Building upon self-regulated learning theories, we examined the nature of student writing goals and the relationship of these writing goals to revision alone and in combination with two other important sources of students’ self-regulated revision—peer comments on their writing, and reflections for their own writing obtained from reviewing others’ writing. Data were obtained from a large introdu...

BACKGROUND Dislocation may complicate revision total hip arthroplasty (THA). We examined the correlation between the components revised during hip arthroplasty (femur only, acetabulum only and both components) to the rates of dislocation in the first and multiple revision THA. METHODS We obtained data from consecutive revision THAs performed between January 1982 and December 2005. Patients we...

This study investigates how college students solve their cognitive conflicts when receiving peers’ suggestions and corrections in online text revision. A sample of 45 undergraduate students were recruited to read their peer writers’ texts, edit peer writers’ errors, evaluate peer editors’ corrections and suggestions, and finally rewrite their own texts. Stratified sampling was employed to ident...

We present outcomes from curricular changes made to an introductory calculus-based physics course whose audience is primarily life sciences majors, the majority of whom plan to pursue postbaccalaureate studies in medical and scientific fields. During the 2011-2012 academic year, we implemented a Physics of the Life Sciences curriculum centered on a draft textbook that takes a novel approach to ...

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to explore students’ perceptions and views of the instructors, in relation to information and communications technology (ICT) education in library and information science (LIS) programs. Design/methodology/approach – A questionnaire survey was carried out among students from the two LIS departments in Kuwait. A focus group was conducted with faculty member...

Abstract Students’ understanding of forces in circular motion is often incomplete. The problems are not limited to confusions about centripetal acceleration and centrifugal forces. This paper considers possible effects different interventions by a teacher who has discovered the many types free-body diagrams drawn students for vertical plane. show lack attention lengths force arrows direction si...