In contrast to the most common math programs in the United States, Singapore math devotes more time to fewer topics, to ensure that children master the material through detailed instruction, questions, problem solving, and visual and hands-on aids like blocks, cards and bar charts.
In the Descriptive Inorganic Chemistry case-study, we demonstrate that peer instruction questions can be co-designed in partnership with students to foster engagement and challenge misconceptions.
The third round resulted in 100% agreement regarding the structure of the instrument; adequacy and clarity of the content of instruction, questions and also the response alternatives.
That's because just 12 years later, the Legislature placed a very similar voter instruction question onto the ballot, asking voters if they wanted to directly elect U.S. Senators.
Group one answered question one on the first day (before instruction), question two on the second day, and so on, answering question seven after the last of the learning exercises.
In a similar vein, in a study of 4 and 5-year-olds who were taught about symmetry either through a lesson that included pointing gestures or a comparable one that did not, those in the gesture group correctly answered more than twice as many post-instruction questions when asked to judge six items as symmetrical or asymmetrical (Valenzeno, Alibali, & Klatzky, 2003).
Each participant was interviewed regarding the content, format, instructions, questions, and responses to ensure he or she interpreted the questions and responses as presented and intended.
The primary goal of the first and second pairs of interviews was to identify potential problems with the wording of the instructions, questions, or response options.
The cognitive-interview guide used a process requiring patients to "think aloud" where patients were asked to respond to a specific set of questions regarding the instructions, questions, and response options.
ACASI allows the respondent to use headphones connected to a laptop or desktop computer to listen to instructions, questions, and responses that have been digitally recorded onto an ACASI program while corresponding text is displayed on the computer monitor [2].
These licenses will include the instructions, questions, response scales, branching logic, and a conceptual framework.
