The major concern of educators is how to enhance the quality of teaching and learning in education. Virtual reality learning environment has been identified as one of them. Many studied have agreed that virtual reality approach could help to improve performance and conceptual understanding on a specific range of task in learning. On the other hand, gender differences in spatial abilities, favor...

This is a brief factual survey with little comment. There being no juries nor magistrates in Holland, trials are always conducted by qualified lawyers, who ... provided with reports on the background, personality and criminal record of accused. Since the Public Prosecutor decides if there is a prima facie case to try, ^ court appearance suffices for finding of guilt or acquittal. Solitary confi...

The objective of this study was to develop an online report writing activity that was a constructive and cooperative learning process for a course on traditional general physics experiments. Wiki, a CMC authoring tool, was used to construct the writing platform. Fifty-eight undergraduate students (33 men and 25 women), working in randomly assigned groups of 2 to 3 members, participated in this ...

This series of research reports deals with the status of the elderly in several Asian countries. It presents research that is being conducted under a broad project sponsored by the U.S. National Institute on Aging, the Comparative Study of the Elderly in Four Asian Countries (Grant No. AGO7637). The goal is to measure the social, economic and health characteristics of the older population (age ...

391 FORUM FORUM FORUM FORUM is intended for new ideas or new ways of interpreting existing information. It provides a chance for suggesting hypotheses and for challenging current thinking on ecological issues. A lighter prose, designed to attract readers, will be permitted. Formal research reports, albeit short, will not be accepted, and all contributions should be concise with a relatively sho...

This series contains research reports, written by or in cooperation with staff members of the Statistical Research Division, whose content may be of interest to the general statistical research community. The views reflected in these reports are not necessarily those of the Census Bureau nor do they necessarily represent Census Bureau statistical policy or practice. ABSTRACT At the U.S. Bureau ...

We employed cognitive interviewing with a sample of secondary, college, undergraduate and graduate students to examine the cognitive validity of a popular epistemic beliefs self-report measure, the Discipline-Focused Epistemological Beliefs Questionnaire [DFEBQ] (Hofer, 2000). In addition, we examined cognitive validity across two domains. Analyses of interviews revealed that cognitive validity...

Survey tools are widely used within Child Computer Interaction however the validity and reliability of children’s responses are often brought into question. This paper reports on a study on the effects of asking the same questions to the same children over a period of a week to ascertain the validity of children’s responses when completing a single questionnaire. The results showed that over 50...

Arrival performance for the United States shows that over 83 percent of flights are actually on time. However, 17 percent delayed flights are still an indisputable high number, having almost eight million commercial travel flights per year, only in the US. Knowledge of the conditions leading to flight delays may be used in a monitoring and prediction tool to diminish its impact on commercial fl...