Learning By Doing: The Long-Term Impact of Experiential Learning Programs on Student Success

Abstract

As the advisers for the Model United Nations and Judicial Internship programs at our university, we have witnessed first-hand the benefits of simulations and experiential learning. Specifically, students are able to apply knowledge from other classes to real-world situations, all while honing their writing skills and communication skills, as well as their ability to analyze and synthesize information—skills that are critical to success in a wide variety of careers. This practical experience also gives students confidence as they prepare for and make decisions about their future career paths. While we have anecdotal evidence suggesting that these programs contribute to student success, we use survey data from former students to assess formally the longer-term impact of participating in these programs. We find that experiential learning programs contribute to student success by improving time to graduation and increasing the likelihood of attending graduate school or law school and/or finding employment after graduation. In addition, the students’ own assessments indicate that these programs instill numerous practical skills and provide insights that help prepare students for success in their future careers.     

论“校局合作”的历史、现状、制约因素及发展思路——校局合作的责任、情感和利益

加强"校局合作"是提高公安院校办学水平的重要环节。"校局合作"在公安院校的发展历程中,因不同的办学模式而呈现不同的状态。基于事业单位性质的公安院校的"校局合作"存在经费保障不足,合作办班积极性不高;学生实习、见习多了利益,少了责任;校局学术科研合作因种种原因不尽如人意等问题。制约"校局合作"的主要因素既有体制问题,也有利益问题。领导重视,进行体制改革,注重合作的互利互惠,实现利益双赢是"校局合作"长盛不衰的根本。     

浙江省城市与农村初中生学校幸福感比较研究

研究浙江省初中生学校幸福感的总体特征，比较城市与农村初中生学校幸福感的差异。采用随机取样的方法对5353名城市和农村初中生进行问卷测查。结果表明：浙江省初中生的总体学校幸福感明显偏向于积极良好的一面，城市初中生的学校幸福感高于农村初中生，但经过三年的初中生活，城市和农村学生的学校幸福感都呈明显的下降趋势。     

政校企协同背景下区域经济耦合机制影响研究

地方高校转型与区域经济之间存在极为紧密的逻辑联系,两者的内在动力和发展诉求紧密相关,如果能够实现紧密互动和有机结合,那么所产生的整合效应将会非常明显,能够为区域经济发展提供动力和空间。要想发挥耦合机制的重要作用,首先需要以两者的转型互动发展为重点,通过多元化投入机制、发展机制和工作机制的互动来促进高校转型,保障政校企协同创新并实现互利共赢。从宏观角度将理论分析与实践研究相结合,深入剖析政校企协同背景之下区域经济耦合机制的影响,可为推动区域经济建设和学校、企业的共同发展提供依据和借鉴。     

Are School Committees a Source of Empowerment? Insights from Tanzania

Studies on user committees often critique the claim that membership to these committees empowers people. In this article, we use survey data on empowerment school committees in Tanzania to find out whether school committee membership is a source of empowerment of people at the local levels. Our findings suggest that membership in itself has limited impact on empowerment, while access to information and gender are the major sources of empowerment. However, the role of membership to the school committee is significant insofar as it can expose members to critical information on school issues.     

学校治安权的分析及强化路径

连续发生的校园安全事件,把人们的目光再一次聚焦到了如何保障学校安全,师生人身安全的问题上。发挥治安学科在解决这一问题上的独特优势,同时利用法学相关理论,重点围绕对学校现有治安权(也可称为安全管理权)的分析和强化路径展开,探讨通过落实现有治安权和专门立法(如《校园安全法》)授予学校新的治安维护权(或称一定限度的执法权),赋予学校保卫人员有限的治安执法权,将学校治安权适当扩展到校园周边,赋予保卫人员一定的警械使用权等解决问题的思路。     

Stevie Smith and Her Dancing Girls

Abstract

What constitutes a good Stevie Smith poem? The question bothered the author herself and it can bedevil the reader too, with evaluative quandaries often compounding interpretative ones. Smith's uncertainty about the relative merits of her poems informed publication decisions, and this in turn has resulted in certain compositions being overlooked in critical assessments of her achievement. This article takes as a test-case example a hitherto largely neglected poem, ‘The Ballet of the Twelve Dancing Princesses’, and through sustained close reading makes the case that the poem, unpublished in Smith's lifetime, may be one of her finest pieces. Through an analysis of the poem's cultural and historical context, its manifold ambiguities, its imagery and atmosphere, its coded engagement with the fabular and the strange effects achieved through rhythm and rhyme, the poem is shown to offer a complex, psychologically suggestive response to issues which exercise Smith in many of her poems, including the tension between innocence and knowledge, between the child and the adult, between the capricious and the calculated, and between the ‘frivolous’ and the ‘ominous’. The difficulty of determining how ironically and how seriously Smith engages with some of the latent preoccupations of her poem, such as the power of sorcery and the supernatural, the growth of sexual awareness in young girls and (possibly) the approach of the Second World War, is taken as symptomatic of the tendency of Smith's poems to at once invite and defy exegesis. Taken together, these various concerns and characteristics provide the grounds for considering one of Smith's overlooked poems as one of her most effective. Yet the conclusion seeks to complicate this assessment by cross-questioning the criteria by which Smith's ‘success’ as a poet may be determined.     

Assessing the Impact of Harassment by Peers: Incident Characteristics and Outcomes in a National Sample of Youth

Although there are widely held assumptions about the characteristics of peer bullying that are of greatest concern, very few studies have empirically assessed which characteristics most affect its impact. The current research addresses this gap by using a nationally representative U.S. sample of youth ages 10–20 to examine the relative effects of a variety of potentially aggravating incident characteristics on emotional, physical health, and school-related outcomes. Findings show support for power imbalance and duration (a stronger predictor than repetition) as incident characteristics that exacerbate the negative impact of peer harassment. However, several other incident characteristics have substantial effects with or without the presence of these qualities. Injury, sexual content, involvement of multiple perpetrators, and hate/bias components of peer harassment incidents each increased at least one negative outcome. Findings point to several features of peer harassment that can provide a basis for prioritizing victimization experiences in greatest need of intervention efforts.