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Van Assche, Eva; Duyck, Wouter; Gollan, Tamar H. – Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition, 2013
The current study investigated the scope of bilingual language control differentiating between whole-language control involving control of an entire lexicon specific to 1 language and lexical-level control involving only a restricted set of recently activated lexical representations. To this end, we tested 60 Dutch-English (Experiment 1) and 64…
Descriptors: Whole Language Approach, Bilingual Education, Lexicology, Phonemes
McGuire, Lauren A. – ProQuest LLC, 2010
This study investigated the effect of direct instruction in rhetorical analysis on students' critical thinking abilities, including knowledge, skills, and dispositions. The researcher investigated student perceptions of the effectiveness of argument mapping; Thinker's Guides, based on Paul's model of critical thinking; and Socratic questioning.…
Descriptors: Direct Instruction, Pretests Posttests, Critical Thinking, Student Attitudes
Lipka, Sara – Chronicle of Higher Education, 2008
When a freshman at San Diego State University (SDSU) died of a cocaine overdose last May, the campus police chief decided to pursue a full-scale investigation. In December, he summoned undercover agents from the federal Drug Enforcement Administration to pose as students and roam the campus in search of illegal drugs. According to college…
Descriptors: Investigations, Police, Drug Use, College Presidents
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Levine, Mark; Guy, Paul; Straus, Peter; Levine, H. T. – American Journal of Business Education, 2009
The present study investigates whether pre-business students, after having completed a traditional in class freshmen introduction to global business course, express a difference in preference for such a course to be delivered online versus classroom or no preference at all. The study further explores whether four variables: 1) number of units of…
Descriptors: Delivery Systems, Preferences, Online Courses, Conventional Instruction
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Honda, Jeffrey Y. – Bioscene: Journal of College Biology Teaching, 2008
Forensic entomologists utilize insects (particularly flies) to establish the time interval between death and body discovery. This important piece of information may answer questions as to the circumstances of the individual's death and insects are now routinely utilized and recognized as being important forensic indicators. Of extreme importance…
Descriptors: Identification, Entomology, Genetics, Databases