Syllabus Language, Teaching Style, and Instructor Self-Perception: Toward Congruence

As with all language, the words of a syllabus carry emotional associations. Previous literature has not objective-ly measured the emotional associations of syllabus language or explored the relationship between instructors’ teaching style and the emotional associations of syllabus language. Using the Pleasure-Arousal-Dominance (PAD) framework, this article reports baseline measurements for syllabus language, investigates the relationship be-tween Grasha’s teaching styles and instructors’ self-perceived emotional associations with teaching, and compares instructors’ self-perceptions with the emotional associations of their syllabus language. Moderate correlations between teaching PAD scores and Grasha’s teaching style inventory suggest the emotion that may connect with concrete teaching attitudes and behaviors. Crucially, we find that most instructors’ syllabi are incongruent with their teaching self-perceptions on key emotional dimensions. In other words, instructors’ syllabi are not communicating the central emotional associations of their instructor self-perception. Syllabus language can be altered, however, to align more closely with instructor self-perception

Выбор оптимального рабочего вектора эксплуатируемых систем методами математического программирования

The current state of the development of a laser based process chain for manufacturing fused silica optics is presented. In a first step fused silica is ablated with laser radiation to produce the geometry of the optics. A subsequent polishing step reduces the surface roughness and a third step uses micro ablation to remove the last remaining redundant material. Although the process chain is still under development, the ablation of fused silica already reaches ablation rates above 20 mm3/s with a resulting surface roughness of Ra < 5 ?m and the polishing process is able to significantly reduce this roughness

Ölpreis, Strompreis – welche Auswirkungen haben die gestiegenen Energiekosten, und sollten energieintensive Branchen entlastet werden?

Der Streit um die stark angestiegenen Energiepreise hält an. Kritik üben nicht nur Verbraucherverbände, auch mittelständische Unternehmen, energieintensive Industriebranchen und die Politik klagen über die Preisentwicklung und befürchten Standortnachteile für die deutsche Wirtschaft. Sollte der Staat regulierend eingreifen?

Portfolios--from traditional to digital : research for understanding and implementation in the art classroom

Portfolios are a method in which educators assess student work. The traditional portfolio is generally a collection of papers stored for an intended purpose. There are many types and purposes for portfolios. Technology, however, has yielded some inventive methods for managing the many papers in the portfolio in a digital format. This term, digital portfolio, represents a technological presentation of student work. The differences in hardware, software, and peripherals have been investigated in this review. Along with the tools for management, the implementation in an art classroom is explored. The sustaining impact of the digital portfolio in the art classroom or any classroom is to broaden the assessment of the curriculum and to encourage student self evaluation and reflection through a presentation developed using technology