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In Education, Delayed Feedback Is Often More Efficient Than Immediate Feedback: A Geometric Explanation, Francisco Zapata, Olga Kosheleva, Vladik Kreinovich
In Education, Delayed Feedback Is Often More Efficient Than Immediate Feedback: A Geometric Explanation, Francisco Zapata, Olga Kosheleva, Vladik Kreinovich
Departmental Technical Reports (CS)
Feedback is important in education. It is commonly believed that immediate feedback is very important. That is why instructors stay often late at night grading students' assignments -- to make sure that the students get their feedback as early as possible. However, surprisingly, experiments show that in many cases, delayed feedback is more efficient that the immediate one. In this paper, we provide a simple geometric explanation of this seemingly counter-intuitive empirical phenomenon.
Maybe The Usual Students' Practice Of Cramming For A Test Makes Sense: A Mathematical Analysis, Francisco Zapata, Olga Kosheleva, Vladik Kreinovich
Maybe The Usual Students' Practice Of Cramming For A Test Makes Sense: A Mathematical Analysis, Francisco Zapata, Olga Kosheleva, Vladik Kreinovich
Departmental Technical Reports (CS)
We always teach students that cramming for a test is a bad idea, that they should study at the same speed throughout the semester – but many still cram. We ourselves are not that different: when we prepare papers for a conference, we often “cram” in the last days before the deadline instead of working with a regular speed for the whole time before the conference. The ubiquity of cramming makes us think that maybe it is not necessarily always a bad idea. And indeed, a simple model of a study process shows that an optimal solution often involve some …
How To Teach Implication, Martha Osegueda Escobar, Olga Kosheleva, Vladik Kreinovich
How To Teach Implication, Martha Osegueda Escobar, Olga Kosheleva, Vladik Kreinovich
Departmental Technical Reports (CS)
Logical implication is a somewhat counter-intuitive notion. For students, it is difficult to understand why a false statement implies everything. In this paper, we present a simple pedagogical way to make logical implication more intuitive.
Active Learning Effect On The Public's Perception Of Anthropogenic Global Climate Change, Ivy Gisselle Trevizo
Active Learning Effect On The Public's Perception Of Anthropogenic Global Climate Change, Ivy Gisselle Trevizo
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Anthropogenic, or human-caused global climate change has been debated for many years among the public despite the growing evidence that there is scientific consensus on this topic. A gap has been discovered between scientific evidence of increasing temperatures and the public's perception on climate change. This gap has been hypothesized to come from the method in which the scientific community represents scientific evidence. The goal of this study was to determine if active learning techniques around local and regional climate change and climate change impacts changes the awareness, perception, and behavioral intentions of different segments of the public. The study …