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Teaching for autonomy: Grade 3 teachers’ strategies for self-directed learning in literacy

Frontiers in Education
Poor literacy performance in South Africa is often attributed to limited meaningful teaching and learning in the Foundation Phase, where Grade 3 learners are expected to achieve proficiency in reading and writing.
Bernadette Winefrede Geduld, Hilary Hanser, Nothile Kunene, Magda Kloppers   +3 more
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Project based learning on industrial informatics: applying IoT to urban garden [PDF]

, 2018
Copyright (c) 2018 IEEEThe fast evolution of technologies forces teachers to trade content off for self-learning. PBL is one of the best ways to promote self-learning and simultaneously boost motivation.
Hormigo-Aguilar, Javier, Rodriguez-Moreno, Andres   +1 more
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Stressful Events Reported by Childhood Cancer Survivors and Community Controls From the St. Jude Lifetime (SJLIFE) Cohort: A Mixed Method Study

Pediatric Blood &Cancer, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Introduction Characterizing stressful events reported by childhood cancer survivors experienced throughout the lifespan may help improve trauma‐informed care relevant to the survivor experience. Methods Participants included 2552 survivors (54% female; 34 years of age) and 469 community controls (62% female; 33 years of age) from the St.
Megan E. Ware, Colter K. Clayton, Fang Wang, Sedigheh Mirzaei, Kyla Shelton, Tara M. Brinkman, Victoria Willard, Katianne M. Howard Sharp, Kevin Krull, Lindsay F. Schwartz, Melissa M. Hudson, Gregory T. Armstrong, Kirsten K. Ness, Rachel T. Webster   +13 more
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The role of motivational beliefs and monitoring in learning spatial skills

Empirical Research in Vocational Education and Training
When embarking on vocational training in the STEM field, a considerable proportion of students are required to engage with new and demanding courses. This study aimed to understand the relationship between the self-regulated learning (SRL) process and ...
Olivier Rérat, Jean-Louis Berger
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Teaching for thinking: developing metacognitive and self-directed learning skills in foundation phase literacy

Cogent Education
The underperformance of South African learners in Literacy is frequently ascribed to the ineffective quality of teaching and learning in the Foundation Phase, where it is presumed that Grade 3 learners are to develop meaningful reading, writing, and ...
Hilary Hanser, Bernadette Geduld, Nothile Kunene, Magda Kloppers   +3 more
doaj   +1 more source

A self-learning particle swarm optimizer for global optimization problems [PDF]

, 2011
Copyright @ 2011 IEEE. All Rights Reserved. This article was made available through the Brunel Open Access Publishing Fund.Particle swarm optimization (PSO) has been shown as an effective tool for solving global optimization problems.
Li, C, Nguyen, T T, Yang, S
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Exploring Preferences for a Digital Single‐Session Intervention for Adolescent Siblings of Youth With Cancer

Pediatric Blood &Cancer, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Introduction Adolescent siblings of children with cancer are at elevated risk for psychosocial problems. Unfortunately, various barriers such as limited family time and resources, conflicting schedules, and psychosocial staffing constraints at cancer centers hinder sibling access to support.
Christina M. Amaro, Sarah Silver, Prishi Patel, Meredith K. Reffner Collins, Kimberly S. Canter, Stephanie Fooks‐Parker, Michael Amylon, Shawna V. Hudson, Jessica L. Schleider, Melissa A. Alderfer, Katie A. Devine   +10 more
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Co-Creating OERs in Computer Science Education to Foster Intrinsic Motivation

Education Sciences
In an era of increasing digital transformation in education, fostering students’ intrinsic motivation and self-directed learning (SDL) is essential, particularly in dynamic fields such as Computer Science Education (CSE).
Lezeth van der Walt, Chantelle Bosch
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Self-Learning Multiscale Simulation [PDF]

Biophysical Journal, 2009
Molecular dynamics (MD) simulation plays more and more crucial roles in understanding the underlying molecular mechanisms of many biological processes. Unfortunately, due to the large number of degrees of freedom involved and inherently rugged energy surface, the time scale currently reachable by accurate all-atom (AA) simulation is far below typical ...
Li, Wenfei, Takada, Shoji
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Adapting to climate change: the self-learning dike [PDF]

, 2007
A problem with the current probabilistic flood prevention strategy in the Netherlands is that it builds on knowledge about the probability distributions for extreme discharges, which are subject to considerable uncertainties due to limited peak discharge
Hoekstra, A.Y., Kok, J.L. de
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