Schellenberg (2004) investigated whether music lessons improved IQ scores in young children in a pretest-posttest design. Six-year-old children were assigned to one of four treatment groups: keyboard instruction, Kodaly vocal instruction, drama instruction, or no lessons for 36 weeks during the school year. All groups showed a significant increase in IQ scores over the year, A small, significan...

Software process improvement (SPI) has emerged as a critical area for organizations involved in software development. There is now considerable evidence that SPI can provide substantial gains in quality, productivity, and cycle time. Currently, most organizations that embark upon a SPI program tend to use a framework like the Capability Maturity Model for their process improvement. In this arti...

Objective To determine the effectiveness of lessons in the Alexander technique,massage therapy, and advice froma doctor to take exercise (exercise prescription) along with nurse delivered behavioural counselling for patients with chronic or recurrent back pain. Design Factorial randomised trial. Setting 64 general practices in England. Participants 579 patients with chronic or recurrent low bac...

On the one hand, spreadsheets are a very useful tool for language lessons, but unfortunately almost unknown by language teachers, often due to missing ICT-competences. On the other hand, spreadsheets are taught in informatics or ICT lessons, but mainly in a mathematical or an economical context; even thought, it could also be taught in many other context, especially for languages. This paper wi...

This prospective controlled intervention study assessed Feldenkrais Moving Forward movement lessons for older adults. Participants (N = 87 returning from original sample of 124; median age = 76 years) were assigned to movement (n = 51) or waitlist control (n = 36) groups. The movement groups took twelve 60-min lessons across either 6 or 12 weeks, to compare lesson density. Pretests and posttest...

Schellenberg (2004) investigated whether music lessons improved IQ scores in young children in a pretest-posttest design. Six-year-old children were assigned to one of four treatment groups: keyboard instruction, Kodaly vocal instruction, drama instruction, or no-lessons for 36 weeks during the school year. All groups showed a significant increase in IQ scores over the year. A small, significan...

In this Chapter, we discuss the scope, content, and technical challenges offered up in the construction and delivery of a 10 week long Cloud Computing module that combines discussions of the principles and key characteristics of Cloud Computing with a series of practical exercises and an implementation-based coursework. We present an overview of the core of this module, which starts from the So...

Acceptance Testing is a fundamental part of XP. It provides the customer-developer “handshake” required for a project to succeed. One logical place to do this testing is at the GUI level. However, to do so requires a GUI testing tool. This paper will discuss the lessons we learned developing and using such a tool over the course of several projects. We believe that these lessons are generally a...

We report practice lessons in 'Computer Science Unplugged’ (CS Unplugged) with assisted digital materials. CS Unplugged involves physical or group activities that lead students to computer science, and it is an excellent method of informatics education for beginners. However, such activities are not always easy for all students. Therefore, we designed various digital materials to assist student...