Mennie Scapens and Deborah Fraser pull together a review of the literature on MI theory and examine the extent to which its applications have been found to be associated with improved student outcomes and other positive changes in the secondary school setting, and to ascertain the reasons why the theory, which has found such a ready audience among primary school educators,…
Monthly Archives March 2006
Ross Gittins, writing in The Age asserts: OUR miracle economy is running out of spark. The rapid productivity improvement of the 1990s has not continued into the noughties. Between 1998 and 2004, growth in multi-factor productivity dropped to a below-trend 1 per cent a year, compared with 2.1 per cent during the 1993 to 1998 growth cycle. …
Trying to meet the requirements of No Child Left Behind, thousands of schools are reducing class time spent on other subjects. By SAM DILLON. [NYT > Education] Link: Schools Cut Back Subjects to Push Reading and Math
Compromise: How to make breakfast. A creature of habit, I have just about exactly the same thing for breakfast every day, especially when I'm on the road. Here it is. An egg white omelet, made in a cast-iron skillet with fresh herbs and a whole... [Seth's Blog]
Gandhi: "Where there is injustice, I always believed in fighting. The question is, do you fight to change things or do you fight to punish?" [Scripting News]
Going Beyond Bubbles... "What if civil rights pioneer Rosa Parks had given up her seat on the bus?" "Your roommate has the answer key to a test and has offered to share it with you. What do you do?" These philosophical queries are two of many possible questions that will appear as a supplement to the common application for admissions…
Waterford Institute of Technology is one of just two Irish organisations selected to lead projects under the latest round of Minerva