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Improving Mathematics: An Examination Of The Effects Of Specific Cognitive Abilities On College-Age Students’ Mathematics Achievement, Gordon E. Taub, Nicholas Benson, Judit Szente

International Journal for the Scholarship of Teaching & Learning

This study investigated the effects of general intelligence and seven specific cognitive abilities on college-age students’ mathematics achievement. The present investigation went beyond previous research by employing structural equation modeling. It also represents the first study to examine the direct and indirect effects of general and specific cognitive abilities, simultaneously, on the mathematics achievement of college-age students. A model developed using the Cattell-Horn-Carroll theory of intelligence was the theoretical model used in all analyses. Data from 1,054 college-age students who participated in the standardization of the Woodcock–Johnson III (Woodcock, McGrew, & Mather, 2001) were divided into a calibration sample set …

Employing Concept Mapping As A Pre-Writing Strategy To Help Efl Learners Better Generate Argumentative Compositions, Ibrahim M. R. Al-Shaer Ph.D.

International Journal for the Scholarship of Teaching & Learning

The purpose of this research was to examine the impact of employing concept mapping at a pre-writing stage on English as a foreign language (EFL) students' ability to generate better argumentative essays. Thirty-eight participants were randomly assigned to two groups participating in Writing II course at Al-Quds Open University (QOU). Both groups had the same teacher. The control group received instruction as required in the textbook only, and the experimental group were additionally required to construct concept maps at the pre-writing stage and compose essays based on the constructed maps. All participants were required to sit for pre- and post-tests …

Students Perceptions Of Volunteering During The First Two Years Of Studying A Social Work Degree, Sherryl Gaston Ms, Mellissa L. Kruger Ms

International Journal for the Scholarship of Teaching & Learning

There are benefits to volunteering for both the community and the student undertaking the volunteering, it can help to enhance the students understanding of the area they are moving into, or it can show them where they do not want to work. It can assist the student to connect with the community and develop an awareness of the society around them. In most social work programs in Australia there is no practical experience until the last half of the program. This study wanted to identify if social work students undertaking volunteer work during the first two years of their course, …

Reconciling Apples & Oranges: A Constructivist Sotl Writing Program, Nancy L. Chick, La Vonne Cornell-Swanson, Katina Lazarides, Renee Meyers

International Journal for the Scholarship of Teaching & Learning

Faculty new to SoTL, especially when they consider writing for publication, often react by focusing on how different it is—apples and oranges—from their familiar disciplinary processes and products. Although there are indeed significant differences between individual disciplines and SoTL, appealing to the similarities can demystify SoTL as disciplinary experts reach out of their comfort zones and into areas of research and writing that often make them doubt themselves. We fill a gap in the SoTL literature by describing how to go from data analysis to publication in SoTL. We also report on our descriptive study delving into the complexities of …

An Applied Learning Experience Field Research And Reporting At The 2012 National Party Conventions, Carolyn S. Carlson, Joshua N. Azriel, Jeff Dewitt, Kerwin Swint

International Journal for the Scholarship of Teaching & Learning

Scholarship in teaching and learning demonstrates how academic understanding may be best achieved, and values of civic engagement best inculcated, when class materials are delivered within a experiential context. The goal for instructors, therefore, is to develop pedagogic techniques and teaching platforms that enhance learning by doing by directly engaging students with educational content. Courses that focus on American political processes provide especially fruitful opportunities for such applied learning experiences. In this paper, we discuss and assess experiential learning as facilitated in a pair of undergraduate courses taught at a southern state university that focused on the study of American …

Time Efficiency, Written Feedback, And Student Achievement In Inquiry-Oriented Biology Labs, John M. Basey, Anastasia P. Maines, Clinton D. Francis

International Journal for the Scholarship of Teaching & Learning

We examined how different styles of written feedback by graduate-student teaching assistants (GTAs) in college intro biology lab (USA) influenced student achievement and related the different styles to time efficiency. We quantified GTA feedback on formative lab reports and student achievement on two different types of assessments, a quiz in 2010 and a summative lab report in 2011. We evaluated the extent to which three categories of written feedback impacted student achievement (grade discrepancy between actual and ideal, short direct comments, and in-depth explanatory comments). Student achievement was best explained by both grade discrepancy and short direct comments in 2010 …

Assessing The Impact Of A K-12 Engagement Program On Graduate Learning Outcomes For Communicating With Diverse Audiences, Pedagogy, And Community Engagement, Faith Weeks, Jon Harbor

International Journal for the Scholarship of Teaching & Learning

A large midwestern university has developed a program that places graduate students in middle school classrooms to enhance the graduate students’ communication skills with diverse audiences, develop pedagogical knowledge, and provide a foundation for effective future K-12 engagement. After observing and co-teaching, participants develop and implement a standards- and inquiry-based lesson that brings their graduate research theme into the classroom. To provide insights into impacts on graduate students, qualitative methods were used to identify emergent themes in narratives written by graduate student participants. Major themes included new awareness of challenges in effective teaching for diverse audiences, insight into effective strategies …

Investigating Transnational Collaboration Of Faculty Development And Learning: An Argument For Making Learning Culturally Relevant, Dr. Janine F. Allen

International Journal for the Scholarship of Teaching & Learning

Professional development offered to higher education faculty is meant to enhance pedagogy and improve practice. Inspired by a transnational partnership in Southeast Asia, this study aimed to discover how teacher education faculty perceived faculty development offered to them by university partnership colleagues from the United States. Survey findings indicate that certain faculty development strategies improved teaching and assessment practices and enhanced self-reflection. However, evidence also showed some negative faculty perceptions in relation to the US partner’s methodologies, and qualitative responses indicated a lack of relevancy to the Southeastern Asia context. Furthermore, negative correlations were found between faculty development workshops and …

So, You Think You Can Teach? - Reflection Processes That Support Pre-Service Teachers’ Readiness For Field Experiences, Denise Mcdonald, Michele Kahn

International Journal for the Scholarship of Teaching & Learning

This paper discusses and examines the effectiveness of course assignments designed to promote reflection processes and critical thinking of pre-service teachers. Specifically, the study explores and identifies the range of students’ level of reflectivity and critical examination of their own developing pedagogy, with foci on content knowledge, dispositions and teaching skills. In general, initial findings indicate students’ levels of reflectivity ranged from “self” to “outside of self” to “beyond self” concerns or focus. Analysis further revealed that the students’ existing epistemological beliefs possibly mediate their level of reflectivity by either inhibiting the reflective process (most evident with those focused on …

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Educating Apostles Of The Homeland: Tourism And "Honismeret" In Interwar Hungary, Andrew Behrendt

History and Political Science Faculty Research & Creative Works

Promoters of domestic tourism in Hungary between the world wars laid blame for poor business at the feet of many causes. But their loudest and most persistent accusation was that Hungarians did not travel their homeland because they did not properly “know it.” At the same time, geographers, educators, and politicians made the nearly identical claim that Hungarians were lacking in honismeret, or “knowledge of one’s homeland,” and needed to banish their ignorance if they were to truly and adequately love their country. This article explores one confluence of these two streams. Between 1934 and 1942, metropolitan authorities sponsored an …

Numerical Analysis Of The Fractional Nonlinear Schrodinger Equation, Kyle Thicke

Honors Academy

Fractional partial differential equations (PDEs) have found success in recent decades in modeling several different phenomena in science and engineering. Analytic solutions for fractional PDEs are rare, so numerical approximations are often used instead. In the literature, few numerical methods for solving fractional PDEs with Riesz space fractional derivatives have been proposed. In particular, we are aware of no energy conserving method for solving the fractional nonlinear Schrodinger equation. We remedy this situation by modifing two methods found in the literature so that they are energy conserving. The first method which we call the Crank-Nicolson L2 method is proven to …

Unilateral Trade Information Disclosure And The Prohibition Of Anti-Competitive Agreements, Paulina Korycińska

internetowy Kwartalnik Antymonopolowy i Regulacyjny (internet Quarterly on Antitrust and Regulation)

Information exchange between competitors has been the focus of antitrust authorities for a long time. Information disclosure may be anti-competitive in nature at least in two different ways. On the one hand, information exchange may constitute an autonomous competition restricting practice. Most of the cases, however, it is only a part of a broader anti-competitive agreement. It is noticeable that recently antitrust authorities not only analyze the phenomenon of multilateral information exchange, but also increasingly tackle the issue of unilateral information disclosure with anti-competitive effects. The purpose of this article is to discuss unilateral information disclosure by competitors and attempt …

Illegal Agreements Restricting Parallel Trade Of Pharmaceuticals In The Light Of Eu Competition Law, Michał Nowakowski

internetowy Kwartalnik Antymonopolowy i Regulacyjny (internet Quarterly on Antitrust and Regulation)

Parallel trade of pharmaceutical products is a particularly interesting aspect of European competition law. The increasing role of parallel trade is also of significance to the producers of pharmaceuticals, as it results in the lowering of their profits. Due to the existence of parallel trade within the EU, the supervisory role of antitrust authorities and courts over competition law compliance is of essence. This article analyses anti-competitive agreements concerning the limitation of parallel trade and attempts to assess their legal and social status. Described is also one of the most relevant judgments of the European Court of Justice concerning this …

Turkish Competition Law – Selected Issues, Marlena Kadej-Barwik

internetowy Kwartalnik Antymonopolowy i Regulacyjny (internet Quarterly on Antitrust and Regulation)

This publication presents selected issues concerning Turkish competition law – a country that has for many years, and so far unsuccessfully, been aspiring to join the EU. The article aims to present the readers with both the provisions of substantive law (aim of antitrust law, its scope, authorities responsible for the enforcement of the prohibitions of restrictive practices, nature of the sanctions imposed on undertakings for antitrust infringements), as well as rules of procedural nature (mode of conduct, rights and obligations of participating parties). Outlined is also the issue of civil damages claimed by entities that have been harmed as …

Surrounding The Act On Consumer And Competition Protection – Review Of Amendments To Polish Legal Provisions In 2013, Anna Piszcz

internetowy Kwartalnik Antymonopolowy i Regulacyjny (internet Quarterly on Antitrust and Regulation)

This article acts as a continuation of earlier overviews covering the years 2010, 2011 and 2012 published in iKAR in biennium 2012-2013. Analyzed here are the 2013 amendments to the legal provisions of the regulation on the exemption of certain categories of vertical agreements from the prohibition of agreements restricting competition. Presented also are developments in the area of non-binding guidelines of the UOKiK President

Problem With The Concept Of “Sales” In The New Polish Consumer Rights Act – The Question Of Mixed Contracts With A Service Component, Fryderyk Zoll

internetowy Kwartalnik Antymonopolowy i Regulacyjny (internet Quarterly on Antitrust and Regulation)

The paper deals with questions surrounding the transposition of the Consumer Rights Directive into the Polish legal system. The paper focuses on Article 2. No 5. of the Directive and its implementation. The Polish legislator has passed a separated Consumer Rights Act and yet some of the relevant provisions are placed in the Polish Civil Code. Problems arise in the mutual interaction of relevant rules spread in two different legal acts. The national rule implementing Article 2 No. 5 of the Directive has been placed in the Consumer Rights Act. It defines sales contracts but also covers mixed contracts with …

Abusive Provisions Of Model Agreements Concluded With Consumers – Changing Trends In Polish Jurisprudence, Anna Oponowicz

internetowy Kwartalnik Antymonopolowy i Regulacyjny (internet Quarterly on Antitrust and Regulation)

This article presents selected issues raised in Polish jurisprudence on matters concerning the recognition of provisions contained in model agreements as abusive clauses. Due to the unprecedented increase in the number of such cases in recent years, as well as a fundamental change in the circumstances in which they are filed to the courts, these problems affect an increasing number of businesses that use model agreements for their consumer transactions. The paper outlines the differences of opinions presented in Polish jurisprudence and the directions in which these views are evolving

Commission Recommendation Regarding Collective Redress. How To Implement It In Poland?, Anna Piszcz

internetowy Kwartalnik Antymonopolowy i Regulacyjny (internet Quarterly on Antitrust and Regulation)

This article presents Commission Recommendation of 11 June 2013 on collective redress mechanisms which was published in the EU Official Journal on 26 July 2013. The article indicates potential difficulties in the case of its implementation into the domestic legal system by the Polish legislature. In particular, it deals with issues of the adjustment of Polish legal provisions to the rules of the Recommendation with respect to basic definitions, legal standing to bring actions and their admissibility, as well as funding.

Conditions For The Recognition Of A Practice As An Infringement Of Collective Consumer Interests, Izabela Wesołowska

internetowy Kwartalnik Antymonopolowy i Regulacyjny (internet Quarterly on Antitrust and Regulation)

This article highlights problems related to the interpretation of practices infringing collective consumer interests. In particular, it presents the reasons for the ban on practices infringing collective consumer interests. Furthermore, the paper attempts to specify and clarify the definition of collective consumer interests

The Right Of Withdrawal From Contracts Under The Consumer Rights Act: The Example Of Admission Tickets, Teresa Kaczyńska

internetowy Kwartalnik Antymonopolowy i Regulacyjny (internet Quarterly on Antitrust and Regulation)

This article aims to present legislative changes in the field of consumer's right of withdrawal concerning distance and off-premises contracts. While discussing the new rules, attention is drawn to interpretation problems regarding the lack of an explicit indication whether admission tickets are a category covered by the exceptions provided in the new Consumer Rights Act

Competences Of The Insurance Ombudsman Regarding Consumer Protection And Victims Of Traffic Accidents, Anna Patalon

internetowy Kwartalnik Antymonopolowy i Regulacyjny (internet Quarterly on Antitrust and Regulation)

The article considers the issue of the competences of the Insurance Ombudsman regarding the protection of consumers of insurance services. An excessive expansion of protection given to entities that do not have the right to such protection can be observed in the activities of the Insurance Ombudsman and of other institutions set up to protect the interests of consumers. The conviction that every entity that is the weaker party in a legal relationship deserves the right to special protection is deeply rooted in the consciousness of the Insurance Ombudsman and the President of UOKiK (the Office of Competition and Consumer …

Brokerage Activities On The Basis Of The So-Called Single Banking License: Genesis And Assumptions, Kinga Bryl

internetowy Kwartalnik Antymonopolowy i Regulacyjny (internet Quarterly on Antitrust and Regulation)

The subject of this publication is an Amendment Act to the Act on Trading in Financial Instruments and Certain Other Acts, the purpose of which is to enable brokerage activities on the basis of the so-called single banking license covering both banking operations and brokerage activities

A Few Comments On The Legal Framework Of The Eu Financial Market, Dorota Wojtczak-Samoraj

internetowy Kwartalnik Antymonopolowy i Regulacyjny (internet Quarterly on Antitrust and Regulation)

The legal framework of the EU financial market combines public law with private law elements. It is shaped on the basis of the goals which are to be achieved by these legal regulations. It is those goals which determine, in turn, the scope of the legal regulations and, thus, the activity area of the EU legislator as well as the concept (philosophy) of the regulation, according to which the legal activity is undertaken. The subject of this article is to analyze EU’s legislative activity in the financial market area, considering in particular legal instruments adopted in the past five years. …

Takeover Of Media Regionalne By Polskapresse: Economic Perspective, Maria Stryszowska

internetowy Kwartalnik Antymonopolowy i Regulacyjny (internet Quarterly on Antitrust and Regulation)

The article discusses the decision of the Polish competition authority (President of UOKiK) concerning the acquisition of Media Regionalne by Polskapresse. It presents a brief overview of the case and suggests what economic analyses could have been used in its market definition stage and for the evaluation of the merger’s effects

Changes In The Delineation Of Relevant Markets In The Modern Channel Of Daily Consumer Goods Retailing Based On Concentration Decisions Made By The President Of Uokik, Andrzej Madała

internetowy Kwartalnik Antymonopolowy i Regulacyjny (internet Quarterly on Antitrust and Regulation)

This article reviews the decisions of the President of UOKiK in matters concerning the control of concentration of undertakings operating in the modern channel of consumer goods retailing (i.e. large-format stores) issued between 2001 and 2014. The decisions are examined from the perspective of the evolution in the approach of the NCA to delineating relevant markets in this sector of the economy. Trends and reasons are pointed out for changes in relevant-market definition. Attention is drawn to the NCA making use of the achievements of foreign competition authorities. Finally, the reviewed decisions are assessed

Margin Squeeze Test In Regulatory Practice Of The President Of Uke, Jan Siudecki

internetowy Kwartalnik Antymonopolowy i Regulacyjny (internet Quarterly on Antitrust and Regulation)

The author analyses legal and regulatory environment of margin squeeze tests in Poland. Regulatory tools applied by the President of UKE in this field are discussed together with related controversies. Subsequently the European legal framework for margin squeeze tests and relevant positions of European institutions are analyzed. Conclusions in this regard form a basis for a critical assessment of solutions adopted by the regulator

Merger Remedies In The Consolidation Process Of H3g-Orange, H3g-O2 And Telefónica-E-Plus Preventing Monopolization Of Mobile Telecommunications Sector, Daria Kostecka-Jurczyk

internetowy Kwartalnik Antymonopolowy i Regulacyjny (internet Quarterly on Antitrust and Regulation)

The aim of the paper is to analyze merger remedies applied by European Commission during consolidation of H3G-Orange, H3G-o2 i Telefónica-E-Plus. The article deals with efficiency of this tools used in mobile communications sector and relations between sector specific regulations and merger law. The paper also reveals problem of overlapping competences of national telecommunications regulators and competition authorities.

Distance Contracts For Digital Content Which Is Not Supplied On A Tangible Medium In The Light Of The Law On Consumer Rights, Wojciech Dziomdziora

internetowy Kwartalnik Antymonopolowy i Regulacyjny (internet Quarterly on Antitrust and Regulation)

The Consumer Rights Act enters into force on 25.12.2014. The act implements into Polish law the Directive 2011/83/EU of the European Parliament and of the Council of 25 October 2011 on consumer rights. The paper addresses the new regulations on the trader’s information requirements and consumer’s right of withdrawal concerning distance contracts for digital content which is not supplied on a tangible medium. Author presents legislation and confronts it with various market practices