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Assessing the Impact of Career and Life Design through Innovative Hybrid Evaluation and Digital Storytelling
Full text linkThis paper outlines the innovative integration and evaluation of a for-credit Life Design module within the formal curriculum of a university in Ireland, the first time Life Design has been introduced for academic assessment in this context. The module forms part of a larger project at the University of Galway, Designing Futures (DF), which has been funded by the Irish Government (€7.5m, 2020-2025) to support student entrepreneurship, innovation and cross-disciplinary and research-led learning. Furthermore, DF is concerned with the rounded and holistic formation of the student, including supporting them in discerning their personal and professional life goals. The Life Design module facilitates this specific aspect of the DF project, engaging students with a diverse set of Life Design tools as they encounter key life concepts and questions, helping them to figure out how to get more out of the college experience and what they might choose to do upon graduation. This article is focusing on how the Design Your Life module has been designed and refined since its introduction in 2021-2022. The iterative design of the Life Design module has been underpinned by assessment and evaluation. The discussion illustrates how student feedback and learning have been ascertained and assessed. This includes the use of innovative digital storytelling as a narrative mode of assessment, one that we have found is well-suited to the process-oriented, personal and professional development goals of Life Design. While this paper predominantly focuses on undergraduate education in a university setting, the assessment and evaluation strategies, heuristics and digital storytelling outlined here can be adopted and adapted to develop and enhance Life Design innovations in diverse contexts beyond college education
Hadron spectroscopy
Full text linkIf you query the arXiv electronic database of preprints and look at the topics of published articles, you can see that roughly one in five deals with hadron spectroscopy. During its development, this area of particle physics has experienced several rises and falls. Today, it is a rapidly developing branch of science, which comprises a significant part of the research program of almost every accelerator experiment. It is especially valid for B-, cτ -factories and, certainly, the LHC, where exciting results have been obtained. The purpose of this lecture is to try giving an overview of the current state of hadron spectroscopy through the eyes of an experimentalist
III.11 — Radiation oncology: biology, physics and clinical applications
Full text linkIonizing radiation is one of the main modalities used for cancer treatment and has been used in the clinic since the discovery of X-rays and radioactivity at the end of the 19th century. The development of linear accelerators (linacs) in the 1950s allowed treatment of deeply seated tumours and sparing of the skin. Further improvements in imaging, computer-assisted planning, dose-delivery techniques and globally treatment equipment, allowed vast improvements in curability and reduced toxicity; nowadays, over 50% of cancer patients receive radiotherapy. The majority of radiotherapy treatments globally are delivered with megavoltage electron linacs. Access to radiotherapy and improvement of available technology remain key issues of global health
III.13 — CERN LIU project: beam dynamics aspects and solutions
Full text linkThe goal of the LHC Injectors Upgrade (LIU) project was to increase the intensity and brightness in the LHC injectors in order to match the challenging requirements of the High-Luminosity LHC (HL-LHC) project, while ensuring high availability and reliable operation of the injectors complex throughout the whole HL-LHC era. Fulfilling this goal required identifying the main performance limitations across all LHC injectors (Linac2, the Proton Synchrotron Booster (PSB), the Proton Synchrotron (PS), the Super Proton Synchrotron (SPS)) and then implementing a combination of extensive hardware modifications and new beam dynamics solutions in order to overcome them. The beam dynamics solutions were studied, tested and, where possible, implemented operationally already during the LHC Run 2 (2014–2018). The great majority of the LIU hardware modifications were implemented during the 2019–2020 CERN accelerators shutdown. This chapter describes the rationale behind the main baseline choices of the LIU project and the evolution of the various project phases, before concluding on the expected beam parameter reach and actual commissioning. It will solely address the upgrade of the proton injector chain, which better matches the pedagogical scope of this contribution
IV.5 — JUAS during the period 2006–2010
Full text linkThis chapter covers the period François Méot was JUAS director (i.e. between 2006 and 2010)
Qu’est-ce que le climat de classe ? : Ce qu’en disent les élèves de l’enseignement primaire vaudois.
No full textBackground: Classroom climate is vital for success and well-being at school. It represents a key element of current Vaud educational policies promoting inclusion and sustainability. However, few studies have documented what classroom climate is and how pupils feel and understand it in this context, especially using mixed methods.
Objective: This study aims to present the results of elementary school students' understanding of the classroom climate in the canton of Vaud (Switzerland).
Sample: The sample comprises two classes of elementary school levels 5-6H and 7-8H, tracked across four measurement points between January 2021 and December 2021.
Methodology: The study employs a mixed-methods approach, incorporating two distinct data collection strategies: quantitative data gathered through the School Environment Questionnaire (SEQ), administered at four time points, and qualitative data collected via focus groups with the same students at times T2 and T4. The theoretical framework for assessing classroom climate is based on five dimensions—relationships, education, safety, fairness, and belonging (Janosz et al., 1998). Quantitative data were analyzed using descriptive and correlational methods, while qualitative data were explored through a deliberative inductive logic categorization approach..
Results: The cross-analysis of quantitative and qualitative data uncovers novel associations related to the relational dimension, which emerges as highly influential in shaping students' school experiences. This dimension encompasses various sub-dimensions depending on the context: in the case of student-to-student relationships, it is linked to feelings of safety and belonging, while in the context of teacher-to-student relationships, it is connected to perceptions of fairness and the educational framework, particularly regarding rules.
Conclusions: These results highlight the importance of the issue of relationships in understanding classroom climate. They notably emphasize which teaching practices are relevant to students, particularly those relating to justice and to fostering relationships between peers. They highlight the need to strengthen the role of these objects in teaching-learning activities at school.
Keywords: Classroom climate, relationships, justice, mixed method, inclusion, sustainability.Contexte: Le climat de classe est un facteur important de réussite et de bien-être à l’école. Son développement est également à l’agenda des politiques éducatives d’inclusion et de durabilité, dans le canton de Vaud. Pourtant, peu d’études ont documenté sa compréhension par les élèves dans ce contexte.
Objectif: Cette étude a pour but de présenter les résultats de la perception du climat de classe par des élèves de l’enseignement primaire vaudois.
Echantillon: L’échantillon se compose de deux classes d’élèves des degrés d’enseignement primaire 5-6H et 7-8H suivis sur quatre temps de mesure, entre janvier 2021 et décembre 2021.
Méthodologie: La méthodologie mobilise deux récoltes de données de nature distincte : une récolte de donnée quantitative, avec la passation du questionnaire de l’environnements scolaire (QES) sur quatre temps de mesure, ainsi qu’une récolte de donnée qualitative avec des focus-groups réalisés auprès de ces mêmes élèves aux temps T2 et T4. Le modèle utilisé du climat de classe est construit autour de cinq dimensions : relationnel, éducatif, sécurité, justice et appartenance (Janosz et al., 1998). Pour les données quantitatives, des analyses descriptives et corrélationnelles ont été réalisées. Pour les analyses qualitatives, la méthode de catégorisation par logique inductive délibératoire a été mobilisée.
Résultats: Les résultats montrent une perception positive du climat scolaire de manière générale. Les analyses corrélsationnelles et qualitatives montrent des associations inédites, au regard de la modélisation du climat de classe, autour de la dimension relationnelle apparaissant très significative dans la lecture de l’expérience scolaire. Cette dimension renvoie à des sous-dimensions différentes, selon qu’elle concerne la relation élève-élève (associée aux dimensions de sécurité et d’appartenance) ou la relation enseignant-e-élève (associée aux dimensions de justice et de cadre).
Conclusions: Ces résultats permettent de mettre au centre la question de la relation dans la compréhension du climat de classe, en mettant en évidence les pratiques enseignantes pertinentes pour les élèves à cet égard, relatives aux formes d’exercice de la justice en classe et à la construction du vivre-ensemble. Ils permettent de soulever la nécessité de renforcer la place de ces objets dans les activités d’enseignement-apprentissage à l’école
II.5 — Superconducting RF cavities
No full textThe application of superconducting materials in RF cavities has gained a huge interest in the particle accelerator field over the last five decades. In particular, the accelerating gradients have been increased considerably due to progress in the understanding of the limiting factors at the beginning. Such limiting factors were in particular multipacting and issues in surface preparation and related technology. Also, advances in material technology play a very important role. Today superconducting RF cavities are indispensable elements for many particle accelerators. A number of examples are presented and also measurement techniques for the characterisation of important RF properties
II.7 — Cryogenics for superconducting devices
Full text linkThis introduction to cryogenics focuses on the aspects of low-temperature science and technology applicable to the cooling of superconducting devices: properties of cryogenic fluids (helium and nitrogen) as compared to solid materials, refrigeration and liquefaction, heat transfer and thermal insulation, and use of cold vapour for thermal screening in cryostats and ancillaries such as current leads
II.14 — Applications of low-energy accelerators
Full text linkParticle accelerators have been invented and developed almost exclusively as tools for the exploration of the subatomic world. In the wake of these big high-energy facilities, about forty-five thousand small accelerators are at work every day, almost unnoticed. These accelerators, which represent about 95% of all accelerators operating worldwide, have an energy not larger than 50 MeV. They produce beams of particles and photons, and are used in hospitals, in manufacturing plants, in small research laboratories, in sterilisation industry, in ports and on ships at sea, and even in museums. We will discuss these accelerators and their major applications in domains as radiotherapy, radioisotope production, radiation processing and ion implantation.