Hypothesis 1 focuses on the quantity of financial advice sought by older adults, yet customer sophistication can also affect the quality of advice, since all types of financial advice do not require the same background and knowledge. For example, receiving help from professional advisors requires a...
Aviation is a multidisciplinary subject that has influenced human development over the last century. Learning about aviation exposes students to principles
It’s one of those “nails on a chalkboard” words for me, as it’s tossed around so often without a lot of discussion or conversation regarding its meaning or what it looks like in classrooms with actual children. Let’s take a look at what fidelity means. According to Webster, fidelit...
The children drew while the adults encouraged them and wrote labels on the pictures – except for [one] who most of the time was breastfeeding her baby. … [Nakyato] went round all the time, putting her hand on a child’s head or round his chin and making encouraging noises. At one...
According to a report in Slate.com, Renee Hobbs called this assessment exercise “groundbreaking” as a new model for how to “measure media literacy competencies acquired by adults though formal media education programs.” (Guernsey, 2018)IREX claims an impact on Ukrainian information literacy ...
The work reported here is based on the assumption that for a culture to develop in which reading plays an integral part, it is not enough to teach children how to read: adults need to read too, and children need to see them doing it. The promotion of adult literacy is, however, ...
The number one financial problem in Canada from young adults to retirees is spending money they don’t have – usually with a high-interest credit card. The need for instant gratification is an ongoing battle but developing resistance at an early age will help keep the urge under control in ...
there is virtually no walk of life related to knowledge-production among adults–from universities to research centers to businesses–in which those expected to work with information and learn do not have individual access to digital devices. One-to-one laptop (or tablet) programs are still far ...
Most opted for footage of victims kneeling in front of captors before the executions. Last week, such images popped up repeatedly as teasers to TV news programs and on Internet news sites. “If people can’t watch, we’ve lost our ability to convey information,” says Neal Shapiro, ...
Age grouping by the imposition of a cut-off date, common in sports and education, promotes a relative age difference that is associated with developmental advantages for children who are born on the “early side” of the cut-off date and disadvantages to those born later in the same year, ...