Impostors in the Temple,by Martin Anderson

The Teaching Innovations Program (TIP) was a six-year project funded by the National Science Foundation that gave economics instructors the opportunity to learn interactive teaching strategies for use in undergraduate economics courses. TIP participants first attended a teaching workshop that presented various teaching strategies. They then could enroll in a follow-up program of online instruction and mentoring to learn more about one or two teaching strategies. TIP participants also had the opportunity to engage in the scholarship of teaching and learning economics to share their work. A retrospective survey was administered to the participants after attending the program to obtain a longitudinal assessment of TIP. This article presents the overall survey findings and discusses the results from each TIP phase (workshop, online instruction, and scholarship).     

论高校生态道德教育进课堂的必要性

生态道德教育是全面反思社会发展的得失而提出的新思想,肩负这项时代使命已成为21世纪高校教育义不容辞的责任。加强高校生态道德教育是落实科学发展观的基本要求,是高校德育的时代要求,是促进大学生全面发展的内在要求,具有十分重要的现实意义。课堂教学有利发挥高校老师在德育中的主导作用,有利学生进行情感交流,有利于突出学生的在德育过程中的主体地位,是高校实现德育目标的主要途径和高校生态道德教育最基本的组织形式。高校生态道德教育是一项紧迫性、基础性的工作,进课堂是生态道德教育长期性的必然要求。因此,课堂教学应成为高校生态文明教育的主渠道。     

A REVIEW OF THE EMPIRICAL LITERATURE ON FARMER COOPERATIVES: PERFORMANCE,OWNERSHIP AND GOVERNANCE,FINANCE, AND MEMBER ATTITUDE

The empirical literature on farmer cooperatives is now fast emerging and developing in the areas of performance, ownership and governance, finance, and member attitude. We discuss 56 peer‐reviewed publications to illustrate the main findings and conclusions while outlining challenges and opportunities for future research. Generally, cooperative membership is found to positively impact price, yield, input adoption, income, and other indicators of member performance, yet there is growing evidence of an uneven distribution of benefits for small and large producers. In terms of structure, evidence of a causal relationship of ownership and governance to performance has been elusive, yet there are now many findings of inherent equity and long‐term debt constraints, often in the context of consolidation to drive scale and scope economies. Further inefficiency is observed to be driven by increased heterogeneity in member attitudes and objectives, in particular in terms of commitment and participation. Thus, overall, empirical work portrays farmer cooperatives as flawed and complex business organizations which nonetheless have a strong positive impact on its members. While applied research may progress in various directions, a general improvement in empirical methodologies is needed to allow robust analysis of mixed objectives in dynamic environments.     

高校系级教学管理工作经济模式的职能定位

教学工作是高等学校的中心工作,而教学管理工作是保障高校教学工作正常运行的重要内容,是高校管理工作的重要环节。对于新建本科院校,应该选择“院～系”两级教学管理模式,实现管理中心的下移,由系部承担起微观层面的教学管理职能。系级教学管理在大学教学管理中处于基层教学管理的地位,具有组织、协调、指导、监督、档案与凝聚等多方面的功能。系级教学管理必须突出重点,搞好制度和管理队伍建设。     

Lingo数学实验

利用Lingo软件解决线性规划问题,能够比较有效地进行线性规划的求解及帮助理解相应的解的经济学意义。数学实验是计算机技术、软件引入数学教学后出现的一种教学方法。数学实验课是一个可以让学生独立学习与充分体现自我数学才能的课程,在数学实验的教学过程中,采用模块实验法与案例实验法相结合的方法进行教学,鼓励学生对问题进行讨论、提出假设、建立数学模型并利用数学软件进行编程解决问题,指导学生完成实验报告并验证实验结果的合理性。通过数学实验课的教学,可以有效地帮助学生灵活掌握知识,实现有意义的学习。在线性规划的教学中,可以比较好地结合线性规划和Lingo软件的运用进行数学实验教学,文中设计了一次运用Lingo软件的数学实验课程,通过教学实践,获得了比较好的教学效果。     

WORLD CUP 2010: SOUTH AFRICAN ECONOMIC PERSPECTIVES AND POLICY CHALLENGES INFORMED BY THE EXPERIENCE OF GERMANY 2006

The paper provides an ex post analysis of the financial burden and economic benefits of the World Cup (WC) in Germany 2006. Based on the usual cost-benefit measures, the experience of WC 2006 appears to be in line with existing empirical research on large sporting events and sports stadiums, which have rarely identified significant net economic benefits. The lessons from Germany 2006 provide a context for analyzing the potential risks and benefits for South Africa (SA), the WC hosts in 2010. For SA, a careful analysis might be even more urgent to assure the sustainability of investment in stadiums. The paper also argues that the "feel-good" and public image effects of sports events should no longer be neglected in cost-benefit studies of large sporting events, even though these effects have the character of experience goods, and their value are thus likely to be underestimated ex ante. ( JEL L83, R53, R58)     

Understanding and forecasting aggregate and disaggregate price dynamics

There are doubts regarding the empirical benefits of forecast aggregation. Theoretical research clearly supports forecast aggregation but conflicting results exist in the empirical literature. We search the literature for empirical regularities. One important issue often cited is estimation error and papers which are unsupportive of forecast aggregation often have short spans of data. A second empirical regularity is that researchers frequently use a relatively small number of disaggregates. Our work finds that the greatest benefits to aggregation are realised when a large number of disaggregates are used. This is a natural consequence of the theoretical results. A second critical issue in forecast aggregation is model selection. We suggest a simple guide to model choice based on the empirical properties of the data. In this regard, the extent of comovements between the constituent series determines model choice.     

内涵式发展下经管类专业实践教学体系及质量失控分析

实践教学是应用型人才培养的重要途径,诸多高校结合实际建立了实践教学体系,开展了形式多样的实践教学活动。内涵式发展对实践教学提出了新要求,在分析实践教学体系构成基础上指出了质量失控的表现：实践教学形式化、实践教学理念错误、考核方式狭窄和管理组织脱位等,并从指导思想、实践主体和组织监控三方面分析这些表现的出现主要原因,基于此提出了实践教学质量控制的解决思路。     

高校网络辅助教学的现状及解决对策

网络辅助教学作为一种新的教学手段,对传统课堂教学起到辅助的作用。但目前网络辅助教学这个工具的优势在实际操作之中并没有得到发挥。分析了普通高校网络辅助教学的现状,提出了解决方案与对策。     

教育生态视野下高校学生评教的思考

学生评教是教学评价活动的重要组成部分,并在实际的教学过程中发挥着积极的作用。但学生评教工作也是一把双刃剑,学生对评教工作重要性的认识不足,评教指标体系和评教方式不科学,对评教结果处理不当,都有可能对教师的工作积极性产生不利影响。针对目前学生评教普遍存在的问题,从教育生态学基本原理出发,提出实现提高高校学生评教有效性的现实途径,为推进高校学生评教提供一定的理论参考。     

Telecommuting: The employee's perspective

Available telecommunication technology enables the substitution of commuting by “telecommuting”, or working at home, for a wide range of white collar occupations. Research on the potential of this phenomenon along with some ongoing experiments point at an array of social and personal benefits that may be realized by this working arrangement. An assessment of the possible implications of work-at-home on the individual employee indicate that the burden on him or her may be greater than the benefits accrued and, therefore, the journey to work may be a more desirable act than traditionally perceived by transportation planners. This paper focuses on two aspects of the work-at-home arrangement. Previous research on the sociology of work as well as preliminary empirical results indicate that 1) social interaction at work and 2) the need to separate home and work roles are important elements for the individual worker. The fact that work-at-home will affect these attributes, is likely to discourage wide-scale transition to this arrangement, despite the availability of the technology. Most research published to date on the subject is qualitative in nature, as only little empirical evidence is available. The objective of this paper is to stress, based on a wide literature review, the need for a thorough behavioral evaluation of the available technology to provide a sound basis for decision making on implementation of the technology.     

高校教师说课评价指标体系初探

高校教师说课评价,是高校青年教师说课竞赛和新进教师申评高校教师资格前的一项常规性的考核评定工作。阐述了高校教师说课评价的含义与特点,提出和设计了各项评价指标,以及设计了相应的表格,它对如何进行高校教师说课评价,具有现实的指导意义与作用。     

计量经济学案例教学的统一化、本土化和情境化

计量经济学是财经类学生较难掌握的学科,课程教学难度相对较大。理论教学和应用教学脱节,案例教学和实验教学顾此失彼。案例教学存在碎片化现象,实验教学经常陷入程式化。案例教学的关键是案例的统一化、本土化和情境化。案例和实验教学在统一化的前提下,相互支持,互为补充。     

《比较政治制度》双语课课程教学改革的系统建构

通过实证研究的方法,分析了《比较政治制度》双语课教学中存在的主要问题。运用系统论的方法提出该课程的教学方法、教学手段、学生成绩评价、教材改革与学校的配套改革等存在的主要问题及其改革建议。     

卓越法律人才视域内的法理学实践教学

卓越法律人才培养计划对法理学实践教学提出了更高的要求。但和部门法学相比,现有的法理学实践教学现状差强人意,不足以满足培养卓越法律人才的要求。因此,需对现有的法理学教学工作重新审视,从教材的编写、教学平台的搭建、教学内容的厘清和定位、教学方法的探索等诸方面不断改进,提升法理学实践教学水平,以保障卓越法律人才培养计划的顺利实施。     

服装设计专业教学改革初探

转变教学理念、改变教学方式从根本上讲就是最大限度地把学生的学习、思维、实践交给学生自己,让学生认真学习,真思维,真实践,从而提高学习能力和创新能力。项目教学法是师生通过共同实施一个完整的项目工作而进行的教学活动。学生在“项目”的引导下,发现问题、提出问题、解决问题的过程中去学习。项目教学法有效地建立了课堂与社会生活的联系,从而使学生的学习更有针对性和实用性。     

TAXES ON PAYROLL, REVENUES AND PROFITS IN THREE MODELS OF COLLECTIVE BARGAINING

Variations in company taxes are analysed for a right-to-manage model, an efficient bargaining setting and a seniority approach. Taxes cannot be shifted forward by the risk-neutral firm. Alternative income and bargaining power are allowed to vary with taxes. Employing asymmetric Nash solution it is found that changes in a payroll, revenue or profit tax can have differing implications for labour demand curve models and efficient bargaining solutions. This distinction might provide a novel basis for empirical work. Variations in bargaining power and-within a labour demand curve setting-the union's objective function do not change results.     

SOCIAL SECURITY DEPENDENT BENEFITS,NET PAYROLL TAX,AND MARRIED WOMEN'S LABOR SUPPLY

This paper examines how Social Security dependent benefits impact the labor supply of married women aged 25–54. Specifically, I investigate whether the decrease in the rate of return to women's work discourages them from participating in the labor force by simulating expected net payroll tax rates and dependent benefits. Dependent benefits may reduce the net return to women's work, as they usually pay the full payroll tax without receiving marginal benefits for additional earnings if they claim benefits based on their husbands' earnings records. The results show that high net payroll tax rates reduce married women's work incentives, particularly those near retirement age. (JEL H24, H55, J22)     

Squandering European Labour: Social Safety Nets in Times of Economic Turbulence

This paper reviews the argument that high long‐term unemployment in Europe is caused by generous social safety nets in times of economic turbulence. We report on the empirical evidence of a more turbulent economic environment and present the theoretical arguments that establish a link between turbulence and high unemployment. We conclude that a cure to the European unemployment problem must entail a reform of the unemployment insurance system so that benefits decline over the unemployment spell. If the social consensus in Europe makes it difficult to implement declining benefits, we suggest that a complementary way of providing incentives for the unemployed would be to reduce their leisure by imposing work requirements.     

论案例教学在旅游市场营销学课程中的运用

旅游市场营销学具有很强的实践性和应用性，为培养学生运用旅游市场营销理论分析、解决实际问题的能力有必要采用案例教学法。文章从案例教学的价值、案例教学的基本环节以及案例教学中应重视的问题等几个方面探讨了案例教学在旅游市场营销学课程中的运用。