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Showing 1 to 20 of 38 for “"Cognitive Demand"”.
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An Investigation of Teachers’ Noticing, Cognitive Demand, and Mathematical Knowledge for Teaching: Video Reflections in an Elementary Mathematics Context
… the teachers’ levels of noticing, the levels of cognitive demand in their enacted tasks, and their levels of mathematical knowledge for teaching in two urban high-need low performing elementary schools. The 54 elementary teachers participated in a long-term mathematics professional development …
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An Examination of Pre-Service Mathematics Teachers' Integration of Technology into Instructional Activities Using a Cognitive Demand Perspective and Levels of Technology Implementation
… integrate technology. Specifically, the level of cognitive demands of the mathematics tasks in the technology activities: 1) created by pre-service teachers (PST) for an assignment in their elementary, middle level, and/or secondary mathematics methods course, and 2) created and used by secondary …
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Teacher Mathematics Language: Its Use in the Early Childhood Classroom and Relationship with Young Children's Learning
… language that is used, and the contributions of cognitive demand in teachers' mathematics talk on children's learning. The sample included 27 preschool teachers and 227 students. Archival data (gathered in 2008-2010) from the Early Mathematics Collaborative at Erikson Institute was used. This …
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Enhancing creativity in a general work environment : the role of problem-solving demand
Prior research suggests management can employ cognitively demanding job attributes to promote employee creativity. However, it is not clear what specific type of cognitive demand is particularly important for creativity, what processes underpin the relationship between demanding job conditions and …
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The representation of geometric concepts in Grade 6 Mathematics textbooks: a socio-cultural analysis
… exist in the text and what level of cognitive demand is required by the textbook tasks and activities. The initial structure for the research was derived from Valverde et al. (2002)'s methodology after which frameworks for the content analysis were developed for the distinction …
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Occupational Factors Affecting the Accommodative Response in the Human Vision System
… factors that may affect AMFs comprising of cognitive demand, visual fatigue and the type of digital display used. These effects were measured by assessing changes in the LFC, mid frequency component (MFC), HFC, and RMS accommodation. Analysis of chaos and the overall accommodative response …
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Occupational Factors Affecting the Accommodative Response in the Human Vision System
… factors that may affect AMFs comprising of cognitive demand, visual fatigue and the type of digital display used. These effects were measured by assessing changes in the LFC, mid frequency component (MFC), HFC, and RMS accommodation. Analysis of chaos and the overall accommodative response …
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The Influence of Question Sequencing Using Formative Assessment in Introductory Statistics
… of four course units and was assigned a level of cognitive demand. The primary goal of the study was to determine if the sequences of correct and incorrect responses that students provided on two formative assessments influenced their ability to answer a corresponding summative assessment question …
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Design Based Science and Higher Order Thinking
… with declarative, schematic, and strategic cognitive demand when in engaged in DBS activities. The purpose of this study was to determine what relationships exist between engagement in DBS and changes in students' depth of understanding of the science concepts associated with the development …
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A Quasi-Experimental Approach for Assessing Air Traffic Controller Workload
… Human Interface (CHI) and its effect on the cognitive effort and physical task requirements imposed on the controller. The various workload methodologies and techniques were reviewed for specific workload techniques applicable to the operational environment when resources, such as time and …
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A case study of student participation in discussion in an online higher education course
… situations is likely to be related to the cognitive demand and accessibility of discussion tasks that staff design and to the quality of teacher facilitation of discussion. These factors are likely to influence students' willingness to participate in online discussion and to encourage …
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Predicting teaching processes with the teacher perceiver interview
… Clarity, Variety, Individualization, Feedback, Cognitive Demand, Freedom and On-Task Activity. (Note: The writer tested all dimensions except Clarity, Feedback and Cognitive Demand.) Pearson Product-Moment Correlation Coefficients from .48 to .71 were registered between total TPI scores and each …
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Co-evolution of social relationships and cognition: a theoretical investigation
The cognitive demands of maintaining social relationships are argued to underlie apparent co-evolutionary patterns between various social traits and cognitive complexity. Presumably, this cognitive demand arises from some need to gather and process social cues but we have a poor understanding of …
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Individual differences in human-computer interaction
… (viii) an interaction between expertise and cognitive demand; and (ix) a stronger association between cognitive ability and novice performance than expert performance.
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Allocation of attention in EFL learners' oral performance across multiple task repetitions
… use (Bygate & Samuda, 2005). Besides this cognitive demand, the present study also reveals that learners’ attention may be affected by interlocutor familiarity, social, and cultural factors.
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Behavioral Mechanisms of Δ9-THC in Nonhuman Primates
… understanding of the reinforcing effects and cognitive consequences of Δ9-tetrahydrocannabinol (THC), the primary psychoactive constituent in marijuana, is critical for developing treatments in cannabis dependent patients. Despite the fact that marijuana is the most commonly abused illicit …
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An Exploration of the Effects of High-Stakes Examinations on the Teaching and Learning of Mathematics in Post-Primary Education in Ireland and Turkey.
… were classified according to the Levels of Cognitive Demand framework (Stein and Smith, 1998). This study shows that Turkish students have significantly higher levels of confidence in their mathematical ability and are less anxious than their Irish counterparts. Students in both countries …
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Anatomical and Functional Organization of Domain-General Brain Regions
… studies identified a domain-general or “multiple-demand” (MD) brain system co-activated accompanying many tasks and is hypothesised to play a central role in cognitive control. However, the limited spatial localization provided by traditional imaging methods precluded a consensus regarding its …
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The Relationship Between Phonological Short-Term Memory (pSTM) and Categorical Perception of Speech
… phoneme categories (categorical perception). The cognitive demand associated with categorisation depends on the degree of ambiguity in the signal, and on the perceptual acuity of the individual listener. Prior research suggests that phonological short-term memory (pSTM) capacity is, in part, …
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Into the Wild: Deploying Brain and Physiological Sensing in Natural Environments to Enhance Wake and Sleep Cognitive Behavioral Studies
… two experimental platforms for performing cognitive behavioral studies in natural settings: one for wake time and one for sleep. The equipment utilized today in behavioral and sleep labs is not very accessible, comfortable, portable, or simple to operate. The systems documented in this …
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