This qualitative case study focuses on English for Academic Purposes (EAP) practitioner accounts of student academic language development at a UK university. EAP practitioners are often uniquely well placed as experts in the complexities and choices which vary according to discipline, epistemological stance, genre. However, their expertise is misunderstood or misrepresented. contributes debates...

The development process used by academic researchers often seems unsystematic. A Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC) is seldom considered, commenting is scarce, and external documentation consists of erasure marks left on whiteboards. Configuration management is paid lip-service, but is not standard practice. This paper examines reasons behind the apparent large-scale non-adoption of softwar...

PURPOSE Examine the effects of a comprehensive, school-wide social-emotional and character development program using a positive youth development perspective. Specifically, we examined a mediation mechanism whereby positive academic-related behaviors mediated the intervention effects on substance use, violence, and sexual activity. DESIGN Matched-pair, cluster-randomized, controlled design. ...

In a climate of benchmarks, comparisons, accountability, and league tables, it is important to ensure that students are not excluded from access to academic ‘success’ or denied a sense of academic progress (Nichols & Berliner, 2007). Many assessment systems represent a ‘zero-sum game’ in which some students’ success comes at the expense of others’ success (e.g., Amrein-Beardsley, 2008; Nichols ...

Academic surgeons play an instrumental role in the training of our medical students and surgical residents. Although volunteer faculty often have an important role in the clinical development of surgeons-in-training, the tasks of curricular development, structured didactic sessions, professional advising, research sponsorship, and mentoring at all levels fall to the academic surgeon. Historical...