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Teaching Through Mnemonics in Elementary School Classrooms
<p>Mnemonics and songs are used to help students excel and build are their knowledge in all content areas. This method of teaching and reinforcement of information helps students to commit new information to memory and continue to use this material throughout their lives. Using mnemonics is a …
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Executive Functioning: The Selective Use of Mnemonics
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Mnemonics and Intralist Interference in Paired-Associate Learning
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Metamemory and Mnemonics: a Study of Elementary School Memory Strategies
… questionaire asked for examples of single use mnemonics, and a compendium of those mnemonics was included in this study. An adapted questionaire was given to fourth and fifth graders and their teachers to survey metamemory and familiarity with single use mnemonics.
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Designing Mnemonics Serious Games to Promote Knowledge Retention in Memory-Intensive Courses
… practice and long-term learning. Hence, a mnemonics game, based on the RADAR framework proposed by Oyibo, was implemented to foster knowledge retention. Fifty-two students, comprising an experimental group (n = 30) and a control group (n = 22), were recruited to undertake a study, which …
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Does a Keyword Mnemonics Intervention Have an Effect on the Components of the Working Memory System?
… It then examines the effects of Keyword Mnemonics intervention on the components of fourth graders' working memory systems by assessing each component individually both pre- and post-intervention. Pretest and posttest data from 55 fourth grade students (25 males; 30 females) was …
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The Use of Melodic and Rhythmic Mnemonics to Improve Memory and Recall in Elementary Students in the Content Areas
… to examine the effects of musical and rhythmic mnemonics to facilitate the recall of academic content in the K-5 classroom.</p> <p>A review of the literature indicates that memory and recall improve when lyric and song are integrated as a learning strategy. The literature also reveals that …
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Piano performance : strategies for score memorisation
… labelled MM, which draws on the use of music mnemonics. The technique is intended to help pianists retrieve relevant information as quickly and effectively as possible during the performance, therefore avoiding or minimising mistakes. Various types of music mnemonics which the author has …
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A map of this place: Memory and the afterlives of removal
… I rearticulate an emerging framework on “settler mnemonics” to identify the novelists and memoirists whose works I study as witnesses to disappearing history. Political scientist Kevin Bruyneel coins “settler mnemonics” to articulate how the US nation-state remembers its founding in Indigenous …
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Music as a Memory Enhancer in Healthy, Young Adults: An Event-Related Potential Investigation
Research examining the effectiveness of musical mnemonics as a memory enhancer has thus far been limited and somewhat contradictory. The present study was designed to add to this growing literature by establishing the benefit of music for memory in young adults (Experiment 1) and also to …
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Self-regulated strategy development: a cognitive strategies approach to persuasive writing
… Self-Regulated Strategy Development pairs mnemonics representing the parts of different genres of writing with self-talk statements used by the students to "think" through the writing process. The students in this study were introduced to these strategies through small group instruction …
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Anticipated retrospection: manifesting pastness in moving image, an art practice enquiry
… temporality sequentially within the spatial mnemonics of the cinema. The other, a multi-screen film and video installation, explores temporality in a non- cinematic space through the concurrent and disruptive. Both works show that experience of the material conditions of moving image has …
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A study of the computations done by grade 9 learners in a Western Cape high school when simplifying algebraic expressions involving the negative symbol
… others rely on idiosyncratic constructs like mnemonics or solution templates. Research in mathematics education highlights symbol sense and negative number concepts as persistent difficulties in learning algebra and categorises learners' errors, but it is wanting in explanations of learners' …
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From Manuscript to Multimedia: Illuminating Memory and Re[image]ning Composition
… simply being the practice of memorization or mnemonics, as it is conceived in current-traditional rhetoric, was an essential canon for multimodal composing and learning. Returning to the conceptual convergences identified earlier in my study, I argue, therefore, that the canon of memory needs …
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Death, writing, and remembrance in Anglo-Saxon England
… of his death) function as “textual relics” and mnemonics for Bede that enable postmortem prayer for his soul; and Chapter 4 demonstrates that the Beowulf-poet imagines heroic death in the familiar terms of text and inscription, mapping onto the legendary past the mechanisms of remembrance that …
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Hysteresis and urban rail : the effects of past urban rail on current residential and travel choices
… is plausibly explained by cultural effects--mnemonics--due to personal history, behavioral norms, and zoning/politics. Past access to rail has a stronger effect on density than on auto ownership. The daily choice of modes is almost entirely conditioned on current circumstances. Because places …
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Cognitive writing strategies
… this researcher to introduce writing strategies. Mnemonics were used to facilitate retention of components of the final product.</p> <p>The post writing sample was given to the 20 participants on March 11, 2003. The writing prompt was identical to the prompt given to the study group on October 14, …
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Exploring Best Practices in Developmental Mathematics
… assessments, technology supplements, the use of mnemonics and memorable wording, and manipulatives, visuals and real-life applications. When addressing the topic of acceleration, the participants reported that this strategy is a proper fit for some students but not all. The following conclusions …
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Statistical Tools for Linking Engine-Generated Malware to Its Engine
… the w-gram frequency vector (NFV) of the opcode mnemonics of an engine-generated malware in- stance as a feature vector for the instance. An NFV is a tuple that maps «-grams with their frequencies. The in-formation contained within the NFV of an engine-generated malware instance is then used to …
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An assessment of the effectiveness of the POW plus TREE and COPS writing strategies
… researcher encouraged the students to use the mnemonics to help them remember the key components to writing a well-written opinion essay. On various occasions, they were given two to three topics and would choose one to write their opinion. Their essays were read and strengths and weaknesses of …
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