Paper Chase Research Articles

A Paper Chase after the Aramaic on TCL 13 193

A Paper Chase after the Aramaic on TCL 13 193

Update on the paper chase

Update on the paper chase

Celluloid Ivy: Higher Education in the Movies, 1960-1990.

Because of their tremendous mass audience, Hollywood feature films help mold, shape, and direct popular beliefs and attitudes. They also serve as frozen pieces of time that preserve the concerns of the past. CELLULIOD IVY examines the portrayal of higher education in movies from 1960-1990, offering a fascinating view not only of how Americans gained their views of higher education and college life during this crucial period, but also of the fascinating tension between movie fantasy and the realities of life. From The Graduate to Revenge of the Nerds, from The Paper Chase to Educating Rita, the book delves into how movies treat the classroom, the extra-curricular, rites of passage, professors, romance, sports, alcohol and drugs, and sometimes, education itself. It offers some startling conclusions on how movies often reflect America's latent anti-intellectualism and how students can enter college with media-fed expectations for an experience different from what they encounter.

To Hell with Langdell!: [Commentary

Two decades ago, I took Professor Carrington's Civil Procedure course. It proved one of my most useful and interesting experiences in law school. I learned Civil Procedure and something about lawyering, often through the stories Professor Carrington told about practice. Among other reasons, I enjoyed Carrington's classes because I did not fear the Socratic method there. As I recall, he was no Kingsfield, Pilot Brown, or Cement Pants. Rather, Carrington often lectured. And though he did sometimes call on students, it was easy to avoid being questioned: one simply did not sit in one's assigned seat. As this tale may illustrate, I hate Langdell because of the association of his case method with the Socratic method. It almost seems unfair to saddle Langdell with the Socratic method because it makes him such a convenient whipping boy. But historically, the case method and Socratic dialogue have been partners. As Carrington says: Without classroom dialogue, the case method is a potential hero with no role to perform. As a law student, I thought I was alone in hating the Socratic method and in seeing law school as a jungle through which one proceeded warily, always anticipating a pouncing.' Though I never actually suffered a traumatic experience because of the Socratic method, I assumed I risked one daily. Even Professor Kingsfield's students in The Paper Chase seemed more comfortable with classroom dialogue. I thought there was something wrong with me because I lived in terror of a grilling. It turned out I had company. I felt a shock of recognition in my last year of law school when I happened on

Further education: paper chase.

Further education: paper chase.

Providing Service Quality to a Nation

Service quality in a monopolistic national welfare system? Who gains when improvements are made? Argues that ultimately the customer – every citizen – wins if system efficiencies allow the processes to be handled quicker, cheaper, and better. It cannot be in a nation’s interest to delay or overspend on money which it must first extract in taxes before reallocating as benefits. Britain’s benefits system entered life early, to the envy of much of the world. But early entrants in any environment suffer in maturity through inefficiencies, as their later peers start from a higher technological base. A recently published book by I. Fallon, The Paper Chase, records the £1.8 billion project undertaken by just one section of that system, Britain’s Department of Social Services, as it sought to streamline and improve the service it provides to its “customers” – who, even when the story begins in 1982, when the Department’s predecessor was using a very outdated manual system to pay out over £1 billion each week – numbered over 20 million people.

Health care paper chase, 1993: the cost to the nation, the states, and the District of Columbia.

The U.S. health care payment system is an elaborate and increasingly wasteful paper chase. This article presents new state-by-state estimates of health care administrative costs in the United States, and savings that could be realized with single-payer reform. In 1993, health care bureaucracy will consume 24.7 cents of every health care dollar, a total of $232.3 billion. Administration's share of health spending is up from 23.9 percent in 1987, and from 21.9 percent in 1983. Reducing the cost of administration to Canadian levels by adopting a single-payer health care system would cut U.S. health care bureaucracy by more than half (50.7 percent), saving at least $117.7 billion in 1993. The savings achievable with a single-payer system could fund universal access for the uninsured and improve benefits for the tens of millions of Americans who currently have only partial coverage, without any increase in overall health spending. Reform measures such as electronic billing, insurance industry consolidation, and increased competition (including "managed competition") would save little or nothing on administration. Only a single-payer reform that incorporates the "macro-management" approach to cost control, as in Canada, can achieve significant administrative savings.

Lateral nursing: the academic paper chase.

The problem with degree level education is that it asks participants to question the basis of what they are doing, argues Barry Clifton

The End of the Paper Chase: A Valedictory

The End of the Paper Chase: A Valedictory

‘A futile paper chase: Anglo‐American relations and middle east oil, 1918–34

‘A futile paper chase: Anglo‐American relations and middle east oil, 1918–34

Western Theories: Influence on and Relevance to Teacher Education and Educational Research Practices at the Institute of Education, Singapore

ABSTRACT A survey of a sample of teacher educators, most of whom received postgraduate training in Western countries, was conducted in order to ascertain the extent to which Western theories are adopted or adapted in teacher education and educational research practices at the Institute of Education. Theories were found to exert a considerable influence, especially in educational research. However, the conception of theories ranged from being rather vague or nebulous to more precise or scientific paradigms for explaining phenomena and predicting behaviour. By and large, Western theories were perceived as acceptable, with some modifications, especially in adjusting to Eastern culture and the Singaporean context. Two major differences between Western theories and Eastern thoughts were highlighted: (a) humility in learning from the teahcer as a respected authority is a virtue in the East and (b) there is a general preference for a more holistic and integrative approach to knowledge, rather than the compartmentalised and analytical approach often evident in Western theories. Three main factors which are likely to affect the adoption or adaptation of Western theories were identified: (a) “pragmatism” in accepting whatever works, together with the associated emphasis on “acclecticism”, (b) “multi-culturalism” in catering to the peculiar racial, religious and linguistic mix in Singapore's population, with the associated emphasis on “bilingualism”, and (c) “credentialism” in the preoccupation with the paper chase to the possible neglect of the intrinsic value and enjoyment in learning, together with the associated emphasis on “kiasuism”, a syndrome related to the fear of losing out. The paper concludes with a call for the combined effort of Eastern and Western scholars not only to study how Western theories could be made more relevant in Singapore but also to try to develop more indigenous theories based on Eastern thoughts and prevailing Singaporean beliefs and practices.

South African Black Teachers and the Academic Paper Chase

Abstract Teachers in South Africa are under great pressure from the state to improve their qualifications, one of the state's strategies for improving education standards. The pressure is felt more acutely by black teachers who were previously allowed to teach with lower qualifications than their white counterparts. In‐service teachers, irrespective of their age or length of experience, are required to obtain the school leavers’ certificate post hoc to earn a salary commensurate with their duties. Their duties are heavy: the pupil‐teacher ratio is about 45:1, and teachers teach between 42 and 50 periods a week, without many basic facilities. Consequently, many teachers are neglecting their pupils to concentrate on their studies. The call for qualifications can be viewed as a component of the South African state's reform initiative, and, as such, is yet another cosmetic amelioration of black people's status because it does not address their needs.

EDGAR: Will it be the end of the SEC's “paper chase”?

EDGAR: Will it be the end of the SEC's “paper chase”?

The Waste Land of Law School Fiction

Law schools generate controversy and initiate change. They attract the best and the brightest students.2 They have not, however, received the ultimate measure of recognition-the examination of institutional character through literary fiction. Novels about law school society can be counted on one hand-with a finger and thumb left over.3 They are John Osborn's The Paper Chase, 4 Katherine Roome's The Letter of the Law, 5 and Michael Levin's The Socratic Method. 6 None succeed as fiction.7 This review focuses on the way each writer uses style, plot, and

Paper chase.

Paper chase.

Paper Chase: Manuscript to Reprint

Abstract On 9 Mar. 1859, Alfred Russel Wallace dispatched a manuscript to Charles Darwin from the remote island of Ternate in the Moluccas. With his paper on species divergence, the young naturalist sent a request that, if the paper were judged to have merit, it should be passed on to Sir Charles Lyell, a leader in the English scientific establishment. When the paper arrived on 18 June, Darwin read it with dismay and distress (he had been preempted), but sent it the same day to Lyell, who also showed it to botanist Sir Joseph Dalton Hooker. The paper was read at the meeting of the Linnean Society of 1 July (along with some material of Darwin's) and appeared in print in the Journal of the Linnean Society the following month. Thus, 128 years ago, in the days of sailing ships and handset type, a manuscript sent from an obscure corner of the world took less than 6 months from manuscript to print and less than 3 months after arrival in England.

An end to the paper chase?

The automated office is becoming a reality but even some of the most sophisticated rely on paper documents for intercompany business. Electronic data interchange (EDI) looks set to change all that

Policing the paper chase

An Insider's Guide for Medical Authors & Editors. By Peter Morgan. ISI Press, Philadelphia/STM Distribution, Ashford, Middlesex: 1986. Pp. 111. Hbk $23.95, £20.50; pbk $14.95, £13.

Policing the paper chase

A Difficult Balance: Editorial Peer Review in Medicine. By Stephen Lock. Nuffield Provincial Hospitals Trust, London: 1985. Pp.172.

Research Communities, The White Paper Chase and a New Research Ecumenism

AbstractThe period when the British Educational Research Association (BERA) was founded was one in which there was an increasing recognition amongst the research community that a wind of change had stirred up the settled traditions of educational research. It was a time which celebrated the promise of alternative paradigms for research. Ten or so years on we are entering another era where the emphasis is not on the reconceptualisation of what research is but on how it is organised. I think one can discern at least two factors, not wholly separate from each other, that will increasingly influence how a substantial part of research will be organised. These two factors are the changes which have taken place in the composition of the research community and the direction of current Government policy concerning the school system. I aim to show how these are leading to a fruitful form of collaborative research at local level which should be encouraged and supported —not least by BERA.