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Shannon, Kyle M.; Gage, Gregory J.; Jankovic, Aleksandra; Wilson, W. Jeffrey; Marzullo, Timothy C. – Advances in Physiology Education, 2014
The earthworm is ideal for studying action potential conduction velocity in a classroom setting, as its simple linear anatomy allows easy axon length measurements and the worm's sparse coding allows single action potentials to be easily identified. The earthworm has two giant fiber systems (lateral and medial) with different conduction velocities…
Descriptors: Animals, College Science, Secondary School Science, Neurosciences
Gafoor, Kunnathodi Abdul – Online Submission, 2012
Awareness is one of the most frequently measured construct by masters' students in education for their dissertation work. The author has observed that within the jurisdiction of his home university frequency of dissertations in education using "Awareness of" some social scientific or educational topic will be anywhere between 10 to…
Descriptors: Metacognition, Perception, Educational Theories, Measures (Individuals)
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Hanney, Nicole M.; Tiger, Jeffrey H. – Journal of Applied Behavior Analysis, 2012
We taught 2 children with visual impairments to select a coin from an array using tactile cues after hearing its name and then to select a coin after hearing its value. Following the acquisition of these listener (receptive language) skills, we then observed the emergence of speaker (expressive language) skills without direct instruction.…
Descriptors: Visual Impairments, Expressive Language, Receptive Language, Cues