Strengthening the special educational needs element of initial teacher training and education     

Gill Golder  Nicky Jones  Erica Eaton Quinn 《British Journal of Special Education》2009,36(4):183-190

In the academic year 2006–2007, the Training and Development Agency (TDA) set up a development programme to enable Initial Teacher Training and Education (ITTE) placements in specialist special education provision. The goal of the programme was to enhance the knowledge, skills and understanding of inclusive practice for special educational needs and disability among those joining and those who are relatively new to the teaching workforce. This article, by Gill Golder, Nicky Jones and Erica Eaton Quinn, all Senior Lecturers at the College of St Mark and St John in Plymouth, outlines one project related to this TDA programme. The authors explore the outcomes of their work on a three‐year BEd (Honours) Secondary Physical Education course in the south‐west against the TDA's objectives for both trainee teachers and the special schools to which they were attached. Results confirm the importance of preparing trainee teachers for a future career in more inclusive schools.  相似文献   

Information technologies and civic engagement: Perspectives from librarianship and planning     

Aimée C. Quinn  Laxmi Ramasubramanian 《Government Information Quarterly》2007

Urban planning and librarianship are parallel fields in many ways. Both have theoretical and practical underpinnings driving each discipline; are interdisciplinary in focus; and both professions gather and disseminate information to stakeholders. Essential to the success of each discipline is an engaged user population. The authors use a case study from the Village of Oak Park to examine and reflect upon the effect of the Internet and other technologies in the public's ability to participate in an open planning process. The Village of Oak Park is known for its architectural heritage and outspoken community. Within its 4.5 square miles live a diverse population of approximately 52,000 people from different cultures, races, ethnicities, professions, lifestyles, religions, ages, and incomes where a majority of the population have some advanced education and over 80% of the households report home Internet use. How does a community like the Village of Oak Park engage in the planning process? What role does information play in this process? Can modern Information Technologies facilitate civic engagement? These questions are examined during a year-long case study conducted by the University of Illinois at Chicago (UIC) in cooperation with the Village of Oak Park (VOP). Specifically, the investigators examined how information is gathered and used in the planning process and how the introduction of Information Technology (IT) tools influenced public participation and introduced many citizens to e-government through the planning process. The use of these tools is compared to the traditional planning process. Data from the project is presented to demonstrate a different kind of role librarians play in the research process. Last, the authors discuss the role of privacy in the gathering and sharing of information with the reliability of that information and the impact of privacy on the public planning process.  相似文献   

The titration of silver with potassium iodide. Use of four selected oxidizing agents and starch as indicators     

Jay H. Quinn  Wallace M. McNabb 《Journal of The Franklin Institute》1945,240(1):47-52

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The effect of track geometry on 200- and 400-m sprint running performance     

Quinn MD 《Journal of sports sciences》2009,27(1):19-25

This study looked at how the geometry of the running track affects performances in the 200- and 400 m sprint running events. Although an athletics track must be designed with two parallel straights and two curved bends, the lengths of the straights and bends are not fixed and may vary within an approved set of limits. The bend can be semi-circular or a double-curve consisting of arcs of two different radii. A mathematical model was used to calculate the effect of track geometry on race times for six different track designs; three with semi-circular bends (encompassing the extremes of the permitted designs), and the three permitted double-curve designs. The calculations revealed substantial differences among the track designs. The time difference (in the inside lane) between the fastest and slowest tracks is about 0.1 s in the 200-m race and 0.2 s in the 400-m race. The time differential between the outside and inside lanes for a double-curve track can be up to 0.08 s greater than for a standard track with semi-circular bends.  相似文献   

The Effect of Gender and Minority Status on Salary in Private and Public ARL Libraries     

Quinn Galbraith  Erin Merrill  Olivia Outzen 《The Journal of Academic Librarianship》2018,44(1):75-80

The purpose of this study was to identify pay disparities within gender and race using private and public Association of Research Libraries (ARL) libraries as a lens. In this study, 44 ARL libraries participated, leading to 1099 usable responses to our survey. The findings indicate that race and gender pay disparities are larger at private libraries than at public libraries. However, disparity levels at both public and private ARL libraries are smaller than the national averages for all professions and continue to shrink.  相似文献   

READ-ing Our Way to Success: Using the READ Scale to Successfully Train Reference Student Assistants in the Referral Model     

Lisa Vassady  Alyssa Archer  Eric Ackermann 《图书馆管理杂志》2015,55(7):535-548

The Reference Services Department at Radford University's McConnell Library has been developing a training program in the reference referral system for student assistants (SAs) over 3 academic years. The program's goal is to effectively instruct SAs in balancing high quality customer service with the importance of appropriately referring users to librarians and to assess the accuracy of their referrals and responses. The trainers have met these goals with the successful incorporation of a modified version of the Reference Effort Assessment Data (READ) scale, a reference transaction assessment tool developed by Bella Karr Gerlich, into the student training program.  相似文献   

A Photographic Journey through the Daming Palace     

Alyssa 《中外文化交流(英文版)》2011,(1):42-43

The Qujiang International Shadow Art Festival 2010,taking place in Xi’an,China,attracted a great many celebrated photographers as well as photography lovers.They were fascinated by the magnificent beauty and exquisite  相似文献   

Six honest serving men for evaluation     

Michael Quinn Patton 《Studies in Educational Evaluation》1988,14(3)

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Studies on the Formation of Perceptually Based Basic-Level Categories in Young Infants   总被引：7，自引：1，他引：7  

Peter D. Eimas  Paul C. Quinn 《Child development》1994,65(3):903-917

A series of experiments examined the abilities of 3- and 4-month-old infants to form categorical representations to exemplars of natural kinds–cats and horses. These experiments also permitted assessment of the relative exclusivity of these representations—the extent to which they exclude exemplars from contrasting basic-level categories from the same superordinate category. We found that categorical representations could be formed for horses that excluded cats, zebras, and giraffes, and for cats that excluded horses and tigers but not female lions. Lions were, however, excluded from the representations of cats in 6- and 7-month-old infants. Evidence was also obtained for 2 a priori preferences for members of one category over another. The discussion examined the roles of similarity between the exemplars of the contrasting categories and those of the tested category on estimates of exclusivity and of spontaneous preferences on the formation and exclusivity of categorical representations.  相似文献   

Designing an instructional game: reflections on ‘Quest for Independence’     

Clark N. Quinn 《Education and Information Technologies》1996,1(3-4):251-269

Certain design opportunities stretch the boundaries of established procedure and when members of a working party on ‘After Care’ came to us seeking a computer component for a multimedia package we were confronted with just such a challenge. Faced with the unusual instructional goal of training indpendent-living skills, an unusual target population of low-literacy youth, and hardware limitations of lowest-common-denominator microcomputers, naturally, we developed a computer game. Using a cognitive approach, we developed ‘Quest for Independence’, a computer-based simulation game to develop independent-living skills. In this paper we discuss the approach, the resulting game and the current status.  相似文献