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Reptricket. Förord till Lars Gustafsson: Mot noll
No full textIntroduction to a collection of philosophical essays by Swedish author Lars Gustafsson (b. 1936)
Author Functions in Lars Kepler\u27s The Hypnotist: An Analysis
No full textThis paper examines Foucault\u27s notion of the author function as it pertains to Lars Kepler\u27s bestselling 2011 crime thriller, The Hypnotist. Lars Kepler is the pseudonym of a Swedish husband-wife writing duo, making him the perfect subject for analysis centering on illusory notion of the author. This paper will answer these questions: Who is the true author of The Hypnotist? What factors influence the author function of this bestelling novel? And what can The Hypnotist phenomenon tell us about the relationships between authors and their readers? This paper will demonstrate that no literary works may be ascribed to an individual person, and that authors hold no privileged knowledge of the works they produce, because authors cease to be authors the moment pen is lifted from page
The contribution of Multilevel Structural Equation Modelling to contemporary trends in educational research
No full textLeptella Hall & Clarke 1892
No full textGenus Leptella Hall & Clarke, 1892 Type species. — Leptaena sordida Billings, 1862; by original designation; Middle Ordovician, Dapingian; Quebec.Published as part of Hansen, Jesper & Holmer, Lars E., 2011, Taxonomy and biostratigraphy of Ordovician brachiopods from northeastern Ny Friesland, Spitsbergen 3076, pp. 1-122 in Zootaxa 3076 (1) on page 85, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.3076.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/524350
Selection effects for inequity in education: Identifying and evaluating a new type of educational effect via application of Airbag Moderation
No full textSelection effects in education – who goes where, gets what, and how much – play a pivotal role in the formation and persistence of educational inequities. These include inequalities from preschool to higher education and as regards both student progress and attainment as well as the funding and resources of teachers, institutions, and districts. However, current statistical methods can struggle to simultaneously evaluate both the presence of a selection effect in education and its consequence for educational inequity. For example, where one group has a different access to an educational resource and this differential access may be the reason for group differences in educational outcome. Say for example geographic differences in access to educational opportunities. This paper responds with two empirical examples that overcome current methodological difficulties via the application of the new Hypothesis of ‘Airbag Moderation’. These examples use data from the USA and the UK and from two different phases of education (USA high school, UK preschool). Evidence is found of selection effects in education that both widen and narrow differences between groups of students in their education outcomes. Discussion focusses upon methodological requirements for extensions to this work, as well as implications for educational research, policy, and practic
Selection effects in education and implications for educational opportunity: state of the field and future directions
No full textWhether intended by education policy (e.g., via school entrance examinations) or unintended (e.g., via social stratification), selection effects in education (who goes where, gets what, and how much) shape educational opportunities – influencing the life chances of individuals and groups, and the structure of societies. However, within the quantitative approach to educational research, current statistical methods can struggle to simultaneously evaluate both the presence and impacts of these effects. In turn, this methodological limitation impedes efforts to facilitate equality of educational opportunity. This paper responds with a critical overview of types of selection effects in education, their consequences for educational opportunity, and the statistical methods used for their identification. Two empirical illustrations show how a new statistical method (“airbag moderation”) can enable better detection and evaluation of selection effects in education and help direct future research into selection effects in education with a focus on opportunities for equality of educational opportunity
English as an Additional Language (EAL) and educational achievement in England: An analysis of the National Pupil Database
No full textThe project was commissioned by three charitable groups – the Education Endowment
Foundation (EEF), Unbound Philanthropy and The Bell Foundation – to analyse the evidence
from national data in England on the achievement of students with English as an Additional
Language (EAL) and to review the literature on effective interventions to raise the attainment
of pupils with EAL. The key questions addressed by the project were:
- Who are the most at-risk groups of EAL learners and what are the predictors of low
attainment for these learners?
- What are the most promising programmes and interventions to address EAL
achievement gaps on the basis of causal evidence?
This report presents an analysis of the most recent England National Pupil Database (NPD)
from 2013 with respect to the first question above. A sister report focuses on the second
question concerning effective interventions and is published in parallel with this report. The
overall purpose of the project is to help schools and policymakers to effectively target policy,
interventions and funding to address achievement gaps.Education Endowment Foundation (EEF), Unbound Philanthropy and The Bell Foundation
Academic buoyancy in secondary school: Exploring patterns of convergence in English, mathematics, science, and physical education
No full textPast research into the ability of students to 'bounce back' from everyday academic setback (academic buoyancy) has lacked sensitivity to the contexts in which children demonstrate this behavior. Here we aimed to contextualize past findings by reporting the results of an exploratory investigation that featured: (1) repeated measurement of students' self-reported buoyancy across English, mathematics, science, and physical education; (2) measures of students' psychological appraisal as a test of external validity; (3) a novel national context (England rather than Australia). In total 260 English secondary school students aged 11-16. years completed self-report questionnaires. Students were found to hold relatively consistent views about their ability to bounce back from everyday academic setbacks (e.g., negative feedback, poor results, study stress or pressure) compared to the relatively less consistent views they held regarding the difficulty of the four school subjects as well as corresponding personal competences and effort. These results are discussed in the context of past research, the implications for interventions, and the need for further confirmatory investigations
How can we best evaluate interventions that target? Why our use of the hypothesis of Moderation is inadequate and an introduction to a more appropriate alternative
No full textPurpose: first, to outline how our evaluation of targeting interventions is undermined by the lack of an appropriate descriptive hypothesis. Second, to describe and demonstrate how a newly developed hypothesis is appropriate for evaluating targeting interventions. Background: interventions that target are common in educational psychology. Examples include Nurture Groups and the various targeted interventions that are implemented for students with SEN. We also know how important it is for these interventions to be evidence-based and great emphasis is put on the evidence from formal evaluations. However, our current evaluation methods lack an adequate framework that describes the targeting that takes place in a targeted intervention.Methods: this paper first outlines why our current evaluation methods lack this adequate framework. This problem is an unintended side effect of evaluation methods frequently employing hypotheses of Moderation. Therefore, a replacement for Moderation is presented, termed ‘Airbag Moderation’, which allows evaluations to capture both parts of a targeting intervention. A demonstration follows that uses data from a national evaluation of 117 Sure Start Children’s Centres and 2608 families with preschoolers. First, the more socially disadvantaged a family, the greater their use of a Children’s Centre (effective targeting). Second, the greater the use of a Children's Centre, the less that social disadvantage was associated with internalising behaviours shown by preschoolers (effective intervention). Conclusions: moderation hypotheses are inadequate for evaluating interventions that target as they fail to describe targeting. Airbag Moderation is an alternative that does. Therefore, the uptake of Airbag Moderation is encouraged by educational psychologists, evaluators, and policy makers
”Lärda nyheter” i Peter Hernquists korrespondens till Carl von Linné och Abraham Bäck - med kommentarer och utvikningar
No full textI detta Meddelande nr 55 från Veterinärhistoriska museet har författaren - professor emeritus Lars-Erik Appelgren - gjort ett urval av den korrespondens som Peter Hernquist hade med sina mentorer Carl von Linné och Abraham Bäck under sin vistelse i Frankrike, varvid ”Lärda nyheter” varit en ledstjärna för urvalet. Speciellt har breven till Bäck försetts med författarens personliga kommentarer men även kompletterats med faktaupplysningar från andra källor än breven om berörda nyheter. För att underlätta läsningen har dessa kommentarer omgetts med enkelkonturerad och utvikningarna med dubbelkonturerad ram. Lars-Erik Appelgren har inte bara genom sitt veterinärhistoriska författarskap utan också genom att ställa sina fackliga kunskaper och sin eminenta estetiska läggning till förfogande gjort Veterinärhistoriska museet ovärderliga tjänster. Det är med stor glädje jag noterar att region Uppsala nyligen visat sin uppskattning genom att tilldela Lars-Erik sitt Medicinhistoriska stipendium med motiveringen att de vill ”lyfta fram ett viktigt men ofta förbisett område inom medicinhistorien: veterinärmedicinen”. Med de varmaste gratulationer
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