One of the central challenges of integrating game-based learning in school settings is helping learners make the connections between the knowledge learned in the game and the knowledge learned at school, while maintaining a high level of engagement with game narrative and gameplay. The current study evaluated the effect of supplementing a business simulation game with an external conceptual sca...

Challenging scholarly articles are not easy to read and understand by learners. Our previous work shows an innovative learning framework –SOAR (Scholarly Article) validated on a group of learners without research experience on improving their comprehension skill on scholarly articles. In this paper, we present additional result after validating SOAR on novice learners who first time read schola...

Recently, research has become increasingly interested in developing tools that are able to automatically create test items out of text-based learning contents. Such tools might not only support instructors in creating tests or exams but also learners in self-assessing their learning progress. This paper presents an enhanced automatic question-creation tool (EAQC) that has been recently develope...

PURPOSE To determine the effect of self-assessment questions on learners' knowledge and format preference in a Web-based course, and investigate associations between learning styles and outcomes. METHOD The authors conducted a randomized, controlled, crossover trial in the continuity clinics of the Mayo-Rochester internal medicine residency program during the 2003-04 academic year. Case-based...

This study aimed to investigate the relationship between navigational strategies and the use of abused substances in a sample of healthy young adults. Navigational strategies were assessed with the 4-on-8 virtual maze (4/8VM), a task previously shown to dissociate between hippocampal-dependent spatial navigational strategies and caudate nucleus-dependent stimulus-response navigational strategie...

M edical school and residency training are demanding programs. Most learners will complete their training without considerable difficulties. However, up to 1 in 10 learners will experience a problem during their program. During the past 15 years, there has been increased attention devoted to the " resident in diffi culty, " with publications on a variety of topics, including classifi cation sys...

Ensaio: aval. pol. públ. Educ., Rio de Janeiro, v. 19, n. 71, p. 425-442, abr./jun. 2011 Abstract This article argues for an approach to the assessment of students’ translation assignments that is informed by the theory of multiple intelligences proposed by Howard Gardner in 1983 and expanded in his later work. This approach is based on two main strategies: (i) diversity of forms of assessment,...