发展中国家高等教育的公平效应:入学机会、选择权与就读持续性     

达瑞尔·刘易斯  哈利·丹达  谭敏 《湖北招生考试》2009,(18)

几乎所有国家的高等教育都面临着困境,发展中国家尤甚。随着发展中国家中学毕业人数的日益增加,国民经济水平的进一步提高,民众对高等教育的需求也大幅增长。因此,高等教育规模扩张对其公平性提出了更高的要求,具体表现为增加学生的入学机会、为学生提供更多的选择权,同时鼓励学生连续就读以完成学位,实现高等教育的真正公平。  相似文献   

Students as co-producers in a multidisciplinary software engineering project: addressing cultural distance and cross-cohort handover     

David Foster  Filippo Gilardi  Wei Song  Dave Towey  Andrew White 《Teachers and Teaching》2018,24(7):840-853

This article reports an undergraduate software engineering project in which, over a period of 2 years, four student teams from different cohorts developed a note-taking app for four academic clients at the students’ own university. We investigated how projects involving internal clients can give students the benefits of engaging in real software development while also giving them experience of a student-staff collaboration that has its own benefits for students, academics, and the university more broadly. As the university involved is a Sino-Foreign university located in China, where most students are Chinese and most teaching staff are not, this ‘student as co-producer’ approach interacts with another feature of the project: cultural distance. Based on analysis of notes, reports, interviews, and focus groups, we recommend that students should be provided with communicative strategies for dealing with academics as clients; universities should develop policies on ownership of student-staff collaborations; and projects should include a formalised handover process. This article can serve as guidance for educators considering a ‘students as co-producers’ approach for software development projects.  相似文献   

Ethnic Heterogeneity,Group Affinity,and State Higher Education Spending     

John M. Foster  Jacob Fowles 《Research in higher education》2018,59(1):1-28

A rich interdisciplinary literature exists exploring the determinants of state higher education funding policies. However, that work has collectively ignored an important finding from political economy literature: namely, that citizens’ preferences regarding public spending are strongly influenced by the state’s ethnic and racial context. Drawing on a unique panel of state-level data covering the years 1982–2009, we find that states demarcated by increased racial and ethnic diversity and eroding white majorities do tend to spend less on subsidies to public higher education, resulting in decreased state appropriations as well as more tepid support for financial aid programs. Critically, however, we find that the negative effects of increased ethnic and racial fractionalization can be mitigated—and in some circumstances, fully offset—by a high degree of positive social interaction between ethnic and racial groups. These results are discussed within the pragmatic context of continued state emphasis on degree attainment as a mechanism to foster economic growth as well as broader considerations about equality and social justice.  相似文献   

Reading profiles for adults with low-literacy: cluster analysis with power and speeded measures     

Daryl F. Mellard  Emily Fall  Caroline Mark 《Reading and writing》2009,22(8):975-992

The United States’ National Institute for Literacy’s (NIFL) review of adult literacy instruction research recommended adult education (AE) programs assess underlying reading abilities in order to plan appropriate instruction for low-literacy learners. This study developed adult reading ability groups using measures from power tests and speeded tests of phonemic decoding, word recognition, fluency, and comprehension. A multiple cluster analysis of these reading ability scores from 295 low-literacy AE participants yielded seven reading ability groups. These groups are described in terms of instructional needs relevant to an instructor’s planning and activities.  相似文献   

Action research in education     

Anna Foster 《Action Learning: Research and Practice》2014,11(1):106-109

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THE POSSIBLE USE OF SOCIODRAMA AS A TRAINING TECHNIQUE FOR THE MODERATELY MENTALLY HANDICAPPED IN SCHOOL,HALF ‐ WAY TRAINING CENTRE,AND SHELTERED WORKSHOP.     

S. E. Foster 《International Journal of Disability, Development & Education》1975,22(1):38-44

This is a brief inquiry into the possibility of using sociodrama as a technique for developing social skills in the moderately mentally handicapped. The acquisition of acceptable social behaviour is regarded as a central factor in the recognized aim of helping this population of the handicapped maintain independence in the end community in which they find themselves.

It is considered a serious diagnostic‐prognostic error to forecast the end community at any early period in time within the developmental cycle of any individual.

For the moderately mentally handicapped the provision of the school, the half‐way centre and the sheltered workshop must still be deemed the result of community project effort rather than the just responsibility of central political institutions.  相似文献   

Fishing with the net fur research data     

Geoff Foster 《British journal of educational technology : journal of the Council for Educational Technology》1994,25(2):91-97

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Library trends: Intellectual freedom, parts I & II: D. Woodward (Issue Ed.). University of Illinois, Urbana (Summer/Fall 1990). $60/Yr., $18/issue, ISSN 0024-2594     

Jessica Foster 《Information processing & management》1992,28(6)

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中国信息产业如何面对21世纪的挑战   总被引：15，自引：0，他引：15  

曾蕾  张甲 《情报学报》1997,(2)

数据库产业是现代化信息产业的基础，本文分析国内数据库和信息服务业与国外的差距，建议开发国家级的综合性大型数据库，扩大数据库的覆盖面，保证数据库质量。作者认为，我国应将数据库生产和数据库检索服务分家，由信息服务部门对数据库进行高质量的增值处理，同时建立配套的文献源服务体系。我国以ＩＮＴＥＲＮＥＴ为基础的信息服务技术起步并不算晚，应该尽快培养一批跨世纪的信息人才，首先建立我国信息服务业在亚洲的领先地位，缩小与发达国家间的差距。  相似文献   

Vocational education and training     

Philip Foster 《Prospects》1992,22(2):149-155

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