Other assignments focus on the evils of what Dr. Rao called "mind chatter" -- allowing needless thoughts to clog the mind.
Frankly, the majority of my students work full- and part-time, and have little time beyond assignments focused on the basics.
The analysis of video recordings, field notes, researcher and teacher logs, and teacher design assignments focused on the enactment of three scaffolding characteristics: diagnosis, responsiveness and handover to independence.
The fact that a third of pre-service teachers did not accept evolution after they were exposed to evolutionary concepts through lectures, laboratory exercises, videos, discussions, visits to a natural history museum, and assignments focusing on various fossil specimens suggests that simply teaching more about evolution does not change students' views of evolution.
Subsequent work on color-concept assignments focused only on concepts that were highly colorable, where colorability was as defined with respect to co-occurrences between concepts and basic color terms (Berlin & Kay, 1969) in the Google n-grams corpus (Setlur & Stone, 2016).
In the active control condition, participants made pencil and paper assignments focused on sustained attention (mostly intact in MCI and AD).
Other assignments focused on selecting appropriate primary literature modules and designing classroom activities suitable for students working in groups.
Because the laboratory homework assignments focused entirely on terminology and basic concepts, the in-lab discussions were largely dry and unengaging.
In this regard, Biggs and Tang (2007) found that assignments focused on one topic had a positive effect on the nature of learning, while assignments that required coverage of range of topics encouraged students to adopt a surface approach.
(He was also quick to point out that the year before, the assignment focused on himself).
