Children's interactions with iPad books: research chapters still to be written

Children's interactions with iPad books: research chapters still to be written

Children’s interactive e-books are novel literacy tools with interactive and multimodal representations of story contents and increased customizable features. The learning opportunities represented by these new affordances demand a thorough consideration of children’s engagement, including the contextual and socio-cultural factors which influence the books’ deployment in home and classroom sett...

Perspectives on Personality and Social Psychology: Books Waiting to Be Written

We feel quite honored to have our book reviewed by four such distinguished psychologists as Daryl Bem, Baruch Fischhoff, Lewis Goldberg, and Mark Snyder. We also learned a great deal from the reviews. Each of the reviewers, while appreciating at least some aspects of our book, has mused about the way it could, and perhaps should, have been written. In our response, we highlight these alternativ...

Is There Still a Place for Intra-capsular Cataract Extraction or should it be Relegated to the History Books?

Can the written information to research subjects be improved?--an empirical study.

OBJECTIVES To study whether linguistic analysis and changes in information leaflets can improve readability and understanding. DESIGN Randomised, controlled study. Two information leaflets concerned with trials of drugs for conditions/diseases which are commonly known were modified, and the original was tested against the revised version. SETTING Denmark. PARTICIPANTS 235 persons in the r...

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