Creating Quality Assurance in Curriculum: Theory and Practice at a Canadian Community College     

Pamela MacAskill  James Goho  Robert Richard  Kirsten Anderson 《Community College Journal of Research & Practice》2013,37(12):939-958

Quality Assurance in Curriculum is a customized solution to the problems of assuring curricular quality in a dynamic community college environment. It was designed by Red River College, a large, comprehensive community college in Western Canada, to address academic cross-jurisdictional issues in establishing and verifying curriculum. It is a system based on current theory in educational quality, and it uses a three-stage methodology incorporating a variety of survey, planning, and consultation techniques. Benchmarked data figure prominently in assuring academic program curricular conformance is measured according to accepted college mission and accepted standards. Initiated in 2000, each stage of the Quality Assurance in Curriculum strategy has moved from initial concept to preliminary trials through acceptance to full implementation across all academic faculties of the community college.  相似文献   

Morphological Awareness and Chinese Children's Literacy Development: An Intervention Study     

Xiaoying Wu  Richard C. Anderson  Wenling Li  Xinchun Wu  Hong Li  Jie Zhang 《Scientific Studies of Reading》2013,17(1):26-52

The purpose of this study was to investigate the relationship between morphological awareness and Chinese children's literacy development. Of the 169 children from elementary schools in Beijing, China, who participated in the study, about half received enhanced instruction on the morphology of characters and words in the first and second grade. At the beginning of second grade and at the beginning of third grade, children were tested on morphological awareness, reading, and writing. The results showed that morphological instruction substantially improved children's performance on the morphological awareness and literacy measures. The best-fitting structural equation models suggested a unidirectional causal relation in early second grade and a reciprocal relation in early third grade between morphological awareness and children's literacy development.  相似文献   

August: More than Poppies and Gladioli     

Darlene M. Van Tiem  James L. Moseley 《Performance Improvement》2013,52(7):2-2

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HPT and small business: Gold mine or land mine?     

Jeffrey E. McElyea  Darlene Van Tiem 《Performance Improvement》2008,47(4):33-38

Performance consulting is typically applied to large organizations. Almost all of the literature on the topic discusses the art and science of human performance technology in these types of organizations. In the United States, however, 99.7% of employer organizations are small businesses. This article addresses some of the opportunities and challenges of working with smaller organizations and presents ways that performance consultants can build a sustainable practice in this market.  相似文献   

Educator‐Reported Instructional Characteristics of Grade 1 Reading Interventions within a CBM Assessment System     

Joseph F. T. Nese  Dan Farley  Daniel Anderson 《Learning disabilities research & practice》2019,34(2):97-109

We used data from the 2014–2015 easyCBM assessment system to explore the applied reading intervention characteristics in a sample of 3,074 Grade 1 students (and 5,145 interventions) in school districts applying a multitiered systems of support (MTSS) framework. We describe the number of interventions, number of assessments, the intervention start dates, curricula, instructional strategies, tier, group size, frequency, dosage, total time, and quantitative intensity. We found variance across all instructional variables, with 156 curricula and 59 instructional strategies applied. Based on our data, a “typical” intervention was a Tier 2 intervention that began before October, was delivered for 30 minutes/day for 5 days/week in a group with three to five students, was changed once if at all, and student progress was most likely monitored with word reading fluency measures.  相似文献   

Touching: When is it caring and norturing or when is it exploitative and damaging?     

Deborah Anderson 《Child abuse & neglect》1979,3(3-4)

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Art Education for Life     

Tom Anderson 《The International Journal of Art & Design Education》2003,22(1):58-66

In this paper I argue that art is a search for meaning, and should be taught and learned in that context. The immediate goal is to understand ourselves and others better, allowing more intelligent and meaningful action in the arena of life. Toward that end, I suggest that the social agenda of art education, in a world that is both increasingly interdependent and turbulent, can be the construction of community through personal, group–centred, and cross–cultural understandings approached through art. I examine traditionalism, modernism, postmodernism, and contemporary visual culture for content and strategies to serve the purposes of art for life, and construct the outline of a model for instruction utilizing those concerns. Finally, I make a case that thematically mining and creating art works, performances, and visual culture for aesthetic significance that ultimately frames, forms and enhances meaning is the primary strategy for this construction of community, not in the tribal sense, but universally.  相似文献   

A quarter century of getting it right in education: worldwide successes and continuing challenges   总被引：1，自引：1，他引：0  

Stephen P. Heyneman  Kathryn H. Anderson 《Globalisation, Societies & Education》2008,6(4):355-362

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Transformation between orbital parameters in different coordinate systems of the general relativistic schwarzschild problem     

R.M. Georgevic  J.D. Anderson 《Journal of The Franklin Institute》1973,296(4):275-286

The relationships between the osculating orbital elements for a family of solutions of the general relativistic Schwarzschild problems are developed. These relationships provide a method for evaluating orbital elements in different Schwarzschild coordinate systems without the necessity of fitting to real data every time the system of coordinates is changed. The objectivity of different coordinate systems is discussed. Considerations of orbital motions favor the standard Schwarzschild metric, but the propagation of light signals is more objective in the metric of Painlevé. Because the orbital motions usually dominate the representation of data, the standard Schwarzschild coordinates are the best objective choice for most applications.  相似文献   

The small-gain theorem,the passivity theorem and their equivalence     

B.D.O. Anderson 《Journal of The Franklin Institute》1972

Two small-gain theorems and a passivity theorem yielding stability results for general feedback systems are shown to be equivalent.  相似文献