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Failures of Sustained Attention in Life, Lab, and Brain: Ecological Validity of the SART
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Smilek, Daniel; Carriere, Jonathan S. A.; Cheyne, J. Allan – Neuropsychologia, 2010
The Sustained Attention to Response Task (SART) is a widely used tool in cognitive neuroscience increasingly employed to identify brain regions associated with failures of sustained attention. An important claim of the SART is that it is significantly related to real-world problems of sustained attention such as those experienced by TBI and ADHD…
Descriptors: Reliability, Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder, Patients, Measures (Individuals)
Didn't You Run the Spell Checker? Effects of Type of Spelling Error and Use of a Spell Checker on Perceptions of the Author
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Figueredo, Lauren; Varnhagen, Connie K. – Reading Psychology, 2005
We investigated expectations regarding a writer's responsibility to proofread text for spelling errors when using a word processor. Undergraduate students read an essay and completed a questionnaire regarding their perceptions of the author and the quality of the essay. They then manipulated type of spelling error (no error, homophone error,…
Descriptors: Undergraduate Students, Spelling, Word Processing, Error Patterns
Reporting Errors in Studies of the Diagnostic Performance of Self-Administered Questionnaires: Extent of the Problem, Recommendations for Standardized Presentation of Results, and Implications for the Peer Review Process.
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Kessel, Julie B.; Zimmerman, Mark – Psychological Assessment, 1993
To investigate mistakes in the reporting of diagnostic efficiency statistics, all studies of the diagnostic performance of self-report scales in two psychological journals published between 1980 and 1991 were reviewed. Of 26 relevant studies, 9 had an error in calculation of diagnostic efficiency. Implications are discussed. (SLD)
Descriptors: Computation, Diagnostic Tests, Error Patterns, Literature Reviews
Feedback, Retention, Discrimination Error, and Feedback Study Time.
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Dempsey, John V.; And Others – Journal of Research on Computing in Education, 1993
Describes a study of undergraduates in a biology course for nonmajors that examined the effects of four methods of immediate corrective feedback during computer-based instruction (CBI). The relationship between types of corrective feedback and types of errors made by learners during CBI and during a later retention test is also examined. (33…
Descriptors: Biology, Computer Assisted Instruction, Error Patterns, Feedback
The Effects of Online Conjunction Materials on College EFL Students' Writing
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Tseng, Yen-Chu; Liou, Hsien-Chin – System: An International Journal of Educational Technology and Applied Linguistics, 2006
Misuse of English conjunction related to incoherent writing, according to the literature, comes from learners' first language interference, improper mechanical exercises, and misleading lists of connectors in textbooks demonstrated as if mutually interchangeable without contextual constraints. Form-focused instruction with explicit semantic,…
Descriptors: Instructional Design, Student Attitudes, Semantics, Form Classes (Languages)
Variables Affecting Reading Problem of a Thai Graduate Student.
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Adunyarittigun, Dumrong – 1996
This paper examines variables such as linguistic ability in the target language, schemata, and psychological factors affecting the English language reading success or failure of a 31-year-old Thai graduate student in the information system program at a U.S. university. The subject's self-assessment of reading, speaking, and listening in Thai was…
Descriptors: Case Studies, English (Second Language), Error Patterns, Foreign Countries