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Siadaty, Melody; Gasevic, Dragan; Jovanovic, Jelena; Pata, Kai; Milikic, Nikola; Holocher-Ertl, Teresa; Jeremic, Zoran; Ali, Liaqat; Giljanovic, Aleksandar; Hatala, Marek – Educational Technology & Society, 2012
Self-regulated learning processes have a potential to enhance the motivation of knowledge workers to take part in learning and reflection about learning, and thus contribute to the resolution of an important research challenge in workplace learning. An equally important research challenge for the successful completion of each step of a…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Web Based Instruction, Educational Technology, Workplace Learning
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Shapiro, Laura R.; Hurry, Jane; Masterson, Jackie; Wydell, Taeko N.; Doctor, Estelle – Dyslexia, 2009
We outline how research into predictors of literacy underpins the development of increasingly accurate and informative assessments. We report three studies that emphasize the crucial role of speech and auditory skills on literacy development throughout primary and secondary school. Our first study addresses the effects of early childhood middle…
Descriptors: Emergent Literacy, Phonological Awareness, Predictor Variables, Diseases
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Jordan, Sally – Practitioner Research in Higher Education, 2009
Feedback on assessment tasks has an important part to play in underpinning student learning. Online assessment enables instantaneous feedback to be given so that the student can act on it immediately. However, concern has been expressed that e-assessment tasks (especially multiple-choice questions) can encourage surface-learning. Several projects…
Descriptors: Computer Assisted Testing, Feedback (Response), Accuracy, Computer Uses in Education
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Wright, Margaret; Mullan, Fiona – Support for Learning, 2006
The study reported here set out to investigate the effectiveness of the Phono-Graphix[TM] reading program with ten learners, aged 9-11 years, assessed as having specific learning difficulties/dyslexia. Testing was carried out via initial and final analysis of the students' phonological processing skills and reading spelling ability over an 8-month…
Descriptors: Dyslexia, Foreign Countries, Program Effectiveness, Reading Programs
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Smyth, William Douglas; Bebensee, Elisabeth Lord – Reading Improvement, 1983
Describes the Success in Reading and Writing Program, designed to help students with attention deficit disorders by involving all four language processes. (FL)
Descriptors: Attention Deficit Disorders, Attention Span, Elementary Secondary Education, Language Processing
Curiel, Dolores N.; And Others – 1981
In order to bring about some continuity and coherence among the various English for Special Purposes (ESP) courses at the Universidad Simon Bolivar, a systematization project was undertaken. The purpose was to provide general guidelines for the production and future revision of materials while taking into account the specific characteristics of…
Descriptors: Communicative Competence (Languages), Course Evaluation, Course Objectives, Curriculum Development