"influence their understanding" is correct and usable in written English
You can use this phrase when you want to describe how one thing or person affects or changes another person's comprehension or viewpoint. Example: The media's constant portrayal of successful people may influence their understanding of what it takes to achieve success.
These selections can address the needs of a child throughout the maturing process and influence their understanding and response to literature (Norton 6).
Young peoples' perceptions of the costs and rewards related to diabetes may influence their understanding of, attitude toward, and adherence to positive diabetes-related behaviors.
In India, young Hindu men studied the Veda for years with their guru, adopting a self-effacing and non-violent lifestyle that was meant to influence their understanding of the texts.
Such subjects are "the building blocks medical students need in order to learn about the ways in which cognitive and perceptual processes influence their understanding of health and illness," explains the preview guide to the new MCAT.
However, the way people perceive and interact with bioinformatics tools can strongly influence their understanding of the complex data as well as the perceived usability and accessibility of these systems.
However, how the elderly and human caregiver perceive and interact with such system as an integral part of it, can greatly influence their understanding of the purpose and usefulness of the system.
This themed issue focuses on recent studies of concepts and conceptualization —from how textbook images and students' attitudes and levels of acceptance can influence their understandings to design of tools that educators can use to understand what their students know.
We explained that the primary motivation for this project was research indicating that students and teachers, at all grade levels, have an inadequate understanding of the nature of science, and that this influences their understanding and appreciation of evolution and other areas of science.
Thus, guided-reading activities should provide students with the opportunity to reflect on the reading process itself — recording in a log how their background knowledge and experience influenced their understanding of text, identifying where they may have gotten lost during reading and why, and asking any questions they have about the text.
Table 5 Student evaluation of how the curriculum influenced their understanding Statement Mean Standard deviation 1.
This study provides evidence that assessments used to diagnose students' prior ideas can actually present information that influences their understanding.
