Leading Great Schools     

Alma Harris 《School Leadership & Management》2013,33(4):315-317

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Introduction to Special Feature: Alternative perspectives on school improvement     

Alma Harris  David Hopkins 《School Leadership & Management》2013,33(1):9-14

The growth of interest in school improvement in the last decade has been striking. In the UK, the educational system has moved to a position where school improvement is not merely expected but demanded. As a result, a large number of school improvement projects and initiatives have emerged to meet this demand. Many of these initiatives have emphasised structural change and have located change efforts at the level of the school. However, the research evidence concerning successful school improvement programmes demonstrates the importance of changing school culture and focusing upon teaching and learning. The Improving the Quality of Education For All (IQEA) project embraces both these elements. Over the last 10 years the project has achieved demonstrable success in a diverse range of school contexts and is at the forefront of school improvement work within the UK. This special feature considers IQEA from a variety of perspectives and provides important insights into the theory, process and practice of successful school improvement.  相似文献   

Poetic Representations in Sport and Physical Education: Insider Perspectives 1     

Andrew C. Sparkes  Lynda Nilges  Peter Swan  Fiona Dowling 《Sport, Education and Society》2013,18(2):153-177

As part of the emergence of new writing practices in the social sciences, qualitative researchers have begun to harness the potential of poetic representations as a means of analysing social worlds and communicating their findings to others. To date, this genre has been little used within the domains of sport and physical education. Accordingly, in this article, we provide examples of poetic representations and seek to generate insights into the process of their construction by exploring the perspectives of their authors. A rationale for choosing this genre is outlined and the potential benefits and risks of making this choice for both the researcher and the audience are considered. It is concluded that poetic representations are a worthy addition to the analytical repertoire in qualitative research.  相似文献   

Leading professional learning: putting teachers at the centre     

Alma Harris 《School Leadership & Management》2017,37(4):331-333

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A confluence of new technology and the right to water: experience and potential from South Africa’s constitution and commons     

Nathan Cooper  Andrew Swan  David Townend 《Ethics and Information Technology》2014,16(2):119-134

South Africa’s groundbreaking constitution explicitly confers a right of access to sufficient water (section 27). But the country is officially ‘water-stressed’ and around 10 % of the population still has no access to on-site or off-site piped or tap water. It is evident that a disconnect exists between this right and the reality for many; however the reasons for the continuation of such discrepancies are not always clear. While barriers to sufficient water are myriad, one significant factor contributing to insufficient and unpredictable access to water is the high percentage of broken water pumps. Previous studies have reported that between 20 and 50 % of all hand operated water pumps installed on the African continent are broken, or out of use. Monitoring and maintenance of pumps, which in South Africa is the responsibility of local municipalities is often ineffective, in part due to the distances between municipal centres and rural communities and the consequent costs of site visits, as well as breakdowns within the local bureaucratic system. The emergence of new telemetry tools that can remotely monitor water applications constitutes a novel and cost-efficient alternative to undertaking regular sites visits. Sustainable, appropriate, low-cost telemetry systems are emerging that could be used to monitor the operational performance of water pumps, or a wide range of other field parameters, and to communicate this information swiftly and cheaply to water service providers, using SMS messages. Data on the performance of water pumps could also be made available to the public online. This is an example of how ICT can be used for water resources management and environmental regulation, as well as in the governance of socio-economic rights: helping to optimize water allocation by improving communication and strengthening accountability.  相似文献   

Evaluation of the BD Vacutainer? RST blood collection tube for routine chemistry analytes: clinical significance of differences and stability study     

Marija Kocijancic  Jelena Cargonja  Alma Delic-Knezevic 《Biochemia medica : ?asopis Hrvatskoga dru?tva medicinskih biokemi?ara / HDMB》2014,24(3):368-375

Introduction:

Preanalytical variables account for most of laboratory errors. There is a wide range of factors that affect the reliability of laboratory report. Most convenient sample type for routine laboratory analysis is serum. BD Vacutainer^® Rapid Serum Tube (RST) (Becton, Dickinson and Company, Franklin Lakes, NJ, USA) blood collection tube provides rapid clotting time allowing fast serum separation. Our aim was to evaluate the comparability of routine chemistry parameters in BD Vacutainer^® RST blood collection tube in reference with the BD Vacutainer^® Serum Separating Tubes II Advance Tube (SST) (Becton, Dickinson and Company, Franklin Lakes, NJ, USA).

Materials and methods:

Blood specimens were collected from 90 participants for evaluation on its results, clotting time and stability study of six routine biochemistry parameters: glucose (Glu), aspartate aminotransferase (AST), alanine aminotransferase (ALT), calcium (Ca), lactate dehidrogenase (LD) and potassium (K) measured with Olympus AU2700 analyzer (Beckman Coulter, Tokyo, Japan). The significance of the differences between samples was assessed by paired t-test or Wilcoxon Matched-Pairs Rank test after checking for normality.

Results:

Clotting process was significantly shorter in the RSTs compared to SSTs (2.49 min vs. 19.47 min, respectively; P < 0.001). There was a statistically significant difference between the RST and SST II tubes for glucose, calcium and LD (P < 0.001). Differences for glucose and LD were also clinically significant. Analyte stability studies showed that all analytes were stable for 24 h at 4 °C.

Conclusions:

Most results (except LD and glucose) from RST are comparable with those from SST. In addition, RST tube provides shorter clotting time.  相似文献   

Infants' Selective Attention to Reliable Visual Cues in the Presence of Salient Distractors     

Kristen Swan Tummeltshammer  Denis Mareschal  Natasha Z. Kirkham 《Child development》2014,85(5):1981-1994

With many features competing for attention in their visual environment, infants must learn to deploy attention toward informative cues while ignoring distractions. Three eye tracking experiments were conducted to investigate whether 6‐ and 8‐month‐olds (total N = 102) would shift attention away from a distractor stimulus to learn a cue–reward relation. While 8‐month‐olds showed evidence of increasingly selective attention toward the predictive cues, even when the distractors were highly salient, 6‐month‐olds shifted attention toward the predictive cues only when the distractors were equally (not more) engaging. These experiments suggest that attention in infancy is highly dependent on the relative weightings of predictiveness and visual salience, which may differ across development and context.  相似文献   

How fifth grade Latino/a bilingual students use their linguistic resources in the classroom and laboratory during science instruction     

Alma R. Stevenson 《Cultural Studies of Science Education》2013,8(4):973-989

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“Why in This Bilingual Classroom … Hablamos Más Español?” Language Choice by Bilingual Science Students     

Alma D. Stevenson 《Journal of Latinos & Education》2015,14(1):25-39

This qualitative sociolinguistic research study examines Latino/a students’ use of language in a science classroom and laboratory. This study was conducted in a school in the southwestern United States that serves an economically depressed, predominantly Latino population. The object of study was a 5th-grade bilingual (Spanish/English) class. The findings demonstrate the students’ awareness of their own bilingualism, their preference for speaking Spanish, and their conceptualization of English as the language of academic success. Most significantly, this study reveals how the institutional context impacts both the teacher’s and the students’ behaviors, resulting in an implicit institutionalized bias against Spanish.  相似文献   

Increasing productivity through library automation: Essen symposium, 11 October–14 October, 1982. Ahmed H. Helal,Joachim W. Weiss (Eds) Essen University Library,Essen (1983). 228 p., no change listed. ISBN 3-922602-06-1     

Janet Swan Hill 《Information processing & management》1985,21(1):79-80

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