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Showing 1 to 20 of 65 for “"Science department"”.
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Secondary School Science Department Chairs Leading Change
<p>Secondary school department chairs are content area specialists in their schools and are responsible for providing students with the most appropriate curricula. However, most secondary school department chairs have limited authority to institute change unilaterally (Gmelch, 1993; Hannay & Erb, …
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Leadership Practices of Science Department Chairs in Secondary Public Schools
… the transformational leadership practices of science department chairs as perceived by both science department chairs and their principals as measured quantitatively by the third edition of the Leadership Practice Inventory (LPI) (Kouzes & Posner, 2007). In addition to transformational …
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Understanding first year undergraduate achievement in a post-1992 university science department
… a cohort of first year (FY) undergraduates in a science department in a post 1992 university. Three key research approaches were deployed within this case study, namely, grounded theory, phenomenography and survey research. These three distinctive approaches have been framed within a broad …
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A Case Study of a School Science Department: A Site for Workplace Learning?
… descriptive and illuminative case study of one science department in a successful, urban, secondary school in the south of England considers the science department as a site of workplace learning and the experience of beginning teachers in this context. Policy change in initial teacher training …
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An evaluation of the impact of post-basic nursing programmes offered by the University of Zululand
… nursing programmes offered by the nursing science department of the University of Zululand, in KwaZulu-Natal from 1981-1988. The aim was to establish relevance and appropriateness of these nursing programmes in relation to the needs of the country, and to evaluate how the graduates of this …
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Relationship between managing teamwork with teachers and building self confidence for science learning among children
… ideas. The study focused on the work of the science department in a boys' 12 to 16 comprehensive school in Southern England, where the researcher was Head of the Faculty of Science and Technology. This was an ethnographic case study where the researcher was a participant observer in action …
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General Aviation Aircraft: A Comparative Analysis of Analog Instrument Display and Conceptual Primary Flight Display
… pilot license selected from the Aeronautical Science department at Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University. Three flight conditions (spoiler problem, engine problem, and flap failure) acting as a control group was given to the flight students while flying a traffic pattern. A Silicon Graphics® …
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Visualization of microprocessor execution in computer architecture courses: a case study at Kabul University
… are basic courses taught in every computer science department. Generally, however, students have difficulties in mastering many of the concepts in the courses, particularly students whose first language is not English. In addition to their difficulties in understanding the purpose of given …
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Leadership for scholarly excellence: a qualitative examination of department chair facilitation methods to promote research productivity in pre-tenure biological sciences faculty
Leading a large, highly productive department that must compete on the global stage requires an increasingly broad skill-set. This study investigates whether there are methods that life science department chairs can employ to enhance the research productivity of their pre-tenure faculty and …
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A portrait, e x t e n d e d
Every day, researchers from MIT's Materials Science Department stride past a portrait of Vannevar Bush that hangs on a curious display panel in the lobby of building 13, as they hurry to and from their laboratories. A Portrait, Extended is an architectural and photographic intervention that aims to …
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Handling hovercrafts : designing a project curriculum to introduce girls to mechanical engineering
… in MIT's Electrical Engineering and Computer Science department to expose girls to engineering topics and to encourage them to choose engineering majors in college. For the upcoming launch of a WTP in the mechanical engineering department, a new curriculum is being developed. The objective of …
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Evaluation of the effectiveness of the method used to teach critical thinking skills
… as used by the Cinnaminson School District's Science Department. With the changing demands of society there comes a need for change in the preparation of students for the future that will be theirs. The sample population for this study was the one hundred and seven of the two hundred and forty …
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Preservação de acervos: uma análise da produção científica no periódico Biblionline
… journal Biblionline linked to the Information Science Department of the Federal University of Paraíba (UFPB), in the period 2005-2013. The study had the analysis of article abstract and the keywords as the methodological foundation. The results point out that the journal encompasses a …
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Avaliação de coleções e de serviços de bibliotecas para a área de ciência da computação
… to provide documents in the field of Computer Science. Two samples have been used to test the libraries’ capabilites : a sample of citations obtained randomly from articles published in the journal "Computing Surveys", and a citation pool obtained from the series of technical reports published …
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The classroom implementation of indigenous knowledge in the science curriculum by science teachers in the Western Cape province, South Africa
… National Curriculum Statement (RNCS) for Natural Science (Department of Education, 2002), the National Curriculum Statement (NCS) for Life Science (Department of Education, 2003), and the Curriculum and Assessment Policy Statement (CAPS) for Natural Science and Life Science (Department of …
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Y B ME? : an analysis of the status of women in mechanical engineering and the Women's Technology Program as a potential long-term solution
The issue of the lack of women in the fields of science and engineering has recently received new attention by the scientific and women's studies communities alike. In fields such as Mechanical Engineering there continues to be a marked lack of women, especially when looking at higher levels of …
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Data Visualization for the Benchmarking Engine
… data engine, being developed at the Computer Science department, University of New Orleans. The data engine is an intelligent website generator and users who create websites using the Data Engine are the site owners. Using ChartVisio, owners may generate new charts and save them as XML …
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