Clickers might own a bright future in China if properly introduced although they have not been widely acknowledged as an effective tool to facilitate English learning and teaching in Chinese contexts. By randomly selecting participants from undergraduates in a university in China over four academic years, this study aims to identify the impact of clickers on college English listening and speaki...

Preschool-age children (N=58) were randomly assigned to receive instruction in letter names and sounds, letter sounds only, or numbers (control). Multilevel modeling was used to examine letter name and sound learning as a function of instructional condition and characteristics of both letters and children. Specifically, learning was examined in light of letter name structure, whether letter nam...

background : patients with breast cancer are predisposed to some psychiatric symptoms and mental disorders as a result of their diagnosis or lifestyle. these problems cause patients to have daily stress, feelings of guilt, anxiety, a dysphoric mood, and impaired social relations. such problems will lead to serious mental disorders. therefore, life skills training may enable patients to cope bet...

conclusions the results showed that life skills training is an effective method in reducing symptoms of depression, anxiety, sleep and somatic disorders. also, it would be useful in reducing problems of social dysfunction. results in life skills training group, depressive and anxiety symptoms, somatization disorders, sleep disorders and disorders of social functioning were significantly decreas...

Instructional labs are fundamental to an undergraduate physics curriculum, but their possible learning goals vast with limited evidence support any particular goal. In this study, we evaluate the efficacy of different and structures on students’ critical thinking skills views about experimentation, using extensive database survey responses from over 20 000 students at 100 institutions. Here, sh...

abstract background: conflict is the lack of agreement and disagreement between the two men, and behavioral maladjustment or objectives that are in opposition to the other. destructive conflicts are incidents imposed on one or more than one member of the family or the whole family and affect on them. the purpose of this research is to study the effect of solution - focused short-term approach o...

We describe a reinforcement learning system that transfers relational skills from a previously learned source task to a related target task. The system uses inductive logic programming to analyze experience in the source task, and transfers rules about when to take actions. The target-task learner accepts these rules through an advice-taking algorithm. Our system also accepts humanprovided advi...

In this paper we offer a report on a university-level programming laboratory course that has been designed on top of a programming library. The course enforces soft skills, such as code inspection and team working, sharpens implementation skills and creates a bridge between introductory, language-specific instruction and senior-year full-blown programming projects that are usually large but not...