THE INFLUENCE OF HIGHER EDUCATION ON THE ASSESSMENT OF STUDENTS OF PHYSIOTHERAPY     

Norma Brook  Anne Parry 《Assessment & Evaluation in Higher Education》1985,10(2):131-145

The majority of physiotherapists are trained in hospital‐based schools outside the mainstream of further and higher education. It has been assumed that professional standards of competence are maintained through central control of the syllabus, nationally set examinations and centrally appointed examiners.

During the last decade, a small number of schools have transferred to polytechnics and begun to develop internally examined courses. It is essential that students who are successful in these examinations are automatically eligible for Membership of the Chartered Society of Physiotherapy.

This paper describes the planning of an internally examined course which is acceptable to the professional bodies as well as to the Sheffield City Polytechnic. It explores some of the conflicts which have arisen concerning the extent to which control of the profession should extend to control of the curriculum in any and every institution. It concludes that the Chartered Society's need to control right of entry to the profession and to monitor standards of competence is reconcilable with lecturers’ desire to design a course and appropriate methods of assessment which reflect their overall rationale.  相似文献   

Enhancement of blood vessels in digital fundus photographs via the application of multiscale line operators     

D.J.J. Farnell  F.N. Hatfield  M. Reakes  D. Parry 《Journal of The Franklin Institute》2008,345(7):748-765

We employed multiscale line operators (MSLO) in order to segment blood vessels in digital fundus images. Separately, a median filter technique was used in order to provide results that were compared to those of the MSLO. The green channel of the colour image was used, and both sets of results were further enhanced by subsequently employing a simple “randomly seeded” region-growing algorithm. We applied this approach to two sets of retinal images, namely, the ARIA (www.eyecharity.com/aria_online/) and STARE (www.ces.clemson.edu/∼ahoover/stare/) retinal image archives. The ARIA dataset contained colour fundus images from healthy subjects, diabetic subjects, and age-related macular degeneration (AMD) subjects. Similarly, the STARE dataset contained images from both “normal” (i.e., healthy) and “abnormal” (i.e., diseased) eyes. Manual segmentations of the blood-vessel structure for all images in the ARIA and STARE datasets were obtained by a retinal image interpretation expert. These images were then taken to be our gold standards. Receiver-operator characteristic (ROC) curves were determined and the areas under the ROC curve (AZ) were obtained. A large increase in efficiency for our MSLO algorithm was observed for the entire datasets (ARIA AZ=0.899; STARE AZ=0.953) compared to basic thresholding alone (ARIA AZ=0.608; STARE AZ=0.753). Interestingly, the simple median filter algorithm followed by region growing also performed well (ARIA AZ=0.888; STARE AZ=0.947). Our results compared favourably to those results of previous segmentation procedures for the STARE dataset. As expected, the best results were found for the healthy control group for ARIA and for the normal subjects for STARE.  相似文献   

Memorializing Pearl Harbor: Unfinished Histories and the Work of Remembrance Geoffrey M. White. Duke University Press, 2016.          下载免费PDF全文

Sally E. Parry 《Journal of American culture (Malden, Mass. : 2003)》2017,40(3):287-288

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Carl Van Vechten and the Harlem Renaissance: A Portrait in Black and White Emily Bernard. New Haven,CT: Yale University Press, 2012.     

Sally E. Parry 《Journal of American culture (Malden, Mass. : 2003)》2014,37(1):80-81

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Collective memory,political nostalgia,and the rhetorical presidency: Bill Clinton's commemoration of the March on Washington,August 28, 1998     

Shawn J. Parry‐Giles  Trevor Parry‐Giles 《Quarterly Journal of Speech》2013,99(4):417-437

This essay offers a reading of President Bill Clinton's address on August 28, 1998 in which he commemorates the 35th anniversary of the March on Washington. Specifically, Clinton's August 28th address reveals how the presidency has become a hermeneutic site for the formation of collective memory and political nostalgia. This analysis discusses the uses of political nostalgia for the purposes of political image (re)construction as evidenced by Clinton's exploitation of the civil rights movement to explain and excuse his personal failings and his relationship with Monica Lewinsky. We also present a divergent version of Clinton's rhetoric, giving specific attention to how his particular use of nostalgia in this address works to articulate and confront many of the powerful dichotomies (masculine/feminine; war/peace; black/white; private/public) that define his presidency, his public persona, and the larger political culture in postmodern America.  相似文献   

Academic Mentoring and Dropout Prevention for Students in Math,Science and Technology     

Simon Larose  Diane Cyrenne  Odette Garceau  Marylou Harvey  Frédéric Guay  Fanny Godin 《Mentoring & Tutoring: Partnership in Learning》2013,21(4):419-439

In this study, we examined the impact of a new academic mentoring program aimed at preventing student dropout in math, science and technology. The MIRES program entails bimonthly meetings between students entering college and university students completing their undergraduate degree in science and engineering. A randomized pretest-posttest control group design was used to evaluate the program’s short-term impact. At the end of the program, mentees (n = 150) presented significantly higher levels of motivation, a more positive career decision profile and enhanced institutional attachment and social adjustment than students in the control group (n = 157). MIRES mentees also showed success and persistence rates (mainly male participants) that were significantly higher than those of students in the control group.  相似文献   

Policy-Participation Trajectories in English Higher Education     

Gareth Parry 《Higher Education Quarterly》2006,60(4):392-412

The pattern of expansion that brought mass characteristics to English higher education is very different from that intended to achieve near‐universal access by the end of the present decade. The spectacular growth of the late 1980s and early 1990s was neither projected nor planned, with important consequences for the shape of the English system. By contrast, the policies of renewed expansion and widening participation from the late 1990s represent a radical attempt to change the traditional pattern of demand for English undergraduate education, with future growth focused on the short‐cycle forms of vocational higher education. Although influenced by the example of Scotland in building expansion at levels below the first degree, the policy experiment pursued in England is highly distinctive, including the invention of a new undergraduate qualification and a partnership role for further education colleges.  相似文献   

Reading ads,reading the world     

Becky Parry 《Education 3-13》2016,44(3):325-338

This paper challenges the reductive notion of children as ‘efferent'¹1 A term used by Rosenblatt (1938 Rosenblatt, L. 1938. Literature as Exploration. New York: Appleton-Century. [Google Scholar]) to critique the teaching of reading which involved students in ‘taking away’ a particular meaning. readers who learn to decode written language in order to ‘take away’ knowledge. This anachronistic idea has become entrenched in current UK curriculum and education policy. However, it is well established that decoding letters and sounds is only one aspect of reading, that reading is cultural and that learning to read, not only words but also images and sounds, develops children's comprehension and criticality. With this in mind, I seek to share a process through which children and young people were able to develop as readers with a particular focus on the reading of media texts. I present an account of media education activity which focused on the way children read media texts, in the classroom. I suggest that with appropriate pedagogic and conceptual tools children develop as critical, cultural and collaborative readers of words, images, sounds and texts and thereby of the world.  相似文献   

Light distributions in rooms     

Parry Moon  Domina Eberle Spencer 《Journal of The Franklin Institute》1946,242(2):111-141

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Practical Philosophy of Sport by R. Scott Kretchmar (Champaign,IL: Human Kinetics, 1994)     

Jim Parry 《体育哲学杂志》2013,40(1):108-110

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