The Role of Individualism/Collectivism in Critical Classroom Encounters

Abstract

Internationalization raises the issue of whether, and to what extent, the inherent culture of a country may have particular influence on the nature of service interactions, and on education (i.e., student-professor interactions) specifically. Thus the service encounter in the classroom becomes a subject of increasing importance and interest with respect to satisfactory and unsatisfactory outcomes, and also with respect to related behavioral outcomes such as word-of-mouth and repatronage. This paper investigates these issues in classrooms of higher education by utilizing the Individualism-Collectivism dimension of culture in four different samples: China, New Zealand, Poland, and the United States. Differences are identified with respect to the types of critical incidents reported, nature of the outcome, and behavioral responses to those encounters.     

An exploratory study of the impact of intervening variables on student performance in a Principles of Accounting course

The purpose of this paper is to provide some new empirical evidence on the determinants of student performance in a Principles of Accounting course at Birzeit University situated in the Occupied West Bank. It examines the impact of a number of new attitudinal variables on examination performance. The empirical results suggest that, in addition to a number of standard control variables, student perceptions of factors associated with class size, the attributes of the lecturer, student effort and the complexity of the course are associated with student performance in a first level principles of accounting course.     

Which school systems sort weaker students into smaller classes? International evidence

We examine whether the sorting of high- and low-achieving students into classes of different sizes results in a regressive or compensatory pattern of class sizes for 18 national school systems. Sorting effects are identified by subtracting the causal effect of class size on performance from their total correlation. Our empirical results reveal strongly compensatory patterns of sorting within and especially between schools in many countries. Only the United States, which has a decentralized education finance and considerable residential mobility, exhibits regressive between-school sorting. Between-school sorting is more compensatory in systems with ability tracking. Within-school sorting is more compensatory where administrators rather than teachers assign students to classrooms.     

助学贷款执行难引发的思考——从大学生信用法律制度建设说起

目前我国国家助学贷款的执行阻力重重，大学生信用意识淡漠，拖欠贷款问题突出，信用问题已成为严重制约国家助学贷款工作顺利开展的瓶颈。因此，研究大学生信用问题，建立大学生信用法律制度显得十分重要。     

When Philosophy and Business Professors Talk: Assessment of Ethical Reasoning in a Cross Disciplinary Business Ethics Course

Can instructors with apparently divergent approaches to the goals and methods of teaching business ethics agree upon a core set of course objectives? Can they agree upon a common method of assessment for measuring student performance against shared standards? This paper reports the results of a project intended to address these questions. The goals of the project were threefold: (1) to identify a shared set of core competencies for all students in business ethics; (2) to adopt a common assessment of ethical reasoning (neutral to disciplinary bias) for measuring student performance in core competencies; (3) to determine whether students show improvement in core competencies over the course of a semester. Our findings suggest that it is possible to find common ground in measurable objectives and to expect instructors to interpret, apply, and teach to these objectives effectively without infringing upon their disciplinary differences.     

高职学院生均成本与规模关系的实证研究

高职学院的规模由多种因素制约，高职学院的生均成本也受多种因素制约，在临界规模范围内，学校规模越大，则生均成本越小，但超过了临界规模，规模效益并无明显改善，甚至会下降。所以，生均成本与高职规模不是纯粹的线性关系，两者的关系是多种因素互相作用的结果。生均成本与高职适度规模的合理配置，是学生数在1万人左右，生均成本在9千元左右。     

贝叶斯方法在二维目标定位中的应用

本文对如何运用贝叶斯方法,以一维方式采集资料,进行二维目标定位作了一些探讨。实验中,运用光电计测定出发射和接收红外二极管的模式,通过分析建立起物体的二维模型方程,然后运用贝叶斯方法,估计出物体在坐标中的水平位置和垂直距离。进而验证了这种基于贝叶斯方法的二维物体定位算法。这为以后研制具有较强实用性的地雷探测仪或者是其它的不方便进入目标区域情况下的应用提供了方法上的依据。     

一种新的基于贝叶斯频谱估计的传输线长度测量方法

根据双臂电桥原理搭建出实验电路进行数据采集,再应用贝叶斯频谱估计算法对测得的数据进行分析,得出反射频率周期,然后根据反射原理推算出人工传输线的长度。由于在检测方法和分析方法上的改进,在传输线长度的测量精度上获得了很好的效果。在实验中,根据先验知识和理论得出一个特定的模型方程;在实际应用中如果能够找到一个合适的模型方程,那么就可以运用贝叶斯频谱估计方法进行分析,因此贝叶斯频谱估计算法有着非常广泛的实用价值。     

关于当前大学生英语学习兴趣的发现和思考

大学英语教学在素质教育浪潮的冲击下正经历着翻天覆地的变革,然而学生的学习兴趣不被重视仍是大学英语教学中一个突出问题。本文基于这一大学英语教学中的普遍存在的现象展开讨论,以问卷调查和采访等一系列教育调查数据为基础,浅析大学生英语学习现状及大学英语教师对学生学习兴趣的重视程度,并进一步讨论学生学习兴趣在大学英语课堂上的重要性。最后,对在大学英语课堂上激发学生的学习兴趣提出几点建议。     

高校人才财务激励初探

现有的高校人才激励体系往往注重于教师,而忽略学生这一重要人才资源。文章在界定高校人才财务激励相关概念的基础上,重点进行了高校人才财务激励体系设计。从个人激励和团队激励两大方面建立了较系统的财务激励模型。个人激励又包括了教师和学生两个具体方面。文章设计的财务量化激励体系,可以为高校人才财务激励提供理论和实务的指导。