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Jörg D. Jescheniak; Stefan Wöhner; Herbert Schriefers – Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition, 2024
Adaptive models of word production hold that lexical processing is shaped by recent production episodes. In particular, the models proposed by Howard et al. (2006) and Oppenheim et al. (2010) assume that the connection strength between semantic and lexical representations is updated continuously, on each use of a word. These changes make…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, College Students, Word Recognition, Interference (Learning)
Beckmann, Jennifer; Bertel, Sven; Zander, Steffi – International Association for Development of the Information Society, 2015
Adaptive e-Learning systems are able to adjust to a user's learning needs, usually by user modeling or tracking progress. Such learner-adaptive behavior has rapidly become a hot topic for e-Learning, furthered in part by the recent rapid increase in the use of MOOCs (Massive Open Online Courses). A lack of general, individual, and situational data…
Descriptors: Electronic Learning, Cognitive Style, Visual Learning, Verbal Learning
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Buck-Coleman, Audra – Visible Language, 2010
Graphic design's messages can reach across streets and across the globe; they can bring together countries, communities and strangers for a common cause; they can also serve to divide otherwise amenable neighbors. Design students must fully understand this potential reach and thus the responsibility they have to create tolerant, informed messages.…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Graphic Arts, Design, Cultural Pluralism
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Janssen, Diederik F. – Discourse: Studies in the Cultural Politics of Education, 2006
This paper addresses the scarcity of research on depictions and layout in sex education materials. It is argued that pictures and layout can inform an analysis of social stratification based on visual access. This process of social organization is located using four theoretical models. However these models do not lend themselves to a close reading…
Descriptors: Sex Education, Models, Social Stratification, Social Organizations
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Garnett, Steve – Teaching History, 2005
Steve Garnett, a senior teacher in charge of Teaching and Learning at Garibaldi College of Maths and Computing in Mansfield, Nottinghamshire, shares some of the techniques that he uses to involve different kinds of learners in his post-16 lessons, and explains how he arrived at these approaches after reflecting on problems in his own early…
Descriptors: History Instruction, Retention (Psychology), Teaching Methods, Puppetry