Guided Inquiry and Consensus-Building Used to Construct Cellular Models

Guided Inquiry and Consensus-Building Used to Construct Cellular Models†

Using models helps students learn from a "whole systems" perspective when studying the cell. This paper describes a model that employs guided inquiry and requires consensus building among students for its completion. The model is interactive, meaning that it expands upon a static model which, once completed, cannot be altered and additionally relates various levels of biological organization (m...

Developing Sixth Graders’ 1 Running head: DEVELOPING INQUIRY SKILLS TO CONSTRUCT EXPLANATIONS Developing Sixth Graders’ Inquiry Skills to Construct Explanations in Inquiry-based Learning Environments

Assessment of radiological hazards due to soil and building materials used in Mirpur Azad Kashmir Pakistan

Background: Health hazards associated with exposure due to the natural radioactivity which is a part of our physical environment are of great concern. In order to assess the risks associated with exposure due to the natural radioactivity in soil and building materials, extensive studies have been carried out all over the world. The most commonly encountered radionuclide’s are 238U, 2...

Where Do We Start? Building Consensus on Drivers of Health Sector Corruption in Nigeria and Ways to Address It

Background Corruption is widespread in Nigeria’s health sector but the reasons why it exists and persists are poorly understood and it is often seen as intractable. We describe a consensus building exercise in which we asked health workers and policy-makers to identify and prioritise feasible responses to corruption in the Nigerian ...

Consensus building: How to persuade a group

Many decisions in private and public organizations are made by groups. The paper explores strategies that the sponsor of a proposal may employ to convince a qualified majority of group members to approve the proposal. Adopting a mechanism design approach to communication, it emphasizes the need to distill information selectively to key members of the group and to engineer persuasion cascades in...