scholarly journals Handwriting to Learn

2018 ◽  
Vol 1 (1) ◽  
pp. 55-72
Author(s):  
Shylaja Akkaraju
Keyword(s):  
Student Retention ◽  
Retrieval Practice ◽  
Individual Student ◽  
Flipped Learning ◽  
Study Skill ◽  
Study Behavior ◽  
Positive Study ◽  
Essay Exams ◽  
The Subject ◽  
Positive Results

Handwriting is a multisensory process known to enhance memory, focus, engagement, and cognition in the learner, thereby making it a valuable study skill. In an attempt to embed handwriting as a study skill in a gateway science course, I used a combination of scaffolding and individual student consultations. Scaffolding emphasized the use of desirable difficulties and retrieval practice through the implementation of techniques such as the flipped learning approach and take home-in class hybrid essay exams. While the former helped to increase overall student success the latter technique was aimed at enhancing written fluency in the subject, curbing procrastination, and providing opportunities for high impact retrieval practice during the in-class essay exams. One-on-one student consultations that emphasized rewriting and maintaining good notes were used as interventions throughout the semester to promote positive study behavior and also as a crucial stage in preparing for each unit exam. Level of student engagement in using handwriting as a study skill was traced within the context of a typical threshold experience. Handwriting as a study skill was successfully embedded in this course and showed positive results in terms of student retention, engagement, and overall success.   

Student Variables that Predict Retention: Recent Research and New Developments

NASPA Journal ◽  
2003 ◽  
Vol 40 (4) ◽  
Author(s):  
Robert D. Reason
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Education Research ◽  
College Student ◽  
Student Retention ◽  
Demographic Characteristics ◽  
Individual Student ◽  
Higher Education Research ◽  
College Student Retention ◽  
New Developments ◽  
Changing Demographics

This article reviews recent research related to the study of college student retention, specifically examining research related to individual student demographic characteristics. The increasing diversity of undergraduate college students requires a new, thorough examination of those student variables previously understood to predict retention. The retention literature focuses on research conducted after 1990 and emphasizes the changing demographics in higher education. Research related to a relatively new variable —the merit-index—also is reviewed, revealing potentially promising, but currently mixed results.

scholarly journals EPIDEMIC ENCEPHALITIS AND SIMPLE HERPES

1927 ◽  
Vol 8 (6) ◽  
pp. 713-726 ◽  
Author(s):  
Simon Flexner
Keyword(s):  
Guinea Pig ◽  
Past Experience ◽  
The State ◽  
Encephalitis Virus ◽  
Point Of View ◽  
Epidemic Encephalitis ◽  
Direct Corollary ◽  
The Subject ◽  
Positive Results ◽  
Epidemic Diseases

The purpose of this paper is to explain the state of our knowledge of the etiology of epidemic encephalitis, and especially to draw a line of demarcation between the established virus of simple herpes and the hypothetical virus of epidemic encephalitis. It had already been shown that the experimental observations on rabbits do no suffice to prove the identity of the herpes with the encephalitis virus. The discussion of the subject in this paper shows that identity cannot be postulated on the basis of the performed guinea pig experiments. Attention has been drawn to the significant fact that there is lack of harmony in the positive results of those investigators who believe that the incitants of epidemic encephalitis have been discovered. An attempt has been made to attribute some of the discrepancies reported by these investigators either to accidental and contaminating microbic agents, or to the uncovering of virulent agents preexisting in a latent state in the animals employed for inoculation, the existence of which was not previously known or suspected. Since past experience leads us to believe in a single incitant for widespread epidemic diseases, it is probable that, when certainly discovered, the microbe of epidemic encephalitis will prove to be simple and not multiple. The direct corollary to this point of view is that up to the present, the etiology of epidemic encephalitis has not been determined.

scholarly journals XXXI.—On the Limits of our Knowledge respecting the Theory of Parallels

1864 ◽  
Vol 23 (3) ◽  
pp. 433-450
Author(s):  
Kelland
Keyword(s):  
Human Mind ◽  
Practical Application ◽  
Very Old ◽  
Metaphysical Problem ◽  
Pure Logic ◽  
History Of ◽  
The Subject ◽  
The Right ◽  
Negative Conclusion ◽  
Positive Results

The subject of this paper is a very old one, and may to many appear to be sufficiently worn; but I venture to hope, that there are some to whom a glimpse of the successive approaches of the human mind towards the right understanding of a question of pure logic, may have an interest,—even although the problem solved be an abstract one, and the conclusion a negative conclusion, having little practical application. Like the kindred problem of the quadrature of the circle, or the metaphysical problem of “Knowing and Being,” the theory of parallels has been attacked in various directions, and although it is true that no one ever reached the goal he aimed at, yet it is not the less certain that great and positive results have followed in the history of human attainment. If no other lesson has been learnt, this at least may have been: that in reasoning it is necessary to look warily around and abroad at every step, seeing that admissions, the most obviously inadmissible, or evasions the most palpable, have foiled generations of thinkers, whilst those who have detected their errors have fallen into others of an equally destructive character.

scholarly journals Bilateral ultrasound transversus abdominis plane block in a patient affected from Menkes disease

2012 ◽  
Vol 4 (2) ◽  
pp. 23 ◽  
Author(s):  
Dario Galante ◽  
Marco Caruselli ◽  
Francesco Dones ◽  
Salvatore Meola ◽  
Gianluca Russo ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Local Anaesthetic ◽  
Anaesthetic Techniques ◽  
Menkes Disease ◽  
Transversus Abdominis ◽  
Sufficient Information ◽  
Tap Block ◽  
Transversus Abdominis Plane ◽  
The Subject ◽  
Positive Results

This case report demonstrates the utility and safety of ultrasound transversus abdominis plane (TAP) block in a paediatric patient suffering from Menkes disease. Anaesthetists, and particularly paediatric and neonatal anaesthetists, have to make a careful assessment of these patients, who are subjected to frequent surgeries, despite their tender years. These operations are often necessary in order to improve the patient’s quality of life as much as possible. The choice of anaesthetic technique must take the particular nature of the disease and the patient’s medical history into consideration, while careful preparation and preoperative evaluations make it possible to administer the general or local anaesthetic safely. Official literature on the subject does not provide sufficient information about the use of local anaesthetic techniques. Moreover, the use of ultrasound TAP block in patients affected by Menkes disease has never been published in literature. In our experience, ultrasound TAP block has provided positive results, although the rarity of this childhood disease makes a detailed study difficult.

Girls into Geoscience - Ireland

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Elspeth Wallace ◽  
Fergus McAuliffe ◽  
Aoife Blowick ◽  
Maria McNamara ◽  
Emma Morris ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Student Retention ◽  
Role Models ◽  
Field Trip ◽  
Female Students ◽  
Gender Balance ◽  
Negative Perceptions ◽  
The Subject ◽  
Second Year ◽  
The Uk ◽  
First Time

<p>The geosciences are an undeniably male-dominated sector (80/20 male/female in 2008). This has led to a loss of female talent and lack of diversity within the sector. Retention of female students in the geosciences is highest where students can identify with same gender career/industry leaders (Hernandez et al., Geosphere, Vol. 14,6, 2018), yet with few obvious female role models, poor female student retention has become a self-perpetuating problem. Girls into Geoscience was instigated in Plymouth in 2014 to interrupt this cycle. Girls around the ages of 16-17 and with any level of geoscience knowledge were invited to Plymouth to be introduced to the subject by leading females in the geoscience field. The annual event has proven so successful that it has now been taken up in Ireland.</p><p>Girls into Geoscience – Ireland (GiGie) is now at the end of its second year, having run three successful events across Ireland. GiGie has taken the form of day-long events which incorporate workshops, talks, networking and field-trip style elements. These events have been hosted in academic institutions and rotate annually to reach multiple areas of Ireland which often have limited access to STEM activities. So far, events have been hosted in Cork, Galway and Dublin. 100% of participants at the Cork event fed back that they were more likely to study geoscience, and similarly 83% of participants in Galway were now more likely to consider studying geosciences. 100% of Galway participants also had an increased understanding of geoscience careers, which is important considering the negative perceptions that are commonly attributed to careers in the geosciences. Suggestions from the events in Cork and Galway led us to incorporate a field-trip style element to the day, which was run for the first time in Dublin. The future of GiGie is bright. A planned expansion of the programme could lead to its most successful year yet. Across in the UK, expansion is also in action with further events taking place in Scotland, and a junior event being developed in Leicester. Gender balance is far from equal yet, but change is happening. We look forward to seeing Girls into Geoscience flourish.</p><p>“I loved (that) it was for girls. (It) made me feel more confident and that its possible to do science as a girl” – Participant, Cork.</p>

scholarly journals X.—An Investigation into the Structure of the Torbanehill Mineral, and of various kinds of Coal

1857 ◽  
Vol 21 (1) ◽  
pp. 173-185 ◽  
Author(s):  
John Hughes Bennett
Keyword(s):  
Careful Examination ◽  
Thin Sections ◽  
Structural Differences ◽  
The Subject ◽  
Positive Results

The investigation of which I am now about to give an account, was undertaken with the view of determining whether the structure of the Torbanehill mineral was similar to or unlike that of coal. I was aware that the subject would be brought before a court of law, and that many scientific persons of great eminence had already spent much time in the inquiry. With the understanding, therefore, that my evidence, should it be required, was to be limited to the structure of coal and of the mineral in question, I gave directions to Mr Bryson, the optician, of this city, to make thin sections of attested specimens of various coals and of the mineral, conceiving that a careful examination of them would easily determine the point. It was soon apparent, however, that a far more extended series of researches was necessary than I at first anticipated; but as it was also evident, from the marked structural differences which were observed in the sections, that the investigation would not be destitute of positive results, I determined on pursuing it to a conclusion.

scholarly journals Turismo e voluntariado: a busca pela compreensão do volunturismo

2018 ◽  
Vol 11 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Pablo Braga de Souza ◽  
Antônia Maria Nascimento Barcelos ◽  
Suellen Alice Lamas
Keyword(s):  
Early Stage ◽  
Economic Potential ◽  
Volunteer Tourism ◽  
The Public ◽  
Mass Tourism ◽  
Negative Results ◽  
De Se ◽  
The World ◽  
The Subject ◽  
Positive Results

Ao longo do tempo, o turismo tem se destacado como uma importante atividade econômica no mundo, gerando serviços, produtos, emprego e renda. Entretanto, tão importante quanto o seu potencial econômico, é o seu potencial social, capaz de transformar localidades que apresentam desequilíbrios e limitações, o que vem sendo proposto pelo turismo voluntário também conhecido como volunturismo. Embora seja muito praticada no exterior, essa modalidade, está em estágio inicial no país, o que traz à tona dúvidas e questionamentos em relação ao tema e a necessidade de estudá-lo a fim de que se possa compreendê-lo em sua totalidade. Deste modo, faz-se a reflexão: O que é turismo voluntário? Qual o perfil do público que o pratica? Quais as diferenças entre turismo voluntário e turismo solidário? Quais os impactos nas comunidades visitadas? A partir desses questionamentos, o presente trabalho visa discorrer sobre o turismo voluntário apresentando suas interfaces conceituais, problemáticas e perfil dos praticantes, de modo a contribuir com o esclarecimento e debate teórico sobre o tema. Assim, vê-se a importância de estudos em relação ao turismo voluntário para que, a partir de sua compreensão, os resultados positivos possam ser maximizados e os negativos minimizados. Baseando-se em seu caráter de agente transformador social, pode-se inferir que o turismo voluntário é mais uma forma de se fazer turismo, contrária ao turismo de massas, do que um segmento propriamente dito. Tourism and volunteering: the search for understanding of the voluntourism ABSTRACT Over time, the tourism has distinguished itself as an important economic activity in the world, generating services, products, employment and income. However, as important as its economic potential, it is its social potential capable of transforming localities that show unbalances and limitations, what has been proposed by the volunteer tourism also known as voluntourism. Although it has been practiced abroad, this type of tourism is in an early stage in the country, which propitiates doubts and questions concerning the theme and the necessity to study it in order to understand it in its entirety. Thus, the reflection is done: What is volunteer tourism? What is the public profile that practices it? What are the differences between volunteer tourism and solidary tourism? What are the impacts on the communities visited? Based on these questions, the article aims to discuss about volunteer tourism showing its conceptual interfaces, problematic and the profile of the participants in order to contribute to the elucidation and the theoretical debate on the subject. Therefore, one sees the importance of the studies concerning volunteer tourism so that, from its understanding, positive results can be maximized and negative results can be minimized. Based on its character of a social transforming agent, one can infer that the volunteer tourism is more a way of doing tourism, contrary to mass tourism, than a segment itself. KEYWORDS: Volunteering; Tourism; Knowledge; Voluntourism.

scholarly journals Timing is flipping everything: Is student engagement through the flipped classroom dependent on the year of study it is introduced? A case study in Law

2017 ◽  
Vol 10 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Louise Hewitt
Keyword(s):  
Personal Experience ◽  
Flipped Classroom ◽  
Flipped Learning ◽  
Interactive Learning Environment ◽  
Home Study ◽  
Learning Network ◽  
The Subject ◽  
Exciting Development ◽  
Pedagogic Theory

The use of the Flipped Classroom (Bergmann & Sams, 2012, Upchurch, 2013, Flipped Learning Network, 2014) in Higher Education is an exciting development for teaching.  The opportunity offered by the flipped classroom, to adapt the traditional large group lecture and home study elements of a course, can lead to a more effective interactive learning environment. First -hand personal experience has confirmed the pedagogic theory: students engage in the subject matter through actively applying their understanding of the knowledge they have constructed. In the process they often surprise themselves with how much they actually know. Whilst the benefits and challenges posed by this pedagogic approach have been highlighted previously (Simmons and Swan, 2015, Stripe and Carrier, 2015), there remains an unanswered question, could engagement with the flipped classroom be dependent on the year of study it was introduced? It is possible to suggest that it does.    

scholarly journals Is it Possible to Predict Earnings per Share?

2021 ◽  
Vol 115 ◽  
pp. 02002
Author(s):  
Miroslav Kmeťko ◽  
Eduard Hyránek
Keyword(s):  
Stock Prices ◽  
Negative Mood ◽  
Market Price ◽  
Share Price ◽  
Publicly Traded ◽  
Publicly Traded Companies ◽  
Earnings Per Share ◽  
Market Situation ◽  
The Subject ◽  
Positive Results

The publication of quarterly results of publicly traded companies can have a significant impact on the valuation of their shares. This is mainly concerned with the valuation of the shares, whether it is correct, and at the same time as a prediction of the overall annual financial results. It In most of the analysed companies, we found that most of the year-on-year changes were negative. It is also not possible to draw a clear conclusion about the linear relationship between the percentage change pf surprises and the change in the market price of shares. It should also be noted that the share price in the monitored days may be affected by the current market situation. What this means in practice is that, despite the positive results and the negative mood, stock prices can end up in negative values. However, this situation was not the subject of our research. Therefore, we used a correlation coefficient for this dependence, which represent the mutual movement.

scholarly journals Invisible science: publication of negative research results

2021 ◽  
Vol 33 ◽  
Author(s):  
Luis Fernando SAYÃO ◽  
Luana Farias SALES ◽  
Carla Beatriz Marques FELIPE
Keyword(s):  
Scientific Communication ◽  
Scientific Journals ◽  
Negative Results ◽  
Research Activities ◽  
Flow Generation ◽  
Initial Assumption ◽  
Research Cycle ◽  
The Subject ◽  
Positive Results ◽  
Competition For Resources

Abstract An important part of scientific research activities yield negative results – non-confirmatory and null data, inconclusive experiments, unexpected data. These results permeate the entire research cycle and constitute an important part of the full scientific knowledge flow generation. However, despite the acknowledgment that it is the non-confirmatory findings that result in the rejection of consolidated hypotheses that drive the progress of science, most of these investigation routes are not documented. Growing competition for resources, tenure, and impact publications induces researchers to produce “positive” results that are more likely to be published, interfering with the principles of science reproducibility and self-correction and in the scientific communication cycle. This study aims to review negative results incorporation in the traditional academic publication cycle. It also seeks to identify and systematize the main barriers that prevent researchers from publishing negative results. This exploratory study is based methodologically on the scarce literature on the subject. It confirms the initial assumption that few scientific journals accept, edit special issues or are dedicated to the publication of negative results.

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