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Showing 1 to 20 of 57 for “"Significant learning"”.
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Child-initiated literacy episodes: sites of significant learning in early education
… literacy episodes within the literacy-learning context of a particular Year One classroom. The aim of the case study was to identify and explore the elements, effects and outcomes of the literacy-learning context and the ensuing child-initiated literacy episodes that occurred. Data were …
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Exploring the Impacts of Learning Challenges for Children Not Yet Identified with a Learning Disability
Significant learning challenges can manifest years before children are often eligible to be diagnosed with a Learning Disability (LD). Without a formal diagnosis, many children are often limited in the resources and supports that may receive and critical opportunities for early intervention are …
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Las tecnologías de la información y la comunicación integradas en un modelo constructivista para la enseñanza de las ciencias
… perspective of Lev Vygotsky, the theory of significant learning of David Ausubel, and the approach of Teaching for Understanding, which emerges from the theory of multiple intelligences of Howard Gardner. An educational module on Municipal Solid Waste was designed and developed in this …
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An Exploration of Current Practices in Curricular Design of Resident Assistant Training Programs
… elements of integrated course design to create significant learning experiences (Fink, 2003). The study was guided by three research questions: (a) How are RA contemporary RA training programs designed? (b) Are RA training programs designed to produce significant learning experiences? (c) Do RA …
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The Effect of Spinal Cord Stimulation and Video Games Training on Body-machine Interface Control
… participants’ performance of motor control and learning rate through the above training framework. Participants' performance was recorded and quantified using four assessment metrics based on different center-out reaching tasks. Therefore, a multi-day experiment recruiting both unimpaired …
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Confidence intervals and measures of significant change for KINARM Standard Tests
… population interval in 99% of task parameters. Significant learning effects were more prevalent in cognitive and motor-cognitive tasks when compared to sensory and motor tasks. Confidence intervals for TaskScores, the global performance measure, ranged from 0.74 to 1.68 for all KINARM standard …
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Development and analysis of educational technologies for a blended organic chemistry course
… and evaluated using the Student Assessment of Learning Gains survey, and data from the activities were analyzed using quantitative methods of statistics and social network analysis methods. Findings from this work suggest that small-scale educational technologies provide significant learning …
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Female undergraduate student perceptions of their engagement in an experiential learning activity
… Panhellenic Sorority Recruitment grounded in a learning-outcomes-based curriculum as a vehicle for student engagement and learning. This study explores the demographics of participants and the perception of learning that occurred within the context of engagement in experiential learning …
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Hands-on manipulative use in science instruction
… and determines whether manipulatives create more significant learning experiences than text generates alone. The subject sample consisted of 20 third-grade students from a suburban New Jersey elementary school classroom. All subjects functioned at least on a third-grade level in all subjects with …
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Tree wisdom : exploring the impacts of learning experiences and biophilic connections to trees
… residents from Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada, lived significant learning experiences and demonstrated biophilic connections with trees. The data collection took place in a nature conservatory within a city park. 13 self-proclaimed tree lovers volunteered and were invited to step out of the chill of …
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Classroom Acoustics in the Postsecondary Environment: A Case for Universal Design
… the majority of instruction. Hearing affects learning for students of all ages. This researched aims to assess the acoustic conditions of classrooms in the postsecondary environment and to ascertain why these rooms lack in proper design. College students are not required by law or policy to …
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Coordinative aerobic exercise does not enhance attention and concentration in college students
… on cognitive function, improved memory, and learning. The purpose of this study was to determine whether acute moderate to vigorous coordinative aerobic activity carried out prior to taking the d2 Test of Attention positively affected attention and concentration measures in a sample of …
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Coordinative aerobic exercise does not enhance attention and concentration in college students
… on cognitive function, improved memory, and learning. The purpose of this study was to determine whether acute moderate to vigorous coordinative aerobic activity carried out prior to taking the d2 Test of Attention positively affected attention and concentration measures in a sample of …
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Implementing Augmentative Communication for Aphasic Patients in Convalescent Facilities
… to determine whether the program would produce significant learning to justify its use in similar facilities to bridge the communication gap between nonspeaking/nonwriting aphasic patients who communicate with Blissymbols and their direct care personnel as well as family members and others who …
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Haitian Linguistic and Cultural Practices: Critical Meaning-Making Spaces for Haitian Learners
… linguistic and cultural practices represent significant learning sites for Haitian learners. And, the inclusion of Haitian cultural heritage, knowledge and epistemology in the schooling experiences of Haitian students has the potential to improve their academic production and performance …
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Modification of a physical education experimental teaching unit
… method of teaching would not cause greater significant learning than the lecture/demonstration method, and that Academic Learning Time-Physical Education(M) (Motor ALT) would not be a better student process indicator for achievement independently of instructional method or length of the …
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Designing a virtual geological field trip based on geo-cognition principles
… Through a pre- & post-assessment approach, the learning gained from the VFTs was analysized. The results showed that the concepts that the VFTs explicitly showed, showed significant learning gained and the concepts that were merely implied showed little learning gained. Reflective feedback from …
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Exploring Cyber Ranges in Cybersecurity Education
… education and how they are using them to create significant cybersecurity learning experiences, (2) a mixed-method study exploring the motivation of educators using a cyber range for cybersecurity education, and (3) a mixed-method study exploring student motivation participating in cybersecurity …
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Towards a pedagogy for inculturation: adult theological education and the interaction of Christian faith and culture
… affirmative response to the research question. Significant learning regarding good practice in pedagogy for inculturation is developed; imagination is presented as of primary importance. The thesis raises fundamental questions about hermeneutics which bridge inculturation and adult education. …
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Writing to the Edge: Motivating Reluctant Rural Adolescent Male Learners
<p>High levels of motivation contribute to significant learning for high school English students in rural school settings. The current qualitative study examined the attitudes surrounding the motivation of six rural high school students and their teachers. These students had been identified as …
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