Along the Write Lines: a case study exploring activities to enable creative writing in a secondary English classroom.     

Audrey B. Wood 《English in Education》2016,50(2):130-147

This article arises from a four week study of a class of 14‐15 year old students. The study explored students’ perception of themselves as writers and the effects of a variety of teaching and learning strategies on their creative writing responses. The aim of the project was to enhance the students’ creative writing, whilst ascertaining whether there were particular activities or types of writing that would lead to students perceiving more satisfactory outcomes in their writing. It answers the research question: What do I observe, and what do my students say, about the experience of different classroom based creative writing tasks?  相似文献   

The End of an Era     

Matthew C. Woessner 《Academic Questions》2015,28(4):464-471

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ACADEMIC SELF‐EFFICACY AMONG JUNIOR HIGH SCHOOL STUDENTS IN GHANA: EVALUATING FACTOR STRUCTURE AND MEASUREMENT INVARIANCE ACROSS GENDER     

David Ansong  Sarah R. Eisensmith  Rainier D. Masa  Gina A. Chowa 《Psychology in the schools》2016,53(10):1057-1070

Self‐efficacy is a universal construct, but few validated measures exist for researchers in developing countries to use in assessing youths’ perceptions of their ability to achieve academic success. This study examined the cross‐cultural suitability and psychometric properties of an academic self‐efficacy scale (ASES) adapted for the Ghanaian context. ASES construct validity was assessed with a sample of 4,289 Ghanaian junior high‐school students and exploratory and confirmatory factor analysis. Invariance testing assessed the scale's measurement equivalence by gender and temporal stability of gender equivalence. The ASES is a valid, reliable one‐dimensional scale for assessing young Ghanaians’ perceptions of their academic capabilities, and it works equally well across genders. As adapted, ASES is a valid scale with utility for researchers examining predictors and effects of academic self‐efficacy. The ASES has important implications for decisions regarding investment in programs aimed at improving academic self‐efficacy of youth, both in sub‐Saharan Africa and the increasingly diverse American public schools.  相似文献   

Where Do Highly Educated Russians Work,and What Do They Do for a Living?     

E.Ya. Varshavskaya 《Russian Education & Society》2016,58(12):841-861

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Editor’s Page: Celebration -- the 4th Stage in the Education Cycle?     

Libby V. Morris 《Innovative Higher Education》2015,40(4):289-290

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Making Early Medieval Societies: Conflict and Belonging in the Late West, 300–1200     

E.T. Dailey 《Al-Masaq: Islam & the Medieval Mediterranean》2016,28(3):306-308

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William A. Fischel. Making the Grade: The Economic Evolution of American School Districts. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2009. 304 pp. Cloth $55.00.     

Ethan L. Hutt 《History of education quarterly》2011,51(4):562-565

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William Shedrick Willis and the ‘Ghost of Boas’     

Liss  Julia E. 《Metascience》2011,20(1):211-213

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Editorial     

Philip J. Hills 《International Journal of Information Management》2011,31(6):491-492

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Microfluidic cell fragmentation for mechanical phenotyping of cancer cells     

Nabiollah Kamyabi  Siva A. Vanapalli 《Biomicrofluidics》2016,10(2)

Circulating tumor cells (CTCs) shed from the primary tumor undergo significant fragmentation in the microvasculature, and very few escape to instigate metastases. Inspired by this in vivo behavior of CTCs, we report a microfluidic method to phenotype cancer cells based on their ability to arrest and fragment at a micropillar-based bifurcation. We find that in addition to cancer cell size, mechanical properties determine fragmentability. We observe that highly metastatic prostate cancer cells are more resistant to fragmentation than weakly metastatic cells, providing the first indication that metastatic CTCs can escape rupture and potentially initiate secondary tumors. Our method may thus be useful in identifying phenotypes that succumb to or escape mechanical trauma in microcirculation.  相似文献