Mathematically based and practically based explanations in the elementary school: teachers’ preferences     

Esther Levenson  Pessia Tsamir  Dina Tirosh 《Journal of Mathematics Teacher Education》2010,13(4):345-369

This article focuses on elementary school teachers’ preferences for mathematically based (MB) and practically based (PB) explanations. Using the context of even and odd numbers, it explores the types of explanations teachers generate on their own as well as the types of explanations they prefer after reviewing various explanations. It also investigates the basis for these preferences. Results show that teacher-generated explanations include more MB explanations than PB explanations. However, many still choose to use mostly PB explanations in their classrooms, believing that these explanations will be most convincing to their students. The implications for teacher education are discussed.  相似文献   

Development of the social network b-learning in the University of Alicante     

Francisco Miguel  Martinez-  Verdu Maria  Jose Rodriguez  Jaume Herminia  Provencio Garrigos  Jasone  Mondragon-Lasagabaster Juan  Ramon  Rico-Juan Juan  Ignacio Ferreiro  Prieto Mar  Iglesias Natalia  Albaladejo-Blazquez Maria  Dolores de  Fez Saiz  Valentin Viqueira  Perez Jose  Tomas Garcia  Garcia  M  Dolores  Fernandez-P ascual  EnarRuiz-Conde Begona  Lucia Fuster  Garcia Josefa  Parreno-Selva Diana  Jareno Ruiz  Esther Perales  Romero Elisabet  Chorro Calderon 《美中教育评论》2010,(12):54-69

This work describes the genesis, articulation and consolidation from 2007 of a social network of b-learning （blended learning） in the UA （University of Alicante） （Spain）, with the institutional backing of the Office of the Vice President for Education Technology and Innovation, and the momentum and advice of professor Angel Fidalgo （UNESCO （United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization） chair for University of Management and Policy）. The social network currently has more than 25 teachers, working on different work linkages with the university, implementing or intending to apply the teaching methodologyb-learning during the course 2007-2008 in a variety of courses and degrees. To do so, several resource centers （blogs, wikis, Wimba Create （before CourseGenie）, etc.）, and digital platforms （Virtual Campus of the UA, Moodle, etc.） are used.  相似文献   

FAMILY INFLUENCES ON SCIENCE LEARNING AMONG HONG KONG ADOLESCENTS: WHAT WE LEARNED FROM PISA     

Esther Sui Chu Ho 《International Journal of Science and Mathematics Education》2010,8(3):409-428

This study investigated the relationship between family factors and students’ scientific literacy performance in Hong Kong, which has excelled in science performance in previous international studies. Data were obtained from the 2006 Programme for International Student Assessment. Multilevel analysis was used to examine the relationship between parental involvement and investment and students’ scientific literacy performance. It was found that students’ scientific literacy performance, which was measured by their science achievement and self-efficacy towards science, were significantly associated with certain types of parental investment and involvement even after controlling background factors of both students and schools. Parental investment in cultural resources and parental involvement in terms of organising science learning enrichment activities at an early age were found to be significantly associated with students’ scientific literacy performance. Activities that could be provided at an early age (e.g. watching TV programmes about science, reading books on scientific discovery, watching, reading or listening to science fictions) were found to be highly effective activities for promoting children’s science achievement and self-efficacy.  相似文献   

Language development in deaf children's interactions with deaf and hearing adults: a Dutch longitudinal study     

Klatter-Folmer J  van Hout R  Kolen E  Verhoeven L 《Journal of deaf studies and deaf education》2006,11(2):238-251

The language development of two deaf girls and four deaf boys in Sign Language of the Netherlands (SLN) and spoken Dutch was investigated longitudinally. At the start, the mean age of the children was 3;5. All data were collected in video-recorded semistructured conversations between individual children and deaf and hearing adults. We investigated the lexical richness and syntactic complexity of the children's utterances in SLN and spoken Dutch, as well as language dominance and interactional participation. Richness and complexity increase over time, as well as children's participation. An important outcome is that syntactic complexity is higher in utterances with both sign and speech. SLN does not have higher outcomes on richness or complexity, but is dominant in terms of frequency of use.  相似文献   

Edith Grossman: Why Translation Matters     

Esther Allen 《Publishing Research Quarterly》2010,26(4):294-296

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Basic list of veterinary medical serials,third edition: using a decision matrix to update the core list of veterinary journals     

Ana G Ugaz  C. Trenton Boyd  Vicki F Croft  Esther E Carrigan  Katherine M Anderson 《Journal of the Medical Library Association》2010,98(4):282-292

Objective:

This paper presents the methods and results of a study designed to produce the third edition of the “Basic List of Veterinary Medical Serials,” which was established by the Veterinary Medical Libraries Section in 1976 and last updated in 1986.

Methods:

A set of 238 titles were evaluated using a decision matrix in order to systematically assign points for both objective and subjective criteria and determine an overall score for each journal. Criteria included: coverage in four major indexes, scholarly impact rank as tracked in two sources, identification as a recommended journal in preparing for specialty board examinations, and a veterinary librarian survey rating.

Results:

Of the 238 titles considered, a minimum scoring threshold determined the 123 (52%) journals that constituted the final list. The 36 subject categories represented on the list include general and specialty disciplines in veterinary medicine. A ranked list of journals and a list by subject category were produced.

Conclusion:

Serials appearing on the third edition of the “Basic List of Veterinary Medical Serials” met expanded objective measures of quality and impact as well as subjective perceptions of value by both librarians and veterinary practitioners.

Highlights

• The 123 journals on the “Basic List of Veterinary Medical Serials” include 117 journals with a decision matrix score of 15 points or higher, with an additional 6 journals included for more complete subject representation.
• Subject categories with the greatest number of journals are internal medicine, food animal medicine, and research.
• Updates for the third edition of the “Basic List” include 59 new titles and 13 new subject categories.

Implications

• The third edition of the “Basic List” provides a useful collection development and assessment tool for veterinary libraries, as well as general libraries with a need to develop a core collection of veterinary resources.
• The decision matrix approach, using standard quantitative and focused qualitative measures, provides a useful methodology for creating core lists in other disciplines.

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Developmental assessment: lifting literacy through professional learning teams     

Patrick Griffin  Leanne Murray  Esther Care  Amanda Thomas  Pierina Perri 《Assessment in Education: Principles, Policy & Practice》2010,17(4):383-397

Outcomes and findings from an evidence‐based approach to targeting primary school students’ developmental reading comprehension levels for effective learning are described. Nineteen schools participated in a literacy assessment project designed to monitor and improve the reading comprehension achievement levels of their students. The project integrated a developmental approach to learning and teaching, information derived from standardised reading comprehension assessments, and professional development for teachers. Reading comprehension achievement across the schools increased at a higher rate than typically expected. Teacher discourse about teaching and learning changed from discrete skill and resource focused, to developmentally focused. The centrality of a professional learning team approach to change for the student, teacher and school is discussed.  相似文献   

A Pedagogy of Empathy for a World of Atrocity     

Esther Lezra 《Review of Education, Pedagogy & Cultural Studies》2013,35(5):343-371

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TEXUS: A unified framework for extracting and understanding tables in PDF documents     

Roya Rastan  Hye-Young Paik  John Shepherd 《Information processing & management》2019,56(3):895-918

Tables in documents are a widely-available and rich source of information, but not yet well-utilised computationally because of the difficulty in automatically extracting their structure and data content. There has been a plethora of systems proposed to solve the problem, but current methods present low usability and accuracy and lack precision in detecting data from diverse layouts. We propose a component-based design and implementation of table processing concepts which can offer flexibility and re-usability as well as high performance on a wide range of table types. In this paper, we describe a system named TEXUS which is a fully automated table processing system that takes a PDF document and detects tables in a layout independent manner. We introduce TEXUS’s own table processing specific document model and the two-phased processing pipeline design. Through an extensive evaluation on a dataset comprised of complex financial tables, we show the performance of the system on different table types.  相似文献   

Joint Committee on Standards for Educational Evaluation: Report of the 1990 Meeting     

Esther Diamond 《Educational Measurement》1991,10(1):33-33

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