We used a set of action verbs based on Bloom’s taxonomy to assess learning outcomes in two college-level introductory psychology courses. The action verbs represented an acronym, IDEA, comprising skills relating to identifying, defining or describing, evaluating or explaining, and applying psychological knowledge. Exam performance demonstrated that higher level cognitive skills in Bloom’s taxon...

Six learning disabled boys served as subjects in a study designed to examine the effects of two instructional conditions on Word recognition. In one instructional condition, students practiced reading exclusively in connected text (contextualized practice). In a second condition, reading in connected text was supplemented with drill on isolated word units (decontextualized practice). Students s...

objectives: verbal self-instruction strategy is one of the useful techniques for treating individual with learning disability. the purpose of the present study was to determine the effect of verbal self-instructional package on the social competence of students with learning disability. methods: the study was done in a quasi-experimental research and pre-test, post-test design with control grou...

BACKGROUND Presently, most medical educators rely exclusively on item difficulty and discrimination indices to investigate an item's psychometric quality and functioning. We argue "instructional familiarity" effects should also be of primary concern for persons attempting to discern the quality and meaning of a set of test scores. AIM There were four primary objectives of this study: (1) Revi...

• Indicate to the student that they have a responsibility to learn, • Allow students to check if the programme is being delivered, • Create a framework for assessing the students and evaluating teaching programs. Objectives should be: • Comprehensive, • Dynamic. Essential criteria for the objectives should be that they communicate instructional intent, that they are specific and testable. Instr...

Objectives: Verbal self-instruction strategy is one of the useful techniques for treating individual with learning disability. The purpose of the present study was to determine the effect of Verbal Self-instructional Package on the social competence of students with learning disability. Methods: The study was done in a quasi-experimental research and pre-test, post-test design with control g...

a r t i c l e i n f o Keywords: Community of Inquiry Instructional strategies Online discussions Critical thinking Cognitive presence Distance education Online discussion questions, which reflect differing instructional strategies, can take many forms and it is important for designers and instructors to understand how the various strategies can impact students' critical thinking levels. For the...