Teachers’ self-efficacy and intercultural classroom practices in diverse classroom contexts: A cross-national comparison

This cross-national study provides new insights in teacher efficacy in today’s culturally diverse classrooms using survey data of 269 early childhood and primary school teachers in England, Italy, the Netherlands and Poland. Teacher efficacy can be viewed as a two dimensional concept in which both general beliefs are measured alongside (diversity-related) domain-specific beliefs. These beliefs are related to the cultural classroom context and the use of intercultural classroom practices. Our results indicate that policies and professional development targeted at the reciprocal relation between diversity-related efficacy and practices are important when preparing teachers for working in diverse classroom contexts.     

Discrete Choice Modeling in Education: An Innovative Method to Assess Teaching Practices

Self‐reported measures are an easy, time‐efficient, and low‐cost way to collect research data compared to other assessment methods. They are, however, characterized by several limitations regarding the quality and the clarity of the data they produce, especially when they are implemented in education. The main purpose of the current study was to use a method called discrete choice modeling (DCM) in education, in order to develop a self‐reported instrument that will reduce the bias for socially desirable responses and to assess teachers’ practices in physical activity. DCM method has the ability to overcome the respondents’ tendency to answer in a socially desirable way. A nationally representative sample of 531 Greek early educators participated in this study and were administered a self‐assessment questionnaire based on DCM. Results showed that the DCM based newly developed instrument manages to assess effectively educators’ practices and provided evidence of the applicability of the method in education. Further implications and future recommendations regarding the effective application of DCM in education are discussed.     

开展数学建模教学促进基础教育改革

随着基础教育课程改革的深入,在中小学开展数学建模教学已经成为一项重要内容。本文试图从数学建模教学的意义、教学环节等几方面揭示数学建模教学对于基础教育改革的重要性。     

体育多种预测方法的比较研究

运用3种不同的方法所建立的多元回归预测模型,其回归预测值的准确度均达到了99.26%以上,其回归的预测值与实际值的方差分析检验均呈无差异性,P》0.50水平.说明3种不同的方法所建立的预测模型的预测值均具有显著性意义.在3种建模方法中,均有评价作用,且其评价目的也不尽相同.在体育运动实践中可依据研究的目的,选择建模方法,以提高体育预测研究的效益.     

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 .     

二次文献发表延时过程的数学模拟及其分析

二次文献发表延时过程模型的建立 ,为研究利用二次文献查新的漏检问题提供了定量化工具。文献查新 ,不仅要检索二次文献数据库 ,还要检索学科范围内近期的核心期刊和相关期刊的一次文献。它也为二次文献检索数据库建立了定量化研究方法。图 2。参考文献 1。     

国内外1975～1991年间关于中小企业信息管理的研究成果统计分析及建议

对 1975～ 1991年间国内外有关中小企业研究的文章从关键词分布、主题分布、国家分布等方面进行了统计 ,具体分析了文章主题的内容 ,进而指出我国在这些方面亟待解决与完善的问题 ,对我国支撑中小企业的信息管理提出参考性建议。表 4 ,参考文献 8。     

基于点云数据的复杂型面实体建模研究

文章针对复杂型面产品的特点,从工业产品设计的实际应用出发,提出将正向设计的尺寸和定位关系设计方法和逆向设计的复杂曲面设计方法有效结合起来,基于点云数据实现产品的实体模型重建。以摩托车覆盖件为例,利用逆向工程软件从点云数据中提取和重构特征曲线与曲面,然后将这些几何元素信息在正向设计系统中结合特征建模方法创建整体三维CAD模型。     

Two-stage statistical language models for text database selection

As the number and diversity of distributed Web databases on the Internet exponentially increase, it is difficult for user to know which databases are appropriate to search. Given database language models that describe the content of each database, database selection services can provide assistance in locating databases relevant to the information needs of users. In this paper, we propose a database selection approach based on statistical language modeling. The basic idea behind the approach is that, for databases that are categorized into a topic hierarchy, individual language models are estimated at different search stages, and then the databases are ranked by the similarity to the query according to the estimated language model. Two-stage smoothed language models are presented to circumvent inaccuracy due to word sparseness. Experimental results demonstrate that such a language modeling approach is competitive with current state-of-the-art database selection approaches.     

基于P2P的适应性信息检索系统的设计

针对现有搜索引擎的不足，提出了一个基于P2P的适应性信息检索系统设计方案，详细介绍了系统的各主要模块的功能和技术方法，进而分析了该模型的优势。