Private Higher Education in Russia: capacity for innovation and investment     

Vladimir A. Geroimenko  Grigori A. Kliucharev  W. John Morgan 《European Journal of Education》2012,47(1):77-91

This article considers the potential role of private institutions in the development of Russian higher education. After decades of a government centralised higher education system, there is a clear trend towards the privatisation of education institutions and the diversification of education practices. Some commentators consider this to indicate that the Russian State is losing control of education; others welcome private initiatives, both in formal and informal education. Russian higher education has also been greatly challenged by the current demographic gap: the total number of secondary school graduates expected in 2012 is half that of 2006. This strengthens the competition for the enrolment of students in private and public (federal and municipal) institutions. Based on recent interviews with senior management at a number of provincial private universities, this article suggests possible avenues for private universities to extend into the education market and considers the implications.  相似文献   

Effect on subsequent fixed-interval schedule performance of prior exposure to ratio and interval schedules of reinforcement     

Reed P  Morgan TA 《Learning & behavior》2008,36(2):82-91

In three experiments, we examined the effect on the patterns of responding noted on fixed interval (FI) schedules of prior exposure to a range of interval and ratio schedules. Rats leverpressed for food reinforcement on random ratio (RR), random interval (RI), or variable interval (VI) schedules prior to transfer to FI schedules. In Experiment 1, prior exposure to an RR schedule retarded the development of typical FI patterns of responding. Exposure to a yoked RI schedule produced even greater retardation of typical FI performance. This effect was replicated in Experiment 2, using a within-subjects design. Rats responded on a multiple RR-RI schedule prior to a multiple FI-FI schedule. Typical FI performance emerged more slowly in the component previously associated with the RI than with that associated with the RR. In Experiment 3, exposure to an RR schedule retarded the development of FI performance to a greater extent than did exposure to a VR schedule. The latter schedule was programmed to allow the possibility that inhibitory control would develop after reinforcement. These results confirm that ratio schedules independently result in the disruption of FI responding. This effect was not long lasting and cannot be used plausibly to explain species differences in responding to FI schedules. However, it does suggest that temporal control—as manifested by the transfer of inhibitory control from one schedule to another—could facilitate movement between interval schedules.  相似文献   

五大银幕杀手     

李瑞奇 《海外英语》2003,(11):12

5. Samara Morgan -" The Ring"Like evil movie children before her ( The Village of the Damned, The Bad Seed, The Exorcist), little Samara Morgan is one bad apple. Sure, at first you think she s a victim - those sad, lost eyes, all that long stringy black hair, the freaky(怪诞的),oppressive mom-butas the film progresses, you realize she s simply evil incarnate(化身的). Hell, she can walk out of your TV (couch potatoes beware) to scare you, literally, to death! Re-made from the Japanese film Ringu, Gore Verbinski s The Ring utilized the doubly frightening concept of  相似文献   

Relying on High-Stakes Standardized Tests to Evaluate Schools and Teachers: A Bad Idea     

Hani Morgan 《Clearing house (Menasha, Wis.)》2016,89(2):67-72

In the twenty-first century, the use of standardized tests as the primary means to evaluate schools and teachers in the United States has contributed to severe dilemmas, including misleading information on what students know, lower-level instruction, cheating, less collaboration, unfair treatment of teachers, and biased teaching. This article provides reasons for the increased use in high-stakes testing and detail on the problems it causes. Also included are possible solutions to alleviate the concerns associated with high-stakes testing.  相似文献   

“Asking,Learning, Seeking Out”: An Exploration of Data Literacy for Teaching     

Jori S. Beck  Joseph John Morgan  Nancy Brown  Heather Whitesides  Derek R. Riddle 《The Educational forum》2020,84(2):150-165

Abstract

The current study explored preservice and inservice teachers’ perspectives on data literacy for teaching. Semi-structured interviews were employed with 12 teacher candidates in elementary and special education. The findings revealed participants’ misconceptions regarding formative and summative data; their understanding of the value of formative data; perceptions of challenges related to data literacy for teaching including time, making sense of data, and reliability and validity; and candidates’ preferences for authentic data literacy instruction.  相似文献   

Tuition policy and the interstate migration of college students     

James N. Morgan 《Research in higher education》1983,19(2):183-195

Policies toward nonresident students by public institutions of higher education are an increasingly important issue. This paper looks at the determinants of student migration and the interrelationship of student migration and tuition rates. Students are found to be attracted to schools in states that are attractive to migrants in general, specifically schools in states with favorable economic and environmental conditions, and high tuition rates are found to be a significant deterrent to nonresident students. Tuition rates for nonresident students are found to be largely determined by tradition, although states are found to have a tendency to increase nonresident tuition if they are strong net importers of students.  相似文献   

English and geography: common ground? From Planet Earth to Pigs     

Sasha Matthewman  John Morgan 《Changing English: An International Journal of English Teaching》2006,13(3):259-272

What does a sense of space and place bring to the interpretation of a literary text such as Pigs by Les Murray? What does an English subject perspective add to work in geography on documentary texts such as the BBC wildlife series Planet Earth? This article is an outcome of our collaboration as teacher educators involved in the initial training of English and geography teachers. We start with Planet Earth because we want to highlight a popular text worth viewing from different subject perspectives. In many ways the process reflects the type of interdisciplinary understanding required to address ecological issues. We take the examples of English and geography, tracing the etymologies of these separate disciplines and considering the common ground between them. The potential of this approach for subject development is modelled through analysis of Pigs, a poem by Les Murray.  相似文献   

Providing psychosocial support to special needs children: A case of orphans and vulnerable children in Zimbabwe     

Morgan Chitiyo  Darlington M. Changara  George Chitiyo 《International Journal of Educational Development》2008

The AIDS pandemic has orphaned hundreds of thousands of children worldwide and most of these are in sub-Saharan Africa. Being orphaned by AIDS creates peculiar circumstances which may affect the children's ability to benefit from regular education. The impact of vulnerability on children's well-being has been documented by UNAIDS, UNICEF and by other organizations and writers. This study sought to ascertain the effectiveness of implementing psychosocial support (PSS) among children who are orphaned by AIDS in improving their schooling outcomes. A total of 20 children with ages ranging from 10 to14 years, attending four different primary schools located in the rural wards of Mberengwa district of Zimbabwe were involved in this study. All the children showed signs of emotional need and they were lagging behind in their academic work. Psychosocial support was provided to these children over a period of eight months resulting in improvements in several areas, including schoolwork during and after the intervention period.  相似文献   

Information behaviour of Canadian pharmaceutical policy makers     

Greyson DL  Cunningham C  Morgan S 《Health information and libraries journal》2012,29(1):16-27

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Language in Use in Mathematics Classrooms: Developing Approaches to a Research Domain, H. Steinbring, M.G. Bartolini Bussi and A. Sierpinska     

Candia Morgan 《Educational Studies in Mathematics》2000,41(1):93-99

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