Validation of the Australian Midwifery Standards Assessment Tool (AMSAT): A tool to assess midwifery competence

Background

There is no current validated clinical assessment tool to measure the attainment of midwifery student competence in the midwifery practice setting. The lack of a valid assessment tool has led to a proliferation of tools and inconsistency in assessment of, and feedback on student learning.

Service diversification and growth of professional service firms

This study investigates the impact of service diversification on the rate and mode of firm growth in professional service firms (PSFs). Drawing on the extant PSF literature, we identify differing views regarding the growth impact of service diversification. Specifically, some scholars suggest that the external client benefits associated with service diversification should allow PSFs to expand revenues at a rapid pace and pursue less merger and acquisition activity, whereas others imply that increased diversification can cause internal challenges with respect to learning costs, coordination and innovation that can limit the rate of revenue growth and encourage more mergers and acquisitions. We test these competing views using longitudinal data on 137 accounting firms and cross-sectional data on 125 law firms and find that service diversification is negatively associated with the rate of firm revenue growth and positively associated with the use of mergers and acquisitions.     

工程师职业视角下的工程技术人才培养改革探索——以重庆文理学院为例

工科院校是工程师的摇篮,高等工程教育重在为社会培养优秀工程技术人才。通过分析当前我国高等工程教育改革的背景、存在的主要问题与不足、国际高等工程教育的发展历程与经验等,探索基于工程师职业视角的以工程能力和工程师职业素养为导向的工程技术人才培养模式与路径,从而培养学生具备基础扎实、思想朴实、为人诚实、工作踏实等品行,培养学生具备面向未来的思考能力、面向需求的学习能力、面向实际的动手能力、面向问题的分析能力、面向工程的设计能力、面向工作的交流能力、面向社会的适应能力等工程素质。     

教师口语——师范生必备的基本功

提高师范生口语表达能力,必须重视“教师口语”这门实践性与操作性较强的课程。在“教师口语”课程中,将普通话训练贯穿始终,使师范生掌握教学口语技巧及艺术特征,更好地适应未来教育教学工作的需要。     

Involving Service Users in Social Work Management Education: What Makes it Meaningful According to the ‘Experts’?

Course leaders have adopted a relatively cautious approach to involving service users and carers in Post-Qualifying (PQ) social work management education programmes in the UK, looking for opportunities in which it ‘makes sense’ for them to be included. Whilst there is, to a certain extent, the belief that involving service users and carers in PQ social work education is ‘a good thing’, it has proved challenging to implement. This research study sought to explore, through interviews with ‘experts’ in the field, why this process had proved so challenging. A term which emerged during the research was the importance of ‘meaningful involvement’. The research explored what ‘meaningful involvement’ might mean for managers, for academics and also for service users and carers; what it looks like and how might it take forward the understanding of and the preparation for PQ social work management education.     

Support for midwives – A model of professional supervision based on the recertification programme for midwives in New Zealand

Following a traumatic practice experience the physiological and psychological effects experienced by midwives are exacerbated as a result of dysfunctional health organisations and the counterproductive behaviours therein. It is suggested the stress experienced would have been reduced if support in the form of professional supervision had been available.The aim of this article is to demonstrate that professional supervision should be viewed as a competency requirement by the Midwifery Council of New Zealand and incorporated into the midwifery recertification programme. A model of professional supervision for midwives based on the recertification programme is introduced and the importance of reflection on practice emphasised. Providing support by means of professional supervision in the midwifery recertification programme, has the potential to make midwives feel valued, improve their job satisfaction, reduce violence in the workplace, aid in the attrition rate and improve the care for the childbearing woman.     

关于大学生哲学素养的调查分析

在价值多元化、经济全球化的时代背景下，实现我国强国复兴的基础是多层次、多类型的人才培养。大学生是未来国家的主要建设者，培养学生的哲学素养，让学生具备辩证的哲思，使其能够正确处理在生活、工作中遇到的问题，是当下各大高校人才培养的重要任务。应以提升学生的哲学素养为目的，合理组织教学实践活动，丰富学生思想，让学生掌握正确的思维方法，学会用辩证的眼光、批判的思维看待问题、解决问题。文章对大学生哲学素养培养的现状进行了调查分析，探讨了大学生素养培养的主要内容、意义以及提升学生哲学素养的对策。     

Impact of a continuing professional development intervention on midwifery academics’ awareness of cultural safety

Background

Cultural safety in higher education learning and teaching environments is paramount to positive educational outcomes for Aboriginal and/or Torres Strait Islander (hereafter called First Peoples) students. There is a lack of research evaluating the impact of continuing professional development on midwifery academics' awareness of cultural safety.

高等教育布局结构优化的理论前提

作为经济社会发展的重要助推力量,高等教育布局结构优化的影响因素是多维的,主要包括国家战略、区域经济、社会文化、人口结构以及地理空间等等。科学预设高等教育布局结构优化的应然目标,需要正视布局结构优化的目标限度,并重点从“社会满足度”和“个体满足度”两个方面予以考量。实施高等教育布局结构的优化,需要甄选多向度的优化理路,实现多元布局手段的优势集合。要坚持“去趋同化与优势集中相统整”“域内均衡与域间协调相统整”“突显公平与保障效益相统整”“积极适应与适当超越相统整”“内循规律与外在干预相统整”等原则。