旅游者选择外部旅游交通方式的影响因素研究

本文采用因子分析的方法对旅游者选择外部旅游交通方式的影响因素进行了系统研究.研究结果表明旅游者在选择外部旅游交通方式时主要受10项因子的影响,并且各因子的重要性差异不明显.本文的研究结果对于旅游交通、旅行社等相关旅游企业提高产品质量,对于旅游行政主管部门科学地进行区域旅游交通规划均具有重要的参考价值.     

Measuring Online Communication Attitude: Instrument Development and Validation

This paper reports a series of studies that develop an empirically-derived instrument for assessing online communication attitude, a multidimensional set of individual cognitive-affective constructs that influence media choice. The first study inductively develops an initial item pool and tests dimensional structure via exploratory factor analysis. The second study further refines this structure and also tests the association between online communication attitude and media use in same-sex friendships. Finally, the third study deductively tests global model fit via confirmatory factor analysis, and establishes concurrent validity with theoretically related communication constructs. Beyond identifying motives underlying media choice, the instrument developed here possesses heuristic potential for clarifying media choice theory and elaborating the association between communication competence and media choice.     

Pre‐deliberation moderation on choice dilemmas: proposing a moderation–elasticity theory of choice shift

A moderation–elasticity theory to explain the choice shift is proposed and tested. The theory predicts that group members engage in moderation of initial decision choices in anticipation of future interaction. These moderate choices are strategic in nature, and thus are posited to disappear when anticipated interaction is eliminated. Moderation–elasticity is proposed as a form of predeliberation normative influence. A test of the theory finds support for both moderation and elasticity processes on choice dilemma item decisions.     

浅谈高职汽修专业实践教学模式的建构与选择

本文阐述了高职院校汽车检测与维修专业实践教学在专业教学中的重要地位,并根据高职教学实际,提出了实践教学的建构模式以及选择依据,本文特别对实践基地教学模式作了重点阐述。     

What about choice for a change?

Through the lens of exile, this conceptual study explores the complex associations of choice and change, and their implications for education, in a range of areas from sociology through psychology and physiology. In bringing together and synthesising diverse thoughts about choice and change, it inquires into how educators and their professional practices can support the choices of young people in creating significant change and the hopeful future through knowledge economies. It concludes that, if the moral purposes of change are to be social and communal development, mental models should be chosen and knowledge created to accomplish those purposes. At stake is the legacy of today’s choices for young people’s futures. Dedicated to my Dad, Pieter, 19 April 1922–18 April 2004, ‘Recte faciendo neminem timeas’.     

毕业论文选题思路及写作技巧要旨

毕业论文的写作对学生来说，是一种挑战。学生如何做好论文选题，掌握好写作的基本技巧，则是成功写作论文的关键。本文主要从论文选题思路、论文结构各部分写作技巧等方面，阐述了如何指导和引导学生正确选题、准确写作的方法，对提高学生的毕业论文写作水平有一定的指导意义。     

Classroom choice-making for Chinese master’s students: choice,motivation and learning contexts

ABSTRACT

Under the framework of self-determination theory, choice is a supporting factor for autonomy in the classroom. The provision of choice in the classroom is a distinct feature of higher education, through which students experience a shift from mandatory tasks to those are more learner-controlled. This study explores Chinese master’s students’ perspectives on choice and the relationship between choice and motivation, also, compares the choice-making opportunities in different learning contexts (China vs. UK). 60 Chinese master’s students, studying in China and the UK, participated in this study. The findings of this study indicate that most master’s students hold a positive attitude towards classroom choice, considering choice contributes to increased learning motivation in the classroom in most cases. Then, limited choices may not automatically decrease students’ motivation and students studying in China possess fewer opportunities for choice-making than students in the UK, which is influenced by the social and academic culture.     

“Putting Patients First”: Systematically Distorted Communication and Merck's Marketing of Vioxx

An estimated 27,000–60,000 patients died while taking Merck's drug Vioxx between 2000 and 2004. This essay uses Deetz's treatment of systematically distorted communication and Nilsen's significant choice to analyze Merck's communication about the drug. The company claimed publicly to be forthright about Vioxx's safety. The article shows, however, that Merck systematically distorted communication through neutralization, topical avoidance, and disqualification in ways that thwarted physicians’ and patients’ abilities to make an informed choice about Vioxx. The analysis shows that Merck employees’ consent to economic priorities framed these communication practices as legitimate and rational within the organization. The same practices, however, appeared socially irresponsible to members of the scientific community outside the company. In contrast to Merck's practices, the essay offers more participatory communication applications that uphold companies’ moral obligation to their stakeholders.     

What Factors Determine the Uptake of A-level Physics?

There has been much concern recently in the UK about the decline in the number of students studying physics beyond age 16. To investigate why this might be we used data from a national database of student qualifications and a multilevel modelling technique to investigate which factors had the greatest impact on the uptake of physics at Advanced Level (A-level) in a particular year. Each factor of interest was entered into a separate model, while accounting for prior attainment and gender (both well-known predictors of A-level uptake). We found that factors associated with greater probability of uptake included better attainment in physics (or combined science) and maths qualifications at age 16 in comparison to other subjects, and (for girls only) attending an independent or grammar school. While it is difficult to address these factors directly, the results imply that more needs to be done to improve relative performance at General Certificate of Secondary Education, perhaps by increasing the supply of specialist physics teachers at this level and to overcome the perception (especially among girls) that physics is a particularly difficult subject.     

现代远程教育中学习者选择网上媒体的探讨

现代远程教育机构为学习者提供了丰富的网上媒体。学习者对网上媒体的使用情况成为远程教育机构关注的重点。本文用任务技术匹配理论、技术采纳理论分析远程教育学习者选择网上媒体的行为,研究表明网上媒体与学习内容是否匹配,学习者感知网上媒体的易用性、有用性,学习者是否通过考试,学习者的个体特征等对网上媒体的选择有重要影响。