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Repositioning teachers as assessors : Compromised aspirations and contested agency

2021

The global trend to emphasise assessment for learning brings up the issue of repositioning teachers in assessment. The contemporary curricular policy reforms encourage teachers to take an agentic role in assessment, but multiple dimensions of the environment affect its realisation. Drawing on an ecological approach to teacher agency, this empirical study investigated how Korean secondary English teachers (KSETs) perceive and enact their own teacher agency in assessment within the ecosystem of Korean education. The dataset for the study comprises semi-structured interviews with 15 KSETs. The interview questions involved the main themes such as personal experiences over the life course regard…

Measuring something that cannot be grasped – Reflections about Methodology in Elicitation of Spoken Competence

2014

The focus of this article is on reflections about methodology and the methodical choices in empirical research into the role of consciousness in the acquisition of spoken competence in German as second or third foreign language. Seeing language as a complex, dynamic system, I want to show how learning fluctuates. I would like to demonstrate that there is a continuous fluctuation between nonlinearity and stability which depends on particular driving forces. These forces have to be captured by methods whose aim is to increase the certainty of data. These reflections were proved by a case that wants to demonstrate how a multi-methodical approach works in this direction.

The Approach Behavior to Angry Words in Athletes : A Pilot Study

2019

An increasing number of studies have found that athletes have a higher level of aggression than non-athletes. Anger is an important factor in the generation of aggressive behavior, and anger has been found to relate to both approach behavior and avoidance behavior. The present pilot study compared the aggression level of athletes and non-athletes using the Buss-Perry Aggression Questionnaire, and examined the responses of participants to anger-related stimuli using the manikin task, a paradigm that measures approach-avoidance behavior. In total, 15 athletes and 15 non-athletes finished the questionnaire and the manikin task, which included two conditions. In the anger approach condition, pa…

Consumers' attitudes toward mobile advertising : a rhetorical approach

2015

Mobile advertising adoption has not been as rapid as it could have been, even though the techniques for its full exploitation have existed for years. Understanding consumers’ attitudes toward the phenomenon is crucial in order to enhance the situation. The purpose of this research was to examine young consumers’ perceptions about mobile advertising in order to clarify what type of meanings they give to the phenomenon, what kind of argumentation means are found and in which contexts it is evaluated positive or negative. The theoretical framework of this research is based on the principals of rhetorical social psychology (Billig 1987/1996). The data of this study was gathered by using the met…

Syöpää, sotaa ja masennusta

2018

Anomaly Detection and Classification of Household Electricity Data : A Time Window and Multilayer Hierarchical Network Approach

2022

With the increasing popularity of the smart grid, huge volumes of data are gathered from numerous sensors. How to classify, store, and analyze massive datasets to facilitate the development of the smart grid has recently attracted much attention. In particular, with the popularity of household smart meters and electricity monitoring sensors, a large amount of data can be obtained to analyze household electricity usage so as to better diagnose the leakage and theft behaviors, identify man-made tampering and data fraud, and detect powerline loss. In this paper, the time window method is first proposed to obtain the features and potential periodicity of household electricity data. Combining th…

Jak doskonalić szkolne projekty edukacyjne - od empirii do praktyki

2018

Celem artykułu jest prezentacja badań własnych dotyczących wybranych aspektów realizacji projektów. Autorka, odwołując się do historycznych korzeni metody projektów, przedstawia jej główne cechy, następnie wyniki badań przeprowadzonych na grupie uczniów szkoły średniej. Przedstawiona w tekście analiza odnosi się do takich cech metody projektów, jak interdyscyplinarność, autonomia uczniów oraz procesowość pracy projektowej. Autorka zwraca uwagę zarówno na symptomy negatywne związane z doświadczeniami młodzieży i realizowanymi projektami (np. ograniczony wymiar interdyscyplinarnego podejścia czy procesowości pracy projektowej), jak i pozytywne, odnoszące się do roli nauczycieli jako osób pomo…

Gamma Oscillations in the Temporal Pole Reflect the Contribution of Approach and Avoidance Motivational Systems to the Processing of Fear and Anger W…

2022

Prior reports suggest that affective effects in visual word processing cannot be fully explained by a dimensional perspective of emotions based on valence and arousal. In the current study, we focused on the contribution of approach and avoidance motivational systems that are related to different action components to the processing of emotional words. To this aim, we compared frontal alpha asymmetries and brain oscillations elicited by anger words associated with approach (fighting) motivational tendencies, and fear words that may trigger either avoidance (escaping), approach (fighting) or no (freezing) action tendencies. The participants’ task was to make decisions about approaching or dis…

Implementing ecosystem approach to fishery management: advances and new tools

2013

Desde la antigüedad, la pesca ha sido una fuente importante de alimentos para la humanidad, así como fuente de empleo y beneficios económicos para quienes se dedican a esta actividad. Sin embargo, con el aumento de los conocimientos científicos y la evolución dinámica de la pesca se hizo evidente de que los recursos acuáticos, aunque renovables, no eran infinitos y era necesario gestionar adecuadamente su contribución al bienestar nutricional, económico y el bienestar social de la población mundial para un crecimiento y desarrollo sostenible. En los últimos años, la pesca mundial se ha convertido en un sector dinámico y de desarrollo de la industria alimentaria. Los estados costeros han pro…

Computing bi-tangents for transmission belts

2020

In this note, we determine the bi-tangents of two rotated ellipses, and we compute the coordinates of their points of tangency. For these purposes, we develop two approaches. The first one is an analytical approach in which we compute analytically the equations of the bi-tangents. This approach is valid only for some cases. The second one is geometrical and is based on the determination of the normal vector to the tangent line. This approach turns out to be more robust than the first one and is valid for any configuration of ellipses.