The African Evaluation Guidelines: 2002. A checklist to assist in planning evaluations, negotiating clear contracts, reviewing progress and ensuring adequate completion of an evaluation

A review of the US ‘program evaluation standards’ (PES), undertaken in a series of workshops and meetings of networks of evaluators in Africa, resulted in modifications to those standards. The result was presented to a plenary session of the Inaugural Conference of the African Evaluation Association in September 1999, attended by over 300 evaluators from 35 countries. The AfrEA Conference decided that a systematic effort should be made to produce a list of African evaluation guidelines, similar to the PES, and that this checklist should be reviewed by national evaluation associations and networks in Africa and field tested in several countries. Ten national and regional networks and associations suggested modifications to the text and endorsed the final version of the guidelines.     

Estimation of location extremes within general families of scale mixtures

In this paper, we study the estimation of the minimum and maximum location parameters, respectively, representing the minimum guaranteed lifetime of series and parallel systems of components, within a general class of scale mixtures. The conditional or underlying distribution has only the primary restriction of being a location-scale family with positive support. The mixing distribution is also quite general in that we only assume that it has positive support and finite second moment. For demonstrative purposes several special cases are highlighted such as the gamma, inverse-Gaussian, and discrete mixture. Various estimators, including bootstrap bias corrected estimators, are compared with respect to both mean-squared-error and Pitman's measure of closeness.     

科技英语词汇的特色

论述了科技英语词汇的三大组成部分——普通词汇、次技术词汇及技术词汇以及三大组成部分词汇的构成与使用特色,从而为理解科技英语词汇及破译新词汇提供了有效的解决方法。     

Preparing Parents for Adoption: An Agency Experience

To prepare for the complexities of family formation, 78 prospective adoptive parents participated in Pre-Adopt, a psychosocial educational orientation program offered by one private nonprofit agency. The five-session curriculum included an overview of adoption policies and procedures, discussion of the child placement process, exploration of couples' adoption concerns and expectations about child characteristics, information about adoption laws and birth-parent/child searches, and examination of anticipatory fantasies about birth parents. Program evaluation yielded statistically significant and clinically meaningful findings about changes in emotional readiness to adopt, parenting knowledge, and satisfaction with group participation, adoption policies and agency practices. Practice implications are considered.     

共同语和标准语——对普通话定义的思考

本文从普通话的定义出发 ,从“共同语”和“标准语”两个方面对普通话加以论述 ,并指出普通话不同的语域功能。     

国际合作计划生育结合项目与社区发展——云南罗平县结合项目实践的分析

根据云南省罗平县结合项目实施情况的实地考察,从社区发展方法的视角,对项目实施过程中的社区宣传、社区组织、资金筹措、效果评估和基层总体项目管理能力等方面进行了分析.     

学习贯彻十六大精神,推进“两课”教育教学的创新

学习贯彻十六大精神,推进“两课”教育教学的创新@赵书爱$华北水利水电学院人文社科部!河南郑州450011     

国际经济比较中量值统一的价值尺度————剖析联合国ICP方法的缺陷

 对经济成果综合比较的同度量尺度,明确了科学性和统一性的内容与要求.科学性在于要有明确的经济意义,统一性在于国际间使用的价值尺度必须标准相同.通过比较,指出了ICP法的缺陷是意义不明确,尺度不统一,其原因是偏离了卡塞尔的思路.     

《老子》“道经”首篇阐释

“道经”首篇是《老子》全书之总纲,当从“以老证老”、考虑语境、整体把握这三原则出发来考察,方能正确地阐释本章之旨。其中“道”是一种不可名状的、形而上的“非常之道”,而“无”和“有”则是老子分别对远古蛮荒与近古物质两个时代的称呼。     

学科教学知识新突破:教学策略“U-S”双向共创机理

教学策略由学科知识、教学知识、学生心理引导和教学监控等条件性知识以及教师教学经验、反思、行为习惯等组成,具有理论与实践一体化特征。其中知识部分属于学科教学知识(PCK)范畴,具有情境性和多种知识融合的特征。学科教学知识的“特殊整合”,不仅需要相应的学科知识和教学知识,还需要情境性教学经验。然而,中小学教师有经验缺理论、高校教师有理论没经验的问题普遍存在,形成教学策略与教学行为之间双向转化的瓶颈。为此,大学和中小学教师需要以外部利益驱动构建协同共创平台,在相同教学旨趣吸引下组成优势互补的研发团队,形成突破教学策略转化瓶颈的分层赋能与共创机制。“大学―中小学”(“U-S”)协同共创,应注重从教学策略理论知识传授到教师教学行为转变、从学习名师经验及其教学策略创新到新教学策略文本形成的转化与共创过程,形成特色鲜明的学科教学策略知识,将其以陈述性、程序性、策略性知识形式融入师范生实训教学,进而实现对现有学科教学知识的新突破。只有构建“U-S”共同体,协同实现教学策略的“理—实”双向共创,才能赋予教学策略以“内容、形式和旨趣”三个维度的理论和实践生命力,才能发挥双方优势,形成规模更大的教学策略创新平台。