A Critical Evaluation of Individualized Instruction in Mathematics

1927 ◽  
Vol 20 (5) ◽  
pp. 280-285
Author(s):  
Wilma Shaffer Flewelling
Keyword(s):  
Critical Evaluation ◽  
Individualized Instruction ◽  
Good Teacher ◽  
The Individual

Now that there is no longer a question in the minds of teachers that teaching should be adapted to the individual and that the needs of individuals differ, each good teacher aims, as far as possible, to reach his pupils individually.

From the Laboratory to the Headlines: Teaching Critical Evaluation of Press Reports of Research

1993 ◽  
Vol 20 (3) ◽  
pp. 167-169 ◽  
Author(s):  
Patricia A. Connor-Greene
Keyword(s):  
Active Learning ◽  
Research Study ◽  
Critical Evaluation ◽  
Scientific Investigation ◽  
Individual Assignment ◽  
Active And Collaborative Learning ◽  
Newspaper Account ◽  
Classroom Exercise ◽  
Research Findings ◽  
The Individual

This article describes a classroom exercise and an individual assignment designed to teach critical evaluation of research reports in the popular press. The classroom exercise uses active and collaborative learning to apply the principles of scientific investigation, particularly the distinction between correlation and causation, in analyzing the limitations of a newspaper account of a research study. The individual assignment requires students to locate and critique a newspaper or magazine summary of research. The goal of these two exercises is to engage students in active learning about research methods and help them to become critical consumers of media accounts of research findings.

scholarly journals Microteaching in Medical Education

2014 ◽  
Vol 1 (2) ◽  
pp. 84
Author(s):  
Preeti Bajaj ◽  
Mrunal Suresh Patil ◽  
Balaji Almale
Keyword(s):  
Medical Education ◽  
Educational Technology ◽  
Teaching Skills ◽  
Good Teacher ◽  
Experienced Teacher ◽  
Teaching Techniques ◽  
New Faculty ◽  
The Individual ◽  
Teaching Learning ◽  
Medical Teachers

Medical teachers need training in pedagogic techniques in order to become better teachers. Despite the fact that our teaching techniques improve gradually over the years as we gain experience and also owing to continuous practice undertaken for different kinds of teaching learning situations; nevertheless educational technology has evolved ways and means for better development of teaching skills even at earlier stages by undertaking some methodical exercises, one of which is Microteaching. Microteaching, an innovative technique of teacher training, helps teachers to improve their teaching skills. It aims at development of competence in teaching skills through the practice of microteaching sessions1. In other words, it teaches teachers how to teach. This is especially important in cases of new faculty implying the budding teachers. Even an experienced teacher can benefit by this technique, particularly for learning some new skills1. The individual may be very sound in his/ her own subject but may not necessarily be a good teacher.

scholarly journals A New Era of Global HR Competency Model - Evidence from Global HR Positions

10.31355/81 ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 5 ◽  
pp. 075-106
Keyword(s):  
Cultural Sensitivity ◽  
Cognitive Skills ◽  
Core Competencies ◽  
Critical Evaluation ◽  
Vital Role ◽  
Cultural Knowledge ◽  
Global Leadership ◽  
Global Mindset ◽  
Ethical Practice ◽  
The Individual

Aim/Purpose: This paper proposes an empirical impact for developing an individual Global Mindset within the Global HR department. Background: Here, we make an explicit assumption that a Global Leader needs a Global Mindset to be effective and for this reason, we employ the term "Global Leadership Mindset" (GLM). Recent (Global) HR competency models focus on the tasks and structuring the HR tasks into nine core competencies such that an HR professional must be effective in ethical practice, communication, consultation, critical evaluation, relationship management, organizational leadership, business acumen and navigation, and, importantly for this paper, global and cultural sensitivity. No study currently exists in which GLM competencies are relevant for different Global HR positions. Methodology: We conducted a comprehensive survey by observing 256 responses from 27 different global HR positions on which 75 global competencies are relevant in their day-to-day work. Based on this groundwork, the paper makes further attempt by proposing an integrative global HR competency framework whereby we identify development dimensions fundamental for developing global leaders. Findings: Our findings show a top 10 list of the most relevant global leadership mindset (GLM) competencies in Global HR. We further investigated 12 different HR positions and assessed relevant GLM competencies relevant in different global career stages. Our findings show that self-management skills, emotional/affective, and cognitive competencies are most important for entry-level positions. Global leadership skills play a vital role for medium-level positions, and senior-level positions require emotional/affective competencies, followed by cognitive aspects. Impact on Society: Our study proposed the top ten GLM HR competencies highlighted as proxy measures to demonstrate essential skill sets required for individuals within the Global HR function. Our research findings are consistent with other studies that emphasize the importance of cultural knowledge (Osland 1995, Adler 1997) and the individual´s cognitive skills fundamental for GLM´s success (Levy et al. 1999). Existing studies highlight three core GLM competencies, such as importance of influencing others, making ethical decisions, and leading change (Bass and Steidlmeier 1999, Canterino, Cirella, Piccoli and Shani 2020), but only a few studies focus on the assessment or testing of these GLM competencies (e.g., Herd, Alagaraja and Cumberland 2016, Cumberland et al. 2016, Kim and Mclean 2015). Hence, our study attempted to elucidate the fundamentals underlying GLM skills and competency development, using multiple functional global HR roles to identify the significance of the competencies discussed in this study.

Gender Mainstreaming and Gender Equality in Europe

2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
Vera Lomazzi ◽  
Isabella Crespi
Keyword(s):  
Gender Equality ◽  
Critical Evaluation ◽  
Gender Mainstreaming ◽  
Individual Values ◽  
Family Balance ◽  
Future Challenges ◽  
Common Strategy ◽  
And Gender ◽  
Work Family ◽  
The Individual

The book provides a systematic scientific overview of gender mainstreaming in Europe. It recalls the main steps of the origins and the development of the European gender mainstreaming (GM) strategy. The book also connects this framework with the current situation of gender equality and explores the strength and weak points of the strategy. To do so, it provides a critical evaluation of the instruments used to measure gender equality and explores how societal aspects, such as the opportunity structure defined by work-family balance policies and practices, affect the individual values of gender equality supporting the development of gender egalitarian cultures. Further, it develops an outline of the current and future challenges of the gender mainstreaming strategy, that run in parallel with the general European Union’s challenges, such as the integration process, economic crisis, migration and refugees crisis, and the rise of right-wing Euroscepticism. In addition, the old but always current problem of conceptualizing gender equality in different ways leading to jeopardized results. The book offers a critical review of the GM strategy in Europe and analyses whether and how gender equality in Europe is improving, with a specific interest in the cultural differences between the European countries where this common strategy is implemented.

scholarly journals German Cities in the World City Network

2011 ◽  
Vol 69 (3) ◽  
pp. 213-217 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jonathan V. Beaverstock
Keyword(s):  
Critical Appraisal ◽  
Critical Evaluation ◽  
World City ◽  
World City Network ◽  
The World ◽  
City Network ◽  
Alternative Research ◽  
World City Networks ◽  
The Individual ◽  
German Cities

Abstract This paper provides a brief critical appraisal of the relationality of German cities in the world city network. The paper is divided into four parts. After the introduction, part two highlights the major findings of each individual contribution to this special issue, and teases out the major patterns of German world city connectivity at both the international and domestic scale. This is followed in part three by a critical evaluation of the sum of all the individual paper findings, which comments on their aggregated contribution to three significant themes in world city studies: methods and empirics, theory and policy. The final part of the paper considers an alternative research agenda, calling for more qualitative research and engagement with in-depth, process-based studies of German world city networks, which will analyse both attributive and relational data.

scholarly journals Association studies in thyroid cancer susceptibility: are we on the right track?

2011 ◽  
Vol 47 (1) ◽  
pp. R43-R58 ◽  
Author(s):  
Iñigo Landa ◽  
Mercedes Robledo
Keyword(s):  
Thyroid Cancer ◽  
Cancer Susceptibility ◽  
Association Studies ◽  
Critical Evaluation ◽  
Case Control ◽  
Case Control Studies ◽  
Independent Series ◽  
The Individual ◽  
The Right

It is widely accepted that thyroid cancer is strongly determined by the individual genetic background. In this regard, it is expected that sporadic thyroid cancer is the result of multiple low- to moderate-penetrance genes interacting with each other and with the environment, thus modulating individual susceptibility. In the last years, an important number of association studies on thyroid cancer have been published, trying to determine this genetic contribution. The aim of this review is to provide a comprehensive and critical evaluation of the associations reported so far in thyroid cancer susceptibility in case–control studies performed in both non-medullary (papillary and follicular) and medullary thyroid cancers, including their potential strengths and pitfalls. We summarize the genetic variants reported to date, and stress the importance of validating the results in independent series and assessing the functional role of the associated loci.

scholarly journals Status of contralateral ear in chronic otitis media and role of diagnostic otoendoscopy in it’s assessment

2019 ◽  
Vol 5 (3) ◽  
pp. 650
Author(s):  
Sweta Soni ◽  
Nandita Nath
Keyword(s):  
Otitis Media ◽  
Middle Ear ◽  
Critical Evaluation ◽  
Chronic Otitis Media ◽  
Pure Tone Audiometry ◽  
Suppurative Otitis Media ◽  
Field Of Vision ◽  
Contralateral Ear ◽  
The Individual ◽  
Hrct Temporal Bone

<p class="abstract"><strong>Background:</strong> Chronic suppurative otitis media doesn’t seem to be an isolated event that occurs in a particular patient. It seems rather be the product of a series of events constitutional of the individual. The precise and critical evaluation of both ears plays a fundamental role in the prognostic evaluation of the patient. Otoendoscopy is an upcoming day care procedure in the field of otology. It has several advantages over routine otoscopy for e.g. better resolution, wider field of vision, camera connectivity etc. We aimed to study the status of contralateral ear in chronic otitis media patients and evaluate the usefulness of diagnostic otoendoscopy.</p><p class="abstract"><strong>Methods:</strong> A prospective study was done on CSOM patients attending ENT dept, SMCH using otoendoscopy, schuller radiography, pure tone audiometry, tympanometry and HRCT temporal bone. Data collected was analysed.  </p><p class="abstract"><strong>Results:</strong> A total of 80 patients were evaluated out of which 70% were male, otoendoscopy revealed features of a diseased contralateral middle ear in 80% of them, PTA suggested hearing loss in opposite ear in 80% of them, schuller’s radiography showed sclerosed opposite mastoid in 22.5% and CT scan needed to be done in 24 patients of which 10 had disease in opposite middle ear.</p><p class="abstract"><strong>Conclusions:</strong> It is imperative from this study that evaluation of contralateral ear in chronic otitis media is important to unmask the hidden pathology and otoendoscopy is very useful in diagnosing it.</p>

scholarly journals Dietary interventions as a neuroprotective therapy for the delay of the onset of cognitive decline in older adults: Evaluation of the evidence

2017 ◽  
Vol 7 (10) ◽  
pp. 743 ◽  
Author(s):  
Debra Krause ◽  
Peter Roupas
Keyword(s):  
Older Adults ◽  
Cognitive Decline ◽  
Systematic Reviews ◽  
Critical Evaluation ◽  
Current Evidence ◽  
Blood Levels ◽  
Omega 3 ◽  
Dietary Interventions ◽  
Neuroprotective Therapy ◽  
The Individual

Background: The relationship between nutrition and cognitive functioning is unclear, especially in elderly populations as many elderly people with cognitive impairment have low blood levels of some nutrients even in the absence of malnourishment. The objective of this review was to assess the evidence from systematic reviews of human studies on the effectiveness of dietary interventions as monotherapies in delaying the onset of cognitive decline in older adults.Scope and approach: Evidence-based methodologies were used to gather and assess the highest levels of evidence that evaluated the effects of administration of any dose of the individual dietary interventions as neuroprotective agents for any duration. The search strategy was designed to identify systematic reviews and meta-analyses published from 1990 to December 2015. There were no language restrictions as part of the inclusion criteria.Key Findings and Conclusions: This review provides the current state of knowledge from systematic reviews on the effects on cognition of acetyl-L-carnitine, alpha-lipoic acid, choline, inositol compounds, omega-3 polyunsaturated fatty acids, and polyphenols, which are all commonly studied nutrients for neurocognitive effects. A critical evaluation of the current evidence from systematic reviews indicated that there are no clinically-relevant effects from supplementation with these nutrients on delaying the onset of cognitive decline in older adults. Keywords: diet, cognition, Alzheimer’s disease, dementia, nutrient

scholarly journals Edina Goes Green Part II: Using Home Lawns as Demonstration Sites to Teach Low-input Lawn Care

1999 ◽  
Vol 9 (3) ◽  
pp. 489-491
Author(s):  
Perrin J. Carpenter ◽  
Mary Hockenberry Meyer
Keyword(s):  
Individualized Instruction ◽  
Community Members ◽  
Low Input ◽  
Lawn Care ◽  
Individual Instruction ◽  
Home Lawns ◽  
The Individual ◽  
Project Objectives ◽  
Private Homes ◽  
Public Demonstration

Master Gardeners (MGs) were paired with homeowners who volunteered their lawns for demonstration sites in Edina, Minn., as part of a yearlong community-wide campaign to teach low-input lawn care. Project objectives were to 1) promote locations where community members could see low-input lawn care, 2) provide individualized instruction to homeowners via MGs, and 3) explore the feasibility of home lawns as public demonstration sites. Surveys suggest that participants changed practices because of the individual instruction from MGs. Further recommendations are given for using private homes as demonstration sites.

ON THE ASSAY OF CORTICOTROPHIN: COMPARISON OF THE PLASMA CORTICOSTEROID AND ADRENAL ASCORBIC ACID RESPONSE

1961 ◽  
Vol 38 (2) ◽  
pp. 220-235 ◽  
Author(s):  
Claus Rerup ◽  
Pavo Hedner
Keyword(s):  
Ascorbic Acid ◽  
Critical Evaluation ◽  
Correlation Coefficients ◽  
Assay Method ◽  
Practical Reasons ◽  
Hypophysectomized Rats ◽  
Subsequent Calculation ◽  
Points Of View ◽  
The Individual ◽  
Free Plasma

ABSTRACT A new subcutaneous assay method for corticotrophin using the level of free plasma corticosteroids in hypophysectomized rats as the response is described. A critical evaluation of the results compared with those of the adrenal ascorbic acid depletion assay method is given. It was found, that the plasma corticoid method has about the same precision (λ = 0.25) as the adrenal ascorbic acid depletion method, but that the former is about five times more sensitive. It is possible to apply a cross-over design to the plasma corticoid method, which increases the assay efficiency to about 250 per cent of non-cross-over assays. From simultaneous measurements of adrenal ascorbic acid concentration and plasma corticoid levels and subsequent calculation of their correlation coefficients it appeared, that the mechanism of ascorbic acid depletion is quantitatively not closely linked to that of adrenal corticoid output in the individual rat. On the basis of its advantages from the theoretical points of view (higher specificity) and for practical reasons, it is proposed to replace the adrenal ascorbic acid depletion method by the plasma corticoid method for pharmacopeial corticotrophin assays.

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