The Use of Time by Academic and Related Staff     

Stephen Court 《Higher Education Quarterly》1996,50(4):237-260

This paper reviews surveys of the use of time by academic staff between 1962 and 1994. It reports on the findings of a time diary survey in 1994 of the use of time by academic and academic-related staff at British'old'universities during working weeks in term-time and vacation. The results of the time diary survey are analysed according to respondents'sex, staff grade, type of week, age, type of work, and time when work took place. The results are compared with results of previous surveys, and trends through time are suggested. In conclusion, the paper considers the recent mass expansion of higher education, the effects of this in increasing the workload of university staff, and measures to ameliorate this situation.  相似文献   

Alternative technologies and social studies textbooks     

Stephen T. Kerr 《Publishing Research Quarterly》1992,8(4):33-43

In order to determine the potential of alternative technologies in social studies education, we must understand the goals of such education, the capabilities of the technologies, and teachers’ and students’ responses to new technologies. The author suggests that the new technologies can contribute to the goals of learning about the past, learning about democratic life and institutions, and making students knowledgeable as consumers and producers of information. One major obstacle is a lack of time and money for teachers to experiment with the technologies. Stephen T. Kerr is professor of education in the College of Education at the University of Washington. His research focuses on the application of new technologies in schools and other educational environments, and particularly on the ways in which technology affects the social structure (roles and expectations, instructional patterns, organization) of those institutions. He has done work on human-computer interaction, as well as on how new communication technologies have changed the educational system of the former USSR.  相似文献   

News     

Stephen Toney 《Archives and Museum Informatics》1992,6(4):18-19

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Evaluation projects in Leicestershire     

Stephen Hoy 《Health information and libraries journal》1991,8(3):200-201

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E-mail in government: Not post-bureaucratic but late-bureaucratic organizations     

Albert Jacob   《Government Information Quarterly》2008,25(3):429-447

Empirical research provides evidence that electronic communication does not change government agencies into post-bureaucratic organizations. Structuration Theory is used to explore the interaction between e-mail use, communication patterns of civil servants, and two bureaucratic characteristics: formalization and hierarchy. Previous research suggested that the use of e-mail leads to less formalization and less hierarchy, but empirical research in three bureaucratic organizations in the Netherlands leads to different conclusions. First, the use of e-mail leads to informal formalization: the style of communication is more informal but the content focuses less on personal issues and emphasizes efficient recordings of agreements. Second, the use of e-mail leads to hierarchical horizontalization: horizontal contacts take a more central position in bureaucratic organizations but these horizontal contacts are tightly linked to vertical structures. The result of the interaction between e-mail and government bureaucracy is horizontal communication directly linked to vertical structures. Electronic communication turns government agencies into late-bureaucratic organizations.  相似文献   

Preparation for ethical decision-making: An analysis of research in professional education     

Mark D. Winston  Stephen Bahnaman 《Library & information science research》2008

The current societal and professional context presents a variety of ethical challenges to decision makers. The importance of educational preparation for ethical decision-making and ethical leadership has been addressed in the literature of library and information science (LIS), among other professions. However, it can be quite difficult to measure the impact of professional ethics education on students. This article is based on an evaluation of published original research related to ethics education in disciplines supported by professional education, including education, nursing, allied health, journalism, social work, public health, engineering, and LIS. The study considers data related to research design, methodologies used, populations studied, approaches to measuring impact, levels of impact, and publication in the journal literature. Results indicate more extensive research in education and nursing as compared with other fields, a lack of baseline data gathering for comparison, a reliance on a limited number of data-gathering techniques, and a tendency toward studying alumni over current students  相似文献   

Lay information mediary behavior uncovered: exploring how nonprofessionals seek health information for themselves and others online          下载免费PDF全文

Jennie A. Abrahamson  Karen E. Fisher  Anne G. Turner  Joan C. Durrance    Tammara Combs Turner 《Medical Library and Historical Journal》2008,96(4):310-323

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From the ground up: information needs of nurses in a rural public health department in Oregon          下载免费PDF全文

Anne M. Turner  Zoe Stavri  Debra Revere    Rita Altamore 《Medical Library and Historical Journal》2008,96(4):335-342

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A national interlibrary loan network: the OCLC approach     

Jacob ME 《Bulletin of the American Society for Information Science / ASIS》1979,5(5):24-25

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基于域加权词频法的XML文档级检索实现与评价   总被引：1，自引：0，他引：1  

陆伟  Stephen Robertson 《中国图书馆学报》2006,32(6)

利用BM25F模型,通过实验,在INEX 04数据集的基础上,实现了对多个域(元素)词频进行加权的XML文档级检索。XML文档结构的确蕴含了一定的语义信息。利用这些语义信息,可以提高检索性能。表2。图1。参考文献16。  相似文献