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Building Community Amidst the Institutional Whiteness of Graduate Study: Black Joy and Maroon Moves in an Academic Marronage

Australian Journal of Social Issues, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This article reflects on the construction of a supportive community of Black Afro‐diasporic graduate students and their supervisors researching issues relating to race in the field of education in Australia. It draws on the concept of marronage—a term rooted in the fugitive act of becoming a maroon, where enslaved people enacted an escape in ...
Hellen Magoi, Casianus Gemoh, Denise Chapman, Edmund Hypolite, Simon Angok, Melanie Baak, Joel Windle   +6 more
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Language Abilities as Correlates of Children’s Reading Skills: Practical Implications [PDF]

Istraživanja u Pedagogiji
To acquire reading skills, children must master abilities such as decoding, vocabulary development, semantic and syntactic processing, and inference-making.
Nevena Ječmenica, Bojana Drljan, Vesela Milankov, Ivana Šehović   +3 more
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Alexithymia disrupts verbal short-term memory

Cognition and Emotion, 2019
While some research has now started to suggest that there are long-term memory (LTM) deficits in alexithymia, short-term memory (STM) in alexithymia remained largely unexplored. This study investigated whether the STM trace for emotion and neutral words might also be disrupted by alexithymia. Forty-four participants were randomly assigned to Study 1 in
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Motor system contributions to verbal and non-verbal working memory

Frontiers in Human Neuroscience, 2014
Working memory (WM) involves the ability to maintain and manipulate information held in mind. Neuroimaging studies have shown that secondary motor areas activate during WM for verbal content (e.g., words or letters), in the absence of primary motor area activation.
Diana A Liao, Sharif I Kronemer, Jeffrey M Yau, John E Desmond, Cherie L Marvel, Cherie L Marvel   +5 more
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‘We Are Australia’: Unpacking Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander People's Understandings and Experiences of Australian Identity

Australian Journal of Social Issues, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people are the oldest living custodians in the world. However, Australian identity has been purposefully established to exclude Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people, contributing to systemic oppression and harmful consequences. Understanding the perspectives and experiences of Aboriginal and Torres
Jack Farrugia, Jonathan Bullen
wiley   +1 more source

King Aorta: Narrative anatomy education

Anatomical Sciences Education, Volume 18, Issue 3, Page 264-276, March 2025.
Abstract The aim of this study was to investigate the effects of narrative anatomy education and traditional anatomy education on academic achievement. The study included 64 students who were randomly divided into two groups. The two groups were (n = 32) control (Group 1) and (n = 32) experimental (Group 2). The pretest scores of the two groups were 36.
Halil Yilmaz
wiley   +1 more source

Modulating the Focus of Attention for Spoken Words at Encoding Affects Frontoparietal Activation for Incidental Verbal Memory [PDF]

, 2011
Thomas A. Christensen, Kyle R. Almryde, Lesley J. Fidler, Julie L. Lockwood, Sharon M. Antonucci, Elena Plante   +5 more
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A gamified resource for learning anatomy terminology aids retention

Anatomical Sciences Education, EarlyView.
Abstract A card game, “Hold your Nerve,” was developed to aid memorization of anatomy terminology in small‐group learning formats. Each of the 719 cards consisted of an anatomical term and its definition. To play, a student blindly holds a card so as to block the definition but display the term to the group, who must provide verbal/physical clues to ...
Eva M. Sweeney, Rose Beavis, Amie Lowry, Alexandra McCulla   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

The Interchangeability of CVLT-II and WMS-IV Verbal Paired Associates Scores: A Slightly Different Story [PDF]

, 2015
We investigated the similarity of the Wechsler Memory Scale-Fourth Edition (WMS-IV) Auditory Memory Index (AMI) scores when California Verbal Learning Test-Second Edition (CVLT-II) scores are substituted for WMS-IV Verbal Paired Associates (VPA) subtest ...
Hoelzle, James B., Thiruselvam, Indrani K., Vogt, Elisabeth M.   +2 more
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Game‐based learning for undergraduate consolidation: A qualitative study of how game‐based learning provides much more than knowledge acquisition

Anatomical Sciences Education, EarlyView.
Abstract Game‐based learning (GBL) is increasingly used in medical education to supplement traditional didactic learning methods. Adult learners in particular may benefit from GBL, given the autonomous and iterative nature of a well‐designed educational game.
Thomas J. Paddock, Erin P. Fillmore
wiley   +1 more source