Can Tutors Monitor Students' Understanding Accurately?

Can Tutors Monitor Students’ Understanding Accurately?

Students learn more and gain greater understanding from one-to-one tutoring. The preferred explanation has been that the tutors’ pedagogical skills are responsible for the learning gains. Pedagogical skills involve skillful execution of tactics, such as giving explanations and feedback, or selecting the appropriate problems or questions to ask the students. Skillful execution of these pedagogic...

Can Lignin Be Accurately Measured?

too simplistic (Sarkanen and Ludwig, 1971), and there are now many examples showing that other phenolics Forages serve an important role in providing nutrients to ruminants besides the cinnamyl alcohols can be incorporated into while providing positive benefits to the environment. Forage cell wall digestibility is incomplete because of several structural features within lignins (as reviewed by ...

Can medical students accurately predict their learning? A study comparing perceived and actual performance in neuroanatomy.

It is important that clinicians are able to adequately assess their level of knowledge and competence in order to be safe practitioners of medicine. The medical literature contains numerous examples of poor self-assessment accuracy amongst medical students over a range of subjects however this ability in neuroanatomy has yet to be observed. Second year medical students attending neuroanatomy re...

Can undergraduate paramedic and nursing students accurately estimate patient age and weight?

INTRODUCTION Accurate estimation of a patient's age and weight are skills expected of all healthcare clinicians, including paramedics and nurses. It is necessary because patients may be unable to communicate such information due to unconsciousness or an altered state of conscious. Age and weight estimation influence calculation for medication dosages, defibrillation, equipment sizing, and other...

Development ? Can 1 st - Year College Students Accurately Report Their Learning