LearnSmart,adaptive teaching,and student learning effectiveness: An empirical investigation

Facing the growing number of digital natives entering the classroom, business professors look for innovative ways to enhance the student learning experience. The authors focus on the online interactive learning tool LearnSmart (McGraw-Hill, New York, NY), and examine its impact on student learning effectiveness by testing the direct and indirect relationships among perceived competence, perceived challenge, instructors, perceived value, and satisfaction with LearnSmart. Constructionism served as the theoretical foundation for this study. About 215 students at a public university in the United States took the survey and 197 valid responses were received. Regression analysis results showed that the use of LearnSmart improved students' perceived competency, thus increasing their perceived value of using LearnSmart, as well as their satisfaction with LearnSmart. Perceived value was also found to mediate the impact of perceived competency on satisfaction with LearnSmart, and the instructor played a significant role in facilitating and improving student learning. Perceived challenge impacted student's perceived value of using LearnSmart, but it did not influence satisfaction with LearnSmart.     

试论经济转型的时期嘉兴学院的抉择

该文分析了嘉兴经济转型的主要制约因素和地方高校在经济转型中的贡献,明确了经济转型时期嘉兴学院所面临的严峻挑战,从四个方面阐述了面对挑战而应做出的正确抉择。     

浅谈加入WTO给我国教育带来的影响

加入WTO对我国教育的影响少人论及。文章就加入WTO对我国教育可能产生的四方面冲击和四方面机遇提出了自己的看法。     

中国文化演出业国际化机遇、挑战与战略选择

后危机时代的中国文化演出业国际化面临重要的发展机遇,具体表现在产业结构调整、经济发展方式转变、演出市场扩大、政策扶持加强、"走出去"战略深化等推动中国文化演出业的国际化步伐。然而在此过程中,我们也需要迎接来自观念、创新、经营、机制等诸多方面的挑战。只有把握机遇,面对挑战,在战略制定、市场定位、项目创新、营销推广等层面进行大胆实践,我国才能推动文化演出业国际化的跨越式发展。     

中国退休年龄面临的挑战与选择

中国退休年龄总体偏低,需要逐步提高退休年龄。欧洲一些国家提高退休年龄引发动荡,警醒中国应尽快将提高退休年龄纳入议程,并稳步推进改革。建议用较长的时间逐步将男职工退休年龄提高到63岁,将女职工退休年龄提高到60岁。并通过采取实行弹性退休和抑制提前退休等措施,为逐步提高退休年龄打下基础。     

论点摘编

●大连理工大学 2 1世纪发展研究中心的姜春林认为 :研究生科研越轨的表现形式有 :(1)课程考试中的作弊行为。我国研究生的学位课程设置主要分两部分 :公共课、专业课。由于种种原因 ,学生往往对公共课提不起学习兴趣 ,逃课缺课现象时有发生。高校研究生落实到考试上 ,不是临时突击 ,就是铤而走险。抄袭也就难以避免了。抄袭行为破坏了公平竞争 ,危害极大。(2 )论文发表中的失德行为 :———失德行为表现之一就是抱着“天下文章一大抄 ,就看会抄不会抄”的错误观念 ,利用各种已发表文献 ,通过剪辑拼凑的手段来杜撰论文。这种现象在人文社会…     

浙江民营企业实现二次飞跃需要六大转型

当前民营企业在发展过程中,既面临前所未有的历史性机遇,又充满了各种挑战。浙江民营企业为实现二次飞跃,必须避生产要素不足之短,扬体制、机制、资本、市场等方面优势之长,从体制、产业结构、经济增长方式、发展路径、经营方式、市场形态等方面实现转型。     

Swinburne's Challenge: A Note on Probability Estimates for Nontypical Potential Evidence Instances

General confirmation theory, and especially its Bayesian variant, has never been able to adequately address the issue of how to handle qualitative evidence instances. Such statements encompass a wide class including historical claims, those of the human sciences not incorporating quantitative models, legal statements and the like. The issue was recognized by the philosopher Swinburne (1973) who puzzled how such statements as, Caesar crossed the Rubicon, could be assigned a meaningful probability estimate. The present paper suggests that such statements can be transformed into, at least, plausible probability estimates. This requires a two step process: judgements made by credible raters, and the transformation of judgements into one or more reliability co-efficients. These reliability estimates can then be utilized in the standard Bayesian model to yield plausible degrees of belief between hypothesis and evidence.     

企业统计如何迎接新挑战

随着我国《统计法实施细则》的颁布,在这一新的形势下,企业统计应如何发挥其作用,值得我们每一位统计工作者深思,本文对此进行了探讨。     

新课程背景下高师数学教育改革的探索

基础教育新数学课程的实施带来了很多新的变化,这些变化也对高师数学教育提出了严峻的挑战。从课程目标、课程内容、教学方式、教学管理与评价四个方面分析了这些挑战,并给出了应对策略。