On Educational Excellence

Essays on Teaching Excellence

The Power of Metaphor As human communicators, we unconsciously use metaphor as a tool that helps us make sense of reality. Metaphors serve as filters for our perceptions, providing a kind of framework within which we interpret our experiences and assign meaning to them. When filters work negatively or inaccurately, they may delete or distort information or cause us to make false generalizations...

Spotlight on Excellence in Research

Notes on quasiminimality and excellence

Zilber proposes [62] to prove ‘canonicity results for pseudo-analytic’ structures. Informally, ‘canonical’ means ‘the theory of the structure in a suitable possibly infinitary language (see Section 2) has one model in each uncountable power’ while ‘pseudoanalytic’ means ‘the model of power 2א0 can be taken as a reduct of an expansion of the complex numbers by analytic functions’. This program i...

the effect of self-confidence and educational motivation on oral translation quality

this thesis is about the effect of self-confidence and educational motivation on oral translation quality.

A Nation At Risk: The Imperative for Educational Reform, Report by The National Commission on Excellence in Education