Does the college application process overwhelm you? Are you unsure about the topic for your main essay? How about which school is the right fit, or how you are going to pay for college? All the students in this book faced a similar task of trying to figure out which college would be the best fit for them and how best to communicate what made them unique to that college.
While many books address "what "you need to do and offer a step-by-step outline, very few show you "how" and "why." "Surviving the College Application Process: Case Studies to Help You Find Your Unique Angle for Success" offers a different approach. Imagine following eleven students' journeys in-depth, getting into their heads when they made a decision about which extracurricular activities to pursue, which schools to apply to, and which topics to choose for their essays. Imagine having a tool that will help you think about your own process in a more strategic way.
"Surviving the College Application Process" is organized so that you can find profiles of students who resemble yourself. Read all the case studies or just those that resonate with your own circumstances. With the strategies outlined in this book, you will be well on your way to "Surviving the College Application Process."
Lisa Bleich, founder and president of College Bound Mentor, LLC, is an experienced independent educational consultant, entrepreneur, marketing consultant, and writer. She mentors students from all over the world on the college application process, helping them uncover their strengths and weaknesses and developing a personal plan for success. She regularly gives presentations on the college application and selection process both locally and nationally. She lives in New Jersey with her husband and three daughters. Two of them have successfully survived the college application process

* Aligned with CCSS in ELA and math, and NAGC's gifted programming standards * Able to be used in both general and gifted programs, and can be adapted for solo or class-wide use. * Features detailed lesson plans, handouts, and answer keys/rubrics to make it easy for teachers to quickly use this in their classrooms.

- Discusses the key challenges masters and doctoral students face when writing a thesis or dissertation - With the numbers of masters and PhD students continuing to rise, a book that focusses soley on writing is the ideal guide for all those concerned with this step. - Plenty of books focus on the whole thesis or dissertation process with details about how to go about the project itself, but the USP of this book is tis focus on writing

* Aligned with CCSS in ELA and math, and NAGC's gifted programming standards * Able to be used in both general and gifted programs, and can be adapted for solo or class-wide use. * Features detailed lesson plans, handouts, and answer keys/rubrics to make it easy for teachers to quickly use this in their classrooms.

* Aligned with CCSS in ELA and math, and NAGC's gifted programming standards * Able to be used in both general and gifted programs, and can be adapted for solo or class-wide use. * Features detailed lesson plans, handouts, and answer keys/rubrics to make it easy for teachers to quickly use this in their classrooms.

This book explores the concept of the 'hidden curriculum' within doctoral education. It highlights the unofficial channels of genuine learning typically acquired by doctoral students independent of the physical and metaphorical walls of academia. The doctorate is a huge and complex undertaking which requires a range of support beyond academic foundations. The exchange between official and hidden curricula is therefore key, not just for achieving the qualification, but to also achieve transformative growth. This book offers a framework for a 'doctoral learning ecology model' to scaffold learning and sustain wellbeing by leveraging both formal and hidden curricula. This illuminating book will be of interest and value to doctoral researchers, supervisors, and mentors.

Does the college application process overwhelm you? Are you unsure about the topic for your main essay? How about which school is the right fit, or how you are going to pay for college? All the students in this book faced a similar task of trying to figure out which college would be the best fit for them and how best to communicate what made them unique to that college.
While many books address "what "you need to do and offer a step-by-step outline, very few show you "how" and "why." "Surviving the College Application Process: Case Studies to Help You Find Your Unique Angle for Success" offers a different approach. Imagine following eleven students' journeys in-depth, getting into their heads when they made a decision about which extracurricular activities to pursue, which schools to apply to, and which topics to choose for their essays. Imagine having a tool that will help you think about your own process in a more strategic way.
"Surviving the College Application Process" is organized so that you can find profiles of students who resemble yourself. Read all the case studies or just those that resonate with your own circumstances. With the strategies outlined in this book, you will be well on your way to "Surviving the College Application Process."
Lisa Bleich, founder and president of College Bound Mentor, LLC, is an experienced independent educational consultant, entrepreneur, marketing consultant, and writer. She mentors students from all over the world on the college application process, helping them uncover their strengths and weaknesses and developing a personal plan for success. She regularly gives presentations on the college application and selection process both locally and nationally. She lives in New Jersey with her husband and three daughters. Two of them have successfully survived the college application process

The Premed Playbook: Guide to the Medical School Interview is the only book needed to prepare premed students for their medical school interviews. It covers traditional interviews as well as the multiple mini-interview or MMI. Through interviews with Admissions Committee members and others, Dr. Gray has compiled the most comprehensive book on this subject. Premed students want to know what to expect, but more importantly, they need to see examples of what successful applicants have done. The Premed Playbook not only gives them close to 600 potential interview questions, it also gives them real answers and feedback from interview sessions that Dr. Gray has held with students.

'fascinating, informative and revealing' Mail on Sunday Beloved bestselling author and golf aficionado Rick Reilly channels his insatiable curiosity, trademark sense of humour, and vast knowledge of the game of golf in 80 original pieces about what it has meant to him and to others, and all the reasons we love it. This is the book Rick Reilly has been writing in the back of his head since he fell in love with the game of golf at eleven years old. He unpacks and explores all of the wonderful, maddening, heart-melting, heart-breaking, cool, and captivating things about golf that make the game so utterly addictive. We meet the PGA Tour player who robbed banks by night to pay his motel bills, the golf club maker who takes weekly psychedelic trips, and the caddy who kept his loop even after an 11-year prison stint. We learn how a man on his third heart nearly won the U.S. Open, how a Vietnam POW saved his life playing 18 holes a day in his tiny cell, and about the course that's absolutely free. We'll visit the eighteen most unforgettable holes around the world (Reilly has played them all), including the hole in Indonesia where the biggest hazard is monkeys, the one in the Caribbean that's underwater, and the one in South Africa that requires a shot over a pit of alligators; not to mention Reilly's attempt to play the most mini-golf holes in one day. Reilly will admire and unload on all the great figures in the game, from Phil Mickelson to Bobby Jones to the simple reason Jack Nicklaus is better than Tiger Woods. Reilly will explain why we should stop hating Bryson DeChambeau unless we hate genius, the greatest upset in women's golf history, and why Ernie Els throws away every ball that makes a birdie. Plus all the Greg Norman stories Reilly has never been able to tell before. Connecting it all will be the story of Reilly's own personal journey through the game, especially as it connects to his tumultuous relationship with his alcoholic father, and how the two eventually reconciled through golf. This is Reilly's valentine to golf, a cornucopia of stories that no golfer will want to be without.

This book is a theoretical and practical guide to implementing an inquiry-based approach to teaching which centers creative responses to works of art in curriculum. Guided by Maxine Greene's philosophy of Aesthetic Education, the authors discuss the social justice implications of marginalized students having access to the arts and opportunities to find their voices through creative expression. They aim to demystify the process of inquiry-based learning through the arts for teachers and teacher educators by offering examples of lessons taught in high school classrooms and graduate level teaching methods courses. Examples of student writing and art work show how creative interactions with the arts can help learners of all ages deepen their skills as readers, writers, and thinkers.

Covers how to write empirical reports, research proposals, and literature, and how to read meta-analyses Provides strategies for improving one's writing - how to adopt an engaging style and grammatical and word use rules Numerous examples from journal articles demonstrate good writing in psychological reports Provides examples of the most common mistakes and how to avoid them and best practices to improve one's writing Chapter exercises provide an opportunity to apply the points conveyed in each chapter Incorporates 7th Edition APA Manual

Covers how to write empirical reports, research proposals, and literature, and how to read meta-analyses Provides strategies for improving one's writing - how to adopt an engaging style and grammatical and word use rules Numerous examples from journal articles demonstrate good writing in psychological reports Provides examples of the most common mistakes and how to avoid them and best practices to improve one's writing Chapter exercises provide an opportunity to apply the points conveyed in each chapter Incorporates 7th Edition APA Manual

This unique book compares anthropogenic challenges in science and technology teacher education between the northern and southern contexts of Sweden and South Africa, respectively.

Presenting the results of a three-year research collaboration between science and technology teacher education researchers from South Africa and Sweden, the book explores theoretical perspectives and pedagogical experiences in response to challenges in the Anthropocene. It discusses research-informed practice in teacher education to address sustainable development. Chapters in the book collectively investigate the influence of current environmental and societal changes on the education of teachers, answering the question of how science and technology teacher education can adjust to current changes in the world and prepare new teachers for work in their future profession. Touching on issues such as climate change, global warming and pandemic diseases, the book uses a comparative approach and explores opportunities and possibilities for fulfilling the goals of science and technology education for sustainable development.　

The book offers recommendations and opportunities to implement sustainability issues and develop sustainable teaching strategies. It will be a key reading for researchers, academics and post-graduate students in the fields of teacher education, science and technology education, sustainability education and comparative education.

Table of Contents

Lists of figures

List of tables

Contributors

Preface

Foreword

Acknowledgements

A list of key terms

Introduction to the book

Miranda Rocksén, Elaosi Vhurumuku, Maria Svensson, Emmanuel Mushayikwa and Audrey Msimanga

Part I: Theoretical Perspectives, Policies and Curricula in Science and Technology Teacher Education

Sustainability in science and technology teacher education: A review of the literature

Miranda Rocksén, Elaosi Vhurumuku and Maria Svensson

Science and technology teacher education in South Africa and Sweden: A comparison of linked policies and curricula

Suresh Kamar Singh, Anna Maria Hipkiss, Portia Kavai, Kassahun Weldemariam, Nina Christenson and Washington Dudu

(Re)thinking teacher education in the Anthropocene: Perspectives from South Africa and Sweden

Kassahun Weldemariam, Nina Christenson, Alexina Thorén Williams, Emmanuel Mushayikwa and Suresh Kamar Singh

Linguistic opportunities and challenges of teaching science for sustainability in multilingual contexts

Audrey Msimanga, Miranda Rocksén and Anna Maria Hipkiss

Part II: Experiences and Pedagogical Practices in Science and Technology Teacher Education

Application of the design process in the light of the Anthropocene: A conceptual study

Malose Kola, Maria Svensson and Ann-Marie von Otter

Discussing pedagogical content knowledge and ESD for science teaching: Bridging theory and practice in the Anthropocene

Sally Windsor, Maria Svensson, Washington Dudu and Marlene Sjöberg

Exploring a South African and a Swedish teacher-education programme of Biology teachers for ESD: A comparative study

Portia Kavai, Alexina Thorén Williams and Maria Tsakeni

Culturally embodied learning as instructional practices in science education: Different contexts and different meanings

Emmanuel Mushayikwa, Miranda Rocksén, Sakyiwaa Danso Boateng, Samuel Khoza and Git Börjesson

Digital competence with respect to ESD for science and technology student teachers: A study of a South African and a Swedish university

Anne-Marie Cederqvist, Ann-Marie von Otter, Portia Kavai and Samuel Khoza

Science and technology teacher education in a global world: Concluding remarks

Elaosi Vhurumuku, Miranda Rocksén, Maria Svensson, Audrey Msimanga and Emmanuel Mushayikwa

Index

This book takes a philosophical approach to the question 'what is academic writing?' and specifically explores the question of how academic writing and writing development can be better understood and developed by lecturers in higher education. It examines how a number of interconnected and interdisciplinary political, linguistic, discursive, ontological and epistemological frameworks can be used to inform a 'post-qualitative' approach for research into higher education academic writing practices, employing a Bourdusian/ Deluzean inspired approach. Using lecturers' own perceptions and experiences of academic writing, and treating them as part of a 'professional academic writing in higher education habitus', the book illustrates and analyses a number of ideas and concepts through a broadly post-qualitative paradigm. It also offers a number of innovative academic writing and writing development practices. Offering an in-depth discussion into how lecturers might better negotiate academic writing practices and use their own academic writing experiences to develop students' writing, this book will be highly relevant to academics, scholars and post-graduate students working in higher education.

The articles which make up this reader provide both overview and analysis of the central issues in secondary education. Focused closely upon what it means to teach and learn in the modern secondary classroom, this book provides invaluable insight into the development of secondary education today. It is an ideal introduction to the task of teachers in secondary schools. Issues covered in the book include:
the new agenda around teaching and learning
effective pedagogy
the teacher-student relationship
teaching, learning and the digital age
grouping by ability
managing the curriculum change
assessment
equal opportunities and educational change
This is the lead book in a series which bring together collections of articles by highly experienced educators which introduce, explore and illuminate the issues surrounding teaching in secondary schools. They are invaluable resources for those training to become teachers, newly qualified teachers and more experienced practioners, particularly those mentoring NQTs.

- Providing all of the information and practical tips need to successfully translate qualitative research into writing, this text is an ideal guide for undergraduate and postgraduate students. - The majority of students doing research use qualitative methods, but translating this data into a good written form isn't easy. - The third edition of this book has been fully updated to reflect the changes to qualitative research since the last edition, particularly with regards to GDPR and technological developments.

The Covid-19 pandemic caused mass disruption to higher education institutions (HEIs) across the world and has since led to vast debate on how to manage HEIs and how to deliver course content to students beyond the crisis. The emergency shift to remote learning has led many HEIs to adopt more flexible course delivery in the longer term. Drawing on international and multidisciplinary perspectives, Moving Higher Education Beyond Covid-19 explores how HEIs may use crises as an opportunity to develop, to transform, and to improve their institutional resilience. Authors draw on many novel and innovative practices mastered during the pandemic, including approaches to teaching, and the related learning and managerial practices. Collectively, the authors argue that Covid-19 has served as one of the most important push factors for universities to redesign their approaches to teaching and learning, and thereby also rethink their business models. With insights for researchers, course designers, and higher education leaders, Moving Higher Education Beyond Covid-19 is a must-read for moving your institution forward beyond the pandemic.

Provides a practical and comprehensive introduction to the key aspects of model-based testing as taught in the ISTQB(R) Model-Based Tester Foundation Level Certification Syllabus This book covers the essentials of Model-Based Testing (MBT) needed to pass the ISTQB(R) Foundation Level Model-Based Tester Certification. The text begins with an introduction to MBT, covering both the benefits and the limitations of MBT. The authors review the various approaches to model-based testing, explaining the fundamental processes in MBT, the different modeling languages used, common good modeling practices, and the typical mistakes and pitfalls. The book explains the specifics of MBT test implementation, the dependencies on modeling and test generation activities, and the steps required to automate the generated test cases. The text discusses the introduction of MBT in a company, presenting metrics to measure success and good practices to apply. * Provides case studies illustrating different approaches to Model-Based Testing * Includes in-text exercises to encourage readers to practice modeling and test generation activities * Contains appendices with solutions to the in-text exercises, a short quiz to test readers, along with additional information Model-Based Testing Essentials Guide to the ISTQB(R) Certified Model-Based Tester Foundation Level is written primarily for participants of the ISTQB(R) Certification: software engineers, test engineers, software developers, and anybody else involved in software quality assurance. This book can also be used for anyone who wants a deeper understanding of software testing and of the use of models for test generation.

Internet research spans many disciplines. From the computer or information s- ences, through engineering, and to social sciences, humanities and the arts, almost all of our disciplines have made contributions to internet research, whether in the effort to understand the effect of the internet on their area of study, or to investigate the social and political changes related to the internet, or to design and develop so- ware and hardware for the network. The possibility and extent of contributions of internet research vary across disciplines, as do the purposes, methods, and outcomes. Even the epistemological underpinnings differ widely. The internet, then, does not have a discipline of study for itself: It is a ?eld for research (Baym, 2005), an open environment that simultaneously supports many approaches and techniques not otherwise commensurable with each other. There are, of course, some inhibitions that limit explorations in this ?eld: research ethics, disciplinary conventions, local and national norms, customs, laws, borders, and so on. Yet these limits on the int- net as a ?eld for research have not prevented the rapid expansion and exploration of the internet. After nearly two decades of research and scholarship, the limits are a positive contribution, providing bases for discussion and interrogation of the contexts of our research, making internet research better for all. These 'limits, ' challenges that constrain the theoretically limitless space for internet research, create boundaries that give de?nition to the ?eld and provide us with a particular topography that enables research and investigation.

This book is a collection of stories, reflections and advice written by proficient scientists. They address the question of what doing science means to them, and describe attitudes and working practices that have proved effective and rewarding. The book is aimed in particular at young people who are attracted by science or already undertaking undergraduate studies, and who are considering making science their long-term profession. It will also be helpful and revealing to early-career scientists who are searching for their own best route to success. The book serves as a platform for experienced scientists to describe their original inclination, how that subjective disposition found its expression in their way of doing science, whether their expectations were met, and what achievements they can claim. But it is not restricted to success: contributors also share details of the limitations and failures they have encountered. Last but not least they describe how they see science now, how they think it will be in the near future, and what advice they would give to the their much younger colleagues. Readers will appreciate the diversity of the individual paths shaped by different education, motivation, ambition, inclination, intuition, feeling, belief and eligibility. At the same time the stories confirm that science relies on a translation of this subjective level into an objective level, one that is shared and accepted by the international scientific community, and whose results are produced with a commonly accepted and fully rational scientific method of investigation.

This book analyses the English writing and publishing experiences of 118 scholars from 18 Chinese universities from a social-cognitive perspective. It addresses the challenges and strategies multilingual scholars, particularly Chinese academics, reported in the process of writing and publishing in English. This allows the author to present a taxonomy of journal article writing strategies that correspond to the lived experiences of scholars in China, but which can also be applied to other contexts in the world. This book offers a step-by-step analysis of ethnographic case studies, insights and implications for teaching practice, as well as suggested directions for future research. It will be of particular interest to scholars in the fields of ERPP (English for Research Publication Purposes) as well as students and scholars of applied linguistics more broadly.

1. Guides students through writing each section of a lab report in turn. 2. Contains examples from typical Sport and Exercise Science lab classes 3. Includes all data sets used and fully explained statistical outputs