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Putting Teachers in the Loop: Tools for Creating and Customising Simulations

Journal of Interactive Media in Education, 2004
: When designing learning materials, great emphasis is put on creating a 'definitive resource' - but this focus can often lead to the production of inflexible content which follows a fixed pedagogy and fails to cater to individual learning styles and ...
Ruth C. Thomas, Colin D. Milligan
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Driving lesson or driving test?: A metaphor to help faculty separate feedback from assessment

Perspectives on Medical Education, 2020
Although there is consensus in the medical education world that feedback is an important and effective tool to support experiential workplace-based learning, learners tend to avoid the feedback associated with direct observation because they perceive it ...
Paul L. P. Brand, A. Debbie C. Jaarsma, Cees P. M. van der Vleuten   +2 more
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Assessment for Learning

, 2005
Assessment is probably the most important thing we can do to help\ud our students learn. We may not like it, but students can and do ignore\ud our teaching; however, if they want to get a qualification, they have\ud to participate in the assessment processes we design and implement.\ud For that reason I believe it is worth thinking through ...
Brown, Sally, University of Gloucestershire   +1 more
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International Health Electives: defining learning outcomes for a unique experience

BMC Medical Education, 2023
Background An International Health Elective (IHE) can be a unique learning experience for students. However, it has proven difficult to clearly define learning outcomes that capture the complexity of an IHE and are aligned with future professional ...
M. A. C. Versluis, N. C. Jöbsis, A. D. C. Jaarsma, R. Tuinsma, R. Duvivier   +4 more
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The characteristics of chemistry test items on nationally-standardized school examination in Yogyakarta City

REID (Research and Evaluation in Education), 2021
This study aimed to describe the characteristics of chemistry test items in Nationally Standardized School Examination or Ujian Sekolah Berstandar Nasional (USBN), consisted of discrimination index, difficulty index, and question reliability.
Ummul Karimah, Heri Retnawati, Deni Hadiana, Pujiastuti Pujiastuti, Eri Yusron   +4 more
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Machine learning applications for building structural design and performance assessment: State-of-the-art review

, 2021
Machine learning models have been shown to be useful for predicting and assessing structural performance, identifying structural condition and informing preemptive and recovery decisions by extracting patterns from data collected via various sources and ...
Han Sun, H. Burton, Honglan Huang
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Using keystroke logging to understand writers’ processes on a reading-into-writing test

Language Testing in Asia, 2017
Background Integrated reading-into-writing tasks are increasingly used in large-scale language proficiency tests. Such tasks are said to possess higher authenticity as they reflect real-life writing conditions better than independent, writing-only tasks.
Sathena Chan
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“You’re damned if you do, you’re damned if you don’t”: a qualitative exploration of parent motives for provision of mobile screen devices in early childhood

BMC Public Health, 2022
Background Exploring parental motives for providing smartphones and tablets to young children is important to better understand ways to optimise healthy use of mobile screens in early childhood.
Sumudu R. Mallawaarachchi, Merrilyn Hooley, Wendy Sutherland-Smith, Sharon Horwood   +3 more
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Harmony or dissonance? The affordances of palliative care learning for emerging professional identity

Perspectives on Medical Education, 2020
Introduction Patient demographics demand physicians who are competent in and embrace palliative care as part of their professional identity. Published literature describes ways that learners acquire knowledge, skills and attitudes for palliative care ...
Frances Kilbertus, Rola Ajjawi, Douglas Archibald   +2 more
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Cognitive Functioning in Vorinostat‐Treated Pediatric and Young Adult Patients Over the First 180 Days After Hematopoietic Stem Cell Transplant

Pediatric Blood &Cancer, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Purpose Cognitive and psychological difficulties could negatively interfere with treatment adherence and quality of life before and after hematopoietic stem cell transplant (HSCT). Methods to mitigate these changes may have positive effects on treatment success.
Kristen L. Votruba, Michelle Rozwadowski, Thomas Braun, April Rahrig, Edward Peres, Kirsten M. Williams, Vanessa Fabrizio, Julie‐An Talano, Carrie L. Kitko, Nicolas Parnell, Pavan Reddy, Sung Won Choi   +11 more
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