A survey of psychological, motivational, family and perceptions of physics education factors that explain 15 year-old students’ aspirations to study post-compulsory physics in English schools

This paper investigates the factors that influence 15-year-old students’ intentions to study physics post-16, when it is no longer compulsory. The analysis is based on the year 10 (age, 15 years) responses of 5,034 students from 137 England schools as learners of physics during the academic year 2008–2009. Factor analyses uncovered a range of physics-specific constructs, 7 of which were statistically significantly associated with intention to study physics post-16 in our final multi-level model; in descending order of effect size, these are extrinsic material gain motivation, intrinsic value of physics, home support for achievement in physics, emotional response to physics lessons, perceptions of physics lessons, physics self-concept and advice-pressure to study physics. A further analysis using individual items from the survey rather than constructs (aggregates of items) supported the finding that extrinsic motivation in physics was the most important factor associated with intended participation. In addition, this item-level analysis indicated that, within the advice-pressure to study physics construct, the encouragement individual students receive from their teachers is the key factor that encourages them to intend to continue with physics post-16

Inequality in experiences of physics education : Secondary school girls’ and boys’ perceptions of their physics education and intentions to continue with physics after the age of sixteen

This paper explores the factors that are associated in England with 15 year-old students’ intentions to study physics post-16, when it is no longer compulsory. Survey responses were collated from 5034 year 10 students as learners of physics during the academic year 2008-09 from 137 England secondary schools. Our analysis uses individual items from the survey rather than constructs (aggregates of items) to explore what it is about physics teachers, physics lessons and physics itself that is most correlated with intended participation in physics post-16. Our findings indicate that extrinsic material gain motivation in physics was the most important factor associated with intended participation. In addition, an item-level analysis helped to uncover issues around gender inequality in physics educational experiences which were masked by the use of construct-based analyses. Girls’ perceptions of their physics teachers were similar to those of boys on many fronts. However, despite the encouragement individual students receive from their teachers being a key factor associated with aspirations to continue with physics, girls were statistically significantly less likely to receive such encouragement. We also found that girls had less positive experiences of their physics lessons and physics education than did boys

Diversity Awareness And Management In Adult Education

Effective education to all students is a moral imperative in today’s diverse environment of adult learning. Educators are obligated to avoid all issues that present a conflict of interest in order to create a healthy learning environment for all students. This document provides a review of diversity related issues such as sexual harassment, self-fulfilling prophecy in relation to the diverse environment of education, diversity management concerns in learning, and adult teaching practices geared toward new adult educators of diverse student populations

Adult Learning, Assessment, and the Extraordinary Teacher

The enclosed literature focuses on delivering content through learner participation while increasing learning using creative modalities and participants’ dominant learning styles without increasing administrative cost to the school. Personal experiences of about 40 years in corporate executive and training as well as best practices gleaned from several different universities (graduate / undergraduate business programs using cutting edge technologies) are discussed and highlighted. Learner participation and interaction are critical to effective “experiential facilitation techniques” that increase learning and retention with adult participants. A major element of being or becoming effective educators involves understanding how students learn best and then integrating activities that best suit learning styles regardless of teaching modality. Compared to children and teens, adults need to be involved in the learning process

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Analysis of intrusion detection system (IDS) in border gateway protocol

University of Technology, Sydney. Faculty of Engineering and Information Technology.Border Gateway Protocol (BGP) is the de-facto inter-domain routing protocol used across thousands of Autonomous Systems (AS) joined together in the Internet. The main purpose of BGP is to keep routing information up-to-date across the Autonomous System (AS) and provide a loop free path to the destination. Internet connectivity plays a vital role in organizations such as in businesses, universities and government organisations for exchanging information. This type of information is exchanged over the Internet in the form of packets, which contain the source and destination addresses. Because the Internet is a dynamic and sensitive system which changes continuously, it is therefore necessary to protect the system from intruders. Security has been a major issue for BGP. Nevertheless, BGP suffers from serious threats even today, DoS attack is the major security threat to the Internet today, among which, is the TCP SYN flooding, the most common type of attack. The aim of this DoS attack is to consume large amounts of bandwidth. Any system connected to the Internet and using TCP services are prone to such attacks. It is important to detect such malicious activities in a network, which could otherwise cause problems for the availability of services. This thesis proposes and implements two new security methods for the protection of BGP data plane, “Analysis of BGP Security Vulnerabilities” and “Border Gateway Protocol Anomaly Detection using Failure Quality Control Method” to detect the malicious packets and the anomaly packets in the network. The aim of this work is to combine the algorithms with the Network Data Mining (NDM) method to detect the malicious packets in the BGP network. Furthermore, these patterns can be used in the database as a signature to capture the incidents in the future

Waqf as a Socially Responsible Investment instrument A case for Western Countries

Although globally Islamic financial assets have shown phenomenal growth but the fact still remains that Islamic financial products are miniscule in both value and reach, when compared with their conventional counterparts. There are also fears that the growth of Islamic financial assets are losing steam. For sustainable high growth and to capture a bigger percentage of the world’s financial services’ assets Islamic finance firms have to evolve their products to make them appealing for both Muslim and non-Muslim customers and investors. This paper looks at how socially responsible investments can be used to make Islamic financial products more attractive to the non-Muslim investor