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Urban schools' teachers enacting project-based science
(Wiley Subscription Services, Inc., A Wiley Company, 2006-09)
What teaching practices foster inquiry and promote students to learn challenging subject matter in urban schools? Inquiry-based instruction and successful inquiry learning and teaching in project-based science (PBS) were ...
Supporting Science Teacher Learning: The Role of Educative Curriculum Materials
(Kluwer Academic Publishers; Springer Science+Business Media, 2002-08)
Health-seeking behavior and hospital choice in China's New Cooperative Medical System
(John Wiley & Sons, Ltd., 2009-07)
Since the dissolution of the Rural Cooperative Medical System at the end of the commune period, illness has emerged as a leading cause of poverty in rural China. To address the poor state of health care, the Chinese ...
Semiparametric quasilikelihood and variance function estimation in measurement error models
(Elsevier, 1993-07)
We consider a quasilikelihood/variance function model when a predictor X is measured with error and a surrogate W is observed. When in addition to a primary data set containing (Y,W) a validation data set exists for which ...
Stock market crash and expectations of American households
(John Wiley & Sons, Ltd., 2011-04)
This paper utilizes data on subjective probabilities to study the impact of the stock market crash of 2008 on households' expectations about the returns on the stock market index. We use data from the Health and Retirement ...
Re‐conceptualization of scientific literacy in South Korea for the 21st century
(Wiley Subscription Services, Inc., A Wiley Company, 2011-08)
As the context of human life expands from personal to global, a new vision of scientific literacy is needed. Based on a synthesis of the literature and the findings of an online survey of South Korean and US secondary ...
Self Organization and Coordination
(Kluwer Academic Publishers; Springer Science+Business Media, 2001-08)
In this paper, I analyze the organization of tasks or activities by acollection of agents. I begin by formally defining organized collections androbustly organized collections of agents in the context of a simple model.Within ...
The allocation of household income to food consumption
(Elsevier, 1976-05)
Low-income households - those toward which various income supplement programs are aimed - not only spend a large share of their incomes on food, but exhibit a higher income elasticity of demand for food than does the rest ...