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The Longevity of Statistical Learning: When Infant Memory Decays, Isolated Words Come to the Rescue
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Karaman, Ferhat; Hay, Jessica F. – Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition, 2018
Research over the past 2 decades has demonstrated that infants are equipped with remarkable computational abilities that allow them to find words in continuous speech. Infants can encode information about the transitional probability (TP) between syllables to segment words from artificial and natural languages. As previous research has tested…
Descriptors: Infants, Retention (Psychology), Word Recognition, Familiarity
Learning to Give Reverse Causality Explanations for Correlations: Still Hard after All These Tries
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Sibulkin, Amy E.; Butler, J. S. – Teaching of Psychology, 2019
After explicit instruction on how to give possible bidirectional (two-way) causality explanations for a correlation, 240 students from eight sections of social psychology and research methods courses wrote "reverse causality" explanations on various test questions, creating a total of 882 answers. Averaging across multiple graded…
Descriptors: Correlation, Causal Models, Research Methodology, Social Psychology
Informing and Equipping Parents of People with Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities
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Gilson, Cathy B.; Bethun, Lauren K.; Carter, Erik W.; McMillan, Elise D. – Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities, 2017
The importance of supporting families with members who have intellectual and developmental disabilities (IDD) is well established in both policy and research. Yet little is known about how familiar parents are with existing resources (e.g., programs, supports, trainings), what information they would consider most helpful, and how they would prefer…
Descriptors: Developmental Disabilities, Socioeconomic Status, Familiarity, Intellectual Disability
Assessing Tennessee Livestock Producers' Awareness, Attitudes, and Perceptions of Right-of-Way Hay Harvesting
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Greer, Sarah Joy F.; Stripling, Christopher T.; Griffith, Andrew P.; Stephens, Carrie Ann – Journal of Agricultural Education, 2017
Tennessee Statute 54-5-134, Cutting Hay Along Controlled Access Highway Right-of-Way, provided agriculturalists the right to harvest hay along interstate highways' and other controlled access roads' medians and shoulders. Maintenance of these medians and shoulders are routinely contracted to private mowing companies and funded by Tennessee…
Descriptors: Animal Husbandry, Agricultural Occupations, Farm Management, Questionnaires
Documenting the Experiences of Special Education Advocates
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Burke, Meghan M.; Goldman, Samantha E. – Journal of Special Education, 2017
Many parents struggle to advocate for their children with disabilities to obtain services at school. Subsequently, parents may turn to special education advocates to help ensure that their children receive appropriate services. However, it is unclear how special education advocates support families and secure services for children with…
Descriptors: Special Education, Advocacy, Change Agents, Phenomenology
Meeting Stakeholder Energy Technology Education Needs Using a Mobile Demonstration
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de Koff, Jason P.; Ricketts, John C.; Robbins, Chris; Illukpitiya, Prabodh; Wade, Alvin – Journal of Extension, 2017
Understanding the impact of workshops that include mobile demonstrations for describing technical applications can be useful when planning an Extension program on new energy technologies. We used a mobile demonstration in a workshop that provided information on small-scale on-farm biodiesel production. Evaluation of the workshop outcomes…
Descriptors: Technology Education, Stakeholders, Energy, Energy Education