Using Scaffold Supports to Improve Student Practice and Understanding of an Authentic Inquiry Process in Science

2015 ◽  
Vol 16 (1) ◽  
pp. 77-91 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sandrine Turcotte ◽  
Christine Hamel
Keyword(s):  
Authentic Inquiry ◽  
Inquiry Process ◽  
Student Practice

The Process of Medical Diagnosis: Routes of Mathematical Investigations

1978 ◽  
Vol 17 (01) ◽  
pp. 1-10 ◽  
Author(s):  
P. Tautu ◽  
G. Wagner
Keyword(s):  
Decision Theory ◽  
Medical Diagnosis ◽  
Pattern Analysis ◽  
Logical Probability ◽  
Inquiry Process ◽  
Fuzzy Subsets

This paper is an analysis of the most important mathematical aspects of medical diagnosis: logical probability, rationality and decision theory, gambling models, pattern analysis, hazy and fuzzy subsets theory and, finally, the stochastic inquiry process.

Strategic Audit Inquiry: The Impact of Timing and the Promotion of Statutory Protections on Client Fraud Disclosures

2020 ◽  
Vol 34 (3) ◽  
pp. 153-167
Author(s):  
John R. Lauck ◽  
Stephen J. Perreault ◽  
Joseph R. Rakestraw ◽  
James S. Wainberg
Keyword(s):  
Best Practices ◽  
Audit Quality ◽  
Self Regulation ◽  
Data Availability ◽  
Audit Committees ◽  
External Auditors ◽  
Extant Literature ◽  
Psychological Theories ◽  
Inquiry Process ◽  
The Impact

SYNOPSIS Auditing standards require external auditors to inquire of client-employees regarding their knowledge of actual or suspected fraud (PCAOB 2010b; AICPA 2016). However, the extant literature provides little guidance on practical methods that auditors can employ to increase the likelihood of fraud disclosure and improve audit quality. Drawing upon best practices in the whistleblowing literature and psychological theories on self-regulation, we experimentally test the efficacy of two practical strategies that auditors can employ during the fraud inquiry process: actively promoting statutory whistleblower protections and strategically timing their fraud inquiries. Our results indicate that auditors are more likely to elicit client-employee fraud disclosures by actively promoting statutory whistleblower protections and strategically timing the fraud inquiry to take place in the afternoon, when client-employee self-regulation is more likely to be depleted. These two audit inquiry strategies should be of considerable interest to audit practitioners, audit committees, and those concerned with improving audit quality. Data Availability: From the authors by request.

scholarly journals Moving Away from Category Exclusivity Deals to Sponsorship Activation Platforms: The Case of the Ryder Cup

2021 ◽  
Vol 13 (3) ◽  
pp. 1151
Author(s):  
Yunchao Bai ◽  
Brian H. Yim ◽  
John Breedlove ◽  
James J. Zhang
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Social Media ◽  
Financial Services ◽  
Case Analysis ◽  
The United States ◽  
Brand Awareness ◽  
Inquiry Process ◽  
Standard Life ◽  
The Uk ◽  
Collaborative Efforts

As a biennial event, the Ryder Cup is a men’s golf competition between teams from Europe and the United States. Ernst & Young (EY) and Standard Life Investments (SLI), who are in same business category (i.e., financial services), have served as official partners of the event in recent years. While the two firms are willing to move away from the traditional sponsorship practices of category exclusivity deals, both have been able to achieve significant success through their collaborative efforts in activating their sponsorships. This is a new, fascinating phenomenon in both sponsorship concept and practice. Through an exploratory inductive inquiry process, in this study we conduct a case analysis by examining the sponsorship activations of EY and SLI at the 2014 Ryder Cup event held in the UK. The findings demonstrate that social media plays an impactful role in the companies’ ability to engage target audiences. EY used the Ryder Cup captain as a brand ambassador, who embodied its sponsorship theme of leadership and teamwork. SLI focused on running advertising campaigns to build company image and increase brand awareness.

Investigating preservice classroom teachers’ practices and views about teaching physical education lessons: An exploratory case study

2021 ◽  
pp. 1356336X2110509
Author(s):  
Niki Tsangaridou ◽  
Ermis Kyriakides ◽  
Charalambos Y. Charalambous
Keyword(s):  
Physical Education ◽  
Time Management ◽  
Teaching Quality ◽  
Classroom Teachers ◽  
Structured Interviews ◽  
Field Placement ◽  
Exploratory Case Study ◽  
National University ◽  
Student Practice

Focusing on preservice classroom teachers (PCTs) with a physical education (PE) specialization, this exploratory case study aimed at investigating the teaching quality in the lessons offered by these teachers during their field placement, as well as examining their views about teaching PE. Toward this end, seven volunteer female PCTs studying at a national university in Cyprus were recruited; all had attended three PE specialization courses before their field placement. Data were gathered through systematic observations, semi-structured interviews, and document analysis. The quantitative data were analysed using SPSS and the qualitative data using case and cross-case analysis. These analyses suggested that the PCTs could effectively employ classroom and time management as well as skill demonstration; they could also provide quality student practice. In contrast, task progression, accountability of student practice, and task explicitness appeared to be more challenging for them to successfully enact. Interestingly, their lesson plans foreshadowed how effectively most of the examined practices would be employed by the PCTs. This study contributes a new understanding of PCTs’ PE teaching during field placement and their views thereof. The implications of the findings for PCTs’ education are discussed.

scholarly journals Sourcebook update: intestinal smooth muscle contractility and autonomic control

2018 ◽  
Vol 42 (2) ◽  
pp. 311-320 ◽  
Author(s):  
Philip D. Langton
Keyword(s):  
First Year ◽  
Smooth Muscle Contractility ◽  
Gut Motility ◽  
First Year Students ◽  
Authentic Inquiry ◽  
Student Teams ◽  
Functional Antagonism ◽  
The Individual ◽  
Design Experiments

This laboratory practical requires first-year students to anticipate the effects of drugs active at cholinergic and adrenergic receptors on gut motility in order to design experiments during an authentic inquiry exercise. Rather than specifying a strict sequence of drug additions that aim to provide ideal demonstrations of pharmacological and physiological antagonism, I have instead designed switches into the drugs provided and set students, working in small teams, the task of identifying the switched drugs, an inquiry activity. To extend the teamwork aspect, laboratory reports were submitted by the student teams rather than individual students. Staff observed that discussions within the teams were stimulated by the inquiry-led nature of the practical. The quality of the laboratory reports submitted by teams were substantially improved over the individual reports submitted in previous years. (Students previously worked in teams, but simply followed a list of prescribed experiments and wrote individual reports.) Although, in conversation, teams of students had an improved understanding of the regulation of gut motility by the parasympathetic and sympathetic divisions of the autonomic nervous system and could readily distinguish between pharmacological and functional antagonism, no attempt was made to evaluate learning because the revision was triggered by the observed effect of a technical error and was not otherwise planned. It is likely that laboratory practicals, in general, would benefit from inclusion of inquiry.

scholarly journals Pengembangan Instrumen Penilaian Autentik Berbasis Pendekatan Authentic Inquiry Learning Pada Mata Pelajaran Sosiologi di Sekolah Menengah Atas

SOCIUS ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 6 (2) ◽  
pp. 103
Author(s):  
Ike Sylvia ◽  
Syafri Anwar ◽  
Khairani Khairani
Keyword(s):  
Inquiry Learning ◽  
Authentic Inquiry

Artikel ini bertujuan untuk memaparkan hasil penelitian pengembangan instrumen penilaian autentik berbasis pendekatan authentic inquiry learning untuk meningkatkan keterampilan berpikir kritis, kolaboarsi, komunikasi, berpikir kreatif dan inovatif, dan berpikir tingkat tinggi siswa pada pembelajaran sosiologi. Penelitian ini adalah penelitian R & D, prosedur pengembangan yang digunakan adalah model ADDIE. Instrumen penilaian autentik yang dikembangkan terdiri dari: instrumen penilaian kognitif (soal tes), penilaian sikap (spiritual dan sosial) berupa instrumen penilaian diri dan teman sejawat, penilaian keterampilan (penilaian kinerja, proyek), pedoman observasi diskusi kelas dan kunjungan lapangan. Validitas instrumen diukur melalui validasi ahli Kelayakan instrumen dianalisis menggunakan formula V Aiken, serta menggunakan koefisien reliabilitas alpha untuk menguji reliabilitas instrument, efektifitas produk pengembangan dilakukan ujicoba kepada guru dan siswa kelas XI SMAN 1 Padang semester 1 tahun pelajaran 2019/2020 yang terdiri dari 35 siswa. Hasil penelitian mengungkapkan temuan berikut: (1) Instrumen Penilaian Autentik yang dikembangkasn telah sesuai dengan prinsip-prinsip pengembangan instrumen pembelajaran, (2) Instrumen penilaian autentik berbasis authentic inquiry learning valid dan dapat diandalkan untuk mengukur aspek kognitif, afektif, dan keterampilan siswa, (3) Hasil penilaian autentik terhadap proses dan hasil belajar siswa membuktikan bahwa pembelajaran sosiologi menggunakan pendekatan authentic inquiry learning dapat meningkatkan keterampilan berpikir kritis, kolaborasi, komunikasi, berpikir kreatif dan inovatif, serta berpikir tingkat tinggi siswa. Dengan demikian, instrumen ini dapat didorong untuk diimplementasikan dalam pembelajaran Sosiologi di tingkat sekolah menengah atas untuk mengetahui perkembangan aspek afektif, kognitif, keterampilan siswa, serta memberikan feedback untuk peningkatan mutu pembelajaran.

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