Albion College

About: Albion College is a education organization based out in Albion, Michigan, United States. It is known for research contribution in the topics: Population & Higher education. The organization has 485 authors who have published 754 publications receiving 20907 citations.

COATT: a state-wide initiative to evaluate and improve teacher technology education

Abstract: Like many other states, Michigan has recently instituted minimum technology standards for pre-service teachers. A group of teacher education institutions decided that that standard needed to be a baseline rather than an end goal. Together they formed the Consortium for Outstanding Achievement in Teaching with Technology (COATT), whose purpose is to set in place a formal process to recognize pre-service, and eventually in-service, teachers for going beyond the mandated standard. Here we discuss both the process of bringing the consortium together and the progress of our students as they applied for the M-COATT certificate. This article discusses the origins of the consortium, the evaluation process, the results of the first rounds of evaluation, and the possible future of the consortium.

Fruits, Seeds, and Seedlings

Abstract: Fruits, of which there are many different types, develop from the ovary wall of angiosperms. The mature ovary wall that becomes the fruit is called the pericarp. Fruits are classified based on pericarp characters such as dry vs. fleshy, whether or not they release seed upon maturity, and if the pericarp layers are papery, hard, or fleshy. Aggregate fruits are a collection of fused, individual fruits, and multiple fruits are a collection of fused flowers, each producing an individual fruit. Seeds are surrounded and protected by the seed coat, which is derived from the integuments of the ovule. The process of seed germination that completes the life cycle of so many plants takes different developmental routes depending on whether the cotyledons stay below ground or emerge above ground and whether plant is a eudicot or a monocot.

Direct measurement of the wigner function by photon-number-resolving detection

Abstract: We extended the seminal experiment of Banaszek et al. of quantum tomography by photon counting without Radon transform postprocessing to the more general case of photon fluxes with more than one photon per detection time.