Neighborhood crime undermines parenting: Violence in the vicinity of households as a predictor of aggressive discipline

Child discipline is a central component of parent-child interactions. Evidence suggests corporal discipline impairs children’s physical, cognitive, and socioemotional development and compromises their future chances, especially since it is more frequently used against at-risk children. Using geocoded data for 1209 children under the age of five and their mothers, this study analyses the relation between the occurrence of crimes in close proximity to households in four major urban municipalities of Colombia and a particularly violent corporal discipline practice: hitting children with objects. Results indicate that exposure to violent crimes, such as homicides and personal injuries, predicts a higher probability of hitting children with objects, even after controlling for a set of individual, family, and neighborhood characteristics. Sensitivity analyses suggest violent crimes are not related to other discipline methods, and less threatening crimes, such as robbery and drug trafficking, are not associated with hitting children with objects. These findings suggest households’ walls are permeable, and outside threats may interfere with families’ dynamics and well-being. Future directions and implications are discussed.     

做好文稿的退修工作

为了确保科技信息准确，快速，广泛地传播，编辑在做文稿退修时须把握好以下几点：1）注意对文稿内容，结构及统计数据的审查与质疑。2）注意对文稿标准化的审查与修改，使题名，摘要，关键词，名词术语，计量单位等符合科技期刊的标准化规范化要求。3）尊重作者劳动，退修意见力求准确，全面，具体，要求明确，确保一次退修成功。     

美国爱达荷州体育教师标准简介

通过对美国爱达荷州新近颁布的体育教师标准的分析与归纳，阐述了美国基础体育教育人才培养和管理的专业标准以及基础体育教育领域的新思想、新观念，以求对我国在基础体育教育人才培养方面的科学决策和管理有所启示。     

高师美术教育学科的定位与走向

高师美术教育的繁荣与发展,面临着许多机遇和挑战。在新时期,师范院校的美术教育应符合当前形势的需要,结合高等师范类美术教育的改革,明确自身定位,突出自身特色,并确立切合实际的美术教育新理念,以适应当前的新形势、新任务和新要求。     

关于我国离婚法定条件的探讨——混合标准还是单一标准

关于离婚法定条件的探讨贯穿于我国婚姻法发展的整个过程。从1950年新中国第一部婚姻法到1980年婚姻法的重新制定,乃至2001年婚姻法的修订,都是一个探索的过程,但探索的结论并没有很大的突破,仍是将离婚法定条件定为感情或婚姻破裂的单一标准。出于完善我国婚姻立法中的法理基础的需要,笔者以为应在我国婚姻立法中确立混合标准的离婚法定条件。     

Steps Toward More Effective Implementation of the Standards for Educational and Psychological Testing

The goal of the Standards for Educational and Psychological Testing is to improve testing practices, but their impact on practice appears spotty. Self-regulation clearly fails in some instances. The establishment of an external agency to oversee testing practices and adherence to the Standards would face substantial hurdles, and the ambiguity of many of the Standards would hobble such an organization if one were created. Many of the Standards are general statements of principle, and past controversies make clear that we in the field often disagree about the reasons for them, their applicability to specific cases, and their practical meaning in specific contexts. This paper argues that the field should follow two approaches to lessen this ambiguity. First, using journals, conferences, and other vehicles, we should foster more frequent and more protracted debate about the practical meaning of key Standards, such as 13.6 and 13.7, which mandate that a decision that will have a "major impact" on a student should not be based on a single score. Second, future revisions of the Standards should use concrete examples of testing practices to clarify the meaning of the Standards, much as the legal system uses case law to clarify the meaning of the general principles embodied in statutes .     

RESEARCH SECTION: Examining the nature and perceived causes of indiscipline in Zimbabwean secondary schools

The problem of student indiscipline is an issue of concern for teachers and parents around the world. Teachers need to maintain student discipline and for them to do so it is important that they also understand the nature of discipline problems. This study, by Lawrence Kofi Ametepee, who is studying for a PhD in special education, Morgan Chitiyo, board certified behaviour analyst and Assistant Professor of Special Education, both at Southern Illinois University, Carbondale, USA, and Susan Abu, who is currently a graduate student in the Department of Women's Studies at Texas Women's University, was designed to examine the nature and perceived causes of student indiscipline in Zimbabwean secondary schools. The authors anticipate that such an examination will promote teachers’, parents’ and policy makers’ understanding of student indiscipline, which will, in turn, enhance disciplinary policies and practices, making schools safer for all students and more effective in their role as educational and socialising agents.     

对高师教学法课的一点认识

本文针对目前高等师范教育中,学科教学法课所存在的问题,强调了这一学科在高等师范教育中的重要地位以及如何加强这一学科的教学与研究的具体方法。     

网络环境下高校图书馆期刊服务工作刍议

网络环境下高校图书馆期刊服务工作有其相应的特点和原则，应从3个方面入手做好开发期刊信息服务的工作。