Early in 1915 the Philadelphia School of Pedagogy in co-operation with the Division of Medical Inspection and the Department of Instruction of the Public Schools organized a system of psychological testing of the pupils in the special classes. Although the public schools have had the advantage of the active co-operation of the Psychological Clinic of the University of Pennsylvania, it has been ...

This paper presents a case study about employing Realistic Mathematics Education (RME)-approach to teach mathematics in Indonesian primary schools. Many obstacles, such as the very dependent attitude of the pupils, the pupils who were not used to working in groups, lack of reasoning capability and lack of understanding of basic concepts, were found when the pupils, who were used to the traditio...

Verbal communication, particularly the ability to give directions and understand them, is a key not only for learning but also for every day life. Since one main objective of schools for pupils with cognitive disability or learning difficulties is to prepare pupils to manage their every day life on their own, we expect that teaching pupils how to learn and work collaboratively by sharing tasks,...

Given a disk O in the plane called the objective, we want to find n small disks P1, . . . , Pn called the pupils such that ⋃n i,j=1 Pi ⊖ Pj ⊇ O, where ⊖ denotes the Minkowski difference operator, while minimizing the number of pupils, the sum of the radii or the total area of the pupils. This problem is motivated by the construction of very large telescopes from several smaller ones by so-calle...

This paper presents an ongoing study investigating the impact of educational robotics, and RoboCupJunior in particular, on the technical and social skills of participating pupils and young students. The study will cover a period of approximately one year starting in winter term 2013. We plan to conduct the study in Austria and other European countries as well. The study is based on previous res...

This article investigates whether European identity is a feasible and functional alternative to national identity. We examine the extent, determinants and consequences of national and European identification among (immigrant) Turkish and native Belgian pupils, with data gathered from 1629 pupils across 68 Belgian schools. The results show that immigrant Turkish pupils identify more strongly wit...

Here we report a case of surgical pupilloplasty in an adult with true polycoria. A 44-year old man was referred to our clinic with a best-corrected visual acuity (BCVA) of 0.5 diopters (D) in his left eye. Biomicroscopy revealed two pupils within a 2.5-mm central zone, with diameters of 1.2 and 1.1 mm. Both pupils had real iris sphincters and responded to light and chemical stimulation. Therefo...

To explore the attitudes of teenagers to breast feeding in Liverpool, where only 30-35% of babies are breast fed, a questionnaire survey of 400 pupils aged 14 and 15 was carried out. Only 70 (18%) had been breast fed. Three quarters of the pupils thought breast feeding was healthier than bottle feeding and that it was natural, but 32 (8%) thought that it was rude. Most pupils said that breast f...

This study is one element of a government-sponsored evaluation into the introduction of interactive whiteboards (IWBs) to Years 5 and 6 in English primary schools. This element of the research aimed to gather information regarding pupil views of IWBs and the impact these tools can have on teaching and learning. To extend current literature, the method targeted pupils’ views of how IWBs can impa...