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Assessment in secondary mathematics
Education & Development

Assessment in secondary mathematics

...multiplication always make numbers bigger?’ Identify explicitly how the three ideas above are examples of self- and peer assessment. Also, consider how they may offer the benefits that Dylan Wiliam indicates in the video. But it’s the teachers’ job! Many teachers find that their students say they do not like using peer and self-assessment, saying, for instance:...
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Level 3: Advanced 11 hrs
Extreme endurance performances – who, what and why?
Health, Sports & Psychology

Extreme endurance performances – who, what and why?

...multiple reasons, including finding out how far they can push themselves, or to deal with difficult times in their lives and overcome mental health challenges. Extreme endurance athletes may respond to pain differently or use different strategies to manage sensations of pain. They also exhibit high levels of mental toughness and resilience. This OpenLearn course is an...
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Level 1: Introductory 8 hrs
The MMR vaccine: public health, private fears
Health, Sports & Psychology

The MMR vaccine: public health, private fears

...multiplicity of interdependent variables – a situation which confounds many epidemiological studies. The main stance of the Department of Health has been that single vaccines expose children to the possibility of infection while waiting to complete the immunisation schedule. Fitzpatrick (2004) associates the momentum of the single-vaccines campaign with the Labour...
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Level 3: Advanced 20 hrs
From sound to meaning: hearing, speech and language
Health, Sports & Psychology

From sound to meaning: hearing, speech and language

...multiples of the fundamental (in acoustics in general, they are also called overtones or harmonics, but in relation to speech, they are always called formants). The relative strengths of the different formants determine the timbre or texture of the sound. [Figure 3] Courtesy of Daniel Nettle © Courtesy of Daniel Nettle Figure 3 Spectrogram of (a) a single note from a...
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Level 2: Intermediate 12 hrs
An introduction to data and information in health and social care
Health, Sports & Psychology

An introduction to data and information in health and social care

...multiple users, in different disciplines, to help the patient’s care, and make this process easier for those involved. In certain countries, Northern Ireland for example (see Figure 3), you are assigned a unique number – your health and care number – which is unique and individual to you, and means that your identity can be found across the many health and social...
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Level 1: Introductory 12 hrs
Business models in strategic management
Money & Business

Business models in strategic management

...multiple large hundreds of thousands of donors who are all giving us small monthly donations every month. So the most important donor to Shelter is an individual who gives us 3 pounds, five pounds, 10 pounds a month on an ongoing rolling basis. And that gives us a predictable source of independent income that we can use to achieve our purpose that is not dependent on what...
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Level 2: Intermediate 10 hrs
The gut microbiome: balancing the body
Science, Maths & Technology

The gut microbiome: balancing the body

...multiple health benefits, for both physical and mental health. Despite this, finding time and motivation to exercise can sometimes be challenging. While finding time for exercise may remain elusive, recent research has shown that the gut microbiome may actually play a role in increasing motivation. Certain metabolites made by the gut microbiome can relay signals to the...
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Level 1: Introductory 12 hrs
Learning from sport burnout and overtraining Badge icon
Health, Sports & Psychology

Learning from sport burnout and overtraining

...multiple sources and that recovery can take a while. Four of the main perspectives of burnout are: a perceived stress perspective an overtraining perspective a motivational perspective a social perspective. Burnout can be gauged using physiological (e.g. cortisol or heart rate variability) or questionnaire measures. The Athlete Burnout Questionnaire (Raedeke and Smith,...
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Level 2: Intermediate 24 hrs