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Showing 1 to 9 of 9 for “"extra credit"”.
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Token economy used to increase performance in solving algebra problems for high school students
… tokens that could be redeemed for candy or extra credit points to encourage the students to try harder to check over their answers on homework quizzes before handing them in to be graded. Permanent product was used to record the scores of the homework quizzes and a comparison of baseline …
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Prioritizing Effort Allocation in a Multiple-Goal Environment
… were 216 college students who received extra-credit points for their involvement. They performed six repeated trials on a computerized task consisting of two simultaneous sub-tasks. Participants pursued an assigned long-term goal on each task, and goal achievement was rewarded with …
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The relationship between time estimation and an individual's ability to delay gratification
… inventory, and their decision to receive extra credit points immediately and end their participation, or to return and collect an additional half of their reward a day later. It was expected that there would a positive correlation between time estimation and delay of gratification and that …
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The Life and Work of Chuck Close: 1940-1988
… his art that helped him finish high school with extra credit assignments. Later in life, Close realized that his struggles could be given a name--dyslexia.</p><p>Neurological research has proven that the dyslexic brain operates fundamentally differently from the non-dyslexic brain, mainly in that …
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Working-Class Black Male First -Year Writers and Their Composition Teaching Assistants: Negotiating Power and Authority in the Basic Writing Classroom
… quizzes, persistent tardiness to class, and extra-credit assignments to atone for poor weekly-journal grades. As a result of the student-empowering goals of decentered classroom pedagogy (under which several women flourished) and some black male students' preference for a ""familiar"" …
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MEASURING AND MANIPULATING MATERIALISM IN THE CONTEXT OF CONSUMERS' ADVERTISING RESPONSES
… has indicated that the visual presence of credit card images and monetary primes has an impact on an individual's actions. Feinburg (1986) reported that the magnitude and probability of spending were increased in the presence of credit card stimuli, and Vohs et al.'s (2006) series of …
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From Intuition to Evidence: A Data-Driven Approach to Transforming CS Education
… better when they start earlier but that offering extra credit for finishing earlier did not encourage them to do so. The second case study evaluates a tool used to improve student understanding of manual memory management and finds that students made fewer errors when using the tool. The third …
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Examining the principles of social influence and condom use in casual sex
… the spring of 2012, the survey was offered as an extra credit opportunity in a human sexuality course in the Kinesiology and Community Health Department. The final sample consisted of 388 (277 females and 111 males). In Study 1, consistency, authority, and social proof were found to be the most …
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Knowledge Surveys in Nursing Education: Pre-licensure Nursing Students’ Perceptions of their Knowledge and Clinical Skill Abilities
… in class rather than on-line; consider offering extra credit for students to participate in KS research; collect data from KS administered over several semesters; differentiate the skill level of participants. There are several ways in which the use of KS can impact nursing education practice. …