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Money & Business

Exploring career mentoring and coaching

...et al. (2021) found the literature on self-awareness ‘characterized by multiple definitions’, rarely recognising ‘the complexity of the construct’, and frequently confusing self-awareness with concepts such as self-consciousness and self-knowledge. Following detailed analysis, they offer the following definition: Self-awareness consists of a range of components,...
Cell signalling
Science, Maths & Technology

Cell signalling

...et al., 1995.) Molecular switches can be a lot more sophisticated than a single on/off function. A protein can be phosphorylated at multiple sites, which may have different effects on its activity. Integrate many different signals such that the signalling outcome is determined by the summation of signalling inputs. Therefore, they behave as specific signal
Level 3: Advanced 12 hrs
Animals at the extremes: polar biology
Nature & Environment

Animals at the extremes: polar biology

...et al., 1985). All the animals had continuous, unrestricted access to forage but, as shown on Figure 3, the Svalbard reindeer ate three times as much food in August as in March. [Figure 3] Figure 3 Seasonal changes in the voluntary food intake (in grams per kg body mass per day) of Norwegian reindeer (blue) and Svalbard reindeer (red) with unrestricted access to food....
Continuing classical Latin
History & The Arts

Continuing classical Latin

...et insidias Arrius hinsidias, Et tum mirifice sperabat se esse locutum Cum quantum poterat dixerat hinsidias. ‘Arrius used to say hadvantages, when he meant to say advantages, and hambushes when he wanted to say ambushes. He would think that he had spoken splendidly, when he had said hambushes as loud as he could.’ Arrius spoke a variety of Latin which had lost h- at...
Level 2: Intermediate 4 hrs
Assessment in secondary science
Education & Development

Assessment in secondary science

...et al., 2004, p. 10) that such assessment becomes assessment for learning. Assess the effectiveness of their teaching. As well as assessing students’ learning, teachers must also assess their own actions. Assessment provides evidence about the effectiveness of the decisions that teachers take, so that they can modify their actions accordingly. Assessing students’...
Assessment in secondary mathematics
Education & Development

Assessment in secondary mathematics

...et al. (2003) established that formative assessment can make a huge difference to students’ attainment as well as to their attitudes towards learning. This course will ask you to question what it means to make progress in mathematics, to consider what and how to assess, and to challenge assumptions about assessment. Most importantly, you will learn how to use assessment...
Diagramming for development 2: exploring interrelationships
Digital & Computing

Diagramming for development 2: exploring interrelationships

...axes and pesticides against a rapidly advancing and thirsty enemy: the alien trees, shrubs and aquatic plants that thrive in South Africa’s mountains. These invasive non-native plants have infested 8% of this semi-arid country. In addition to depriving South Africans of needed water, these plants obstruct rivers, exacerbate the risk and damage of wildfires and floods,...
Changing cities
Society, Politics & Law

Changing cities

...significant things should be observed, analysed and explained to others (see Pryke et al., 2003). Of course, there are different ways of thinking about theory itself. For many researchers and thinkers, ‘theory’ is not simply a set of operations and assumptions that are brought to an exterior reality, as if from beyond. Working with theory, couching new theories or modifying received theory are all seen as practices: they ......
Level 3: Advanced 15 hrs