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Developing Reading for Pleasure: engaging young readers Badge icon
Education & Development

Developing Reading for Pleasure: engaging young readers

...et al., 2017). It stands to reason that children who enjoy reading tend to read more and thus become better at reading, yet choosing to read also impacts on children’s wider educational attainment. For example, Reading for Pleasure is positively associated with comprehension, grammar and wider vocabulary (Sullivan and Brown, 2015). In addition, it was found in one study...
Electromagnetism: testing Coulomb’s law
Science, Maths & Technology

Electromagnetism: testing Coulomb’s law

...axes ( x , y and z ) pointing outwards from an origin. The unit vectors pointing in the directions of these axes are denoted by bold e sub x , bold e sub y and bold e sub z . It is conventional to use a right-handed coordinate system, as described by the right-hand rule. Start by pointing the fingers of your right hand in the direction of the x -axis (indicated by the...
Exploring health: is your lifestyle really to blame?
Health, Sports & Psychology

Exploring health: is your lifestyle really to blame?

...et al., 2018)...Exploring health: is your lifestyle really to blame?: 3 Benefits of the Body Mass Index - Quantitative research is particularly useful for studying whole populations and identifying general trends and relationships because it makes use of statistical data. The results of large-scale, quantitative studies are frequently summarised in documents like...
Discovering disorder: young people and delinquency
Society, Politics & Law

Discovering disorder: young people and delinquency

...et al. (2013) surveyed prisoners and found that those who were re-offenders (who have offended more than once) scored more highly on the P scale and were lower on the E and N scale compared to those who were first-time offenders. Boduszek et al. (2013) found that violent offenders scored more highly on the P scale. These studies seem to suggest there is some evidence that...
Wildfires: environmental and social entanglements
Society, Politics & Law

Wildfires: environmental and social entanglements

...et al., 2012). The first fire started on the 27 June 2007 and the final fire was extinguished in early September 2007. The fires burnt through dry forests and vegetation, often moving quickly through the landscape (Athanaiou and Xanthopoulos, 2010). [Described image] Figure 2: A wildfire threatening the village of Podstrana, near the Adriatic coastal town of Split,...
Compassion and care: staff experiences of death, the role of bereavement policies in higher education
Health, Sports & Psychology

Compassion and care: staff experiences of death, the role of bereavement policies in higher education

...et al., 2017). It sets out ‘Employment quality’ and ‘Work-life balance’ as two of the aspects of ‘good work’. As part of creating healthy workspaces, employers who are aware of the strains everyday life can place upon their paid employees can help by establishing clear policies for how common stressful situations may be contractually handled by the employer....
What are your views about technologies to support and assess writing skills?
Education & Development

What are your views about technologies to support and assess writing skills?

...et al., 2009 Policies and educational resources for reducing cases of academic malpractice, as well as increasing effective writing skills in digital contexts, are critical for educational institutions, the publishing industry and the media. A key issue is how to prevent fraud, especially copyright violations, in order to ensure quality assurance with integrity. To foster...
The challenge of invasive alien species
Nature & Environment

The challenge of invasive alien species

...et al. (2011) Invasion triangle: an organisational framework for species invasion. Ecology and Evolution 1(4): 610-625]. This shows invasion as being dependent upon three characteristics: (1) attributes of the potential invader i.e. how competitive the invader is; (2) biotic characteristics of the potentially invaded site; i.e. describing how vulnerable the site is for...