One simple measure of a teacher effectiveness in the classroom could be timing how long a student is engaged with a task.
The fact that people may be subjectively deaf to a sound when engaged with a task of high visual load has a range of consequences for daily life.
Physical manipulatives are thought to provide several unique affordances, the most obvious being the opportunity to physically engage with a learning task.
Only when we have a qualitative description of how students are likely to engage with a particular task can we begin to develop more quantitative instruments to assess its success (e.g., Dreyfus et al., 2013a).
The results from the current study suggest that tDCS is more effective when participants have to fully engage with a difficult task, or when they find it difficult to perform.
Therefore, while engaging in a task with a learner, the adult mediator pays attention to the learner's responsiveness to mediation and making changes accordingly.
A 100% D-efficient design was achievable with 18 choice scenarios, three of which were 'rationality' tests (ie, scenarios in which one test is unequivocally preferable to the alternative on all attributes; these act as checks for 'rational' responding, which is an indicator of understanding and engaging with the task.
These lasted 30 120 min and included spells of interviewing and silent observation of the driver engaging with their task.
The fact that RTs for the number task were significantly higher in this experiment as compared to Experiment 1 shows that subjects were actively engaging with the second task and that their chance performance was not due to ignoring that task.
In a well-known study looking at happiness in teenagers, the psychologist Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi found that his subjects were happiest when they were in what he calls a "flow state," where one is fully engaged with an activity or task.
We expected that patients with behavioural variant FTD could engage with a simple semantic categorization task even though behavioural deficits in language, naming and semantics occur in behavioural variant FTD.
