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Development of Android-Based Interactive Multimedia to Enhance Critical Thinking Skills in Learning Matters
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Hamdani, Salma Almira; Prima, Eka Cahya; Agustin, Rika Rafikah; Feranie, Selly; Sugiana, Ahmad – Journal of Science Learning, 2022
The advancement in science and technology in the 21st Century necessitates improving critical thinking skills in students. Implementing digital technology such as interactive multimedia in the learning process can encourage quality learning and teaching. This study aims to create Android-based interactive multimedia that will help students improve…
Descriptors: Critical Thinking, Thinking Skills, Multimedia Instruction, Learning Processes
Conflicting Evidence of Explicit and Implicit Knowledge from Objective and Subjective Measures
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Maie, Ryo; DeKeyser, Robert M. – Studies in Second Language Acquisition, 2020
This study is the first to compare objective and subjective measures of explicit and implicit knowledge under learning from incidental exposure. An experiment was conducted, during which L1 English speakers were trained on a semiartificial language, "Japlish." A measure of explicit knowledge and a recently proposed measure of implicit…
Descriptors: Native Language, English, Artificial Languages, Measures (Individuals)
Diagnostic Decisions of Language Complexity Using Informal Language Assessment Measures
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Bawayan, Rebecca; Brown, Jennifer A. – Language, Speech, and Hearing Services in Schools, 2022
Purpose: The current study aimed to understand the clinical decision-making skills of school-based speech-language pathologists (SLPs) using narrative and expository discourse information from three sources: perception of language through listening to language alone, standardized criterion-referenced narrative assessment data, and word- and…
Descriptors: Evaluation Methods, Speech Language Pathology, Speech Evaluation, Vocabulary Skills
Grounding Lexical Diversity in Human Judgments
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Jarvis, Scott – Language Testing, 2017
The present study discusses the relevance of measures of lexical diversity (LD) to the assessment of learner corpora. It also argues that existing measures of LD, many of which have become specialized for use with language corpora, are fundamentally measures of lexical repetition, are based on an etic perspective of language, and lack construct…
Descriptors: Computational Linguistics, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Native Speakers
An Empirical Investigation of the Moral Judgment Development of a Sample of High School Kuwaiti Teachers
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Al-Shurai, Saad – Education, 2012
This study was conducted to investigate the moral development of one hundred Kuwaiti high school teachers. They ranged in age from 23 to 48 years with a mean of 28.6 years and a standard deviation of 8.3 years. The teachers' individual moral judgment levels were assessed by the Defining Issues Test (DIT)--an objective test designed by James Rest…
Descriptors: Value Judgment, Objective Tests, Moral Development, Secondary School Teachers
Rapid Acquisition in Concurrent Chains: Evidence for a Decision Model
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Grace, Randolph C.; McLean, Anthony P. – Journal of the Experimental Analysis of Behavior, 2006
Pigeons' choice in concurrent chains can adapt to rapidly changing contingencies. Grace, Bragason, and McLean (2003) found that relative initial-link response rate was sensitive to the immediacy ratio in the current session when one of the terminal-link fixed-interval schedules was changed daily according to a pseudorandom binary sequence (e.g.,…
Descriptors: Animals, Selection, Change, Adjustment (to Environment)