Academies of Inquiry and Talent Development at the Middle and High School Levels1
This article summarizes research on various aspects of the Schoolwide Enrichment Triad Model and research on eight categorical components of the model carried out over the past 20 years will be presented. These components include: the effectiveness of the model, creative productivity, personal and social development, unhabits, and perhaps most important, love of learning and desire to continue to pursue creative productive work in the future.
The Impact of Response to Intervention in a High School Mathematics Setting
The purpose of this thesis is to examine the impact of response to intervention (RTI) in a high school mathematics setting. A major concern in the literature related to the fact that majority of RTI research focused on students at the elementary level and in reading. Therefore in this study RTI was implemented in a high school mathematics classroom and the effects were analyzed. This study is focused on a sample of ninth and tenth grade students from two classes and taught by one teacher in the same high school in an action research setting. Quantitative and qualitative methods of data were collected using documents/artifacts, observations, surveys and interviews. The data was analyzed using both descriptive statistics and the constant comparative method. Validating the results of this study included member checking, pilot testing and triangulation. Over a six-week data collection period, themes were noted that included how Tier 2 interventions are implemented in a high school mathematics setting as well as students’ perceptions of these Tier 2 interventions. The researcher found three limitations including limited access, measures used to collect data as well as a small sample size. Additionally, the research recommended three implications of practice. These implications included that the teacher of the interventions outside of the regular education classroom should be a different teacher then the teacher in the regular education classroom, interventions outside of the regular education classroom should be kept to a smaller group of students, and finally, there should be a high frequency of Tier 2 interventions made inside the regular education classroom. The Impact of Response to Intervention in a High School Mathematics Setting 2
Numerical Simulation of Thermal Sensitivity for Explosives
In order to compare the thermal sensitivity of several typical explosives, this article solved numerically one-dimensional transient heat conduction equation including thermal decomposition for explosives with finite difference method. The explicit difference equations under different boundary conditions were established, and the corresponding stability criterion was derived. The ignition times for typical explosives were calculated, which was used to evaluate thermal sensitivity of explosives.