Academic Supervision Management to Support School Literacy Movement

Literacy - the first step to Academic Inclusion

The Relationship of School-wide Positive Behavior Support to Academic Achievement in an Urban Middle School

An emerging literature on school-wide Positive Behavior Support (PBS) in urban settings suggests the utility of PBS in addressing student social development while decreasing the need for disciplinary actions (i.e., office disciplinary referrals [ODRs]). This research represents a significant addition to, and expansion of, this literature by examining the relationship of school-wide PBS-induced ...

Face-to-face talk to support computer- mediated discussion in a primary school literacy practice

In this study, Dutch primary school children used a computer-mediated discussion forum to discuss the concept of horror stories. In such discussion forums children often write their contributions individually. This paper presents an ongoing empirical study in which the contributions to an electronic discussion forum from children working individually were compared to contributions from children...

Adherence to antiretroviral therapy: supervision or support?

www.thelancet.com/infection Vol 12 February 2012 97 hands. Indeed, the single published study from the USA that examined hand hygiene as a single intervention (funded by the maker of the alcohol-based hand gel product) showed no eff ect on HAI. One is tempted to infer that the absence of any data-based articles celebrating the wonders of hand hygiene in the publishor-perish climate of the USA c...

Using a Wiki to Support Sustainability Literacy

It is becoming increasingly important that students develop an awareness and understanding of sustainability issues: that they develop their ‘sustainability literacy’. For the past few years we have included some explicit coverage of this for computing students. Computing students tend to be very strategically-orientated and reject material which seems to them to be of no direct relevance to th...