Going beyond the syllabus: a study of A level Mathematics teachers and students     

Irenka Suto  Gill Elliott  Nicky Rushton  Sanjana Mehta 《Educational studies》2012,38(4):479-483

We explored teachers’ views and students’ experiences of going beyond the syllabus in Advanced (A) level Mathematics. Questionnaires were sent to teachers and students in a sample of 200 schools and colleges. Teachers were asked about the necessity, importance and benefits of additional teaching. Students were asked about the extra activities they undertook. Forty-seven teacher questionnaires and 299 student questionnaires were completed. Over half of the students claimed to undertake at least some extra activities. Although a few teachers thought teaching beyond the syllabus was unimportant and unnecessary, over 70% felt it should be undertaken if time allowed. Teaching efficacy was measured by comparing each teacher’s students’ Mathematics results with those students’ results in other A level subjects. Significantly more teachers with relatively high Mathematics results than with relatively low results believed teaching beyond the syllabus strengthens and expands students’ existing knowledge and adds interest to the course.  相似文献   

Parenting Practices Among Low-income Parents/Guardians of Academically Successful Fifth Grade African American Children     

Cirecie West-Olatunji  Tiffany Sanders  Sejal Mehta  Linda Behar-Horenstein 《Multicultural Perspectives》2013,15(3):138-144

Research investigating the relationship between parenting and academic achievement has provided conflicting results, particularly for low-income, culturally-diverse parents. Using resilience theory, the researchers conducted a case study with five low-income African American mothers. Findings suggest that educators can benefit from partnering with African American parents.  相似文献   

Therapeutic uses ofCurcuma longa (turmeric)     

Pratibha Mehta Luthra  Rambir Singh  Ramesh Chandra 《Indian journal of clinical biochemistry : IJCB》2001,16(2):153-160

Curcuma longa commonly known as tumeric is traditionally used as a spice in Indian food. A wide range of biological activities e.g. anticancer, antimicrobial, antiinflammatory and free radical scavenging activity of the plant suggests a logical basis for its traditional use in foodstuff. Various phytothreapeutic uses ofCurcuma longa have been reviewed.  相似文献   

Creating Cultural Competence: An Outreach Immersion Experience in Southern Africa     

Cirecie West-Olatunji  Rachael D. Goodman  Sejal Mehta  Laura Templeton 《International journal for the advancement of counseling》2011,33(4):335-346

With disasters on the rise, counselors need to increase their cultural awareness, knowledge, and skills to work with affected communities. This study reports outcomes of a four-week immersion experience in southern Africa with six counselor-trainees. Data sources for this qualitative study were: daily journals and demographic forms. Outcomes suggest that sustained contact with community residents and daily supervision experiences served to improve cultural awareness. Recommendations include pushing through students?? resistance using a non-linear dynamic model of transformation.  相似文献   

Overeducation in developing economies: How can we test for it, and what does it mean?     

Aashish Mehta  Jesus Felipe  Pilipinas Quising  Sheila Camingue 《Economics of Education Review》2011,30(6):1334-1347

A worker is said to be overeducated if he/she has acquired more education than is required to perform his/her job. In the absence of data measuring the number of years of schooling required to perform particular jobs, we propose a new approach to testing for overeducation. Overeducation is confirmed if we observe that education levels rose in jobs that offer very low returns to education and that underwent little technological change. Using labor force surveys from four developing countries, we find evidence of overeducation in unskilled jobs in the Philippines, mild evidence in Mexico, and little evidence in India and Thailand. We show that a job's mean and modal years of schooling are poor proxies for required education. We also show that overeducation sometimes increases within unskilled jobs, even while a growing share of educated workers enter skilled jobs. This may be because the quality of education segments the labor market.  相似文献   

Levels of cerebrospinal fluid and serum acetylcholinesterase in Tuberculous and pyogenic meningitis in children     

K. N. Dave  B. N. Dave  F. R. Billimoria  M. N. Mehta 《Indian journal of clinical biochemistry : IJCB》1992,7(2):169-170

Total acetylcholinesterase activity (AChE) was estimated in CSF and serum of 163 cases, comprising of 64 cases of Tuberculous meningitis (TBM), 60 cases of pyogenic meningitis (PM) and 30 control in the paediatric age group. Mean CSF-AChE levels were 7.94±0.38, 9.06±0.16 and 9.80±0.30 unit/ml (Mean±S.E.) in Control, TBM and PM respectively. The respective serum AChE levels were 2.65±0.13, 3.18±0.07 and 3.93±0 0.035 units/ml. The ratio of CSF/serum-AChE in three groups were 3.09±0.137 (Mean±S.E.), 2.88±0.087, 2.98±0.092 in control, TBM and PM respectively. The values in both CSF as well as in serum in patient with TBM and in PM were significantly higher as compared to controls. However, the differences between the mean CSF-AChE and serum-AChE levels and CSF-AChE/serum-AChE were insignificant. Thus, though AChE levels are raised in meningitis, they are not helpful in differentiating TBM from PM.  相似文献   

Practical realization of dual S arm antenna for beam steering applications     

MEHTA Amit 《浙江大学学报(A卷英文版)》2007,8(12):1901-1904

A dual S shaped micro strip antenna with a realistic feed is proposed for generation of tilted beam radiation pattern pertaining for beam steering applications. To achieve this, four feeding points are located at a distance of 5.6 mm from the antenna centre. These feeding points when excited one by one generate four tilted beams in four different space quadrants, thus yielding a beam steerable antenna. Importantly, since the proposed antenna is symmetrical in the structure, all the four tilted beams have the same radiation pattern characteristics. A further enhancement of the antenna bandwidth is also achieved using 100-μm capacitive coupling between the feed and the antenna strip.  相似文献   

Creativity in Mathematics and Beyond – Learning from Fields Medal Winners     

Rohit Mehta  Punya Mishra  Danah Henriksen  the Deep-Play Research Group 《TechTrends》2016,60(1):14-18

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Immunomonitoring followed by optimal dec therapy for successful management of clinical filariasis in an endemic area     

B. C. Harinath  M. V. R. Reddy  R. Alli  V. K. Mehta  P. Chaturvedi  K. R. Patond  S. P. Kalantri  R. K. C. Gupta 《Indian journal of clinical biochemistry : IJCB》1999,14(2):100-108

Lymphatic filariasis continues to be the major cause of clinical morbidity in India and other developing tropical countries. One of the major lacunae in the effective management of clinical filarial cases is the non-availability of a suitable diagnostic test for confirming filaria aetiology in acute, chronic and occult clinical cases where microfilariae (mf) are not usually seen in peripheral circulation. Studies in our laboratory have shown the usefulness of filarial antibody and antigen assays using microfilarial excretory-secretory (mf ES) antigen in detecting microfilaraemic, acute and chronic filarial cases and in confirming filarial aetiology in occult infections. Diethylcarbamazine citrate (DEC) is the drug of choice for lymphatic filariasis. Different regimens of DEC have been explored in the treatment of microfilaraemic cases. Immunomonitoring has shown that the seroconversion of antigen and antibody positivity was found to be very helpful in determining appropriate period of DEC treatment for clinical relief and cure in clinical filarial patients and further they did not have recurrence in most of the cases. Optimal DEC (6mg/kg body wt/day for 21 days each month for 3–12 months) therapy was found to be very effective in acute and atypical clinical manifestations such as asthmatic bronchitis, pulmonary eosinophilia, monoarthritis, recurrent upper respiratory tract infections (URI), pneumonia (super imposed infections) in children and minimal hydrocele, epididymoorchitis, lymphangitis, lymphadenitis, acute abdomen, central serous retinopathy, tenosynovitis, pain and swelling in limbs and joints in adults living in filaria endemic areas.  相似文献   

Teacher participation in the decision‐making process: reality and repercussions in Indian higher education     

Deepa Mehta  Alok Gardia  H.C.S. Rathore 《Compare》2010,40(5):659-671

The study reported here focused on comparing teachers’ actual and desired participation in different decision‐making situations and examined how participation in decision making differs in Indian higher educational institutions. The paper provides a comparison of findings with similar studies conducted in Western settings regarding the relationship of participative decision making (PDM) with some selected organizational variables: teachers’ job satisfaction, organizational goal commitment, role ambiguity, and role conflict. Data were gathered through a survey of 281 faculty members of Banaras Hindu University, India. Results indicate that in the Indian context, teachers’ actual and desired participation was highest in institutional decisions and lowest in technical decisions. Among the personal variables, age, designation, teaching experience and span of service in present institution were found to be significantly related with decisional participation of university teachers. It is recommended that administrators evolve a mechanism for inviting participation of teachers in different decisional domains, based on the findings of this study.  相似文献