Articles tagged with Learning
Two Williams students, Nathan Hodas and Gerke, have won the prestigious Apker Award in physics, showcasing their exceptional academic records and research potential. The college's emphasis on student-faculty research has been credited with producing high-caliber physics majors.
Aging can erode memory control while preserving learned behavior. New research finds that past habits become stronger in memory than new intentions, explaining why older adults struggle to learn and maintain new behaviors.
Dr. John Deaton, a renowned human factors specialist, has developedVECTOR, an interactive video game to teach cultural skills for U.S. peacekeepers. The game simulates real-life scenarios, enabling trainees to learn appropriate behavior in diverse situations.
The MIT 'Weird Fields' contest utilizes creative visuals to help students grasp abstract electromagnetism concepts. By exploring vector fields through interactive software, students can better comprehend the physics behind electromagnetic forces.
The AAAS symposium features educators and authors using popular culture to make physics accessible. Chemical physicist Catherine Asaro uses romance novels infused with quantum physics, while Professor James Kakalios illustrates physics principles through superhero comics.
The Assistment system, developed using Carnegie Mellon's Cognitive Tutor technology, provides individualized tutoring and adapts to students' knowledge gaps. The system aims to improve student performance on standardized tests in Massachusetts and beyond.
A study found distinct differences in symptoms, counseling skills, and procedures encountered by medical students in academic medical center clinics (AMCs), affiliated residency teaching sites (ARTs), and community-based practices (CBPs). Students reported varying levels of teaching and learning experiences across settings.
The project aims to design exercises that help students develop mathematical descriptions of the natural world, applying statistical concepts to understand variation in plant growth. Researchers will also study statistical consultants in practice and develop technologies to support learning.
Researchers at UCF are studying different learning techniques to train people to pick out guns, knives and other threatening objects as they pass through airport X-ray machines. The goal is to make screeners more accurate and faster, leading to improved safety and convenience for travelers.
A study by Ohio State University found that students taking a psychology-based study skills program had higher grade point averages and were more likely to return for their next year of college. The course used well-founded psychological principles to teach students how to put motivation and learning techniques into practice.
A Hong Kong study found that music instruction aids verbal memory, with trained students recalling significantly more words and retaining them longer than untrained peers. Verbal learning performance improved in proportion to musical training duration.
Researchers found that active involvement in forming an idea, known as generative learning, reduces false memory. Participants were more likely to accurately remember words from a list they created themselves than those presented by others.
Research by Bauke Milo found that threading strategy helps children with learning difficulties master basic arithmetic operations up to 100. Children who adapted their strategies or used the threading method made fewer mistakes than those using the splitting strategy.
Researchers found that infants as young as 6.5 months can recognize word boundaries by identifying sound patterns in speech. As they mature, they rely on stressed syllables to determine word ends and begin. The study provides insight into how humans acquire language.
Researchers at Tufts University found that 1-year-olds can pick up on emotional signals from TV and make decisions based on them. Infants as young as 12 months old are able to use information from televised emotional reactions to guide their interactions.
A Rutgers University study shows that Prozac treatment preserves female learning ability even under stress. Chronic Prozac treatment was found to be effective in protecting females from the negative effects of stressful experiences on learning. The researchers also found that males and females respond differently to stressful experiences.
Weaves technology enables scalable network emulation, allowing for large-scale testing without requiring software rewrites. The system creates a virtual world to mimic real-world conditions, ensuring equivalence between test and actual results.
A study by Ohio State University found that procrastinators receive poorer grades in college classes due to lack of self-discipline. The researchers discovered that high procrastinators scored lower in measures of self-regulation and used 'wishful thinking' rationalizations to justify their behavior.
Researchers at McGill University are studying sex-associated pain in women, focusing on the issue of pain itself rather than its physical or psychological causes. They recommend a combination of cognitive behavioral pain management and physical therapy for relief.
The survey found that in half of the state's school districts, students are opting for a General Equivalency Development (GED) certification instead of passing Regents courses. This trend is serving as a pressure release on the system, with students enrolled in GED programs being reported as transfers and not high school dropouts.
Researchers found that talking daily with children about their school activities can significantly improve reading and math scores. The study also highlights the importance of fathers' roles in education, suggesting that more involvement can help overcome barriers such as limited resources and cultural differences.
Researchers found that people with and without visual impairments can reach target locations similarly using either spatial language or 3-D sound stimuli. Spatial updating skills may not require visual experience, suggesting a potential alternative to traditional GPS systems for the visually impaired.
Golf putting study reveals that over-attending to well-learned skills can hinder performance, especially under pressure. The experiment shows that adapting to an environment where individuals focus on performance from the start of learning may provide immunity against 'choking'.
Researchers found that boosting nerve growth factor (NGF) in genetically engineered mice enabled them to learn new tasks more quickly. The study reveals a novel way to direct brain wiring, highlighting the dynamic nature of the brain's neural connections and its ability to reorganize in response to experience.
Final-year medical students experience significant deterioration in vitality and work ability due to physical and emotional problems. The decline in health status may begin earlier than expected, highlighting the need for steps to address the issue.
Children with leukemia who received central nervous system chemotherapy are at risk of learning difficulties later in life, according to a new study. The treatment may cause cognitive decline and academic struggles, particularly in reading, spelling, and arithmetic.
According to Bruce W. Tuckman, frequent quizzes can significantly improve students' grades by reducing procrastination and increasing motivation. Students with low GPAs who received weekly quizzes outperformed their peers by an average of 4-24% on midterm and final exam grades.
Only four recently published series received high ratings for helping students learn mathematics, while most textbooks were deemed unsatisfactory. Excellent materials require excellent and well-trained teachers to be effective.
A University of Delaware researcher reports that toddlers learn new words based on shapes, not functions, a phenomenon known as the 'shape-bias'. Adults, however, rely on both shape and functional properties when naming objects.
A variable-priority technique adapted from fighter pilots has been shown to enhance skills needed for multiple and often-simultaneous tasks in older adults. The approach improved recall and pattern recognition in older subjects, narrowing the age-related gap in performance by 29 percent.