Promise as Practice Reason

Acta Analytica - To promise someone to do something is to commit oneself to that person to do that thing, but what does that commitment consist of? Some think a promissory commitment is an...     

Critical rationalism in practice: Strategies to manage subjectivity in OR investigations

The philosophical position referred to as critical rationalism (CR) is potentially important to OR because it holds out the possibility of supporting OR’s claim to offer managers a scientifically ‘rational’ approach. However, as developed by Karl Popper, and subsequently extended by David Miller, CR can only support practice (deciding what to do, how to act) in a very limited way; concentrating on the critical application of deductive logic, the crucial role of subjective judgements in making technical and moral choices are ignored or are at least left underdeveloped. By reflecting on the way that managers, engineers, administrators and other professionals take decisions in practice, three strategies are identified for handling the inevitable subjectivity in practical decision-making. It is argued that these three strategies can be understood as attempts to emulate the scientific process of achieving intersubjective consensus, a process inherent in CR. The perspective developed in the paper provides practitioners with a way of understanding their clients’ approach to decision-making and holds out the possibility of making coherent the claim that they are offering advice on how to apply a scientific approach to decision-making; it presents academics with some philosophical challenges and some new avenues for research.     

基于技术能力培养的《单片机原理》教学改革研究

《单片机原理》课程是自动化、机械制造及其自动化等专业的一门重要专业技术课程,具有较强的综合性和实践性。文章在分析课程教学现状和问题的基础上,从教学内容、方法,特别是实验室教学手段与方法方面,就培养学生科研能力等方面做出了教学改革探索。这对于改变当前传统的教学理念具有一定的参考意义,能够提高该专业课教学的时效性,为培养出优秀的专业人才打下良好的基础。     

“引导、思考、学习、制作、创新”理念的案例制作剖析——基于《模拟电子技术》课程

针对《模拟电子技术》这门课的特点,在教学工厂理念的引领下,不断的研究教育教学方法,通过多年的教学实践,采用的"引导、思考、学习、制作、创新"的教学理念在课程教学中获得良好效果,本文介绍的UPS电源的设计与制作很好地阐述了该教学理念。     

问题教学法在无机化学理论课中的应用

在无机化学理论课的教学中运用问题教学法,以突出问题教学创造性和发展性的本质,激发学生的思维创新性和科学好奇心,有效培养学生的独创能力。     

质量管理“八项原则”的精髓与实践

“以顾客为关注焦点、领导作用、全员参与、过程方法、管理的系统方法、持续改进、基于事实的决策和与供方互利的关系”这八项原则．是多年来质量管理专家们在实践基础上的经验总结。但如何遵循八项原则到实践中去指导企业真正按这八项原则办事,还需要企业最高管理者自身不断加深理解并从实践中不断总结提高。     

海军定向培养直招士官政治素质养成的探索与实践

在非军事院校开展定向培养直招士官工作中,为了培养具有高度的政治责任和政治意识的士官,士官政治素 质养成尤为重要。文章提出士官政治素质养成坚持“两观两史”原则,通过“四创”措施,确保正确的政治 方向,培养新一代“四有”革命军人。     

Research, practice, uncertainty and responsibility

Three issues concerning the relationship between research and practice are addressed. (1) A certain ‘prototype mathematics classroom’ seems to dominate the research field, which in many cases seems selective with respect to what practices to address. I suggest challenging the dominance of the discourse created around the prototype mathematics classroom. (2) I find it important to broaden the school-centred discourse on mathematics education and to address the very different out-of-school practices that include mathematics. Many of these practices are relevant for interpreting what is taking place in a school context. That brings us to (3) socio-political issues of mathematics education. When the different school-sites for learning mathematics as well as the many different practices that include mathematics are related, we enter the socio-political dimension of mathematics education.On the one hand we must consider questions like: Could socio-political discrimination be acted out through mathematics education? Could mathematics education exercise a regimentation and disciplining of students? Could it include discrimination in terms of language? Could it include sexism and racism? On the other hand: Could mathematics education bring about competencies which can be described as empowering, and as supporting the development of mathematical literary or a ‘mathemacy’, important for the development of critical citizenship?However, there is no hope for identifying a one-way route to mathemacy. More generally: There is no simple way of identifying the socio-political functions of mathematics education. Mathematics education has to face uncertainty, and this challenge brings us to the notion of responsibility.     

因果分析法在电工实习教学中的应用

如何更好地提高当代大学生实践创新和动手以及分析能力,培养学生实习过程中自我创新意识,是目前大学专业教学中共同探讨和深思的一个重要问题。本文以电工实习教学为例,因果分析法的思维对影响大学生实践创新能力的因素进行了系统分析,提出了应根据其结果调整操作技能、技术参数规范、电子元件采购、电子元件特性、生产设备、环境资源等因素,摆脱僵化的教学体系,形成一种科学、合理、有效的实习教学模式。重点突出因果分析法在大学教学中的如何运用,指导学生分析和评估,以达到有效的教学目的。     

The role of knowledge of results in performance and learning of a voice motor task

The relationship between the provision of Knowledge of Results and the performance and learning of a voice motor task was examined. Thirty adult subjects, randomly assigned to a 100%, 50%, or No Knowledge of Results group, practiced a novel vowel nasalization task. Measures of accuracy and variability obtained during the practice session indicated influence of knowledge of results schedule on the transient effects of motor performance. Deviations from the nasalance target during the retention phase, 5 minutes later, and during a transfer phase, 24 hours later, indicated influence of knowledge of results schedule on the permanent effects of motor learning. Collective results revealed that an increase in relative frequency of knowledge of results led to a decrease in motor performance and learning of a vowel nasalization task: Both accuracy and variability were degraded as knowledge of results increased, with those subjects in the 100% group exhibiting the poorest scores.