From the viewpoint of biology, learning and education can be defined as the processes of forming neuronal connections in response to external environmental stimuli, and of controlling or adding appropriate stimuli, respectively. Learning and education can thus be studied as a new field of natural sciences with the entire human life span as its subject, thus including various problems such as fe...

In Belgium, between 3% and 8% of the children in elementary schools have mathematics learning disabilities (MLD). Many of these children have less developed linguistic, procedural, and mental representation skills. Moreover, a majority of the children have been found to show inaccurate prediction and evaluation skills in Grade 3. MLD often become obvious in elementary school. Whereas some child...

More and more learning-disabled adolescents are now being served at the high school level. Usually these students have access to the services of a resource room and attend classes with their nonhandicapped peers. Once integrated in math, English, or civics courses, however, they are then faced with the difficult problem of taking tests, for which many do not have the necessary skills. To increa...

PROBLEM The purpose of this study was to measure the prevalence and characteristics of physical and non-physical WPV in a state-based cohort of education workers. METHOD A sample of 6,450 workers was drawn using de-identified union membership lists, stratified on gender, occupation, and school location. A cross-sectional survey was mailed to participants. RESULTS An estimated 7.8% (95%CI=6....

Teacher educators need to have a clear picture of student teachers’ attitudes towards diversity, disability, learning and teaching, because this knowledge can be helpful in designing teacher education programmes which can prepare future teachers better for work in inclusive settings. Therefore, the study presented in this paper was designed to explore the attitudes of student teachers enrolled ...

Early in 1915 the Philadelphia School of Pedagogy in co-operation with the Division of Medical Inspection and the Department of Instruction of the Public Schools organized a system of psychological testing of the pupils in the special classes. Although the public schools have had the advantage of the active co-operation of the Psychological Clinic of the University of Pennsylvania, it has been ...

We show that the sum capacity of “spatially wellcorrelated” Gaussian MIMO broadcast channel (BC) is rather larger than that of the uncorrelated (i.i.d. Rayleigh fading) Gaussian MIMO BC, assuming a special structure of transmit correlation of users. Moreover, a potential sum-rate gap of an ideal correlated Rayleigh fading channel is shown to be M logM over the uncorrelated case, where M is the ...