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Showing 1 to 20 of 84 for “"main ideas"”.
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Picturing Literacies and Noticing Main Ideas: Teaching ELL and NES Striving Readers to Notice Main Ideas in Nonfiction Texts
… using visual art to teach students how to notice main ideas in nonfiction texts. Statistical analyses indicate that English language learners made significant gains in reading comprehension. However, analyses of students’ written reflections and of stimulated recall interviews illustrate that, …
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The interaction of goal orientation and interest on students' use of self-regulated learning strategies
… dependent variables: student's total score on main-idea selection, additional cognitive strategies, and of metacognitive strategies. There were significant (p < .05) main effects for task interest and goal orientation on the main-idea selection measure. Students who reported having a high …
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Effects of discourse signals and a structural advance organizer on Indonesian EFL learners' comprehension of expository texts
The main interest of this study was to investigate whether the effects discourse signals which signalled the main ideas and a structural advance organizer which described the structure of the main ideas of expository texts would facilitate Indonesian EFL learners to understand and retain the main …
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Effects of teacher-directed and student-interactive summarization instruction on reading comprehension and written summarization of Korean fourth graders
… was examined in terms of identifying main ideas and including extraneous information. Writing quality was a combined rating of focus, support, and organization indices. The collaborative summarization group’s performance was significantly improved on identification of main ideas and …
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Scientific text structure awareness: A cross-cultural comparison of tertiary students from different language backgrounds
… organisation is related to superior recall of main ideas from expository prose passages. The present study investigates awareness of scientific text structure among tertiary students from different language backgrounds. In this investigation, four reading passages containing two rhetorical text …
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SAFECode: A Platform for Developing Reliable Software in Unsafe Languages
This thesis describes the main ideas, insights, and the approach that SAFECode system uses to achieve the goal of providing safety guarantees to software written in unsafe languages. This thesis also evaluates the SAFECode approach on several benchmarks and server applications and shows that the …
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A theoretical re-assessment of the use of the distinction between everyday and acadamic knowledges in Basil Bernstein's theory of educational transmissions
… Sociology of Education, that Basil Bernstein’s main ideas are sufficiently represented by frameworks constructed around the distinction between everyday knowledge/thought and academic knowledge/thought. A survey of some contemporary literature within the Bernsteinian subfield was undertaken to …
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The Effects of Timed Readings on Recall and Comprehension in a Child with Asperger's Syndrome.
… between the participant's recall words and the main ideas answered correctly in the comprehension test.
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Judah Halevi, religious thinker and poet : comparative study of his "Kuzari" and poetry
… at a comparative study in which Judah Halevi's main ideas and teachings as they find expression in his philosophical work "The Kuzari" are compared and contrasted with their treatment in his poetical work. We feel that such a contrasting and comparative study may bring us nearer to a more …
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Student motivation: the impact intrinsic motivation and extrinsic rewards have on elementary students
… Upon categorizing the data and searching for main ideas, the factors that most affected data in this study were related to teacher enthusiasm, student engagement, collaborative learning groups, and an extrinsic reward system incorporating options for students.
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Spinors, embeddings and gravity
… of general relativity theory.<br/><br/>The main ideas discussed are:- (i) Spinors, conformal structure and the spacetime projective null bundle framework. (ii) Spaces of embeddings. (ill) Embeddings and spin structure. (iv) Null embeddings and the null limit (a technique for obtaining …
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Theory of lattice effects on magnetic interactions in solids
… introduction and methods sections present the main ideas of the dissertation and discuss the various techniques used. Electron-lattice coupling is first examined in chapter three for a two-site model where we estimate the magnitude of the isotope effect on the critical temperature and show that …
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Using multicultural literature in the classroom to encourage tolerance and respect
… data. Upon analyzing the data and searching for main ideas throughout the study, I found that multicultural picture books helped the children become more comfortable with talking about difference in a positive way. Additionally, it helped encourage the students to search for similarities between …
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Supporting Reading Comprehension of At-Risk Adolescent Readers Through the Use of Text-to-Speech Technology Paired with Strategic Instruction
… data computed from the summarization of main ideas. Results demonstrated that using text-to-speech alone increased comprehension in all 5 participants and when combined with specific reading strategies, there was an additive treatment effect in 4 out of 5 participants.
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PERSPECTIVES OF SOCIAL WORK STUDENTS ON NUTRITION AND THE NUTRITION EFFECTS ON MENTAL HEALTH
… and nutrition’s effect on stress. Their main ideas were identified, connected, and organized to develop a theoretical statement. The resulting theory focused on the development of social work students' perspectives in applying nutrition into their mental health practice. The students were …
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Narrative discourse in English speaking coloured persons with aphasia and normal controls in the Western Cape, South Africa
… level cognitive processes the formulation of main ideas, providing the lessons for the stories and interpreting proverbs were used. All narrative samples were transcribed and the date treated in terms of the length of narratives, propositional units, quality analysis and analysis of …
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An archaeology of self
… with the everyday in their art-making. The three main ideas elaborated upon in the body of the text are; the notion of mark making and trace as able to invoke the corporeal presence of the artists; the inclusion of quotidian objects and routines as subject matter within art that recontextualises …
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Pictorial Map Effects on Learning How to Summarize
… to help students comprehend text and restate the main ideas in their own words and writing style. This study contributed to the learning and instruction literature by providing empirical evidence that a visual (pictorial map) tutorial was more effective than a verbal (underline/circle text) …
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Non-Commutative Probability for the Spectral Analysis of Simplicial Complexes
… would help researchers to quickly grasp the main ideas and tools in both fields, and we hope it will help to advance the research in both areas and to develop applications in related areas.
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