Demonstrating ‘Impact’: Insights from the Work of Preservice Teachers Completing a Graduate Teacher Performance Assessment

Initial Teacher Education (ITE) reform in Australia has mandated that graduating teachers demonstrate their practice and ‘impact’ through the completion of a Teaching Performance Assessment (TPA) prior to graduation. The requirement to analyse ‘impact’ in teaching, requires a nuanced understanding of what ‘impact’ is and how it manifests in varied contemporary classrooms. This paper reports on how a sample of high-performing pre-service teachers from one Australian ITE institution, within a framework devised by Australia’s largest TPA consortium, appraised the impact of their teaching in the context of the disciplinary area of Humanities and Social Sciences (HASS). How ‘impact’ was articulated through GTPA submissions revealed data-informed and holistic interpretations layered to include opportunistic teaching moments and relational and affective impact as well as analysis of cognitive progress. The paper also identifies ways in which analysis of impact might be further finessed with greater attention to pedagogical content knowledge and discipline-specific progression

Solving the Insoluble: A New Rule for Quantization

The rules of canonical quantization normally offer good results, but sometimes they fail, e.g., leading to quantum triviality ($=$ free) for certain examples that are classically nontrivial ($\ne$ free). A new procedure, called Enhanced Quantization, relates classical models with their quantum partners differently and leads to satisfactory results for all systems. This paper features enhanced quantization procedures and provides highlights of two examples, a rotationally symmetric model and an ultralocal scalar model, for which canonical quantization fails while enhanced quantization succeeds.Comment: 10 pages, several minor corrections, contribution to 2017 Coherent States workshop as a CIRM conference proceeding

Editorial: The Impact of Open Science for Evaluation of Volcanic Hazards

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Intersectionality, Inc.: A Dialogue on Intersectionality’s Travels and Tribulations

In a roundtable discussion held at the American Studies Association’s annual meeting in 2013, the authors interrogate intersectionality’s uptake in diverse settings, considering how its radical potential may be coopted and conflated with “diversity,” “multiculturalism,” “inclusion,” and similarly neoliberal institutional imperatives. The authors also discuss opportunities for resistance and transformation. Résumé Lors d’une table ronde tenue dans le cadre de la réunion annuelle de l’American Studies Association en 2013, les auteurs s’interrogent sur l’adoption de l’intersectionnalité dans divers contextes, en considérant comment son potentiel radical peut être coopté et confondu avec « la diversité », « le multiculturalisme », « l’inclusion » et des impératifs institutionnels également néo-libéraux. Les auteurs discutent également des occasions de résistance et de transformation

Transforming embodied experiences of academic conferences through creative practice : Participating in an instant choir at the nordic geographers’ meeting in 2019

Author's accepted version (postprint).This is an Accepted Manuscript of an article published by Sage in Cultural Geographies on 18/08/2021.Available online: https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/pdf/10.1177/14744740211039831acceptedVersio

Panel Discussion: Ideas for an Enjoyable and Productive Sabbatical

Navigating the Sabbatical Process and Deciding on a Productive Activity Can Be Challenging. a Sabbatical Can Take Many Different Forms Depending on Career Goals, Interests, and Institution. the Purpose of This Panel Discussion is to Provide Faculty Who Have Yet to Conduct a Sabbatical with Ideas of Activities and the Process. a Variety of Personal Experiences Will Be Presented of Sabbatical Activities that Were Enjoyable and Productive. These May Include Sabbaticals Focused on Independent Engineering Research, Engineering Education Research, Development of Classes or Programs, Industry or Government Collaboration, And/or Travel. Discussion Topics Will Also Include Process Requirements of Applying, Conducting, and Documenting the Outcomes of the Sabbatical. the Suggested Layout of the Panel Session Is: • 5-Minute Introduction of Panel Topic and Panelists • overview of Each Panelist\u27s Sabbatical Activity (5 Minutes Each) • Brief Whole Group Q&A Session to Engage Audience and Panelists • Small Group Activities with Documentation of Q&A: O What Resources Did You Find Helpful in Planning Your Sabbatical? O What Was the Timeframe of Planning, Applying For, Conducting, and Documenting Your Sabbatical? O What Were the Requirements of Your Sabbatical? O When or How Often Have You Conducted a Sabbatical? • Bring Whole Group Back Together to Discuss Learnings

Contribution of the EVER-EST project to the community of the Geohazard Supersites initiative

The EVER-EST project (European Virtual Environment for Research - Earth Science Themes: a solution) is a H2020 project (2015-2018) aimed at the creation of a Virtual Research Environment (VRE) focused on the requirements of the Earth Science community. The VRE is intended to enhance the ability to collaborate, interoperate and share knowledge and experience between all relevant stakeholders, including researchers, monitoring teams and civil protection agencies. Among the innovations of the project is the exploitation of the “Research Object” concept.PublishedVIenna,Austria1VV. Altr

Combined heat and power and campus carbon footprint reduction

Gemstone Team Cogeneration TechnologyCombined heat and power (CHP), the sequential generation of electrical and thermal energy in an integrated process, has emerged as an economically viable and immediately effective power generation method to reduce greenhouse gas emissions. CHP systems utilize both the electricity and waste heat created during energy production to increase fuel efficiency and decrease carbon emissions compared to conventional heat and power generation systems. This research examines the extent to which universities can decrease carbon emissions by identifying strategies for installation and operation of highly efficient, gas-fired CHP. To best identify how to enhance campus CHP, existing university plants were surveyed to benchmark how efficiently universities operate CHP. Strategies for increasing turbine efficiency were then considered. Demand for efficient CHP on university campuses was identified and connected to specific turbine characteristics. Policy frameworks to support the development of efficient CHP implementation and operation were examined and challenges identified. This report provides recommendations for overcoming technical, economic, and policy challenges to attain immediate emissions reductions through university usage of CHP