People acquire new knowledge and complex skills from game play, suggesting gaming could help address one of the nations most pressing needs strengthening our system of education and preparing workers for 21st century jobs. Numerous studies of…
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Collaboration scripts are usually implemented as parts of a particular collaborative-learning platform. Therefore, scripts of demonstrated effectiveness are hardly used with learning platforms at other sites, and replication studies are rare. The…
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This note shows how centralized or distributed power control algorithms in wireless communications can be viewed as S-modular games coupled policy sets (coupling is due to the fact that the set of powers of a mobile that satisfy the…
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In this article, the authors describe the design, implementation, and outcomes of an online support community for beginning teachers, called the Lighthouse project. The goal was to investigate the use of online collaborative consultation in…
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This paper examines the impact of gender and race on young peoples perceptions of the educational and labour market opportunities available to them after they complete their compulsory schooling in England. Its findings are based on a study of the…
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OBJECTIVE: To provide a qualitative systematic review of the risk of spinal manipulation in the treatment of lumbar disk herniations (LDH) and to estimate the risk of spinal manipulation causing a severe adverse reaction in a patient presenting with…
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SAGE is a framework for number theory, algebra, and geometry computation that is initially being designed for computing with elliptic curves and modular forms. The current implementation is primarily due to William Stein. It is open source and…
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When facilitating asynchronous discussion forums, should online instructors be encouraged to take a prominent 'sage on the stage' role, a more constructivist 'guide on the side' role, or an ultra low profile as 'the ghost in the wings'? There is no…
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Considers methodological issues in Internet research. The pros and cons of Web research are discussed, concluding that the advantages outweigh the disadvantages. The author describes ways of dealing with potential problems, and offers ways to turn…
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Abstract There is little evidence that the prevailing strategies of science education have an impact on the use and interpretation of science in daily life. Most science educators and science education researchers nonetheless believe that science…
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Discussions about transfer have mainly dealt with how people manage to do something in a situation thanks to having done something similar in a previous situation. From an educational point of view, however, it appears more fruitful to consider the…
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Methods for planning sample size (SS) for the standardized mean difference so that a narrow confidence interval (CI) can be obtained via the accuracy in parameter estimation (AIPE) approach are developed. One method plans SS so that the expected…
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In this article, performance assessments are cast within a sampling framework More specifically, a performance assessment is viewed as a sample of student performance drawn from a complex universe defined by a combination of all possible tasks,…
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The ArgumentIn its reconstruction of scientific practice, philosophy of science has traditionally placed scientific theories in a central role, and has reduced the problem of mediating between theories and the world to formal considerations. Many…
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Objective: To better understand medical decision making in the context of preference sensitive care, we investigated factors associated with breast cancer patients' satisfaction with the type of surgery received and with the decision process. Data…
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Background: Healthcare institutions spend enormous time and effort to train their workforce. Web-based training can potentially streamline this process. However the deployment of web-based training in a large-scale setting with a diverse healthcare…
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We describe an approach to investigating design cognition which involved comparing prescriptive theories of good design practice with observations of actual design behaviour. The tenet of prescriptive theory which formed the focus of the research is…
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Adopting a socio-cultural theoretical framework and based on ethnographic data from two primary schools, this paper seeks to answer the question: what meanings about inclusion and exclusion are encoded in school and classroom practices? It documents…
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This paper traces the migration of North American childrentextquoterights television into the realm of massively multiplayer online games (MMOGs), and the issues this raises in terms of the commercialisation of childrentextquoterights (digital)…
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O artigo discute o campo e o núcleo de saberes e de práticas da saúde coletiva a par- tir de um metodologia dialética, pensando-a para além do positivismo e do estruturalismo e fazendo uma crítica à sua tendência de assumir posição de transcendência…
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