How design experiments can inform teaching and learning: Teacher - researchers as collaborators in educational research.
Once again half term has just flown by and my plans of spending the
days designing experiments, crafting and generally spending lots of quality time together hasn't really worked out.
In an
elegantly designed experiment, they showed human mothers - to - be images of human faces, and asked them to rate the emotions expressed on those faces.
She has remarkable expertise in all aspects of biological imaging,
including designing experiments, preparing samples, and processing and analyzing images.
I can
successfully design experiments to test theories about how chemicals function in the body, and investigate abnormal biochemical conditions with quite a lot of ease.
The kids and I have been doing science experiments at home since they were tiny and a couple of years ago I worked with their school to get two grants from the UK Space Agency which is where my passion and enthusiasm for
designing experiments for kids to learn about space travel and our solar system started.
So far, more than 30,000 students have had the experience
of designing experiments for microgravity through the SSEP program, which is part of the National Center for Earth and Space Science Education (NCESSE) in the U.S. and the Arthur C. Clarke Institute for Space Education internationally.
We can
design experiments on a scale previously impossible in the social sciences thanks to «granular data» (Grimmer 2015), while expanding hand - coded material into larger datasets with machine learning.
To provide an answer for how the geology of Yellowknife Bay has changed over time, Farley and his colleagues also
designed an experiment using a method called surface exposure dating.
Building on the knowledge that making older children laugh can enhance many aspects of cognition, Rana Esseily and her
colleagues designed an experiment to see whether using humor could also have an effect on the ability of infants to learn.
Led by Philippe Robert, PhD, of the French pharmaceutical company Guerbet, the
researchers designed experiments in rats to assess the effects of repeated injections of GBCAs.
The University of Florida
team designed experiments in which they evaluated 2 - to 7 - week - old basil plants for their susceptibility to downy mildew, and studied the effect of a pre-inoculation application of the fungicide acibenzolar - S - methyl (ASM) for controlling the fungus on maturing basil plants.
According to a study in the Journal of Behavioural and Experimental Economics, researchers from Columbia Business School
designed an experiment where they gave cheques to MBA students and tracked how long they took to cash them.
After the paper appeared, researcher Kenneth Witwer at Johns Hopkins — who was not a co-author — posted comments on PubMed Commons and the paper itself, noting that the authors hadn't
properly designed the experiment, making it impossible for them to detect broccoli microRNAs.
To test whether the elephant seals themselves made those distinctions in the same way, the researchers
designed an experiment based on the social behavior of the colony's «beta males,» who shy away upon hearing the call of a more powerful «alpha male» but ignore or confront other beta males and still - weaker «peripheral males.»
In four
cleverly designed experiments reported online this week in Science, psychologists confirm the so - called Google effect: a growing belief that people are using the Internet as a personal memory bank.
Chao - Lin Kuo, who
helped design the experiment that claimed to have found evidence of gravitational waves from the Big Bang, isn't bothered by criticism that cosmic dust may account for his results.
«This gene encodes a protein which recognises the presence of a certain number of cold - inducing microbes in a cell, such as the respiratory syncytial virus (RSV) or rhinoviruses,» explains Samira Asgari of EPFL,
who designed the experiments.
In four cleverly
designed experiments reported online this week in Science, psychologists explore how the Internet may be changing the way people handle information.
2) Provide a
well designed experiment that would be able to test the hypothesis that» «fine tuning» is empirical evidence that supports the claim that the god of Israel exists.»
As I
began designing experiments to investigate the symbiotic relationship between legumes and nitrogen - fixing bacteria, my committee members applauded my ambition to pioneer a project far beyond the scope of my lab, which focuses on plant - pollinator interactions.
Even designing experiments to test reducing antibiotic courses remains difficult, they added, because participants are often invited to consent to receive shortened antibiotic treatment on the basis that this could reduce the risk of antibiotic resistance — yet they are «taught from school that it increases this risk.»
Tips: Göttgens suggests working with a bioinformatician to
design the experiment from the outset to power the study with the right number of cells and to limit the potential influence of batch effects (in which two results differ because they were collected on different days).
To test this hypothesis, Shadmehr and his team
first designed an experiment to measure how much force a patient's brain was willing to «assign» to each arm.
In a new study in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, University of Chicago
scholars designed an experiment using sign language to answer that question.
Scientists from Auspace and the Mount Stromlo Observatory, which
designed the experiments carried out by the telescope, will bring back from Florida the magnetic tapes containing the data collected by the telescope.