Validity of High‐Stakes Assessment: Are Students Engaged in Complex Thinking?

The validity of high-stakes assessments and accountability systems is discussed in relation to the requirements of No Child Left Behind (NCLB). The extent to which content standards and assessments are cognitively rich, the challenges in setting performance standards, and the impact of high-stakes assessments on instruction and student learning are addressed. The article argues for quality content standards, cognitively rich assessments, and a cohesive, balanced assessment system.     

论民事诉讼的证明标准

实践中 ,在证据对某一事实的证明无法达到事实清楚、证据确凿的情况下 ,对盖然性较高的事实予以确认 ,我国诉讼证明中的最高证明标准是案件事实清楚 ,证据确实充分 ,即高度盖然性 ,法官通过采用自由心证的证据制度对已有的证据作出评判 ,因证明标准具有的特征 ,使其本身具有一定的弹性 ,因此在司法实践中 ,弄清认定证明标准及其依据有着极其重要的作用。     

加拿大安大略省健康与体育课程标准中德育内容的分析与启示

通过对加拿大安大略省健康与体育课程标准中的德育内容分析和研究发现,安大略省的德育深深地渗透在健康与体育课程内,其特点主要包括：其一,安大略省的健康与体育课程中德育内容要求是发展性的,即不同年级阶段,德育内容的要求重点不一样。其二,安大略省健康与体育课程的德育内容与学生的生活结合紧密,且紧紧融入在学生的学习和生活中。其三,安大略省健康和体育课程中的德育内容要求主要是通过学生“doing”的方式,让学生学习道德品质。其四,安大略省健康与体育课程中的德育内容要求从学校拓展到家庭、社区乃至整个社会,而不只是禁锢在班级内。其五,安大略省健康与体育课程强调培养学生的思考力和判断力。安大略省的健康与体育课程标准中的德育渗透对我国体育与健康课程教育教学中的德育教育具有重要的启示。     

Hybrid Journals: Ensuring Systematic and Standard Discoverability of the Latest Open Access Articles

An important current challenge for research information providers is ensuring the automated discovery of Open Access (OA) content in hybrid journals. We found no evidence of discovery services that are able to systematically identify the crucially important free full-text availability of OA articles regardless of where and how such articles have been published (i.e., in fully OA journals or in hybrid journals). A solution is important because hybrid journals are proliferating and consequently the chances of missing OA articles is real and is happening. Nearly all of the major publishers now provide such journals in order to take advantage of recent changes in research funder requirements, and to be competitive in the new OA business model. By working with a group of scholarly publisher partners and by using standard metadata elements that publishers are already familiar with, we show a systematic and standardized manner to identify OA at the article level. Our proposal is to embed OA-related elements in the metadata freely exposed by publishers for aggregators and discovery services. For example, in the Table of Content (TOC) Really Simple Syndication feeds the publishers use to announce new journal issues and content. Based on the initial results obtained, we discuss the capabilities of our solution, and evaluate the impact produced by our application in the systematic discoverability of OA content from the participating hybrid journals, using an implementation done with the freely available journal current awareness service—JournalTOCs.     

Actions and Updates on the Standards and Best Practices Front

Four standards and best practices recently released or currently underway at the National Information Standards Organization were presented: Knowledge Bases and Related Tools, Presentation and Identification of E-Journals, Open Discovery Initiative, and Open Access Metadata Indicators. Basics outlining the creation work and deliverables were shared for each project. Applicability of these standards and best practices for different stakeholders of the information community were discussed.     

浅析专业培养标准与职业资格标准的关系——以安徽科技学院动物科学专业为例

在应用型高等教育改革背景下,如何实现专业人才与现代职业的紧密结合,调整专业培养标准,明确人才培养目标,优化人才培养方案,切实提高应用型专业人才培养质量显得尤为迫切。本文以安徽科技学院优势传统专业—动物科学专业为例,结合专业改革的一些具体做法,对专业培养标准与职业资格标准的关系进行深入分析和探讨,以期为其他相关专业的改革提供一定借鉴。     

TPI对“刘三姐专题文献数据库”进行CALIS标准改建研究

由于原有的"刘三姐专题文献数据库"存在着检索功能方面专业化程度较低以及不符合CALIS统一标准等缺点,在此利用TPI系统对"刘三姐专题文献数据库"进行了CALIS标准化改建。改建后的"刘三姐专题文献数据库"将具有良好的管理及服务功能、软硬件平台以及统一的CALIS标准接口———可接入CALIS的特色资源服务体系中,以实现元数据检索与文献传递功能,达到效益的最大化。     

工程管理专业应用型人才培养目标与质量标准的研究

本文以工程管理专业应用型人才培养为定位方向,全面阐述了工程管理专业人才培养目标,探讨了该人才培养的质量标准,对工程管理专业应用型人才培养具有很大的指导作用。