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I will be licensing some of the material on my website under the Creative Commons licence. You can can find out more about Creative Commons from their website:
creativecommons.org
There are several versions of this licence, but the version I have decided to adopt allows 'distribution and use' of the work providing it:
- has been attributed to Mike Wills Learning Services,
- has not been modified and
- will not be used for commercial purposes.
For more details of the licence I am using, please go to:
creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0
5 October 2016
Paired Comparisons is a decision making and prioritizing tool.
In addition to a description of the tool, and an example of its use, there is also an embedded program which will take out much of the hard work in using the tool.
View
15 September 2016
Now available for Mac OSX.
17 August 2016
From now on, the monthly version of my 2016 Almanac will no longer be published in my newsletter.
You can still view the 2016 Almanac on my website (mwls.com/resources/almanacs/2016.php).
11 August 2016
Instead of my newsletters being published on a regular, monthly basis, they will now be published when sufficient, relevant items are available for publication.
You can still get immediate notification of my news items by following me on Facebook (facebook.com/LearningPages) and twitter (twitter.com/LearningPages).
9 August 2016
Texts from schools to parents about tests and homework can boost secondary pupils' maths grades by the equivalent of a month in class.
Texting can also cut pupil absence, according to the Queen's University Belfast evaluation.
The programme involved 15,697 pupils in 29 schools across England, half of whose parents were sent texts. The pupils who took part in the study were from Year 7 - the first year of secondary school, Year 9 and Year 11 - the GCSE year. In each school, either the parents of the Year 11 group or the Year 7 and Year 9 groups were allocated to receive the texts.
The parents of about half the pupils involved in the trial were sent roughly one text a week during the school term, for a year starting in September 2014. Overall, the programme amounted to about 30 texts over the year.
They included the dates of tests and warnings about missed homework as well as details about what the children had learnt during the day, aiming to prompt conversations at home about school.
The researchers carried out baseline tests to determine pupils' abilities at the beginning of the year and used figures from the National Pupil Database to determine their progress.
The researchers found the effect of the intervention was not statistically significant in English and science.
20 July 2016
Getting everybody to work, one-to-one, with everyone else during the course of an event is one of those tasks which you think should be easy to arrange.
But when you try to work out the pairings, the combinations never quite seem to work out. Working out the combinations can be a bit tricky, but don't despair - this resource gives all the combinations for 3-24 people. More
19 July 2016
More than 100 prospective European students have withdrawn applications to study at Aberystwyth University following the European referendum result.
Prof John Grattan, acting vice-chancellor of Aberystwyth University, said about half of those pulled out the day after the Brexit vote - a stunning impact on our finances.
"I won't hide it from you that Brexit poses a challenge to the university," Prof Grattan told students during one of the graduation ceremonies this week.
There are 120,000 European students at British universities. For many universities, EU and international students are a large part of their income, with most paying between £10,000 and £15,000 a year in tuition fees.
Unfortunately, news reports abroad have led to articles disseminating the message that EU citizens are no longer welcome in the UK. Because of this all UK universities have said that prospective students that had accepted firm offers are now withdrawing them.
18 July 2016
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