Interpretation of symbols, as well as understanding the particulate nature of matter and spatial structures, are essential skills students need for solving problems in chemistry. However, model perception and understanding the spatial structure of organic molecules has been a source of difficulty for many chemistry students. The research objective was to investigate the effect of using virtual ...

PURPOSE To identify factors associated with physician performance in a comprehensive competence assessment. METHOD The authors conducted a retrospective analysis of 683 physicians referred for assessment at the Center for Personalized Education for Physicians from 2000 to 2010, who were evaluated as either safe or unsafe to return to practice. Multivariate logistic regression was used to dete...

National Centerfor Developmental Education Appalachian State University Boone, NC 28608 ABSTRACT: This study examines the literature regarding the cost of delivering postsecondary remedial education. Five studies are examined which offer statewide and national estimates of these costs. The studies are viewed in light of their method­ ology, findings, and limitations. The dis­ cussion also offer...

We collected data at a large, very selective public university on what math and science instructors felt was the biggest barrier to their students’ learning. We also determined the extent of each instructor’s use of research-based effective teaching methods. Instructors using fewer effective methods were more likely to say the greatest barrier to student learning was the internal deficiencies o...

Current efforts to detect covert bioterrorist attacks from increases in hospital visit rates are plagued by the unpredictable nature of these rates. Although many current systems evaluate hospital visit data 1 day at a time, we investigate evaluating multiple days at once to lessen the effects of this unpredictability and to improve both the timeliness and sensitivity of detection. To test this...

This paper provides a brief overview of an implicit training method used for teaching autonomous agents to represent humans in 3D Virtual Worlds without any explicit training efforts being required. Source URL: https://www.iiia.csic.es/en/node/55395 Links [1] https://www.iiia.csic.es/en/staff/anton-bogdanovych [2] https://www.iiia.csic.es/en/staff/marc-esteva [3] https://www.iiia.csic.es/en/sta...

The 1980s witnessed the widespread introduction of microcomputer technology into educational institutions and the workplace. Microcomputer software training has achieved mixed results due to both training methods and individual factors, such as computer anxiety. The present research addresses the topic of software training by presenting the results of two studies. The first study validates a me...

Two methods for teaching drug calculation were compared—one using traditional formulabased teaching methods, the other building on students’ existing mathematical problemsolving skills. On the basis of quantitative measures, the formula-based approach appeared more effective. However, students’ interview responses revealed that the learning experiences of the two student groups were quite diffe...

Italian speakers tend to stress the second component of German morphologically complex words such as compounds and prefix verbs even if the first component is lexically stressed. To improve their prosodic phrasing an automatic pronunciation teaching method was developed based on auditory feedback of prosodically corrected utterances in the learners’ own voices. Basically, the method copies cont...

It describes how, at Lankhills, a residential special school in Hampshire, teaching methods are selected according to the principle that mental activity should result in further activity both abstract and appliedThe schemes of work not only carry into practice Spearman's principle of " noegenesis but any work is rejected if, in spite of superficially satisfactory results, it fails to satisfy th...