Paper Title How Does Performance Evaluation Affect Teacher Motivation? Lessons From YES Prep Public Schools Claire Robertson-Kraft, University of Pennsylvania Author(s) Policy Issues Related to Teacher Evaluation Session Title Paper Session Type 4/16/2012 Presentation Date Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada Presentation Location Teacher Evaluation, Teacher Quality Descriptors Qualitative Meth...

Background and Objectives: In May 2003, the government of British Columbia adopted income-based pharmacare, replacing an age-based program. Stated policy goals included the reduction and reallocation of government spending. It was also hoped that income-based deductibles would increase consumer price sensitivity in decision-making. This analysis measured policy impacts on private and public exp...

Journal of Hypertension 2015, 33:727–735 Centre Hospitalier de l’Université de Montréal, Université de Montréal, Montréal, Québec, Simon Fraser University British Columbia, Bumbay, British Columbia, CHU Ste-Justine, Université de Montréal, Montréal, Médecine génétique, Université Laval, Ste-Foy, Québec, Centre of Genomics and Policy, Faculty of Medicine, Department of Human Genetics, McGill Uni...

Elina Hyppönen and Barbara J. Boucher British Journal of Nutrition / Volume 104 / Issue 03 / August 2010, pp 309 ­ 314 DOI: 10.1017/S0007114510002436, Published online: 02 July 2010 Link to this article: http://journals.cambridge.org/abstract_S0007114510002436 How to cite this article: Elina Hyppönen and Barbara J. Boucher (2010). Avoidance of vitamin D deficiency in pregnancy in the United Kin...

AbstractThe last thirty five years have created a challenging situation for Iran and its people: on the one hand, the discriminatory British and American policies towards the country have given rise to considerable bitterness; on the other, we continue to teach both British and American English. If Iranian people wish to play a more active role internationally, it is time to review our English ...

In the light of natural human interactions, this paper identi€es the lack of multimodality in current policy learning approaches for human-robot/human-computer interactions. Larger part of policies, trained for the navigation-based tasks are trained on using either textual or natural language inputs, which are unimodal. Œis paper suggests and formalises British Sign Language as an input to the ...

Class of 2006 Electrical Engineering How do people in power use history to shape current policy? How does current policy influence conceptions of history? Examining these questions, this paper addresses how British imperialists during the late 19th and early 20th centuries redefined their ideas about the classical Roman Empire to fit their (imperialist) ideologies, and how British imperial poli...

he Globalization and Monetary Policy Institute cosponsored a conference on “International Linkages in a Globalized World and Implications for Monetary Policy” with the School of International Business Administration at Shanghai University of Finance and Economics (SHUFE) and Shanghai Institute of Finance and Law. The event was held at SHUFE on June 21–22. The theme was the impact of globalizati...

This paper uses the 2010 Ethnic Minority British Election Study to look at the political attitudes of Muslims in Britain. It tests the relationship between political alienation and political participation on the one hand, and Islamophobia and disapproval of British military involvement in Afghanistan on the other. The principal findings are that perceptions of Islamophobia are linked to greater...