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A Skills Gap Analysis of Farmer Directors of US Farmer Cooperatives

Agribusiness, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Boards of directors are vital to firm performance and are an integral part of the decision‐making process of any business. Several studies have been conducted that observe corporate or nonprofit board characteristics, skills, and the board's connection to firm performance.
Jody S. Herchenbach, Brian C. Briggeman, Jason S. Bergtold, Aleksan Shanoyan, Sarah A. Low, Brandi Miller   +5 more
wiley   +1 more source

Professional development for Indonesian elementary school teachers: Increased competency and sustainable teacher development programs [version 3; peer review: 2 approved, 1 approved with reservations]

F1000Research
Background Various problems, such as a shortage of teachers, especially in certain outlying and underdeveloped provinces, unequal distribution of teachers, low teacher competency, and mismatch between educational qualifications and scientific fields, as ...
Teguh Prasetyo, Megan Asri Humaira, Reza Rachmadtullah, Rohimi ZamZam, Fitriyani ., Diah Andika Sari, Muhammad Nurtanto, Rasmitadila ., Achmad Samsudin   +8 more
doaj   +1 more source

Too Complex to Choose? The Role of Heuristics in Shaping Farmers' Willingness to Pay for Income Stabilization Tool in Italy

Agribusiness, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT European agriculture is increasingly exposed to economic instability driven by extreme weather events, market volatility, and geopolitical tensions. To manage these growing risks, farmers are encouraged to adopt innovative risk management strategies such as the Income Stabilization Tool (IST), which offers protection against severe income ...
Alice Stiletto, Ruggiero Rippo, Samuele Trestini, Elisa Giampietri, Roberta Raffaelli, Simone Cerroni   +5 more
wiley   +1 more source

Preparing a pathway of professional development for teacher educators in the lifelong learning sector

, 2013
This paper offers an extension to ideas discussed in ‘Dealing with Change’Exley, 2010) which examined the transition of teacher to teacher educator in the Lifelong Learning Sector, and the possible creation of a recognised pathway, or pathways, for the ...
Ovenden-Hope, Tanya, Exley, Sue
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Is There a Market for Organic Milk in Serbia? Insights From Integrated Choice and Latent Variable Model

Agribusiness, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Past growth in the global organic market has been concentrated in high‐income countries, while in middle‐income countries such as Serbia the organic market remains nascent and characterized by a sparse assortment of organic products, high retail premia and limited evidence on consumer preferences and their drivers.
Milan Tatic, Sanja Dzever, Bojan Matkovski, Danilo Djokic   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Professional development in teacher education: (Vocational) teacher students’ descriptions

Scandinavian Journal of Vocations in Development
This article focuses on a learning objective, as part of a teacher education course at a Swedish university, where student teachers should be able to discuss their own professional development and identify further development needs. Since both research
Hamid Asghari, Nina Kilbrink, Anders E. Johansson   +2 more
doaj   +1 more source

The Perceptions of Beginning Secondary Teachers about their Professional Learning Experiences in the Solomon Islands Context

, 2011
This thesis was designed to investigate the professional learning experiences of beginning secondary teachers (BSTs) in the Solomon Islands context. The study sought to interpret and document the lived experiences of a cohort of BSTs who graduated from ...
Rodie, Patricia
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Large Language Model in Materials Science: Roles, Challenges, and Strategic Outlook

Advanced Intelligent Discovery, EarlyView.
Large language models (LLMs) are reshaping materials science. Acting as Oracle, Surrogate, Quant, and Arbiter, they now extract knowledge, predict properties, gauge risk, and steer decisions within a traceable loop. Overcoming data heterogeneity, hallucinations, and poor interpretability demands domain‐adapted models, cross‐modal data standards, and ...
Jinglan Zhang, Xinyi Chen, Xu Ye, Yulin Yang, Bin Ai   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source

Developing Experimental Competency in Pre-Service Physics Teachers with An Inquiry-Based Approach

Jurnal Pendidikan Fisika Indonesia
The study aims to show that an inquiry-based approach develops pre-service teachers' experimental competency. The static-group pretest-posttest design, an experimental quantitative analysis method, has been utilized.
Thanh Loan Nguyen, Van Bien Nguyen, Ngoc Chat Tran   +2 more
doaj   +1 more source

Continuing teacher education, professional development and mathematical knowledge in Childhood Education

Educação Matemática Debate, 2020
The article seeks to present the results of a research developed within the scope of a professional master's degree in Education, from a Brazilian federal university.
Denise França Stehling, Keli Cristina Conti   +1 more
doaj   +1 more source