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International Health Economics Association Seventeenth Annual Kenneth J. Arrow Award in Health Economics
(John Wiley & Sons, Ltd., 2008-09)
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Technology-rich inquiry science in urban classrooms: What are the barriers to inquiry pedagogy? * Any opinions, findings, and conclusion or recommendations expressed in this article are those of the authors and do not necessarily reflect the views of the National Science Foundation.
(John Wiley & Sons, Inc., 2002-02)
What are the barriers to technology-rich inquiry pedagogy in urban science classrooms, and what kinds of programs and support structures allow these barriers to be overcome? Research on the pedagogical practices within ...
Integrated maintenance and production control of a deteriorating production system
(Kluwer Academic Publishers; Springer Science+Business Media, 2002-05)
We consider a make-to-stock production/inventory system consisting of a single deteriorating machine which produces a single item. We formulate the integrated decisions of maintenance and production using a Markov Decision ...
Concurrent enrollment in lecture and laboratory enhances student performance and retention
(Wiley Subscription Services, Inc., A Wiley Company, 2012-05)
Laboratories have been a cornerstone in teaching and learning across multiple scientific disciplines for more than 100 years. At the collegiate level, science laboratories and their corresponding lectures are often offered ...
Promoting understanding of chemical representations: Students' use of a visualization tool in the classroom
(John Wiley & Sons, Inc., 2001-09)
Many students have difficulty learning symbolic and molecular representations of chemistry. This study investigated how students developed an understanding of chemical representations with the aid of a computer-based ...
Large‐scale science education intervention research we can use
(Wiley Subscription Services, Inc., A Wiley Company, 2012-03)
This article develops an argument that the type of intervention research most useful for improving science teaching and learning and leading to scalable interventions includes both research to develop and gather evidence ...
Comparing three attitude-behavior theories for predicting science teachers' intentions
(Wiley Subscription Services, Inc., A Wiley Company, 2002-11)
Social psychologists' attitude-behavior theories can contribute to understanding science teachers' behaviors. Such understanding can, in turn, be used to improve professional development. This article describes leading ...
Control of a manufacturing system with random product yield and downward substitutability
(Kluwer Academic Publishers; Springer Science+Business Media, 2000-09)
We consider a manufacturing system where the quality of the end product is uncertain and is graded into one of several quality levels after production. We assume stochastic demand for each quality level, stochastic production ...
The Price Sensitivity Of Medicare Beneficiaries: A Regression Discontinuity Approach
(Wiley Periodicals, Inc.The AEI Press, 2013-01)
We use 4 years of data from the retiree health benefits program of the University of Michigan to estimate the effect of price on the health plan choices of Medicare beneficiaries. During the period of our analysis, changes ...