Teacher and Student Economic Understanding in Transition Economies

This study describes a new data set and uses it for an exploratory investigation of whether seminars for teachers conducted by the National Council on Economic Education through its International Education Exchange Program (IEEP) had a beneficial effect on the economic understanding of the high school students of these teachers. The data were collected using a non-equivalent control group design that sorted teachers into two groups based on whether or not they participated in an IEEP seminar. Pre- and posttests of economics were administered to the students of these teachers in Lithuania, Ukraine, Kyrgyzstan, and Poland. The exploratory results showed a larger increase in the economic understanding of students of teachers who participated in the IEEP seminars compared with students of teachers who did not. The results also showed that knowledge of economics among IEEP teachers was a factor for improving student achievement in economics. The findings should be viewed with caution because of data limitations.     

The Emotional Relationship Between The Teacher And Student

The emotional relationship between the teacher and student becomes more and more sensitive,and the active relation is good for teaching,but the passive is opposite.As a teacher,how deals with this relation is very important,because the teacher just play the vital role in class.The teacher also should know the principle that is how get along well with the student.So long as the teacher know about these,the collectivity will become more and more harmonic,and the emotional relationship would get more and more harmonious as well.     

End-of-Course Evaluations as Indicators of Student Learning and Instructor Effectiveness

There are two aspects of this article that readers should find particularly interesting. First, Marlin and Niss provide additional data on the question of student evaluations of professors and courses. Second, they suggest the use of canonical correlation as an ideal way of facing the problems confronted in analyzing the educational production function. The authors assert that “canonical correlation would seem to answer many of the problems encountered in previous single-equation models….” Their research suggests that student evaluations can be used as surrogates for direct evaluations and that the former “do indeed measure the level of teacher input.”     

Computer-Assisted Instruction and Student Performance in Macroeconomic Principles

Steven Cox reports on a research project in which computer-assisted instruction was tried at Arizona State University. He explains the experimental design which involved a comparison of student learning of macroeconomic principles by CAI with that of a control group. Fairly detailed accounts are given of the computer simulations Cox used. The statistical significance of nine student characteristics in terms of their impact on overall test performance is discussed. This article should have practical value to others doing research in this field.     

The Case of Effort Variables in Student Performance

Studies of the effect of study time on test scores have generally shown an insignificant or negative relationship. However, this study suggests that the effects are different for students with different ability levels. By failing to test separately by ability, previous studies cancelled out the significant effects of study time.     

研究教学型大学教师绩效评价探析

高校教师是高等学校的主体,其水平的高低和积极性的发挥直接影响人才培养质量,更关系到高等院校自身的发展和教师个人的成长。开展教师绩效评价,对推动高校师资水平和高等教育质量的提高具有非常重要意义。研究教学型大学教师的绩效评价要结合学校类型特点,建立适合校情、符合五个兼顾、简明实用的教师绩效评价指标体系。     

Item Sequence and Student Performance on Multiple-Choice Exams: Further Evidence

Evidence from microeconomics principles classes suggests that students' test scores may be influenced by the order in which content is presented in questions.     

Test Structure,Human Capital,and Student Performance on Economics Exams

The order of questions on an exam is shown to have no significant effect on exam scores, even after including variables that reflect differential student-specific human capital characteristics.     

政策绩效审计目标:效果性、环境性及公平性

最高审计机关国际组织(INTOBAI)将绩效审计的对象定义为"政策"、 "项目","组织"和"管理".文章以政策为对象的绩效审计,称为政策绩效审计.审查和评价政策资源的运用是否实现了既定政策目标的效果,是政策绩效审计的效果性目标.政策绩效审计的环境性和公平性目标,是检查和评价政策资源的运用是否满足保护环境和促进公平的公共需求.政策绩效审计的环境性和公平性目标,统一于效果性目标.     

科技人才雇佣柔性与技术创新绩效关系实证研究

技术创新科技人才分为核心人员与外围人员两种类型,他们与企业存在不同的雇佣关系,可以用数量柔性与功能柔性来衡量。实证结果表明,人才雇佣柔性与技术创新绩效存在3种关系：减弱关系、不完全连接关系和紧密关系。其中,内部柔性（包括功能柔性与数量柔性）与创新绩效存在正向相关关系;在外部柔性的3个因素中,短期雇佣与创新存在负向相关关系;临时服务中介雇佣与创新关系不显著,咨询公司雇佣与创新存在正向相关关系。     

基于增量绩效的企业管理创新成效评价

管理和科学技术一样也成为生产力的重要组成部分,在推进管理变革和创新的过程中,如何科学测度企业管理创新成效成为理论和实务界的一大难题。文章在文献综述的基础上,采用增量绩效思想研究建立了一套测度企业某项管理创新举措实践成效的定量模型,并结合电网企业特点研究构建了测度电网企业管理创新增量绩效的模型,以国网江苏、重庆公司为例开展了实证应用研究。通过研究文章得出如下结论:开展企业管理创新增量绩效的定量测度十分必要而迫切;增量绩效思想是测度企业管理创新成效的可行思路和方法;管理创新举措的实践成效可以从效益贡献、效率提升和能力增强三个方面予以反应;电网企业有必要采用增量绩效评价模型进行年度评价和内部对标,以提升内部各单位的企业管理水平。     

企业创新界面有效性对企业绩效影响的实证研究

企业实践及理论研究表明,界面管理对于企业创新绩效有着重要影响。在文献探讨的基础上,提出了创新界面有效性对企业绩效影响的概念模型,并对大连市大中型企业进行了实证研究,在一定范围内验证了这一模型。研究发现,只有将创新界面管理与企业战略及市场环境紧密结合起来,才能充分发挥其效用。     

Teacher Training and Teacher Optimism about the American Economic System

The amount and type of economic-education training teachers receive have predictable effects on the teachers' optimism about the future of the American economic system.     

Educational Production in East Asia: The Impact of Family Background and Schooling Policies on Student Performance

Abstract. East Asian students regularly take top positions in international league tables of educational performance. Using internationally comparable student-level data, I estimate how family background and schooling policies affect student performance in five high-performing East Asian economies. Family background is a strong predictor of student performance in Korea and Singapore, while Hong Kong and Thailand achieve more equalized outcomes. There is no evidence that smaller classes improve student performance in East Asia. But other schooling policies such as school autonomy over salaries and regular homework assignments are related to higher student performance in several of the considered countries.     

基于企业绩效贡献的管理创新成效评价

管理创新在企业发展中发挥着越来越重要的作用,量化测度企业管理创新成效是一个重要难题。文章基于等效益面生产函数,采用索洛余值法构建了一个通用企业管理创新成效测度模型,继而结合我国电网企业特点研究建立了针对电网企业的管理创新成效测度模型,并以国家电网公司为例展开实证分析。通过研究得出：量化测度管理创新对企业绩效的贡献非常必要;影响企业绩效的因素很多,企业重要外部环境因素也可能成为生产力;管理创新在电网企业绩效增长中发挥了重要作用;外部环境因素对电网企业绩效存在较大影响,传统的技术和资本投入因素对电网企业绩效增长作用重大,但是劳动投入要素的作用有限。     

A Note on the Environment as a Factor Affecting Student Performance in Principles of Economics

This study examines the environment in which students live and function as a determinant of performance in the first course in economics. The author concludes that the student's living arrangement does influence the stock of economic knowledge at the end of the course and observes a surprising, if tentative, consequence of students having taken a course in high school economics.     

Compensation Policies and Teacher Decisions

A dynamic, discrete choice framework with a flexible structure for unobserved heterogeneity is used to model the occupational decisions of individuals who are certified to teach in elementary and secondary schools. The model is estimated using data from the National Longitudinal Study of the High School Class of 1972 and is used to examine the effects of possible changes in the compensation policy for teachers.     

Teacher characteristics and academic achievement

Identifying the impact of teacher characteristics on academic achievement has been a salient and reoccurring topic in education. We employ a twin-by-year identification strategy using matched teacher-student data from North Carolina to credibly estimate the impact of teacher characteristics such as experience, certification, and advanced degrees on academic achievement in math and reading. By using within-family variation the estimates from our model improve upon on earlier work by for time varying unobservable family shocks to non-schooling inputs. Our findings reveal that teacher experience and National Board certification have positive and significant effects on achievement in reading and math; however, we find inconclusive effects for advanced degrees. Notably, we show that teacher experience has the largest effects on student achievement, but our effects are smaller than the standard estimates in the literature. Overall, our estimates provide lower upper bounds for these key teacher characteristics.     

银行、高校、学生间的国家助学贷款博弈分析

国家助学贷款是国家为解决贫困大学生问题所采取的主要资助政策,但是近年来贷款学生的高违约率使国家助学贷款的施行陷入了困境.本文通过对银行、高校和学生在国家助学贷款中行为的博弈分析,建立了博弈模型.高校必须主动与银行合作才能更好地防范自身在国家助学贷款中的风险,提出了高校在防范国家助学贷款风险中的角色定位与对策建议.