Review and evaluation of the Inquiry to Implementation Project final report 2014

The inquiry based professional learning project, Inquiry to Implementation was developed by the Victorian Curriculum and Assessment Authority (VCAA) as a key professional learning resource to support implementation of the Victorian Early Years Learning and Development Framework (VEYLDF) For all Children Birth to Eight Years. The VCAA and the Department of Education and Training (DET) work together to support VEYLDF implementation. This review and evaluation report provides an account of early childhood professionals\u27 experience of inquiry based professional learning in multidisciplinary networks across Victoria. Drawing on project data and focus group interviews, in the Report, Monash University deliver research findings on key trends in assessment practice and network relationships and engagement: changes in practice are described for individual practitioners, service types and the nine networks involved in the Inquiry to Implementation Project four dominant themes are identified across all networks and a further seven which are evident for particular networks case studies profile the contribution each of the nine networks and highlight the unique nature, trends in practice over time, evidence of participants learning, promising practices, key successes and barriers along with overarching themes a relational agency framework provides a model that can be used to describe practitioner experiences and professional relationships in networks. Monash University researchers developed the framework as a tool to support growth in inquiry based professional learning at the level of a multidisciplinary network. This report draws out learning from the networks that all early childhood professionals, policy makers and researchers will find useful in building assessment practice and research to support learning and development outcomes for children. &nbsp

The Problem of the West[ern]

Three great Western films—Stagecoach, The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance, and the contemporary No Country for Old Men—delve deep into the American psyche and make a broad claim that the American way of mixing freedom and rule is inherently flawed. Author information: Kiley Duhn is a Business Economics and Accountancy double major and Political Science minor at Miami University in Oxford, Ohio. After graduating in the Class of 2019, she plans to pursue a career in tax consulting at a public accounting firm

Anbefalede skoleruter

Der er en generel udfordring i Danmark med, at flere børn bliver kørt til skole i bil, samtidig medat færre går og cykler. Derfor har mange vejforvaltninger et stort fokus på at forbedre trafiksikkerheden og trygheden ved skolerne. Der findes en række metoder til at imødekomme dette. Anbefalede skoleruter kan med fordel kan benyttes ved følgende situationer: Etablering af en ny skole Større ændringer af en eksisterende skole (f.eks. ændring af skoledistrikt) Ved ønske om at udpege projekter konsekvent for alle skoler i en forvaltning Ved ønske om at synliggøre muligheder for at cykle og gå for forældre og elever Resultatet af undersøgelsen er typisk et kort over anbefalede skoleruter til skolen samt en liste med udpegede projekter, hvor de eksisterende vej- og stiforhold ikke lever op til kriterierne for en anbefalet skolevej. Via Trafik Rådgivning A/S har foretaget udpegninger af anbefalede skoleruter for en lang række forvaltninger, hvilket ligger til grund for følgende beskrivelse af metode samt fordele og ulemper ved udpegning af anbefalede skoleruter

Safety participation at the direct care level: Results of a patient questionnaire

Understanding how patients can be engaged in safety-related activities at the direct care level is of current relevance given global efforts to reduce harm in hospitals. As part of a multiphase study, including a descriptive, exploratory qualitative study (Duhn & Medves, 2018), patients were asked to respond to a brief questionnaire to quantify how they viewed their patient-reported safety participation behaviours while in hospital. This paper is a summary of those responses. The 8-item questionnaire was, in part, used to help address a secondary research question of the larger qualitative study, specifically: What behaviours do patients report in promoting their safety while receiving care in hospital? Patients completed the questionnaire at the end of the face-to-face in-hospital interviews. Twenty-eight adult inpatients completed the questionnaire. Fifteen participants indicated that they ‘always’ or ‘usually’ checked their hospital medications; this was the second lowest rated activity. Most participants (n=20) believed they could rely on their knowledge and alertness to protect them from health-care error. Seventeen participants were in the high participation category. Given the prevalence of medication errors, patient involvement warrants further examination, including system supports to increase feasibility. Overall, a standardized, valid and reliable patient engagement in safety measure for the direct care level is required. Experience Framework This article is associated with the Policy & Measurement lens of The Beryl Institute Experience Framework. (https://www.theberylinstitute.org/ExperienceFramework). Access other PXJ articles related to this lens. Access other resources related to this lens

Safety participation at the direct care level: Results of a patient questionnaire

Understanding how patients can be engaged in safety-related activities at the direct care level is of current relevance given global efforts to reduce harm in hospitals. As part of a multiphase study, including a descriptive, exploratory qualitative study (Duhn & Medves, 2018), patients were asked to respond to a brief questionnaire to quantify how they viewed their patient-reported safety participation behaviours while in hospital. This paper is a summary of those responses. The 8-item questionnaire was, in part, used to help address a secondary research question of the larger qualitative study, specifically: What behaviours do patients report in promoting their safety while receiving care in hospital? Patients completed the questionnaire at the end of the face-to-face in-hospital interviews. Twenty-eight adult inpatients completed the questionnaire. Fifteen participants indicated that they ‘always’ or ‘usually’ checked their hospital medications; this was the second lowest rated activity. Most participants (n=20) believed they could rely on their knowledge and alertness to protect them from health-care error. Seventeen participants were in the high participation category. Given the prevalence of medication errors, patient involvement warrants further examination, including system supports to increase feasibility. Overall, a standardized, valid and reliable patient engagement in safety measure for the direct care level is required. Experience Framework This article is associated with the Policy & Measurement lens of The Beryl Institute Experience Framework. (https://www.theberylinstitute.org/ExperienceFramework). Access other PXJ articles related to this lens. Access other resources related to this lens

New geographies, new selves? : German women migrating to the South Island of New Zealand in the 1980s and 1990s

This is an interdisciplinary study which draws on literature from the fields of feminist theory, feminist geography and social and cultural theory to develop an understanding of how cultural/gender identity manifests in a new cultural environment and what influence past identifications have on the meaning given to concepts of place/space and self in the 'new' environment. My intention is to highlight that the way we imagine ourselves and 'our' places {in this case Germany and New Zealand) influences how 'reality' is constructed. In much of the literature on migration and globalisation it is assumed that the predominant reasons for migration are economic or to escape violence. Other factors, such as the search for a better place for self-development, or the search for a place where the self is imagined to have more autonomy, are less of a focus in migration studies. This thesis is based on the assumption that the German women who participated, did not necessarily immigrate for economic reasons, but rather to find 'space' for themselves. How this 'space' is imagined, depends on how the self is constructed. Within paradigms, such as modernity, that rely on binary oppositions, migration in search of a 'better' place with the hope for a 'new' self attached, might tum out to generate reproductions of past identifications. The search for a 'better' place then becomes the search for familiarity with little space left for encounters with that which is culturally 'different'. New Selves turned out to be old selves, after all. I worked within a postmodern feminist framework, which highlights that the self is a construct. Places, in a similar vein are made up out of a multitude of selves who collectively re-construct what kind of place 'their' society is. Feminist geographers emphasise that in the age of globalisation, the local and the global are increasingly interlinked. From this perspective, immigration becomes a matter of encompassing the 'old' and the 'new', past identifications have to be re-constructed in a different cultural environment to enable the emergence of 'selves' that are both 'new' and 'old'

Dynamic Voltage Rail Audio Amplifier

The goal of this project is to create a high-quality, power-efficient audio amplifier. Most modern audio amplifiers use a constant amount of power regardless of the signal that is being amplified. This means that both loud and quiet portions of the audio signal require the same amount of power to amplify. The idea for this high-quality, power-efficient audio amplifier is that the quieter portions of the audio signal can be amplified using less power. This will be achieved by first analyzing the audio signal and controlling the power source based on the signal’s needs. Therefore, louder parts of the audio signal will use the typical amount of power, while quieter parts of the signal will not use as much power. When comparing a standard audio amplifier and the high-quality power-efficient audio amplifier, the average power usage for the power-efficient amplifier should be less than the standard amplifier