Tables of contents

A personal BELMAS history

Peter Ribbins

1

On being a university head of department

Bob Smith

4

Managing health and safety on international school trips

John Hunter-Jones, Philippa Hunter-Jones

8

Building trust among educational stakeholders through Participatory School Administration, Leadership and Management

Diosdado M San Antonio, David T Gamage

15

But, where are the children?

Helen Gunter, Pat Thomson

23

Improvement through collaboration and competition – can the government have it both ways?

Howard Stevenson

29

Leadership and the white-faced ewe

Glynn Kirkham

34

A confirmatory approach to differential item functioning on an ESL reading assessment

Marilyn L Abbott

7

Evaluating rater responses to an online training program for L2 writing assessment

Catherine Elder, Gary Barkhuizen, Ute Knoch, Janet von Randow

37

Investigating the performance of alternative types of grammar items

Gergely Dávid

65

The relative significance of syntactic knowledge and vocabulary breadth in the prediction of reading comprehension test performance

Toshihiko Shiotsu, Cyril J Weir

99

Book reviews

James Dean Brown

129

Long-term memory and school performance following cognitive transition at five to seven years

M W Wan

1

Hong Kong student teachers’ beliefs about children’s learning: Influences of a cross-cultural early childhood teaching experience

J Brownlee, A Chak

11

Factors associated with physical activity in a sample of British secondary school students

D Lubans, K Sylva, P Morgan

22

College students’ metacognitive awareness of difficulties in learning the class content does not automatically lead to adjustment of study strategies

L Cao, J Nietfeld

31

Review of Making the Grade: A guide to successful communication and study by Ian Hay, Dianne Bochner, Carol Dungey (2006), Oxford University Press

J Scevak

47

Pathways theory of progression through higher education

R Robinson, L Bornholt

49

Students' conceptions of assessment and mathematics: Self-regulation raises achievement

G Brown, G Hirschfeld

63

Special issue: western psychological and educational theory and practice in diverse contexts

Editorial: are western educational theories and practices truly universal?

Julian Elliott, Elena L Grigorenko

1

Culture, instruction and assessment

Robert J Sternberg

5

Bridging between orthodox western higher educational practices and an African sociocultural context

Robert Serpell

23

Orthodoxy, cultural compatibility, and universals in education

Roland G Tharp, Stephanie Stoll Dalton

53

Western influences on Chinese educational testing

Weihua Niu

71

The impact of the west on post-Soviet Russian education: change and resistance to change

Julian Elliott, Jonathan Tudge

93

Teachers' ethnotheories of the 'ideal student' in five western cultures

Sara Harkness, Marjolijn Blom, Alfredo Oliva, Ughetta Moscardino, Piotr Olaf Zylicz, Moises Rios Bermudez, Xin Feng, Agnieszka Carrasco-Zylicz, Giovanna Axia, Charles M Super

113

Schooling's contribution to social capital: study from a native Amazonian society in Bolivia

Ricardo Godoy, Craig Seyfried, Victoria Reyes-García, Tomás Huanca, William R Leonard, Thomas McDade, Susan Tanner, Vincent Vadez

137

Hitting, missing, and in between: a typology of the impact of western education on the non-western world

Elena L Grigorenko

165