Board work session timed at end of workday

2020 ◽  
Vol 36 (12) ◽  
pp. 5-5
Keyword(s):  
Work Session

Preschool Work Session

1951 ◽  
Vol 45 (6) ◽  
pp. 178-180
Author(s):  
Georgie Lee Abel
Keyword(s):  
Work Session

Political Science as Training for the Information Age

1990 ◽  
Vol 3 (4) ◽  
pp. 1-5
Author(s):  
Christopher Daniel
Keyword(s):  
Political Science ◽  
Information Age ◽  
Computer Work ◽  
Mixed Emotions ◽  
Science Courses ◽  
Work Style ◽  
Work Session ◽  
The Face ◽  
Communications Skills ◽  
Central Purpose

Computers inspire mixed emotions among political scientists. Love, hate, fascination, ennui, and frustration sometimes occur during the course of a single computer work session. Individuals come to terms with the beast in varying ways; obviously personal work style and level of computer dependency are each scholar's own business. However, expanded use of information technology in the disciplinary curriculum is a common concern deserving discussion. Like earlier debates between behavioralists and traditionalists, the current discussion raises questions about the discipline's central purpose. This essay reviews proposals to “computerize” political science curricula in light of contemporary theories about information and managerial work.Historically, political scientists' computer involvement has been limited, but it is now intensifying in response to educational, technological, and environmental influences. Political scientists have used computers as teaching tools since at least the early 1970s, when the APSA “SETUPs” began appearing, but as novelty items, diversions reflecting the devotion of idiosyncratic individuals. This publication has disseminated many such “experiments,” as have Social Science Computer Review and the National Collegiate Software Clearinghouse. Even as desktop machines began proliferating in the early 1980s, their use in the classroom was considered to be optional, something peripheral to the discipline which one could attempt if one had the inclination.This laissez-faire ambience may be ending in the face of societal transformations. In the classroom political scientists foster intellectual skills broadly useful to former students. A student may be an activist or an avid pre-lawyer, but his or her future professional development will be built on analytical, and communications skills honed in political science courses. This linkage between political science classrooms and the professional world could weaken if we do not adopt to societal change.

Family Maths: Experiential Learning

2019 ◽  
pp. 145-149
Author(s):  
Pam Dorrington
Keyword(s):  
Problem Solving ◽  
Experiential Learning ◽  
Mathematics Teaching ◽  
Teaching And Learning ◽  
Theory And Practice ◽  
Inquiry Teaching ◽  
Positive Attitudes ◽  
Work Session ◽  
The Family ◽  
Mathematics Teaching And Learning

The international Family Maths programme adopts an inquiry teaching and learning approach and it encourages learners, often from diverse backgrounds, to participate fully in the learning process. The programme also aims to develop the vocabulary necessary for meaningful communication in mathematics, develop problem solving skills and increase confidence and enjoyment of mathematics. The programme has proven to be a powerful catalyst in this regard and holds important lessons for both curriculum development and developing positive attitudes towards mathematics teaching and learning. This experiential learning, interactive work-session focuses on primary school mathematics curricula (for pupils approximately 9 – 13 years of age) and aims at giving participating conference delegates an opportunity to engage with and experience some of the hands-on problem solving activities used in the Family Maths programme. Discussion will be encouraged around the relevance of these activities for the teaching and learning of mathematics. Our conference organisers encourage presenters to consider the relationship between research and classroom teaching, and how, and if, these relate to each other in practice. Can the Family Maths philosophy and practice be a catalyst in narrowing the divide between the theory and practice of effective mathematics teaching and learning?

The International Q Project Work Session 16 November 1990

1991 ◽  
Vol 110 (3) ◽  
pp. 494 ◽  
Author(s):  
James M. Robinson
Keyword(s):  
Project Work ◽  
Work Session

work session

2000 ◽  
pp. 1931-1931
Author(s):  
Martin H. Weik
Keyword(s):  
Work Session

Human Performance Variability in Accident Causation

1978 ◽  
Vol 22 (1) ◽  
pp. 517-521
Author(s):  
Gordon H. Robinson ◽  
Thomas R. Jacobson
Keyword(s):  
Human Performance ◽  
Reaction Time Data ◽  
Session Length ◽  
Time Data ◽  
Far Right ◽  
Performance Variability ◽  
Work Session ◽  
Expected Performance ◽  
Accident Causation ◽  
Normal Variability

The argument is presented that we too often label human acts which lead to accidents as idiosyncratic rather than as part of the normal variability in expected performance and that this tendency impedes progress in understanding causation. Some choice reaction time data is examined in terms of variability as related to skill, work session length, alcohol stress, sleep deprivation and compatibility. Analytic distributions are examined as to their possible applicability and properties of their far right tails.

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