Web 2.0 Tools Ease Renovation Service Disruptions at The Ohio State University Libraries     

Elizabeth L. Black  Rebekah Kilzer 《Public Services Quarterly》2013,9(2):93-109

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The Thompson Library, the main library of The Ohio State University (OSU), began a major renovation in fall 2006 that required the library to close for three years. During this time, the bulk of the circulating collection and many of the personnel relocated to an interim facility. The distance imposed by the renovation created special challenges for service to patrons and communication among library faculty and staff. The OSU Libraries used blogs, podcasts, a wiki, instant messaging, and the campus course management system to reach as many of the constituents of the campus community as possible.  相似文献   

Collaboration Between the University of Michigan Taubman Health Sciences Library and the University of Michigan Medical School Office of Research     

Christine Black  Bethany Harris  Katy Mahraj  Anna Ercoli Schnitzer 《Medical reference services quarterly》2013,32(2):179-184

Librarians have traditionally facilitated research development resulting in grants through performing biomedical literature searches for researchers. The librarians at the Taubman Health Sciences Library of the University of Michigan have taken additional steps forward by instituting a proactive approach to assisting investigators. To accomplish this, the librarians have taken part in a collaborative effort with the University of Michigan Medical School Office of Research. Through this partnership, both units have created and adopted various techniques intended to facilitate the submission of grants, thus allowing researchers more time to conduct their primary activities.  相似文献   

Using Decision Tree Analysis to Understand Foundation Science Student Performance. Insight Gained at One South African University     

Nicola Frances Kirby  Edith Roslyn Dempster 《International Journal of Science Education》2013,35(17):2825-2847

The Foundation Programme of the Centre for Science Access at the University of KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa provides access to tertiary science studies to educationally disadvantaged students who do not meet formal faculty entrance requirements. The low number of students proceeding from the programme into mainstream is of concern, particularly given the national imperative to increase participation and levels of performance in tertiary-level science. An attempt was made to understand foundation student performance in a campus of this university, with the view to identifying challenges and opportunities for remediation in the curriculum and processes of selection into the programme. A classification and regression tree analysis was used to identify which variables best described student performance. The explanatory variables included biographical and school-history data, performance in selection tests, and socio-economic data pertaining to their year in the programme. The results illustrate the prognostic reliability of the model used to select students, raise concerns about the inefficiency of school performance indicators as a measure of students' academic potential in the Foundation Programme, and highlight the importance of accommodation arrangements and financial support for student success in their access year.  相似文献   

Plato's view of rhetoric     

Edwin Black 《Quarterly Journal of Speech》2013,99(4):361-374

A basic factor of Chaim Perelman's rhetorical theory is the concept of the universal audience. Unfortunately, the concept of the universal audience, which follows in the tradition of Rousseau's general will and Kant's categorical imperative, is open to many of the same criticisms leveled against the general will and the categorical imperative.  相似文献   

Eternal Treblinka: Our Treatment of Animals and the Holocaust     

Jason Edward Black 《Quarterly Journal of Speech》2013,99(1):83-84

A Course of Study in Speech Training and Public Speaking for Secondary Schools. Compiled and edited by A. M. Drummond. The Century Co., New York, 1925. 291 pages. Price $1.25.

Purposive Writing and Speaking. By Joseph A. “Wallace and James Milton O'Neill. Longmans, Green and Co., 1925. Pp. vi &; 338.

School Poetry for Oral Expression. By Edward Du Bois Shurter and Dwight Everett Watkins. Noble and Noble, New York, 1925.

The Art of Public Speaking. By Lucy D. Bell. Routledge and Sons, London (E. P. Dutton, N. Y.), 1923. Pp. 118.

The Public Speaker. By H. H. Roberts. Routledge and Sons, London (E. P. Dutton, N. Y.), 1923. Pp. 190.

What Is Americanism. By G. M. “Wilson. Silver, Burdett and Co., 1924. Pp. 330.  相似文献   

III. FROM THE POINT OF VIEW OF THE STUDENT     

Edith E. Chandler∗ 《Religious education (Chicago, Ill.)》2013,108(5):325-329

This article constitutes Chapter I in the author's significant new book, “Church Education For Tomorrow,” published by Westminster Press on September 19, 1960, and is used here by permission of the author and publisher. The book is reviewed by Frank M. McKibben on pages 387‐388 of this issue.  相似文献   

A Renaissance education: schooling in Bergamo and the Venetian Republic, 1500–1650     

Robert Black 《History of education》2013,42(4):569-572

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Health literacy and social capital: what role for adult literacy partnerships and pedagogy?     

Stephen Black  Jo Balatti  Ian Falk 《Studies in Continuing Education》2013,35(2):146-164

This paper makes the case for adult literacy (including numeracy) practitioners to play a greater role in health literacy initiatives in Australia. The paper draws on data from a national research project that investigated adult literacy partnerships and pedagogy viewed from a social capital perspective. The primary purpose of the project was to produce guidelines on how to deliver integrated adult literacy and numeracy programmes using a social capital approach. Prior experience of partnerships was explored through a review of the literature and an environmental scan of adult literacy providers using an email survey and follow-up interviews. An in-depth case study of a health literacy partnership was trialled using action research. Partnerships between adult literacy and health organisations in Australia were found to be largely ad hoc and rarely documented. To enable sustainable health literacy programmes, partnerships are needed across the three interlinked organisational levels – micro, meso and macro, and in particular the latter, which is currently almost completely absent. The conceptual frameworks outlined for health literacy partnerships and social capital pedagogy in this paper are new and potentially of value to policy makers, researchers and practitioners in the fields of health and literacy.  相似文献   

Comparación entre dos modelos de educación bilingüe     

Edith Mägiste 《Infancia y Aprendizaje》2013,36(33):63-75

Resumen

La presente investigación es una comparación entre dos modelos de educación bilingüe introducidos hace algunos años en el Colegio Alemán de Estocolmo: por un lado, estudiantes con el sueco como primera lengua de instrucción en el primer curso, con tres horas semanales de instrucción en alemán, que se iba incrementando progresivamente en los años posteriores, de manera que en el cuarto curso, el idioma en las clases era en un 50 por 100 alemán y en un 50 por 100 sueco. Por otro lado, estudiantes con tres horas semanales de instrucción en sueco en el primer curso, que aumentaban a cinco horas en los siguientes cursos.

Sólo se encontró un bilingüismo balanceado en los estudiantes que siguieron el currículum en alemán. Los estudiantes que siguieron el currículum sueco, mantuvieron el sueco como su idioma claramente dominante y obtuvieron una alta competencia en el alemán como segundo idioma.

Estas diferencias se explicaron por el bagaje lingüístico de los alumnos. Puesto que los alumnos que tenían el alemán como primera lengua adquirían sus dos lenguajes tanto en los entornos informales como en el formal, conseguían más input de los entornos naturales. Los estudiantes de idioma sueco en cambio, recibían el input del alemán únicamente en la instrucción formal de la escuela, que no podía compensar la fuerte influencia del idioma del hogar y del país.

Además, la presente investigación ha contribuido a corroborar la hipótesis de la edad óptima para el aprendizaje de la segunda lengua.  相似文献   

Memorial Chapel∗: (Stanford)     

Edith Walkerdine Brandt 《The Educational forum》2013,77(2)

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