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Showing 1 to 20 of 24 for “"Attention Span"”.
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The link between routine diet, attention span and scholastic performance among grade 2 scholars in circuit one in Khomas region
… 2 scholars’ routine diet; ability for sustained attention within a classroom setting should their routine diet fail to adequately provide sustained glucose and scholastic performance that may result from attention deficits due to presumed poor quality of routine diet. The purpose of this study …
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Effortful Control, Attention and Executive Functioning in the Context of Autism Spectrum Disorder
… 2009, 2016) and is theorised to be related to attention and executive functioning (Rothbart & Rueda, 2005). This link is of particular interest, given that attention and executive function deficits are prominent in ASD (Craig et al., 2016; Lai et al., 2017; Sanders, Johnson, Garavan, Gill, & …
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Physical Exercise as Treatment for Hyperactivity in Children.
… non-goal-directed motor activity, short attention span, easy distractibility, impulsivity, and associated learning and behavioral problems (Satterfield, Cantwell, and Satterfield, 1974). The syndrome is observed early in life and is more common among boys. The child seldom completes a …
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Pintail : a travel companion for guided storytelling
… for storytelling that are aware of the short attention span of today's audience.
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Improving learner reaction, learning score, and knowledge retention through the chunking process in corporate training.
… into three 20-minute sessions to match adult attention span resulted in a statistically significant difference from training for 1-hour without chunking. The study utilized a repeated measures design, in which the same individuals in both the control group and experimental group took a …
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A Modular Flow for Rapid FPGA Design Implementation
… design to below the level at which the user's attention is lost. To do so, this flow focuses on enforcing modular design for both productivity and code reuse, while minimizing reliance on standard tools. This can be achieved by using a library of precompiled modules and associated meta-data to …
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A Descriptive Analysis of the Relationship of Reading Performance and Selected Characteristics of Pupils with Special Educational Needs
… employed parents, basic concepts, and auditory attention span for related syllables. The variables which correlated most highly with reading achievement were locus of control, number of languages spoken in the home, receptive language, and teacher ratings of spoken language and personal social …
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Tearing down classroom walls to address nature-deficit disorder
… perform better academically, have a longer attention span, interact easily with others and are generally healthier (Coyle, 2010). This dissertation investigated the advantages of outdoor learning and play, and its impact on the holistic development of Maltese children in the primary years. …
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Creating a Curriculum for Preschool Educators in Asia: How to Teach Kindergarteners Speaking and Listening Skills in English through Games
… 2006). So people are beginning to pay more attention to English education, especially early childhood English education. However, most Asian kindergarten teachers prefer to pay more attention to teaching English reading and writing skills, while ignoring the teaching and practices of English …
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Evaluating transformers as memory systems in reinforcement learning
… its capabilities, such as increasing the attention span, dynamically selecting the number of per-symbol processing steps and accelerating convergence. It remains unclear, however, whether combining these improvements could provide meaningful performance gains overall. This dissertation …
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Motivational Strategies and Student Participation
… require persistence. Capturing and holding the attention of students is a daily goal of many educators yet the shrinking attention span and decrease in motivation in the school setting makes teaching and learning more difficult each year. This study explores strategies to motivate students and …
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Analysis of Dark Patterns in UI/UX Elements of Digital Platforms
… of users on the internet is growing and the attention span of an internet user has reduced to 8 seconds, one of the challenges that digital businesses face is acquiring, engaging, and retaining users for their products/services. Some companies employ user interface elements on their websites …
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Capturing Residential Preference Changes through Perception Detections of Rationally Inattentive Decision Makers
… also introduces an empirical model of rational inattention discrete location choice based on latent preferences and attention span. This model contributes to explaining the heteroskedasticity of different demographics in decision-making. The proposed methodology is validated by comparing its …
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Computational recognition and comprehension of humor in the context of a general error investigation system
… engagement with narrative such as suspense, attention span length, attention density, and moments of insight. Variations in Expert parameters account for different senses of humor in individuals. This new scope of understanding allows Genesis to help authors search their narratives to …
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The emergence of social media discourse among Ghanainan University Students: implications for the acquisition or academic literacy
… and this directly results in limited time span and low attention span of students. Again, the study found that over engagement on social media discourse leads to a general breakdown in both sentence and discourse structure of academic writing resulting into uncontrolled deviant spellings, …
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Visual Communication of Key Concepts in Commercial Real Estate Analysis and Investment
… that suggest visual communication increases attention span, recognition, and memorization of ideas. While many other industries have books and articles with visual pedagogies in place, through analysis of the broader real estate development pedagogies, I found a lack of visual literacy in …
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Customer Choice Models in Emerging Retail Markets
… the users' impulsive behavior and limited attention span while browsing products in social media platforms. We consider a seller's product display problem on a product page and examine different strategies to sell through social media. We find that, depending on the product preferences and …
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O impacto da experimentação demonstrativa - investigativa no ensino de ciências no 6º ano do ensino fundamental II.
… most students presented better motivation and attention span during class, including students who did not participate during classes. At the start of the process, many students had difficulties in dealing with activities in the applied verification classes, but throughout the semester they …
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Identifying a weakness in the UK education system of supporting children with complex social, emotional and behavioural difficulties/ADHD - is government policy preventing effective inclusion for some pupils?
A short attention span, impulsivity, distractibility, and hyperactivity are characteristics that are commonly found in young children and sometimes in adults. These difficulties also meet the American Psychiatric Association diagnostic criteria for attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD). …
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Screen Time, How Much is Too Much? The Social and Emotional Costs of Technology on the Adolescent Brain
… skills or if it is hindering their progress and attention span. Whether adding technology at school is allowing students to be more connected, or if they feel forced to use technology. How is the additional technology affecting their brains? How is it affecting their social and emotional …
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