Sentences with phrase «retain less information»

A recent study of the use of ebook technology in college classrooms concluded that students who read their course material on ebooks retain less information than when they read them in paper form.

I personally do not feel I retain less information when I read on a dedicated e-reader vs. a p - book.

A study found that people retain less information if read on a tablet or an eReader than a physical book.

Not exact matches

While we're programmed to retain information that seems relevant and which we can tie to other facts and sensations we're already storing in our heads, if a piece of data, like a name, is context-less and random there's less for the brain to latch on to.

Twitter became less transparent about how long it retains the information it collects by tracking users and its purposes for collecting it.

If a drug could boost the transformation of short - term memory to long - term memory, it could help humans absorb and retain information with considerably less practice and commitment of time.

Their manufacturing reliability is low and tends to retain information for only less than a year.

Students were less sure that they were «retaining information better» than that they «were not distracted,» but the overall results were very encouraging.

Each learning style is about how information is taken in, and those that prefer to learn in that style may have difficulty retaining information presented in a less preferable manner.

The less visual noise a page contains, the clearer the information becomes and the easier it is to retain.

Gain scores from pretest to posttest indicated that middle school students retained important information by interacting with the online material for as little as 30 minutes per adventure; however, gains for high school students were less persuasive, perhaps indicating a different learning tool or content is required for this age audience.

The manual for the SAT - 10, which CPS used last year to retain students, states that test scores «should be just one of the many factors considered and probably should receive less weight than factors such as teacher observation, day - to - day classroom performance, maturity level, and attitude» — just the kind of information in report cards.

Not only are online drivers ed courses more efficient than classroom based courses, but they are way cheaper, less boring, students will retain information better, and it's faster as well.

The following criteria were used to decide on the number of classes to retain: Akaike information criterion (AIC), Bayesian information criterion (BIC) and sample - size adjusted BIC (adj BIC).54 Also, we used entropy to assess the quality of classification, as well as the Vuong - Lo - Mendell - Rubin (VLMR) adjusted likelihood ratio test for the hypothesis that a model with one less class performs just as well.

Allows the participants to retain control over their decision - making, instead of having a judge dictate decisions (based on less information which is presented to the court);