Neste trabalho são discutidos os resultados de uma sequência didática baseada no método Peer Instruction para o ensino de circuitos elétricos, aplicada em sete turmas de ensino médio integrado a cursos técnicos. Os dados obtidos, em dois testes iguais, antes e depois da aplicação do método, foram analisados a partir do ganho normalizado ou ganho de Hake, e comparados a trabalhos na literatura n...

Contextualized Extraversion and Its Change in Cross-cultural Adjustment ByMengqiao LiuAugust 2014Advisor: Dr. Jason L. HuangMajor: Psychology (Industrial-Organizational)Degree: Master of Arts Bridging recent developments in personality changes and contextualizedpersonality, the current research focuses on changes in contextualized personality andtheir impact on cross...

Computational models of semantics infer semantic structure from the analysis of large linguistic corpora. Two approaches are described here. In each case the data consist of a document-by-word matrix, counting the number of times a word was used in a document. Latent Semantic Analysis uses dimension reduction to construct a high-dimensional semantic space from such a matrix. Information in sema...

Corpus-based research has shown that the frequency of use of particular grammatical structures and lexis in English is not always congruent with the content or ordering of explicit rules in pedagogical materials. The present study provides an additional example from French, focusing on word-order rules related to adjective position and the (in)congruity of those rules with classroom input and t...

The exploratory research reported in this article was designed to determine the processes and outcomes of planning thematic literacy instruction in a holistic and contextualized manner. The work was conducted in an upper-elementary, self-contained setting for students identified as learning disabled. Specifically, the instructional activities included (a) interactive readings from literature on...

In this supplementary material, we present some additional details and results for our paper. The sampling procedure used in our graphical model is in Section 2. The entire set of 46 orientation fields used as the “library” FOFs are presented in Section 3. Comparison of our segmentation results to various other methods is presented in Section 4. In Section 5, we compare our model to other model...

PURPOSE A 6-month pilot study was conducted to test the assumption that an interactive, contextualized tooth brushing education program would impact the oral hygiene of low income students. METHODS The intervention consisted of an educational program focused on tooth brushing that included interactive sessions with dental professionals and teachers. School 1 students received instruction, too...

A mixed-methods study examines the impact of pandemic-driven move to virtual learning on K-12 (kindergarten through twelfth grade) English teacher experiences in Saudi Arabia inform future development teaching country. Research is limited instruction country, and it just emerging pandemic’s education MENA region. The 35 subjects were educators who completed government-sponsored professional pro...

An important component of metacognition relates to the understanding and use of strategies. Thus, measuring and supporting students’ strategy understanding in complex open-ended learning environments is an important challenge. However, measuring students’ strategy use and understanding is a difficult undertaking. In this paper, we present our design for representing and supporting students in t...