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How are curriculum policies translated into opportunities to
learn in the classroom?
According to the Book presents findings from the largest
cross-national study of textbooks carried out to date - the
curriculum analysis of the 1995 Third International Mathematics and
Science Study (TIMSS). This study included a detailed,
page-by-page, inventory of the mathematics and science content,
pedagogy, and other characteristics collected from hundreds of
textbooks in over forty countries.
Drawing on these data, the authors investigate the rhetorical
and pedagogical features of textbooks to understand how they
promote and constrain educational opportunities. They investigate
how textbooks are constructed and how they structure diverse
elements into prescriptions for teaching practice.
The authors break new ground in understanding textbooks in terms
of different educational opportunities that they make possible. The
book examines policy implications from these new understandings. In
particular, conclusions are offered regarding the role of textbooks
in curriculum-driven educational reform, in light of their role as
promoters of qualitatively distinct educational opportunities.
PREFACE The Third International Mathematics and Science Study
(TIMSS), sponsored by the International Association for the
Evaluation of Educational Achievement (IEA) and the g- ernments of
the participating countries, is acomparative study of education in
mathematics and the sciences conducted in approximately 50
educational systems on six continents. The goal of TIMSS is to
measure student achievement in mathematics and science in
participating countries and to assess some of the curricular and
classroom factors that are related to student learning in these
subjects. The study is intended to provide educators and policy
makers with an unpar- leled and multidimensional perspective on
mathematics and science curricula; their implem- tation; the nature
of student performance in mathematics and science; and the social,
econ- ic, and educational context in which these occur. TIMSS
focuses on student learning and achievement in mathematics and
science at three different age levels, or populations. * Population
1 is defined as all students enrolled in the two adjacent grades
that contain the largest proportion of 9-year-old students; *
Population 2 is defined as all students enrolled in the two
adjacent grades that contain the largest proportion of 13-year-old
students; and * Population 3 is defined as all students in their
final year of secondary education, incl- ing students in vocational
education programs. In addition, Population 3 has two "specialist"
subpopulations: students taking advanced courses in mathematics
(mathematics specialists), and students taking advanced courses in
physics (physics specialists).
This book is an everything-included approach to understanding
drones, creating an organization around using unmanned aircraft,
and outlining the process of safety to protect that program. It is
the first-of-a-kind safety-focused text book for unmanned aircraft
operations, providing the reader with a required understanding of
hazard identification, risk analysis, mitigation, and promotion. It
enables the reader to speak the same language as any civil aviation
authority, and gives them the toolset to create a safety risk
management program for unmanned aircraft. The main items in this
book break down into three categories. The first approach is
understanding how the drone landscape has evolved over the last 40
years. From understanding the military components of UAS to the
standards and regulations evolution, the reader garners a keen
understanding of where we came from and why it matters for moving
forward. The second approach is in understanding how safety risk
management in aviation can be applied to drones, and how that fits
into the regulatory and legislative environment internationally.
Lastly, a brief synopsis of the community landscape for unmanned
aircraft is outlined with interviews from important leaders and
stakeholders in the marketplace. Drones fills a gap in resources
within the unmanned aircraft world. It provides a robust
understanding of drones, while giving the tools necessary to apply
for a certificate of authorization, enabling more advanced flight
operations for any company, and developing safety risk management
tools for students and career professionals. It will be a mainstay
in all safety program courses and will be a required tool for any
and all individuals looking to operate safely and successfully in
the United States.
This book is an everything-included approach to understanding
drones, creating an organization around using unmanned aircraft,
and outlining the process of safety to protect that program. It is
the first-of-a-kind safety-focused text book for unmanned aircraft
operations, providing the reader with a required understanding of
hazard identification, risk analysis, mitigation, and promotion. It
enables the reader to speak the same language as any civil aviation
authority, and gives them the toolset to create a safety risk
management program for unmanned aircraft. The main items in this
book break down into three categories. The first approach is
understanding how the drone landscape has evolved over the last 40
years. From understanding the military components of UAS to the
standards and regulations evolution, the reader garners a keen
understanding of where we came from and why it matters for moving
forward. The second approach is in understanding how safety risk
management in aviation can be applied to drones, and how that fits
into the regulatory and legislative environment internationally.
Lastly, a brief synopsis of the community landscape for unmanned
aircraft is outlined with interviews from important leaders and
stakeholders in the marketplace. Drones fills a gap in resources
within the unmanned aircraft world. It provides a robust
understanding of drones, while giving the tools necessary to apply
for a certificate of authorization, enabling more advanced flight
operations for any company, and developing safety risk management
tools for students and career professionals. It will be a mainstay
in all safety program courses and will be a required tool for any
and all individuals looking to operate safely and successfully in
the United States.
This volume contains the edited transcript of an interdisci plinary
colloquium held at Totts Gap Medical Research Laboratories, Bangor,
Pennsylvania on October 12-14, 1983 under the sponsorship of the
Muscular Dystrophy Association. The aim was to illuminate the
pathogenic mechanism of Duchenne Muscular Dystrophy through a
synthesis of available data on gene expression in muscle. In the
informal give and take ot the collo quium, the participants found
themselves engaged in mutual education and enlightenment as they
attempted to put together what is known and to highlight what is
not known about the subject. Significant research into muscle as a
tissue and muscle disease began only about 50 years ago although
the description of muscular dystrophy by Guillaume Benjamin Amand
Duchenne de Boulogne had been published in 1862. By 1943 it was
clear that Duchenne muscular dystrophy was an X-linked genetic
disorder. Up to the present, however, the offending gene has not
been identified although its location on the short arm of the X
chromosome has been approximately determined. The gene product
associated with the initial disturbance in skeletal muscle has also
remained elusive up to now. Moreover, investigations into the
mechanisms of the muscle degeneration have been hampered by
ignorance of the fundamental phenotypic expression of the genetic
disorder."
How are curriculum policies translated into opportunities to
learn in the classroom?
According to the Book presents findings from the largest
cross-national study of textbooks carried out to date - the
curriculum analysis of the 1995 Third International Mathematics and
Science Study (TIMSS). This study included a detailed,
page-by-page, inventory of the mathematics and science content,
pedagogy, and other characteristics collected from hundreds of
textbooks in over forty countries.
Drawing on these data, the authors investigate the rhetorical
and pedagogical features of textbooks to understand how they
promote and constrain educational opportunities. They investigate
how textbooks are constructed and how they structure diverse
elements into prescriptions for teaching practice.
The authors break new ground in understanding textbooks in terms
of different educational opportunities that they make possible. The
book examines policy implications from these new understandings. In
particular, conclusions are offered regarding the role of textbooks
in curriculum-driven educational reform, in light of their role as
promoters of qualitatively distinct educational opportunities.
PREFACE The Third International Mathematics and Science Study
(TIMSS), sponsored by the International Association for the
Evaluation of Educational Achievement (IEA) and the g- ernments of
the participating countries, is acomparative study of education in
mathematics and the sciences conducted in approximately 50
educational systems on six continents. The goal of TIMSS is to
measure student achievement in mathematics and science in
participating countries and to assess some of the curricular and
classroom factors that are related to student learning in these
subjects. The study is intended to provide educators and policy
makers with an unpar- leled and multidimensional perspective on
mathematics and science curricula; their implem- tation; the nature
of student performance in mathematics and science; and the social,
econ- ic, and educational context in which these occur. TIMSS
focuses on student learning and achievement in mathematics and
science at three different age levels, or populations. * Population
1 is defined as all students enrolled in the two adjacent grades
that contain the largest proportion of 9-year-old students; *
Population 2 is defined as all students enrolled in the two
adjacent grades that contain the largest proportion of 13-year-old
students; and * Population 3 is defined as all students in their
final year of secondary education, incl- ing students in vocational
education programs. In addition, Population 3 has two "specialist"
subpopulations: students taking advanced courses in mathematics
(mathematics specialists), and students taking advanced courses in
physics (physics specialists).
In 2019, Wolfgang Laib entered into a dialogue with masterpieces by
Fra Angelico, Leon Battista Alberti, Filippo Brunelleschi and
Benozzo Gozzoli in his philosophical and poetic installations of
pollen and beeswax. The publication documents impressively this
unique and spectacular art event. Following an invitation from the
Museo Novecento in Florence, Wolfgang Laib - one of the outstanding
artists of the present day - created five works in four of the
city's main sights, including the convent of San Marco and the
Pazzi Chapel. In their juxtaposition with the historic
masterpieces, the delicate pollen sculptures and the imposing
beeswax ziggurat cause the contrast between present and past,
physical place and endless space, and real and spiritual life to
become blurred and lead us towards the central questions of life.
Myasthenia gravis (MG), an acquired immune syndrome affecting
proteins at the neuromuscular junction, causes significant muscular
functional impairment and can compromise patients quality of life,
including fatigue, disability, and increased mortality rates.
Continued efforts in the last decades have begun to produce
significant progress in our understanding of this rare condition,
yet considerable challenges remain for improving diagnosis and
developing effective treatments for MG. The present volume
comprises papers stemming from the 12th International Conference on
Myasthenia Gravis and Related Disorders, held May 21 23, 2012 at
the New York Academy of Sciences in New York City. The papers
collected in this second of two Annals volumes highlight some of
the key developments in neuroscience and immunology in MG and
related syndromes presented at the conference, including treatment
update and what lies ahead, congenital myasthenic syndromes,
Lambert-Eaton myasthenic syndrome, the thymus, thymectomy, and the
myasthenia gravis thymectomy trial, and hot topics selected from
submitted abstracts. NOTE: Annals volumes are available for sale as
individual books or as a journal. For information on institutional
journal subscriptions, please visit:
http://ordering.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/subs.asp?ref=1749-6632&doi=10.111/(ISSN)1749-6632.
ACADEMY MEMBERS: Please contact the New York Academy of Sciences
directly to place your order (www.nyas.org). Members of the New
York Academy of Science receive full-text access to Annals online
and discounts on print volumes. Please visit
http://www.nyas.org/MemberCenter/Join.aspx for more information on
becoming a member.
Myasthenia gravis (MG), an acquired immune syndrome affecting
proteins at the neuromuscular junction, causes significant muscular
functional impairment and can compromise patients quality of life,
including fatigue, disability, and increased mortality rates.
Continued efforts in the last decades have begun to produce
significant progress in our understanding of this rare condition,
yet considerable challenges remain for improving diagnosis and
developing effective treatments for MG. The present volume
comprises papers stemming from the 12th International Conference on
Myasthenia Gravis and Related Disorders, held May 21 23, 2012 at
the New York Academy of Sciences in New York City. The papers
collected in this first of two Annals volumes highlight some of the
key developments in neuroscience and immunology in MG and related
syndromes presented at the conference, including structure and
function of the neuromuscular junction, advances in immunology and
their relationship to myasthenia gravis, clinical and laboratory
developments, outcome measurements and clinical trial development,
and animal models of neuromuscular junction disease. NOTE: Annals
volumes are available for sale as individual books or as a journal.
For information on institutional journal subscriptions, please
visit:
http://ordering.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/subs.asp?ref=1749-6632&doi=10.111/(ISSN)1749-6632.
ACADEMY MEMBERS: Please contact the New York Academy of Sciences
directly to place your order (www.nyas.org). Members of the New
York Academy of Science receive full-text access to Annals online
and discounts on print volumes. Please visit
http://www.nyas.org/MemberCenter/Join.aspx for more information on
becoming a member.
Most studies of eighteenth-century community life in America have
focused on New England, and in many respects the New England town
has become a model for our understanding of communities throughout
the United States during this period. In this study of a
mid-Atlantic town, Stephanie Grauman Wolf describes a very
different way of organizing society, indicating that the New
England model may prove atypical. In addition, her analysis
suggests the origins of twentieth-century social patterns in
eighteenth-century life. Germantown, Pennsylvania, was chosen for
study because it was a small urban center characterized by an
ethnically and religiously mixed population of high mobility. The
author uses quantitative analysis and sample case study to examine
all aspects of the community. She finds that heterogeneity and
mobility had a marked effect on urban development--on landholding,
occupation, life style, and related areas; community organization
for the control of government and church affairs; and the structure
and demographic development of the: family. Her work represents an
important advance not only in our understanding of
eighteenth-century American society, but also in the ways in which
we investigate it.
Ein ncucs Instrument erfullt den gleidtcn Zweck wie eine Reise in
die Fremde: Es zeigt die Dinge in ungewoehnlichem Zusammenhang. Der
Gewinn ist nicht nur eine Summierung, sondern eine Wandlung.
WillTEllEAD Das vorliegende Buch beschaftigt sich mit dem
wissenschaftlichen Dokumenta- tionsfilm und insbesondere mit der
E11cyclopaedia Ci11ematograpl!ica, jener systematisch angelegten
ubernationalen Sammlung von Dokumentationsfil- men, die vor mehr
als einem Jahrzehnt begonnen wurde und in der fur Biologie,
Technische Wissenschaften und Voelkerkunde heute bereits uber 1100
Filme vorliegen. Als Beispiel fur den Forschungsfilm in der
besonderen Form des Dokumenta- tionsfilmes werden der
Enzyklopadie-Film, seine Form und sein Platz im Schema dieser
Enzyklopadie diskutiert werden. Der Charakter der Enzyklopa-
die-Einheit, die UEberlegungen, die zu ihrer Herstellung in der
gewahlten Form fuhrten, ihre Verwendung und Auswertung sollen
anhand von Filmbeispielen erlautert werden. Wenn man vor der
Notwendigkeit steht, Filme zu beschreiben, wird man sich bald der
Schwierigkeit bewusst, dem Leser eine Vorstellung von ihrem Inhalt
und Aufbau zu vermitteln. Es wurden hier zu diesem Zweck in einer
Reihe von Fallen, wo es sich als notwendig erwies, alle
Einstellungen von bestimm- ten Filmen ausfuhrlich wiedergegeben. In
dieser Weise hofft der Verfasser, dem Leser von deren Inhalt und
Anlage ohne Projektion der Filme selbst ein Bild geben zu koennen.
Bewerber um einen Arbeitsplatz moechten persoenlich angesprochen
und umworben werden - beides koennen die meisten Stellenanzeigen
nicht leisten. Das Buch will Personalern und allen, die im
Rekrutierungsprozess tatig sind, zeigen, wie wichtig es ist, alle
AEusserungen des Arbeitgebers konsequent mit den Augen des
Bewerbers zu sehen. Wie man dies - von der Ansprache, dem Aufbau
der Anzeige, der Tonalitat, der Textstrategie bis zum Satzbau und
zur Wortwahl - in der Stellenanzeige umsetzt, erfahren Sie in
diesem Buch.
Metallkundler, (allgemeine) Werkstoffwissen- Dadurch soli die LUcke
zwischen der dem aktiv schaftler und Werkstoffingenieure werden bei
die Verfahren betreibenden Spezialisten gewid- der KHlrung der
Zusammenhange zwischen meten Literatur und den auf die
Grundprinzipien Technologie Struktur, Gefiige Eigenschaften der
genannten Verfahren eingeschrankten metall- in steigendem MaBe mit
modernen Untersu- kundlichen oder werkstoffwissenschaftlichen
chungsmethoden konfrontiert. Diese Verfahren Lehrbtichern
geschlossen werden. mUssen meist in Kombination eingesetzt werden,
Mit dem Buch sollen nicht nur in Industrie und urn die Frage
beantworten zu konnen, warum Forschung, in Technologie und
Entwicklung eine Technologic wie gestaltet werden muB, tatige
Metallkundler, sondern auch Werkstoff- damit gewUnschte
Eigenschaften bzw. die damr techniker und Werkstoffingenieurc sowie
Stu- erforderlichen Struktur- und Gefligeparameter dierende dieser
Fachrichtungen angesprochen erreicht werden. Urn die in der
metallkundlichen werden. (werkstoffwissenschaftlichen)
Fachliteratur in Obwohl die Beispiele bewuBt auf metallische
steigendem MaBe veroffentlichten Ergebnisse Werkstoffe beschrankt
sind, konner. auch Be- moderner Un(crsuchungsmethoden verstehen,
arbeiter anderer Werkstoffgruppen (wie Hoch- polymere,
anorganisch-nichtmetallische Werk- richtig einschatzen und evtl.
flir die Losung eige- ncr Probleme nutzen zu konnen, benotigt auch
stoffe, Silikat- und keramische Werkstoffe, der Nichtphysiker
Grundkenntnisse des Prin- Baustoffe), ja selbst Geowissenschaftler
und zips und der MogJichkeiten und Grenzen der Mineralogen sowie
mit werkstoffkundlichen betreffenden Verfahren. Fragesteliungen
beschiiftigte Physiker und Che- [n dem vorliegenden Buch haben
erfahrene miker einen raschen Oberblick tiber die verflig-
Fachleute der behandelten Spezialgebiete den baren
Untersuchungsmethoden und deren Aus- Versuch unternommen, eine
Darstellung von sagemoglichkeiten erhalten.
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