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Checked Your Bias Lately? Reasons and Strategies for Rural Teachers to Self-Assess for Grading Bias
(2014)
Multiple factors influence teachers' grading and scoring of students' class work, homework, projects and tests. Put simply, bias in grading is giving different grades on student work of essentially equal quality, based on ...
Diversity Issues: Exploring “Critical” Through Multiple Lenses
(Advances in Developing Human Resources, 2014-11-01)
The Problem Social identity diversity is a concept that links an individual to the social world and to other contexts where interactions occur. However, issues that emerge from social identity diversity may not necessarily ...
World Health Organization Estimates of the Global and Regional Disease Burden of 11 Foodborne Parasitic Diseases, 2010: A Data Synthesis
(PLOS Medicine, 2015-12-03)
In this data synthesis, Paul Robert Torgerson and colleagues estimate the global and regional disease burden of 11 foodborne parasitic diseases.
Perceptions of Trained Leaders on Improving the Public Health Impact of Three Arthritis Foundation Programs
(Health Promotion Practice, 2010-07-01)
The Arthritis Foundation (AF) offers effective community-based programs to help manage arthritis, including aquatic, exercise, and self-help programs. Trained leaders can facilitate the adoption, maintenance, and reach of ...
Precipitation and carbon-water coupling jointly control the interannual variability of global land gross primary production
(2016-12-23)
Carbon uptake by terrestrial ecosystems is increasing along with the rising of atmospheric CO2 concentration. Embedded in this trend, recent studies suggested that the interannual variability (IAV) of global carbon fluxes ...
Understanding the Differences Between Vendor Types in Local Governance
(The American Review of Public Administration, 2013-11-01)
It is commonly posited that for-profit, nonprofit, and other government vendors have fundamental differences, which make one or the other the superior choice depending on the circumstances of service delivery. Past research, ...
Dynamic Modeling as a Cognitive Regulation Scaffold for Developing Complex Problem-Solving Skills in an Educational Massively Multiplayer Online Game Environment
(Journal of Educational Computing Research, 2011-10-01)
Following a design-based research framework, this article reports two empirical studies with an educational MMOG, called McLarin's Adventures, on facilitating 9th-grade students' complex problem-solving skill acquisition ...
Adaptive Localized Active Route Maintenance Mechanism to Improve Performance of VoIP over Ad Hoc Networks
(2011-02)
An important characteristic of a mobile ad hoc network routing protocol is connectivity maintenance. The protocol’s ability to maintain routes and react to topology changes due to link failures affects the delay, packet ...
Broad-Band Activatable White-Opsin
(PLos One, 2015-09-11)
Currently, the use of optogenetic sensitization of retinal cells combined with activation/inhibition has the potential to be an alternative to retinal implants that would require electrodes inside every single neuron for ...
Ecosystem Carbon Stock Influenced by Plantation Practice: Implications for Planting Forests as a Measure of Climate Change Mitigation
(PLos One, 2010-05-27)
Uncertainties remain in the potential of forest plantations to sequestrate carbon (C). We synthesized 86 experimental studies with paired-site design, using a meta-analysis approach, to quantify the differences in ecosystem ...