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Engelbrecht, J.; Harding, A.; Preez, J. Du – European Journal of Engineering Education, 2007
This study focuses on the long-term retention of basic mathematical techniques in a first-year calculus course, involving a sample group of engineering students at the University of Pretoria. The study investigates which and how much of the basic mathematical knowledge and rote skills acquired in the first year of study is retained after a further…
Descriptors: Investigations, Calculus, Teaching Methods, Mathematics Skills
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Pretorius, E.; Naude, H.; Becker, P. J. – Early Child Development and Care, 2002
Examined learning problems in South African sample of 7- to 14-year-olds whose mothers reported excessively high infant bilirubin shortly after the child's birth. Found that this sample had lowered verbal ability with the majority also showing impaired short-term and long-term memory. Findings suggested that impaired formation of astrocytes…
Descriptors: Children, Foreign Countries, Intelligence, Learning Problems
Schuster, Don H., Ed. – Journal of the Society for Accelerative Learning and Teaching, 1985
Four numbers of the journal contain a variety of articles on methods and programs of accelerative learning and teaching, including: "Music Therapy and Education"; "The Effects of Background Music on Vocabulary Learning"; "Terminating the Tyranny of Time from 21st Century Education"; "An Example of Limbic…
Descriptors: Acceleration (Education), Brain Hemisphere Functions, Classroom Techniques, Foreign Countries