All posts; Tags Include "Education"
- September 16, 2016
- 09:45 PM
- 154 views
Contiguity Effective for Deductive Inference
by Joshua Fisher in Text Savvy
Even if the benefits of retrieval practice were limited to improvements in recall (as prior research has demonstrated), such improvements do not stand in the way of improvements to higher-order reasoning, such as inference-making. (And shaping the path for students, such as improving informational contiguity can have a positive effect too.)... Read more »
Eglington, L., & Kang, S. (2016) Retrieval Practice Benefits Deductive Inference. Educational Psychology Review. DOI: 10.1007/s10648-016-9386-y
- September 11, 2016
- 10:41 PM
- 145 views
Older Women, Deeper Learning, and Greater Satisfaction at University
by Mark Rubin in Mark Rubin's Social Psychology Research Blog
Recent research published in the Journal of Diversity in Higher Education shows that older women are “ideal learners”... Read more »
Rubin, M., Scevak, J., Southgate, E., Macqueen, S., Williams, P., & Douglas, H. (2016) Older women, deeper learning, and greater satisfaction at university: Age and gender predict university students’ learning approach and degree satisfaction. Journal of Diversity in Higher Education. DOI: 10.1037/dhe0000042
- August 24, 2016
- 05:05 PM
- 258 views
Theses and dissertations: pros and cons of the traditional and alternative formats
by SciELO in SciELO in Perspective
In order to expedite the writing and assessment of theses, institutions and graduate programs in several countries, including Brazil, are choosing to allow candidates who have published papers on their masters or doctorate research topics to replace the thesis chapters by these articles, headed by an introduction, conclusion and review of scientific literature. Is this format ideal and applicable to all? … Read More →... Read more »
Editorial. (2016) The past, present and future of the PhD thesis. Nature, 535(7610), 7-7. DOI: 10.1038/535007a
Gould, J. (2016) What’s the point of the PhD thesis?. Nature, 535(7610), 26-28. DOI: 10.1038/535026a
Burrough-Boenisch, J. (2016) PhD thesis: Being more open about PhD papers. Nature, 536(7616), 274-274. DOI: 10.1038/536274b
- August 20, 2016
- 09:30 PM
- 234 views
Are Teaching and Learning Coevolved?
by Joshua Fisher in Text Savvy
Discussions in education are increasingly focused on "how students learn," and it seems to be widely accepted that teaching should adjust itself to what we discover about this. But if teaching is as natural a human faculty as learning, then this may be only half the story. How students (naturally) learn might be caused, in part, by how teachers (naturally) teach, and vice versa. And learners perhaps should be asked to adjust to what we learn about how we teach as much as the other way ........ Read more »
Strauss, S., Ziv, M., & Stein, A. (2002) Teaching as a natural cognition and its relations to preschoolers’ developing theory of mind. Cognitive Development, 17(3-4), 1473-1487. DOI: 10.1016/S0885-2014(02)00128-4
- August 17, 2016
- 03:17 PM
- 233 views
How do researchers and journalists in Brazil relate to each other?
by SciELO in SciELO in Perspective
Scientists admit that dealing with complex issues related to their research with journalists is not an easy task. However, long they realized that communicate their results in scientific journals is not enough. To obtain research grants, attract collaboration opportunities and for career advancement, it is necessary - and advisable - to communicate with the public through journalists. Read about the details of this relationship and what can be done to improve it. … Read More →... Read more »
Peters, H., Brossard, D., de Cheveigne, S., Dunwoody, S., Kallfass, M., Miller, S., & Tsuchida, S. (2008) SCIENCE COMMUNICATION: Interactions with the Mass Media. Science, 321(5886), 204-205. DOI: 10.1126/science.1157780
MASSARANI, L., & PETERS, H. (2016) Scientists in the public sphere: Interactions of scientists and journalists in Brazil. Anais da Academia Brasileira de Ciências, 88(2), 1165-1175. DOI: 10.1590/0001-3765201620150558
Peters, H. (2013) Gap between science and media revisited: Scientists as public communicators. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 110(Supplement_3), 14102-14109. DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1212745110
- August 3, 2016
- 02:40 PM
- 314 views
Instructions to authors of Health Science journals: what do they communicate?
by SciELO in SciELO in Perspective
Instructions to authors (IA) allegedly contain all necessary and sufficient information to guide authors on the correct submission of a manuscript to a journal. Actually, however, a huge diversity of contents not always fulfills that purpose. In this post, we analyze the instructions to authors of SciELO Brazil Health Science journals, as well as literature on the subject. … Read More →... Read more »
Sardenberg, T., Müller, S., Pereira, H., Oliveira, R., & Hossne, W. (2000) ANÁLISIS DE LOS ASPECTOS ÉTICOS DE LA INVESTIGACIÓN EN SERES HUMANOS CONTENIDOS EN LAS INSTRUCCIONES A LOS AUTORES DE 139 REVISTAS CIENTÍFICAS BRASILEÑAS. Acta bioethica, 6(2). DOI: 10.4067/S1726-569X2000000200008
Schriger, D., Arora, S., & Altman, D. (2006) The Content of Medical Journal Instructions for Authors. Annals of Emergency Medicine, 48(6), 743-7490000. DOI: 10.1016/j.annemergmed.2006.03.028
Pellizzon, R., Montero, E., Población, D., Monteiro, R., & Castro, R. (2007) Revistas brasileiras publicadoras de artigos científicos em cirurgia. III: análise das instruções aos autores baseada na estrutura dos requisitos de Vancouver. Acta Cirurgica Brasileira, 22(6), 503-510. DOI: 10.1590/S0102-86502007000600016
Hirst, A., & Altman, D. (2012) Are Peer Reviewers Encouraged to Use Reporting Guidelines? A Survey of 116 Health Research Journals. PLoS ONE, 7(4). DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0035621
Reveiz L, Villanueva E, Iko C, & Simera I. (2013) Compliance with clinical trial registration and reporting guidelines by Latin American and Caribbean journals. Cadernos de saude publica, 29(6), 1095-100. PMID: 23778541
Gasparyan, A., Ayvazyan, L., Gorin, S., & Kitas, G. (2014) Upgrading instructions for authors of scholarly journals. Croatian Medical Journal, 55(3), 271-280. DOI: 10.3325/cmj.2014.55.271
Probst, P., Hüttner, F., Klaiber, U., Diener, M., Büchler, M., & Knebel, P. (2015) Thirty years of disclosure of conflict of interest in surgery journals. Surgery, 157(4), 627-633. DOI: 10.1016/j.surg.2014.11.012
Bossuyt, P., Reitsma, J., Bruns, D., Gatsonis, C., Glasziou, P., Irwig, L., Lijmer, J., Moher, D., Rennie, D., de Vet, H.... (2015) STARD 2015: an updated list of essential items for reporting diagnostic accuracy studies. BMJ. DOI: 10.1136/bmj.h5527
- July 30, 2016
- 07:30 PM
- 302 views
Problem Solving, Instruction: Chicken, Egg
by Joshua Fisher in Text Savvy
When research has more fairly compared PS-I with I-PS, it has concluded that, in general, the sequence doesn't matter all that much, though there are some positive trends on conceptual and transfer assessments for PS-I.... Read more »
Loibl, K., Roll, I., & Rummel, N. (2016) Towards a Theory of When and How Problem Solving Followed by Instruction Supports Learning. Educational Psychology Review. DOI: 10.1007/s10648-016-9379-x
- July 27, 2016
- 03:38 PM
- 322 views
eBooks – global market and trends – Part III – Final: The publication of printed and digital books in the global context
by SciELO in SciELO in Perspective
The e-book Global report shows that the traditional model based on large publishing houses was insufficient to incorporate the possibilities of technological advances. On the one hand, the new reading models through smartphones and subscription platforms and on the other hand, self-publishing of ebooks open opportunities to both individual authors and non-profit organizations in the educational field to produce and distribute their own works at low cost and minimal infrastructure requirements. &........ Read more »
WISCHENBART, R.,, & et al. (2016) Global eBook: a report on market trends an developments. Rüdiger Wischenbart Content and Consulting (RWCC). info:/
- July 20, 2016
- 04:03 PM
- 409 views
How Open Access can boost researchers’ careers
by SciELO in SciELO in Perspective
Full adoption of open access has not been achieved mainly because researchers are not yet totally convinced that this type of publication will do for their careers the same as the subscription journals. A detailed review article published in eLife shows that open research brings many benefits to researchers and it is associated with increased citations, media attention, potential collaboration and funding and jobs opportunities. … Read More →... Read more »
McKiernan, E., Bourne, P., Brown, C., Buck, S., Kenall, A., Lin, J., McDougall, D., Nosek, B., Ram, K., Soderberg, C.... (2016) How open science helps researchers succeed. eLife. DOI: 10.7554/eLife.16800
KIERNAN, V. (2003) Diffusion of News about Research. Science Communication, 25(1), 3-13. DOI: 10.1177/1075547003255297
BOHANNON, J. (2013) Who’s Afraid of Peer Review?. Science, 342(6154), 60-65. DOI: http://dx.org/10.1126/science.342.6154.60
Vincent Lariviere, Veronique Kiermer, Catriona J MacCallum, Marcia McNutt, Mark Patterson, Bernd Pulverer, Sowmya Swaminathan, Stuart Taylor, Stephen Curry. (2016) A simple proposal for the publication of journal citation distributions. bioRxiv. DOI: http://dx.org/10.1101/062109
- July 18, 2016
- 08:30 PM
- 385 views
Interleaving Study Is Not Interleaving Learning
by Joshua Fisher in Text Savvy
In the latest research, the authors found that a blocked schedule (presenting examples from one category at a time) outperformed an interleaved schedule (interspersing examples from all the categories) for category learning when the examples to be classified were more highly discriminable. This result was consistent across the two experiments in the study (p = 0.055 and p = 0.04). Importantly, however, although interleaving was a better strategy for learning categories of lower discriminability,........ Read more »
Noh, S., Yan, V., Bjork, R., & Maddox, W. (2016) Optimal sequencing during category learning: Testing a dual-learning systems perspective. Cognition, 23-29. DOI: 10.1016/j.cognition.2016.06.007
- July 13, 2016
- 01:24 PM
- 277 views
eBooks – global market and trends – Part II: The publication of printed and digital books in the world context
by SciELO in SciELO in Perspective
The Global report on ebooks shows that after several years of growth, commercial companies find a decelerated market, where two lines of action strongly emerge: (a) the digitizing of educational books; and (b) books self-publishing initiatives. In this market stands out the ‘four horsemen’ initiatives that shape the digital ecology, integrated by Amazon, Apple, Google and Facebook. … Read More →... Read more »
WISCHENBART, R.,, & et al. (2016) Global eBook: a report on market trends an developments. Rüdiger Wischenbart Content and Consulting (RWCC). info:/
- June 22, 2016
- 10:30 AM
- 330 views
eBooks – global market and trends – Part I: Print and digital publication in the global context
by SciELO in SciELO in Perspective
In recent years, a global industry of electronic books (ebooks) has emerged, with great force in the English language market and remarkable strength in the United States. There are indicators showing a race between traditional publishing industries and also global players such as Amazon and non-traditional ones, such as authors publishing individually and independently. A recent report published last April, divided into four major sections, presents detailed statistics on the production and mark........ Read more »
WISCHENBART, R.,, & et al. (2016) Global eBook: a report on market trends an developments. Rüdiger Wischenbart Content and Consulting (RWCC). info:/
- June 16, 2016
- 02:40 PM
- 384 views
Zika Fast Track
by SciELO in SciELO in Perspective
How can scientific journals assist in the response to Public Health Emergencies? The journal Memórias do Instituto Oswaldo Cruz has innovated by creating a fast track for manuscripts submitted on the topic of the Zika Virus. The fast track procedure allows manuscripts to be posted on-line within 24 hours of submission making the data within them available to reader scrutiny and sharing while the manuscripts undergo peer-review. The journal is already reaping some benefits from this approa........ Read more »
Zanluca, C., Melo, V., Mosimann, A., Santos, G., Santos, C., & Luz, K. (2015) First report of autochthonous transmission of Zika virus in Brazil. Memórias do Instituto Oswaldo Cruz, 110(4), 569-572. DOI: 10.1590/0074-02760150192
Noronha, L., Zanluca, C., Azevedo, M., Luz, K., & Santos, C. (2016) Zika virus damages the human placental barrier and presents marked fetal neurotropism. Memórias do Instituto Oswaldo Cruz, 111(5), 287-293. DOI: 10.1590/0074-02760160085
Codeço, C., Villela, D., Gomes, M., Bastos, L., Cruz, O., Struchiner, C., Carvalho, L., & Coelho, F. (2016) Zika is not a reason for missing the Olympic Games in Rio de Janeiro: response to the open letter of Dr Attaran and colleagues to Dr Margaret Chan, Director - General, WHO, on the Zika threat to the Olympic and Paralympic Games. Memórias do Instituto Oswaldo Cruz, 111(6), 414-415. DOI: 10.1590/0074-02760160003
- June 13, 2016
- 10:51 AM
- 374 views
The best of both worlds
by SciELO in SciELO in Perspective
Quality is an ill-defined concept with regard to scholarly literature. Some aspects of quality can be assessed reasonably objectively, and immediately, such as the quality of presentation. But some cannot be readily determined, and need time and ‘digestion’ by the scholarly community, such as the scientific quality of an article. And then there is the quality of a journal’s service to authors, of particular importance for open access publishing that is supported by Article Processing Charg........ Read more »
Baker, M. (2016) 1,500 scientists lift the lid on reproducibility. Nature, 533(7604), 452-454. DOI: 10.1038/533452a
- May 27, 2016
- 12:10 PM
- 390 views
Enhance the Salience of Relevant Variables
by Joshua Fisher in Text Savvy
Performing the discrete mode of presentation test strongly enhances the salience of the relevant variable, perimeter, and somewhat decreases that of area. This enhancement supports appropriate solution strategies that lead to improved performance. This effect is robust and transfers to continuous mode of presentation for at least 10 days. In line with this conclusion, a student who performed the continuous test after the discrete one commented that, “It [continuous] was harder this time bu........ Read more »
Babai, R., Nattiv, L., & Stavy, R. (2016) Comparison of perimeters: improving students’ performance by increasing the salience of the relevant variable. ZDM, 48(3), 367-378. DOI: 10.1007/s11858-016-0766-z
- May 25, 2016
- 03:33 PM
- 370 views
Open Access reviewed: stricter criteria preserve credibility
by SciELO in SciELO in Perspective
The most comprehensive index of open access journals, the Directory of Open Access Journals (DOAJ), reviewed its inclusion criteria, in view of allegations of the presence of predatory journals. This restructuring will lead to more than 3,000 journals to be removed from the database. DOAJ, besides advocating Open Access, established, in collaboration with COPE, OASPA and WAME, a code of principles and good practices in scientific publishing. … Read More →... Read more »
Bohannon, J. (2013) Who's Afraid of Peer Review?. Science, 342(6154), 60-65. DOI: 10.1126/science.342.6154.60
Baker, M. (2016) Open-access index delists thousands of journals. Nature. DOI: 10.1038/nature.2016.19871
- May 10, 2016
- 03:18 PM
- 423 views
The adoption of English among SciELO Brazil journals has been increasing
by SciELO in SciELO in Perspective
The adoption of the English language is one of the advances that SciELO is promoting in order to increase the insertion, visibility and international impact of journals and the research they communicate. In recent years, the adoption of English has growing consistently among SciELO journals, which, from 2014 reached the milestone of publishing more in English than in Portuguese. The expectation of SciELO is that in the 2 to 3 forthcoming years 75% of the articles will be published in English and........ Read more »
Meneghini, R., & Packer, A. (2007) Is there science beyond English? Initiatives to increase the quality and visibility of non-English publications might help to break down language barriers in scientific communication. EMBO reports, 8(2), 112-116. DOI: 10.1038/sj.embor.7400906
- May 10, 2016
- 03:47 AM
- 403 views
Getting Published (the story behind the paper)
by Christophe Dessimoz in Open Reading Frame
Our paper “A Pragmatic Approach to Getting Published: 35 Tips for Early Career Researchers” just came out in Frontiers in Plant Science. This is the story behind the paper.
For my second postdoc, I was the fortunate receipient of a PLANT FELLOWS scholarship. PLANT FELLOWS is an international program that provides research grants to postdocs in the field of plant science. The fellows are based at many different host institutions throughout Europe. I myself am working at Bayer Crop Science ........ Read more »
Glover, N., Antoniadi, I., George, G., Götzenberger, L., Gutzat, R., Koorem, K., Liancourt, P., Rutowicz, K., Saharan, K., You, W.... (2016) A Pragmatic Approach to Getting Published: 35 Tips for Early Career Researchers. Frontiers in Plant Science. DOI: 10.3389/fpls.2016.00610
- May 1, 2016
- 11:00 AM
- 416 views
Being Explicit About Symmetry
by Joshua Fisher in Text Savvy
Working to orient oneself to the symmetries available in mathematical situations seems like one appropriate remedy to what I've called "left-to-rightism," or "cinemathematics"—a syndrome that makes us teach concepts like the equals sign (unwittingly) in a left-to-right way, such that students take away (unwittingly) the misconception that the equals sign indicates that some answer is to follow, rather than that two expressions are equal. Some recent research points........ Read more »
Tsang, J., Blair, K., Bofferding, L., & Schwartz, D. (2015) Learning to “See” Less Than Nothing: Putting Perceptual Skills to Work for Learning Numerical Structure. Cognition and Instruction, 33(2), 154-197. DOI: 10.1080/07370008.2015.1038539
- April 10, 2016
- 06:30 PM
- 475 views
Spaced Practice
by Joshua Fisher in Text Savvy
Spaced practice, also called distributed practice, refers to the practice—after initial learning—of leaving gaps in time between sessions devoted to reviewing previously learned material. This stands in contrast to its much less effective counterpart, massed practice, which "crams" all of the review together in time.... Read more »
Kang, S. (2016) Spaced Repetition Promotes Efficient and Effective Learning: Policy Implications for Instruction. Policy Insights from the Behavioral and Brain Sciences, 3(1), 12-19. DOI: 10.1177/2372732215624708
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