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Supporting the Shift: Professional Development for Alternative Grading Practices
New Directions for Community Colleges, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Alternative grading (e.g., contract grading, ungrading, specifications grading) practices have emerged as a promising approach to enhance student success, improve students’ sense of belonging, and make higher education more accessible. This study explores the challenges faced by community college faculty when implementing alternative grading ...
Breana Bayraktar, J. Indigo Eriksen
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Corporate Social Responsibility and Environmental Management, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Green bonds play a central role in sustainable finance, yet concerns about greenwashing raise questions about the credibility of issuers' sustainability disclosures. Using dictionary‐based methods and domain‐specific BERT transformer models, this paper proposes two greenwashing alert metrics and investigates their performance by analyzing ...
Andrea Nicolodi +4 more
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Cahiers Balkaniques, 2014 The study focuses on geographical distribution of the emigration oriented to Walachia and Moldova in the South-Danubian region in 15-17th centuries, which was established based on vast prosopographic and anthroponymic research.
Lidia Cotovanu
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METHODS, APPROACHES, PRINCIPLES, GUIDELINES AND APPLICATIONS ON MULTILINGUAL ONTOLOGIES: A SURVEY
ICTACT Journal on Soft Computing, 2016 Ontologies are used in various domains to provide meaningful knowledge from data. The data can be in different natural languages. Ontologies with a lexical layer in different natural languages are needed essential to access the multilingual data by the users. Multilingual ontologies are needed to overcome this defect.
Ravi Lourdusamy, Joseph Merlin Florrence
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Internationalising the teacher education curriculum: An analysis of syllabi and student experiences
The Curriculum Journal, EarlyView.Abstract Internationalisation has increasingly become a key dimension of quality in initial teacher education (ITE) programmes. Although it is recognised as a means to strengthen future teachers' competencies and expand their professional knowledge, it remains underdeveloped in practice.
Nafsika Alexiadou, Mai Trang Vu
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Linguistic-Political Subsidiarity: a Look at South-Tyrol
Social Work and Society, 2007 With its economically and politically advantageous autonomy, the province of South-Tyrol (northern Italy) has developed a society in which multilingualism plays an ever more important role. As suggested in the present contribution, a solution to some
Hans Drumbl
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Languages, 2018 Monolingual French children have been observed to pass through a stage which is characterized by the production of target-deviant postverbal subjects of the following type (Jansen 2015, p. 272): est tombé Philippe ‘is fallen Philippe’ (
Laia Arnaus Gil, Natascha Müller
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Multilingual Legal Drafting, Translators’ Choices and the Principle of Lesser Evil [PDF]
Meta, 2014 Usually the quality of EU translations is not a prominent topic in the public sphere, and when it is brought up as an issue, it is mostly criticized in the context of its allegedly high costs and the apparently low quality. The critics, however, are often unaware of the motives behind the particular translation choices, which they perceive as awkward ...
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Perceived importance and didactic difficulty of chemistry education: Insights from Czech teachers
The Curriculum Journal, EarlyView.Abstract This empirical study examines how chemistry teachers in lower and upper secondary schools in the Czech Republic evaluate the content of the chemistry curriculum, focussing on its perceived importance and didactic difficulty. Based on a quantitative survey (N = 146), the study provides insight into the pedagogical content knowledge of ...
Jitka Lorenzová +6 more
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Reseptiivinen monikielisyys: miten suomenkielinen oppija ymmärtää viroa äidinkielensä pohjalta?
Lähivõrdlusi, 2010 The Council of Europe language policy recommends that all European citizens learn at least two foreign languages. If this is put to practice, the methods of endorsing learning and the required profi ciency need to be discussed.
Pirkko Muikku-Werner +1 more
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