‘Teaching’ the path towards university: understanding student access through storied-futures and meritocratic grand narratives

The notion that the stories of our lives shape dispositions towards imagined futures is another lens through which university underrepresentation should be viewed. A storied lens attends to how futures, like university attendance, are storied during childhood to the extent that some youth imagine, and therefore plan, these futures as natural progression. Such was the case for study participants, indicating that childhood stories contain answers for mitigating social reproduction connected to parental education and cultural forces within the home. Examining social mobility through the underexplored storied-futures grand narrative presents unique solutions that lay hidden within the dominant meritocratic grand narrative.     

对成功老龄化本质的理解

全球人口正迅速老龄化，故对老龄化的理论性注意成为必要。章以详实的献综述形式探讨了久已存在的关于人类老龄化的矛盾观。并呈现最新老龄化的观点。对理解成功老龄化的本质内涵有帮助，并增添人们对成功老龄化的信心。     

竞技武术散打比赛摔法技术运用分析--以第四届东亚运动会散打比赛为例

通过对"第四届东亚运动会"散打比赛录像进行解析统计,对比赛中的快摔法技术的运用情况进行研究,分析其运用的成败影响因素,旨在为我国武术散打运动训练提供理论和实践依据.     

English Language Education in the Colleges in China

中国大学英语语言教育有着一个漫长的过程 ,我国英语语言教育已取得了一定的成功。本文主要从低、中、高三种层次阐述大学英语教学方法的不断完善和英语教材的不断丰富。     

运动能力遗传选材在广西羽毛球队的成功应用

要攀登体育运动高峰 ,选材工作极为重要 ,选材的方法很多 ,而运动能力遗传选材 ,有其科学性和实用性。广西羽毛球队应用运动能力遗传方法选材 ,取得了丰硕的成果。     

影响篮球比赛快攻战术成功率主要因素分析

通过对全国高等体育院校、高等师范院校和体育科研单位的 2 9名篮球专家进行问卷调查 ,经统计学处理 ,得出了影响篮球快攻战术成功率的主要因素及其所包含的子因素 ,找出了影响快攻战术成功率的各主要因素的重要程度 ,为篮球运动战术的理论和训练提供依据。     

One hundred and fifty years of sprint and distance running – Past trends and future prospects

Sprint and distance running have experienced remarkable performance improvements over the past century. Attempts to forecast running performances share an almost similarly long history but have relied so far on relatively short data series. Here, we compile a comprehensive set of season-best performances for eight Olympically contested running events. With this data set, we conduct (1) an exponential time series analysis and (2) a power-law experience curve analysis to quantify the rate of past performance improvements and to forecast future performances until the year 2100. We find that the sprint and distance running performances of women and men improve exponentially with time and converge at yearly rates of 4% ± 3% and 2% ± 2%, respectively, towards their asymptotic limits. Running performances can also be modelled with the experience curve approach, yielding learning rates of 3% ± 1% and 6% ± 2% for the women's and men's events, respectively. Long-term trends suggest that: (1) women will continue to run 10–20% slower than men, (2) 9.50 s over 100 m dash may only be broken at the end of this century and (3) several middle- and long-distance records may be broken within the next two to three decades. The prospects of witnessing a sub-2 hour marathon before 2100 remain inconclusive. Our results should be interpreted cautiously as forecasting human behaviour is intrinsically uncertain. The future season-best sprint and distance running performances will continue to scatter around the trends identified here and may yield unexpected improvements of standing world records.     

Will Obama's My Brother's Keeper and Similar Initiatives Have a Positive Impact on Low-Income Students?

Barack Obama's My Brother's Keeper is designed to narrow persistent gaps that boys and young men of color confront often and to help all young people achieve their potential in college and career. An important part of this initiative is comprehensive mentoring that supports students in schools and in communities. Because ethnic-minority students have extremely low graduation rates in high school and college, an essential question is addressed: Can My Brother's Keeper and similar initiatives with a mentoring component be effective in helping minority students to achieve success in elementary and secondary schools and in college?     

Consensus among stakeholders about success factors and indicators for quality of online and blended learning in adult education: a Delphi study

Quality models for online and blended learning (OBL) have mainly been developed in higher education. The literature indicates that these models are often conceptualised from the providers’ perspective. What is important for the quality of OBL from the students’ perspective has recently received increased attention in the literature. Consensus among stakeholders about students’ quality needs is useful to support dialogue between professionals to strategically adopt OBL and to ensure that the needs of students are met. This study aims to validate a quality instrument for OBL, taking a set of 74 quality indicators and analysing them in terms of seven success factors (credibility, accessibility, transparency, flexibility, interactivity, personalisation, productivity). The Delphi method was selected as most suited. Participants from adult education were asked to indicate on a 7-point Likert scale to what extent the indicators add to OBL quality to meet students’ needs. After four Delphi rounds, the participants agreed on definitions of success factors and 30 indicators. The results are useful for institutions, ministries of education and external quality assessment agencies to assess the quality of OBL and can support institutions to implement improvement actions to ensure that the needs of students are met.     

非对称损失下单边截断分布族参数的经验Bayes检验及其收敛速度

在一种非对称损失下,构造了一类单边截断型分布族参数的经验Bayes检验,建立其收敛速度,在一定条件下证明了它的收敛速度可以任意接近于1/2。最后给出满足定理条件的一个例子。