PREDICTIVE ROLE OF SELF-REFLECTION IN TEACHER'S PROFESSIONAL IMPROVEMENT

This contribution reflects on the role of tradition-building in international law, the implications of the recent ‘turn to history’ and the ‘presentisms’ discernible in the history of international legal thought. It first analyses how international legal thought created its own tradition in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. These projects of establishing a tradition implied a considerable amount of what historians would reject as ‘presentism’. Remarkably, critical scholars of our day and age who unsettled celebratory histories of international law and unveiled ‘colonial origins’ of international law were also criticized for committing the ‘sin of anachronism’. This contribution therefore examines the basis of this critique and defends ‘presentism’ in international legal thought. However, the ‘paradox of instrumentalism’ remains: The ‘better’ historical analysis becomes, the more it loses its critical potential for current international law. At best, the turn to history activates a potential of disciplinary self-reflection.

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Music Teacher Evaluation

The Oxford Handbook of Assessment Policy and Practice in Music Education, Volume 1 ◽

10.1093/oxfordhb/9780190248093.013.34 ◽

2019 ◽

pp. 793-829

Author(s):

Douglas C. Orzolek

Keyword(s):

Teacher Evaluation ◽

Music Teacher ◽

American Education ◽

Effective Teacher ◽

Research And Practice ◽

Self Reflection ◽

Evaluation Systems ◽

The Impact ◽

Music Teacher Evaluation

This chapter outlines the nature of music teacher evaluation found in existing and related literature and research. From these writings, there are an abundance of emergent themes that provide stakeholders with an opportunity to examine this topic and consider its application in their own settings. These themes include ideas related to the following: the intent of teacher evaluation; the role of teacher evaluation; what an effective teacher is; the importance of multifaceted evaluation systems; the place of student learning in the evaluative process; the various forms of evidence used to evaluate educators; the fact that research and practice should be intertwined in developing evaluation systems; the role of testing; the degree to which observation and self-reflection should be involved in teacher evaluation; the importance of clear and concise goals for learners; and the impact that systems of evaluation will have on the educators, schools, students, and American education as a whole. This chapter intends to allow stakeholders the opportunity to reflect on all of these issues and challenges.

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Tu1789 – Treatment Response to Ustekinumab and Vedolizumab in Inflammatory Bowel Disease: the Predictive Role of Gut Microbiota

Gastroenterology ◽

10.1016/s0016-5085(19)39775-6 ◽

2019 ◽

Vol 156 (6) ◽

pp. S-1124

Author(s):

Clara Caenepeel ◽

Sara Vieira-Silva ◽

Jorge F. Vázquez-Castellanos ◽

Bram Verstockt ◽

Marc Ferrante ◽

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Keyword(s):

Inflammatory Bowel Disease ◽

Gut Microbiota ◽

Treatment Response ◽

Bowel Disease ◽

Predictive Role ◽

Inflammatory Bowel

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The Prognostic and Predictive Role of Somatic BRCA Mutations in Ovarian Cancer: Results from a Multicenter Cohort Study

Diagnostics ◽

10.3390/diagnostics11030565 ◽

2021 ◽

Vol 11 (3) ◽

pp. 565

Author(s):

Angela Toss ◽

Claudia Piombino ◽

Elena Tenedini ◽

Alessandra Bologna ◽

Elisa Gasparini ◽

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Keyword(s):

Ovarian Cancer ◽

Positive Impact ◽

Progression Free Survival ◽

Molecular Testing ◽

Wild Type ◽

Brca Mutations ◽

Multicenter Cohort Study ◽

Advanced Stages ◽

Predictive Role

Previous research involving epithelial ovarian cancer patients showed that, compared to germline BRCA (gBRCA) mutations, somatic BRCA (sBRCA) mutations present a similar positive impact with regard to overall survival (OS) and platinum and PARP (poly (ADP-ribose) polymerase) inhibitor sensitivity. Nevertheless, molecular testing in these studies did not include copy number variation (CNV) analyses of BRCA genes. The aim of this study was to explore the prognostic and predictive role of sBRCA mutations as compared to gBRCA mutations in patients who were also tested for CNVs. Among the 158 patients included in the study, 17.09% of patients carried a pathogenic or likely pathogenic gBRCA variant and 15.19% of patients presented pathogenetic or likely pathogenic sBRCA variants and/or CNVs. Overall, 81.6% of the patients included in this study were diagnosed with a serous histotype, and 77.2% were in advanced stages. Among women diagnosed in advanced stages, gBRCA patients showed better progression-free survival and OS as compared to sBRCA and wild-type patients, whereas sBRCA patients did not show any advantage in outcome as compared to wild-type patients. In this study, the introduction of CNV analyses increased the detection rate of sBRCA mutations, and the resulting classification among gBRCA, sBRCA and wild-type patients was able to properly stratify the prognosis of OC patients. Particularly, sBRCA mutation patients failed to show any outcome advantage as compared to wild-type patients.

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