How Can I Make My Abstract More Effective?

How Can I Make My Younger Sibling Stop Crying?

When a baby will not stop crying, it can be frustrating. One well-known trick parents use is holding the child and walking around for a while. We are just now finding out why this trick works. It has to do with what happens in two different parts of the brain: the parasympathetic nervous system (PNS) and the cerebellum. The PNS is the brain’s relaxation command center. When babies are carried, ...

How can I improve my teaching?

There is nothing mysterious about improving teaching. To learn to teach better teachers should: (a) be prepared and motivated to learn; (b) consider their needs and interests in order to specify whay they want to learn; (c) secure feedback and information in relation to the performance or skill they want to learn; and (d) try new teaching methods suggested by the feedback.

How to Make Instructional Explanations in Human Tutoring More Effective

Although tutoring is often dominated by tutor-generated explanations, they are rarely beneficial to tutees’ learning. In line with previous research, the relative ineffectiveness of tutorial explanations might be attributed to tutors’ insufficient skills in assessing tutees’ understanding. We conducted an experiment in which we tested whether the effectiveness of tutor-generated explanations ca...

How Can Personality Factors Contribute to Make Agents More ‘Believable’?

Total Quality Management: How can We Make the Implementation Effective?

Total Quality Management (TQM) has been extensively adopted by many organizations but has not necessarily resulted in the desired levels of effectiveness. A large number of failures have been attributed to faulty implementation. This paper presents the results of a study of implementation processes in hospitals. It examines the role of vision, leadership, momentum of change, teamwork, availabil...