Undergraduate students in large enrollment gateway courses like introductory biology are often inundated with different study resources to enhance their success on course exams. A good performance these exams as measured by grades is a strong determinant of downstream the major and ultimately retention STEM fields. Previous studies have suggested best-practices pre-class reading guides or Suppl...

[Purpose] The aim of the present study was to investigate how long joint position sense (JPS) can be retained in memory. [Subjects] Eleven healthy subjects (5 men and 6 women) were enrolled in this study. [Methods] Subjects memorized a specific joint position visually, and then they were asked to reproduce without visual aid the position at 3 different time intervals: immediately, 5 minutes pos...

Richard E. Mayer is a professor of psychology and education at the University of California, Santa Barbara. L EARNING INVOLVES THE ACQUISITION of knowledge. This is a commonsense view of learning that has implications for how to teach—such as presenting information to learners in books and lectures—and how to assess—such as testing to see how much of the presented material students can remember...

Four high-latitude slow variable stars have been noted by Meinunger (1972) as “nicht rote” (“not red”) objects and thus curious. We have previously reported (Margon & Deutsch 1997) that one of these objects, CC Boo, is in fact a QSO. Here we present observations demonstrating that the remaining three are also highly variable active galactic nuclei. The most interesting object of the four is per...

Ahwhine h'arning can be categorized along many dimcnsiotts, an important one o/ ~hich is "degree of human guidance or forethought'. Thi~ cotztintaon stretches from rote learning, through carefully-g,ided concept-fon~ation by obsert'ation, ot~t toward independent theory formation. Six)'ears ago. the ,~',t program was constructed as an experiment in this latter kind of leanffng by discot'ery, hs ...

The purpose of this study was to investigate the Iranian EFL learners’ beliefs on the role of RL in vocabulary learning, and how it could affect their achievement. One-hundred and three students majoring in English (Literature, Translation, and Teaching) at the Departments of Foreign Languages and Linguistics at Roudehen and the Western Branch of Islamic Azad University participated in this stu...

Machine learning can be categorized along many dimensions, an important one of which is `degree o f human guidance or forethought' . This continuum stretches from rote learning, through carefully guided concept-formation by observation, out toward independent theory formation . Six years ago, the AM program was constructed as an experiment in this latter kind of learning by discovery . Its sour...