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Hattie research5/20/2023 ![]() ![]() We discuss these findings in the light of the assumptions made in The power of feedback ( Hattie and Timperley, 2007). Furthermore, feedback has higher impact on cognitive and motor skills outcomes than on motivational and behavioral outcomes. A moderator analysis revealed that the impact is substantially influenced by the information content conveyed. Overall results based on a random-effects model indicate a medium effect ( d = 0.48) of feedback on student learning, but the significant heterogeneity in the data shows that feedback cannot be understood as a single consistent form of treatment. 2Melbourne Graduate School of Education, University of Melbourne, Parkville, VIC, AustraliaĪ meta-analysis (435 studies, k = 994, N > 61,000) of empirical research on the effects of feedback on student learning was conducted with the purpose of replicating and expanding the Visible Learning research ( Hattie and Timperley, 2007 Hattie, 2009 Hattie and Zierer, 2019) from meta-synthesis. ![]() 1Department of School Pedagogy, University of Augsburg, Augsburg, Germany.Benedikt Wisniewski 1*, Klaus Zierer 1 and John Hattie 2* ![]()
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Rapunzel what once was mine5/20/2023 ![]() ![]() ![]() Rapunzel remembers nothing of her life before the tower. For her safety, as well as the safety of the kingdom, it is agreed that Rapunzel will be locked in a tower and put under the care of the powerful goodwife Mother Gothel. They soon realize the princess’ hair comes with dangerous magical powers to harm. While it does heal the queen, a healthy baby girl is delivered with hair as rare and silver as the full moon. ![]() Instead, the shimmering Moondrop flower is mistakenly acquired. When the queen falls ill and her life, as well as the life of her unborn child, are threatened, the good people of the kingdom search desperately for the all-healing Sundrop flower. IN SHORT: This clean young adult book is a retelling of Tangled, the Disney retelling of Rapunzel. ![]()
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Priest by Aiden Bates5/20/2023 ![]() ![]() ![]() Could he love again? Even if that love is different, could he live the rest of his life with someone who isn't Ankh? Priest is left with all kinds of emotions from moving on too soon, to letting someone else in his heart when Ankh still owns it. They've been friends for three decades but now Priest sees him as more than just a person he confides in, he sees him as the person that he wants to share his bed with. Priest never thought he would be attracted to someone again but something inside him keeps being drawn to Mal. Even if I had this little niggle in the back of my mind that no one could compare to Ankh, Mal surely did!!Īfter losing the love of your life, your husband, your partner how can you even begin to think of moving on? It has been over two years since Priest lost Ankh, things are getting easier but there is still that sharp pain in his chest when his thoughts wander to Ankh. I figured he would just be the "Dad" of the club and that would be that but after Nix's story I saw that Priest was finally going to get his and I couldn't have been happier. ![]() ![]() They really did save the best for last with Priest!!!įrom the moment I started this series I fell head over heels in love with Priest and I never expected we would get his story. ![]()
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Podkayne of Mars by Robert A. Heinlein5/20/2023 ![]() Paul Heyne, was so disaffected even by the minimalist definitionĮventually adopted that he declined full membership and preferred anĪssociate status, at least at first. ![]() What might count as “Christian” in our title. Preferred to avoid, so far as possible, any attempt to spell out just I attended the inaugural meeting of ACE, and was one of those who Waterman, Professor Emeritus of Economics, University of Manitoba and former member of the Canadian National Executive Council. The quote (or rather a variation of it) is strongly attributed to the American economist Paul Samuelson by his long-time friend A. ![]() The Unpleasant Profession of Jonathan Hoag.So while I cannot 100% guarantee that he never said or wrote this quote or anything to the same effect, it seems unlikely. ![]() I tried smaller subquotes including "never learned" and "man who agreed". It does not appear in any book I can find. ![]()
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The rebel camus5/20/2023 ![]() ![]() Inscribed on the half-title: “a Jean Paulhan / bien amicalement / Albert Camus”. AN OUTSTANDING ASSOCIATION COPY: INSCRIBED BY CAMUS TO JEAN PAULHAN, FRENCH CRITIC AND PUBLISHER INSTRUMENTAL IN GETTING CAMUS’S WORKS PUBLISHED. A slave who has taken orders all his life suddenly decides that he cannot obey some new command.”įIRST EDITION. He is also a man who says yes, from the moment he makes his first gesture of rebellion. “What is a rebel? A man who says no, but whose refusal does not imply a renunciation. ![]() But our task is not to unleash them on the world it is to fight them in ourselves and in others.” We all carry within us our places of exile, our crimes and our ravages. “Whatever we may do, excess will always keep its place in the heart of man, in the place where solitude is found. ![]()
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![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() It’s all stuff that I have painstakingly assembled and artfully arranged for their edification, but it’s usually tossed out of the window within three minutes of the session starting and I’m left frantically scribbling illegible scrawls to catch-up as my merry band of murderhobos decide that it’d be the height of comedy to start throwing stray cats in the faces of market vendors or giving wedgies to the city watch fer teh lulz – and God forbid that you suggest that their violent anarchy might attract negative consequences, lest ye be stricken with the curse that you are “railroading” them and inhibiting their free expression. My players have always taken a perverse contrarian glee in deliberately ignoring the titbits I’ve laid down for them - the threads, hooks and bits of cheese leading down to roads of glory and adventure with dungeons and treasure and challenge. Being the “Forever DM” of my roleplaying group can be burdensome, perpetually stuck behind the summary screen. ![]()
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Kant critique of pure reason cambridge5/19/2023 ![]() This subject area of philosophy is unavoidably tied up with practical. The book concludes with an extensive bibliography. Morality is characterized mainly by the work of Kant and notions such as duty and. Finally, four chapters recount the enormous influence of the Critique on subsequent philosophical movements, including German Idealism and Neo-Kantianism, twentieth-century continental philosophy, and twentieth-century Anglo-American analytic philosophy. Eleven chapters then expound and assess all the main arguments of the Critique. Kant, the empiricists, and the enterprise of deduction Kenneth P. ![]() Kant's Copernican turn and the rationalist tradition Desmond Hogan 2. Guyer Published 14 June 2010 Philosophy Part I. The first two chapters situate Kants project against the background of continental rationalism and British empiricism, the dominant schools of early modern philosophy. The Cambridge Companion to Kant's Critique of Pure Reason P. The seventeen chapters have been written by an international team of scholars, including some of the best-known figures in the field as well as emerging younger talents. This Companion is the first collective commentary on this work in English. In this massive work, Kant has three aims. ![]() ![]() Immanuel Kants Critique of Pure Reason, first published in 1781, is one of the landmarks of Western philosophy, a radical departure from everything that went before and an inescapable influence on all philosophy since its publication. Immanuel Kant’s Critique of Pure Reason, first published in 1781, is one of the landmarks of Western philosophy, a radical departure from everything that went before and an inescapable influence on all philosophy since its publication. CAMBRIDGE UNIVERSITY PRESS The Cambridge Companion To Kant'S Critique Of Pure Reason by Edited by Paul Guyer ![]()
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![]() ![]() ![]() The theme of the individual versus society resurfaces as the narrator focuses on the city’s society moving as one organic being. These differences invite the audience to compare Omelas to their own society and examine which parts of it may be destructive.Īfter exploring happiness in Omelas at length, the narrator returns to the picturesque scene of the Festival of Summer. Notably, many aspects and inventions of modern society are absent from the narrator’s summation of what is allowed in the city according to their tripartite distinction, and this is presumably because these things fall into the “destructive” category. In this way, the narrator further reinforces the idea that the story is to be read as an allegory in which the society of Omelas is a stand-in for the ideal society. Here, the narrator explicitly directs the reader to use their imagination to fill in the details of Omelas for themselves, and in doing so reveals that Omelas is not an actual place so much as an idea. ![]() The narrator continues to emphasize the theme of happiness and suffering by describing in greater detail the principles on which Omelas’s happiness is founded, and introducing the concepts of necessity and destructiveness as important variables in calculating that happiness. ![]()
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The Door Before by N.D. Wilson5/19/2023 ![]() ![]() "This fast-paced fantasy features empathetic heroes. ![]() “ is my favorite kind of fantasy.” -Tamora Pierce, #1 New York Times bestselling author “A must-read series!” - The Washington Post ![]() Then, Henrietta disappears, and Henry has to go on a mission through the many worlds of the cupboards to find her and bring her home. Hyacinth, together with the boys, must use her newfound magic and all of her courage to journey straight into the witch’s kingdom in a daring plan to trap evil and kill the immortal. One night, Henry and his adventurous cousin, Henrietta, discover a key to their deceased grandfathers locked bedroom inside, they uncover a network of cupboards that each open into a different, fantastical world. bringing with them a battle with the undying witch-queen, Nimiane. When one door opens, two boys tumble through. Their great-aunt has been playing with forces beyond her control, using her lightning-tree forest to create doors to other worlds. When her father tells them they’ve inherited a house from their great-aunt, Hyacinth sees trouble brewing. Hyacinth Smith can see things that others miss, stop attack dogs from attacking, and grow trees where no trees have grown before. When Hyacinth finds an unusual door, two boys in search of vengeance, and a witch intent on destroying the world, the ultimate battle of good vs. Open the cupboard door to this action-packed fantasy that will take readers to the very beginning of the bestselling 100 Cupboards series ! ![]()
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Sister outsider by audre lorde5/19/2023 ![]() ![]() These landmark writings are, in Lorde’s own words, a call to “never close our eyes to the terror, to the chaos which is Black which is creative which is female which is dark which is rejected which is messy which is. This commemorative edition includes a new foreword by Lorde-scholar and poet Cheryl Clarke, who celebrates the ways in which Lorde’s philosophies resonate more than twenty years after they were first published. This collection, now considered a classic volume of Lorde's most influential works of non-fiction. Her prose is incisive, unflinching, and lyrical, reflecting struggle but ultimately offering messages of hope. Sister Outsider: Essays and Speeches is a collection of essential essays and speeches written by Audre Lorde, a writer who focuses on the particulars of her identity: Black woman, lesbian, poet, activist, cancer survivor, mother, and feminist. In this charged collection of fifteen essays and speeches, Lorde takes on sexism, racism, ageism, homophobia, and class, and propounds social difference as a vehicle for action and change. “ works will be important to those truly interested in growing up sensitive, intelligent, and aware.”– The New York Times ![]() Presenting the essential writings of black lesbian poet and feminist writer Audre Lorde, Sister Outsider celebrates an influential voice in twentieth-century literature. ![]() |