How do we learn non-physical properties of physical objects? We explored how the statistical structure of events can be a source of object property learning. Twenty-five participants saw sequences of visual events surrounding two distinct objects. Object identity determined 1) the direction of a high transition probability between two events, and 2) the frequency of two other events. Learning w...

Abstract Although the effects of professional development programs on teachers’ noticing skills have attracted considerable interest among mathematics education researchers, little is known about developmental process prospective within initial teacher education. This paper examines extent to which are developed through courses taken program using exemplarily topic division fractions. The study...

People often fail to notice unexpected objects and events when they are focusing attention on something else. Most studies of this "inattentional blindness" use unexpected objects that are irrelevant to the primary task and to the participant (e.g., gorillas in basketball games or colored shapes in computerized tracking tasks). Although a few studies have examined noticing rates for personally ...

This study examined the role of output-first presentation of vocabulary tasks in noticing lexical items and enhancing vocabulary knowledge of EFL learners. The participants were 103 elementary level female Iranian EFL learners who were randomly divided into three groups: input-only, inputoutput, and output-input groups. After all participants took a placement test and a vocabulary pretest, the ...