Delving into Inquiry Learning in Teacher Education at the University of British Columbia

Inquiry into Teacher Education From: David Killingly

I welcome the inquiry into teacher training. I am an IT professional of 20 years standing, with the appropriate academic and professional qualifications. I have no involvement with or vested interest in the academic establishment, although I have had some exposure to this through the attainment of a Ph.D. in Molecular Genetics, my current candidature for a Master of Computing Studies, some year...

the effects of integrating cooperative learning into vocabulary learning of elementary school students

the purpose of the research is to examine if integrating cooperative learning into vocabulary learning helps to increase word recognition of students in an elementary school in iran. it tries to investigate whether cooperative learning approach enables students to improve their language learning. this research used stad (students team achievement division) as a cooperative model in this study. ...

The University of British Columbia at TAC 2008

In this paper we describe the University of British Columbia’s participation in the Text Analysis Conference 2008. This work represents our first submission to the DUC/TAC series of conferences, and we participated in both the summarization tasks: the main update task as well as the pilot task on summarizing blog opinions. We describe our systems in detail and describe our performance in the co...

The University of British Columbia Sessional Examinations

1. [10 points] Determine whether the following statements are true or false (you have to include proofs/counterexamples): (a) Let R be an integral domain, F – a free R-module of finite rank, and M – a torsion R-module. Then there is no injective homomorphism from F to M . Solution: True. Suppose there was an injective homomorpism φ : F → M . Then let N = φ(F ); N is a submodule of M , and there...

Integrating Inquiry-Based Learning into Agricultural Education