关于高职教育研究所定位及职能的一些思考

随着我国高等职业教育办学国际化、大众化的推进,高职教育研究所应成为高职院校不可替代的内设机构。高职教育研究所应把院校研究作为重点工作,为学校改革与发展出谋划策,逐步成为高职院校教育教学的研究中心、院校改革与发展的咨询中心、高职教学研究成果的交流中心,成为学校领导及相关部门决策的＂智库＂。     

海峡两岸休闲专业建设比较研究——以台湾高雄餐旅大学与武汉职业技术学院为例

通过对台湾高雄餐旅大学与武汉职业技术学院的休闲专业教育比较研究发现,两校的共同点在于均以职业为导向,以培养"应用型、技能型"人才为目标。而台湾高雄餐旅大学休闲与游憩管理专业更加注重学生博雅教育,通识与专业课程科目丰富,实践教学内容务实、形式多样,考评方式多元化,值得大陆高职院校休闲专业借鉴和学习。     

青少年体育俱乐部运行实例研究

以江西师范大学体育学院青少年体育俱乐部的运作实践为例，从建设、管理、经营、宣传等方面出发，对青少年体育俱乐部进行全面分析，指出制约俱乐部发展的主要问题是认识滞后，组织机构和经营模式欠合理，产权关系不清晰，建议提高认识，协调好各方面关系，明晰产权关系，转换经营机制。     

新形势下高校馆购置经费的虚拟分配

在图书馆有限的经费条件下，为了较大限度的满足高校师生对书刊资料的需要，其重要途径就是采访和购置方式的创新。结合图书馆实际情况探索出经费的虚拟分配这一新方法，引导高校教师参与书刊采购工作，使所购书刊资料更好地满足教学科研的需要，以提高购书经费的使用效益。     

沈阳体育学院运动训练系足球专修课程改革研究

运用调查、逻辑思维和实践等方法,对足球专修课程改革进行了深入的研究。认为在修订教学大纲时首先必须对足球专修课程予以准确定位,包括课程目标、层次、特色定位;教学大纲修订基本原则的前提是国家和社会需要等;提出了制定教学目标的基本要求及具体目标,并提出了教学环境的设计与优化、教材编写的具体措施。力图为教学改革提供有益借鉴,进而推动教学质量的提高。     

广州体育学院成人高等教育"十一五"发展规划

通过对广州体育学院成人教育的发展,结合当前学院的实际,制订了广州体育学院成人教育的“十一五”发展规划。规划对学院成人教育办学的规模、层次、特色等提出了新的要求,并通过不断开拓创新以达到如下目标:更好地为国家和地方的经济建设服务;为科教兴体、全民健身计划服务;为实现学院21世纪发展的总目标服务。     

Ethnic origin and social control: Jewish and Arab delinquents in IsraelLos delincuentes Arabes y Judios en IsraelL'origine ethinque et le contrôle social: délinquants Juifs et Arabes en Israël

A review of the literature reveals that minorities often receive relatively severe dispositions by the various law enforcement agencies (police, probation, and the courts). This discrimination is usually explained by the prejudices of officers of these agencies. A study of the official statistics of juvenile delinquency in Israel reveals a similar pattern: Arab juveniles are overrepresented among recipients of severe recommendations and decisions. This overrepresentation is mostly due to the harsher recommendations Arab juveniles receive from their probation officers. However, since these officers are Arabs, prejudice cannot be the explanation. An attitudes and opinions survey reveals that Arab probation officers are more concerned with the community's welfare than the Jewish ones. This fact seems to be the cause of the difference in the pattern of recommendations.     

Independence and obedience in the United States and Japan

Are some Americans and Japanese beginning to think more similarly about independence and obedience? Middle-class adult respondents from the suburbs of Chicago and Tokyo (U.S.: 43 males and 54 females: Japan: 71 males and 80 females) were surveyed about their sex-role values. This report focuses on two values which have been recognised as constituting fundamental differences between Japanese and Americans: personal independence and obedience. The survey used a metric multidimensional scaling technique called Galileo^®. Analyses of the data and results of other comparative studies suggest that any convergence taking place between the two societies is occurring primarily within American society. There is growing evidence, including the findings of this study, that Americans are moving away from their traditional stress on the importance of the individual in society. The Japanese respondents did show a more liberal conceptualization of the ideal woman with respect to obedience, however, there was no indication that this less traditional image of women extended to their other traditional roles in society.     

Use of clustering techniques in deriving psychoeducational profiles

This study explores whether a synthesis of clinical and statistical data taken from the psychoeducational reports completed on a group of 42, 9- to 11-year-old boys referred to a Child Psychiatric Outpatient Department for school-learning problems, would yield discrete clinical categories or clusters of children. An amalgamated hierarchical clustering technique which formed clusters by subjects based on a measure of euclidean distance was used. Forty-two reports were evaluated by licensed educational psychologists in five input areas: Developmental History, School History, Cognitive Functioning, Sensorimotor/Perceptual Functioning, and Academic Achievement. One of three educational placement recommendations was identified for each subject: No Educational Placement Intervention Necessary, Special Tutoring or Remediation, and Special Class Placement. Using clinical characteristic ratings given by the evaluators on each variable, a similarity-dissimilarity matrix was formed which classified subjects into four discrete clusters based on their clinical profiles. A χ² test determined that there was a significant association (p < .01) between cluster membership and educational placement recommendations.     

International conferences: Significant measures of success

This article reviews the literature on evaluating international conferences identifying significant factors which contribute to measured success. Extensive previous research over the last twenty years has identified criteria for evaluating success which continue to be ignored as international conferences repeat the same mistakes. More systematic research is needed. A framework of 25 evaluation measures is described for future research on the assessment of international conferences.Responses to three items of a questionnaire sent out by the East-West Culture Learning Institute as part of a project studying international conferences are also discussed, relating to evaluation measures, problems of evaluation and potential benefits of evaluation. Guidelines and suggestions are provided synthesizing the available research toward planning more successful international conferences in the future. In conclusion, six issues are identified for further clarification in future research on international conferences.