Regular classroom practices with gifted students in Grades 3 and 4 in New South Wales, Australia

1997 ◽  
Vol 12 (1) ◽  
pp. 34-38 ◽  
Author(s):  
Diana Whitton
Keyword(s):  
Independent Schools ◽  
Classroom Practices ◽  
New South ◽  
New South Wales ◽  
Gifted Students ◽  
The United States ◽  
Gifted Children ◽  
Regular Classroom ◽  
South Wales ◽  
Talented Students

The Regular Classroom Practices Survey (RCPS) was conducted to determine the extent to which gifted and talented students received differentiated education in the regular classroom across New South Wales. This research paralleled work recently completed in the United States of America. The survey focused on information on the teachers, their classrooms and regions. Classroom practices, in relation to the curriculum modifications for gifted and average students, were analyzed. The survey sample was drawn from the three sectors of education, Government, Catholic and Independent schools, within the ten regions of New South Wales. This included 401 third and fourth grade teachers in government schools, 138 teachers in Catholic schools and 67 teachers in independent schools. The research questions that guided this study were: (1) Do teachers modify the curriculum content to meet the needs of gifted students? (2) Do teachers modify their instructional practices for gifted students? (3) Are there any organizational variations in planning to meet the educational needs of gifted children? (4) Are there differences in the types of regular classroom services provided for gifted students in relation to the type of school or region?

A Note on the Specific Identity of Trichostrongylus longispicularis Gordon, 1933

1956 ◽  
Vol 30 (1) ◽  
pp. 21-24 ◽  
Author(s):  
R. I. Sommerville
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
New South ◽  
New South Wales ◽  
The United States ◽  
The Other ◽  
Single Male ◽  
South Wales ◽  
Specific Identity

The nematode Trichostrongylus longispicularis was described by Gordon (1933) from a single male recovered from a sheep in New South Wales. Gordon considered that the male of this species could be readily distinguished from the males of other species of the genus recorded from ruminants by an asymmetrical dorsal ray of the bursa and by the length and form of the spicules. The dorsal ray is described as being bifid, one bifurcation being simple and the other possessing secondary branches, one situated internally and the other externally. The slender spicules were 184·6 microns long, and terminated in fine sickle-shaped structures.Andrews (1934 and 1935) recorded the species from cattle in the United States. In his first description (Andrews, 1934) he noted that his specimens agreed very closely with the description published by Gordon (1933), but he referred to hook-like projections on the spicules. However, he failed to find these projections in the specimen discussed in his record of 1935. As he made no reference to the dorsal ray of the bursa, it is presumed that this agreed with the description and figure published by Gordon (1933). T. longispicularis was subsequently reported by Roberts (1938 and 1939) from cattle in Queensland, but no comments were made on its morphology.

scholarly journals Introduction—Atomic and Electron Fluids

1996 ◽  
Vol 49 (1) ◽  
pp. 1
Author(s):  
Mukunda P Das ◽  
David Neilson
Keyword(s):  
New South ◽  
New South Wales ◽  
The United States ◽  
Research Area ◽  
Associate Professor ◽  
Theoretical Physics ◽  
Physical Sciences ◽  
South Wales ◽  
National University ◽  
The University

This volume contains the lectures given at the fourth international Gordon Godfrey workshop held at the University of New South Wales in Sydney from 26 to 28 September 1994. This time our lecturers came from Germany, Italy, Japan, the United States and Vietnam, as well as of course from Australia. There was a total of seventeen lectures. The workshops are jointly organised by the School of Physics at the University of New South Wales and the Department of Theoretical Physics, Research School of Physical Sciences at the Australian National University and are held annually at the University of New South Wales in Sydney. Each workshop concentrates on a different and novel research area of current interest in condensed matter physics. The late Gordon Godfrey was an Associate Professor of Physics at the University of New South Wales who bequeathed his estate for the promotion and the teaching of theoretical physics within the university.

Issues in Testing

1985 ◽  
Vol 2 (2) ◽  
pp. 8-12
Author(s):  
Marion M. de Lemos
Keyword(s):  
New South ◽  
New South Wales ◽  
The United States ◽  
Primary Schooling ◽  
General Ability ◽  
South Wales ◽  
Individual Assessment ◽  
Other Information ◽  
The Subject ◽  
Teaching Programs

The issue of tests and testing has recently become the subject of public debate in New South Wales. This issue is of course not new, and has been the subject of much controversy, particularly in the United States, over the last thirty years or more.In New South Wales the issue has surfaced over the use of standardized tests of general ability in the last year of primary schooling. These tests are applied routinely in State schools to all students in Year 6 as part of the normal school assessment program. The purpose of the testing, as stated by the Department, is to obtain a measure of the student's general reasoning ability to supplement other information on the student's school attainments. This information, it is argued, can be used by the class teacher or the resource teacher to plan appropriate teaching programs for individual children, and to identify children who may have special needs, or who should be referred to the school counsellor for further individual assessment.

William Henry Fitchett: Methodist, Englishman, Australian, Imperialist

2008 ◽  
Vol 21 (1) ◽  
pp. 57-72
Author(s):  
John Stuart ◽  
Ian Welch
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Nineteenth Century ◽  
Great Britain ◽  
Present Article ◽  
New South ◽  
New South Wales ◽  
The United States ◽  
Religious Change ◽  
South Wales

AbstractHistorians of colonial Australia have long been fascinated by the effects of religious change on urban New South Wales and Victoria in the last quarter of the nineteenth century. This period, it is generally acknowledged, was one of evangelical revival amongst Anglicans and nonconformists alike. Well known (and sometimes world-renowned) evangelists from Great Britain and the United States invariably included cities such as Sydney and Melbourne on their international itineraries. But the local evangelical presence was strong; and this article focuses on William Henry Fitchett, a Melbourne-based evangelical Methodist clergyman who has largely escaped the attention of historians of religion. The reason he has done so is because he achieved fame in a rather different field: as a popular author of imperial histories and biographies. His published works sold in the hundreds of thousands. Yet he also wrote many serious works on religious matters. This article places Fitchett in the context of evangelical mission and revival within and beyond Australia, while also paying due attention to the influence of religion on his writing career. Les historiens de l'Australie coloniale ont longtemps été fascinés par les effets des transformations religieuses dans le monde urbain de New South Wales et Victoria durant le dernier quart du 19e siècle. Cette période est généralement considérée comme ayant été celle d'un Réveil évangélique parmi les Anglicans et les non-conformistes. Des évangélistes connus (et parfois mondialement connus) venus de Grande Bretagne et des Etats-Unis incluaient invariablement dans leurs périples internationaux des villes comme Sydney et Melbourne. Mais la présence évangélique locale était aussi forte, et cet article se concentre sur un pasteur de l'Eglise Méthodiste évangélique basé à Melbourne, William Henry Fitchett, qui a largement échappé à l'attention des historiens de la religion. La raison en est qu'il s'est rendu célèbre dans un domaine autre que religieux, à savoir comme auteur populaire d'histoires et biographies impériales. Les travaux qu'il a publiés se sont vendus par centaines de milliers d'exemplaires, mais il a aussi écrit des œuvres sérieuses sur des questions de religion. Le présent article replace Fitchett dans le contexte de la mission évangélique et du Réveil en Australie et au-delà, tout en se penchant sur la question de l'influence de la religion sur sa carrière d'auteur.

scholarly journals Occurrence of Passiflora Latent Carlavirus in Cultivated and Wild Passiflora Species in Australia

Plant Disease ◽  
1997 ◽  
Vol 81 (4) ◽  
pp. 348-350 ◽  
Author(s):  
R. D. Pares ◽  
L. V. Gunn ◽  
E. N. Keskula ◽  
A. B. Martin ◽  
D. S. Teakle
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Immunoelectron Microscopy ◽  
Inclusion Bodies ◽  
New South ◽  
New South Wales ◽  
The United States ◽  
Passiflora Edulis ◽  
South Wales ◽  
Commercial Cultivars ◽  
Survey Results

A carlavirus was found to be widespread in commercial passionfruit (Passiflora edulis) plantings in New South Wales and Queensland. The particles observed were flexuous rods with mean dimensions of 651 × 12 nm. The particles often occurred in cells as aggregates but were never associated with pinwheel inclusion bodies, as is typical with passionfruit woodiness potyvirus. The particles showed a strong affinity (by immunoelectron microscopy) for antiserum prepared against Passiflora latent carlavirus (PLV) from Germany but increasingly less affinity for antisera against potato viruses S and M and PLV from the United States. Survey results indicated that PLV has been present in Australian passionfruit for more than 10 years and is widespread in most commercial cultivars in New South Wales and Queensland. The virus was twice found in wild Passiflora suberosa, once in wild P. subpeltata, and once in a feral seedling of P. edulis near an infected planting of P. edulis.

Psychiatric Diagnosis in New South Wales Compared to England and Wales

1975 ◽  
Vol 127 (6) ◽  
pp. 556-558 ◽  
Author(s):  
Gordon Parker
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
New South ◽  
New South Wales ◽  
Psychiatric Hospitals ◽  
The United States ◽  
Psychotic Depression ◽  
England And Wales ◽  
Admission Rates ◽  
The United Kingdom ◽  
South Wales

SummaryComparative studies of first admission rates to psychiatric hospitals have revealed significant differences in the rates of diagnoses of functional psychoses between the United Kingdom and the United States of America.The present study examined the diagnoses of indigenous patients born between 1921 and 1955 and first admitted to hospitals in New South Wales, Australia, and England and Wales. Admission rates for mania were in striking agreement. The rate in New South Wales for schizophrenia was slighdy higher and for psychotic depression considerably less than in England and Wales.A similar trend in diagnostic dissonance would appear to exist between England and Wales and New South Wales as between England and Wales and the United States for schizophrenia and psychotic depression, but this is considerably less in degree.

scholarly journals Cometary astrometry with the Sydney Observatory astrograph

1986 ◽  
Vol 118 ◽  
pp. 271-272
Author(s):  
Col Bembrick ◽  
Jeff Byron ◽  
David Phipps
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
New South ◽  
New South Wales ◽  
The United States ◽  
Single Screw ◽  
Naval Observatory ◽  
South Wales ◽  
Measuring Machine ◽  
Machine Readable

The New South Wales Branch of the British Astronomical Association is currently making use of the Sydney Observatory astrograph for cometary astrometry. Astrometric plates (16 × 16 cm) of P/Halley are being taken at a plate scale of 116 arcsec/mm with a field of 5 × 5 degrees. Plate measuring is accomplished by means of a mechanical single screw Hilger measuring machine. Plate reduction utilises the program supplied by the International Halley Watch organisation. Measurement and reduction is facilitated by the machine readable catalogue and plotting routines supplied by the United States Naval Observatory. Currently the BAA observing team is working towards achieving a 24 hr turnaround for plate reductions. This will enable useful contributions to be made during the critical pre-encounter periods.

The Classroom Practices Observation Study

1993 ◽  
Vol 16 (2) ◽  
pp. 120-146 ◽  
Author(s):  
Karen L. Westberg ◽  
Francis X. Archambault ◽  
Sally M. Dobyns ◽  
Thomas J. Salvin
Keyword(s):  
Gifted And Talented ◽  
Classroom Practices ◽  
The United States ◽  
Regular Classroom ◽  
Observation Study ◽  
Chi Square ◽  
Verbal Interactions ◽  
Teacher Student ◽  
Curricular Practices ◽  
Talented Students

The Classroom Practices Observational Study conducted by The National Research Center on the Gifted and Talented (NRC/GT) examined the instructional and curricular practices used with gifted and talented students in regular elementary classrooms throughout the United States. This article describes the procedures used in this study and the results obtained from systematic observations in 46 third or fourth grade classrooms. The observations were designed to determine if and how classroom teachers meet the needs of gifted and talented students in the regular classroom. Two students, one gifted and talented and one average ability student, were selected as target students for each observation day. The Classroom Practices Record (CPR) was developed to document the types and frequencies of differentiated instruction that gifted students receive through modifications in curricular activities, materials, and teacher-student verbal interactions. Descriptive statistics and chi-square procedures were used to analyze the CPR data. The results indicated little differentiation in the instructional and curricular practices, grouping arrangements, and verbal interactions for gifted and talented students in the regular classroom. Across five subject areas and 92 observation days, the observed gifted and talented students experienced no instructional or curricular differentiation in 84% of their instructional activities.

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