We chose Likert-type items in the instrument to avoid many of the problems associated with multiple- choice and open-response questionnaires (Almquist and Cronin 1988; Wescott and Cunningham 2005). For exam- ple, Almquist and Cronin (1988) found that when students were given multiple-choice ...
It may happen that your life14greatly on your preference of one choice to the other. In fact that is what15is like: we are often16with the two opposite sides of a thing which are both desirable like a newspaper cutting.It often occurs that our attention is drawn to one thing only17we...
as “blank slates.” Rather, these students have complex and strongly held scientific misconceptions that often interfere with their ability to understand accurate explanations that are presented in class. Research indicates that a scientific misconception cannot be corrected by simply presenting accurate...
The United States will begin shipping its first doses of the coronavirus vaccine to other countries on Monday [June 28]. The story does appear to be a little bit wrong, as the Honduras shipment appears to have been one day earlier, but that’s a minor error. Clearly, Honduras and Peru...
Despite children’s insight into the causal constraints imposed on belief by restricted perceptual access, 4-year-olds can grasp that a being with X-ray vision is not subject to those constraints, and children begin to accurately predict what that being will know about the contents of closed ...
We ‘grow’ with our languages. So it’s not exactly like the hypothesis that ‘Eskimos have more words for snow’ so they can tell more different kinds of snow, but rather, perception and language have an active interaction with each other.“ With that in mind, I couldn’t help but ...
drink two glasses of red wine every day and take long walks. In other words, the doctor advised him to follow the rule: “Eat with pleasure, drink with pleasure and enjoy life as it is.” The doctor also said that if the man wanted to be well again, he shouldn’t smoke more than...
The package arrived in perfect condition, with its contents safely intact. After pouring our first glass of whiskey from this decanter, we immediately felt more sophisticated and used words like 'indubitably,' 'transcendent,' and 'ergo.' Indeed, drinking from this decanter will make even Canadian...