Customized Assessment Group Initiative: A Complementary Approach to Students' Learning

Abstract

This study, conducted in a US setting, examines the importance of group dynamics that emphasize cooperative team building through the proposed grouping strategy called Customized Assessment Group Initiative (CAGI). CAGI is a student grouping strategy designed to operationalize the mutual accountability concept central to the definition of teams by Katzenbach and Smith [(1993). The wisdom of teams: Creating the high performance. Boston, MA: Harvard Business Press]. Spanning two semesters and using a sample of sophomore students in the Introductory/Principles of Accounting class, I implement CAGI in a five-stage process to show students’ performance differences between the conventional grouping technique and the CAGI grouping strategy, thereby highlighting the potential pedagogical value of CAGI in the classroom. The findings demonstrate that CAGI has the heightened capacity to enhance substantially and improve concretely students’ performances. I strongly believe that CAGI could be promising to accounting and other business school students at a university where emphasis is placed on ‘teamship’ and not just group membership.     

我国基金市场“老鼠仓”的监管问题

近年来,金融机构纷纷开展了投资理财或客户资产管理业务,将客户资金投资于证券、期货等金融产品是代客投资理财和客户资产管理的的主要方式之一。由于对基金管理者忠实义务的监管不严、基金“老鼠仓”具有低风险高收益的特质以及现有公募基金管理体制问题等原因,当下证券投资基金“老鼠仓”愈演愈烈。必须建立健全投资基金监管体系,提高证券市场监管水平,完善基金公司法人治理,健全证券投资基金的治理结构,以达到抑制甚至杜绝“老鼠仓”的乱象的目的。     

Host tourism aspirations as a point of departure for the sustainable livelihoods approach

The sustainable livelihoods (SL) approach offers a holistic framework and a practical toolkit to analyze tourism's impacts and interactions within a community. This study argues that the usefulness of the SL approach in tourism can be enhanced by ensuring that the approach is built on a genuine people-centered starting point. The exploration of the local community's representations of, and aspirations for, their roles in tourism as a future livelihood choice meets this need. To verify the value of this approach empirically, this study examined the case of Lhasa, Tibet, and local youth as the research respondents. The findings suggest that the young hosts in Lhasa urban area were heterogeneous in their responses to tourism as a future livelihood choice. They fell into four subgroups: in-betweeners, ambivalent supporters, alternative supporters, and lovers. Further, this study examined the profiles of these four subgroups and explored their responses. The study enhances the SL approach by taking tourism as an example and clearly defining the departure point for its adoption within the context of broader livelihoods portfolios. Additionally, it suggests some potential directions for tailored management strategies to meet youth and community perspectives.     

上海“四个中心”发展的逻辑脉络及发展趋势分析

上海“四个中心”建设是上海建设现代化国际大都市的核心组成部分。论文对上海“四个中心”的发展演变脉络、主要发展现状及成就进行了梳理与分析,在此基础上探讨上海“四个中心”的逻辑关系,提出了上海“四个中心”的发展,是以“经济中心”发展为主导目标的,国际金融中心发挥核心引领作用,金融服务于实体经济、推动航运产业以及服务贸易等方面的发展,同时上海自贸区助推“四个中心”建设的结论。     

崇拜意识与礼法文化

崇拜作为一种宗教的原始形式,它与中国古代法文化有着千丝万缕的联系。崇拜意识对中国古代法文化的影响主要表现在两个方面：崇拜意识的内化体现在立法原则上——以礼入法,崇拜意识的外化体现在司法活动中——经义断狱。     

中国农业对外直接投资影响因素研究

在中国粮食安全形势日益严峻的背景下,中国农业“走出去”,利用境外农业资源将不可避免。对外直接投资是农业“走出去”的一种重要模式,但目前中国农业对外直接投资的规模并不大,因此探究其中的影响因素就具有重要的意义。文章根据经典的企业国际化理论建立了10大假设,并利用2003-2011年的统计数据,通过建立相关计量模型并运用主成分回归的方法对中国农业对外直接投资的多种因素的作用方向和程度进行了多元统计分析,对假设进行了数据检验。文章最后对优化中国农业对外直接投资模式提出了政策建议。     

中国现行土地管理制度的反思与重构

研究目的：分析“世界上最严格的土地管理制度”在中国失灵的原因,并细致分析指标式计划管理模式的弊端。研究方法：实证法,规范分析法。研究结果：现行土地管理制度是以牺牲农民土地发展权为代价的,并且没有对已经变化了的中央与地方关系保持必要的敏感,所以带来了城市肆意扩张、耕地不断减少、国有土地收益不断流失等问题。研究结论：未来的改革应着力打破国家对土地供给的高度垄断,在实现集体土地与国有土地的产权平等和产权明晰的基础上,以比例原则为指导进行制度重构。     

“黄-蓝经济区”区域差异及互动发展探究

本研究分析了“黄-蓝经济区”互动发展存在的问题,探讨了其互动发展的机制（包括内部机制和外部机制）。对利用基尼系数方法对“黄-蓝经济区”1980年以来的区域发展差异进行了分析,得出其互动发展的最大问题是区域差异系数过小,即区域内发展过于均衡。然后基于空间分析理论,提出了“黄-蓝经济区”互动发展的空间模式,即按照发展时间依次为增长极模式、轴线模式和网络发展模式。     

我国矿业“探采融合”发展模式探索

用“探采融合”来表述“探采一体化”,更能反映其本质特点。我国在推进“探采融合”方面进行了一些实践探索,但依然面临诸如资源型企业“小、散、多”、竞争力不强,矿业资本市场发育不完善等困境。拥有勘查技术优势和优质矿业权,地勘单位在资本市场完成融资只是技术问题。技术唯一性,决定了地勘单位更加具有推进实现“探采融合”的可能性。“借力”资本市场推进“探采融合”,实现矿业权进入资本市场是关键,同时必须加快地勘单位企业化改革。     

How to Add Philosophy Dimensions in Your Basic International Business Course

This article aims to assist professors in introducing concepts of self, philosophy, religions, the universe, existential dilemmas, etc., in their basic international business classes. Using active learning and five-member student teams, a student organized and administered conference adds a very useful dimension of knowledge sacrificing only one teaching day. The article, capitalizing on more than 25 years of international business teaching and conference experiences, provides “how-to” suggestions to organize similar events.