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Effects of learning strategy training on college students' attitude and academic performance
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The Effects of Reading & Reading Strategy Training on Lower Proficiency Level Second Language Learning
… Spanish as a second language at the Missionary Training Center in Provo, Utah. The missionaries were all beginner level students of Spanish, and they were randomly assigned to reading aloud and silent reading groups, as well as groups which received reading strategy training and groups that …
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Effects of Specific Strategy Training on the Written Expression of Learning Disabled Students Grades 3-6
… a study to investigate the effects of specific strategy training on their written language skills. A three-group planned-match design was employed to determine the possible effects of strategy training under the contrasting conditions of teacher direction and self-direction. The standard …
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The Effects of Pre-Writing Strategy Training Guided by Computer-Based Procedural Facilitation on ESL Students’ Strategy Use, Writing Quantity, and Writing Quality
… the effects of computer-based pre-writing strategy training guided by procedural facilitation (Bereiter & Scardamalia, 1987) on intermediate ESL students' writing strategy use, writing quantity, and writing quality. A sequential mixed methods design was utilized with an initial …
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Improving reading comprehension by enhancing metacognitive competences : an evaluation of the reciprocal teaching method
… Palincsar and Brown (1984), is a very successful training program which was designed to improve student's reading comprehension skills by teaching them reading strategies. In the present study the tasks and responsibilities assumed by 5thgrade elementary students (N = 55) participating in a …
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Teaching strategy use for oral communication tasks to ESL learners
This thesis investigates the effects of strategy training on ESL learners' strategy use and performance on oral communication tasks. Research into the teaching and learning of speaking in the ESL context is relatively neglected and strategy training is unheard of in very many L2 oral classrooms. A …
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Strategic insight and age-related goal-neglect influence risky decision-making
… alternatives. We investigated whether explicit strategy instruction and practice can decrease prepotent RA, and whether aging impacts the efficacy of such an intervention. Participants performed a paired lottery task with options varying in risk and magnitude, both before and after practice with …
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Rate-Accuracy Trade-Off as a Function of Test-Taking Response Styles, Perception of Time, and Test Anxiety: A Training Study
A training program was developed to help high test anxious high school students utilize optimal performance strategies when working on standardized tests. Thirty-three high and low anxious students completed a 3-week training program on "test-taking skills." Subjects were assigned to one of three …
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Effects of goal maintenance training on executive control in older adults
… study demonstrated that both practice and strategy training improved performance in older adults on an executive control task requiring goal maintenance abilities: Paxton et al., 2006), but no previous research has investigated the amount of exposure to this executive control task during …
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Strategies for Identifying the Main Idea of Expository Passages: An Experimental Study
… to treatments in a 2 x 2 factorial design. The Strategy Training intervention taught students strategies for identifying the topic and main idea of expository passages. This treatment also taught students metacognitive skills for checking the appropriateness of these main idea hypotheses. The …
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Training of Self-Study Spelling Strategies and their Effectiveness on Fourth Grade Students
… was to determine the effects of specific study strategy training as a method of improving self-study spelling strategies of average fourth graders. Forty-four fourth graders comprised the treatment and control groups. Two fifteen word banks were constructed to serve as pre and posttests. With no …
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The effect of encoding strategies on text material retrieval
… underlining, or repetitive reading encoding strategy. Training was given in each strategy and mastery at a criterion level of 80 percent or better was achieved. Reading comprehension scores as measured by the Nelson - Denny Reading Test, Form C were used as a covariate. An experimental …
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The Structural Constraint and The Strategic Control of Attention Allocation
… difficulty changes, and (c) strategic allocation training. A secondary task technique was employed. Five pairs of structurally different dual tasks were investigated. Time-sharing efficiency decreased whereas resource allocation optimality increased with increasing degrees of resource overlap …
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Mediators: Participatory Collective Intelligence for Multi-Stakeholder Urban Decision-Making
… reinforcement learning (MARL) for agent strategy training, multi-agent large language model (LLM) discussions to enable natural language negotiation, and retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) to ground decisions in contextual knowledge. Together, these components form a full-stack pipeline …
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An empirical evaluation of the latent structure of cognitive analgesia strategies
… were trained in the use of a cognitive coping strategy. Training consisted of brief practice in strategies involving: a) imaginal reinterpretation of the pain stimulus, b) imaginal distraction from the pain stimulus, c) non-imaginal reinterpretation, or d) non-imaginal distraction. Two …
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An examination of the Effectiveness of a Cognitive Group Intervention for People with Acquired Brain Injury
… intervention combining psychoeducation, basic strategy training and stress management techniques for individuals with ABI and has important implications for neurorehabilitation service providers, individuals with an ABI and their families.
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Input Processing and the Teaching of German Two-way Prepositions
… exercises following explicit instruction and strategy training (+LC; n=32) and one where those lexical cues were removed from the exercises (-LC; n=32). Participant gains were measured using a pre-test/post-test design surrounding a two-day treatment focusing on German two-way prepositions …
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Policing terrorism in Nigeria: challenges for the 21st century
… resources, porous unsecured borders and lack of training present serious challenges to the prevention and disruption of terrorism in the country. In addition, the findings confirm that the NPF and similar agencies know they lack the skill set needed to bring the issue of terrorism to a minimum. …
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Three-dimensional spatial learning in a virtual space station node
… the task when facing in all 6 directions? Does training help? Does spatial memory depend on the direction of remembered targets relative to the body? Does performance depend on the subject's ability to rotate himself mentally and use imagery? How long is ability retained after training? 3D …
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Effectiveness of Staged Partner Training on Conversational Interactions Involving a Person with Severe Aphasia
… the effects of staged partner communication training on conversational interactions between a familiar conversational partner and a participant with severe aphasia. Conversational variables were analyzed across four conditions: Condition A -- baseline; Condition B -- general aphasia …
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