民办本科院校经济管理专业实践性教学初探

分析了本科院校的教育定位和经济管理类专业的教学模式;探讨以信息和信息技术完美的结合为实践型教育的支撑点,倡导学校具体教学单位与专业软件开发商共同研究开发出经济管理专业的应用型教学模拟软件并用于教学的问题。     

跨文化交际与外语教学

外语教学中重语言教学、轻文化教学这一现象有其产生的原因，同时也凸显了外语教学中跨文化交际技能培养的重要性。     

企业管理专业实验教学的实践与探索

通过实验室模拟系统和电子沙盘等实验工具和手段的使用,企业管理专业实验教学活动面临着新要求和新机遇。模拟系统和电子沙盘系统在实验教学中的应用,不仅改善了专业实验教学的条件和环境,也对专业实验教学工作提出了新的更高要求。这些新技术、新环境的应用将极大地改善企业管理专业实验教学的软件资源不足的现实困难,也是传统计算机单机条件下实验环境和实验条件的重要拓展。     

"双主型"大学英语教学模式研究

双主教学模式是一种能有效发挥教师主导作用和学生主体作用的教学模式.采用这种教学模式,可以有效地发挥学生思维能力、培养其综合应用能力.在现代信息技术手段日益获得提高的今天,充分利用网络资源的辅助作用,建立双主型大学外语教学模式,是高校大学英语教学改革的一种尝试.     

The over-optimism among experts in assessment and foresight

It is still disputed whether foresight exercises should be based on top-expert assessments or on a broader base of less specialised experts, and whether the self-rating of experts is an acceptable method. Using the German 1993 and the Austrian 1998 Technology Delphis, this study addresses both questions. Self-rating is, in fact, an appropriate method for selecting experts. But the assessment of self-rated top experts tend to suffer from an optimism bias due to the experts' involvement and their underestimation of realisation and diffusion problems. The degree of optimism is positively correlated with the degree of self-rated knowledge, and it is more pronounced for the least pioneering and for organizational innovations. Experts with top self-ratings working in business have a stronger optimism bias than those working in the academia or in the administration: Consistent with the insider hypothesis, they are most optimistic with regard to realisation, innovativeness, and potential leadership in economic exploitation. Given the optimism bias, foresight exercises should base their panels on a fair mixture of experts of different grades, with different types of knowledge and affiliation, and not only on top specialists of the respective field. Delphi-type exercises, therefore, offer an advantage relative to forum groups or small panels of specialists.     

Learning in Design and Technology: The Impact of Social and Cultural Influences on Modelling

The paper introduces the highly problematic nature of modelling in design and technology education and examines the relationship between cognitive and concrete modelling. Its aim is to gain insight into what learners do, rather than what others say they ought to do in their learning activities. The variety of purposes that educators have for learners’ modelling are discussed through examining the contested curriculum justification for design and technology education itself. The paper proposes that learners’ modelling cannot be extracted from the social milieu in which they act and it provides some insights of these social influences through the analysis of two case studies. Their settings are a girls’ secondary school and a college of higher education. Each case study is presented independently but organised with a common format to consider a) the impact of assessment on learning intentions and outcomes; b) cultural influences on learning and modelling; c) social influences on learning and modelling. A discussion of the emergent themes considers implications for teachers. This revised version was published online in July 2006 with corrections to the Cover Date.     

Dynamic Panel Data Evidence on the Trade-Income Relation

This paper revisits the relationship between a country’s openness and its per capita income. Building on Frankel and Romer, it argues that a dynamic econometric specification similar to the ones used in empirical growth studies better fits the theoretical literature and also resolves some otherwise unresolved inconsistencies. The preferred econometric method is Blundell and Bond’s system-GMM estimator, which allows dealing with measurement error, weak instruments, and time-invariant country-specific effects. The findings confirm the existence of a strong effect of trade on income but fail to find evidence for trade as an independent factor of divergence. JEL no. F43, O40     

成人教育面授教学的现状及对策

面授教学是成人教育中重要的教学环节,对成人教育质量有着举足轻重的作用。本文从面授教学质量、面授管理、教材及教学环境等几方面论述了成人教育面授教学的现状,从教师、管理、出勤、考核、资料等诸多方面,提出了加强面授教学及管理的对策。     

工程力学教学与学生能力的培养

根据工程力学课程的特点，从力学的基本概念、教学方法和教学模式上对工程力学的教学体系进行了分析，以充分调动学生的学习积极性，进一步提高学生的逻辑思维能力和综合解决问题能力，增强学生的创新意识和创新能力。     

On Measuring the Value of a Nonmarket Good Using Market Data

We use line integral theory to lay out in a more general theoretical framework the conditions under which it is possible to measure with market data the welfare effects of a change in a nonmarket good. We present in detail a numerical method of measuring the value of nonmarket goods using market data, under either weak neutrality or weak complementarity. Our numerical method is more flexible than the existing analytical method because it can be used with any well-behaved Marshallian demand function, and can be used even when the willig condition does not hold.