Incentives to teach physical diagnosis

Incentives to teach badly: After-school tutoring in developing countries

Schoolteachers in developing countries frequently offer for-profit tutoring to their own students. The teachers have an incentive to teach less during school to increase demand for their tutoring in many cases. Thus, the market for tutoring can have spillover effects even on students who do not partake in tutoring. I model and present empirical evidence on these effects, using survey and test s...

specialized methods to teach spelling: comparing three methods

چکیده: بررسی ادبیات مربوطه در کشور در زمینه یادگیری زبان انگلیسی نشان می‎دهد که علی‎رغم اهمیت املا در فرآیند یادگیری به طور عام و یادگیری زبان انگلیسی به طور خاص، این مولفه از جایگاهی متناسب با اهمیت آن برخوردار نیست و عمدتاً نادیده گرفته شده است. تحقیقات گسترده‎ای در خارج از کشور در مورد ماهیت این مولفه صورت گرفته است، در حالی که به جرأت می‎توان گفت در داخل کشور گامی در مورد درک ماهیت آن و فرآی...

To teach or not to teach.

An Introduction to Physical Diagnosis

Dr. Swartz is Director of the Physical Diagnosis Program at Mount Sinai Medical School, and the contributions to this volume are the work of its faculty. Dr. Swartz provides a brief introduction and an overview of the complete history and physical examination of the patient. Following the introduction each contributor presents a plan for the physical examination of a particular organ system. Th...

Dynamic Activity-Related Incentives for Physical Activity

The present studies adopted the theoretical framework of activityand purpose-related incentives (Rheinberg, 2008) to explain the maintenance of physical activity. We hypothesized that activityrelated incentives (e.g., “fun”) increase more than purpose-related incentives (e.g., “health”) between the initiation and maintenance phase of physical activity. Additionally, change in activity-related i...