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Showing 1 to 19 of 19 for “"Self instruction"”.
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Teach Yourself? Language Learning through Self-Instruction Manuals in Nineteenth-Century Scandinavia
To learn a foreign language from a self-instruction manual (teach-yourself book) is not as easy as the publishers will have us believe. Despite this, the genre has endured for many centuries. This thesis argues that the robustness of self-instruction language manuals is due to their ability to …
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Development and Evaluation of a Program for Self-Instruction in Speech Organization
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Development and evaluation of a self-instruction method for analysing spatial information
… A postal opinion survey confirmed that a self-instruction programme for map reading (MapTrix, Innes, 2001) is effective. Using the test-intervention-test method, the importance of mathematics instruction for improving map analysis is recognised.
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Self-Monitoring of Blood Glucose: A Comparison of Diabetes Educator Instruction Versus Self-instruction
Over the past decade, self-monitoring of blood glucose (SMBG) has become an increasingly important and widely accepted part of diabetes management (American Diabetes Association, 1985; Consensus Statement on SMGB, 1987; Wing, Epstein, Nowalk, Scott & Koeske, 1985; Wysocki, 1988). It is an important …
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Independent Study of German and Spanish in High School: An Experiment in Individualized Self-Instruction
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The effect of cognitive self instruction-based career and life planning group treatment on perception of locus of control
… was to investigate the effects of a cognitive self instruction-based career and life planning group intervention on the perception of locus of control. The null hypotheses pertained to the differences in perception of locus of control between treatment and control groups as measured by the …
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The use of self-instruction with multiple exemplars to teach generalized problem-solving to individuals with severe mental retardation
… severe mental retardation could learn to use self-instruction in combination with multiple exemplars to produce a generalized problem-solving response. Specifically, four residents of a group home who had severe mental retardation were taught to use the problem-solving strategy to solve …
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Library instruction in a community college: a study to determine the comparative effectiveness of classroom teaching and a video self-instruction unit for developmental and degree-program students
… within a one-class-period time frame by a video self-instruction unit or by classroom teaching. The experiment also considered the comparative effectiveness of both modes of instruction when used in groups of developmental and degree-program students. The study was conducted at a multi-campus …
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Equivalence-based instruction for a critical thinking skill
… skills can be time consuming. Equivalence-based instruction reliably yields rapid and efficient acquisition of a variety of academic skills. The ability to identify logical fallacies was selected as a subset of critical thinking skills and compared across 30 college undergraduates who received …
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What happens when fourth graders use learning profiles to direct their learning?
… student interest surveys, student talk, and a self esteem scale. Data was analyzed, triangulated, and informed by Katherine Schultz's (2003) listening framework. The students determined how they were going to learn about government in social studies and then how they were going to show what …
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Reduction of fear of the dark in young children
… of relaxation, reinforcement, and cognitive self-instruction on the reduction of severe nighttime fears in six children. Children with persistent fears of the dark, which resulted in disruption of their families' nighttime routine, and their parents participated in a five-week program …
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The self-help of composition: Peter Elbow's "Writing without Teachers", composition studies, and the extracurriculum
… Composition Studies and classroom-based writing instruction is indisputable, yet the central message of the book has been continually sidestepped. At the heart of Elbow's book is an inherent contradiction to classroom instruction: the original impetus for the book was based on self-instruction, …
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Choice in Teachers' Inservice : Effects on Learning and Attitude
… strategy on the teacher's attitude toward the instructional experience and the knowledye gained. Procedures. A control group (53) was assigned to one of three instructianal treatment strategies while the experimental group (89) was given a choice. The three instructional treatment strategies …
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The Effect of Coping Verses Mastery Models on the Level of Self-Efficacy for Self-Regulated Music Learning, Self-Efficacy for Classical Guitar Playing and Guitar Achievement for Undergraduate Non-Music Majors
… of learning via mastery versus coping models on self-efficacy for self-regulated music learning, self-efficacy for classical guitar performance, and achievement in classical guitar performance. A secondary purpose of this study addressed the extent to which these three variables were correlated. …
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Indoor plants, identification and culture
A self-instructiona1 kit identifying seventy-three indoor plants, their cultural requirements, and uses was prepared. The kit consisted of seventy-eight slides of the plant material and a forty-fife minute taped narration. The botanical and common names of each plant along with its moisture, …
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A comparative study of the efficacy of teaching elementary German by the PSI method on the college level
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Teaching Graphing Using Enhanced Written Instructions: Does Chunk Size Matter
… can be taught using various methods, perhaps self-training methods could prove both effective and efficient due to the self-guided nature of the methods. One effective self-training method for graphing is enhanced written instructions (EWI). While the literature has demonstrated EWI’s …
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The Informal as a Project: Self-Help Housing in Peru, 1954-1986
This dissertation examines the history of aided self-help housing through the case study of Peru, which was the site of significant experiments in this field, and pioneering in its efforts to enact a large-scale policy of land tenure regularization in unplanned settlements. As the sheer scale of …