4. Individually, re-write the science-related article for a younger audience and compare this version to the in-class summary.
Their written work on three academic writing tasks (in-class essays, in-class summaries and at-home summaries) performed twelve weeks apart (during the first and last weeks of the class) was analyzed in terms of its overall accuracy (total number of errors per 300 words), as well as grammatical and lexical errors separately.
To assess main effects, we used logistic regression to quantify associations between childhood exposures, life events, cannabis use and psychotic experiences, while adjusting for age, gender, ethnicity, education, social class (a summary indicator of socioeconomic position) and, as appropriate, cannabis use.
Class notes summaries were weekly assignments that required students to state the three most important concepts introduced each day in lecture, along with a question based on the idea that they understood least well in that class session.
The objectives of class notes summaries were to help students 1) organize and synthesize their course material, and 2) increase metacognition specifically, the ability to identify which information is most important and which concepts are understood most poorly (Bransford et al., 2000 ).
Classes start on January 9, so you can look through the course summaries before committing.
In summary, class II and class III HDACs where shown to exert heart protective activities [ 95].
Hativa (2000) describes a very intense personalised programme where teachers watch videotapes of their classes, write summaries of what they learned about their teaching from the tapes, and then meet in one-on-one discussions with an experienced teacher to talk about strategies that could be employed to improve pedagogical knowledge and skills in the classroom.
Wrap up each class with a summary of the main concepts you have taught and put them in context," he adds.
