3,020 research outputs found
Activities for Differentiated Instruction Addressing All Levels of Bloom\u27s Taxonomy and Eight Multiple Intelligences
No full textThis manuscript contains 13 curriculum units designed to enhance differentiated instruction for learners with special needs from grades 1-12, including gifted students. It integrates Benjamin S. Bloom\u27s levels of cognitive understanding with Howard Gardner\u27s eight domains of intelligence to provide a framework for individualized instruction. Each unit has activities for the eight multiple intelligences (logical-mathematical intelligence, linguistic intelligence, bodily-kinesthetic intelligence, spatial intelligence, musical intelligence, interpersonal intelligence, intrapersonal intelligence, and naturalistic intelligence) at each of Bloom\u27s taxonomic levels: knowledge, comprehension, application, analysis, synthesis, and evaluation. The manuscript begins by explaining Bloom\u27s and Gardner\u27s contributions to educational research in the area of differentiated instruction, and then provides the following curriculum units: (1) Solar System (Jeff Hendrickson and Renee Hendrickson); (2) Energy (Chris Hiroto); (3) Antarctica (Amy La Jocies); (4) Author Study of Chris Van Allsburg (Linda Hurley Lord); (5) Omnipotent Oceans (Sheri Marshall); (6) Starting a Home Business (Vicki L. Malan); (7) Fractions (Denise C. Moriarty); (8) Whole Numbers and Decimals (Denise C. Moriarty); (9) Geometry (Denise C. Moriarty); (10) Ancient Egypt (Audrey C. Rule); (11) Energy (Cynthia Rust); (12) Garden Plants (Amy Smith); and (13) Rain Forests (Jaime Watson). (Contains 11 references.) (CR
Identification of Evolving Rule-based Models.
No full textAn approach to identification of evolving fuzzy rule-based (eR) models is proposed. eR models implement a method for the noniterative update of both the rule-base structure and parameters by incremental unsupervised learning. The rule-base evolves by adding more informative rules than those that previously formed the model. In addition, existing rules can be replaced with new rules based on ranking using the informative potential of the data. In this way, the rule-base structure is inherited and updated when new informative data become available, rather than being completely retrained. The adaptive nature of these evolving rule-based models, in combination with the highly transparent and compact form of fuzzy rules, makes them a promising candidate for modeling and control of complex processes, competitive to neural networks. The approach has been tested on a benchmark problem and on an air-conditioning component modeling application using data from an installation serving a real building. The results illustrate the viability and efficiency of the approach. (c) IEEE Transactions on Fuzzy System
Campbell\u27s Rule for Estimating Entropy Changes (the author replies)
No full textThe author revises an aspect of selecting a numerical value for Campbell’s rule that was overlooked in his original presentation
Creativity Skills Applied to Earth Science Education: Examples from K-12 Teachers in a Graduate Creativity Class
No full textNOTE: This is a large file, 10.7 mb in size! This article briefly explores different aspects of creativity, and then examines K-12 teachers' reactions to exercises applied to earth science concepts in a graduate creativity class. Different types of puzzle activities centering on geoscience content include a quiz game based on Odyssey of the Mind spontaneous problems, and other exercises related to embedded words, transformed cliches, remotely associated word sets, and wordsmithing. Teachers used visualization for an imaginary interview with a geoscientist, along with personal analogy of an earth science feature. As a culminating activity, teachers fashioned a geoscience curriculum material with a given set of items. Ideas for applying the activities to geoscience classes at various grade levels are included. Educational levels: Graduate or professional, Graduate or professional
When do rule changes count-as legal rule changes?
No full textInstitutions regulate societies. Comprising Searle's constitutive counts-as rules, "A counts-as B in context C", an institution ascribes from brute and institutional facts (As), a social reality comprising institutional facts (Bs) conditional on the social reality (contexts Cs). When brute facts change an institution evolves from one social reality to the next. Rule changes are also regulated by rule-modifying counts-as rules ascribing rule change in the past/present/future (e.g. a majority rule change vote counts-as a rule change). Determining rule change legality is difficult, since changing counts-as rules both alters and is conditional on the social reality, and in some cases hypothetical rule-change effects (e.g. not retroactively criminalising people). However, without a rigorous account of rule change ascriptions, AI agents cannot support humans in understanding the laws imposed on them. Moreover, advances in automated governance design for socio-technical systems, are limited by agents' ability to understand how and when to enact institutional changes. Consequently, we answer "when do rule changes count-as legal rule changes?" in a temporal setting with a novel formal framework.</p
Security for Interlocutory Injunctions under Rule 65(c): Exceptions to the Rule Gone Awry
No full textFederal Rule of Civil Procedure 65(c) requires applicants for preliminary injunctions or temporary restraining orders to post security before the injunction will issue. Determining the amount of the security to be posted is left to the judge\u27s discretion under the Rule. While many circuits have carved out narrow exceptions to the Rule that allow waiver of the bond, other circuits have held the bond itself to be fully within the district court\u27s discretion. Waiver of the bond leaves the defendant without recourse if the court later determines that the defendant was wrongfully enjoined.
In her Note, the author examines the history of Rule 65(c) and the purpose of the bond requirement, arguing that it is mandatory and that waiver should be allowed only in narrow circumstances. The Note summarizes the development of various exceptions to the bond requirement and criticizes the inconsistent application of the exceptions by lower courts, illustrating the point with several amounts set in contemporaneous ERISA cases. The author proposes the analysis that lower courts should use and suggests modifications to the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure to encourage more consistent application of Rule 65(c)
Security for Interlocutory Injunctions under Rule 65(c): Exceptions to the Rule Gone Awry
No full textFederal Rule of Civil Procedure 65(c) requires applicants for preliminary injunctions or temporary restraining orders to post security before the injunction will issue. Determining the amount of the security to be posted is left to the judge\u27s discretion under the Rule. While many circuits have carved out narrow exceptions to the Rule that allow waiver of the bond, other circuits have held the bond itself to be fully within the district court\u27s discretion. Waiver of the bond leaves the defendant without recourse if the court later determines that the defendant was wrongfully enjoined.
In her Note, the author examines the history of Rule 65(c) and the purpose of the bond requirement, arguing that it is mandatory and that waiver should be allowed only in narrow circumstances. The Note summarizes the development of various exceptions to the bond requirement and criticizes the inconsistent application of the exceptions by lower courts, illustrating the point with several amounts set in contemporaneous ERISA cases. The author proposes the analysis that lower courts should use and suggests modifications to the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure to encourage more consistent application of Rule 65(c)
Error estimate for a corrected Clenshaw–Curtis quadrature rule
No full textA new endpoint-corrected rule for the Clenshaw–Curtis (C–C) quadrature is proposed to improve the convergence rate. The error behavior is compared, analytically and numerically, to the C–C rule and related quadrature rules: the Fejér rules of the first and second kind and the Basu rule.journal articl
Calling the judiciary to account for the past : transitional justice and judicial accountability in Nigeria
No full textInstitutional and individual accountability is an important feature of societies in transition from conflict or authoritarian rule. The imperative of accountability has both normative and transformational underpinnings in the context of restoration of the rule of law and democracy. This article argues a case for extending the purview of truth-telling processes to the judiciary in postauthoritarian contexts. The driving force behind the inquiry is the proposition that the judiciary as the third arm of government at all times participates in governance. To contextualize the argument, I focus on judicial governance and accountability within the paradigm of Nigeria’s transition to democracy after decades of authoritarian military rule
Poetry for Teaching Elementary Mathematics Topics
No full textSixty poems focusing on elementary mathematics topics such as matching, classification, sequencing, counting, addition, subtraction, place value, decimals, multiplication, division, fractions, estimation, probability, patterns, shapes, symmetry, triangles, circles, polygons, angles, Venn diagrams, bar graphs, money, time, and measurement, are presented in this document. Poems display a variety of formats including acrostic, haiku, limerick, and rhyming verse. Each contains mathematical facts about the topic. Preservice teachers enrolled in .a mathematics education course wrote the majority of poems. Poems may be used in a enrich elementary student learning and as models for other preservice teachers who may use poetry writing to review, make connections, and discover concept for which they have unclear understandings. Preservice teachers who wrote poetry in the first editor\u27s class reported that the experience helped them develop more positive feelings about mathematics. (Author
- …
