对新课标人教版初中数学教材的几点看法

新人教版教材在实施过程中,中学教师多数对其内容、形式等持肯定态度,但也提出不少异议,如新教材内容编排不合理,例题习题匹配不理想,不适合农村教学,考试与课改不配套,不利于学生巩固知识等。教材实施存在考试评价制约,教师业务水平等原因。     

中继终端设备的天地网关功能设计与性能测试

近年来,空间网络协议大力发展,CCSDS空间网络协议体系已成为事实上的标准。基于跟踪与数据中继卫星系统（TDRSS）地面站中低速中继终端设备进行相应改造,增加网关路由板卡,加载CCSDS空间传输协议软件,将原来的中低速中继终端设备改造成带有路由网关功能的中低速中继终端设备。在此基础上,采用两台增加路由网关功能的中低速中继终端设备以及信道模拟器搭建天地网络演示验证系统,并分别对采用TCP协议和PEP增强协议作为传输层协议的HTTP应用进行了性能分析比对,证明PEP增强协议更能适应天地网络传输。     

Enhancing Students' Enabling Competencies: Student Perspectives and Recommendations for Educators*

Employers continue to express concern that accounting graduates lack the necessary competencies when they enter the workplace. These concerns have been addressed in part by periodic revisions to Chartered Professional Accountants of Canada's (CPA Canada) CPA Competency Map, which is used to define competencies for entry into the profession. The CPA Competency Map has recently been revised to include a new set of enabling competencies (often called generic or soft skills). However, the accounting literature highlights a concern that time and resources spent on the expanding set of enabling competencies could take valuable resources away from teaching technical accounting skills. In addition, the education literature indicates that student motivation plays a key role in learning. If students are motivated to learn enabling competencies, then educational efforts could be more efficient and effective. Conversely, a lack of student motivation could reduce student engagement and learning. To address these concerns, we investigated the student's perspective on the importance of enabling competencies as well as on how and where enabling competencies should be learned. We surveyed 380 students enrolled in the CPA Canada Professional Education Program (PEP). We investigated the three new enabling competencies that are most distinct from the previous set of competencies and that may be the most difficult for accounting educators to teach: adaptability and resilience; creativity and innovation; and active listening. We asked students about the importance of these new enabling competencies for their future careers and whether the competencies should be taught in PEP or in the workplace. Our results indicate that students believe that the new enabling competencies are important and should be learned in both the classroom and the workplace. Moreover, student responses to open-ended questions provide educators with suggestions on how to incorporate enabling competencies into the classroom by blending activities that could simultaneously enhance enabling competencies with technical competencies.     

Goode Food Trucks Inc.*

This fictional case centers around a young Dutch couple who emigrated to Canmore, Alberta. Upon arriving, Saul and Rens opened two successful food trucks and are now looking to promote each truck's main chef to truck manager. They plan to offer a performance bonus based on the net income of each truck and have requested a local accounting student to advise them on the new bonus structure. Goode Food Trucks Inc. presents an opportunity for students to demonstrate technical competence in managerial accounting (rate methods, period cost allocation, and data visualization); strategy and governance (employee performance incentives); and financial reporting (reporting needs) while incorporating enabling competencies (communicating and adding value). The case and teaching notes were adapted from principles used to train and evaluate Chartered Professional Accountant (CPA) candidates and tailored to an appropriate level for undergraduate learners. MBA instructors may also use this case to apply multiple concepts in a defined context, thus enhancing a course's “real-life” applicability.