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Exploring Farmer Health and Wellbeing, and Relationships Between Farmer Health and Wellbeing & the Health, Welfare, and Productivity of Their Livestock
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Effective learning and testing of bird identification skills
Get PDFBiology education worldwide at different levels involves learning to identify plants and animals in nature. The aim of this study was to investigate the effectiveness of a teaching and learning method for bird identification that combines active outdoor fieldwork with active online learning, testing the validity of our instrument. Altogether, 798 of 853 students with different cultural and socio-political backgrounds from nine countries participated in 2010–2018. The research method was an online bird identification test at the beginning of the study, an online test and a field test at the end of the field teaching period, and an online exam at the end of the study. The results showed great progression from the beginning to the exam at the end of the study, and a positive correlation between initial skills and exam skills. Finally, the field test showed a strong positive correlation with the online test taken simultaneously, thus indicating that functional competence can be measured in the online exam. We recommend our instrument for teaching and testing of students’ skills in species identification worldwide and for all taxa, but further testing of validity and teaching effects is recommended.publishedVersio
Prokaryote Composition and Structure of Rumen Fluid before and after In Vitro Rumen Fermentation
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Task potential in relation to teaching quality and teacher competence in secondary mathematics classrooms
Get PDFThe potential of tasks to foster mathematical learning and understanding is an important aspect of instruction and their implementation in teaching is thus often viewed to be positively related to the quality of instruction. Both the selection of tasks as well as their implementation in the classroom depend on many factors, with teachers’ knowledge and skills as one of the most important ones. The present study aims to analyze the relations between different aspects of task potential, the quality of instruction, and teachers’ competence in order to investigate whether task potential can be seen as an indicator for teaching quality, for teacher competence, or as an independent construct in models of educational effectiveness. To this end, we draw on data from the TEDS-Validate study, namely tests of mathematics teachers’ competence (n = 31) observations in their classrooms (n = 60), and an in-depth analysis of all tasks used in the respective lessons (n = 2490). Multiple regression analysis suggests that while some facets of task potential are related to either teaching quality or teacher competence, the potential of tasks emerges as an independent construct with some characteristics predicting the teaching quality of the respective lessons. Implications of these results for the role of tasks in educational effectiveness research are discussed.publishedVersio
Effect of Instruction and Target Position on Penalty Kicking Performance in Soccer
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Progressive substitution of fish oil with Schizochytrium-derived algal oil in the diet of Atlantic salmon (Salmo salar) parr subjected to winter signal period
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