Questions and Explanations in Sociology

Reason-based explanations and analytical sociology

Text Classification of Student Self-Explanations in College Physics Questions

This study looks at the text data generated from the Asynchronous Peer Instruction tool, DALITE. The goals of this work are two-fold: i) to determine whether the words students use in their self-explanations can be predictive of their success on the related multiple-choice item, or even reveal their uncertainty about the concept being tested; and, ii) to determine if the collection of words use...

Promoting vicarious learning of physics using deep questions with explanations

Two experiments explored the role of vicarious “self” explanations in facilitating student learning gains during computer-presented instruction. In Exp. 1, college students with low or high knowledge on Newton’s laws were tested in four conditions: (a) monologue (M), (b) questions (Q), (c) explanation (E), and (d) question þ explanation (Q þ E). Those with low pre-experimental knowledge levels ...

Asthma: Achievements and Questions in Front

       Asthma, which is mainly distinguished by airway inflammation and bronchial hyper responsiveness, is known as one of the most common chronic diseases worldwide. It also is the most frequent chronic respiratory disorder amongst all age groups. On one side of the asthma story, there are massive investment of time, effort and money, a large number of pharmaceutical and academic research stud...

comparative analysis of the use of hedges & emphatics in english and persian academic research articles of sociology & psychology

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