新建地方应用型本科高校在协同创新体系中的定位与实现路径

协同创新是新时期非常重要的办学理念和办学战略。在通识教育发展趋势下,新建地方应用型本科高校应当抓准时机,全面贯彻协同创新理念,紧跟国家实施“2011计划”的脚步,找准自身在协同创新体系中的定位,积极探索协同创新的建设路径和模式。具体讲,新建地方应用型本科高校应围绕以下几点积极探索协同创新之路：树立创新协同理念,搭建多种协同创新平台,创建多样协同创新模式,建立创新协同机制。     

新时期大学生思想政治教育实效性研究

大学生思想政治教育是大学教育中重要的组成部分,对大学生的身心健康及价值观的形成有着很重要的意义.而在新时期下,大学生思想政治教育的实效性较差,达不到理想的效果.本文就从新时期大学生思想政治教育实效性的现状出发,探究其影响因素,并探讨提高实效性的对策,以期为新时期加强大学生思想道德素养提供一定的帮助.     

Information culture and organizational effectiveness

This paper develops a typology of information cultures by synthesizing empirical and theoretical research in organization science and information science. Four information culture types are proposed. In a Result-oriented culture, the goal of information management is to enable the organization to compete and succeed in its market or sector. In a Rule-following culture, information is managed to control internal operations, and to reinforce rules and policies. In a Relationship-based culture, information is managed to encourage communication, participation, and a sense of identity. In a Risk-taking culture, information is managed to encourage innovation, creativity, and the exploration of new ideas. We expect most organizations to display to varying degrees norms and behaviors from all four types, and that the information culture profile of an organization would be related to its effectiveness. The paper ends by looking at the practical and theoretical value of a systematic examination of information culture and its link to organizational effectiveness.     

The role of governance effectiveness in explaining IT outsourcing performance

Recent studies on IT outsourcing have examined the effect of contract specification and relationship strength on IT outsourcing performance in a separate manner. Previous studies, however, ignored the importance of the governance effectiveness that bonds contractual control and relationship strength together to deliver expected outcomes in IT outsourcing exchange. In this paper, we propose a model of IT outsourcing management where governance effectiveness mediates the effect of both contractual control and relationship strength on IT outsourcing performance. We collected data from 143 client companies of IT outsourcing and analyzed it using the PLS method. Our findings show that both contract specification and relationship strength significantly influence governance effectiveness, although contract specification carries the more effect on governance effectiveness than relationship strength does. The governance effectiveness in turn mediates the effect of contract specification and relationship strength on three sub-dimensions of outsourcing performance: cost efficiency, performance improvement, and overall satisfaction. The results and implications are further discussed.     

A longitudinal phenomenological analysis of coping effectiveness among Scottish international adolescent golfers

Abstract

Team games conceptualized as dynamical systems engender a view of emergent decision-making behaviour under constraints, although specific effects of instructional and body-scaling constraints have yet to be verified empirically. For this purpose, we studied the effects of task and individual constraints on decision-making processes in basketball. Eleven experienced female players performed 350 trials in 1 vs. 1 sub-phases of basketball in which an attacker tried to perturb the stable state of a dyad formed with a defender (i.e. break the symmetry). In Experiment 1, specific instructions (neutral, risk taking or conservative) were manipulated to observe effects on emergent behaviour of the dyadic system. When attacking players were given conservative instructions, time to cross court mid-line and variability of the attacker's trajectory were significantly greater. In Experiment 2, body-scaling of participants was manipulated by creating dyads with different height relations. When attackers were considerably taller than defenders, there were fewer occurrences of symmetry-breaking. When attackers were considerably shorter than defenders, time to cross court mid-line was significantly shorter than when dyads were composed of athletes of similar height or when attackers were considerably taller than defenders. The data exemplify how interacting task and individual constraints can influence emergent decision-making processes in team ball games.     

Evaluation of elite table tennis players' technique effectiveness

Abstract

This study constructed a technique effectiveness evaluation formula for table tennis players based on the relationship between the scoring rate and usage rate of techniques and established the evaluation criteria through the examination of 224 matches of the world's top 35 players. It also built a competition performance formula with the score difference theory for the exploration of the correlation between player technique effectiveness and competition performance. The results showed the three indices – the technique effectiveness of the first and third strokes (TE_1,3), the second and fourth strokes (TE_2,4) and the after fourth strokes (TE_>4) – could help better evaluate the technique effectiveness of elite players. The comparative analysis of Chinese elite table tennis players and players from other countries and regions revealed that Chinese players as a whole were “excellent” in all the examined techniques except in the male's “first and third strokes”; while players from other countries and regions were overall “general”. The case analysis of two world top players further indicated that correlation analysis of technique effectiveness and competition performance could help identify the technique indices highly correlated with player competition performance.     

An Evaluation of the Instructional Effectiveness of a Computer Lesson in Biomechanics

Abstract

The effects of augmented feedback on perceptions of ability (SPA), practice behaviors, and performance during motor skill instruction of a novel task were investigated. Fourth-grade students (N = 103) were randomly assigned to one of four conditions: (a) no feedback; (b) motivational feedback; (c) task feedback; or (d) motivation and task feedback. They then practiced simple and complex cupstacking skills. On a relatively simple task, the type of feedback did not have a significant effect on children's SPA, practice behaviors, or performance; but on a more complex task, differential effects of feedback were evident. Results indicate that informational feedback is an important factor in facilitating student engagement, fostering positive perceptions of ability, and ultimately improving performance on a challenging task.     

Frozen pendulum?

This article examines the New Labour legacy in education, reviews the arguments of The Pendulum Swings in the light of contributions to this themed issue, examines early Coalition policymaking, and recommends four principles that should guide the search for a new approach to school improvement. Recent initiatives are found to be a parody of school reform, as previously understood, more likely to provoke a crisis than to sustain the last government's drive for improved effectiveness. The pendulum is poised to swing as current policies unravel.     

试论当代共产主义信仰教育的实效性

把握共产主义信仰的特点是共产主义信仰教育取得实效的前提。在当代进行共产主义信仰教育时,我们要注意情感认同与理性认知的有机结合;集体政治信仰与个体人生信仰的相互交融;胸怀大志与脚踏实地的有机统一;宣传教育与环境治理的双向互动。