Learning Partnerships in Practice: Orientation,Leadership, and Residence Life

Committed to improving how their various programs serve student learning, Taran Cardone, Elizabeth Stoll Turton, Gerald Olson, and Marcia Baxter Magolda describe how their participation in Miami University's Community of Practice on Engaged Learning (COPEL) helped them create developmentally appropriate, learning‐centered approaches that support the complex task of student self‐authorship.     

香草醛缩色氨酸与稀土镧、钕、钐、铈配合物的合成及表征

合成了香草醛缩色氨酸席夫碱(简写为L)及其稀土La(III)、Nd(III)、Sm(III)、Ce(III)配合物,通过元素分析、摩尔电导、差热-热重分析、红外光谱、紫外光谱等手段.确定配合物为KRe(H2O)(NO3)·2H2O(Re=La,Nd,Sm,Ce).     

Imaginary Indians: Representations of Native Americans in Scholastic Reading Club

Scholastic Reading Clubs are a popular and inexpensive way for teachers to build classroom libraries and for parents to purchase books for their children. The books made accessible to children through the order forms are assumed to be suitable for young readers in terms of their content, popularity, currency, and curricular relevance. Multicultural books occupy a small fraction of the selections, and books about Native Americans are essentially absent. This study examines Scholastic Reading Club order forms available over the course of a year. The quantitative and qualitative findings show that stereotypical misrepresentations of Native Americans persist and literature by Native authors and illustrators is completely lacking.     

New alignments for the digital age: insights into connected learning

Educational technology research and development - In an age of ready access to people, online spaces and information, canonized formal knowledge acquisition is being disrupted. The emergence of...     

French secondary school students' perceptions of the education-labor market link

A survey was conducted to examine the strength of beliefs among French school pupils in three perceptions of the education-labor market link traditionally studied in the economy of human capital: ‘productivity’, ‘screening’ and ‘credentialism’. 247 male and female French students aged between 14 and 24 years responded to a paper-and-pencil questionnaire. The purpose of the study is by means of introducing the concepts of ‘productivity’, ‘screening’ and ‘credentialism’ into the field of psychology of education to identify on the one hand the relative dominance of these three conceptions, and on the other hand to study each in relation to classical demographic variables and psychosocial variables such as academic self-evaluation, self-assessment of the range of vocational options and type of education and training sought by the pupils. Results indicate that students are more inclined to believe that the achievement of academic degrees acts more as a ‘screening’ device and as evidence of achievement than a factor enhancing productivity in the workplace. It seems that the variability of the role assigned to education as regards employability depends on the students' social and academic standing and on the way they deal with it.     

唐朝在西域实行的地方行政制度对社会发展的作用

唐朝在重新统一西域以后，实行了地方行政制度。地方行政制度是国家的一项基本政治制度，古代的行政制度是现代政治制度的基础．在现代政治制度的发展上有一定的完善和巩固的意义，它对西域社会中的政治、经济、化等方面的发展，起到了重要的作用。     

Internal Leadership Academy: Evaluation of One College's Program

Over the past decade or so there has been increasing concern over the unprecedented wave of retirements of community college leaders, from department chairs all the way to presidents. There are three different venues for developing future leaders in order to offset this deficiency: university-based formal degrees, professional and continuing education programs, and informal personal self-development programs. This paper describes and evaluates the development of an institution-based program at a large, multicampus suburban college district, and its inaugural year experience.     

育人为本视阈下的高校校园网络文化建设和管理探微

中国现有的5.38亿网民中,学生网民接近1/3.作为网上人数较多、较为活跃的群体,大学生的政治态度、价值取向、道德观念、心理发展与行为模式等深受网络文化的影响.如何驾驭和把握高校校园网络文化建设和管理的规律和特点,充分发挥校园网络文化的育人功能,不断提升网络育人的科学化水平,是当前加强和改进大学生思想政治教育工作亟待解决的重大课题.通过分析高校校园网络文化的定位,梳理校园网络文化建设和管理面临的新情况、新问题,探讨建设和管理中应处理好的几对关系,提出了加强和完善高校校园网络文化建设和管理的几点对策.     

Effect of Tai Chi exercise on blood lipid profiles: a meta-analysis of randomized controlled trials

Objective

Studies have demonstrated that Tai Chi exercise improves blood lipid level with inconsistent results. A meta-analysis was conducted to quantify the effects of Tai Chi on blood lipid profiles in humans.

Methods

We screened the databases of PubMed, EMBASE, Cochrane Library (Central), Web of Science, China National Knowledge Infrastructure (CNKI), Wanfang data, and Clinicaltrials.gov for randomized controlled trials with Physiotherapy Evidence Database (PEDro) score more than 3 points up to June 2015. Six studies involving 445 subjects were included. Most trials applied 12-week Tai Chi intervention courses.

Results

In comparison with the control group, blood triglyceride (TG) level difference between follow-up and baseline was statistically significantly lower in the Tai Chi practicing group (weighted mean difference (WMD) ?16.81 mg/dl; 95% confidence intervals (CI) ?31.27 to ?2.35 mg/dl; P=0.02). A trend to improving total cholesterol (TC) reduction was found with Tai Chi (WMD ?7.96 mg/dl; 95% CI ?17.30 to 1.39 mg/dl; P=0.10). However, no difference was found in blood low-density lipoprotein cholesterol (LDL-C) or high-density lipoprotein cholesterol (HDL-C).

Conclusions

Tai Chi exercise lowered blood TG level with a trend to decrease blood TC level. Our data suggest that Tai Chi has the potential to implement meaningful blood lipid modification and serve as an adjunctive exercise modality. The relationship between Tai Chi exercise regimen and lipid profile change might have a scientific priority for future investigation.