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Parallel Worlds of Education and Medicine: Art, Science, and Evidence
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The No Child Left Behind Act is comprised of four pillars, one of which is “proven education methods.” This paper attempts to provide a historical context for the development of evidence-based education by examining its foundation in medical practice. Next, the rationale for evidence of educational effectiveness based on a scientific “gold standard,” the randomized controlled trial (RCT), is explored and the relative limitations of this approach are outlined. Finally, important distinctions between medicine and education are explained.

Subject:
Education
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Reading
Provider:
Rice University
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Connexions
Author:
Eileen Johnson
Date Added:
10/13/2017
Portland Cement in the Energy Industry
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Cement production may be classified by application into two primary groups: construction and energy services. The construction applications for cementing consume the lion’s share of cement manufactured world-wide, but the cement produced for energy services applications is an integral part of meeting the world’s energy needs and requires tighter quality control standards to meet that industry’s higher demands on control of the rheological properties of the fluid slurry state, the solid state, and especially the transition from the former state to the latter, or the setting process. Applications relating to the energy services industry are the primary focus of this work. Additionally, cement may also become central to efforts in nuclear waste management by locking radioactive material within the cementitious matrix, where rates of diffusion of waste out of the cement serve as the dominant concern. These modules explain the chemistry of Portland cement and its applications for the energy industry.

Subject:
Career and Technical Education
Chemistry
Physical Science
Material Type:
Activity/Lab
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Reading
Provider:
Rice University
Provider Set:
Connexions
Author:
Andrew R. Barron
Don Johnson
Date Added:
11/09/2017
Programming with M-Files: A Personal Finance Example Using While Loops
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This is an example of using an m-file script to compute the number of months necessary to pay off a credit card debt using the minimum monthly payment.

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Business and Information Technology
Career and Technical Education
Material Type:
Reading
Syllabus
Provider:
Rice University
Provider Set:
Connexions
Author:
Darryl Morrell
Date Added:
08/22/2006
Public School Finance Assessment Project Aligned with ELCC Standards
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This is a detailed description of an assessment that can be used in a graduate level of study in the area of public school finance. This has been approved by NCATE as meeting all of the stipulated ELCC standards for which it is designed (1.1, 1.2, 1.3, 1.4, 1.5, 2.1, 2.2, 2.3, 2.4, 3.1, 3.2, 3.3, 4.1, 4.2, 4.3, 5.1, 5.2, 5.3.).

This course of study appropriate for this assessment is both skills and knowledge focused. The assessment measures the student’s ability to think critically and requires students to identify and analyze real school district data regarding revenue and expenditures, a formula for predicting needed staffing levels and a comprehensive listing of personnel data detailing all expenditures per employee. Finally, the assessment provides students the opportunity to role play experiences one might have during a district-wide administrator meeting and during a public school board meeting by presenting their recommendations via a formal presentation with their peers serving as school board members and the professor as the school district superintendent.

Subject:
Business and Information Technology
Career and Technical Education
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Homework/Assignment
Provider:
Rice University
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Connexions
Author:
D. Michael Risen
Date Added:
01/31/2018
Repaying Your Student Loan
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Most undergraduate college students take out loans to pay for college. Consequently, most students graduate having accumulated a significant amount of debt that will need to be repaid. Repaying your student loan requires understanding about how this debt

Subject:
Business and Information Technology
Career and Technical Education
Material Type:
Reading
Syllabus
Provider:
Rice University
Provider Set:
Connexions
Author:
Ed DeShields
Date Added:
06/10/2006
Repaying Your Student Loan
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Most undergraduate college students take out loans to pay for college. Consequently, most students graduate having accumulated a significant amount of debt that will need to be repaid. Repaying your student loan requires understanding about how this debt

Subject:
Business and Information Technology
Career and Technical Education
Material Type:
Reading
Syllabus
Provider:
Rice University
Provider Set:
Connexions
Author:
Ed DeShields
Date Added:
06/10/2006
School Finance Case Study: Dealing with a School District Budget Deficit
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This case study-based class assignment (see Appendix A) is designed as a culminating course activity through which students demonstrate not only their understanding of school finance basics but also show how to apply their knowledge to solving a problem i

Subject:
Business and Information Technology
Career and Technical Education
Material Type:
Case Study
Homework/Assignment
Reading
Syllabus
Provider:
Rice University
Provider Set:
Connexions
Author:
Thomas Kersten
Date Added:
01/29/2007
Sound, Physics and Music
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For middle school and up, a short course that explains acoustics (the physics of sound waves) as it relates to music and musical instruments. Suggestions for presenting some of the concepts to younger students are included.

Subject:
Physical Science
Physics
Material Type:
Full Course
Reading
Syllabus
Provider:
Rice University
Provider Set:
Connexions
Author:
Catherine Schmidt-Jones
Date Added:
01/06/2005
Taking the Mystery Out of Illinois School Finance
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Taking the Mystery Out of Illinois School Finance was written by Thomas A. Kersten, professor of Educational Leadership at Roosevelt University in Chicago, Illinois. This textbook was developed over several years and is designed to explain the key principles of Illinois school finance in a way that graduate students in educational administration programs, teachers, school board members, parents, building-level school administrators, and other interested citizens can grasp the essential content without getting bogged down in excessive financial detail. Only by understanding the basics of Illinois school finance, can school administrators, board members, and other constituents make informed decisions.

Subject:
Business and Information Technology
Career and Technical Education
Material Type:
Full Course
Textbook
Provider:
Rice University
Provider Set:
Connexions
Author:
Thomas Kersten
Date Added:
01/31/2018
Teachers Behaving Unprofessionally: Stories from Students
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In this study, the researchers analyzed stories told by students (n = 80) of their poorest K-12 teachers who behaved in an unprofessional manner. Nine dominant themes were identified: poor teaching; learning not occurring; poor communication with students; uncaring; no explanations; being overly emotional; high school teachers; off-task behaviors; and poor classroom management. Illustrative student stories were provided. Implications of these stories were discussed. This publication aligns with the Interstate School Leaders Licensure Consortium (ISSLC) Standard 2: "An education leader promotes the success of every student by advocating, nurturing and sustaining a school culture and instructional program conducive to student learning and staff professional growth."

Subject:
Education
Material Type:
Reading
Provider:
Rice University
Provider Set:
Connexions
Author:
Angela M. Gibson
Jinhao Wang
John R. Slate
Date Added:
10/10/2017
Texting Over the Speaker-Air-Microphone (SAM) Channel
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Texting and instant messaging are familiar and popular communication techniques. Text messages composed of ASCII characters, with each character composed of eight bits, ultimately form a stream of bits transmitted from the source to the receiver. Normally the text message moves through a complex data network, and the user only sees the endpoints of the system. In this project, however, you will be able to follow the text message on its complete journey through a binary ASK transmitter, a speaker-air-microphone (SAM) channel, and a binary ASK receiver.

Subject:
Physical Science
Material Type:
Reading
Provider:
Rice University
Provider Set:
Connexions
Author:
Ed Doering
Date Added:
10/10/2017
Two Light Bulbs and A Battery: an Elementary Circuits Activity (Instructor Information)
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In this problem-based learning activity, students experiment with a battery and light bulbs to build your own flashlights. The purpose of the activity is to develop understanding of fundamental electrical circuit concepts, including voltage, current, and closed circuits, and to help eliminate common misconceptions. This module provides instructor information for the activity.

Subject:
Career and Technical Education
Technology and Engineering
Material Type:
Reading
Syllabus
Provider:
Rice University
Provider Set:
Connexions
Author:
Darryl Morrell
Date Added:
03/06/2007
A primer in MathML
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This course, as the name suggest, is intended to help authors who want to publish mathematical content on web. The emphasis here is to enable learners to quickly adapt to the extensive mathML markup language and begin writing codes even without a specialized editor, available commercially. The course is presented in the form of a tutorial, which essentially saves on unnecessary details. This tutorial is not intended currently (may be supplemented later with the help coming from others) to be a comprehensive treatment on mathML. The presentation here is restricted to areas which form the basic part of the electronic publication of mathematical content.

Subject:
Mathematics
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Full Course
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Provider:
Rice University
Provider Set:
Connexions
Author:
Sunil Singh
Date Added:
04/19/2006