Using growth models to monitor school performance: comparing the effect of the metric and the assessment     

Pete Goldschmidt  Kilchan Choi  Felipe Martinez  John Novak 《School Effectiveness & School Improvement》2013,24(3):337-357

This paper investigates whether inferences about school performance based on longitudinal models are consistent when different assessments and metrics are used as the basis for analysis. Using norm-referenced (NRT) and standards-based (SBT) assessment results from panel data of a large heterogeneous school district, we examine inferences based on vertically equated scale scores, normal curve equivalents (NCEs), and nonvertically equated scale scores. The results indicate that the effect of the metric depends upon the evaluation objective. NCEs significantly underestimate absolute individual growth, but NCEs and scale scores yield highly correlated (r >.90) school-level results based on mean initial status and growth estimates. SBT and NRT results are highly correlated for status but only moderately correlated for growth. We also find that as few as 30 students per school provide consistent results and that mobility tends to affect inferences based on status but not growth – irrespective of the assessment or metric used.  相似文献   

Teacher representation in news reporting on standardised testing: A case study from Western Australia     

Kathryn Shine 《Educational studies》2013,39(4):385-398

News media coverage on education plays a “uniquely important role in shaping public opinion”, can influence educational policy, and can affect and concern teachers. Yet, research examining how teachers have been represented in the news is scarce. What is particularly scarce are investigations with a historical dimension. The study reported in this paper is offered as a contribution towards rectifying the deficit and pointing the way towards one of a number of avenues of research that other scholars in the field could take for various contexts (including different countries) and time periods. It is part of a much larger study whose aim was to provide a historical analysis of The West Australian newspaper’s representation of teachers in its reporting of five major educational developments in the State of Western Australia that were the subject of sustained coverage at various times between 1987 and 2007. The specific topic which is the focus of the analysis presented in this paper is “standardized testing”.  相似文献   

Janusz Korczak and the problem(s) of childhood     

Frank M. Flanagan 《Irish Educational Studies》2013,32(1):47-62

The recent decision by the Department of Education and Science in the Republic of Ireland to introduce the mandatory testing of children in Irish primary schools provides the broad context for this paper. This decision has particular implications for schools designated as disadvantaged. The main focus of this study is on identifying the strategies used by these children in completing standardised tests. The sample comprises 51, mixed gender, 6^th class children from contrasting ideal type socio–economic urban communities. The findings reveal a considerable level of difficulty on the part of some children in designated disadvantaged schools, with most aspects of the test format and much of the testing process. A number of socio-linguistic and socio-cultural factors are identified that affect children's attainment levels on these tests. Failure to take account of these issues will continue to present an overly crude picture of national attainment patterns and serve only to contribute to the stigmatisation and ghettoisation of children living in marginalised and disadvantaged communities. The paper argues for a broader discussion of the use standardised testing that will take account of the well-established patterns of socio-economic inequality.  相似文献   

Pedagogy or politics?: cyclical trends in literacy and numeracy in Ireland and beyond     

Annie Ó Breacháin  Leah O'Toole 《Irish Educational Studies》2013,32(4):401-419

In 1999, the primary curriculum was published in Ireland, with emphases on ‘breadth and balance’, recognition of the role of language and the arts and commitment to each child's potential and holistic development. In 2011, the Irish government published a strategy aimed to improve standards of literacy and numeracy among children and young people in Ireland, ‘Literacy and Numeracy for Learning and Life: The National Strategy to Improve Literacy and Numeracy among Children and Young People 2011–2020’. The approaches to address concerns over literacy and numeracy in Irish schools, taken by the Strategy, require deconstruction, and in this paper, we argue that the focus on literacy and numeracy to the exclusion of other educational objectives in Ireland at present threatens the holistic ethos of the curriculum. We challenge those involved in education in Ireland to ensure that pedagogical rather than political concerns motivate our strategies and policies.  相似文献   

Weak Humanism and the Economic Mission of English Education     

Ross Collin 《Changing English: An International Journal of English Teaching》2018,25(1):97-106

This article examines a theory of ‘weak humanism’ that says (1) secondary English classes should focus on personal development and culture and (2) English classes should deliver economic benefits indirectly, i.e. as knock-on effects of studying the personal and the cultural. Economic benefits are defined here as knowledge/skills students may use to improve their economic positions. This theory of weak humanism emerged as a popular idea among 140 professors of English education surveyed by the author and a colleague. Building out from previous analyses of the survey results, the present article reads weak humanism against a backdrop of shifting economic systems. Weak humanism is shown to take some of its current form in opposition to a regime of high-stakes standardised testing that integrates English education into a system of surveillance capitalism. The article concludes with a call for English teachers to resist surveillance capitalism by taking a revolutionary humanist tack to the work of English education.  相似文献   

组织学习、知识管理与组织创新的耦合性研究   总被引：4，自引：2，他引：2  

陈媛媛 《图书情报工作》2010,54(2):140-86

首先分析组织学习、知识管理与组织创新三者两两之间的关系,发现组织学习过程与知识管理过程是相互伴生的,组织知识存量突破一定的阈值会使得组织创新的方式发生改变,在组织创新的不同阶段伴随着不同形式的组织学习。接着,详细论述组织学习、知识管理与组织创新通过知识的获取、转移、共享和运用联系起来,在改变企业知识状态的过程中,彼此之间相互联系、相互作用,存在着耦合性关系。  相似文献   

Configuration synthesis and performance evaluation metrics of lunar rover locomotion systems     

邓宗全  张朋  高海波  胡明 《天津大学学报(英文版)》2009,15(3):193-200

A method of topology synthesis based on graph theory and mechanism combination theory was applied to the configuration design of locomotion systems of lunar exploration rovers (LER).Through topology combination of wheel structural unit,suspension unit,and connecting device unit between suspension and load platform,some new locomotion system configurations were proposed and the metrics and indexes to evaluate the performance of the new locomotion system were analyzed.Performance evaluation and comparison between two LER with locomotion systems of different configurations were analyzed.The analysis results indicate that the new locomotion system configuration has good trafficability performance.  相似文献   

Do reading comprehension assessment tests result in the same reading profile? A study of Spanish primary school children     

Nuria Calet  Rocío López-Reyes  Gracia Jiménez-Fernández 《Journal of Research in Reading》2020,43(1):98-115

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生态位理论及其在农业生产中的应用     

马旭光  蔺海明  张宗舟 《天水师范学院学报》2009,29(2):47-51

生态位理论是近年来生态学研究的热点之一。对生态位概念的发展史、生态位理论的测度和应用现状等方面进行了概述,并提出了生态位理论在农业生产实践中的一些切实有效的应用途径。  相似文献   

中美发表的国际开放获取期刊论文影响比较研究     

杨思洛  袁庆莉  韩雷 《中国图书馆学报》2017,43(1):67-88

在讨论OA论文影响的形成过程、影响因素和形成机制的基础上,本研究以中美学者发表在PLoS平台的7种OA期刊上的论文为样本,以PLoS Article-Level Metrics为工具,统计五大类指标(浏览下载量、引用量、保存量、讨论量、推荐量)的24个分指标数据,从指标相关性、不同年份、不同类型论文、不同分指标等方面,系统比较中美OA论文影响的异同。研究发现:①中美OA论文各指标间的相关性类似,被引量与浏览下载量有较高相关性,与讨论量相关性最弱。②总体上美国论文各指标值高于中国论文,讨论量、推荐量和浏览下载量相距较大,保存量则相差不大;只通过被引量衡量,低估了中美OA论文影响存在的差距。③中国论文中,中国作者为辅的论文影响指标值相对较高,中国独著的论文表现最差;美国论文中,美国作者为主的论文在多个指标值中最高。中美论文在不同分指标间也存在差异。图6。表6。参考文献50。  相似文献