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Problems in the estimation and interpretation of the reliability of survey data
(Kluwer Academic Publishers; Springer Science+Business Media, 1989-09)
In this paper I discuss several of the difficulties involved in estimating the reliability of survey measurement. Reliability is defined on the basis of classical true-score theory , as the correlational consistency of ...
Analysis of inquiry materials to explain complexity of chemical reasoning in physical chemistry students’ argumentation
(Springer, Science and Technology Education LibraryWiley Periodicals, Inc., 2017-12)
One aim of inquiry activities in science education is to promote students’ participation in the practices used to build scientific knowledge by providing opportunities to engage in scientific discourse. However, many factors ...
How and when does complex reasoning occur? Empirically driven development of a learning progression focused on complex reasoning about biodiversity
(Wiley Subscription Services, Inc., A Wiley Company, 2009-08)
In order to compete in a global economy, students are going to need resources and curricula focusing on critical thinking and reasoning in science. Despite awareness for the need for complex reasoning, American students ...
The relationship between the macro- and microclimate
(Elsevier, 1965-04)
A search of the literature has yielded a very small number of papers dealing with quantitative relationships between the macro- and microclimate. Such relationships would be of great value in view of the difficulty in ...
Knowledge Integration in Science Teaching: Analysing Teachers' Knowledge Development
(Kluwer Academic Publishers; Springer Science+Business Media, 2004-03)
This paper tests the utility of a new sociocognitive frame for analysing the development of teachers' knowledge – the knowledge integration perspective (Linn, Eylon, & Davis, in press; Linn & Hsi, 2000). In doing so, the ...
Strategic Interactions of Monetary Policymakers and Wage/Price Bargainers: A Review with Implications for the European Common-Currency Area
(Kluwer Academic Publishers; Springer Science+Business Media, 2001-12)
This paper reviews recent work on macroeconomic management with varying organization of wage/price bargaining and degrees of credible monetary conservatism. The emerging literature synthesizes and extends theory and empirics ...
Disparate goods and Rawls' difference principle: A social choice theoretic treatment
(Kluwer Academic Publishers; D. Reidel Publishing Company ; Springer Science+Business Media, 1979-09)
Rawls' Difference Principle asserts that a basic economic structure is just if it makes the worst off people as well off as is feasible. How well off someone is is to be measured by an ‘index’ of ‘primary social goods’. ...
Examining student work for evidence of teacher uptake of educative curriculum materials
(Wiley Periodicals, Inc.Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, 2015-08)
The purpose of this study was to identify evidence in student work of teachers' uptake of educative features in educative curriculum materials. These are features in curriculum materials designed with the specific intent ...
An ecologically-based approach to the design of intercrop agroecosystems: An intercropping system of soybeans and tomatoes in Southern Michigan
(Elsevier, 1984-10)
A model is developed in which the elementary structure of plant competision is translated into the classical yield-density equation. Using the same reasoning, an interspecific form of the model is formulated to predict ...