We assessed the degree to which the effectiveness of prequestions could be influenced by individual differences in students' confidence, familiarity, out-of-class reading, and GPA.
The film, written and directed by Greg Mottola ("The Daytrippers," "Superbad"), plants its flag in thoroughly explored territory, but that familiarity turns out to be integral to its loose and scruffy appeal.
This analysis required students to provide responses on all of the in-class questions, including the prequestion, postquestion, new question, corresponding confidence ratings, and ratings for familiarity and out-of-class reading.
But whereas Mama, a latter-day variation on Brecht's Mother Courage (the Brecht play partly inspired "Ruined"), uses hominess and familiarity to shut out the terrors of war in Congo, "Ruined" craftily creates the same atmosphere to bring those same terrors to our attention.
Or the familiarity with tuning out the noise?
While most glitch art, by definition, gives you sensations of disjointedness and disorientation by manipulating the color and geometry of the familiar, Rosa Menkman takes familiarity nearly out of the equation with her intensely twisted worlds.
The chorus sounded uncustomarily choppy on first night, but familiarity will sort out any roughness.
"When you lose it all at once, your brain is searching out familiarity," she says.
But on the roof of the nearby Galeries Lafayette we take in Paris in the autumn and revel in the sense of familiarity as we point out buildings we recognise from previous trips: the greenish domes of neoclassical churches, the gold of Les Invalides and the Opéra, much of which is covered in scaffolding.
"It's more of an imagined familiarity born out of reading your words for a year.
