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Popham, James W. – Educational Leadership, 2006
Government agencies administer exams to appraise educators' effectiveness. However, most teachers and administrators are unfamiliar with how such large-scale tests are put together or polished. A profession's adequacy is being judged on the basis of tools that the profession's members don't understand. As such, educators need to have a dose of…
Descriptors: Teacher Effectiveness, Educational Testing, Evaluation Criteria, Test Validity
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Woolley, Jacqueline D.; Van Reet, Jennifer – Child Development, 2006
Three studies examined the effects of context on decisions about the reality status of novel entities. In Experiment 1 (144, 3- to 5-year-olds), participants less often claimed that novel entities were real when they were introduced in a fantastical than in a scientific context. Experiment 2 (61, 4- to 5-year-olds) revealed that defining novel…
Descriptors: Cues, Inferences, Decision Making, Familiarity
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Criss, Amy H.; McClelland, James L. – Journal of Memory and Language, 2006
The subjective likelihood model [SLiM; McClelland, J. L., & Chappell, M. (1998). Familiarity breeds differentiation: a subjective-likelihood approach to the effects of experience in recognition memory. "Psychological Review," 105(4), 734-760.] and the retrieving effectively from memory model [REM; Shiffrin, R. M., & Steyvers, M. (1997). A model…
Descriptors: Models, Recognition (Psychology), Word Frequency, Familiarity
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Moore, David S.; Cocas, Laura A. – Developmental Psychology, 2006
Two studies of 5-month-old infants explored whether a phenomenon reported by K. Wynn (1992) reflects a familiarity preference instead of a mathematical competence. Experiment 1 was a conceptual replication of Wynn's study. When data were analyzed with the relatively liberal statistical approach used by Wynn, the original phenomenon was replicated.…
Descriptors: Experimental Psychology, Familiarity, Infants, Mathematical Aptitude
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Wakefield, Melanie; Germain, Daniella; Durkin, Sarah; Henriksen, Lisa – Health Education Research, 2006
By creating a sense of familiarity with tobacco, cigarette advertising and bold packaging displays in stores where children often visit may help to pre-dispose them to smoking. A total of 605 ninth-grade students were randomly allocated to view a photograph of a typical convenience store point-of-sale which had been digitally manipulated to show…
Descriptors: Photography, Advertising, Smoking, Familiarity
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Murphy, Gregory L.; Wisniewski, Edward J. – Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition, 2006
E. J. Wisniewski and G. L. Murphy (see record EJ689195) suggested that the apparent effects of relation frequency in C. L. Gagne and E. J. Shoben's (1997) conceptual combination experiments could be explained by differences between the familiarity and plausibility of their stimuli (noun-noun phrases). However, C. L. Gagne and T. L. Spalding argued…
Descriptors: Stimuli, Familiarity, Nouns, Predictor Variables
Stevenson, Cerissa; Cooner, Donna; Fritz, Andrea – International Electronic Journal for Leadership in Learning, 2008
The intent of this study is to learn about principal intern perceptions of their grasp of the identified state principal standards for Colorado. A non-experimental comparative approach was used for this inquiry. Interns were trained to use an online journaling process called Journey Mapping. On a six point scale they rated themselves on their…
Descriptors: Intervals, State Standards, Instructional Effectiveness, Internship Programs
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Bequette, James W.; Brennan, Colleen – Studies in Art Education: A Journal of Issues and Research in Art Education, 2008
Since the mid-1980s, arts policymakers in Minnesota have positioned "media arts"--defined as the "study and practice of examining human communication through photography, film or video, audio, computer or digital arts, and interactive media"--within the realm of aesthetic education and considered it one of six arts areas. This…
Descriptors: Preservice Teachers, Visual Arts, Art Education, Familiarity
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Brantmeier, Cindy; Vanderplank, Robert – System: An International Journal of Educational Technology and Applied Linguistics, 2008
Brantmeier [Brantmeier, C., 2006. "Advanced L2 learners and reading placement: self-assessment, computer-based testing, and subsequent performance." 'System 34" (1), 15-35] found that self-assessment (SA) of second language (L2) reading ability is not an accurate predictor for computer-based testing or subsequent classroom performance. With 359…
Descriptors: Reading Comprehension, Student Placement, Reading Achievement, Familiarity
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Feeley, Thomas H.; And Others – Communication Research Reports, 1995
Reports on a study in which subjects judged the veracity of truthful and deceptive communicators after viewing no, one, two, or four case-relevant baseline exposures (familiarity) of truthful communication. Finds a positive linear relationship between detection accuracy and amount of baseline familiarity. (SR)
Descriptors: Communication Research, Familiarity, Higher Education, Interpersonal Communication
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Cycowicz, Yael M.; And Others – Journal of Experimental Child Psychology, 1997
Young children and adults looked at 400 pictures of common objects and were asked to name the object, indicate their familiarity with the object, and state how complex the object would be to draw. Normative data indicated that children and adults differed in the most frequent name assigned and the number of alternative names used. (BC)
Descriptors: Adults, Age Differences, Cognitive Development, Familiarity
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Showers, Linda S.; And Others – Advancing the Consumer Interest, 1992
A survey of 1,200 midwesterners received 643 replies identifying factors affecting tendency to read and use product owner's manuals: (1) product familiarity and lack of time negatively affected use; (2) having a question or problem increased use; and (3) perceived value of information (i.e., redundant or obvious information) deterred use. (SK)
Descriptors: Consumer Education, Familiarity, Guides, Information Utilization
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Hall, D. Geoffrey – Child Development, 1991
In two studies, two year olds learned a novel word for a particular stuffed animal. When the animal was familiar, children interpreted the novel word as a proper noun. When the animal was unfamiliar, children frequently interpreted the novel word as a count noun referring to a kind of object. (BC)
Descriptors: Familiarity, Language Acquisition, Semantics, Syntax
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Catherwood, Di – Child Development, 1993
Infants were familiarized haptically to an object and then presented with stimuli that were identical to or different in shape or texture from the first object. Infants demonstrated recognition of shape and texture when the stimuli were presented without delay; of shape when presented after a five-minute delay; and of texture when presented after…
Descriptors: Familiarity, Infants, Recognition (Psychology), Tactile Stimuli
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Brainerd, C. J.; Reyna, V. F.; Mojardin, A. H. – Psychological Review, 1999
Reviews some limiting properties of the process-dissociation model as it applies to the study of dual-process conceptions of memory. A second-generation model (conjoint recognition) is proposed to address these limitations and supply additional capabilities. Worked applications to data are provided. (Author/GCP)
Descriptors: Cognitive Processes, Familiarity, Memory, Recall (Psychology)
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