Encyclopedia of Global Industries     

Paul L. Anthony 《Journal of Business & Finance Librarianship》2013,18(4):521-524

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Public purpose and the preparation of teachers for rural schools     

Paul Theobald  Craig Howley 《The Teacher Educator》2013,48(3):150-164

Abstract

Rural communities need rural teachers who can “ground” traditional school subjects in local realities and dilemmas and at the same time fashion instructional approaches consonant with larger intellectual, ethical, and social purposes. Such teachers are assets rather than burdens to their communities. Only such teachers can cultivate an ethic of responsibility for the health and vitality of the communities of which they and their students are critical components.

This essay examines the role of the university in professionalizing rural teachers. It contends that narrowly utilitarian ends prevail in teacher education programs, and that, in the absence of a substantive definition of educations public purpose, this instrumentalism creates teachers who are ill‐prepared to contribute in meaningful ways to the intellectual life of the communities in which they work. Teacher preparation programs should abandon the instrumental focus. Programs that prepare rural teachers, in fact, confront unique challenges and opportunities to include three themes at their centers: Sustainability, Social Justice, and Democracy.  相似文献   

EDITORIAL     

Professor Paul Cooper 《Emotional and Behavioural Difficulties》2013,18(1):2-3

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SPREAD: A Distributed Simulation Toolkit     

Paul Chernett  Vic Callaghan  C. Ching  D. Diemmi 《Computer Science Education》2013,23(3):228-250

This article describes “SPREAD”, a simulation toolkit, and its use in building “Virtual Robots”, a simulation of multiple mobile robot vehicles used in the teaching of computer science at university level. A novel aspect of the simulator is the use of PVM (Parallel Virtual Machine) to achieve high performance at low cost by using spare CPU cycles on large numbers of networked workstations.  相似文献   

Research notes     

J. J. Makay  Paul Tuchardt 《Communication quarterly》2013,61(4):69-70

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Application of the Levenshtein Distance Metric for the Construction of Longitudinal Data Files     

Harold C. Doran  Paul B. Van Wamelen 《Educational Measurement》2010,29(2):13-23

The analysis of longitudinal data in education is becoming more prevalent given the nature of testing systems constructed for No Child Left Behind Act (NCLB). However, constructing the longitudinal data files remains a significant challenge. Students move into new schools, but in many cases the unique identifiers (ID) that should remain constant for each student change. As a result, different students frequently share the same ID, and merging records for an ID that is erroneously assigned to different students clearly becomes problematic. In small data sets, quality assurance of the merge can proceed through human reviews of the data to ensure all merged records are properly joined. However, in data sets with hundreds of thousands of cases, quality assurance via human review is impossible. While the record linkage literature has many applications in other disciplines, the educational measurement literature lacks details of formal protocols that can be used for quality assurance procedures for longitudinal data files. This article presents an empirical quality assurance procedure that may be used to verify the integrity of the merges performed for longitudinal analysis. We also discuss possible extensions that would permit merges to occur even when unique identifiers are not available.  相似文献   

The place of values in the world of psychology and public policy     

Paul R. Dokecki 《Peabody Journal of Education》2013,88(3):108-125

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Two- and Three-Year Achievement Results From the Memphis Restructuring Initiative     

Steven M. Ross  William L. Sanders  S. Paul Wright  Sam Stringfield  L. Weiping Wang  Marty Alberg 《School Effectiveness & School Improvement》2013,24(3):323-346

The purpose of this study was to analyze student achievement data from the first 3 years of the Memphis Restructuring Initiative (MRI). The MRI represents one of the first efforts by an urban school district to move past traditional top-down versus bottom-up reform debates by providing systemic support for outside-in/inside-out implementation and local co-construction of externally-developed reform designs in schools. Analyses of academic achievement focus on a state-of-the-art measure of value added assessments. At the end of 3 years the reforming schools had produced generally positive gains relative to locally matched control schools. Those results varied somewhat by reform type and by level of poverty in the communities being served. Based on the research methods used and the results, implications for future research and practice in educational reform are discussed.  相似文献   

THE 1998 DAVID WILLS LECTURE: INTEGRATING THE LEGACY OF DAVID WILLS IN AN ERA OF BEHAVIOUR SUPPORT PLANS,INCLUSION AND TARGET SETTNG     

Paul Greenhalgh 《Emotional and Behavioural Difficulties》2013,18(1):46-53

This paper examines the legacy of the pioneering work of David Wills for current thinking and practice in current educational context between the needs of vulnerable children as revealed by wills and the demands for managerial accountability imposed by government.  相似文献   

THE MEANING OF PROFESSIONAL CULTURE     

Paul Mattingly 《Review of Education, Pedagogy & Cultural Studies》2013,35(6):435-445

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