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Students’ learning styles and academic performance in first year chemistry
No full textAlexandra Yeung, Justin Read and Siegbert Schmi
Bridging the gap - student understanding and the chemistry bridging course
No full textDavid Youl, Justin Read, Adrian George, Anthony Masters, Siegbert Schmid and Michael Kin
THE SPARTAN SCHOOL OF INSTITUTIONAL ECONOMICS AT MICHIGAN STATE UNIVERSITY
No full textHeterodox scholarship at Michigan State University (MSU) was influenced by the institutional economics of John R. Commons at Wisconsin. But it was far from monolithic and had many other sources and originality of its own. A case can be made that the center of institutional economics moved across Lake Michigan from Madison to East Lansing and blossomed in the second half of the 20th century with such Wisconsin Ph.D's as Raleigh Barlowe, Warren Samuels, Allan Schmid, Harry Trebing, and others. Equally important in making MSU a center of institutional economics were scholars from other institutional backgrounds such as Paul Strassmann, economic development; Robert Solo, science and technology; James Shaffer, agricultural marketing and consumer behavior; Nicholas Mercuro, law and economics; and others.Institutional and Behavioral Economics,
Assessing the assessments: Development of a tool to evaluate assessment items in chemistry according to learning outcomes
No full textHigher education in Australia is in a phase of rapid change due to significant regulatory changes, with new standards currently being implemented for registration of institutions and accreditation of degrees. Over the past five years the Australian chemistry community has come to a consensus on common Chemistry Threshold Learning Outcomes (CTLOs) that every Bachelor level chemistry graduate from an Australian university will have attained. The CTLOs will inform the standards used to accredit institutions and degrees. Building upon this, the Royal Australian Chemical Institute (RACI), the professional body for chemists in Australia, has changed its accreditation process for chemistry degree programs and now uses these CTLOs as the basis for accreditation. Therefore, it is paramount to ensure that assessment items used allow students to demonstrate attainment of the CTLOs for a chemistry major. The “Assessing the Assessments” project has used an iterative process to develop an evaluation framework to assist academic staff at tertiary institutions to determine the alignment of their assessment items with the CTLOs. In conjunction with professional development workshops in which colleagues explore the alignment of assessment items with the CTLOs, a sophisticated tool has been developed which can be used to evaluate assessment items. The tool yields ratings for both engagement with and assessment of each CTLO within the assessment task evaluated, highlighting areas of potential improvement in current assessment practices. Comparison of self-evaluations of tasks submitted to the project by academic staff with evaluations conducted by the project team shows that in the majority of cases, faculty over-estimate the ability of their assessment items to confirm achievement of CTLOs. Recommendations to increase the coverage of CTLOs through changes to assessment procedures are presented. Through the development of the framework, difficulties with interpretation and application of some of the CTLOs have been elucidated.Siegbert Schmid, Madeleine Schultz, Samuel J. Priest, Glennys O, Brien, Simon M. Pyke, Adam Bridgeman, Kieran F. Lim, Daniel C. Southam, Simon B. Bedford, Ian M. Jami
Didineis mokrousovi Schmid-Egger 2022, sp. nov.
No full textDidineis mokrousovi Schmid-Egger, sp. nov. (Figs 1–8) Holotype. ♁, United Arab Emirates, Wadi Bih (dam), 19.i.2010, leg. AvH (CSE). Paratypes: 1 ♁, 4.iv.2009, 1♀, 29.xi.2009. 1♀, 11.ii.2010, 1♀, 2.v.2006, all Wadi Bih (dam); ♀, 29.xi.2009, Al Wathba Wetland Reserve; 1 ♁ 1 ♀, 22.06.2019, Al Bida’a Protected Area, all leg. AS &AvH, in Malaise traps (CSE). Remark: In former reviews of Crabronidae from the UAE (Schmid-Egger, 2011, 2014), specimens of Didineis from Wadi Bih were identified as D. bucharica with the key of Nemkov (2015). In the meantime, we could examine two males and two females of true D. bucharica from Russia, Kalmykia (see Mokrousov et al. (2016) for location and discussion of species). The specimens from the UAE differ in some important details from the Russian specimens, and belong to an undescribed species. A male was choosen as the holotype, because the description of D. bucharica is also based on a male. D. bucharica is restricted in its distribution to southern Russia (Dagestan, Kalmykia and Orenburg Prov.) and to Uzbekistan. Diagnosis. Males of both species are characterized by short and thick flagellomeres, flagellomere I beeing emarginate below. Remaining species have longer and normally rounded flagellomeres. Females of both species have also short and thick flagellomeres, but they share this character with other species from North Africa. See also Nemkov (2015) for further details. For distincion of D. bucharica and D. mokrousovi, see Table 1. . Description of male, holotype (copied and modified from description in Schmid-Egger, 2011). Body length 6 mm. Colour: Black, yellow are: basal 2/3 of mandible, clypeus, large band on inner eye margin, ending in upper 2/3, scape and flagellum below, AS 13, pronotal lobe, basal spot on basal sclerite of forewing. Femora and tibiae reddish, tarsi partly reddish, mostly brown. Wing venation brown, forewing greyish with some darker parts below stigma. Tergum I except base and tergum II laterally red, remaining terga black, last tergum apically somewhat reddish. Morphology: Apical clypeal margin slightly emarginate medially. Flagellum see Figs 2 and 3. Frons, pronotum, mesonotum and upper half of mesopleuron finely punctate, punctures 1–3 diameters apart, interspaces shiny. Punctuation of lower frons very dense. Lower mesopleuron rugulose-punctate. Propodeal surface evenly striate, propodeal enclosure triangular, surrounded by fine keel. Propodeum laterally and on backside rugulose. Terga II–V: basally shiny and with very fine micropunctation, apically punctate with shiny interspaces. Tergum VII densely punctate, apically truncate. Description of female: Body length 8.0 mm. Colour. Black, yellow are basal 2/3 of mandible, clypeus except for basal and lateral margin, narrow band along lower half of inner eye margin, scape below, last tarsomeres. Red are fore tibia, outer side of mid tibia, terga and sternum I and II, tergum II with black apical margin, apex of tergum VI. Wings as in male. Morphology: Flagellum: see fig. 6. Punctuation of head and thorax similar as in male, but much denser. Terga I and II shiny, impunctate, terga III–V similar as in male. Tergum VI in apical half surrounded by keel, forming a large pygidial plate with dense punctuation in apical half and with dense reddish setae. All femora below with long pale setae (2/3 as long as femoral diameter). Distribution. United Arab Emirates. Etymology. The species is dedicated to Mikhail Mokrousov from Nizhny Novgorod, Russia, a specialist of Aculeata, who kindly supported this and other projects of the author by sending specimens and information.Published as part of Schmid-Egger, Christian & Harten, Antonius Van, 2022, Additions to the digger wasps (Hymenoptera, Spheciformes) of the United Arab Emirates with description of ten new species, pp. 543-575 in Zootaxa 5219 (6) on pages 544-546, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5219.6.3, http://zenodo.org/record/743623
The elusive author: found photography, authorship and the work of Joachim Schmid. In: Joachim Schmid photoworks 1982-2007
No full textJoachim Schmid began his career in the early 1980s as a freelance critic and the publisher of Fotokritik, an iconoclastic and original contribution to West German photography. In the pages of Fotokritik and in his regular articles and lectures for other venues, Schmid argued articulately and at times vehemently against prevailing, predominantly conservative notions of art photography and in favour of a broad, encompassing critique of photography as a form of cultural practice. After ceasing publication of Fotokritik in 1987, Schmid focused on his own art production, based primarily on found photography and public image sources
Wolf Schmid se kommunikasiemodel as basis vir die dualiteitsbegrip: abstrakte auteur as wesens- en digterspersoonlikheid.
No full textIn this article Wolf Schmid\u27s model of communication as propounded in Der Textaufbau in den Erzahlungen Dostoevskijs is used as a basis for a new thesis as regards the concept abstract author. Schmid\u27s model comprises three elements: the author, the work of art as sign and the reader. This article holds that the duality implied in Schmid\u27s term "psychophysischen Dichterpersonlichkeit" should also be made applicable to the concept of the abstract author, regarded by Schmid as the hypostasised image of the author in his text. In this way a very useful distinction can be made between the abstract author as self as he reveals himself in a factual text (autobiography) and the abstract author as "poet" who, operating from the realm of the imagination, produces a fictive text(novel). In its published form, however, the "story text" in the book is preceded by the "writer\u27s text", which is ascribed to the abstract author as self, who "focalizes" or "interprets" what is to follow (e.g. by means of subtitle, motto or titles of chapters). Thus the "writer\u27s text" provides the link between "person" (self) and "poet".
Opsomming In hierdie artikel word Schmid se kommunikasiemodel soos aangebied in Der Textaufbau in den Erzahlungen Dostoevskijs as basis gebruik vir \u27n nuwe tese aangaande die begrip abstrakte outeur. Schmid se model maak voorsiening vir die outeur, die kunswerk as taalteken en die leser. Daar word uitgegaan van die standpunt dat die dualiteit onderliggend aan Schmid se opvatting van die konkrete outeur as \u27n "psycho-physischen Dichterpersonlichkeit" ook van toepassing gemaak behoort te word op die begrip abstrakte outeur, deur horn beskou as die gehipostaseerde spieelbeeld van die konkrete outeur in sy werk. So sal daar dan onderskei kan word tussen die abstrakte outeur as wesenspersoonlikheid soos hy werksaam is in/abstraheerbaar is uit, \u27n feitelike teks soos bv. \u27n outobiografie, en die abstrakte outeur as "digter"-persoonlikheid wat \u27n verbeeldingsteks (roman) daarstel. In sy gepubliseerde vorm bestaan die roman of boek-as-teks uit sowel die verhaalteks (produk van die "digter") as die skrywersteks wat toeligtend - bv. by wyse van motto, sub- of hoofstuktitels - daarby verskyn en wat op rekening van die self (wesenspersoonlikheid) geplaas moet word. Op die wyse word die abstrakte outeur as dubbele entiteit in die skrywersteks verteenwoordig en dien lg. as skakel tussen daargestelde wereld en empiriese wereld
Assessment of practical chemistry in England: an analysis of scientific methods assessed in high-stakes examinations
No full text“Practical science” has been widely used in the curriculum, exam board specifications and research traditions in science education for several decades in England. The terminology typically refers to a range of experimental and investigative activities conducted as part of science education in schools and colleges. According to major reviews of research literature, there is evidence that the assessment regime has had a major impact on practical work that teachers carry out. However, there is growing concern that the amount and quality of practical work carried out in schools suffer as a result of the impact of the high-stakes national tests. The chapter aims to investigate the underlying scientific methods that are promoted in the chemistry examination papers thus facilitating understanding of what is likely to be taught in chemistry lessons. In order to identify the types of scientific methods included in the chemistry examination papers, a framework was used focusing on four categories: manipulative hypothesis testing, non-manipulative hypothesis testing, manipulative parameter measurement and non-manipulative parameter measurement. The examination items from two examination papers of a leading examination board are classified according to these categories, and patterns on the marking are traced. The results indicate that for both papers, non-manipulative parameter measurement was the method assessed at a higher percentage. In both papers, manipulative hypothesis testing was the category with the lowest percentage of items or questions. Furthermore, the mark allocation was the highest in both papers in the non-manipulative parameter measurement category.The results indicate that there is consistency between the items allocated to each category of scientific methods, and the marks allocated to them, although in one paper there were more marks allocated to manipulative parameter measurement even though the relative frequency of this category was the lowest in the items
Dialektoskopias Exercitatio Prima, agens de Linguis In Genere
No full textQuam Deo Praeside, Consensu Inclyti Collegii Philosphici publico Eruditorum examini & censurae subiicit Author M. Bernhardus Schmid/ Cygn. ... Respondente Johanne Hönigio, Reichenbachensi ... In aCaDeMIa LIpsensI H. L. C. ad diem 10. IuniiErscheinungsjahr nach einem Chronogram
The Abstract Author
No full textThe Bachelor's thesis focuses on the concept of so called abstract author. It deals with various forms of abstract author's subject developed in literary theory and narratology: scriptor of R. Barthes, implied author of W. Booth, model author of U. Eco or abstract author of W. Schmid. Futher, the differences between the concepts and the polemics that accompany them (Chatman, Rimmon-Kenanová etc.) are reflected
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