Open AccessThis book examines the current thinking on five critical social and political areas in mathematics education. It focuses on material conditions in teaching and learning, and details features of social life and their influence on mathematics teaching, learning and achievement. Following an introduction, the first section addresses equitable access and participation in quality mathemat…
Probabilistic Reasoning and Evidentiary Value -- Unreliable Probabilities, Risk Taking, and Decision Making -- Rights, Games and Social Choice -- The Dynamics of Belief Systems: Foundations vs. Coherence Theories -- The Role of Expectations in Reasoning -- How Logic Emerges from the Dynamics of Information -- Induction, Conceptual Spaces and AI -- Three Levels of Inductive Inference -- Framewor…
German Idealism's Philosophy of History and its Contemporary Critique -- Schlegel's Theory of History and his Critique of Idealistic Reason -- History as the Control of Speculation: Schelling's Discovery of History and Baader's Critique of Absolute Historicity -- Absolute Historicity, Theory of the Becoming Absolute, and the Affect for the Particular in German Idealism and Historism: Introducti…
History and Context of the Persistent Vegetative State -- The Pathological Basis of Vegetative States -- Authoritative Statements -- Consciousness -- Sentience -- Electrophysiological and Imaging Studies of Patients in Vegetative States -- An Analogy between Anaesthesia and Persistent Vegetative State -- Diagnosis and Misdiagnosis of Vegetative States -- Emergence from a Vegetative State -- A P…
Transport in avian red cells -- The Balancing Act of the Naked Cell -- Electroneutral Cotransporters -- Twenty-Five Years of K-Cl Cotransport: From Stimulation by a Thiol Reaction to Cloning of the Full-Length KCCs -- Molecular Physiology of Mammalian K+-CL? Cotransporters -- STE20 Kinases and Cation-Chloride Cotransporters -- Molecular Physiology of the Renal Na+-Cl? and Na+-K+-2Cl? Cotranspor…
Primo contatto -- Pianificare un itinerario? -- Piacere, grafo -- Il peso ha un peso -- Un’innocua esplosione -- Monaco in quattro fermate -- Scelte locali, benefici globali -- In principio era l’input -- Negativo è negative -- Tempi buoni, tempi cattivi -- Intuito femminile -- Il lavoro che precede il lavoro -- Per assurdo -- Il Prim della classe -- Arraffa ciò che puoi -- Arbore… cosa…
Preface -- Chapter 1. Universities and Ranking in Globalized Higher Education -- Chapter 2. Tools to Capture and Measure the Rise and Fall of Universities -- Chapter 3. Winners and Losers According to Rankings -- Chapter 4. A Closer Look at the Ranked: Ten Case Studies in Asia, Europe and North America -- Chapter 5. Why Universities Rise and Fall? The Crucial Factors -- Chapter 6. Going Back to…
Chapter 1 The Hong Kong education and assessment systems -- Chapter 2 The role of the Hong Kong examinations and assessment authority -- Chapter 3 Onscreen marking system -- Chapter 4 Review of research into onscreen marking and a description of the methodological approaches and analytical tools used in the OSM validation studies -- Chapter 5 The first validation study: Comparing OSM and PBM in…
Sampling, Recruiting and Fieldwork Management -- Longitudinal Measurement of Educational Processes: Surveys and Constructs -- Longitudinal Measurement of Skills: Competence Testing -- Assessing Data Quality -- Data Management, Coding, Dissemination and User Support.This book addresses a broad array of pressing challenges of longitudinal surveys and provides innovative solutions to methodologica…
1 Introduction -- 2 The Affective domain, mathematics, and mathematics education -- 3 Investigating students' ideas about mathematics and mathematics education -- 4 Students' beliefs and attitudes about mathematics and learning mathematics -- 5 Differences in the affective responses of various groups -- 6 Changes in affective responses to mathematics through the middle school years -- 7 Buildin…