What Can Institutional Research do to Help Colleges Meet the Workforce Needs of States and Nations?

Institutions of higher education are looked to by society as the training grounds and gatekeepers for college-trained workers. However, despite a long history of being viewed by many as unresponsive to labor force needs, the academy has not found ways of effectively meeting these demands, nor articulating why it is that they have difficulty doing so. This paper discusses how institutional researchers can help explain to campus administrators and others the role that institutions play in training individuals for the workplace, and why they cannot always quickly respond to and solve shortages of college-trained workers. The first section outlines what economic theory and research has to say regarding labor markets, how labor market shortages arise, and how students make decisions about which major to pursue. The last section describes problems institutional researchers face when using their skills with data to identify solutions to this problem. Using data from the state of New Hampshire, it will be shown that the data available to institutional decisionmakers can be out of date, inaccurate, and not particularly useful for designing policies that would enable an institution to respond to the labor needs of the economy.     

战略性新兴支柱产业背景下《电子技术基础》课程教学改革探索

《电子技术基础》是电学专业基础课程,对后续其他专业课程学习有重要的基础性作用。在省级战略性新兴(支柱)产业资助下,我院严格按照省教育厅文件精神,创新人才培养机制,与省内有关行业、企业联合制定、实施人才培养计划。针对目前电子技术基础课程教学存在教学内容不成体系、教学模式单一、教学设备缺少且落后等问题而严重影响教学质量提高的现状,通过改进课程教学方法、加强实验室建设、改革考核方式,取得了一定的教学效果。     

Juridification of examination systems: extending state level authority over teacher assessments through regrading of national tests

Since 2009, the Swedish Government uses an ‘audit’ agency – the Swedish Schools Inspectorate – to monitor and assess the accuracy with which teachers grade student responses on national tests. This study explores the introduction and subsequent establishment of the Inspectorate’s regrading programme as an example of political management of the tensions between competition and equity inherent in neoliberal regulatory regimes. The programme is considered a case for examining contemporary policies and discourses on fairness and government actions undertaken to resolve issues of unfair assessment and safeguard students’ rights. Work of Carol Bacchi forms part of the theoretical background for the investigation of problem representations around and within the programme. The article demonstrates how discursive practices in the fields of government, audit and media have worked to frame teachers’ assessments as incorrect, unfair and as jeopardizing the credibility of the grading system, thus justifying increased central control and authority over teacher assessments. As such, the regrading programme contributed to increased mistrust in teacher professionalism. A legal discourse is identified, and we argue the examination system is being juridified where the abundance of control over knowledge risks turning into a deficit of that same knowledge.     

The process of updating engineering management science in an Australian regional university excellence in developing e-learning

The aim of the current paper is to share the processes in revising the courseware of the course of Engineering Management Science coded as ENG4004, in the Bachelor of Engineering (Mechanical, Mechatronics, Electrical and Electronic, Computer Systems, Instrumentation and Control), Bachelor of Engineering Technology (Mechanical, Building and Construction Management) programmes offered by the University of Southern Queensland (USQ), a regional Australian University with excellence in developing e-learning. The paper describes how the authors review the courseware of the course. The needs for the review are also explained. The assessments of the course were also studied and revised. The authors also estimated the costs involved in reviewing the course. At the same time, the paper also predicts the benefits that will be offered to students and the community including employers who are going to employ USQ graduates. It is finally concluded that the review is worthwhile and the actual costs to the university are minimal.     

农村劳动力转移的国际考察与启示

农村劳动力转移是人类社会发展的一个必然现象,英国、美国、韩国和日本等都曾出现过农村劳动力向城市和非农产业转移的现象。因此,考察其他国家的农业劳动力转移过程,从中吸取有益的经验和教训,将有助于我国农村劳动力转移的顺利完成,对我国"新农村建设"也具有重要意义。     

舜卒鸣条考证

舜的先祖虞幕封于虞(今山西平陆).有虞氏部落世居蒲坂,舜出生于蒲坂的姚墟.巡狩为天子视察政务的举措,舜即帝位33年让禹摄政,故知舜晚年无巡狩,且南巡狩只到安徽霍山.百岁高龄亦不能驱车南荒治水探弟.《竹书纪年》"鸣条有苍梧山."孟子与先秦诸书言舜卒鸣条(之苍梧山).     

构建中小学教学视导制度体系——基于教师专业化发展视角的一种微观分析

教学视导制度的组织通常由五个系统构成 :指挥系统、信息收集系统、评价与诊断系统、信息反馈系统及保障支持系统 ,是一个有输入、活动和输出的系统     

教育督导:重"督"还是重"导" --对教育督导职能的再审视

教育督导的基本职能包括监督、检查、评估和指导.而其中监督和指导的关系问题是督导诸职能中值得探讨的问题.从当前我国教育事业发展的现实需要和教育督导工作已取得的实际效果来看,要求教育督导必须以"督"为主."督"是指出问题,"导"是指出解决问题的方向与思路,教育督导强调以监督为主,并不排斥和阻碍指导功能的发挥.     

"博士官"现象在高校干部管理队伍建设中的几点思考

“博士官”在高校干部管理队伍建设中的大量出现，是社会、高校可持续发展的客观要求．也是博士们实现自身价值的一种主观愿望。高校上下对此虽有不少非议，但其是非曲直多由历史的范式积弊所致。可以说，高校“博士官”选拔的关键在于其办学理念、主体所属、价值观等方面的正确定位．以及管理干部岗位的合适度和人才选拔机制的规范化。     

沧州市国民体质现状监测与分析

为了解我国国民的体质现状，国家体育总局在全国31个省、市、自治区进行了我国最大规模，也是世界空前规模的国民体质监测工作。沧州市被省体育局列为国家级监测网点。对这次监测数据从形态、机能、素质等几个方面进行统计、分析，为全民健身计划的实施和我市经济可持续发展战略的落实提供科学依据。