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Showing 1 to 20 of 21 for “"Thinking aloud"”.
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The Effects of Thinking Aloud on the Comprehension and Monitoring of Sixth Graders
… (b) determine whether an intervention featuring thinking aloud would positively impact their monitoring, strategy use, and comprehension. In Study 1, 116 sixth graders completed researcher-developed measures of comprehension and monitoring, and a self-report inventory of frequency of strategy …
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The Effect of Thinking Aloud Pair Problem Solving (Tapps) on the Troubleshooting Ability of University-Level Aviation Technician Students
… resources are available for them to teach thinking skills efficiently and effectively. This study examined contemporary thoughts in teaching cognitive skills, more specifically, problem solving troubleshooting, and attempted to determine the influence and implication of situated cognition …
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Restrained eaters' food-related thoughts in a suppression paradigm
… relative to unrestrained eaters reported thinking more about food. In Studies 2 and 3, restrained and unrestrained eaters were led to eat cookies under the guise of a study of taste preference. Subsequently, they were asked to suppress thoughts about the tasting while thinking aloud. …
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An Investigation of the Test-Taking Skills and Associated Thinking Processes of Ninth Grade English Language Arts Students
… audio-taped classroom discussions of their thinking on specific multiple-choice items. After each of these discussions, all students independently wrote to a common prompt in their journals to articulate their thinking. In addition, six focus students recorded their thinking aloud while they …
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Usability Engineering Applied to an Electromagnetic Modeling Tool
… techniques — Heuristic Evaluation and Thinking Aloud Protocol — were involved in the evaluation of the interface designed in this study (FEM2DGUI). Heuristic Evaluation is a usability inspection method that employs a usability specialist to detect errors based on a known set of …
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A Case Study of the Effects of a Web Interface Redesign Based on Usability Guidelines.
… original and redesigned UIs were tested using thinking aloud testing, a user satisfaction survey, and usability inspection. The results of user testing and heuristic evaluation suggest that the use of these guidelines in website redesign had a positive impact on user performance. A more …
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Students' Lived Experiences in Women's College Classrooms: A Phenomenological Study
… time became more likely to take risks with their thinking, aloud, in the classroom environment. Study participants made meaning from their classroom experience by actively reflecting on how these experiences fostered personal growth, comparing lived experiences to preconceptions, and imagining how …
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El Cau del Cibulet. Aplicació web per a la gestió de la distribució de productes dietètics orientada a majoristes
… a la fase d'investigació i la tècnica thinking aloud que ha permès saber quines característiques dels productes necessitaven trobar els usuaris, com facilitar cerques, la documentació a tenir a l'abast, etc. També s'ha realitzat el test d'usabilitat per concretar el prototipatge i …
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Priority-Area Consensus Conferencing: Peer Versus One-to-One, a Study of an Efficient Method for Achieving Significant Improvements in Freshman Writing Apprehension and Writing Skill
… protocols (transcribed from audiovisuals) with "thinking-aloud protocols," and by using many of the pre- and post-testing procedures of the present study.
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A MULTIDIMENSIONAL INVESTIGATION OF DEEP AND SURFACE PROCESSING
… about the existence of extraterrestrials while thinking aloud, and then completed both a passage recall task and an open-ended task in which they were asked to justify their position on the existence of extraterrestrials. Participants' verbal reports were coded using a scheme based on Pressley …
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From Inspiration to Garment Ideas : Elucidating the Threads of Inspiration in Apparel Design Ideation
… designers completing an ideation task using the thinking-aloud method, recorded on video. Study II observed the ideation and inspiration of three teams of 12 craft education students through video, while Study III used interviews to explore individual inspiration and ideation. The data includes …
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The use of a group decision support system environment for knowledge acquisition
… knowledge acquisition methods as interviewing, thinking-aloud protocol analysis, on-site observation, and repertory grid analysis. As expert system applications have become more complex, knowledge engineers have found that they must work with and tap the domain knowledge of not one but several …
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Usability of Pictorial Assembly Instructions for Young Children
… experience. A qualitative analysis of the think-aloud data and observations, using Grounded Theory, produced a model of assembly self-efficacy from child users’ psychosocial and cognitive perspectives that affirmed the importance of user-centered instruction design. Girls exhibited lower …
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Leveraging building information modelling to address the barriers that prevent the widespread adoption of life cycle costing by quantity surveyors
… in this research. An evaluation method known as ‘Thinking Aloud cooperative evaluation’ is used to gain feedback from a sample of QSs practicing in Ireland. The contribution to knowledge is the articulation of a process which extends 5D BIM for LCC, by leveraging an existing 5D technology. The …
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"All hayll, all hayll, both blithe and glad": Direct Address in Early English Drama, 1400-1585
… from direct address to soliloquy (meaning 'thinking aloud') happened much later than is generally assumed; by 1585, soliloquy was only emerging as a technique and was far from common, let alone dominant. Chapter 7 concludes the project, bringing together its findings and looking ahead to the …
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A description of reading in the composing process: skilled and unskilled college writers
… and effect of reading can be examined through thinking-aloud composing protocols. Third, reading is a more appropriate term than re-reading to describe the reading which occurs during the composing process.
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Exploring and monitoring interviewers' cognitive processes of decision making using think aloud method
… introduces a psychological method termed “think aloud method (TAM)” to explore ICP when completing an interview decision-making task. Specifically, the research first tested and confirmed the feasibility of applying TAM to examining ICP and developed an experiment procedure where TAM was …
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Knowledge Strategies for making Safeguarding decisions in Social Work
… employed a Decision-Making Exercise and the Thinking Aloud method, administered alongside the Human Value Questionnaire, to capture these strategies. The sample consisted of 24 social workers with experience in safeguarding children, offering diverse insights into their decision-making …
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