Does visual redundancy inhibit older persons’ information processing in learning?     

Robert Zheng  Derek Smith  Marilyn Luptak  Robert D. Hill  Justin Hill  Randall Rupper 《Educational gerontology》2013,39(9):635-645

ABSTRACT

This study investigated the redundancy effect on older and younger persons’ cognitive performance in a caregiver video training. Participants (N = 92) were recruited from one research-intensive university and three senior centers in a midsize city in the western United States. The mixed within- and between-subjects design was used. Participants watched the caregiving video with caption followed by a video without caption or vice versa depending on the condition. The results showed that older persons benefited from the redundancy learning whereas younger persons suffered from the redundancy learning. Implications of the findings are discussed with suggestions for future research.  相似文献   

Playable Case Studies: A New Educational Genre for Technical Writing Instruction     

Jon Balzotti  Derek Hansen 《Technical Communication Quarterly》2013,22(4):407-421

ABSTRACT

A Playable Case Study (PCS) is a hybrid learning experience where students (1) participate in a fictional narrative that unfolds through an immersive, simulated environment and (2) engage in classroom activities and lessons that provide educational scaffolding and promote metacognition through in-game and out-of-game experiences. We present the Microcore PCS to illustrate the potential of this new type of experiential simulation that incorporates aspects of Alternate Reality Games (ARGs) to increase immersion and teach workplace literacies in the technical communication classroom. We explore results from a pilot test of Microcore with an undergraduate technical communication course, identifying design strategies that worked well and others that led to improvements that are currently being incorporated. We also provide questions to prompt future research of playable case studies and discuss our findings in a broader context of technical communication pedagogy.  相似文献   

Student Engagement and Institutional Graduation Rates: Identifying High-Impact Educational Practices for Community Colleges     

Derek V. Price  Esau Tovar 《Community College Journal of Research & Practice》2013,37(9):766-782

Philanthropists, researchers, policymakers, and practitioners are increasingly focused on a college completion crisis in the United States. Collectively and independently, they have called for increasing the number of adults with postsecondary certificates and degrees as a national imperative. Using the 2007 administration of the Community College Survey of Student Engagement (CCSSE), this article explores the statistical relationships between student engagement, as measured by the CCSSE, and institutional graduation rates reported to the Integrated Postsecondary Education Data System (IPEDS). Both bivariate correlations and hierarchical multiple regression analyses yielded results that reinforce the salience of student engagement as an important predictor of college completion. Specifically, the CCSSE student engagement benchmarks of active and collaborative learning and support for learners are positive predictors of institutional graduation rates. The article concludes with suggestions around instructional practices and institutional policies to consider for community college leaders committed to the completion agenda.  相似文献   

Towards a Taxonomy of Mentoring   总被引：1，自引：1，他引：0  

Derek Glover  Gerry Gough  Michael Johnson  George Mardle  Mervyn Taylor 《Mentoring & Tutoring: Partnership in Learning》2013,21(2):25-30

Initial Teacher Education in England and Wales is currently undergoing substantial change. In particular, the government has insisted on increased time for school‐based work, on the development of training partnerships between schools and higher education providers, including the transfer of training funds from universities to schools, and on a competence model of assessment. This article focuses on one of the new partnership training courses. Using two of the areas of competence, Subject Knowledge and Subject Application, it explores the reality of partnership from the perspectives of students, school mentors and university tutors as they work through the first year of the new course. Finally, the writers present a series of questions for all those involved as the basis for developing such courses and for ensuring the quality of teacher education.  相似文献   

Constituting “the People” as Rhetorical Interruption: Barack Obama and the Unfinished Hopes of an Imperfect People     

Derek Sweet  Margret McCue-Enser 《Communication Studies》2013,64(5):602-622

This article explores how Barack Obama's oratory positions “the people” as a site of ongoing rhetorical negotiation regarding national identity, ideology, and potentiality. Like the subjects implicated in Charland's consideration of constitutive rhetoric, “the people” of Obama's rhetoric emerge as the choosers, deciders, and accomplishers of collaborative identity performance. Unlike Charland's subjects, however, Obama's rhetoric of imperfection and dissent positions “the people” as never fully constituted but always engaged in the act of constitution. The people, like the country they constitute, are flawed, never perfect, and always in the process of perfecting.  相似文献   

Spatial Visualization of Human Anatomy through Art Using Technical Drawing Exercises     

Youjin Na  Derek W. Clary  Zakary B. Rose-Reneau  Larry Segars  Andrea Hanson  Philip Brauer  Barth W. Wright  Sarah A. Keim 《Anatomical sciences education》2022,15(3):587-598

Spatial visualization, the ability to mentally rotate three-dimensional (3D) images, plays a significant role in anatomy education. This study examines the impact of technical drawing exercises on the improvement of spatial visualization and anatomy education in a Neuroscience course. First-year medical students (n = 84) were randomly allocated into a control group (n = 41) or art-training group (n = 43). Variables including self-reported artistic drawing ability, previous technical drawing experience, or previous anatomy laboratory exposure were gathered. Participants who self-identified as artistic individuals were equally distributed between the two groups. Students in the art-training group attended four 1-hour sessions to solve technical drawing worksheets. All participants completed two Mental Rotations Tests (MRT), which were used to assess spatial visualization. Data were also collected from two neuroscience written examinations and an anatomical “tag test” practical examination. Participants in the art-training and control groups improved on the MRT. The mean of written examination two was significantly higher (P = 0.007) in the art-training group (12.95) than the control group (11.48), and higher (P = 0.027) in those without technical drawing experience (12.44) than those with (11.00). The mean of the anatomical practical was significantly higher (P = 0.010) in those without artistic ability (46.24) than those with (42.00). These results suggest that completing technical drawing worksheets may aid in solving anatomy-based written examination questions on complex brain regions, but further research is needed to determine its implication on anatomy practical scores. These results propose a simple method of improving spatial visualization in anatomy education.  相似文献   

Exploring student perceptions of the learning environment in four health professions education programs     

Rusticus  Shayna A.  Wilson  Derek  Jarus  Tal  O’Flynn-Magee  Kathy  Albon  Simon 《Learning Environments Research》2022,25(1):59-73

Learning Environments Research - The desire to support student learning and professional development, in combination with accreditation requirements, necessitates the need to evaluate the learning...  相似文献   

Why there is no poststructuralism in France: the making of an intellectual generation     

Derek Robbins 《比较教育学》2018,54(3):432-434

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US sovereignty must not be defended: Critical education against Russiagate     

Derek R. Ford 《Educational Philosophy and Theory》2019,51(1):14-17

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Myth of the Inferior Status of Vocational Education: The Case of Hong Kong     

Thomas Siu Ho Yau  Ming Lun Chung  Ho Ching Li  Derek Wai Sun Chun 《Chinese Education & Society》2018,51(6):476-490

Abstract

In this article, factors contributing to the poor perceptions and inferior status of vocational education in Hong Kong are discussed. Critical discourse analysis (CDA) is employed as the methodology in examining the discursive construction of vocational education in the policy context. A total of five policy documents published between 1970 and 2015 are included. Our findings show that the socioeconomic transformation of Hong Kong in recent decades, massification of higher education, and cultural factors such as parental expectations are pertinent to the stigmatization observed in vocational education. This article discusses the implications from the findings and concludes with possible solutions for the future development of vocational education in Hong Kong under the novel vocational and professional education and training (VPET) initiative launched by the government.  相似文献