{"product_id":"linking-competence-to-opportunities-to-xiufeng-liu-9781402099106","title":"Linking Competence to Opportunities to Learn: Models of Competence and Data Mining","description":"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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Xiufeng Liu\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 140209910X\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781402099106\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Springer\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 05\/15\/2009\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 140\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.86lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.21h x 6.14w x 0.38d","brand":"Xiufeng Liu","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":47424320471295,"sku":"9781402099106","price":109.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_c26b6320-9db6-4eef-a64a-cd2179825852.jpg?v=1761529553","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/linking-competence-to-opportunities-to-xiufeng-liu-9781402099106","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}