Marconi ECT Project: phase 1 evaluation

Imagine a world without the use and application of electronics, and then consider a compulsory education system that does not offer courses in more than 18 percent of our secondary schools. This major shortfall in our education systems lies at the heart of much of the work carried out over the past four years related to finding training models for teachers in this very demanding area of work. This paper reflects the work carried out in theacademic year 2000/200 I in piloting a revised training model from the original 'Marconi Days' training programme. The original twoyeartrial programme used a 10-day training model. Sadly, this was considered too expensive, so this evaluation focused on two models, a 2-day course and a 4-day course, with support from a comprehensive web site and advisory support in school on the 2-day model. As the pilot has been established, much work has taken place to c

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The Marconi ECT Project and the Design of Professional Development

This paper is a summary of a dissertation presented for the degree of MA at Keele University in June 2001 and awarded in November 2001. The dissertation focused on the professional development opportunity called the Marconi ECT Project that took place in Staffordshire between 1998 and 2000. The main objectives of this course of study were: to consider the long term effects of an in-depth, long-term period of INSET in the area of electronic systems within design and technology; to record teachers' sense of professionalism as a result of a significant investment of time and resources; to record teachers' confidence and competence levels as a result of this in-depth INSET; and to consider lessons to be learned for the design of future INSET.The conclusions arising from this study are that any effective teacher professional development

Search for Leptoquarks Coupled to Third-Generation Quarks in Proton-Proton Collisions at root s=13 TeV

Three of the most significant measured deviations from standard model predictions, the enhanced decay rate for B → DðÞτν, hints of lepton universality violation in B → KðÞll decays, and the anomalous magnetic moment of the muon, can be explained by the existence of leptoquarks (LQs) with large couplings to third-generation quarks and masses at the TeV scale. The existence of these states can be probed at the LHC in high energy proton-proton collisions. A novel search is presented for pair production of LQs coupled to a top quark and a muon using data at a center-of-mass energy of 13 TeV, corresponding to an integrated luminosity of 35.9 fb−1, recorded by the CMS experiment. No deviation from the standard model prediction has been observed and scalar LQs decaying exclusively into tμ are excluded up to masses of 1420 GeV. The results of this search are combined with those from previous searches for LQ decays into tτ and bν, which excluded scalar LQs below masses of 900 and 1080 GeV. Vector LQs are excluded up to masses of 1190 GeV for all possible combinations of branching fractions to tμ, tτ and bν. With this analysis, all relevant couplings of LQs with an electric charge of −1=3 to third-generation quarks are probed for the first time