Orientations to Enrolment of Part-time Students: A classification system based upon students' perceived lifelong learning needs     

David Kember  Richard Armour  Winnie Jenkins  Doris Y. P. Leung  Natalia Li  Kwok Chi Ng 《高等教育研究与发展》2001,20(3):265-280

This article develops a classification system for the orientations to enrolment of part-time students based upon their practical lifelong learning needs. Orientation to enrolment is seen as a complex construct embodying all the reasons, purposes, expectations and motivations that cause students to pick a particular course and elect to study by the part-time mode. Virtually all of the interviewed students had a vocational orientation so some previously used categorisation schemes were not suitable. Instead seven categories relating to lifelong learning needs provided a scheme which covered the cases and related well to explanations given by interviewees for enrolling in the courses. These were re-training or further development for those who need to make a career shift; education for professionals who need to undertake continuing professional development through their careers; an opportunity for a tertiary education for those who did not previously have the chance; an education at the tertiary level for those who did not do sufficiently well at school to qualify for direct entry to university; an alternative to mainstream education; education for adults; and learning for pleasure throughout the lifetime.  相似文献   

Factors associated with staff perceptions towards inclusive education in Singapore     

Kenneth K. Poon  Zijia Ng  Meng Ee Wong  Sarinajit Kaur 《Asia Pacific Journal of Education》2016,36(1):84-97

In this study, we sought to examine the perceptions of teachers and other school professionals towards the inclusion of secondary school students with special educational needs (SEN), and the associated factors. The Sentiments, Attitudes and Concerns about Inclusive Education Revised scale (SACIE-R) was completed by 131 teachers and school professionals from two mainstream secondary schools in Singapore. The findings revealed an overall neutral attitude towards inclusion. Together, confidence in teaching students with SEN, the level of training SEN support, as well as experience teaching students with SEN account for a large proportion of the variance in ratings of inclusive perceptions. Further analyses revealed that confidence in teaching or supporting students with SEN was found to be a significant predictor of inclusive perceptions. The findings suggest that schools seeking to engage in inclusive practices should focus on ways to develop the confidence of personnel to support students with SEN. Professional development and mentorship were suggested as possible avenues.  相似文献   

Learning in digital environments: a model for cross-cultural alignment     

Shonfeld  Miri  Cotnam-Kappel  Megan  Judge  Miriam  Ng  Carolyn Yeehan  Ntebutse  Jean Gabin  Williamson-Leadley  Sandra  Yildiz  Melda N. 《Educational technology research and development : ETR & D》2021,69(4):2151-2170

Educational technology research and development - This article presents a conceptual model of cross-cultural alignments in education in the digital era. The intention was to explore and respond to...  相似文献   

国产芸香科九里香属化学分类   总被引：1，自引：0，他引：1  

毕培曦  江润祥  吴锦洪  张宏达  李钳  余世孝  Waterman Peter G. 《中国科学院研究生院学报》1986,24(3):186-192

九里香是芸香科的一个小属，主要分布于我国南部及中南半岛，少数个别品种向西南   延伸至印度和斯里兰卡及向东南伸展至澳洲东北部。  我国境内共有8种和1亚种。  九里香   属植物含丰富的生物碱和香豆精，其中包括不少生物活性成分，民间亦每每选用该属植物作传   统草药。最近又从千里香的根部分离得一种新的双吲哚生物碱，命名为月橘烯碱; 该成分有强   效的抗着床活性，对计划生育有重大意义。在发掘月橘烯碱的自然资源的研究过程中，作者分   析了国产的8种九里香属植物，发现该属植物可以划分为两组，即九里香组和棕茎组。九里香   组之成员跟棕茎组的在形态上有明显分别，而且前者之根部含抗着床成分月橘烯碱和8-戊烯   化香豆精，但后者之根部则含咔巴唑生物碱。初步分析了澳洲的卵叶九里香和泰国的暹罗九  里香，其形态及化学成分亦支持将该属分为两组。作者据此发表新组合。  相似文献   

Multiple‐goal learners and their differential patterns of learning     

Chi‐hung Clarence Ng 《教育心理学》2008,28(4):439-456

The hypothesis in this study was that different types of multiple‐goal learners would have different patterns of learning. A sample of 797 adult distance learners enrolled in different programs offered by a distance learning university in Hong Kong completed a questionnaire assessing their goals, use of strategies, motivational beliefs, and attitudes towards the course they were doing. Two‐stage cluster analyses found a group of single‐goal learners (mastery focused) and three groups of multiple‐goal learners with different focuses in their goal profiles: performance focus, work focus, and multiple focuses. These four clusters of learners differed in terms of use of learning strategies, regulatory strategies, motivational beliefs, and attitudes towards the course. Learners focusing on work‐related goals or performance goals achieved better examination results than did those focusing on multiple goals or solely on mastery goals.  相似文献   

A Confirmatory Factor Analysis of the Wong and Law Emotional Intelligence Scale in a Sample of International College Students     

Kok-Mun Ng  Chuang Wang  Carlos P. Zalaquett  Nancy Bodenhorn 《International journal for the advancement of counseling》2007,29(3-4):173-185

There is the need for a reliable and valid measure to facilitate emotional intelligence (EI) research on international college students (ICSs). The present study examined the factorial invariance of the Wong and Law Emotional Intelligence Scale (WLEIS), a trait EI measure, in a sample of 628 ICSs. A web-based survey was developed to facilitate data collection across the country. Results of a confirmatory factor analysis support the factorial invariance of the WLEIS in ICSs. Reliabilities and scale correlations further supported the psychometric properties of the measure for international students. Additional findings indicate possible country-of-origin difference on trait EI among different national groups. An erratum to this article can be found at  相似文献   

Calibration of ϵ−insensitive loss in support vector machines regression     

Hongzhi Tong  Michael K. Ng 《Journal of The Franklin Institute》2019,356(4):2111-2129

Support vector machines regression (SVMR) is an important tool in many machine learning applications. In this paper, we focus on the theoretical understanding of SVMR based on the $??$insensitive loss. For fixed ??≥?0 and general data generating distributions, we show that the minimizer of the expected risk for $??$insensitive loss used in SVMR is a set-valued function called conditional $??$median. We then establish a calibration inequality of $??$insensitive loss under a noise condition on the conditional distributions. This inequality also ensures us to present a nontrivial variance-expectation bound for $??$insensitive loss, and which is known to be important in statistical analysis of the regularized learning algorithms. With the help of the calibration inequality and variance-expectation bound, we finally derive an explicit learning rate for SVMR in some $L^r?$space.  相似文献   

The Singapore School and the School Excellence Model     

Ng Pak Tee 《Educational Research for Policy and Practice》2003,2(1):27-39

Nation', schools in Singapore are now asked to develop themselves into excellent schools. To support this change, the way that schools are being appraised has been changed since 2000. The school today is asked to do self-appraisal using the new School Excellence Model (SEM), which is adapted from a business excellence model. This article discusses the SEM, its major implications to the leadership and management of schools in Singapore and the areas still to be addressed in the implementation of the model. In particular, school leaders should focus on the substance and not the form of the SEM, be systemic in their approach to quality improvement in schools and truly lead the way by being the first believing and practicing member of this movement. Key Words: excellence, leadership, quality, school, self-appraisal  相似文献   

The Si Huan Playgroup: an initiative to provide non-formal early childhood education experiences to children of migrants in Beijing     

Berenice Nyland  Chris Nyland  Yang Gao  Josephine Ng  Xiaodong Zeng 《Asia Pacific Journal of Education》2016,36(3):319-331

This paper is about an experiment in non-formal early childhood education for migrant children in Beijing. The Si Huan Playgroup was set up by a group of volunteers in 2004 and is built on ideas of early childhood pedagogy, equity, life-long learning and non-formal education. Non-formal education has implications for policy makers as this is a model that has the potential to build capacity in disadvantaged communities and provide educational experiences for preschool children. The model, as envisaged by the participants of the Si Huan Playgroup, is a provider of preschool education, operates on a volunteer basis that aims to be an educational experience for both the volunteer parents and the children. The playgroup operates alongside existing preschools in the formal education sector. Policy makers in Beijing can see tensions around the growth of a sector that is developing outside regulatory and legislative guidelines. The Si Huan playgroup has been closed down by the authorities a number of times. In this paper we outline the history and growth of the Si Huan Playgroup, explore the theoretical underpinnings of non-formal education and discuss the problems inherent in such an initiative, as well as commenting on the sustainability of such a model.  相似文献   

The ecology of human growth and sustainable societal development: contributions from educational research and innovations (APERA conference 2010)     

Pak Tee Ng 《Educational Research for Policy and Practice》2011,10(1):73-74

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