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Impact of Visual Simulations in Statistics: The Role of Interactive Visualiza…
Glena Iten investigates the impact of interactive visual simulations on conceptual understanding of statistical principles. Overall, all students were able to increase their knowledge by working with visual simulations, whereas students who could manipulate statistical graphs in the simulation on their own were significantly faster. Currently, interactive learning tools explaining statistical c…
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- 1
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- 978-3-658-08334-2
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- IX, 48
- Series Title
- BestMasters
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- 150 ITE i
Inequality in School Discipline: Research and Practice to Reduce Disparities
This edited volume fills a critical void by providing the most current and authoritative information on what is known about disciplinary disparities. School exclusion—out-of-school suspension and expulsion in particular—remains a substantial component of discipline in our nation’s schools, and those consequences continue to fall disproportionally on certain groups of learners. The negativ…
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- 1
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- 978-1-137-51256-7
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- XXI, 285
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- -
- Call Number
- 150 INE
Planetary Vistas: The Landscapes of Other Worlds
The word “landscape” can mean picture as well as natural scenery. Recent advances in space exploration imaging have allowed us to now have landscapes never before possible, and this book collects some of the greatest views and vistas of Mars, Venus’s Titan, Io and more in their full glory, with background information to put into context the foreign landforms of our Solar System. Here, lit…
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- 1
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- 978-3-319-15242-4
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- XI, 185
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- -
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- 133.53 MUR p
Politics in Socrates' Alcibiades: A Philosophical Account of Plato’s Dialog…
This volume provides the first full, political and philosophically rigorous account of Plato’s dialogue Alcibiades Major. The book argues that Alcibiades Major accomplishes its goal, which is to redirect Alcibiades’ political ambitions, not by arguing for specific propositions based on specific premises. The dialogue accomplishes its goal by generalizing the notion of argument to include ap…
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- 1
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- 978-3-319-15269-1
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- XI, 143
- Series Title
- SpringerBriefs in Philosophy
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- 160 ARC p
Positive Psychology Perspectives on Foreign Language Learning and Teaching
This book introduces readers to the principles of a fairly new branch of psychology – positive psychology – and demonstrates how they can be applied in the context of second language acquisition in a natural environment and in instructed foreign language (FL) learning. It focuses both on the well-being and success of the learner and the professional and personal well-being of the teacher. F…
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- 1
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- 978-3-319-32954-3
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- XX, 366
- Series Title
- Second Language Learning and Teaching
- Call Number
- 150.198 GAB p
Posttraumatic Stress Disorder and Related Diseases in Combat Veterans
This book takes a case-based approach to addressing the challenges psychiatrists and other clinicians face when working with American combat veterans after their return from a war zone. Written by experts, the book concentrates on a wide variety of concerns associated with posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD), including different treatments of PTSD. The text also looks at PTSD comorbidities, s…
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- 1
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- 978-3-319-22985-0
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- XVIII, 373
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- -
- Call Number
- 155.9042 RIT p
Pains and Gains of Ethnic Multilingual Learners in China : An Ethnographic Ca…
This book introduces an ethnographic case study of two English majors of ethnic minority at YUN, a local university of nationalities in southwest China. Drawing on the theories of post-structuralism and critical multiculturalism, this book mainly studies two female multilingual individuals in Yunnan, China. By scrutinizing university policies, curriculum, personal learning histories, and by dis…
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- 1
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- 978-981-10-0661-6
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- XXV, 202 halaman
- Series Title
- Multilingual Education
- Call Number
- 404.2 WAN p
Reading Fluency: Current Insights from Neurocognitive Research and Interventi…
The book is dedicated to the blessed memory of Prof. Zvia Breznitz, whose groundbreaking research has made a tremendous impact on the understanding of fluency in reading. The book presents a multidimensional perspective of recent research and reviews on fluency in reading. The first part presents recent brain-imaging findings from studies into the neurobiological basis of reading, as well as co…
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- 1
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- 978-3-319-30478-6
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- XV, 161
- Series Title
- Literacy Studies
- Call Number
- 407
Absolute Clauses in English from the Systemic Functional Perspective: A Corpu…
This book focuses on the structural diversity, semantic variability, case choice, stylistic characteristics and diachronic distribution of English absolute clauses. The syntactic roles assumed by absolute clauses in the traditional sense can be categorized into clausal adjuncts, attendant circumstances and appositives. These three types of function correspond to the three hypotactic expansions …
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- Ed. 1
- ISBN/ISSN
- 978-3-662-46367-3
- Collation
- XX, 178
- Series Title
- The M.A.K. Halliday Library Functional Linguistics Series
- Call Number
- 400 HEQ a
Reasonableness and Effectiveness in Argumentative Discourse: Fifty Contributi…
This volume presents 50 contributions on the themes of reasonableness and effectiveness and their connections, which are central issues in argumentation theory. It discusses van Eemeren’s views on the study of argumentation; the approach to argumentation adopted in pragma-dialectics; pragma-dialectical perspectives on the dialectical and pragmatic dimensions of argumentative discourse; the no…
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- 1
- ISBN/ISSN
- 978-3-319-20955-5
- Collation
- XXIV, 904
- Series Title
- Argumentation Library
- Call Number
- 400
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