ALTERNATIVE EDUCATION: PROVIDING SUPPORT TO THE DISENFRANCHISED

willingness to communicate in the iranian context: language learning orientation and social support

why some learners are willing to communicate in english, concurrently others are not, has been an intensive investigation in l2 education. willingness to communicate (wtc) proposed as initiating to communicate while given a choice has recently played a crucial role in l2 learning. it was hypothesized that wtc would be associated with language learning orientations (llos) as well as social suppo...

Providing support to school children with hyperacusis

Hyperacusis is described as abnormally sensitive hearing in which normally tolerable sounds are perceived as excessively loud (Stach, 1997). It is not associated with unusually low (good) thresholds for detecting sounds. In other words, the absolute threshold, as measured by the pure-tone audiogram, does not indicate hypersensitivity to very weak sounds. Rather, hyperacusis is manifested by ave...

The effectiveness of providing autologous transfusion education to operating room staff

To the point: medical education reviews--providing feedback.

Formative feedback is an essential component of effective teaching and learning. Without it, the learner flounders. Furthermore, the Liaison Committee on Medical Education requires formative feedback within the clerkship and specifies that students must have the time and ability to remediate deficiencies before completing the clerkship. Few articles in the medical literature address how to give...

Providing Over-the-horizon Awareness to Driver Support Systems

Vehicle-to-vehicle communications is a promising technique for driver support systems to increase traffic safety and efficiency. A proposed system is the Congestion Assistant [1], which aims at supporting drivers when approaching and driving in a traffic jam. Studies have shown great potential for the Congestion Assistant to reduce the impact of congestion, even at low penetration. However, the...