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Linking Competence to Opportunities to Learn

Models of Competence and Data Mining

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Editors:
  1. Xiufeng Liu

    1. Graduate School of Education, State University of New York at Buffalo, Buffalo, USA

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  • Links opportunities to learn to student competence status
  • Introduces a powerful new methodology – data mining, including tutorials
  • Contains easy-to-interpret graphical models of competence ea
  • Expands the concept of equity to include opportunity-to-learn
  • Promotes a collaborative partnership among teachers, schools, and parents in student learning

Part of the book series: Innovations in Science Education and Technology (ISET, volume 17)

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Table of contents (7 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-viii
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  2. Introduction Equity and Excellence in Standard-Based Education

    Pages 1-4

  3. Competence and Opportunity to Learn

    Pages 5-11

  4. Models of Competence and Data Mining

    Pages 13-18

  5. Models of Competence and Opportunities to Learn in the Classroom

    Pages 19-41

  6. Models of Competence and Opportunities to Learn at Home

    Pages 43-64

  7. Models of Competence and Opportunities to Learn in Schools

    Pages 65-81

  8. Pedagogical and Policy Implications

    Pages 83-88

  9. Back Matter

    Pages 89-140
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About this book

For many people, a high standard for student learning is desirable. This is what underlies current standard-based science education reforms around the world. As someone who was born and brought up in a less-privileged home and educated in a resource-limited school environment in a developing country, I always had to study hard to meet various standards from elementary to high school to univ- sity. My first book in English published over 10 years ago (Liu, X. [1996]. Mathematics and Science Curriculum Change in the People’s Republic of China. Lewiston, NY: The Edwin Mellen Press) provided me an opportunity to examine standards (i. e. , Chinese national science teaching syllabi) from a historical and political point of view. I argued that standards are developed for particular poli- cal agendas in order to maintain the privileged position of certain groups (i. e. , urban residents) in a society at expenses of others (i. e. , rural residents). Thus, underneath standards is systematic discrimination and injustice. Since then, I have had opportunities to study the issue of standards in much more breadth and depth. This book, Linking Competence to Opportunities to Learn: Models of Competence and data mining, provides me an opportunity to examine standards from a different perspective: opportunity to learn.

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  • Graduate School of Education, State University of New York at Buffalo, Buffalo, USA

    Xiufeng Liu

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