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Factor Analysis To Identify The Dimension Of Test Of English Proficiency (Toep) In The Listening Section, Heri Retnawati, Sudji Munadi, Yosa Abduh Al-Zuhdy Dec 2015

Factor Analysis To Identify The Dimension Of Test Of English Proficiency (Toep) In The Listening Section, Heri Retnawati, Sudji Munadi, Yosa Abduh Al-Zuhdy

REID (Research and Evaluation in Education)

This research is aimed at identifying the amount of the ability dimensions contained in the Test of English Proficiency (TOEP), particularly in the listening section. This study is an explorative descriptive quantitative research. The data of the study are the responses of the TOEP participants in the whole Indonesia in 2010, in some TOEP components. The participants are grade IX students of senior high schools. The collected data were gained from the data documentation of the Diretorate of Senior High Schools Founding of the National Education Ministry, Jakarta. The data analysis for identifying the dimension was done by implementing exploratory …


Front Matters, The Editors Dec 2015

Front Matters, The Editors

REID (Research and Evaluation in Education)

No abstract provided.


Scholarworks Statistics - January Through December 2015, Scholarworks Dec 2015

Scholarworks Statistics - January Through December 2015, Scholarworks

ScholarWorks Reports

During 2015, ScholarWorks recorded a total of 339,066 full-text and additional file downloads and 144,173 page views.


National Exam In Indonesia And Its Implications To The Teaching And Learning Of English, Ali Saukah, Agus Eko Cahyono Dec 2015

National Exam In Indonesia And Its Implications To The Teaching And Learning Of English, Ali Saukah, Agus Eko Cahyono

Jurnal Penelitian dan Evaluasi Pendidikan

The change of the status of the National Exam (NE) from high-stakes testing to low-stakes testing inspired the researchers to explore its effects on the teaching and learning of English. This qualitative exploratory study tried to investigate how English teachers taught their students to prepare NE at senior high schools in two different functions by involving six English teachers from three schools varying in the quality in terms of the schools' demography, academic achievement, and facilities. The study was also strengthened by a set of secondary data from the results of the NE in 2015. The result of study involving …


A Rare Family: Exploring Genetic Literacy In An Online Support Group, Heather H. Goltz, Sandra Acosta Dec 2015

A Rare Family: Exploring Genetic Literacy In An Online Support Group, Heather H. Goltz, Sandra Acosta

Journal of Family Strengths

Healthy People 2020 and the Institute of Medicine (IOM) define health literacy as the “degree to which individuals have the capacity to obtain, process and understand basic health information and services needed to make appropriate health decisions.” Essential components of health literacy include oral and print literacy, numeracy, and cultural and conceptual knowledge; the latter is influenced by sociodemographic factors and cultural understandings and approaches to concepts such as healthcare. Genetic literacy, a form of health literacy, may be defined as the knowledge, skills and attitudes necessary to individual understanding of genetic information, and genetic-based health, behavior, technology …


Pengembangan Sistem Tes Diagnostik Kesulitan Belajar Kompetensi Dasar Kejuruan Siswa Smk, Samsul Hadi, K. Ima Ismara, Effendie Tanumihardja Dec 2015

Pengembangan Sistem Tes Diagnostik Kesulitan Belajar Kompetensi Dasar Kejuruan Siswa Smk, Samsul Hadi, K. Ima Ismara, Effendie Tanumihardja

Jurnal Penelitian dan Evaluasi Pendidikan

Penelitian ini bertujuan untuk: (a) mengembangkan sistem tes diagnostik kesulitan belajar kompetensi dasar kejuruan, dan (b) mengetahui kinerja sistem tes diagnostik kesulitan belajar kompetensi dasar kejuruan siswa SMK yang dikembangkan. Penelitian ini merupakan penelitian tahun kedua dari tiga tahun yang direncanakan. Penelitian ini menggunakan pendekatan Research and Development perangkat lunak. Model pengembangan yang digunakan dalam penelitian ini adalah model modifikasi linear sequential yang disebut juga sebagai classic life cycle atau model waterfall yang memiliki 4 langkah. Analisis kebutuhan sistem dan perancangan sistem telah dilakukan pada tahun pertama. Implementasi dan validasi program dilakukan pada tahun kedua. Validasi sistem dilakukan dengan angket …


Foreword: “Irish History Is Not A Closed Shop”: A Multidisciplinary Approach To Ireland’S Discourses Of Otherness, Encarnación Hidalgo-Tenorio Dec 2015

Foreword: “Irish History Is Not A Closed Shop”: A Multidisciplinary Approach To Ireland’S Discourses Of Otherness, Encarnación Hidalgo-Tenorio

Irish Journal of Applied Social Studies

No abstract provided.


All The World's A Page: Towards A Definition Of 'Writer' In An Age Of Opportunity, Sue Norton Dec 2015

All The World's A Page: Towards A Definition Of 'Writer' In An Age Of Opportunity, Sue Norton

Articles

This article considers the status of the writer at a time when publication is no longer elusive, given the immediacy of online dissemination. For those who identify as writers, it looks at the implications of blogging, social media, entrepreneurial self-publishing, and scholarly open access journals, including so-called ‘predatory’ ones. It argues for a distinction between day-to-day writing and composition, and seeks to establish a category for the writer that takes account of deliberation, craft, and readership. It juxtaposes the creative activity of Jack Kerouac, Virginia Woolf, Truman Capote, and Mother Goose against the linguist John McWhorter’s convincing dismissal of the …


Literacy: Varied, Dynamic, And Multidimensional, Stephen B. Kucer Dr. Dec 2015

Literacy: Varied, Dynamic, And Multidimensional, Stephen B. Kucer Dr.

Journal of Family Strengths

This article examines the complex nature of literacy through a variety of lenses. The linguistic lens focuses on literacy as a language and multimodal process. The cognitive reveals the mental processes and strategies readers and writers employ to construct meanings through the linguistic and multimodal dimension. Not just a linguistic and cognitive process, the sociocultural lens examines literacy use within social and cultural contexts. Finally, the developmental lens explores the very active nature of literacy learners and their mediators.


Loyola High School V. Attorney General Of Quebec: On Non-Triviality And The Charter Value Of Religious Freedom, Howard Kislowicz Dec 2015

Loyola High School V. Attorney General Of Quebec: On Non-Triviality And The Charter Value Of Religious Freedom, Howard Kislowicz

The Supreme Court Law Review: Osgoode’s Annual Constitutional Cases Conference

In Loyola High School, et al. v. Attorney General of Quebec, the Supreme Court of Canada held that the government of Quebec could not require a Catholic high school to teach Catholic religion and ethics from a non-Catholic perspective. The government could, however, require the school to teach other religions from a “neutral” perspective. This article takes Loyola as an opportunity to examine two ways that courts have justified limits on religious freedom. First, I interrogate an under-examined aspect of the law of religious freedom: the requirement that claimants prove the interference with their religious freedom is “more than trivial …


Constitutional (Mis)Adventures: Revisiting Quebec’S Proposed Charter Of Values, Dia Dabby Dec 2015

Constitutional (Mis)Adventures: Revisiting Quebec’S Proposed Charter Of Values, Dia Dabby

The Supreme Court Law Review: Osgoode’s Annual Constitutional Cases Conference

In November 2013, the Parti Québécois introduced the Charter affirming the values of State secularism and religious neutrality and of equality between women and men, and providing a framework for accommodation requests (also known as Bill 60). This proposed piece of legislation would substantially alter how public services are offered and received in Québec. This article argues that this legislative project was much more than a simple law, and rather, as discussed, about reconfiguring the constitutional relationship that Quebecers entertain with the rest of Canada. As such, it engages with the constitutional “misadventures”, as experienced in Quebec in 2013-2014. Drawing …


The Damages Directive And Consensual Approach To Antitrust Enforcement, Raimundas Moisejevas Dec 2015

The Damages Directive And Consensual Approach To Antitrust Enforcement, Raimundas Moisejevas

Yearbook of Antitrust and Regulatory Studies

The article focuses on the novelties introduced by the Damages Directive in the field of consensual settlements of disputes concerning private enforcement. The Damages Directive obliges Member States to ensure that the limitation period for bringing an action for damages is suspended for the duration of any consensual dispute resolution process. The Directive also establishes the main principles that govern the effect of consensual settlements on subsequent actions for damages. Since the EU framework for consensual dispute resolution of private enforcement disputes is quite new, many issues must still be solved in Member States’ practice. While analysing consensual dispute resolution …


Idrive Logistics, Llc, Plaintiff/Appellee, V. Integracore, Llc, Defendant/Appellant. : Brief Of Appellant, Utah Court Of Appeals Dec 2015

Idrive Logistics, Llc, Plaintiff/Appellee, V. Integracore, Llc, Defendant/Appellant. : Brief Of Appellant, Utah Court Of Appeals

Utah Court of Appeals Briefs (2007– 2019)

BRIEF OF APPELLANT INTEGRACORE, LLC

Appeal from Interlocutory Orders by
Fourth District Court, Utah County,
Honorable Fred D. Howard, Case
No. 130400386


No Sabía Que Tenía Valor”: Uncovering Latina Mothers’ Multiple Literacies, Julia Lopez-Robertson Dec 2015

No Sabía Que Tenía Valor”: Uncovering Latina Mothers’ Multiple Literacies, Julia Lopez-Robertson

Journal of Family Strengths

Five Latina mothers were engaged in pláticas literarias/literature discussions about Latino children’s literature at their children’s school. The pláticas served as means to build the links from personal experiences to school learning and to help the mothers recognize that their ways of knowing and making meaning of the world-their multiliteracies-are tools from which their children will and do learn. A community cultural wealth [CCW] framework was employed to identify and make visible the significance of these rich contributions and strengths. Basing the pláticas on texts that interested and were relevant to the mothers and providing them a safe space …


Literacy: A Multidimensional And Ever-Present Entity, Amelia Hewitt, Kim Pinkerton Dec 2015

Literacy: A Multidimensional And Ever-Present Entity, Amelia Hewitt, Kim Pinkerton

Journal of Family Strengths

Special Issue Editors Amelia Hewitt and Kim Pinkerton introduce the special edition of Journal of Family Strengths, outlining key points of multidimensional literacy and the significance of literacy in our families and communities.


Complete V.8 No.2 Dec 2015

Complete V.8 No.2

Journal of Civil Law Studies

No abstract provided.


Invitation Au Voyage, Olivier Moréteau Dec 2015

Invitation Au Voyage, Olivier Moréteau

Journal of Civil Law Studies

No abstract provided.


One Into Three: Spreading The Word, Three Into One: Creating A Civil Law System, Esin Örücü Dec 2015

One Into Three: Spreading The Word, Three Into One: Creating A Civil Law System, Esin Örücü

Journal of Civil Law Studies

No abstract provided.


Louisiana Property Law—The Civil Code, Cases And Commentary, Yaëll Emerich Dec 2015

Louisiana Property Law—The Civil Code, Cases And Commentary, Yaëll Emerich

Journal of Civil Law Studies

No abstract provided.


Dictionary Of The Civil Code, Jean-Claude Gémar Dec 2015

Dictionary Of The Civil Code, Jean-Claude Gémar

Journal of Civil Law Studies

No abstract provided.


Unaccompanied & Denied: Regional Legal Framework For Unaccompanied Minors Asylum Seekers (Umas), Rohaida Nordin, Jennifer Whelan, Saidatul Nadia Abd. Aziz, Meerah Deiwi Rajagopal Dec 2015

Unaccompanied & Denied: Regional Legal Framework For Unaccompanied Minors Asylum Seekers (Umas), Rohaida Nordin, Jennifer Whelan, Saidatul Nadia Abd. Aziz, Meerah Deiwi Rajagopal

Indonesia Law Review

Unaccompanied minor asylum seekers are vulnerable and thus, provided special international law protections. However, in reality, they are being mistreated as illegal immigrants and on the receiving end of ethnic violence, discrimination, restrictions in enjoyment of their rights duly recognised by international human rights law. This article identifies legislative, policy and support mechanisms which encompass the minimum UMAS guardianship standards at international law and which are evidence-based from best practice models for the provision of guardians for UMAS internationally. It presents situation of UMAS in relation to human rights violations with emphasis on the legal framework and practices in Australia …


Hubungan Keterampilan Metakognitif Dan Kemampuan Berpikir Kritis Dengan Hasil Belajar Biologi Siswa Sma Dalam Pembelajaran Problem Based Learning (Pbl), Eva Nurul Malahayati, Aloysius Duran Corebima, Siti Zubaidah Dec 2015

Hubungan Keterampilan Metakognitif Dan Kemampuan Berpikir Kritis Dengan Hasil Belajar Biologi Siswa Sma Dalam Pembelajaran Problem Based Learning (Pbl), Eva Nurul Malahayati, Aloysius Duran Corebima, Siti Zubaidah

Jurnal Pendidikan Sains

The objectives of this study are to analyze: (1) the correlation of metacognitive skill and critical thinking ability with biology student learning outcomes experiencing study of Problem Based Learning, and (2) the contribution of metacognitive skill and critical thinking ability towards students’ Biology learning outcomes. Data analysis by double linear regression technique showed that: (1) there is a correlation between metacognitive skill and critical thinking ability with biology student learning outcomes, and (2) the critical thinking ability give more contribution than metacognitive skill toward students’ Biology learning outcomes.


Ethical Transformations In Yan's 陆犯焉识 (The Criminal Lu Yanshi), Weihong Zhu Dec 2015

Ethical Transformations In Yan's 陆犯焉识 (The Criminal Lu Yanshi), Weihong Zhu

CLCWeb: Comparative Literature and Culture

In her article "Ethical Transformations in Yan's陆犯焉识 (The Criminal Lu Yanshi)" Weihong Zhu uses ethical literary criticism to explain the reason for the change in attitude which the novel's hero undergoes. Zhu argues that in Geling Yan's novel the turning point lies in the protagonist's realization of his inner "animal" factor. Subjected to severe tests by the extreme circumstances in a northwest prison in China, this realization helps him transform from a proud man to a humble human being, so that he learns to love his family. Although set in a grand historical background of important political events, Yan's …


Review Of The Capacity Of The Implementation Of Ballast Water Management Convention In Sri Lanka As Flag State, Port State And Coastal State, Thalatha Sreeni Ranasinghe Dec 2015

Review Of The Capacity Of The Implementation Of Ballast Water Management Convention In Sri Lanka As Flag State, Port State And Coastal State, Thalatha Sreeni Ranasinghe

World Maritime University Dissertations

No abstract provided.


Narrative Ethics And Alterity In Adichie's Novel Americanah, Nora Berning Dec 2015

Narrative Ethics And Alterity In Adichie's Novel Americanah, Nora Berning

CLCWeb: Comparative Literature and Culture

In her article "Narrative Ethics and Alterity in Adichie's Novel Americanah" Nora Berning analyses Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie's novel through the lens of a narrative ethics of alterity. Focusing on the notion of alterity, Berning argues that a specific turn-of-the-century ethics emerges in contemporary fictions of migration in general and in intercultural novels in particular. An ethical genre in its own right, such twenty-first century fictions as Americanah generate a particular kind of ethical knowledge that revolves around questions of identity and alterity and around individual and collective perceptions of self and other. By addressing the interplay of "the ethics …


The Politics Of Official English: Exploring The Intentions And The Outcomes Behind English-Only Policies In The United States, David Gonzalez Nieto Dec 2015

The Politics Of Official English: Exploring The Intentions And The Outcomes Behind English-Only Policies In The United States, David Gonzalez Nieto

Graduate Doctoral Dissertations

Although the Constitution did not declare English the official language of the United States, its complete linguistic dominance in such a linguistically diverse nation is unparalleled. Despite its supremacy, the last three decades have witnessed a renewed nationalistic movement that claims the role of English is threatened and that its establishment as the official language of the United States is crucial to protect the language and the unity of the nation.

So far, attempts to institutionalize English at the federal level have failed, but 28 states have adopted English as their official language and/or legislation that limits the use of …


An Examination Of The Practice Of Aligning Speech-Language Therapy Goals To The Common Core State Standards For English Language Arts, Gerard Francis Shine Dec 2015

An Examination Of The Practice Of Aligning Speech-Language Therapy Goals To The Common Core State Standards For English Language Arts, Gerard Francis Shine

Theses and Dissertations

Implementation of the Common Core State Standards (CCSS) is now a curriculum priority for school districts across the United States. Speech-language pathologists (SLPs) are exploring ways to incorporate the CCSS into their assessment and therapy practices. Literature centered on the development of language goals aligned with the CCSS for English language arts (ELA) was limited. The purpose of this study was to identify if SLPs working in public elementary and middle school settings had adopted the practice of aligning their language-intervention goals to the CCSS for ELA for students on their caseloads. Perceived feasibility of language goal alignment to the …


Reparation For Betrayal Of Trust In Child Sexual Abuse Cases: The Christian Duty Of Care, Vicarious Liability And The Church Of England, Ka Stevenson, J Rowbotham, J Lowther Dec 2015

Reparation For Betrayal Of Trust In Child Sexual Abuse Cases: The Christian Duty Of Care, Vicarious Liability And The Church Of England, Ka Stevenson, J Rowbotham, J Lowther

School of Law, Humanities and Social Sciences

Feminist challenges to the traditional principles of vicarious liability highlight the difficulties facing claimants seeking redress via a doctrine largely developed in relation to the corporate model reflecting masculine traits of institutional power and control embedded in the traditional enterprise employer/employee relationship. This article explores the ways in which the recent spate of claims made against UK religious authorities regarding present and historic acts of child sexual abuse perpetrated by clergy have forced a paradigm shift requiring the courts to consider influences on the legal process associated with tropes of restorative justice, powerfully supported and explained by feminist legal theorists. …


Analysis Of Productivity In Dredging Project : A Case Study In Port Of Tanjung Perak Surabaya – Indonesia, Tiggi P. Hardya Dec 2015

Analysis Of Productivity In Dredging Project : A Case Study In Port Of Tanjung Perak Surabaya – Indonesia, Tiggi P. Hardya

World Maritime University Dissertations

No abstract provided.


An Application Of Accimap To Identify And Analyse The Causes Of The Eastern Star And Sewol Casualties, Yanning Jiang Dec 2015

An Application Of Accimap To Identify And Analyse The Causes Of The Eastern Star And Sewol Casualties, Yanning Jiang

World Maritime University Dissertations

No abstract provided.