News tagged with remedial instruction
Remedial instruction rewires dyslexic brains, provides lasting results, study shows
Aug 05, 2008 |
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A new Carnegie Mellon University brain imaging study of dyslexic students and other poor readers shows that the brain can permanently rewire itself and overcome reading deficits, if students are given 100 ...
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Mobile tech 'can replace cheques'
Dec 18, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- With cheques due to be phased out in the UK by 2018 new security technology developed at Oxford University could offer a replacement, allowing people a secure way to pay in almost any situation.
Learning styles debunked
Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry
Dec 16, 2009 |
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Are you a verbal learner or a visual learner? Chances are, you've pegged yourself or your children as either one or the other and rely on study techniques that suit your individual learning needs. And you're not alone— for ...
Australia defends controversial web filter
Dec 16, 2009 |
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Australia on Wednesday dismissed as "baseless" claims it was proposing a China-style plan for mandatory filtering of the internet and denied the system could be abused to silence free speech.
Adding technology to geometry class improves opportunities to learn
Other Sciences / Social Sciences
Dec 15, 2009 |
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A new study co-written by a University of Illinois expert in math education suggests that incorporating technology in high school-level geometry classes not only makes the teaching of concepts such as congruency ...
Researcher develops formula that can ID music industry payola
Dec 15, 2009 |
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A University at Buffalo researcher has invented a statistical method that can detect payola-like corruption in the music industry, a system that gives law enforcement an inexpensive statistical guide to identify potential ...
Texting, tweeting ought to be viewed as GR8 teaching tools, scholar says
Dec 10, 2009 |
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The impact of text messaging on the decline of formal writing among teens has been debated in pedagogical circles ever since cell-phone ownership became an adolescent rite of passage in the mid-2000s. But ...
Scientists discover first evidence of brain rewiring in children
Medicine & Health / Neuroscience
Dec 09, 2009 |
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Carnegie Mellon University scientists Timothy Keller and Marcel Just have uncovered the first evidence that intensive instruction to improve reading skills in young children causes the brain to physically ...
Research Suggests New Approach to Using Assessment Results to Improve Classroom Instruction
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Dec 02, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Education researchers at the University of Arkansas have taken an important first step toward better understanding both formative assessment and how to get the information teachers need to ...
Early intervention for toddlers with autism highly effective, study finds
Nov 30, 2009 |
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A novel early intervention program for very young children with autism - some as young as 18 months - is effective for improving IQ, language ability, and social interaction, a comprehensive new study has found.
Workplace literacy schemes are too short to improve skills
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Nov 25, 2009 |
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The five billion pound Skills for Life programme is based on the assumption that an improvement in literacy and numeracy will increase people's earning potential, as well as their productivity and employability. However, ...
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