Autism is defined by persistent deficits in social communication and social interaction in multiple contexts as well as restricted and repetitive patterns of behavior. There are also reported difficulties in the dynamic activation and modification of cognitive processes in response to changes in tasks’ demands. Such difficulties are believed to be due to poor flexible cognition. This research a...

BACKGROUND Proficiency-based curricula using both virtual reality (VR) and videotrainer (VT) simulators have proven to be efficient and maximally effective, but little is known about the retention of acquired skills. The purpose of this study was to assess skill retention after completion of a validated laparoscopic skills curriculum. METHODS Surgery residents (n=14) with no previous VR or VT...

Aim This study aimed to assess the Parent-Adolescent Communication Toolkit, an online intervention designed to help improve parent communication with their adolescents. Participant preferences for two module delivery systems (sequential and unrestricted module access) were identified. Design Usability assessment of the PACT intervention was completed using pre-test and posttest comparisons. U...

A Monte Carlo study was used to evaluate the effects of reductions in posttest variance on several methods for detecting predictors of change in a two-wave design. When the predictor was dichotomous, the analysis of covariance approach was compared to the analysis of variance on difference scores. For a continuous predictor, partial correlations, difference score correlations with the predictor...

CONTEXT Instruction can be used to alter the biomechanical movement patterns associated with anterior cruciate ligament (ACL) injuries. OBJECTIVE To determine the effects of instruction through combination (self and expert) feedback or self-feedback on lower extremity kinematics during the box-drop-jump task, running-stop-jump task, and sidestep-cutting maneuver over time in college-aged fema...

background: cognitive and metacognitive learning strategies are identified as important solutions for improving academic achievement. this study aimed toevaluate the effect of teaching cognitive and metacognitive learning strategies on academic achievement among nursing students. methods: this study was an experimental with pretest and posttest and follow-updesign.  the study population include...

Autonomous vehicles have the potential to disrupt mobility system. Therefore, it is important understand attitude formation towards autonomous vehicles. The focus of this study on private user’s technology acceptance an vehicle. applies determinants capture users’ and intention adopt A field experiment with 27 participants was conducted assess changes in before after a test ride level 2 automat...

In an experiment involving 139 students in an introductory philosophy course we tested whether students were improving their ability to think critically about arguments and whether using argument diagramming as an analysis aid contributed to this improvement. We determined that the students did develop this skill over the course of the semester. We also determined that the students in one secti...

Traditional teaching and training of soccer techniques is mainly dominated by program oriented series of exercises with analytical synthetic construction principles. Most recent investigations question the necessity of program oriented forms of training fundamentally with a high number of repetition of the same exercise (cf. Schöllhorn 1999). The aim of the presented investigation is the compar...