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Education for All in Low-Income Countries: A Crucial Role for Cognitive Scientists
(Sciencedomain InternationalDepartment of Curriculum and Instruction, The University of Texas at Arlington, 2013)Donor funding has helped enroll in school most children of low-income countries. However, students get little schooling and few opportunities to encode and consolidate information. Many fail to learn and automatize the ... -
Effective teacher training in low income countries: The power of observational learning research
(World BankDepartment of Education Curriculum and Instruction, The University of Texas at Arlington, November 2)The Education for All (EFA) initiative depends on students being taught by suitably and sufficiently trained teachers. But time-on-task studies conducted in low-income countries show that relatively little time is being ... -
Efficient Learning for the Poor : Insights from the Frontier of Cognitive Neuroscience
(The International Bank for Reconstruction and Development/World BankDepartment of Curriculum and Instruction, The University of Texas at Arlington, 2006)This book integrates research into applications that extend from preschool brain development to the memory of adult educators. In layman's terms, it provides explanations and answers to questions such as: Why do children ... -
Efficient Learning For the Poor: New insights Into Literacy Acquisition for Children
(SpringerDepartment of Curriculum and Instruction, The University of Texas at Arlington, 2008)Reading depends on the speed of visual recognition and capacity of short-term memory. To understand a sentence, the mind must read it fast enough to capture it within the limits of the short-term memory. This means that ... -
Estandares de Tecnologia Geoespacial en los Planes de Estudios Estatales en los Estados Unidos
(Grosvenor Center for Geographic EducationDept. of Teacher Education & Administration, University of North Texas, 2008) -
An Exploration of the Connections Between Institution Type and Perceived Levels of Stereotype Threat in African American Engineering Students
(Journal of African American Males in Education (JAAME)Department of Curriculum and Instruction, The University of Texas at Arlington, 2015)To distinguish the similarities and differences in coping strategies of African American engineering students, a quantitative study was conducted which examined their perceptions of stereotype threat at three academic ... -
Exploring Latin America with WebQuests
(National Council for the Social StudiesDept. of Curriculum and Instruction, Baylor University, 2001) -
Geography in an interdisciplinary environment: developing research paths
(Grosvenor Center for Geographic EducationDept. of Teacher Education & Administration, University of North Texas, 2005) -
GIS in K-12 education: pedagogical tool or weapon of mass distraction?
(Grosvenor Center for Geographic EducationDept. of Teacher Education & Administration, University of North Texas, 2008) -
How to Be an Online Student: Success Tips
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How to speed up Arabic literacy for lower-income students? Some insights from cognitive neuroscience.
(World BankDepartment of Curriculum and Instruction, The University of Texas at Arlington, 2012) -
Illuminating the Effects of Dynamic Lighting on Student Learning
(SageDepartment of Curriculum and Instruction, The University of Texas at Arlington, April-June)Light is universally understood as essential to the human condition. Yet light quality varies substantially in nature and in controlled environments leading to questions of which artificial light characteristics facilitate ... -
Improving adult literacy outcomes: lessons from cognitive research for developing countries
(World Bank, 2003)Abstract Despite the existence of about one billion illiterates in the world, adult literacy programs make up 1-5 percent of government or donor budgets, and they remain severely underfunded in comparison to primary ... -
Instructional time loss in developing countries : concepts, measurement, and implications
(World Bank, 2009)Students in developing countries are often taught for only a fraction of the intended number of school hours. Time is often wasted due to informal school closures, teacher absenteeism, delays, early departures, and poor ... -
A L-moment based analog for the Schmeiser-Deutsch class of distributions
(Hindawi Publishing Corporation,Department of Curriculum & Instruction, The University of Texas at Arlington, 2012)This paper characterizes the conventional moment-based Schmeiser-Deutsch (S-D) class of distributions through the method of L-moments. The system can be used in a variety of settings such as simulation or modeling various ... -
An L-Moment Based Characterization of the Family of Dagum Distributions
(Scienpress Ltd.Department of Curriculum and Instruction, The University of Texas at Arlington, 2013)This paper introduces a method for simulating univariate and multivariate Dagum distributions through the method of 𝐿-moments and 𝐿-correlations. A method is developed for characterizing non-normal Dagum distributions ... -
Latin America online: Internet resources and web-based lessons
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Learning From Our Mistakes: What Matters When Incorporating Blogging in the Content Area Literacy Classroom
(International Reading Association, 2011-12)The article overviews a longitudinal study conducted by three teachers in which they incorporated blogging as an instructional strategy. According to the article, the goal of the authors was to provide students with the ... -
Lesson Plan: Create a Terrarium and Marshmallow Tower to Observe, Plan, and Execute a Design
(2023-04-07)This lesson focuses on forces and motion. Students apply creativity and experimentation to describe the movement of matter among animals, plants, decomposers, and the environment. To summarize their learning, students craft ... -
Lesson Plan: Create a Visual Representation of an Object's Position, Direction, and Speed
(2023-04-07)This lesson focuses on the engineering design process and creative problem-solving. Students identify and describe the changes in position, direction, and speed of an object when acted upon by unbalanced forces in order ...