The general theme of change in philosophy over time is due to traditional customs and beliefs failing to regulate society. This theme drove both John Dewey's Progressive Movement and the creation of the Curriculum and Evaluation Standards for School Mathematics (1989) by the National Council of Teachers of Mathematics (NCTM). The remarkable similarity in thought between Dewey's writings and the...

Movement of university admission is not random. Student admission data can be used to define the likely source of students and movement of the source. Thus, it can help the university improve its courses marketing strategy. Standard database and statistical methods do not work well with interrelated spatial data. The ongoing research presented in this paper attempts to use Geographic Informatio...

The purpose of this study was to examine students' weekly rates of academic growth, or slopes of achievement, when Curriculum-Based Measurement (CBM) is conducted repeatedly over 1 year. Using standard CBM procedures in reading, spelling, or math, students in Year 1 (n = 546) were measured once each week; students in Year 2 (n = 2,511) were measured at least monthly. Results provided corroborat...

Text analysis traditions in France and the United States include discourse analysis, critical linguistics, French functional linguistics, Bakhtinian dialogics, and “generous reading.” These frames have not been used, however, in crosscultural analysis of university student writing. The author presents a study of 250 student texts from French and U.S. introductory university courses, using a met...

Process Oriented Guided Inquiry Learning (POGIL) uses specially designed activities and cooperative learning to teach content and to actively engage students in inquiry, analytical thinking and teamwork. It has been used extensively in Chemistry education, but the use of POGIL is not well documented in other physical and biological sciences. This is a descriptive account of the initial implemen...

Communication is a desirable skill for robots. We describe a method of how these skills could be learned. A control architecture of con-nectionist model combining lifelong learning and predeened behaviours is developed and implemented in a physical system of two autonomous robots. A teaching scenario based on movement imitation is used to teach a basic non grammatical language. Teaching is done...

That a crisis exists in the production of humanities Ph.D.s hardly seems worth restating. With the widespread use of adjunct professors and overworked graduate students, fewer and fewer Ph.Ds are finding full-time gainful employment. We have all heard the stories of part-time professors rushing from campus to campus, hoping to paste together a living. Few of them have health care benefits; rare...

Background The impact of tele-education for movement disorders on medical students is unknown. The present study had three objectives. First, to create a tele-education program for medical students in regions with limited access to movement disorders curricula. Second, to analyze the feasibility, satisfaction, and improvement of medical knowledge. Third, to assess the main reasons of medical st...

The purpose of this study is the investigation of organizational behavior of the French communists in the May Movement in 1968. Particularly at the first part of the movement, a severe rivalry between the French Communist Party (PCF) and the radical student organizations occurred. Although both of them pursued the same political goals, they could not work out for a united front. Such a behavior...