The power of the context map: Designing realistic outcome evaluation strategies and other unanticipated benefits

Developing a feasible evaluation plan is challenging when multiple activities, often sponsored by multiple agencies, work together toward a common goal. Often, resources are limited and not every agency's interest can be represented in the final evaluation plan. The article illustrates how the Antecedent Target Measurement (ATM) approach to logic modeling was adapted to meet this challenge. The key adaptation is the context map generated in the first step of the ATM approach. The context map makes visually explicit many of the underlying conditions contributing to a problem as possible. The article also shares how a prioritization matrix can assist the evaluator in filtering through the context map to prioritize the outcomes to be included in the final evaluation plan as well as creating realistic outcomes. This transparent prioritization process can be especially helpful in managing evaluation expectations of multiple agencies with competing interests. Additional strategic planning benefits of the context map include pinpointing redundancies caused by overlapping collaborative efforts, identifying gaps in coverage, and assisting the coordination of multiple stakeholders.     

Measuring efficiency with products,by-products and parent-offspring relations: A conditional two-stage DEA model

In the usual data envelopment analysis (DEA) setting, as pioneered by Charnes et al. (1978) [1], it is assumed that a set of decision making units (DMUs) is to be evaluated in terms of their relative efficiencies in converting a bundle of inputs into a bundle of outputs. The usual assumption in DEA is that each output is impacted by each and every member of the input set. One particular area of recent research is that relating to partial input to output impacts where the main issue addressed is that in many settings not all inputs impact all outputs. In that situation the authors view the DMU as consisting of a set of mutually exclusive subunits, with each subunit having its own unique bundle of inputs and outputs. Examined as well in this area, is the presence of multiple processes for generating sets of outputs. Missing from that earlier work is consideration of the presence of outputs in the form of by-products, giving rise to a parent-offspring phenomenon. One of the modeling complications there is that the parent assumes two different roles; as an input affecting the offspring, while at the same time being the dominant output. This gives rise to a model that we refer to as conditional two-stage. Another complication is that in the presence of multiple processes, by-products often arise out of only a subset of those processes. In the current paper we develop a DEA-type of methodology to handle partial input to output impacts in the presence of by-products.     

金融危机背景下金融监管模式的选择

频频爆发的金融危机引发了学术界和政界对金融监管体制构建和监管模式选择的深度思考。多元Logit模型可用于检验各种因素与金融监管模式选择的关系。模型估计与结果分析表明,部分统一监管和统一监管模式更适用于混业经营。而且,部分统一监管尤其是统一监管模式倾向于中央银行的监管职能分离。统一的监管模式需要发达的金融市场、良好的政治制度以及完善的法律体系作为先决条件。     

分级分类课堂多元化教学评价体系的研究

以多元智力理论和建构主义理论为指导,结合大学英语教学改革本身的特点和要求,构建了多元化教学评价体系。同时,通过学生档案袋、问卷调查、访谈、教师记录单等方式,在烟台大学256名本科生中进行了教学评价体系的实验研究。结果表明,新型评价体系有利于培养学生的自主学习能力和提高英语综合应用能力,便于教师调控教学策略且保证了教学改革的顺利进行。     

梁启超新史学思想探源

梁启超新史学思想与日本学术资源中介的关系,是需要深入探讨的重要课题。本文以实证的方法,经具体的对勘比照,探研其与浮田和民《史学原论》、《西洋上古史》及其他日本史家与史著的关联,通过众多的例证与比喻的分析,以更明晰地揭示其思想形成的知识背景,阐明其新史学的来源具有多元采撷的特征,从而在更广阔的语境中予以把握,厘清其间复杂的关联与思想脉络。总结这方面的经验教训,对今天也有重要的启示意义。     

后现代社会的消费文化及其审美特征

王宁认为,消费文化是后现代消费社会特有的产物,与现代主义的精英文化有着明显的差别;它的一部分格调高雅的产品有可能被提升为精英文化产品,但更多的产品则会随着时光的流逝而成为过眼云烟。王一川指出,中国当前消费文化并没有简单地按费瑟斯通所铺设的"商品世界及其结构化"大道迈进,多重文化因子在其中起着复杂的拉动作用,形成彼此错时或错位关联,因而使出现了身体在热烈消费而头脑却在冷峻思考的悖谬现象。包亚明认为,消费主义的逻辑不仅成为了社会运用空间的逻辑,而且也成为了主导日常生活的文化逻辑;在全球城市的风景背后,精英阶层的消费文化"诉求"已经被合理化、自然化为与世界接轨的先决条件。陆扬认为,消费文化的全球化面临着美国文化主导其中这个难以回避的问题,假如认为美国文化纯粹是由图像和声响刺激起来的消费主义,那将是过低估计了它对中国文化发扬光大自身民族传统构成的挑战。     

也谈智力的＂一元＂与＂多元＂结构

多元智力理论自提出以来在世界范围内产生了很大反响。中国许多学者撰文对多元智力进行了介绍,并认为传统的智力是“一元”的,应该受到批判。事实上,传统智力理论自从产生那一天开始就认为智力是多元的,只不过没有“多元”这一概念而已。     

板翅式换热器的多目标最优设计

本文探讨了换热器多目标最优设计技术,建立了考虑流程长度变化、温度变化和入口流量分布不均匀对换热器性能影响的板翅式换热器最优设计模型,编制了最优设计程序包,并以实俐进行了验证设计。     

论艾森斯塔特阐释多元现代性的逻辑

艾森斯塔特通过对自马克思及韦伯以来的社会进化理论的质疑和批判，对纷繁复杂的现代性历史的反思，采用比较历史（文明比较）的研究方法考察了现代性从起源、传播到成型的动态变化过程和发展方向，揭示了现代性沿着多样性特征展开的逻辑。他认为理解当代世界最好的方法是将它视为文化方案多样性不断解释、选择、重释、构建和重构的一个过程。理解现代性多样性的特征对于认识当今世界及其发展方向、认识具体社会的特殊现实，在理论和实践上都具有深远的意义。