The Supervision of Doctoral Dissertations Using a Collaborative Cohort Model

The Collaborative Cohort Model (CCM) for research supervision was developed and piloted as an alternative to the Apprentice Master Model (AMM), which is currently used with most doctoral dissertations. The CCM was developed in response to concerns about completion rates and the quality of research supervision. The feedback from the initial cohort of doctoral students who have experienced the model is presented.     

Urn Models and Kompeitoh: an Industrial Application

ZUSAMMENFASSUNG

The teaching of probability theory and statistics to engineering students should contain non-trivial real life examples of how randomness enters complex modelling. The present paper contains such an example in the form of the sugar-candy (Kompeitoh) process. It is shown how ideas from urn modelling are relevant. The final solution is a combination of analytic theory and simulation methodology.

Der Unterricht in Wahrscheinlichkeitstheorie und Statistik für Ingenieurstudenten soil nicht-triviale Beispiele aus dem wirklichen Leben enthalten und zeigen, wie der Zufall in komplexe Modelle einbezogen werden kann. Die vorliegende Arbeit enthält ein solches Beispiel in Form eines Kandiszuckers (Kompeitoh) Prozesses. Es wird gezeigt, wieweit das Urnenmodell hier angewendet werden kann. Die Lösung ist eine Kombination von analytischer Theorie und Simulationsmethodologie.     

Boys Performing English

This article explores the gender dynamics of boys' responses to one particular aspect of English teaching: oral performance work. It focuses on the possibility that the requirement to perform publicly in dramatic and other oral tasks may be an important factor in the rejection of English by many boys, and may contribute to boys' relatively poor achievement in English. The article provides a study of boys' engagement in English oral activities in two classrooms, and identifies a number of factors influencing boys' English learning. In particular, it shows that there is no simple relation between the performance requirements of English learning activities and boys' disengagement with English.     

Illustrated by Children

Art education has tended to omit illustration from any serious discussion in the curriculum. However, literacy educators now encourage the ‘reading’ of illustrations in picture books and scrutinise the relationship between word and image in child cognition. It is time art educators began to look at illustration seriously in the context of visual education.