... One of the most controversial aspects of teaching is dealing with the many differences between students in the classroom (Reynolds, 2011), then (West and Muijs, 2009) observes that there is a need for personalization in order to offer education that is tailored to the learner, within systems responsive to learners’ needs rather than expecting the learner to adapt to the existing systems within the school. In order to address the differences in learning abilities teachers find themselves using the term streaming. There are a number of definitions of streaming. To begin with the Oxford English dictionary defines streaming as the policy of dividing school students into groups of the same level of ability. Daniel Muijs (2011), also defines streaming as a procedure where by students are segregated into different classes according to ability within their school. Likewise, in www.cea.ace.ca/factsoneducation it has been elucidated that streaming or ‘’tracking’’ means that students are placed into groups defined by their ability levels. Streaming policy has been a bone of contention among teachers and policy makers for many years. Carole Faithorn (2003) lists some of the...
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...Some people contend that mixed ability classes are more beneficial for children’s development than streaming them on the basis of judgement about their academic abilities. However, from my perspective, I disagree with this contention. Admittedly, mixed ability classes provide a better environment for children’s all-round development. In such classes, children with different abilities study together and in turn they can learn from one another. From example, a student, who is good at academic study but weak in dancing or painting, can learn how to dance or paint form his peers. In this sense, mixed ability classes allow students to develop their abilities in different subjects instead of only academic abilities. Despite the argument above, I believe streaming students brings more benefits to teachers and students. As for teachers, separating children with better academic abilities from others facilitates effective teaching. This practice helps teachers to control their students more conveniently and easily. Compared with mixed ability in which teacher should consider students’ differences when they are using teaching methodologies, streaming makes this situation simpler. To be more specific, students are at the same level of academic ability in a class, and in turn teachers can use the same methodologies for them all. In this way, the narrower the spread of ability in the class, the more convenient the teaching can be. On top of this, steaming enables students to learn in an...
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...never performing to his maximum potential at any point in his academic career. The labeling theory resonates with the idea of tracking of students in the education system. Tracking in American education typically involves grouping and labeling sets of students as low-performing, average, or high-performing. Based on several previous studies in addition to the research carried out by the authors of the paper, The Economics of Tracking in Education, it is apparent that tracking “increases inequality without boosting efficiency.” In particular, one researcher stated that when comparing students categorized in the “upper group” in schools that utilize ability tracking, they outperformed similar students in other schools that did not use tracking. However, the same researcher also found that the students grouped into the lower ability category in the same schools that...
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...1) What are the reasons consumers of music switched to digital? Streaming services pointed to the ability to discover new music, their free of charge tier of offerings and the ability to listen to music without needing to purchase individual songs. Majority of consumers who use pirate sites i.e. approximately 57% believe that there are good services available for legally accessing digital music. The significant factors which drive the popularity of downloads and streaming services. The first factor being Security and ‘ease of payment, the second being the guarantee that the service is legal and the third factor being the trust that the consumer has in the brand or company. 2) Can Spotify be profitable in the future? Yes, Spotify can be profitable in the future if * They pay less in royalties or perhaps pay less in record company advances * Watch the pennies very closely: If Spotify was dedicated or forced to pay its current royalty and distribution costs at the same level, then it is probably going to have to cut its spending elsewhere to become profitable. * Finally make free pay: Rather than cutting financial corners, it is most likely that Spotify will want to become a profitable company the hard way by raising its average revenue per user in future to the point that its large costs can’t hurt its bottom line. 3) Apple’s iTunes is the leading distribution of a copy of digital music which Spotify and Rhapsody are leaders in the streaming realm. Which distribution...
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...consistently find that the lower rated employee had out preformed the higher rated employee, she would need to reevaluate using SSI assessment process. Beyond this she could use meta-analysis, a form of validity generalization that is gaining acceptance. This will allow her to gather data from individual studies that examine the results of assessment center successes. The purpose is to obtain statistical confirmation of results and conclusions. It is assumed that by using this instead of paying for a complete evaluation of SSI and each of their tests would save the company money. Vin Pomme does bring up a good point. Although assessment centers have higher success rate in predicting job performance than just personality and cognitive ability test, the increase is fairly small, and with room for error the cost may outweigh the slightly higher success rate. Pamplemousse could consider have the personality and cognitive test...
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...factors, confidence, intensity, focus, and emotions, are meaningless. To become the best athlete you can be, you must be motivated to do what it takes to maximize your ability and achieve your goals. Motivation, simply defined, is the ability to initiate and persist at a task. To perform your best, you must want to begin the process of developing as an athlete and you must be willing to maintain your efforts until you have achieved your goals. Motivation in sports is so important because you must be willing to work hard in the face of fatigue, boredom, pain, and the desire to do other things. Motivation will impact everything that influences your sports performance: physical conditioning, technical and tactical training, mental preparation, and general lifestyle including sleep, diet, school or work, and relationships. The reason motivation is so important is that it is the only contributor to sports performance over which you have control. There are three things that affect how well you perform. First, your ability, which includes your physical, technical, tactical, and mental capabilities. Because ability is something you are born with, you can't change your ability so it is outside of your control. Second, the difficulty of the competition influences performance. Contributors to difficulty include the ability of the opponent and external factors such as an "away game" crowd and weather such as temperature, wind, and sun. You have no control over these factors. Finally,...
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...individual creativity to facilitate and enhance organizational innovation. In order to build and sustain an effective organizational culture conquered by creativity and innovation, organizations must effectively identify to maximize all creative wealth of their members, develop creative leaders and management teams and provide a kind of work environment that is highly supportive of creative expression. The focus on this paper is to examine the ways to foster creativity in decision-making since it can easily be seen and understood that fostering creativity is not an easy task as there are no easy formulas to make creativity happen. Introduction Creativity is significant in management research (Shalley et al., 2004) and it is well defined as the production of novel ideas, which are not only unique but also useful. They are deemed to be useful when “they have potential for direct or indirect value to the organization, either in the short or long-term” (Shalley et al., 2004). Ideas can always be generated by anyone, and are either a part of an individual’s job, or viewed as a valued extra-role behavior in low creativity required job tasks, for example in production workers (Unsworth, 2001). A significant gap may exist between the level of individual creative potential and the actual amount of individual creativity practiced within the organization, especially if organizational members perceive their working...
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...among managers and academics alike regarding what affects a company’s ability to innovate. With that in mind I decided to start a series of articles covering the most influential innovation management theories, laying down a comparative analysis where the insights gained from one theory can be used to fill the gaps of another. Throughout the series I will cover different authors (Henderson, Utterback, Teece, Tushman, Forster, Christensen, etc) and different concepts of innovation (incremental, modular, architectural, radical, product, process, market, disruptive, organizational, complementary, etc). Schumpeter: The first part will be dedicated to the Austrian economist Joseph Schumpeter, a pioneer when we talk about innovation management. Around the 1930s Schumpeter started studying how the capitalist system was affected by market innovations. In his book “Capitalism, Socialism and Democracy” he described a process where “the opening up of new markets, foreign or domestic, and the organizational development [...] illustrate the same process of industrial mutation, that incessantly revolutionizes the economic structure from within, incessantly destroying the old one, incessantly creating a new one”. He called this process “creative destruction”. After analyzing the capitalist model Schumpeter tried to understand what companies would be in a better position to innovate. He developed a theory where a company’s ability to innovate was mainly connected to its size. Initially he defended...
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...|Creative technology ltd | |[pic] | |Creative Zii Egg Plaszma | | | | | Table of Contents 1. Executive summary 4 2. Introduction 5 3. External Environment 6 3.1 Market Demographic Environment 6 3.2 Market Economics Environment 7 3.3 Market Technological Environment 8 4. Internal Environment 8 4.1 Internal Resources 8 4.2 Potential Market 9 4.3 Competitors 9 5. Internal Analysis 11 5.1 SWOT Analysis 11 5.1.1 Strength 12 5.1.2 Weaknesses 12 5.1.3 Opportunities 12 5.1.4 Threats 12 6. Mission Statement and Objectives 13 6.1 Mission Statement 13 6.2 Objectives 13 6.2.1 Quantitative Objectives 13 6.2.2 Qualitative Objectives 13 7. Selection and Measuring of Target Market 13 7.1 Outline of Marketing Research 13 7.2 Assessment of Potential Market 14 7.3 Market Segmentation (in relation...
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...Through the activity, I realized how silly it was to work against my usual steps based methodology in order to create a creative collage. My initial intention of going without a plan was to not limit myself within the boundaries of an outline so that I can freely decide on materials that I think would fit in my collage. This resulted in me just blindly looking for images that would represent MediaCorp but do not portray the lack of creativity in the industry. Reflecting on it, I could have used the systematic approach in a way that would not limit my material gathering. Creativity is an abstract topic and to represent it in a collage would be difficult. By brain storming and coming up with a plan on how to represent the topic, I could have saved time on the search for new cut outs half way through the collage making. Having a plan beforehand will not limit the materials that I can gather as long as I do not rigidly follow the plan down to every single detail but instead use it as a guideline. The efficiency enhancing methodologies do not limit creativity, most of the time it is the wrong usage of such methods that is the culprit. This point is supported by an interview with Dr. Larry Wending, vice president of the 3M’s research department, made in a Business Week article by Brian Hindo (2007). "In some cases in the lab it made sense, but in other cases, people were going around dreaming up green-belt programs to fill their quota of green-belt programs for that time...
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...Assignment #1 “Creative Destruction” 1) Describe the process of creative destruction in your words An essential feature of capitalism, creative destruction is a continuous process characterized by moments of radical innovation in products, production methods, organizational structures and markets that provide decisive advantages over legacy operations. This disrupts and fundamentally changes established industries, with the resulting efficiencies increasing the productive capacity of the economy. Even during the periods of comparative quiet that separate these rushes of innovation, creative destruction is still active as the results of previous innovations are absorbed and assimilated into the economy. The nature of creative destruction requires that the trajectory of the capitalist system is analyzed over the long run, as opposed to at a single point in time. In summary, creative destruction is the process whereby old economic systems are destroyed and replaced by decisively more efficient structures. 2) Explain how the typical entrepreneur behaves according to Schumpeter. What objective is he following? The typical entrepreneur is the businessman who is disciplined by the constant threat of future competition. He understands the process of creative destruction and the precarious nature of his present position and therefore, regardless of his current competitive landscape, his behavior approximates that of a firm engaged in perfect competition. This contrasts with...
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...ACE Architecture Its Place in Education By Bear Matthews “We shape our buildings and afterwards, they shape us.” - Winston Churchill Is it possible to design a classroom that measurably improves academic performance? With the emergence of evidence-based design this is indeed possible. Evidence-based design is the process of basing decisions about the built environment on credible research to achieve the best possible outcomes. Evidence-based design first emerged in the design of health care facilities. The result of measuring the influence of various design factors on patient outcomes has considerably altered the design of hospitals and other medical facilities over the past several years. Evidence-based design is increasingly focusing on educational facilities and is an emerging influence on the design of schools. Particularly intriguing are studies that correlate certain aspects of learning environments with academic performance. Evidence-based design has also investigated other measurable outcomes including improved student attendance, reduced disciplinary problems, and better faculty retention. Focusing on classroom interiors, sev studies over the past several years establish links between specific design characteristics and academic performance. Importantly, each of these design characteristics can be readily implemented in both new and modernized schools. NATURAL LIGHTING The first and perhaps best-known evidence-based research...
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...and Innovation in Business Prof. Danny Araneta Cabulay Dean – Institute of Accounts, Business and Finance Far Eastern University, Manila, Philippines dcabulay@feu.edu.ph Albert Einstein once said, “Imagination is more important than knowledge.” For most people, creativity is more easily associated with art than business. But the highest art form is business because one can be very creative, dynamic and revolutionary. Creativity is also related to innovation and change. I am fully aware that many of the things we see around us are products of minds of geniuses, creative thinkers. It is hard to imagine a business without a creative mind. A creative mind is essential in any type of business. When we get tired of the old product or technology, as it also becomes obsolete, we long to have, a better product or technology. This is the essence of innovation. It has to be more convenient to customers. The etymology of the word “create” indicates to make something; while “creation” is something that shows skill, imagination or ability; and to be “creative” means the ability to invent, design or develop original ideas. Even in the simplest businesses, creativity can happen. In Manila, for example, a typical bakery would operate from 5:30 a.m. to 9:00 pm. A bunch of students made a feasibility study to inject the idea of a 24-hour bakery. Hence, Pugon de Manila was born. This is an example of an incremental innovation to the traditional bakery. Likewise,...
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...1. What are your strengths and weaknesses as a writer? What part(s) of the writing process do you find easy? What part(s) do you find difficult? As a writer I struggle in finding a plot and sticking with it. I might think of something, but then I doubt myself and think that it's too cliche,boring, simple. so then I lose confidence and give up. And this frustrates me, because I know I should just keep going and see how it turns out.... but I don't. It depends what I'm writing. Or I'll realise that I've been writing in the wrong tense. Basically that's the story of my writing. As a writer following are my strength and weakness: Strengths – 1) Short and precise 2) Creativity with character 3) Convincing and simple Weaknesses – 1) Grammatical errors 2) Vocabulary and spelling mistakes 3) Repetition of sentences in different manner In writing I enjoy descriptions of things, and building up characters. Although sometimes my characters end up being too similar. part I find difficult in writing is flow and continuation of the thoughts even I have idea and clear concept but not able to make a sentences. For example : problem face in examination I have a clear idea and understanding of concept but not able to write in sentences. 2. What are your strengths and weaknesses as a speaker? What part(s) of creating and giving presentations do you find easy? What part(s) do you find difficult? Strength I am...
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...required just like what is highlighted in most writing courses. Personal writing experience in comparison to the process approach I have handled writing in my previous experiences. This has involved writing of term papers and assignments. In this form of writing, I noticed that what is required is objectivity. In such forms of writing, one is supposed to concentrate on facts that exist in theories and concepts. Unless it is asked by the tutor, writers of such papers are supposed to be objective. I found that this form of writing to be so rigid because one is not supposed to give his personal views. Considering that computer science is based on most scientific calculations and facts, it therefore becomes difficult for one to include personal creative views about a particular subject in discussion. The process approach that recommends that people plan, gather information, write a draft and edit before writing a final draft is more interesting. This is because it has certain...
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