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Biological, psychological and social complexities in childhood development
Health, Sports & Psychology

Biological, psychological and social complexities in childhood development

...determine whether a person has asthma, the results of which are not based on the person’s symptoms, for example, tests to measure lung function or evidence of inflammation’ (National Institute for Health and Care Excellence, 2020). 3. Why should symptoms alone not be used as an objective test? Discussion Symptoms alone should not be used to diagnose asthma as they...
Conversations and interviews
Money & Business

Conversations and interviews

...determined to win arguments. So whenever I wanted to suggest a new idea to him, I’d find out when he would be on his way to a meeting and I’d ‘chance’ to bump into him in the corridor. ‘Oh George,’ I’d say, ‘I know you haven’t the time to talk now but I’m thinking of doing xyz;’ (I’d mention some sort of new plan;) ‘could we talk about it...
Level 2: Intermediate 5 hrs
Reading evidence
Society, Politics & Law

Reading evidence

...determine how they are used. Sets of numerical data can be presented in many ways, as tables, bar charts, pie charts or line graphs. These are just different ways of trying to represent or make a picture of numbers. Which is used is largely a matter of which best shows the features the person presenting the information is most interested in. When reading numbers or...
Level 1: Introductory 12 hrs
Diagrams, charts and graphs
Science, Maths & Technology

Diagrams, charts and graphs

...determine how quickly a cup of tea cooled down. Time/mins 0 5 10 15 20 25 30 35 40 45 50 Temperature/°C 85 78 55 50 46 40 35 30 25 24 23 Tables can be laid out vertically (as in the nutrition panel) or horizontally (as in the tea experiment). Each column or row heading should indicate what is being measured and the unit of measurement. (Columns are vertical; rows are...
Level 1: Introductory 5 hrs
Why are nonhuman animals victims of harm?
Society, Politics & Law

Why are nonhuman animals victims of harm?

...determine within some thematic area what may be said, by whom, in what context, and with what effects’ (Gordon, 2002, p. xvi). When it comes to ‘utterances’, this means more than just spoken or written language. With that in mind, discourse can be defined as an authoritative system of communication, encompassing language, images and symbols, about a specific...
Teaching assistants: support in action
Education & Development

Teaching assistants: support in action

...determined by children’s reactions to the adults who work with them. Teaching is not something that can be done ‘to’ children. In order to be successful, it is an act that needs their involvement – something that is done ‘with’ them. Children are therefore always agents in the teaching enterprise because they have influence over whether or not teaching...
People-centred designing
Science, Maths & Technology

People-centred designing

...determine what the average values are, it is quite difficult to find individuals who are average in more than just a few of these. An experiment conducted in the United States of America illustrates this point (Bailey, 1982). The averages of a large number of physical body dimensions such as standing height, arm length or chest circumference are already well known for US...
Level 1: Introductory 12 hrs
An introduction to leadership for school governors (Wales)
Education & Development

An introduction to leadership for school governors (Wales)

...determined at the individual school level. Schools should have clear, hierarchical leadership structures that might include deputy headteachers, assistant headteachers and chosen teaching and learning responsibilities (TLRs). The number of people involved in these formal and remunerated positions will depend on the size of the school and the chosen set-up that may have...