94 research outputs found
Pupils with Severe Learning Difficulties as Personal Target Setters
No full textRichard Rose, Senior Lecturer at University College, Northampton, and Will Fletcher and Gaynor Goodwin, Watling View School, St Albans, argue that although many schools have attempted to enable pupils with special educational needs to play an active part in their own planning procedures and assessment, few have identified and analysed the skills required by both pupils and teachers. Theydescribe a one-year small-scale action-research project, in a school for children with severe learning difficulties, which resulted in the development of procedures for the assessment of 'pupil readiness' for full involvement in the target-setting process. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR
The Benefits of Being Economics Professor A (and not Z)
No full textAlphabetic name ordering on multi-authored academic papers, which is the convention in the economics discipline and various other disciplines, is to the advantage of people whose last name initials are placed early in the alphabet. As it turns out, Professor A, who has been a first author more often than Professor Z, will have published more articles and experienced afaster growth rate over the course of her career as a result of reputation and visibility. Moreover, authors know that name ordering matters and indeed take ordering seriously: Several characteristics of an author group composition determine the decision to deviate from the default alphabetic name order to a significant extent.performance measurement, incentives, economists, name ordering
SciTokens for Java
No full text<p>Version 1.0 of the SciTokens Java library. This allows for the creation and manipulation of JSON Web Tokens (JWTs) with SciTokens content.</p>
<p>Project Home: <a href="https://scitokens.org">https://scitokens.org</a></p>
<p>GitHub repo: <a href="https://github.com/scitokens/scitokens-java">https://github.com/scitokens/scitokens-java</a></p>
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<li>Alex Withers, Brian Bockelman, Derek Weitzel, Duncan A. Brown, Jeff Gaynor, Jim Basney, Todd Tannenbaum, Zach Miller, "SciTokens: Capability-Based Secure Access to Remote Scientific Data", PEARC '18: Practice and Experience in Advanced Research Computing, July 2018, Pittsburgh, PA, USA. <a href="https://doi.org/10.1145/3219104.3219135">https://doi.org/10.1145/3219104.3219135</a></li>
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<p>This material is based upon work supported by the National Science Foundation under Grant No. <a href="https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1738962">1738962</a>. Any opinions, findings, and conclusions or recommendations expressed in this material are those of the author(s) and do not necessarily reflect the views of the National Science Foundation.</p>
Improving intellectual and affective quality in mathematics lessons: how autonomy and spontaneity enable creative and insightful thinking
No full textDeposited with permission of the author. © 2005 Dr. Gaynor WilliamsThe nature of creative mathematical thinking undertaken by students in classroom settings was studied through analysis of the autonomy and spontaneity associated with these processes. The theoretical lens developed enabled simultaneous analysis of cognitive, social, and affective elements of the creative process, and student responses to successes and failures during their exploratory activity (resilience or optimism). Collective case study was employed, with each case progressively informing the analysis of subsequent cases. The classrooms of teachers who were seen by their school communities to display 'good teaching practice' were selected for study. It was anticipated that such classrooms would provide more opportunity to study creative thinking than classrooms chosen at random. During the research period, each student participated individually in post-lesson interviews that were stimulated by lesson video material. To generate data to study student thinking, and the social and personal influences upon it, students were asked to identify parts of the lesson that were important to them, and discuss what was happening, and what they were thinking and feeling. Through this process, students who explored mathematical complexities to generate new mathematical knowledge were identified. (For complete abstract open document
Stakeholder perceptions on the role of community development corporations and resident participation
No full textCommunity Development Corporations (CDCs) were formed in the United States to address issues in urban communities and often work with municipal governments on these issues (Keating, 1997; Jennings, 2004). In some neighborhoods, CDCs seek to rebuild and revitalize communities that suffered from social unrest, while others react to the lack of government or inadequate programming addressing the economic and social maladies of urban communities. The work of CDCs requires the involvement of all community stakeholders – particularly city residents and public administrators. Does thedual relationship CDCs have with residents and local government suggest that they bring both closer together? This research studies this phenomenon by using Arnstein’s Ladder of Participation to examine the role CDCs play in cultivating citizen participation.Specifically, this study seeks to examine how community stakeholders perceive the roleCDCs play in fostering resident participation in local government. As a primary methodological tool for studying individual and group perspectives,Q-method was employed to empirically study community stakeholder perceptions ofCDCs. Key research findings suggest that: a) community stakeholders believe that CDCsare currently working to maintain the status quo of participation and advise that the Context of Conventional Participation (1995) is present, b) stakeholders overwhelmingly believe that CDCs should work to encourage participation that incorporates partnership, and c) there should be less distance between residents and decision making, thereby increasing opportunities for engagement. Through the exploration of the subjective, this study exposes the perspective ofresidents on citizen participation and identifies the need for a new direction of theory development that examines the creation of consensus and partnership building incommunity development organizations and initiatives. Furthermore, Conditions for Ideal Participation emerges from the data providing a practical guideline for strengthening participation in municipal government. Conclusions from this study have both theoretical and practical implications to the scholarly and administrative work comprised of public administration.Ph.D.Includes bibliographical referencesIncludes vitaby Tia Sherée Gayno
Collaborative problem solving in mathematics: the nature and function of task complexity
No full textDeposited with permission of the author. © 2000 Gaynor WilliamsThe nature and function of Task Complexity, in the context of senior secondary mathematics, has been identified through: a search of the research literature; interviews with experts that focused on the nature of task complexity; expert use of the Williams/Clarke Framework of Complexity (1997) as a tool to categorise the complexity of a task, and observation and analysis of the responses of senior secondary mathematics students as they worked in collaborative groups to solve an unfamiliar challenging problem. Although frequently used in the literature to describe tasks, ‘complexity’ has often lacked definition. Expert opinion about the nature of mathematical complexity was ascertained by seeking the opinions of experts in the areas of mathematics, mathematics education, and gifted education. Expert opinion about task complexity was stimulated by questions about the relative complexity of two tasks. The experts then categorised the complexities within each of these tasks using the Williams/Clarke Framework of Complexity. This framework identifies the dimensions of task complexity and was found by experts to be both useful and adequate for this purpose. A theoretical framework was developed to assess student ability to solve challenging problems. This theoretical framework was used to design a test to assess student ability to solve challenging problems. The information this test provided about the problem solving ability of the students in this study informed my analysis of student response to complexity
OAuth for MyPoxy (OA4MP)
No full text<p>OAuth for MyProxy (OA4MP) provides an open source Java OAuth and OpenID Connect client and server with support for issuance of X.509 certificates.</p>
<p>Project Home: <a href="http://grid.ncsa.illinois.edu/myproxy/oauth/">http://grid.ncsa.illinois.edu/myproxy/oauth/</a></p>
<p>GitHub repo: <a href="https://github.com/ncsa/OA4MP">https://github.com/ncsa/OA4MP</a></p>
<p>See also:</p>
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<li>Jim Basney and Jeff Gaynor, "An OAuth Service for Issuing Certificates to Science Gateways for TeraGrid Users," <a href="http://www.teragrid.org/tg11">TeraGrid Conference</a>, July 18-21, 2011, Salt Lake City, UT. <a href="https://doi.org/10.1145/2016741.2016776">https://doi.org/10.1145/2016741.2016776</a> </li>
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<p>This material is based upon work supported by the National Science Foundation under Grant No. <a href="https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1127210">1127210</a>. Any opinions, findings, and conclusions or recommendations expressed in this material are those of the author(s) and do not necessarily reflect the views of the National Science Foundation.</p>
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