Florida's Class Size Amendment and Co-Teaching: An Uneasy Partnership

Statistics Teaching and the Textbook — an Uneasy Alliance

What is the textbook actually for? Does it meet the individual needs of learners in the course? How well does it contribute to students’ achievement of learning goals? University teachers of standard courses on the principles of statistics seem seldom to inquire at all deeply into these matters. Unless they do so, they may unwittingly erect discouraging obstacles for some learners – the unquest...

Information systems research and Hofstede's culture's consequences: an uneasy and incomplete partnership

Information systems (IS) researchers have begun to investigate how national culture, as articulated by Hofstede, affects a wide variety of issues. A citation analysis of IS articles that cite Hofstede’s research on national culture suggests that most research is focused on issues related to IS management and to IS, while issues related to IS development and operations and to IS usage remain rel...

Teaching about Water Relations in Plant Cells: An Uneasy Struggle

University students often struggle to understand the role of water in plant cells. In particular, osmosis and plasmolysis appear to be challenging topics. This study attempted to identify student difficulties (including misconceptions) concerning osmosis and plasmolysis and examined to what extent the difficulties could be revised during a plant physiology course. A questionnaire was developed ...

Patents and research--an uneasy alliance.

Critics of the patent system have argued that rather than promoting the progress of science and the useful arts, the patent system as it exists in the United States and perhaps elsewhere may actually inhibit such progress. Much of the criticism has been focused on patenting of research tools. The author attempts to evaluate the extent of this effect, and to suggest some possible modifications t...

Nursing and feminism: an uneasy alliance.