When students read textbooks in the classroom, they usually apply active reading. The practice of marking in university textbooks is a familiar one. They scribble comments on the margin, highlight elements, underline words and phrases, and correlate distinct parts to foster critical thinking. While the use of annotations during active reading supports the students themselves, these can also be ...

In recent years, an increasing number of Ateneo students have been taking an interest in the Japanese language. For Ateneo students beginning their study of the language however, Japanese particles are difficult concepts because they cannot be translated to equivalent words in English. For a beginner learner, it is inevitable to view a second language with the lens of a first language as shown ...

Although biology textbooks are still full of factual knowledge, the tendency to teach science using a systems perspective is emerging. Qualitative representations are well suited to express, reason and communicate systems knowledge, particularly for science education. This contribution shows how a systems perspective can be imposed on typical problems taken from biology textbooks. The presented...

Background: Majority of the textbooks for undergraduate midwifery students of Iran are educational resources for obstetricians. Therefore, the topic of Professional Labor Support is not taught well to these students. This study aimed to determine the effect of Professional Labor Support education to midwifery students (based on midwifery textbooks) on satisfaction of women who gave birth under ...

The authors argue that some diagrams in biology textbooks and the popular press presented as depicting evolutionary relationships suggest an inappropriate (anagenic) conception of evolutionary history. The goal of this research was to provide baseline data that begin to document how college students conceptualize the evolutionary relationships depicted in such noncladogenic diagrams and how the...

Many concepts in neuromuscular physiology can be difficult for instructors to teach and for students to understand. The behaviors of various components in neuromuscular systems do not always interact in obvious ways, and the function of hundreds of components can be very different from the function of just one or two "representatives." In this paper, a simulator is presented that can model both...

Sir William Osler, one of modern medicine’s greatest teachers, said “To study the phenomena of disease without books is to sail an uncharted sea, while to study books without patients is not to go to sea at all” [1]. Indeed, medical students arriving on the wards for the first time are acutely aware that they are embarking on a new voyage, and their excitement is palpable. As they set sail, wit...

A number of introductory textbooks for Haskell use calculations right from the start to give the reader insight into the evaluation of expressions and the behavior of functional programs. In fact, many programming concepts that are considered to be important by the functional programming paradigm, such as recursion, higher-order functions, pattern-matching, and lazy evaluation, can be explained...

Some students with intellectual disabilities require explicit instruction of language skills, including preposition use; however, little is known about effective ways to teach preposition use to this population. This study examined direct instruction (DI) to teach students to use and respond to prepositions. Results indicated that DI was an effective way to teach prepositions. Limitations and d...