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School innovation in district context: Comparing traditional public schools and charter schools

instructional innovation

Preston C, Goldring E, Berends M.
GSID: 4zGuWKx6yXMJ
C Preston, E Goldring, M Berends… - Economics of Education …, 2012 - Elsevier

… They measure academic instructional innovation based on teachers’ perceptions of school improvement efforts and focus on innovations … (eg, whether instructional program was unique and based on research evidence). They find no significant relationship between instructional …

The Benefits of Learning: the impacts of formal and informal education on social capital, health and family life

informal education

Preston J.
GSID: NBpcwbF0xzYJ
T Schuller, J Preston, C Hammond, A Bassett-Grundy… - 2004 - London: Routledge

No abstract available.

STEM IN MY KINDERGARTEN CLASS: LEARNING FROM 5-YEAR-OLDS

STEM Education

Preston C.
GSID: HWCTLfHXlBoJ
C Preston - 7th STEM in Education Conference …, 2022 - openjournals.library.sydney.edu.au

… Amidst calls for STEM education to formally commence from the first year of school, after … achieve educational benefits. Engaging kindergarten students in authentic integrated STEM …

Supporting innovation in teaching: what are the key contextual factors?

teaching innovation

Holmes K, Preston G.
GSID: GLf3kEjcB-gJ
K Holmes, S Bourke, G Preston… - International Journal …, 2013 - inderscienceonline.com

… are insufficient to merit the designation of innovation (Johannessen and Pedro, 2010). So what does constitute innovation in terms of teaching practice? Can typical pedagogical approaches be tweaked sufficiently to facilitate technology-based innovation in the classroom or is...

Framing vulnerability and adaptive capacity assessment: Discussion paper

Cultural Transformation in the Geoscience Community AND Program Evaluation

Preston BL.
GSID: lrMZVb8Y43IJ
BL Preston, M Stafford-Smith - 2009 - m.libyaalwafa.com

The purpose of this discussion paper is to briefly highlight various perspectives regarding key concepts associated with climate change vulnerability and adaptation, as well as some of the commonly used methodologies and frameworks for assessing vulnerability, adaptive capacity and...

Putting vulnerability to climate change on the map: a review of approaches, benefits, and risks

Cultural Transformation in the Geoscience Community AND Program Evaluation

Preston BL, Westaway RM.
GSID: b8GupcmYTlMJ
BL Preston, EJ Yuen, RM Westaway - Sustainability science, 2011 - Springer

There is growing demand among stakeholders across public and private institutions for spatially-explicit information regarding vulnerability to climate change at the local scale. However…

'Dental personpower'.

British dental journal

Preston M.
PMID: 2018690
Br Dent J. 1991 Mar 09;170(5):175. doi: 10.1038/sj.bdj.4807462.

No abstract available.

Translating medical school social missions to student experiences.

Medical education

Ellaway RH, Van Roy K, Preston R, Greenhill J, Clithero A, Elsanousi S, Richards J, Labarda C, Graves L, Mammen M, Assayed AA, Willems S.
PMID: 28949033
Med Educ. 2018 Feb;52(2):171-181. doi: 10.1111/medu.13417. Epub 2017 Sep 26.

CONTEXT: There is a growing focus on the social missions of medical schools as a way of expressing an institutional commitment to service, responsibility and accountability. However, there has been little exploration of how a social mission translates to...

SU-E-J-51: Interfractional Trend Analysis of Dose Discrepancies Based on 2D Portal Dosimetry.

Medical physics

Persoon L, Nijsten S, Podesta M, Snaith J, van Elmpt W, Verhaegen F.
PMID: 28517595
Med Phys. 2012 Jun;39(6):3664. doi: 10.1118/1.4734886.

PURPOSE: During a radiotherapy treatment course the dose delivery can be influenced by a number of factors, e.g. anatomical changes over time. Thiscan Result in discrepancies between planned and delivered dose. The electronic portal imaging device has been demonstrated...

Carts Before Horses? Remembering the Primacy of the Student's Experience in Student Learning.

New directions for student leadership

Preston M, Peck A.
PMID: 27502099
New Dir Stud Leadersh. 2016 Sep;2016(151):79-91. doi: 10.1002/yd.20202.

This chapter makes a case for employing qualitative methodologies in the assessment of student leadership programs. Frameworks for reflective practice are discussed.

Novel concepts in radiation-induced cardiovascular disease.

World journal of cardiology

Cuomo JR, Sharma GK, Conger PD, Weintraub NL.
PMID: 27721934
World J Cardiol. 2016 Sep 26;8(9):504-519. doi: 10.4330/wjc.v8.i9.504.

Radiation-induced cardiovascular disease (RICVD) is the most common nonmalignant cause of morbidity and mortality among cancer survivors who have undergone mediastinal radiation therapy (RT). Cardiovascular complications include effusive or constrictive pericarditis, cardiomyopathy, valvular heart disease, and coronary/vascular disease. These...

Novel nanostructured paper with ultrahigh transparency and ultrahigh haze for solar cells.

Nano letters

Fang Z, Zhu H, Yuan Y, Ha D, Zhu S, Preston C, Chen Q, Li Y, Han X, Lee S, Chen G, Li T, Munday J, Huang J, Hu L.
PMID: 24372201
Nano Lett. 2014 Feb 12;14(2):765-73. doi: 10.1021/nl404101p. Epub 2014 Jan 13.

Solar cell substrates require high optical transparency but also prefer high optical haze to increase the light scattering and consequently the absorption in the active materials. Unfortunately, there is a trade-off between these optical properties, which is exemplified by...

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