The RIX Wiki: the use of multimedia advocacy to support person-centred planning in a special needs secondary school – implications for current policy and practice

The article documents findings from a pilot study undertaken in 2012–2013 in a special needs secondary school in the England, that trialled the use of a multimedia advocacy tool, “The RIX Wiki”. The trial was part of the pathfinder programme, which aimed to reform existing Special Education Needs provision, from the system of statementing to one of developing education health care plans. The reforms became enshrined in the Children and Families Act (2014). The findings were overall positive and helped with person-centred planning processes. The discussion is framed within current and future policy directives. We argue that multimedia advocacy approaches and software tools, like the “RIX Wiki” will have a continued role to play in ensuring the needs, aspirations and choices of children and young people with learning disabilities remain central.     

Professional knowledge or motivation? Investigating the role of teachers’ expertise on the quality of technology-enhanced lesson plans

In an expertise study with 94 mathematics teachers varying in their relative teacher expertise (i.e., student teachers, trainee teachers, in-service teachers), we examined effects of teachers' professional knowledge and motivational beliefs on their ability to integrate technology within a lesson plan scenario. Therefore, we assessed teachers' professional knowledge (i.e., content knowledge, pedagogical content knowledge, technological knowledge), and their motivational beliefs (i.e., self-efficacy, utility-value). Furthermore, teachers were asked to develop a lesson plan for introducing the Pythagorean theorem to secondary students. Lesson plans by advanced teachers (i.e., trainee teachers, in-service teachers) comprised higher levels of instructional quality and technology exploitation than the ones of novice teachers (i.e., pre-service teachers). The effect of expertise was mediated by teachers' perceived utility-value of educational technology, but not by their professional knowledge. These findings suggest that teachers’ motivational beliefs play a crucial role for effectively applying technology in mathematics instruction.     

Analyzing Food Science Research for Publishing Characteristics as a Model for Understanding the Needs of Researchers

Abstract

This paper provides a methodology to study the characteristics of the research output from a university department. The faculty publications and their cited references over a 10-year period were used as the basis for this study to identify their publishing patterns and the types of material they are publishing; a core set of journals and other resources they are publishing in and citing over this period; the characteristics of the journals in which they publish and cite; the degree of openness of their publications and their citation advantage; and the age of resources that are referenced.     

科学解释在知识创新中的作用

科学解释是科学家用科学规律来消解自然之谜的知识创新活动，它在知识创新中的作用表现在：第一，科学解释具有预测未知现象的存在中未来事态发展趋势的功能；第二，它在建构新颖理论体系的过程中起着特别重要的作用。     

国内数字图书馆建设的反思

在调查咨询的基础上,总结目前我国数字图书馆发展中存在的问题,探讨问题产生的原因并提出解决办法。     

面向知识管理的高校图书馆

章主要引入了知识管理概念、目的、内容，分析知识管理的动态发展，探讨知识管理与高校图书馆业务之向的联系，阐述高校图书馆实施知识管理的措施。     

竞争情报与知识管理关系浅析

在分析竞争情报、知识管理的共性和相异性的基础上,论述两者之间的交叉、互融关系,并提出建立一种两者之间的良性互动机制提升企业的竞争力。     

发展体育经济的社会心理因素分析

竞技运动和消遣娱乐的全球性“体育热”，这种社会需求提示我们，体育经济的发展路径是如何适应社会心理的趋向，充分利用体育运动的文化诱因，展示体育经济作为“文化经济”的内含，以此在经济与文化的良性互动中，繁荣体育经济。     

21世纪期刊出版探讨

21世纪是一个信息和知识时代，互联网在全球普及，网络生活方式开始强烈地影响期刊的读者、作者和出版者，我国的期刊出版面临时代新需求与国际竞争的机遇和挑战，必须引入创新观念和具有全面现代综合素质的编辑人才，及时向网络出版的方向过渡。