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New Options for Usability Testing Projects in Business Communication Courses
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Jameson, Daphne A. – Business Communication Quarterly, 2013
The increasing availability of recording technologies makes it easier to include usability testing projects in business communication courses. Usability testing is a method of discovering whether people can navigate, read, and understand a print or electronic communication well enough to achieve a particular purpose in a reasonable time frame.…
Descriptors: Business Communication, Usability, Technology Uses in Education, Video Technology
Exploratory Evaluation of a School-Based Child Sexual Abuse Prevention Program
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Barron, Ian G.; Topping, Keith J. – Journal of Child Sexual Abuse, 2013
Internationally, efficacy studies of school-based child sexual abuse prevention programs display a series of methodological shortcomings. Few studies include adolescent participants, recording of disclosures has been inconsistent, and no studies to date have assessed presenter adherence to program protocols or summated the costs of program…
Descriptors: Sexual Abuse, Child Abuse, Prevention, Program Evaluation
Understanding Randomness and Its Impact on Student Learning: Lessons Learned from Building the Biology Concept Inventory (BCI)
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Garvin-Doxas, Kathy; Klymkowsky, Michael W. – CBE - Life Sciences Education, 2008
While researching student assumptions for the development of the Biology Concept Inventory (BCI; http://bioliteracy.net), we found that a wide class of student difficulties in molecular and evolutionary biology appears to be based on deep-seated, and often unaddressed, misconceptions about random processes. Data were based on more than 500…
Descriptors: Molecular Biology, Misconceptions, Evolution, Scientific Concepts
On the Relationship between Morphology Knowledge and Quality of Translation
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Arbabi Aski, Mohammadreza – Online Submission, 2008
The present study intended to investigate whether there is any relationship between morphological knowledge and quality of legal text translation from English to Persian and to what extent do Iranian M.A students of translation use morphological knowledge to guess the meaning of words when translating legal texts from English to Persian. To…
Descriptors: Protocol Analysis, Morphology (Languages), Translation, Raw Scores
Effects of a Computerized Program on Use of the Test-Taking Strategy by Secondary Students with Disabilities
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Lancaster, Paula E.; Schumaker, Jean B.; Lancaster, Sean J. C.; Deshler, Donald D. – Learning Disability Quarterly, 2009
Students with disabilities must meet many testing demands, given the current emphasis on accountability and state competency testing. The purpose of this project was to develop and field test a computerized program to teach the Test-Taking Strategy (Hughes, Schumaker, Deshler, & Mercer, 1988) to secondary-level students with disabilities. The…
Descriptors: Experimental Groups, Quasiexperimental Design, Protocol Analysis, Learning Disabilities
Evaluating and Improving the Mathematics Teaching-Learning Process through Metacognition
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Desoete, Annemie – Electronic Journal of Research in Educational Psychology, 2007
Introduction: Despite all the emphasis on metacognition, researchers currently use different techniques to assess metacognition. The purpose of this contribution is to help to clarify some of the paradigms on the evaluation of metacognition. In addition the paper reviews studies aiming to improve the learning process through metacognition. Method:…
Descriptors: Mathematics Instruction, Protocol Analysis, Questionnaires, Metacognition