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Does phonological recoding occur during silent reading, and is it necessary for orthographic learning?

13 Jul 2009 Two studies were conducted to test the central claim of the self-teaching hypothesis (i.e., phonological recoding is necessary for orthographic learning) in silent reading. The first study aimed to demonstrate the use of phonological recoding during ...
rec_pub_19608198-does-phonological-recoding-occur-silent-reading-necessary.htm


Readability estimates for commonly used health-related quality of life surveys.

8 Jul 2009 PURPOSE: To estimate readability of seven commonly used health-related quality of life instruments: SF-36, HUI, EQ-5D, QWB-SA, HALex, Minnesota Living with Heart Failure Questionnaire (MLHFQ), and the NEI-VFQ-25. METHODS: The Flesch-Kincaid (F-K) ...
rec_pub_19590979-readability-estimates-commonly-used-health-related-quality-life.htm


How children block learning from ignorant speakers.

6 Jul 2009 Preschool children typically do not learn words from ignorant or unreliable speakers. Here, we examined the mechanism by which these learning failures occur by modifying the comprehension test procedure that measures word learning. Following lexical ...
rec_pub_19589508-how-children-block-learning-ignorant-speakers.htm


Oncology's first Phase 0 trial.

5 Jul 2009
rec_pub_19584322-oncology-s-phase-0-trial.htm


Agrammatic comprehension caused by a glioma in the left frontal cortex.

30 Jun 2009 It has been known that lesions in the left inferior frontal gyrus (L. IFG) do not always cause Broca's aphasia, casting doubt upon the specificity of this region. We have previously devised a picture-sentence matching task for a functional magnetic ...
rec_pub_19573900-agrammatic-comprehension-caused-glioma-left-frontal-cortex.htm


A comparison of a spiritually based and non-spiritually based educational intervention for informed decision making for prostate cancer screening among church-attending African-American men.

29 Jun 2009 INTRODUCTION: Health communication interventions have been modestly effective for increasing informed decision making for prostate cancer screening among African-American men; however, knowledge and informed decision making is still questionable ...
rec_pub_19718941-a-comparison-spiritually-based-non-spiritually-based-educational.htm


Assessing the integration of audience response system technology in teaching of anatomical sciences.

29 Jun 2009 The goals of our study were to determine the predictive value and usability of an audience response system (ARS) as a knowledge assessment tool in an undergraduate medical curriculum. Over a three year period (2006-2008), data were collected from ...
rec_pub_19670428-assessing-integration-audience-response-system-technology-teaching.htm


Objective and subjective assessment of reciprocal peer teaching in medical gross anatomy laboratory.

29 Jun 2009 Reciprocal peer teaching (RPT), wherein students alternate roles as teacher and learner, has been applied in several educational arenas with varying success. Here, we describe the implementation of a reciprocal peer teaching protocol in a human ...
rec_pub_19637291-objective-subjective-assessment-reciprocal-peer-teaching-medical.htm


Learning of cross-sectional anatomy using clay models.

29 Jun 2009 We incorporated clay modeling into gross anatomy and neuro-anatomy courses to help students understand cross-sectional anatomy. By making clay models, cutting them and comparing cut surfaces to CT and MR images, students learned how cross-sectional ...
rec_pub_19588481-learning-cross-sectional-anatomy-using-clay-models.htm


A survey of student perceptions of team-based learning in anatomy curriculum: favorable views unrelated to grades.

29 Jun 2009 Team-based learning (TBL) combines independent out of class preparation with in class small group discussion. We adopted TBL in teaching first year medical gross anatomy. In this study, we evaluated student perceptions of TBL by using a survey that ...
rec_pub_19572279-a-survey-student-perceptions-team-based-learning-anatomy-curriculum.htm

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