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Bin Tuwaym, Sultan Turki; Berry, Ann Bassett – Rural Special Education Quarterly, 2018
Assistive technology (AT) for students with visual impairments (VI) is an essential part of their educational program. AT allows students to develop skills, engage in the academic environment, and function independently. Despite the Individuals With Disabilities Education Act (IDEA) mandate for AT as part of a student's Individualized Education…
Descriptors: Visual Impairments, Assistive Technology, Rural Schools, Teacher Education
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Reay, Diane; Crozier, Gill; Clayton, John – British Educational Research Journal, 2010
Drawing on case studies of 27 working-class students across four UK higher education institutions, this article attempts to develop a multilayered, sociological understanding of student identities that draws together social and academic aspects. Working with a concept of student identity that combines the more specific notion of learner identity…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Peer Groups, Working Class, Case Studies
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Olsen, Robert J. – Journal of Chemical Education, 2008
I describe how data pooling and data visualization can be employed in the first-semester general chemistry laboratory to introduce core statistical concepts such as central tendency and dispersion of a data set. The pooled data are plotted as a 1-D scatterplot, a purpose-designed number line through which statistical features of the data are…
Descriptors: Familiarity, Visualization, Chemistry, Laboratories
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Teets, Donald – AMATYC Review, 2008
This article shows how to use six parameters describing the International Space Station's orbit to predict when and in what part of the sky observers can look for the station as it passes over their location. The method requires only a good background in trigonometry and some familiarity with elementary vector and matrix operations. An included…
Descriptors: Space Exploration, Familiarity, Spreadsheets, College Mathematics
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Knain, Erick – International Journal of Science Education, 2005
Students' abilities to master the genres of science must include not only factual knowledge. They also have to negotiate what they want to achieve with their texts and their ideas about writing and themselves as writers and science students. In this article, classroom observations, text analysis and interviews are combined in a case study of two…
Descriptors: Teaching Methods, Familiarity, Teacher Attitudes