Using university rankings as a potential indicator of student experiences in American higher education     

Troy A. Heffernan 《Perspectives: Policy and Practice in Higher Education》2019,23(1):12-17

Students at America’s most renowned private universities face different acceptance rates, college wealth, class sizes, and potential graduate earnings even in comparison with students at the nation’s highest-ranking public institutions. The analyses that led to these findings frequently focused on national or state-wide comparisons of public versus private universities. This paper contrasts these studies by analysing a fixed group of colleges, those regularly listed in the global top 50 of research and reputation rankings. It argues that even within this small subset of colleges, the highest-ranking public universities have more in common with their similarly positioned private counterparts than with lower ranking public institutions; a finding reflected in assessments of private colleges. Subsequently, the paper finds that student experiences are more likely defined by a college’s reputational rank than by an institution’s public or private status, endowment, or acceptance rates, however, the same was found not to be true of potential graduate earnings.  相似文献   

English language acquisition and educational attainment at the end of primary school     

Steve Strand  Feyisa Demie 《Educational studies》2005,31(3):275-291

This paper analyses the national key stage 2 test results for 2300 11‐year‐old pupils in an inner London LEA. A range of concurrent pupil background data was also collected, including whether pupils spoke English as an additional language (EAL), and if so, their stage of fluency in English. EAL pupils at the early stages (1–3) of developing fluency had significantly lower KS2 test scores in all subjects than their monolingual peers. However, EAL pupils who were fully fluent in English achieved significantly higher scores in all KS2 tests than their monolingual peers. The negative association with attainment for the early stages of fluency remained significant after controls for a range of other pupil characteristics, including age, gender, free school meal entitlement, stage of special educational need and ethnic group, although these factors effectively explained the higher attainment of the ‘fully fluent’ group. We conclude that EAL is not itself a good guide to levels of attainment, and a measure of stage of English fluency is necessary to interpret associations with test performance. Alternative measures which focus only on the very early stages of English proficiency, such as the QCA ‘language in common’ steps, are inadequate to assess the impact of bilingualism for all but the very earliest learners of English. Given the uneven distribution of EAL pupils across the country, those schools and local education authorities with high concentrations of pupils in the early stages of learning English are likely to be adversely affected in school achievement and attainment tables. The policy implications for national data collection and for the use of such data are considered.  相似文献   

Rough集与粒计算     

吕善国  陈红丽 《科技广场》2004,(11):53-54

本文主要介绍了Rough集理论和粒计算的基本概念，以及用信息表阐明了通过划分和Rough集近似的粒度概念。  相似文献   

克特号在期刊排架工作中的灵活应用     

王晓华 《晋图学刊》2011,(6):72-74

目前,各图书馆期刊排架方法很多,最常见的还是刊名字顺排架和分类排架。我馆在借鉴北大馆的经验基础上,灵活应用克特号完成中文期刊改号工作。文章主要介绍期刊索刊号的确立,刊名克特号的应用规则,期刊特殊情况的处理办法,以及学报的特别处理等。  相似文献   

Tabletop support for collaborative design: an initial evaluation of IdeaSpace     

Andri Ioannou  Fernando Loizides  Christina Vasiliou  Panayiotis Zaphiris  Antigoni Parmaxi 《Educational Media International》2013,50(4):296-307

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Documents and Debates     

Patrick Fitzsimons 《教育政策杂志》2013,28(3):385-391

This paper explores the complex ways in which the marketisation of education and the associated publication of performance data have contributed to the emergence of a new politics of recognition which has paradoxically served further to naturalise educational inequalities. Of all the reforms associated with subjecting education to market forces, it is the publication of ‘league tables’ of raw performance data which has sparked the most controversy. These tables have provoked a range of criticisms from educational professionals and practitioners concerning their reductionist nature, their misleading attribution of outcomes to institutional processes rather than intake variables and their potentially damaging side‐effects. These league tables can be said to constitute a form of cultural injustice. In order to counter this injustice, a new politics of recognition has emerged which seeks to valorise the performance of disadvantaged schools and which can be seen in the development of alternative and ‘value‐added’ league tables. This paper argues that there are a number of difficulties and dangers inherent within this new politics of recognition. These relate to the impossibility of separating a school from its context, the displacement of a politics of redistribution and the increasing naturalisation of inequalities.  相似文献   

书目挖掘中的数据质量研究     

邓奇强 《大学图书情报学刊》2013,(6):49-52

作者通过对图书馆业务、图书管理系统的分析研究发现,书目挖掘中的流通日志存在大量的“业务脏数据”.文章介绍了图书管理系统中与书目挖掘相关的数据表之间的关联关系,提出利用表间关联清洗方法实现“业务脏数据”的清洗,进而提高书目挖掘中的数据质量.  相似文献   

Probability With Less Pain     

Maxine Pfannkuch  George A. F. Seber  Chris J. Wild 《Teaching Statistics》2002,24(1):24-30

The teaching of probability theory has been steadily declining in introductory statistics courses as students have difficulty with handling the rules of probability. In this article, we give a data‐driven approach, based on two‐way tables, which helps students to become familiar with using the usual rules but without the formal structure.  相似文献   

电化教学与工具环境的探讨     

李国桢 《中山大学学报论丛》1996,(6)

通过中文Ｗｏｒｄ的应用介绍一种实现电化教学的简便方法，探讨利用现有系统资源选择电化教学工具平台进行教学  相似文献   

Cheating Partners,Conditional Probability and Contingency Tables     

Jane M. Watson 《Teaching Statistics》2011,33(3):66-70

Developing statistical literacy for older school students includes recognizing and interpreting conditional statements in the media. Data on couples' success in predicting whether their partners have cheated provides a motivating context for teachers to lead their students through this process.  相似文献