It will come as no surprise that learning is said to be accomplished most effectively when it is "goal orientated, contextual, interesting, challenging, and interactive" (Quinn 2005a). The assessment of learning is inextricably linked to learning (Hargreaves 1997) and if education is to be successful it is crucial that the perspectives of learner, knowledge, assessment and community are aligned...

This edition of “Ask the Author” features a discussion with Andrew Martin, who is a professor of law and chair of the political science department at Washington University in St. Louis. Andrew has done some very influential work on the Supreme Court, including co-authoring a paper on ideological drift of Supreme Court Justices, see [1] here, that will appear in issue four of the Northwestern Un...

We show that in SU(3)C ⊗ SU(3)L ⊗ U(1)N (3-3-1) models embedded with a singlet scalar playing the role of the axion, after imposing scale invariance, dynamical symmetry breaking of Peccei-Quinn symmetry occurs through the one-loop effective potential for the singlet field. We, then, analyze the structure of spontaneous symmetry breaking by studying the new scalar potential for the model, and ve...

Positive organizational scholarship (POS) is a humanistic approach to the study of organizations, emphasizing the importance of subjectivity, intersubjectivity, and meaning at work (Cameron, Dutton, & Quinn, 2003 ). Relational coordination theory contributes to POS by o" ering a theory of coordination that makes visible the relational process underlying the technical process, arguing that coord...

We consider the problem of learning a Bayesian network structure given n examples and the prior probability based on maximizing the posterior probability. We propose an algorithm that runs in O(n log n) time and that addresses continuous variables and discrete variables without assuming any class of distribution. We prove that the decision is strongly consistent, i.e., correct with probability ...

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