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Cunningham, Robert F. – School Science and Mathematics, 2005
For students to develop an understanding of functions, they must have opportunities to solve problems that require them to transfer between algebraic, numeric, and graphic representations (transfer problems). Research has confirmed student difficulties with certain types of transfer problems and has suggested instructional factors as a possible…
Descriptors: Familiarity, Algebra, Mathematics Teachers, Mathematics Instruction
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Liu, Xiufeng; MacIsaac, Dan – Journal of Science Education and Technology, 2005
This study investigates factors affecting the degree of novice physics students application of the naive impetus theory. Six hundred and fourteen first-year university engineering physics students answered the Force Concept Inventory as a pre-test for their calculus-based course. We examined the degree to which students consistently applied the…
Descriptors: Prediction, Familiarity, Physics, College Freshmen
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Tag, Sylvia G. – Journal of Academic Librarianship, 2004
Transfer students represent an increasingly important group in four-year schools. To date, only limited information on the research abilities and library needs of this group has been reported. A survey of information needs and skills of incoming transfer students at Western Washington University (WWU) showed that while many reported some…
Descriptors: Familiarity, College Transfer Students, Information Needs, Library Services
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Oberauer, Klaus – Journal of Experimental Psychology: General, 2005
Two studies investigated the relationship between working memory capacity (WMC), adult age, and the resolution of conflict between familiarity and recollection in short-term recognition tasks. Experiment 1 showed a specific deficit of young adults with low WMC in rejecting intrusion probes (i.e., highly familiar probes) in a modified Sternberg…
Descriptors: Familiarity, Age Differences, Structural Equation Models, Inhibition
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Healy, Michael R.; Light, Leah L.; Chung, Christie – Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition, 2005
In 3 experiments, young and older adults studied lists of unrelated word pairs and were given confidence-rated item and associative recognition tests. Several different models of recognition were fit to the confidence-rating data using techniques described by S. Macho (2002, 2004). Concordant with previous findings, item recognition data were best…
Descriptors: Models, Young Adults, Older Adults, Experiments
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Van Borsel, John; Sunaert, Reinilde; Engelen, Sophie – Journal of Fluency Disorders, 2005
The present study investigated the language familiarity hypothesis formulated by Mackay [(1970). How does language familiarity influence stuttering under delayed auditory feedback? "Perceptual and Motor Skills", 30, 655-669] that bilinguals speak faster and stutter less under delayed auditory feedback (DAF) when speaking their more…
Descriptors: Feedback (Response), Stuttering, Educational Objectives, Familiarity
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Williamon, Aaron; Thompson, Sam – Psychology of Music, 2006
A survey of conservatoire students is reported in which information was gathered regarding their awareness and incidence of physical and mental health problems resulting from performing music, as well as places and/or people they would turn to for advice in the event of a future problem. Pain and discomfort relating to posture and excessive…
Descriptors: Music, Incidence, Mental Health, Mental Disorders
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Kleinman, Sherryl; Copp, Martha; Sandstrom, Kent – Teaching Sociology, 2006
This paper offers six strategies for dealing with students' resistance to learning about the oppression of women: making the familiar strange, substituting race for sex, distinguishing between intentions and consequences, imagining men in women's bodies, exposing students' claims of equal gender oppression as false parallels, and analyzing some of…
Descriptors: Females, Figurative Language, Gender Discrimination, Gender Bias
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Docan, Tony N. – Journal of Scholarship of Teaching and Learning, 2006
This study examined how particular grading systems motivate students. Since competency-based grading and point systems are most prevalent (Hendrickson and Gable, 1999), the current study is modeled around these systems. The grading systems used for this study were divided into two categories and defined as those students who earned their grades…
Descriptors: Familiarity, Student Motivation, Grading, Rewards
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Bennedsen, Jens – Computer Science Education, 2006
Pedagogical patterns have been around since 1995, but several authors claim their impact is limited. However, these claims are based on authors' own observations and not on methodical evaluations of the use and dissemination of pedagogical patterns. This claim is in contrast to the vision of the creators of pedagogical patterns--they think…
Descriptors: Familiarity, Science Teachers, Computer Science Education, Questionnaires
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Hamlyn-Harris, James H.; Hurst, Barbara J.; von Baggo, Karola; Bayley, Anthony J. – Journal of Information Technology Education, 2006
The ability to work in teams is an attribute highly valued by employers of information technology (IT) graduates. For IT students to effectively engage in team work tasks, the process of working in teams should be satisfying for the students. This work explored whether university students who were involved in compulsory team work were satisfied…
Descriptors: Familiarity, Teamwork, Information Technology, Databases
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English Teaching Forum, 2006
This lesson plan contains four activities based on the theme of newspapers and journalism. It includes a lesson to familiarize students with newspapers, journalistic writing, interviewing, and creating a class newspaper. The activities can be used as individual lessons or a larger project of creating a class newspaper.
Descriptors: Lesson Plans, Newspapers, Journalism, Second Language Learning
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Hayes-Harb, Rachel – TESOL Quarterly: A Journal for Teachers of English to Speakers of Other Languages and of Standard English as a Second Dialect, 2006
English as a second language (ESL) teachers have long noted that native speakers of Arabic exhibit exceptional difficulty with English reading comprehension (e.g., Thompson-Panos & Thomas-Ruzic, 1983). Most existing work in this area has looked to higher level aspects of reading such as familiarity with discourse structure and cultural knowledge…
Descriptors: Semitic Languages, Reading Difficulties, Identification, Familiarity
Grotberg, Edith H. – 1995
The International Resilience Project was intended to determine the multidimensional, reciprocal, and dynamic factors--and relationships of factors--that parents, teachers, caregivers, and children themselves use to promote resilience in children. The samples were 589 children and their caregivers from 14 countries: Lithuania, Russia, Costa Rica,…
Descriptors: Adults, Age Differences, Child Caregivers, Child Psychology
White, Paul; Mitchelmore, Michael – International Group for the Psychology of Mathematics Education, 2003
An angles teaching sequence was designed, in which students were guided to abstract a general concept from physical activities with concrete materials. The three design principles used were familiarity, similarity recognition, and reification. The resulting teaching sequence was tested in a field study involving 25 teachers of Grades 3-4. The data…
Descriptors: Mathematics Instruction, Geometric Concepts, Physical Activities, Familiarity
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