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Adam B. Wilson; Boon Huat Bay; Jessica N. Byram; Melissa A. Carroll; Gabrielle M. Finn; Niels Hammer; Sabine Hildebrandt; Claudia Krebs; Jonathan J. Wisco; Jason M. Organ – Anatomical Sciences Education, 2024
Systematic reviews and meta-analyses aggregate research findings across studies and populations, making them a valuable form of research evidence. Over the past decade, studies in medical education using these methods have increased by 630%. However, many manuscripts are not publication-ready due to inadequate planning and insufficient analyses.…
Descriptors: Literature Reviews, Guidelines, Meta Analysis, Evidence
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Mary Bottomley; Jodie Bradley; Lisa Clark; Bryan Collis; Bojana Daw Srdanovic; Victoria Farnsworth; Annie Ferguson; Dan Goodley; Andrew Fox; Nikita K. Hayden; Charlotte Lawthom; Rebecca Lawthom; Claudia Magwood; Robert McLean; Ian Middleton; Alison Owen; Matty Prothero; Simon Rice; Simon Richards; Katherine Runswick-Cole; Kelly Scargill; Rohit Shankar; Toni Ann Wood – British Journal of Learning Disabilities, 2024
Background: We are a research team of clinical, academic and advocacy-based researchers with and without learning disabilities, working on the "Humanising Healthcare" (for people with learning disabilities) project. The project is dedicated to finding and sharing healthcare practices that enhance the lives of people with learning…
Descriptors: Ethics, Learning Disabilities, Guidelines, Researchers
Soiferman, L. Karen – Online Submission, 2018
The purpose of this article was to look at some of the issues students have with reading and interpreting their instructors' post-secondary writing prompts. Every student, who attends a post-secondary institution, will at some point in their university/college career be asked to submit a writing assignment of some kind. The most common assignment…
Descriptors: College Faculty, Writing Instruction, Writing Assignments, Prompting
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Donald, Ashleigh J.; Kelly-Campbell, Rebecca J. – Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research, 2016
Objective: The purpose of this study was twofold: first, to evaluate a typical pediatric diagnostic audiology report to establish its readability and comprehensibility for parents and, second, to revise the report to improve its readability, as well as the comprehension, sense of self-efficacy, and positive opinions of parent readers. Method: In…
Descriptors: Pediatrics, Children, Hearing Impairments, Reports
Hustus, Hunter – ProQuest LLC, 2015
President Obama's 2009 speech in Prague is remembered as a call for the eventual elimination of nuclear weapons. It reinvigorated a long-overdue policy debate in the United States and Europe. Unfortunately, that debate is characterized by a focus on arsenal size that borders on numerology, a lack of imagination consistent with presentism, and…
Descriptors: Weapons, Guidelines, Nuclear Energy, Mixed Methods Research
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Rosli, D'oria Islamiah – Turkish Online Journal of Educational Technology - TOJET, 2015
Human error is a crucial problem in manufacturing industries. Due to the misinterpretation of information on interface system design, accidents or death may occur at workplace. Lack of human cognition criteria in interface system design is also one of the contributions to the failure in using the system effectively. Therefore, this paper describes…
Descriptors: Manufacturing, Industry, Information Technology, Engineering
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Boustedt, Jonas – Computer Science Education, 2012
The software industry needs well-trained software designers and one important aspect of software design is the ability to model software designs visually and understand what visual models represent. However, previous research indicates that software design is a difficult task to many students. This article reports empirical findings from a…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Computer Software, Computer Science Education, Programming
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Miller, Susan P.; Hudson, Pamela J. – TEACHING Exceptional Children, 2006
Many students with disabilities continue to struggle with understanding what mathematics means. They memorize basic facts or step-by-step mathematical procedures without understanding the underlying concepts related to the problems. Thus, instruction designed to help students understand the meaning of the mathematics that they are learning in…
Descriptors: Guidelines, Mathematical Concepts, Mathematics Instruction, Comprehension
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Formanek, Ruth – Elementary School Journal, 1974
Explores questions related to children's experience with death. Areas discussed are: (1) adult response to the child; (2) issues raised; (3) behavior reactions; (4) developmental influences on response; and (5) adult reactions. Guidelines are given to aid the adult in handling a child's reaction to death. (Author/SDH)
Descriptors: Age Differences, Children, Comprehension, Death
Wiggins, Grant; McTighe, Jay – Association for Supervision and Curriculum Development, 2005
How do you know when students understand something? How can you design learning experiences that make it much more likely that students understand content and apply it in meaningful ways? Since 1998, thousands of educators have used "Understanding by Design" to answer these questions and create more rigorous and engaging curricula. Now, this…
Descriptors: Teaching Methods, Comprehension, Inferences, Cognitive Processes
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Galen, Harlene – Young Children, 1972
Author describes practical guidelines for teachers in handling the subject of death with young children. (Editor)
Descriptors: Comprehension, Death, Emotional Development, Guidelines
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Hatcher, Barbara – Childhood Education, 1983
Discusses four concepts considered vital to the development of children's ability to read and understand maps: representation, symbolization, perspective, and scale. Guidelines are offered for map construction activities aligned on a developmental continuum ranging from concrete to abstract and intended for children up to third grade. (RH)
Descriptors: Basic Skills, Comprehension, Elementary School Students, Guidelines
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Hiebert, James – Elementary School Journal, 1984
Argues that many children have difficulty learning school mathematics because its abstract and formal nature is much different from the intuitive and informal mathematics the children acquire. Begins by differentiating form and understanding and then focuses on young children's beginning skills and older children's knowledge. Concludes by…
Descriptors: Comprehension, Elementary Education, Elementary School Students, Guidelines
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Dalal, Nikunj P.; Quible, Zane; Wyatt, Katherine – Information Processing & Management, 2000
Discusses the design of Web pages and describes an empirical study of undergraduates that investigated whether home pages designed according to cognitive theoretical guidelines lead to better comprehension of information at a Web site. Presents results of multivariate and univariate analyses of variance. (Author/LRW)
Descriptors: Analysis of Variance, Comprehension, Guidelines, Higher Education
Chavkin, Nancy Feyl; Williams, David L., Jr. – 1984
This executive summary reports particulars concerning the development of guidelines and strategies for training preservice and inservice elementary school educators about parent involvement, and provides a copy of the training materials. After a brief introduction, major recommendations from previous research on parent involvement training for…
Descriptors: Comprehension, Elementary Secondary Education, Guidelines, Inservice Teacher Education
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