Recently, a debate has manifested in the spatial learning literature regarding the shape parameters by which mobile organisms orient with respect to the environment. On one hand are principal-axis-based strategies which suggest that organisms extract the major and minor principal axes of space which pass through the centroid and approximate length and width of the entire space, respectively. On...

Curricular reform efforts depend on our ability to determine how courses are taught and how instructional practices affect student outcomes. In this study, we developed a 30-question survey on inquiry-based learning and assessment in undergraduate laboratory courses that was administered to 878 students in 54 courses (41 introductory level and 13 upper level) from 20 institutions (four communit...

1 Trevor S. Harding, Kettering University, Manufacturing Engineering Program, Flint, MI 48504-4898 [email protected] Abstract – The preliminary results of educational research conducted at Kettering University is described in which students in an introductory Engineering Materials course (MFGE-370) were asked to complete a survey on their perceptions of cheating. The overall objective of t...

Proponents of cognitive penetration often argue for the thesis on basis combined intuitions about categorical perception and perceptual learning. The claim is that beliefs penetrate perceptions in course learning to perceive categories. I this "diachronic" false. In order substantiate a robust notion penetration, enable must describe particular ability subjects learn. However, they cannot do so...