The National Scientific Qualification (ASN) has been introduced as a prerequisite for applying for a tenured associate or full professor position at state-recognized Italian universities. The ASN is meant to attest that an individual has reached a suitable level of scientific maturity to apply for professorship positions. A controversial aspect of the ASN is its reliance on quantitative indicat...

This study examined the cardiac concomitants of feedback processing in a time production task derived from [Mittner et al., J. Cogn. Neurosci. 9 (1997) 788]. Participants performed the time production task (i.e. 1-s intervals) under two conditions. In the experimental condition, feedback informed them that the produced interval was within or outside the acceptable range (too long or too short)....

In this paper, we bring together research on active learning and intuitive physics to explore how people learn about “microworlds” with continuous spatiotemporal dynamics. Participants interacted with objects in simple two-dimensional worlds governed by a physics simulator, with the goal of identifying latent physical properties such as mass and forces of attraction or repulsion. We find an adv...

Although function transfer often has been studied in complex operant procedures (such as matching to sample), whether operant reinforcement actually produces function transfer in such settings has not been established. The present experiments, with high school students as subjects, suggest that stimulus pairings can promote function transfer in conditions that closely approximate those of match...

The role of oral corrective feedback has been investigated by SLA researchers from various perspectives. Focusing on Iranian EFL context, the present study aimed to explore the role of receiving corrective feedback in the learning of English grammatical structures. It also probed the association between the type of corrective feedback and EFL learners’ learning styles. This was an experimental ...

How can we help college students develop problem-solving skills in engineering? To answer this question, we asked a group of engineering freshmen to learn about electrical circuit analysis with an instructional program that presented different problem-solving practice and feedback methods. Three findings are of interest. First, students who practiced by solving all problem steps and those who p...

Usually writing teachers feel commitment to provide their learners with corrective feedback (CF) to their linguistic errors. The study investigated whether two types of written corrective feedback, indirect focused corrective feedback and indirect unfocused corrective feedback, produced differential effects on the accurate use of grammatical forms by high intermediate EFL learners. In this stud...