Due to their nature of being brief, short stories have been successfully used in language-based classrooms. Discussions about the issues can develop learners’ critical abilities. This be done through activities like reader response. One many from response is writing. Learners are asked write comments story based on interpretation. According Bereiter & Scardamalia (1987), ability re-tell knowled...

We study how total factor productivity (TFP), energy prices and the great moderation are linked. First, we estimate a joint stochastic process for the energy price and TFP and establish that until 1982:II, energy prices negatively affected productivity. This spill-over has since disappeared. Second, we show that within the framework of a Dynamic Stochastic General Equilibrium (DSGE) model, the ...

This review aimed to discuss the influence of literacy and formal education on human brain organization, based on evidence drawn from three sources: (1) results and limitations of a project coordinated by André Roch Lecours on the influence of illiteracy on brain organization and of studies on aphasia in illiterate populations;(2) data on the impact of schooling on the neuropsychological assess...

OBJECTIVE We address the task of inducing explanatory models from observations and knowledge about candidate biological processes, using the illustrative problem of modeling photosynthesis regulation. METHODS We cast both models and background knowledge in terms of processes that interact to account for behavior. We also describe IPM, an algorithm for inducing quantitative process models from...

Knowledge acquisition interfaces can be seen as students learning new knowledge from the user (teacher), and we believe that they should be able to use some of the strategies that good learners pursue during a tutoring dialogue. This will help acquisition interfaces become proactive learners, able to reason about learning activities and with initiative in participating in the process accordingl...