Sentences with phrase «memorization in»

So you have a massive implementation failure that has masked the potential of these standards to help the transition from rote memorization in schools, to helping kids become critical thinkers and knowledge - appliers...

Sixty percent of them called for less memorization in classrooms, with one professor in Boston insisting that it was «politically dangerous... when students have to memorize and spout back.»

«They are moving from rote memorization in the move from the MCAS to the PARCC, the Common Core assessment,» she says, referring to the Massachusetts Comprehensive Assessment System state test.

The book's focus on teacher autonomy and creative license is a stiff rebuke to the troubling overemphasis on standardized testing and rote memorization in schools, a perspective that may frustrate some readers — while inspiring many others.

I learned some of this by trial and error when learning speed reading and rapid memorization in school, but I like how Ferriss applies it to everything from fitness to cooking to languages and everything in between.

«I feel that there's a huge disconnect between science and the public because it's depicted as rote memorization in schools, when by definition, if you can memorize it, it's not science,» says Ingber, who is also the Judah Folkman Professor of Vascular Biology at Harvard Medical School and the Vascular Biology Program at Boston Children's Hospital, and Professor of Bioengineering at the Harvard Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Sciences (SEAS).

Not exact matches

«An amazing investigation into the world of competitive memorization that turns into an in - depth study on the capacity, and limitations, of the human mind.

In a study published in the Journal of Consumer Research that examined the impact of mental stress on food choices, a majority of the participants selected an unhealthy food (chocolate cake) over a healthy food (fruit) after completing a complicated memorization tasIn a study published in the Journal of Consumer Research that examined the impact of mental stress on food choices, a majority of the participants selected an unhealthy food (chocolate cake) over a healthy food (fruit) after completing a complicated memorization tasin the Journal of Consumer Research that examined the impact of mental stress on food choices, a majority of the participants selected an unhealthy food (chocolate cake) over a healthy food (fruit) after completing a complicated memorization task.

The study subjects were then asked how many of the pairings they recalled 30 minutes after the memorization session, compared to after sleeping through the night with the distressing images still percolating in their brains.

First of all, as we saw above, in that time period the use of paraphrase, even for memorization of sayings, was considered acceptable in recounting an event.

Today, of course, memorization is routinely dismissed as «rote learning,» and priority is given to «self - expression» in the service of «authenticity» and other presumed goods.

How they actually were induced to memorize is not shown in the image, nor is there any revelation of what the memorizations mean to the boys.

In emphasizing mastery of facts and ideas, I am not advocating a return to the sterile procedures of rote memorization of extensive creedal or biblical material.

Jesus is the divine teacher, and a good teacher finds the way to bring out the very best in students — not to simply teach them rote memorization (although that has its place) but to make them «deliver of themselves»; to put something more behind their answers.

With this I say, freely speak your mind, but keep in memorization that you are not the only one who has faith!

There was initial rote memorization of the words that, in their various inflections, were the elements of the language — usually more of them than any ancient speaker ever used, or ever knew.

While we may not be able to extricate ourselves from either our consumer culture or our heritage in print, at least we can begin to liberate ourselves from our reliance on books and paper in our worship by recovering skills of memorization, recitation, and narration.

I encountered the Bible with the help of these women through reading and learning texts (memorization drills) as well as interactive activities (usually in the form of crafts).

Discipline, repetition, memorization, are vital to learning or the acquisition of any skill, whether it be in a specific academic discipline, operating a computer, typing or driving a car.

For this reason, the traditional Muslim practice is to learn the Qur» an in Arabic through rote memorization.

The official organization of higher education, although it achieved the immediate end of the restoration of order, unfortunately led to those characteristics of Islamic education which have come down almost to our time — the addiction to memorization of prescribed texts and study of the same materials in generation after generation.

Through memorization, and understanding of martial arts movements and concepts you will see an improvement in your child's ability to articulate movement, as well as approach obstacles in new ways.

According to the November / December Child Development Reports, children that are sleeping through the night achieve at higher levels in skills including attentiveness, self - discipline, organization, memorization and the abilities to plan, think and work with others.

Is teaching effective if it results in children who are capable of rote memorization and passing standardized tests, but lack imagination, curiosity, and a love of reading?

But the new rigorous standards being used in school are designed to expose kids to problems that need to be analyzed and thought through - not just answered through rote memorization or quick calculations.

In 2010, he addressed the issue of memorization versus learning, saying that «if you're spending all your time memorizing content, you're not going to develop those fundamental skills.»

«The College Board recognized a few years ago that some of their courses were too narrow and were emphasizing memorization over deep mastery of content, and they are currently in the process of revamping several of their exams».

Which teaching style would result in a bicycle rider rather than just a memorization of bicycle parts?

(Answer: cry, eat, poop in diapers, sleep in Mama's room, etc.) Again, I don't know if any of this stuff has gotten through beyond a rote memorization level, but WE TRIED.

Even on a test, a teacher can reduce the likelihood of cheating by asking for in - depth responses as opposed to fill in the blanks or multiple choice, and testing for mastery / deep understanding as opposed to memorization of content.

Moving in time with the music becomes more important, as well as memorization of ballet terminology.

In a study published in the journal Physiology and Behavior, children who ate oatmeal for breakfast performed 20 percent better on a map - memorization test than their sugary - cereal - munching counterpartIn a study published in the journal Physiology and Behavior, children who ate oatmeal for breakfast performed 20 percent better on a map - memorization test than their sugary - cereal - munching counterpartin the journal Physiology and Behavior, children who ate oatmeal for breakfast performed 20 percent better on a map - memorization test than their sugary - cereal - munching counterparts.

In college, she studied Mandarin — a language that takes hours upon hours of rote memorization to learn.

Most of us learn best when we do things; rote memorization is an inferior approach, though in many instances it's the only approach that's feasible; more on this later.

At the Centre de recherche en neurosciences de Lyon (CNRS / Université Claude Bernard Lyon 1 / Inserm), researchers specializing in scents and their memorization have analyzed data, provided since 2003 by the Division of the Technical and Scientific Police (DTSP, Ecully) on dog performances in scent identification tasks.

Spencer, with graduate student Janna Mantua and undergraduates Keenan Mahan and Owen Henry, found that individuals who had sustained a mild TBI more than a year earlier had greater recall in a word memorization task after they had slept than when tested after an equal period awake.

In a bid to determine the regions of the brain concerned with these memorization difficulties, the researchers conducted magneto - encephalographs (a technique that allows very weak magnetic fields produced by neural activity to be measured at the surface of the head) on a group of amusics while they were performing a musical task.

Scientists educated in «countries where memorization is a common pedagogical technique are sometimes surprised by US expectations that they cite sources for all direct quotations,» they add.

In essence, MCI patients had reduced short - term memorization ability and a different gaze pattern for faces when compared to normal people.

The research also showed that, during the memorization process, MCI patient gaze concentration on the eyes of an image decreased but the time spent looking at the mouth increased in comparison to normal subjects.

Their experiments revealed that the memorization performance of MCI patients was lower for facial images than for house images, but found no performance difference in normal subjects.

The researchers in this study were able to control for these variables — i.e., emotional context and number of exposures — and evaluate another type of memorization.

NEW YORK — When Daniel Tammet set the European record for pi memorization last year, memorizing 22,514 digits in just over 5 hours, he attributed the feat to his ability to see numbers as complex, 3 - dimensional landscapes, complete with color, texture, and sometimes even sound.

Emotion and repeated exposure are both known to play a role in long - term memorization, but why do we remember things that are not emotionally charged and have only been seen or experienced a few times in the past?

When conducting laboratory tests, it is difficult to account for key factors involved in memorization.

Superior self - paced memorization of digits in spite of a normal digit span: The structure of a memorist's skill.

In the place of courses based solely on lectures and memorization, they are incorporating the latest practices of biological research, engaging students with the opportunity to think and work like scientists on issues with real - world relevance.

In the Vision and Change meetings, she said, the message from students was clear: If you want to inform and inspire, lectures and memorization alone can be counterproductive.

As a student in Patsy Dickinson's Neurophysiology course, I began to learn that problem solving was a more important skill than memorization.

; instead, what is needed are better teaching, improved students, less memorization and more learning to increase understanding, instruction about problem solving, instruction to counter the false Hollywood message that science and research are entertainments, teaching children and adults how scientific research is very important in the daily life of all people, etc..