Multi-week research or inquiry-based laboratory exercises have been shown to enhance critical thinking, retention of knowledge, technical skills gained, and ability to interpret data, as well as to increase students' interest in science and improve their preparation for postgraduate education (Hathaway et al., 2002; Seymour et al., 2004; Hunter et al., 2007; Russell et al., 2007).
Because naïve epistemological beliefs can affect students' study approaches, learning gains, and ability to interpret complex scientific information (Schommer, 1990; Kardash and Scholes, 1996; Pulmones, 2010), shifting student epistemology can be a first step toward developing attitudes toward knowledge and learning more supportive of student success.
They have highlevel medical domain-expert knowledge to perform their research, to interpret newly gained knowledge and patterns in their data, but in practice rather only have basic or rudimentary computation know-how.
The data is difficult to interpret and gain an overall sense of distribution or change.
Whatever the reason for the sudden reversal of dropouts, education advocates said yesterday that it was a wake-up call to a system that for many years has been too quick to interpret marginal gains as signs of progress.
Our results suggest that ED-concerned individuals are more likely than others to interpret weight gain in terms of widespread personal inadequacies, whereas successful control provides a general sense of accomplishment, acceptance, and direction.
Thus, students gain important understanding by learning how to interpret both.
We propose that gain-loss frequency can be used to interpret the deck B phenomenon.
If it is defined vaguely, and councils have wide discretion on how to interpret it, recent efficiency gains may be reversed.
The main aim of the study is to reconstruct diversity of established vascular plants between 1800 and 2000 in today's area of Frankfurt/Main (Germany, Hesse) – using historical literature, herbarium vouchers, and a recent landscape survey – and to interpret changes (extinctions and gains) in the light of land use changes (drivers).
