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O auxílio das metodologias ativas promove a motivação e facilita compreensão dos assuntos ministrados em sala. uso de jogos – gamificação serious games têm sido bastante utilizados, principalmente com o acréscimo atividades remotas por causa da pandemia Covid-19. Kahoot! é uma plataforma gratuita perguntas respostas que tem ganho muita popularidade entre os professores deste modo, esta pesquisa...

BACKGROUND Informed consent (IC) has been an international standard for decades for the ethical conduct of clinical trials. Yet frequently study participants have incomplete understanding of key issues, a problem exacerbated by language barriers or lack of familiarity with research concepts. Few investigators measure participant comprehension of IC, while even fewer conduct interim assessments ...

We examined college students' participation in a game activity for studying course material on their subsequent quiz performance. Game conditions were alternated with another activity counterbalanced across two groups of students in a multielement design. Overall, the mean percentage correct on quizzes was higher during the game condition than in the no-game condition.

The present study aimed at investigating whether two types of assessment strategies, namely Dynamic Assessment and Non-Dynamic Assessment had any significant impact on elementary and pre-intermediate Iranian EFL learners' performance on their final achievement test including reading comprehension, vocabulary, grammar, and language functions. The participants of the study were 81 learners studyi...

The first task of statistical computational linguistics, or any other type of datadriven processing of language, is the extraction of counts and distributions of phenomena. This is much more difficult for the type of complex structured data found in treebanks and in corpora with sophisticated annotation than for tokenized texts. Recent developments in data mining, particularly in the extraction...