Where is the self in teacher self-assessment?: an examination of teachers\u27 reflection and assessment practices in relation to their teaching practices

The purpose of this study was to identify the levels of explicit reflection-on-action and criteria with which teachers self-assess their teaching, and to compare these levels and criteria to classroom practices. These reflections and practices were then compared to the participants\u27 preservice preparation to determine the extent to which strategies taught transferred to classroom practice. To investigate these issues, this study utilized classroom observations, interviews, and relevant documents from thirteen second-, third-, fourth-, or fifth-year teachers who had graduated from a traditional elementary teacher education program at a landgrant university in the Midwestern United States. Classroom observations were rated using the Local Systemic Change Observation Protocol (Horizon Research, 2004). Teacher interviews examined the criteria teachers consider, as well as the reasoning and reflection they use to make sense of the assessment criteria and their classroom decisions. Interviews were coded using the five reflection levels used by Manouchehri (2002);This study responds to Kagan\u27s (1990) concern about the lack of information linking reflection to practice, and provides evidence that such a relationship exists. This relationship is most evident in the use of theory. Only the most effective teachers spoke of theory and educational literature, and their use in personal teaching practices. In addition, the content and focus of teachers\u27 reflections differed markedly as teachers demonstrated more effective teaching practices. Even though self-assessment and reflection practices were taught to the participants of this study during their preservice education program, such knowledge bases were often implemented in a piecemeal fashion, particularly by the least effective teachers in this study. Only the most effective teachers in this study implement self-assessment practices in ways that will most likely lead to changes consistent with current reform documents. Implications for preservice and inservice elementary science education professional development and recommendations for further study are discussed

Building Pathways: Nurturing a Female Generation of School Leaders in China

International feminist perspectives recognize the continuing inequalities of power between men and women across all classes. In China’s male-dominant society, for example, women often have been inhibited from pursuing leadership positions. One particular reason that has been drawing increasing attention across the world is the lack of appropriate training and guidance in young women’s leadership. This paper probes in greater depth one of the most important, yet largely overlooked aspects in the educational leadership of China – women’s leadership roles in education and young women’s leadership preparation. Drawing from published data, literature, and the data collected by the authors, the paper provides an overview of women’ leadership roles in education and the barriers to young women’s leadership aspirations, highlights gaps in young females’ leadership preparation in China, and identifies the implications for future research and practice. By capturing these views, insights and knowledge, the paper explores the promise and potential of nurturing a new female generation of educational leaders. Although there are past studies focusing on women’s leadership in China, relatively little is known about Chinese women in education leadership especially their leadership development in education. This paper fills a gap in the literature and brings light to an overlooked aspect involving China’s school leader development

Flexicurity – an open method of coordination at the national level ?

URL des documents de travail ; http://ces.univ-paris1.fr/cesdp/CESFramDP2009.htmClassification JEL : J28, J88, Z13.The working paper is also published by the University of Aalborg - Carma Research Papers n°3.2009Documents de travail du Centre d'Economie de la Sorbonne 2009.46 - ISSN : 1955-611X"Flexicurity" is the name given by international actors to political strategies aiming to (and pretending to) reconcile often contradictory goals. Instead of superficial comparisons of national strategies bundled up into general categories like "flexicurity" or "activation", it is possible to use comparative field work and see how international notions - supposedly testimony of a process of 'Europeanization' - are actually used and dealt with within national settings of actors. The comparison is made between France and Denmark. It shows that each group of national actors within their specific structure of constraints inherited from the past used the political notion of flexicurity during the early 2000s and what were some practical consequences of this use.La flexicurité (ou flexisécurité) est une motion qui s'est répandue depuis le début des années 2000, à la suite de l'usage du terme aux Pays-Bas et au Danemark. L'origine du mot est connue : inventée par un sociologue collaborateur du ministre hollandais du travail en 1990 ; c'est le Danemark qui, à partir de 2004-2005 devient l'emblème de la flexicurité. La comparaison des débats sociaux et publics au Danemark et en France, pendant les années 2000 montre que le même discours international superficiel de la flexicurité a été utilisé dans chaque pays pour des objectifs bien divers, au sein d'institutions elles aussi bien différentes. Au fond, les discours internationalisés ne sont pas des indicateurs d'une convergence des systèmes sociaux et des marchés du travail. Les idées communes exprimées en anglais sont plutôt des ressources qui, adaptées et retraduites dans les langues et les systèmes nationaux d'acteurs, servent à ces derniers dans la fabrication des compromis nationaux. De ce point de vue, l'européanisation se limite à une couche superficielle de discours politiques et à leur justification à un niveau d'abstraction très général

School Improvement Inclusion Model for Schools with Changing Demographics: The Impact of Changing Demographics in Schools

By 2026, students of color will make up 54% of the school population. The increase of demographically diverse students in our schools requires us to reflect on how we are serving these students, as they enter the doors of our schools. This chapter provides an overview about the implementation of a school inclusion model. The model was based on a wide array of strategies which focused on engaging demographically diverse parents, culturally competent training for school leaders, analyzing school equity data, implemented postsecondary strategies at the elementary and middle schools. An important finding was the 4% drop in teacher absences at the treatment schools. Both teachers and leaders reported significant improvements in terms of workplace satisfaction and positive feelings about their schools. A review of the findings on teachers’ perceptions about inclusion indicated that teachers in the treatment schools had greater job satisfaction than their counterparts. Finally, the accomplishments of this model require more research to insure its viability and its generalizability to schools

Molecular desorption of stainless steel vacuum chambers irradiated with 4.2 MeV/u lead ions

In preparation for the heavy ion program of the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) at CERN, accumulation and cooling tests with lead ion beams have been performed in the Low Energy Antiproton Ring (LEAR). These tests have revealed that due to the unexpected large outgassing of the vacuum system, the dynamic pressure of the ring could not be maintained low enough to reach the required beam intensities. To determine the actions necessary to lower the dynamic pressure rise, an experimental program has been initiated for measuring the molecular desorption yields of stainless steel vacuum chambers by the impact of 4.2 MeV/u lead ions with the charge states +27 and +53. The test chambers were exposed either at grazing or at perpendicular incidence. Different surface treatments (glow-discharges, non-evaporable getter coating) are reported in terms of the molecular desorption yields for H2, CH4, CO, Ar and CO2. Unexpected large values of molecular yields per incident ion up to 2 104 molecules/ion have been observed. The reduction of the ion-induced desorption yield due to continuous bombardment with lead ions (beam cleaning) has been investigated for five different stainless steel vacuum chambers. The implications of these results for the vacuum system of the future Low Energy Ion Ring (LEIR) and possible remedies to reduce the vacuum degradation are discussed

Mexican mission music :

The Graduale is dated 1698. The Antiphonale was discovered in a seventeenth century mission. The manuscripts contain unique material. Ten percent of the chants in the Antiphonale are not included in either the Dominican or Roman Antiphonalia. Three percent of the chants included in the Graduale are not included in either the Dominican or Roman Gradualia.The manuscripts were compared with the Antiphonale Sacrosantae Romanae Ecclesiae Pro Diurnis Horis, the Antiphonarium Sacri Ordinis Praedictorium Pro Diurnis Horis, the Sacrosanctae Romanae, Ecclesiae De Tempore et De Sanctis and the Graduale Sacri Ordinis Praedictorium. The calligraphies of the manuscripts were so similar, a comparison was made to ascertain whether the same scribe had copied both manuscripts. To date the manuscripts, the paper content and the watermarks on the paper were analyzed. The watermarks in both manuscripts are characteristic of the same era.Previous studies regarding the music in sixteenth century Roman Catholic missions in New Spain revealed the Indians were taught to sing and play European musical instruments so they could provide music for religious services. Music was used as a tool to accelerate the conversion of the Indians to Christianity.No other study has been done concerning music that was actually performed at the Mexican missions, therefore, the writer's analysis of the Antiphonale and Graduale fills a void in the history of missions in New Spain.This study of an Mexican Antiphonale and Graduale was done to catalog the contents of the manuscripts, discover who wrote the manuscripts, date them, learn where they were used and whether they were related.The study of the Antiphonale and Graduale revealed that the manuscripts are Dominican. The inscription in the Graduale is signed by Andres Garcia, servent of St. Dominic. The Antiphonale was originally from a mission in San Lucas Camotlan, Oaxaca, Mexico, which was the center of Dominican missionary activity. Twenty-six percent of the chants in the Antiphonale are included in the Dominican Antiphonarium but not the Roman Antiphonarium, thus the manuscript is closest to the Dominican Antiphonarium. Prominence is also given to Dominican Saints, Catherine and Dominic

Experimental Investigation of Impact-Induced Molecular Desorption by 4.2 MeV/u Pb ions

In preparation for the heavy ion program of the LHC, accumulation and cooling test with lead ion beams have been performed in the LEAR storage ring. These tests have revealed that due to the unexpected, large outgassing of the vacuum system, the dynamic pressure of the ring could not be maintained low enough to reach the required beam intensities. To determine the actions necessary to lower the dynamic pressure rise, an experimental program has been initiated for measuring the molecular desorption yields of stainless steel vacuum chambers by the impact of 4.2 MeV/u lead ions with the charge states +27 and +53. The test chambers were exposed either at grazing or at perpendicular incidence. Different surface treatments are reported in terms of the molecular desorption yields for H2, CH4, CO and CO2. Unpexpected large values of molecular yields per incident ion up to 2x104 molecules/ion have been observed. The implications of these results for the vacuum system of the future ion accumulator ring (LEIR) and possible remedies to reduce the vacuum degradation will be discussed

Success factors in global project management : A study of practices in organizational support and the effects on cost and schedule

Author's accepted version (postprint).This is an Accepted Manuscript of an article published by Emerald Group Publishing Limited in International Journal of Managing Projects in Business on 5 June 2019.Available online: https://www.emerald.com/insight/content/doi/10.1108/IJMPB-09-2018-0182/full/htmlThe purpose of this paper is to identify and complete the existing lack of quantitative data at the crossroads between organizational support (OS) practices and project management success in global projects (GPs) and discuss implication of the results in perspective of the theory–practice gap.Success factors in global project management: A study of practices in organizational support and the effects on cost and scheduleacceptedVersio