A study of students' perceptions of the organisation and effectiveness of fieldwork in earth sciences education     

Luis Marques  Joa˜o Praia  Richard Kempa 《Research in Science & Technological Education》2013,31(2):265-278

This paper reports the findings of a preliminary evaluation of an in-service training programme designed for practising geology/earth science teachers in Portuguese high schools and intended to enhance the effectiveness of fieldwork activities organised by them for their students. Among the points particularly stressed during the in-service training were that students should be adequately prepared for fieldwork through classroom-based activities prior to the fieldwork itself and that to arrive at the maximum educational benefit for the students, they should be involved in collaborative group-based investigation. The findings, derived from an enquiry among students following their exposure to fieldwork, revealed that in both these aspects teachers failed to put theory into practice, probably as the result of a lack of confidence to implement novel procedures. On the positive side, the students reported that they enjoyed the social interaction with other students that the fieldwork made possible and the opportunity to work independently of the teachers.  相似文献   

Interoperability frameworks and enterprise architectures in e-government initiatives in Europe and the United States     

Luis Guijarro 《Government Information Quarterly》2007

Public administrations have been very much concerned since the 1980s about the need of avoiding vendor lock-in when procuring themselves with information technology (IT) infrastructure. The boost of e-government that has taken place in recent years has put this concern again in the agenda of public administrations. Interoperability has shown up as a principle in the conception and deployment of the e-government initiatives, and the interoperability frameworks have been the tool for implementing the principle. In this paper, the use of the interoperability frameworks and of the enterprise architectures within the e-government initiatives is surveyed. The scope of the survey is Europe and the United States. As far as the author is aware, all trends in interoperability policy fall within the scope of the survey. The survey is focused on the methodological tools that e-government agencies have devised for achieving the interoperability at the public administrations. The tools are interoperability frameworks and enterprise architectures.  相似文献   

A classroom at home: children and the lived world of MOOCs     

Yin Yin  Catherine Adams  Erika Goble  Luis Francisco Vargas Madriz 《Educational Media International》2015,52(2):88-99

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Gender differences in adolescents’ choice of heroes and admired adults in five countries     

Juan Diego Estrada  Cristina García-Ael  José Luis Martorell 《Gender and education》2015,27(1):69-87

Seven hundred and sixty-eight adolescents from five countries and regions (USA, Spain, Hong Kong, Qatar, and Malaysia), aged 13–19 (M?=?15.78; SD?=?1.28) years, responded to a questionnaire designed to determine who was their most admired famous adult or hero. Male heroes clearly outnumbered admired females (73.3% vs. 26.7%). There was a pattern of same-sex choices, but it was more likely for girls to choose male heroes than for boys to choose females. Over half of the admired adults were athletes, and movie, television, and music stars. Regarding the personally known adults, there was a more balanced choice of males and females, with parents as the most frequent choice. Results suggest that society continues to fail in providing an adequate supply of female role models.  相似文献   

How do your rivals’ releasing dates affect your box office?     

Fernanda Gutierrez-Navratil  Victor Fernandez-Blanco  Luis Orea  Juan Prieto-Rodriguez 《Journal of Cultural Economics》2014,38(1):71-84

In this paper, we study to what extent a movie’s box-office receipts are affected by the temporal distribution of rival films. We propose a reduced-form empirical model to measure and test competition effects among films released close to each other in a standard regression framework. Such an analysis is appealing in terms of its policy implication and may provide guidance to distributors to decide on their releasing dates of their firms. We estimate this model using information on the films released in five countries: the USA, the United Kingdom, Germany, France and Spain. The geographical dimension of our data set permits us to control for unobserved heterogeneity among films released using panel data techniques, which allows us to evaluate the individual and specific effects of each film. Thus we deal with one of the most relevant features of the movie market, namely the presence of highly differentiated products.  相似文献   

‘We are more than EFL teachers – we are educators’: emancipating EFL student-teachers through photovoice     

Luis S. Villacañas de Castro 《Educational Action Research》2017,25(4):610-629

The prevailing pedagogical orientations of English as a foreign language (EFL) education in Spain oppress learners intellectually in ways that are counterproductive to their learning. As a reaction to this, 129 EFL student-teachers (STs) took part during the 2013/14, 2014/15, and 2015/16 academic years in a workshop which drew on the methodology of participatory action research and on photovoice as a data-creating strategy, in order to emancipate these STs intellectually, boost their EFL development, and offer an alternative critical model for their future EFL teaching. The research was assessed collectively through a variety of qualitative strategies. Results showed that the photovoice workshop created a rich and meaningful context for EFL learning, one which enabled the STs to fully actualize their intellectual potential by producing knowledge collectively, thereby setting a memorable educational example for their own future teaching.  相似文献   

New ways to deal with known preanalytical issues: use of transilluminator instead of tourniquet for easing vein access and eliminating stasis on clinical biochemistry     

Lima-Oliveira G  Lippi G  Salvagno GL  Montagnana M  Manguera CL  Sumita NM  Picheth G  Guidi GC  Scartezini M 《Biochemia medica : ?asopis Hrvatskoga dru?tva medicinskih biokemi?ara / HDMB》2011,21(2):152-159

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Mobile augmented reality adapted to the ARCS model of motivation: a case study during the COVID-19 pandemic     

Laurens-Arredondo  Luis 《Education and Information Technologies》2022,27(6):7927-7946

Education and Information Technologies - The rushed introduction of online education for universities because of the current covid-19 health crisis, has started to affect the quality of education...  相似文献   

A goal orientation analysis of teachers’ motivations to participate in the school self-assessment processes of a quality assurance system in Chile     

Carmen Montecinos  Romina Madrid  María Beatriz Fernández  Luis Ahumada 《Educational Assessment, Evaluation and Accountability》2014,26(3):241-261

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Open Government,Open Data and Digital Government     

Luis Felipe Luna-Reyes John C. Bertot  Sehl Mellouli 《Government Information Quarterly》2014

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