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Tracing Milin's development of inductive reasoning: a case study
No full textThis study examined how Milin, a nine-year old student, justified his solutions to towers of a variety of heights over a 13 month period. Specifically, it sought to identify heuristics, strategies, and forms of reasoning and argumentation used by Milin in building and supporting his reasoning by partial cases, cases, and then an inductive argument. The research also traced how Milin's ideas traveled to other students. Videotape recordings of Milin's work on towers task and its extensions were analyzed along with his written work, written assessments and the researcher's field notes. The video data consisted of two problem-solving sessions, three individual task-based interviews, a small group assessment, and a whole class discussion. As Milin searched for and sought to justify a global solution for the towers problem, he constructed mathematical ideas by continuously evolving the heuristics and strategies employed. He started by making random towers using a "guess and check" method, where he would randomly create a tower and then compared it with existing towers to identify duplicates. He then proceeded to use local organization strategies to create pairs of towers. This included opposites by color, opposites by inverting and a hybrid strategy. Later, Milin moved towards more refined local organizations such as staircase patterns. When these schemes also proved inadequate to justify a complete solution, Milin developed a family strategy, based on a doubling pattern he had uncovered. This strategy gave him a global organization method. The progression to the global solution was an iterative process in which Milin revisited earlier strategies. Milin also used various forms of reasoning to account for all towers. These included amount of time elapsed between building towers, the concept of "partner" towers, justification by contradiction, cases, doubling rule, and the family strategy. Milin shared his inductive argument with three other students during a small group assessment session. Almost one year later, he re-explained his inductive argument to his partner, Michelle, while working on another task. In turn she shared this argument with other class mates, culminating with one student presenting it to the entire class. The students appeared to understand and retain Milin's strategy better when involved in solving the problem themselves. This case study contributes the body of research in several ways. It documents strategies used by young students to build models of reasoning and argumentation. It also provides support for Davis and Maher's idea that building understanding is not a linear process in that new ideas are built from previous ideas. Finally, this study contributes to the broader collection of case studies from the longitudinal study at Rutgers University.Ed.D.Includes abstractIncludes bibliographical referencesby Manjit Kaur Sra
Special section guest editorial:meeting the challenges of ecosystem management using remote sensing
Get PDFGuest editors Manjit Kaur, Raman Singh, and Hassène Gritli introduce the Special Section on Meeting the Challenges of Ecosystem Management using Remote Sensing
sj-docx-1-eae-10.1177_0958305X231193873 - Supplemental material for Comparative analysis of triboelectric behavior of natural waste biomaterials and green energy harvesting
No full textSupplemental material, sj-docx-1-eae-10.1177_0958305X231193873 for Comparative analysis of triboelectric behavior of natural waste biomaterials and green energy harvesting by Jaspreet Kaur, Ravinder Singh Sawhney, Harminder Singh, Manjit Sandhu and
Rajdeep Singh Sohal, Amandeep Singh, Maninder Singh, Sandeep Kaur in Energy & Environment</p
‘Borrowed borrowings’ traced from Sanskrit to Malay to Malaysian English / Manjit Kaur Balwant Singh
Get PDFThis research investigates the influence of Sanskrit language in Malaysian English tracing the indirect route of the loanwords through Malay as the intermediary language, known as the phenomenon of “borrowed borrowings” in this study. The Sanskrit loanwords found in the online versions of the Malay Newspapers; Berita Harian and Utusan, were examined for their current change in form and function in the process of acculturation by the multicultural speakers and the same procedure was applied to trace these loanwords in the online versions of the Malaysian English Newspapers; the Star and New Straits Times. The Old Malay language was heavily influenced by Sanskrit around the seventh century. Examples include words like Maharddhika ‘prosperous’ borrowed as Merdeka ‘independence’ in Malay which are also found with the same meaning in Malaysian English. These changes were analyzed using Haugen's (1950) theoretical framework of lexical borrowing and recent developments in the field. The categories of loanwords found in the written data were mostly loanwords, derivational and compound blends, and semantic loans. The Malaysian English has been researched for influences of Malay, Chinese and Tamil, the three major languages in Malaysia, but rarely has the indirect influence of the minority groups speaking Indic languages under the Sanskrit umbrella been investigated in its rich tapestry
Persepsi pelajar sekolah menengah tentang pendidikan kewarganegaraan dalam kurikulum / Manjit Kaur a/p Gian Singh
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Non-pharmacological self-management for people living with migraine or tension-type headache:a systematic review including analysis of intervention components
Get PDFObjectivesTo assess the effect of non-pharmacological self-management interventions against usual care, and to explore different components and delivery methods within those interventionsParticipantsPeople living with migraine and/or tension-type headacheInterventionsNon-pharmacological educational or psychological self-management interventions; excluding biofeedback and physical therapy. We assessed the overall effectiveness against usual care on headache frequency, pain intensity, mood, headache related disability, quality of life, and medication consumption in meta-analysis. We also provide preliminary evidence on the effectiveness of intervention components and delivery methods.Results We found a small overall effect for the superiority of self-management interventions over usual care, with a SMD of-0.36 (-0.45 to -0.26) for pain intensity; -0.32 (-0.42 to -0.22) for headache related disability, 0.32 (0.20 to 0.45) for quality of life and a moderate effect on mood (SMD = 0.53 (-0.66 to -0.40)). We did not find an effect on headache frequency (SMD = -0.07 (-0.22 to 0.08). Assessment of components and characteristics suggests a larger effects on pain intensity in interventions that included explicit educational components (-0.51 (-0.68 to -0.34) versus -0.28 (-0.40 to -0.16)); mindfulness components (-0.50 (-0.82 to -0.18) versus 0.34 (-0.44 to -0.24) and in interventions delivered in groups versus one-to-one delivery (0.56 (-0.72 to -0.40) versus -0.39 (-0.52 to -0.27) and larger effects on mood in interventions including a CBT component with a SMD of -0.72 (-0.93 to -0.51) compared to those without CBT -0.41 (-0.58 to -0.24). Conclusion Overall we found that self-management interventions for migraine and tension-type headache are more effective than usual care in reducing pain intensity, mood, and headache related disability. Preliminary findings also suggest that including CBT, mindfulness and educational components in interventions, and delivery in groups may increase effectiveness.RegistrationPROSPERO 2016:CRD4201604129
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