This paper introduces a set of English grammar symbols that the author has developed to enhance students’ understanding and consequently, application of the English grammar rules. A pretest-posttest control-group design was carried out in which the samples were students in two girls’ senior high schools (N=135, P ≤ 0.05) divided into two groups: the Treatment which received gramm...

Japan has been aging faster than other industrialized nations, and its experience offers useful lessons to others. Japan has been willing to expand its welfare state with a long-term care (LTC) insurance to finance home care and nursing home care for frail elderly. As Ikegami shows, it created new facilities and expanded specialized staffing for home care, developed a c...

BACKGROUND Integration of physical active academic lessons in the school curriculum may be an innovative way to improve academic outcomes. This study examined the effect of physically active academic lessons (Fit en Vaardig op school) on academic engagement of socially disadvantaged children and children without this disadvantage. In addition, the relationship between lesson time spent in moder...

PROGRAM IMPLEMENTATION GUIDANCE | Essential Obstetric and Newborn Care 1 This Essential Obstetric and Newborn Care (EONC) Program Implementation Guidance outlines key steps, identifies available resources, and shares lessons learned to help country programs, donors, and governments to develop highquality and relevant EONC interventions. This guidance presents experience, evidence and lessons le...

This paper presents the results of an experiment using videoconference as a teaching resource in distance courses. CU-SeeMe and Real technology were tested for transmitting lessons live and recording lessons for asynchronous attendance. The results were assessed for later use in AulaNetTM — an environment for web-based learning.

The paper presents lessons learned in relation to changing work practices in design. We describe method dissemination activities in three IT-organisations in relation to introducing a method for design in an organisational context. From the activities a number of lessons are drawn.

A decade of research, development, and implementation of Group Support Systems has occasioned the learning of many lessons. This paper uses a heuristic model to compare group support systems to other groupware, and then summarizes many lessons learned about GSS in the laboratory

We describe three case studies in the use of Basic LOTOS. The studies cover design recovery, requirements speci cation, and design activities. We also report lessons learned from the studies. Early lessons suggested changes to the syntax of the language used, and the need for some speci c analysis tools. The last case study reports some of the results of these changes.

Many aspects of ECI—its theory of action, its administrative structure, the incentives it created, and its strategy for inducing the state to take over financial responsibility—suggest lessons for future largescale private-public initiatives. This chapter discusses those lessons, presents some promising alternative models for the design of ECE initiatives, and addresses some of the public-polic...