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Students' Reactions to a "No Failure" Grading System and How They Informed Teacher Practice
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Corbett, Dick; Wilson, Bruce – Theory Into Practice, 2009
This article briefly describes the central tenets of a program several low-income middle schools implemented to remove failure as a choice students could make in completing their assignments. Instead of doling out Fs for poor and nonexistent work, teachers devised a variety of options students had to follow to demonstrate eventual mastery of…
Descriptors: Middle Schools, Grading, Student Reaction, Student Attitudes
Beyond Themselves: Students Work for Human Rights.
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Mayher, William S. – Social Education, 1985
How students and teachers in a private secondary school started a chapter of Amnesty International, the international human rights organization that received the 1977 Nobel Prize for Peace, is described. The many positive results of the experience are discussed. (RM)
Descriptors: Civil Liberties, High Schools, International Cooperation, International Organizations
jAMVLE, a New Integrated Molecular Visualization Learning Environment
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Bottomley, Steven; Chandler, David; Morgan, Eleanor; Helmerhorst, Erik – Biochemistry and Molecular Biology Education, 2006
A new computer-based molecular visualization tool has been developed for teaching, and learning, molecular structure. This java-based jmol Amalgamated Molecular Visualization Learning Environment (jAMVLE) is platform-independent, integrated, and interactive. It has an overall graphical user interface that is intuitive and easy to use. The…
Descriptors: Visualization, Educational Environment, Molecular Structure, Biotechnology