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Reed, Zackery; Lockwood, Elise – Cognition and Instruction, 2021
In this paper, we present data from two iterative teaching experiments involving students' constructions of four basic counting problems. The teaching experiments were designed to leverage the generalizing activities of relating and extending to provide students with opportunities to reflect on initial combinatorial activity when constructing…
Descriptors: Computation, Generalization, Educational Experiments, Cognitive Processes
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Wu, Charley M.; Meder, Björn; Filimon, Flavia; Nelson, Jonathan D. – Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition, 2017
While the influence of presentation formats have been widely studied in Bayesian reasoning tasks, we present the first systematic investigation of how presentation formats influence information search decisions. Four experiments were conducted across different probabilistic environments, where subjects (N = 2,858) chose between 2 possible search…
Descriptors: Questioning Techniques, Information Seeking, Search Strategies, Search Engines
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Plastina, Anna Franca – Language Learning in Higher Education, 2016
The need to teach medical students plain language for their future engagement in pain communication can no longer be underestimated. Pain education has traditionally neglected the teaching of pain language, yet patients' descriptive accounts have been acknowledged as the standard in medical care. English for Medical Purposes (EMP) can make its…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Graduate Students, Medical Students, Pathology