Butler (2010: Experiment 3) showed that retrieval practice enhanced transfer to a new knowledge domain compared to rereading. The first experiment of the present study was a direct replication of Butler's third experiment. Participants studied text passages and then either reread them three times or went through three cycles of cued recall questions (i.e., retrieval practice) with feedback. As ...

Facilitating the provision of detailed, deep and useful feedback is an important design feature of any educational programme. Here we evaluate feedback provided to medical students completing short transferable skills projects. Feedback quantity and depth were evaluated before and after a simple intervention to change the structure of the feedback-provision form from a blank free-text feedback ...

Feedback has been shown to play a complex role in visual perceptual learning. It is necessary for performance improvement in some conditions while not others. Different forms of feedback, such as trial-by-trial feedback or block feedback, may both facilitate learning, but with different mechanisms. False feedback can abolish learning. We account for all these results with the Augmented Hebbian ...

Although error avoidance during learning appears to be the rule in American classrooms, laboratory studies suggest that it may be a counterproductive strategy, at least for neurologically typical students. Experimental investigations indicate that errorful learning followed by corrective feedback is beneficial to learning. Interestingly, the beneficial effects are particularly salient when indi...

Abstract Citizen science education is a new approach in for promoting scientific inquiry related to localized problems and engaging social action based on results. Using agency as lens understanding teachers’ practices when using this important. In ethnographic case study, teacher implementing citizen program Arduino was investigated from an ecological temporal relational dimensions of agency. ...

We describe a new methodology to infer sentiments held towards identities and behaviors from social events that we extract from a large corpus of newspaper text. Our approach draws on Affect Control Theory, a mathematical model of how sentiment is encoded in social events and culturally-shared views towards identities and behaviors. While most sentiment analysis approaches evaluate concepts on ...

Television ads can be classified as either arguments or dramas or hybrids of these forms. We claim that form dimension influences how ads are processed. An argument backs its claims with appeals to objectivity and is processed evaluatively. A drama appeals more to subjective criteria and is processed empathically. A study is reported in which 40 television commercials were classified on a drama...

Although laboratory research indicates that social-evaluative threat evokes a physical stress response, naturalistic studies of its situational determinants remain scarce. This work investigates the correlates of naturally occurring social-evaluative threats and tests the effects of situational control and social-evaluative threat on cardiovascular functioning. A total of 99 undergraduate stude...

Abstract Philosophers and linguists currently lack the means to reliably identify evaluative concepts measure their intensity. Using a corpus-based approach, we present new method distinguish evaluatively thick thin adjectives like ‘courageous’ ‘awful’ from descriptive ‘narrow,’ value-associated ‘sunny.’ Our study suggests that modifiers ‘truly’ ‘really’ frequently highlight dimension of adject...

Trait adjectives commonly employed in person perception studies have both evaluative and denotative meanings. Evaluative ratings of single traits shift with variations in the context of other traits ascribed to the stimulus person; the extent to which denotative changes underlie these evaluative context effects has been a theoretical controversy. In the first experiment, it was shown that conte...