Undergraduate performance in accounting and business-based information technology

The pervasiveness of information systems (IS) in organizations mandates the need for high levels of IS skills. In recognition, professional bodies impose IS course requirements for accreditation. For both students and employers, performance in IS courses has become important. The tertiary entrance overall performance score accounted for 19.7 per cent of the variance in students' passing grades. Thereafter, proficiency in office automation software and programming accounted for 1.5 and 0.8 per cent of the variance, respectively. Students living in a stable, family home-based environment performed better and it is likely that this environment underpinned other factors affecting performance.     

单片机技术应用及其发展方向

综述了单片机的功能和特点，以及单片机的开发工具，介绍了总线和单片机易于出现的问题，解决方法及嵌入式单片机的发展等内容。     

创新方法——才智创造财富——比利时创新服务公司科睿科思公司一瞥

比利时科睿科思公司(Creax NV)是一个充分利用已有知识资源,致力于将创新潜力转化为创新实力的研究机构.它以TRIZ理论为基础,结合其他创新方法,开发出其独特的系统创新服务体系,并以委托项目、人员培训以及开发软件等方式提供创新方法服务.该机构的成功发展经验值得其他创新服务机构参考和借鉴.     

A quasi-experimental assessment of interactive student response systems on student confidence,effort, and course performance

The interactive student response system (SRS), commonly referred to as ‘clickers,’ is an alternative learning method that has the potential to improve student course (i.e., quiz/examination) performance. Prior SRS studies both within accounting and other academic disciplines have found conflicting results as to its influence on student course performance. This quasi-experimental study re-examines the relationship between the use of an SRS and course performance. We also investigate how using SRS influences student confidence and time spent studying outside of class. Unlike prior SRS related studies, we tested both our SRS class and our control class (with no SRS) in the same academic semester with the same instructor to provide a higher degree of experimental control. Through doing so, we compared the benefit of immediate feedback achieved by SRS to the delayed feedback of traditional assessment formats. Higher in-class performance on multiple-choice quiz items was found for students using SRS versus those who did not use SRS; however, no significant differences in examination performance or overall course performance were noted between the two groups. Students using SRS reported being more confident in their abilities and spent less time preparing for the course outside of class, while maintaining similar overall course performance when compared to those who did not use the SRS. We conclude our study by providing areas of meaningful future research related to the use of SRS.     

Book Reviews

The Who Wants To Be (WWTB) game is a computer-based game that can be used in a variety of classroom settings. WWTB requires students to sit in a “hot seat” and answer a series of questions. Assistance is provided to the students in the form of “lifelines.” The lifelines include: (1) the 50/50 lifeline where two wrong answers disappear; (2) the Ask the Audience lifeline where class members vote on a correct answer; and (3) the Ask Your Team lifeline where students can verbally interact with teammates. The WWTB game is functional on most computer systems. The manner in which the game can be played, the difficulty of the game, and the rules of the game are all easily modified at the instructor's discretion. An analysis of examination scores reveals that the game has been an effective learning tool in the auditing course in which it has been incorporated. The game program and database structure are available to educators on a complimentary basis through the author's website.     

信息型政策工具：中国城市环境治理的重要手段

信息型政策工具是指政府在政策制定、执行和反馈过程中为实现政策目标而采取的具有信息属性的手段、方式或途径。信息型政策工具是环境治理的一种重要手段,是继管制型工具和市场经济手段后发展起来的一项新的环境治理方法。中国城市环境治理是环境治理的一部分,信息型政策工具自然是中国城市环境治理的一种重要手段。信息型政策工具能够起到指令性控制手段和经济手段无法起到的重要作用,因而是中国城市环境治理的一种重要手段。     

网络环境下的交往策略分析

随着互联网通讯工具的发展,其应用范围不断扩大,作为一种虚拟的信息传播工具,人们在利用时,其交往策略和真实的人与人之间的交往策略有着很明显的差别,本文主要是对网络环境下的交往策略进行了相关分析,希冀可以对网络虚拟信息传播工具的使用,提供一些参考性的建议。     

Antecedents of employee's preference for knowledge-sharing tools

This study examines individual antecedents of employees' preference for formal or informal knowledge-sharing tools. We propose that the preference for different tools is determined by the combined effects of willingness to share knowledge, trust and role breadth self-efficacy (RBSE). The findings of the empirical study, which was conducted at a medium-sized Chinese company (N = 860), revealed that willingness to seek knowledge was related to the usage of both formal and informal tools. Furthermore, the willingness to give knowledge was significantly related to the usage of formal tools. RBSE had a significantly positive impact on both formal and informal knowledge-sharing tools' usage, while its effects on formal tools' usage were stronger than those on informal tools. Affect-based trust had a significantly positive impact on the usage of informal knowledge sharing, which was also stronger than its impact on formal tools' usage. Cognition-based trust positively moderated the relationship between willingness to seek knowledge and the usage of formal tools, and the relationship between willingness to share knowledge and informal tools' usage.     

创新现场管理工作模式,助推管理水平系统提升

型钢炼铁厂在工作中,认清差距,科学对标,开展管理提升活动,强化领导责任,动员全员参与,改变传统的管理模式,多措并举创新现场管理,助推管理水平系统提升,实现了现场物流有序、设备清洁、环境整洁,达到三季有花,四季长绿的花园式工厂的标准。     

碳税政策效应理论研究评述

本文对国外有关碳税政策效应的理论研究进行了系统的回顾和梳理,分析了碳税的环境效应、经济效应、分配效应和福利效应,并比较了碳税与能源税、排污许可证交易制度在碳减排效果和政策成本方面的区别。本文分析表明,中国要实施碳税应充分借鉴国际经验和现有研究成果,并要结合我国经济社会的发展状况,作出进一步的理论分析与实证研究。碳税政策的制定,既要考虑自身的多重效应,又要仔细分析它与其他政策工具之间的相互影响。