Establishing a relational field that fosters learning processes: Some tentative propositions derived from trainee experiences

Anxiety fosters relational encoding

This paper presents an experimental study of the influence of state-anxiety on relational encoding. It demonstrates that induced state anxiety enhances encoding of relations. Participants in the anxiety group were faster and more accurate in recognizing identical relations in two successive stimuli than the participants in the non-anxiety group.

Establishing a Trainee Section in the CIM.

The Clinician Investigator Trainee Association of Canada – Association des cliniciens-chercheurs en formation du Canada (CITAC-ACCFC) is a national organization composed of MD+ trainees enrolled in MD/MSc, MD/PhD, and Clinician Investigator Programs (CIP) across Canada. In less than three years since its conception, CITAC-ACCFC has become an established organization with over 200 members from f...

Trainee Teachers' e-Learning Experiences of Computer Play

Commercial computer games have great potential as learning tools as many require complex problem solving, theory testing, collaboration, and evaluation, all components of experiential learning (Gee 2003). Indeed, Schrader, Zheng, and Young (2006) argue that there are many benefits to be derived from the pedagogical use of commercial computer games, particularly massively multiplayer online game...

Relational Learning with Gaussian Processes

Correlation between instances is often modelled via a kernel function using input attributes of the instances. Relational knowledge can further reveal additional pairwise correlations between variables of interest. In this paper, we develop a class of models which incorporates both reciprocal relational information and input attributes using Gaussian process techniques. This approach provides a...

Relational Representations that Facilitate Learning