Using intervention-oriented evaluation to diagnose and correct students’ persistent climate change misconceptions: A Singapore case study

The evaluation of classroom-based educational interventions is fraught with tensions, the most critical of which is choosing between focusing the inquiry on measuring the effects of treatment or in proximately utilizing the data to improve practice. This paper attempted to achieve both goals through the use of intervention-oriented evaluation of a professional development program intended to diagnose and correct students’ misconceptions of climate change. Data was gathered, monitored and analyzed in three stages of a time-series design: the baseline, treatment and follow-up stages. The evaluation itself was the ‘intervention’ such that the data was allowed to ‘contaminate’ the treatment. This was achieved through giving the teacher unimpeded access to the collected information and to introduce midcourse corrections as she saw fit to her instruction. Results showed a significant development in students’ conceptual understanding only after the teacher's decision to use direct and explicit refutation of misconceptions. Due to the accessibility of feedback, it was possible to locate specifically at which point in the process that the intervention was most effective. The efficacy of the intervention was then measured through comparing the scores across the three research stages. The inclusion of a comparison group to the design is recommended for future studies.     

基于元网络分析的重大基础设施建设项目风险评估框架与实证

重大基础设施项目具有战略性、集成性、复杂性等特征，项目容易受到多种风险因素的综合影响，导致项目目标的偏离。现有风险评估与风险决策的方法缺乏对于风险因素、风险事件之间关联的分析。为了实现重大基础设施建设项目综合系统的风险评估，本文采用元网络分析方法，构建项目目标、风险事件和风险因素的交互模型，揭示重大基础设施风险事件发生机制的黑箱过程。风险评估过程中，通过多个网络叠加运算分析每个风险因素对于各种风险事件以及项目各目标的影响情况，改进了以往仅对风险因素单一影响程度的风险评估方法。同时，本研究选择我国某河流水电站过坝运输项目方案比选的风险评估过程验证方法的适用性。     

Social policy and embedded evaluation: Assessing the impact of a food insecurity project in the United Kingdom

Social policy making needs to involve robust evaluation to assess its impact. In this article, a social policy intervention focused on tackling food insecurity amongst vulnerable people is examined and the benefits and challenges of using an embedded approach to evaluation are considered. Food insecurity is defined as not always having the economic, social, and physical resources to ensure a sufficient supply of nutritionally appropriate food. Evidence suggests that food insecurity in the United Kingdom is increasing in the context of long-term poverty, austerity, insecure employment, rising living costs, low pay, and cuts to welfare and public services. An embedded evaluation was conducted involving interviews with the intervention participants and observations of a series of cooking and food budgeting classes. The findings suggest that the classes had a positive impact on many of the participants, who felt more confident about cooking and valued the shared experience. However, given the acute problems facing many of the participants including long-term poverty, policies aimed at tackling food insecurity need to go beyond cooking and food budgeting skills. The embedded evaluation approach contributed towards the overall impact of the intervention by providing insights that led to changes as part of an iterative process during the intervention rather than in the form of a final report after its completion. An embedded evaluation-based approach can be resource intensive, and the role of the evaluators can present challenges, but it can help to bridge the gap between intervention design, delivery, and social change.     

构建大数据视阈下的哲学社会科学人才评价机制

哲学社会科学人才评价机制是促进哲学社会科学创新发展的基础性工作。当前，我国哲学社会科学人才评价机制存在着较多的现实困境。信息技术的高速发展为哲学社科人才评价产生了较大的影响，尤其是大数据有助于提升人才评价的科学化和规范化、准确性和预测性、透明性和公平性。构建大数据背景下的哲学社会科学人才评价机制，需要以大数据环境对社会科学人才评价的应用价值为立足点，以多元化的评价主体、客观化的评价标准、公正化的评价程序为基本内容，重点解决好“谁来评”“评什么”“怎么评”的问题。同时，通过完善人才评价法律法规、建立人才资源数据开放共享和一体化平台等措施，努力推动人才评价的法治化、科学化、规范化发展。     

小学英语教师评价理念和评价话语的相关性研究

评价话语是小学英语教师在形成性评价中落实以人为本、注重过程、促进发展评价理念的一种常见的评价方式。探究小学英语教师评价理念和评价话语的相关性对更新小学英语教师评价理念和提高评价话语的有效性有现实意义和参考价值。调查研究结果表明:小学英语教师对评价理念的把握和落实以及评价话语的使用处于一般水平;评价理念和评价话语在学历、教龄和执教学生人数上存在显著差异;学历、教龄与评价理念和评价话语存在显著的正相关,执教学生人数与评价理念和评价话语存在显著的负相关;学历和教龄对评价理念的把握和落实及评价话语的使用有显著的正向影响,执教学生人数不会对教师评价理念的把握和落实及评价话语的使用产生显著的影响。     

The serene student: Evaluating a group-based mindfulness training program for MSW students

ABSTRACT

Social work educators are exploring the benefits of mindfulness training for social work pedagogy. The authors evaluate the outcomes of a mindfulness program for MSW students. The authors assessed changes in mindfulness, self-compassion, affect, mood, and impairment due to emotional distress before and after the program, and at 4-month follow-up. The authors examine how the group process may facilitate the development of mindfulness and consider how mindfulness practices can support group development and student learning. Results demonstrate that mindfulness training supports student self-regulation and well-being and suggest that the active ingredients of the group process may play a role in mindfulness training outcomes.     

Early assessment of implementing evidence-based brief therapy interventions among secondary service psychiatric therapists

This implementation study was part of the Ostrobothnia Depression Study, in Finland, which covered implementation of motivational interviewing (MI) and behavioral activation (BA) within regional public psychiatric secondary care. It aimed to evaluate the mid-term progress of implementation and related factors. Altogether, 80 therapists had been educated through the implementation program by the point of the mid-term evaluation. Eligible information for evaluation was gathered using two questionnaires (q1, q2) with a one-year interval.A total of 45 of the 80 therapists completed q1, 30 completed q2, and 24 completed both questionnaires. Professional education was the only background factor associated with adopting the interventions (q1: p = 0.059, q2: p = 0.023), with higher education indicating greater activity. On the basis of trends such as changes in overall usefulness score from q1 to q2, the most involved therapists were slightly more likely to adopt MI/BA. Our experience so far suggests that encouraging staff to begin using new interventions during education is very important. The Consolidated Framework for Implementation Research was found to be a useful tool for constructing the evaluation.     

基于教育实习质量的同异反评价

提供了一种教育实习质量的评价模型．     

机械加工综合自动化生产线监控管理系统软件设计研究

分析了机械加工综合自动化生产线监控管理系统主其软件设计技术,介绍了该系统体系结构、软件平台、数据库、编程语言及系统软件设计原则,最终实现了设备层、单元控制器层和信息管理层三层网络通讯及集成 。     

我国现代农业示范园区综合评价

从山东半岛沿海地区选取青岛、威海和潍坊3个农业示范园作为研究对象,在采用模糊层次分析法（Fuzzy-AHP法）创建现代农业示范园的综合评价指标体系的基础上,对以上3个地区的不同园区的发展状况和管理状况等方面进行综合考评。通过对比分析发现,山东半岛沿海地区现代农业示范园区有的已进入农业现代化的发展阶段,有的还处在起步阶段,其建设和发展呈现不平衡的发展态势。推进现代农业示范园区的建设和发展,要依托现代农业产业技术体系,增强科技支撑能力;在加大对园区的政策性扶持的同时,注重园区自我发展能力的提升;通过农民培训体制机制的创新,提高园区引领和示范带动效果。