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Making space for expressive and creative writing in African primary Schools: a two-site action research study in Kenya and South Africa

Reading & Writing, 2011
Similar concerns about the development of children’s creative writing abilities in Kenya and South Africa prompted two Mother Tongue (MT) education practitioners in Summer Institute of Linguistics (SIL) and Molteno Institute for Language and Literacy of ...
Paula Gains, Barbara Graham
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Behavioural change interventions encouraging clinicians to reduce carbon emissions in clinical activity: a systematic review

BMC Health Services Research, 2023
Background Clinical activity accounts for 70–80% of the carbon footprint of healthcare. A critical component of reducing emissions is shifting clinical behaviour towards reducing, avoiding, or replacing carbon-intensive healthcare.
Carys Batcup, Matilde Breth-Petersen, Thomas Dakin, Alexandra Barratt, Forbes McGain, Ben R. Newell, Kristen Pickles   +6 more
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Responsive Teaching and the Instructional Reasoning of Expert Elementary Mathematics Teachers

Education Sciences, 2022
This study examines instructional reasoning in an approximation of practice that simulates a teacher sitting down after class to examine students’ written work.
Denise Lindstrom, Sarah Selmer
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Differences in health literacy domains among migrants and their descendants in Germany

Frontiers in Public Health, 2022
BackgroundHealth literacy (HL) is considered to be an important precondition for health. HL research often identifies migrants as vulnerable for low HL.
Eva-Maria Berens, Julia Klinger, Julia Klinger, Sarah Carol, Doris Schaeffer   +4 more
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Information Literacy, “New” Literacies, and Literacy

The Library Quarterly, 2009
Literacy was once thought to be well understood and well defined. However, it has been argued that the digital world has disrupted previous notions of literacy, supplanting them with “new” forms of literacies—first in various new literacy studies and now in the library and information science (LIS) scholarship as it applies to information literacy (IL).
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Information Literacy, Statistical Literacy, Data Literacy

IASSIST Quarterly, 2005
Information Literacy, Statistical Literacy, Data ...
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Improving South African third graders’ reading skills: Lessons learnt from the use of Guided Reading approach

South African Journal of Childhood Education, 2016
This professional development project, known as Literacy Leadership Project, enabled four Foundation Phase teachers in South Africa to implement the Guided Reading approach.
Mohlanhledi P. Makumbila, Charline B. Rowland   +1 more
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Impact of a Community-Controlled Adult Literacy Campaign on Crime and Justice Outcomes in Remote Australian Aboriginal Communities

International Journal for Crime, Justice and Social Democracy, 2022
Using qualitative self-reported and observational evidence combined with a quantitative breakdown of linked administrative justice system data, this before-and-after study demonstrates the beneficial impacts of a First Nations community-controlled adult ...
Jack Beetson, Pat Anderson, Sophia Lin, Frances Williamson, Rose Amazan, Bob Boughton, Stephen Morrell, Richard Taylor, Melanie Schwartz   +8 more
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Prediction of Myasthenia Gravis Worsening: A Machine Learning Algorithm Using Wearables and Patient‐Reported Measures

Annals of Clinical and Translational Neurology, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Background Myasthenia gravis (MG) is a rare disorder characterized by fluctuating muscle weakness with potential life‐threatening crises. Timely interventions may be delayed by limited access to care and fragmented documentation. Our objective was to develop predictive algorithms for MG deterioration using multimodal telemedicine data ...
Maike Stein, Haoqi Sun, Sophie Lehnerer, Lea Gerischer, Maximilian Mönch, Christian Meisel, Andreas Meisel, Pushpa Narayanaswami   +7 more
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An examination of the orthographic and phonological spelling knowledge observed in a sample of independent writing completed by 267 children with specific literacy difficulties

Frontiers in Education
This paper considers spelling in samples of writing collected in October 2019 (pre COVID-19) from 267 children in the 8–9 age range in 143 mainstream primary schools who were identified by their schools as presenting with the most severe specific ...
Sharon McMurray, Mary Morrow, Paula Bower   +2 more
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