As Simple Gifts, a folk music group, Ms. Littleton and Ms. Hirshon have found pleasure in learning to play instrumental oddities like the hammered dulcimer, bowed psaltery, baritone fiddle, mandolin, banjolin and a variety of percussion instruments -- not least of which are spoons.
In contrast, "formative assessment" refers to those assessments that occur before or during the learning process and that can be instrumental in driving learning.
In addition to the five concepts described here, the other provisional TCs (Table 3), as well as still-unidentified concepts, are also likely to be instrumental for learning in biochemistry.
From the pattern of genes affected, Villeda traced the mechanism back to a master regulator in the brain, a protein known as CREB, which behaves like a switch that turns on many genes at once, and is instrumental in memory and learning from birth.
According to Spanish experiences involving adults, such as family members and volunteers, in instrumental learning in the classroom activities, we can promote a greater number of interactions and in this way benefit the learning process, as well as provide positive role models for social groups inside the school.
The findings establish a wide range of committee resource management activities that resulted in both instrumental (e.g., learning about administrative procedures) and communicative (e.g., insights into the need to conserve mangroves) learning.
Ostlund, S. B. & Balleine, B. W. Orbitofrontal cortex mediates outcome encoding in Pavlovian but not instrumental learning.
In a teaching context a different perspective seems preferable, one in which self-assessment is interpreted as a learning experience that can be instrumental in stimulating workplace learning by identifying standards of excellence, deficits, and suggestions for improvement (Colliver et al. 2005; Ross and Bruce 2007).
