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Teacher Disposition Scale (Tds): Construction And Psychometric Validation, Conor West, Amanda Ann Baker, John F. Ehrich, Stuart Woodcock, Sahar Bokosmaty, Steven J. Howard, Michelle J. Eady
Teacher Disposition Scale (Tds): Construction And Psychometric Validation, Conor West, Amanda Ann Baker, John F. Ehrich, Stuart Woodcock, Sahar Bokosmaty, Steven J. Howard, Michelle J. Eady
Faculty of Social Sciences - Papers (Archive)
Despite the growing prominence and importance of the field of teacher dispositions for addressing selection criteria and assessment in educational research, there is an absence of psychometrically evaluated instruments to facilitate investigations. Furthermore, research thus far has not explored the relationship between teacher dispositions and better student outcomes. To address this paucity, key dispositional factors conducive to successful teaching and learning were identified through interviewing high performing teachers. Based on the interview, data a 24-item Teacher Disposition Scale (TDS) was constructed consisting of five dimensions: Motivation to teach; Teacher efficacy; Willingness to learn; Conscientiousness; and Interpersonal and communication skill. The …
Towards Massive Data And Sparse Data In Adaptive Micro Open Educational Resource Recommendation: A Study On Semantic Knowledge Base Construction And Cold Start Problem, Geng Sun, Tingru Cui, Ghassan Beydoun, Shiping Chen, Fang Dong, Dongming Xu, Jun Shen
Towards Massive Data And Sparse Data In Adaptive Micro Open Educational Resource Recommendation: A Study On Semantic Knowledge Base Construction And Cold Start Problem, Geng Sun, Tingru Cui, Ghassan Beydoun, Shiping Chen, Fang Dong, Dongming Xu, Jun Shen
Faculty of Engineering and Information Sciences - Papers: Part B
Micro Learning through open educational resources (OERs) is becoming increasingly popular. However, adaptive micro learning support remains inadequate by current OER platforms. To address this, our smart system, Micro Learning as a Service (MLaaS), aims to deliver personalized OER with micro learning to satisfy their real-time needs.
Construction Of Sno2-Graphene Composite With Half-Supported Cluster Structure As Anode Toward Superior Lithium Storage Properties, Chengling Zhu, Zhixin Chen, Shenmin Zhu, Yao Li, Hui Pan, Xin Meng, Muhammad Imtiaz, Di Zhang
Construction Of Sno2-Graphene Composite With Half-Supported Cluster Structure As Anode Toward Superior Lithium Storage Properties, Chengling Zhu, Zhixin Chen, Shenmin Zhu, Yao Li, Hui Pan, Xin Meng, Muhammad Imtiaz, Di Zhang
Faculty of Engineering and Information Sciences - Papers: Part B
Inspired by nature, herein we designed a novel construction of SnO2 anodes with an extremely high lithium storage performance. By utilizing small sheets of graphene oxide, the partitioned-pomegranate-like structure was constructed (SnO2@C@half-rGO), in which the porous clusters of SnO2 nanoparticles are partially supported by reduced graphene oxide sheets while the rest part is exposed (half-supported), like partitioned pomegranates. When served as anode for lithium-ion batteries, SnO2@C@half-rGO exhibited considerably high specific capacity (1034.5 mAh g−1 after 200 cycles at 100 mA g−1), superior rate performance and remarkable durability (370.3 mAh g−1 …
Zero Carbon Homes: Perceptions From The Uk Construction Industry, Emma Elizabeth Heffernan, Wei Pan, Xi Liang, Pieter De Wilde
Zero Carbon Homes: Perceptions From The Uk Construction Industry, Emma Elizabeth Heffernan, Wei Pan, Xi Liang, Pieter De Wilde
Faculty of Engineering and Information Sciences - Papers: Part A
The take-up of the many voluntary energy efficiency standards which exist in the UK and internationally has been limited. As a result, governments have recognised the need to introduce mandatory schemes through legislation, e.g. from 2016 all new build homes in the UK will be required to achieve zero carbon in regulated energy consumption. However, as 2016 approaches, very few zero carbon homes are being delivered. This paper explores the drivers and barriers for zero carbon homebuilding. The perceptions of the wider construction industry were gathered through a series of semi-structured interviews with professionals involved in commissioning, designing, constructing and …
Rail Track Infrastructure For Enhanced Speed - Analysis Design And Construction Challenges, Buddhima Indraratna, Sanjay Shrawan Nimbalkar, Jayan Sylaja J S Vinod
Rail Track Infrastructure For Enhanced Speed - Analysis Design And Construction Challenges, Buddhima Indraratna, Sanjay Shrawan Nimbalkar, Jayan Sylaja J S Vinod
Faculty of Engineering and Information Sciences - Papers: Part A
Rail is one of the largest transportation modes offering freight and passenger traffic in rapidly developing nations, including India. Conscious efforts to improve productivity, modernization and technology upgrading have led to an impressive growth in railways. Large-scale physical modeling, sophisticated numerical modeling and full-scale field monitoring often provide significant knowledge to better understand track performance and to extend the current state-of-the-art in design. A series of large-scale laboratory tests were conducted to establish relationships between (i) ballast breakage and train speed, (ii) ballast fouling and strength and (iii) interface strength and geogrids. Comprehensive field trials were carried out on instrumented …
Environmental Impact Assessment Of Post Tensioned And Reinforced Concrete Slab Construction, D Miller, J H. Doh, H Guan, M Mulvey, S Fragomeni, T Mccarthy, T Peters
Environmental Impact Assessment Of Post Tensioned And Reinforced Concrete Slab Construction, D Miller, J H. Doh, H Guan, M Mulvey, S Fragomeni, T Mccarthy, T Peters
Faculty of Engineering and Information Sciences - Papers: Part A
In Australia, approximately 30 million tonnes of finished building products are produced each year, with over 56% of this quantity, by mass, being attributed to concrete and a further 6%, steel, highlighting the importance of maximising design efficiencies. The cement industry has been reported responsible for 5% of global carbon dioxide emissions while the construction, operation and maintenance of buildings are estimated to account for 50% of all energy usage and more than 50% of all anthropogenic greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions globally. This research determines some environmental advantages achievable through application of alternate concrete slab construction methods for a typical …
Source S Of Inter-Learner Variation In The Ba Construction, Xiaoping Gao
Source S Of Inter-Learner Variation In The Ba Construction, Xiaoping Gao
Faculty of Arts - Papers (Archive)
Variability in interlanguage has received growing attention in SLA. However, the variation and its sources in the interlanguage of L2 Chinese remain under-researched. This study investigated sources of inter-learner variation in the use of the ba construction (BC) by English and Korean speaking learners of L2 Chinese. A total of 110 adult learners were examined both in New Zealand and in China, with 22 native speakers of Chinese as control. A battery of three tasks (i.e., an oral production task prompted by video clips, an oral imitation task, and an untimed grammaticality judgement task conducted orally) was used to elicit …
Formal Security Definition And Efficient Construction For Roaming With A Privacy-Preserving Extension, Guomin Yang, Duncan S. Wong, Xiaotie Deng
Formal Security Definition And Efficient Construction For Roaming With A Privacy-Preserving Extension, Guomin Yang, Duncan S. Wong, Xiaotie Deng
Faculty of Engineering and Information Sciences - Papers: Part A
In a secure roaming scenario, a user U travels to a foreign network and communicates with a foreign server V securely so that no one other than U and V can obtain the messages exchanged between them. U may also want to travel anonymously so that no one including V can find out its identity or trace its whereabouts except its home server H. There have been many key establishment protocols proposed for secure roaming. A typical application of these protocols is the mobile roaming service which may be deployed to interconnected WLAN and 3G networks. Despite the importance of …
The Itsaq Gneiss Complex Of Southern West Greeland And The Construction Of Eoarchaean Crust At Convergent Plate Boundaries, Allen P. Nutman, Clark R. L Friend, Kenji Horie, Hiroshi Hidaka
The Itsaq Gneiss Complex Of Southern West Greeland And The Construction Of Eoarchaean Crust At Convergent Plate Boundaries, Allen P. Nutman, Clark R. L Friend, Kenji Horie, Hiroshi Hidaka
Faculty of Science - Papers (Archive)
The ca. 3000 km2ItsaqGneissComplex of the Nuuk region, southernWestGreenland was the first body of pre-3600 Ma crust discovered. Such ancient gneisses are now also known elsewhere, but in total form only about a millionth of the modern crust. The other 99.9999% of ancient crust was destroyed by melting and erosion over billions of years. Understanding the origin of this oldest crust is hampered by metamorphism (repeatedly) in the amphibolite or granulite facies, and most of it having been strongly deformed. The ItsaqGneissComplex is dominated by polyphase grey gneisses derived from several suites of tonalites, granites and subordinate quartz-diorites and ferro-gabbros …
Generic Construction Of Hybrid Public Key Traitor Tracing With Full-Public-Traceability, Duong Hieu Phan, Rei Safavi-Naini, Joseph Tonien
Generic Construction Of Hybrid Public Key Traitor Tracing With Full-Public-Traceability, Duong Hieu Phan, Rei Safavi-Naini, Joseph Tonien
Faculty of Engineering and Information Sciences - Papers: Part A
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A Dual Graph Construction For Higher-Rank Graphs, And K-Theory For Finite 2-Graphs, Stephen Allen, David Pask, Aidan Sims
A Dual Graph Construction For Higher-Rank Graphs, And K-Theory For Finite 2-Graphs, Stephen Allen, David Pask, Aidan Sims
Faculty of Engineering and Information Sciences - Papers: Part A
Given a k-graph Λ and an element p of Nk, we define the dual k-graph, pΛ. We show that when Λ is row-finite and has no sources, the C*-algebras C*(Λ) and C*(pΛ) coincide. We use this isomorphism to apply Robertson and Steger's results to calculate the K-theory of C*(Λ) when Λ is finite and strongly connected and satisfies the aperiodicity condition.
Schema Construction Among Pre-Service Teachers And The Use Of It In Mathematics Teaching: A Case Study, Mohan Chinnappan
Schema Construction Among Pre-Service Teachers And The Use Of It In Mathematics Teaching: A Case Study, Mohan Chinnappan
Faculty of Social Sciences - Papers (Archive)
Recent developments about cognitions underlying mathematical learning are beginning to suggest that the activation and appropriate use of prior knowledge by students is, to a large measure, controlled by the quality of organisation of that knowledge. Thus, teaching needs to support the construction of well-connected mathematical knowledge. An important assumption here is that teachers need to construct a repertoire of subject-matter knowledge that is rich and well connected before they can help their students build similar mathematical knowledge. Thus, mathematics knowledge building is an important issue in teacher preparation programs. This paper reports on a study about the knowledge state …