Promoting intolerance: learning from warts

Promoting Sustainable Insect Management Strategies: Learning from Organic Farmers

assessing metacognitive awareness and learning strategies as positive predictors in promoting l2 learners’ reading comprehension

the purpose of this thesis was to investigate how differently metacognitive, cognitive, and social/affective strategies affect l2 learners’ reading comprehension. to this end, the study employed a quasi-experimental design with a placement test as a proficiency test to find the homogeneity of groups. three classes were randomly selected as the experimental groups (n =90), and each class was tau...

Promoting Active Learning at SHSU

The use of active learning techniques in the university classroom is a proven and widely accepted strategy to improve learning outcomes and increase student engagement. Although relatively new to higher education pedagogy, active learning has been adopted by several faculty members at SHSU, from such seemingly distinct fields as mathematics, english, and philosophy. This proposed initiative see...

Promoting Self Directed Learning Skills

To be successful university learners, first year students need to develop skills in self directed learning. This encompasses a range of cognitive and meta-cognitive skills including generating one’s own learning goals, planning how to tackle a problem, evaluating whether learning goals have been met, and re-planning based on this evaluation. Based on qualitative analysis of online learning logs...

Anogenital Warts

Anogenital warts are caused by infection with HPV. There are >100 of these double-stranded-DNA papovaviruses characterised, with most now fully DNA-sequenced. HPV is transmitted sexually in most cases but can also be transmitted prenatally, by auto-inoculation or hetero-inoculation from non-genital warts. Anogenital warts have a 60% transmission rate between partners. Over 95% of genital warts ...