Teacher education programs are tasked with the critical work of preparing educators to teach K-12 students content area knowledge and skills. Equipping these candidates with instructional strategies backed by decades of cognitive research before they enter the classroom is one route to ultimately foster student learning. This paper explores the experiences of 12 Western U.S. graduates regarding cognitive learning strategy instruction using a hermeneutic phenomenological study. Data collected through surveys, interviews, and a focus group led to the identification of themes about program instruction, common misunderstandings of cognitive science, and teacher readiness. Findings indicate limited integration across programs, creating a "theory-practice" gap where new teachers rely on intuition over scientific principles. These results highlight areas for improvement in supporting student learning outcomes.
This publication proposes a definition and a classification of agile software development approaches and analyses ten software development methods that can be characterized as being "agile" against the defined criterion.
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The study shows that agile practices improve both informal and formal communication, but indicates that, in larger development situations involving multiple external stakeholders, a mismatch of adequate communication mechanisms can sometimes even hinder the communication.
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The results indicate that software engineering work practices are chosen opportunistically, adapted and configured to provide value under the constrains imposed by the startup context.
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It is proved that any global minimizer of the trajectory balance objective can define a policy that samples exactly from the target distribution, and empirically demonstrate the benefits of the trajectories balance objective for GFlowNet convergence, diversity of generated samples, and robustness to long action sequenc...
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