视情绪与社会能力的错误认识提供了很好的反驳证据.情绪与社会能力不仅影响学习成绩,而且是适应社会和事业成功的重要条件.     

中国科技情报（科技信息）事业与中国情报学的学科定位所在（Ⅱ）——中国情报学的学科定位探寻：多个视角分析

依据中国科技信息事业在本质上属于软科学研究机构范畴这一客观事实,从软科学、智能科学和信息科学的视角对以该事业为重要实践基础和来源的中国情报学学科定位进行界定,指出图书情报不会是一家,中国情报学理应属于管理科学范畴而绝不会只是LIS中与library相联系的Information Science那么简单。     

高校辅导员能力结构探析——斯腾伯格智力理论的视角

在高等教育不断大众化的今天,高校辅导员已成为学生工作的核心力量,其能力直接关系着高校人才培养目标的实现,关系着学校的繁荣与发展。对此,从斯腾伯格智力理论的视角,即智力的三元理论和成功智力理论,分析高校辅导员的能力结构,以期不断促进高校辅导员队伍的建设,提高辅导员工作的实效性和针对性。     

Large-scale student assessment studies measure the results of processes of knowledge acquisition: Evidence in support of the distinction between intelligence and student achievement

Given the relatively high intercorrelations observed between mathematics achievement, reading achievement, and cognitive ability, it has recently been claimed that student assessment studies (e.g., TIMSS, PISA) and intelligence tests measure a single cognitive ability that is practically identical to general intelligence. The present article uses three lines of reasoning to show that the outcomes of schooling can and must be conceptually distinguished from the intelligence construct. First, the conceptual differences between student assessments and tests of cognitive ability are delineated. Second, results from construct validation studies providing strong empirical support for the multidimensionality of the achievement measures applied in large-scale educational assessments are reported. Third, data supporting the differential development of educational outcomes in different domains are presented.     

国际共运与中苏关系——二十世纪五六十年代美国中央情报局的评估

本文利用迄今为止美国业已解密的情报档案和相关文献,以新中国成立后至1960年代中苏关系的发展演变为主线,论述美国中央情报局在中苏结盟与合作、中苏分歧与争论以及中苏分裂与对抗三个时段中,对国际共运的总体态势及其发展前景等所作的预测与评估,并就其判断依据和研究结论加以进一步的分析与解读。     

从人类社会科技的发展看资源的定义域

本文以人类社会科学技术的发展为主线回顾分析了不同时期人类社会中资源的定义域,以及资源被人类从开发利用到破坏其自然平衡的必然。指出资源的定义域总是与人类一定时期的科学技术发展水平紧密相连的,最终人类将用智能知识使资源的定义域不断拓宽并使其永续利用。     

Operationalizing Design Thinking in Business Intelligence and Analytics Projects

Design Thinking has been applied successfully in many fields; however, in Information Systems research most early studies focus on applying the specific toolsets to developing product and system designs to solve strategic, managerial, and operational problems. There is little research on how Design Thinking can be embedded in the learning processes in design‐oriented IS research and enabled in the context of business intelligence (BI) and business analytics (BA). How can Design Thinking be embedded in the learning processes and enabled in the context of BI/BA projects in the classroom environment, especially in the proof of concept stage? A practical view on integrating the mindset and toolset of the Design Thinking approach and in the learning process as a case based in‐class experience is presented along with a guideline for coaching the Design Thinking team and the lessons learned from each stage of Design Thinking. The results of this study show that Design Thinking practices can be enlisted to help students frame their creations and that these practices have a valuable contribution as alternatives when designing curricula for teaching and learning.