"Introductory Observations by Ernest Adams, Esq". Positions of Places Determined in the Voyage.
In our previous research on student resistance, we conducted observations in several introductory engineering classrooms (Shekhar et al., 2015) which led to development of a survey instrument to study student resistance to active learning, Student Response to Instructional Practices (StRIP) (DeMonbrun et al., 2017).
But as this is my book, let's leave this introductory scene and make some wry observations about both the characters and their Victorian values.
Every researcher learns in their introductory multivariate regression course that all observations must be independent and identically distributed (iid) in order for estimates to be accurate.
Ripple may be admired for its Zen-like observations about life, but the introductory verses are the real meat of the song.
These introductory exercises were followed by 2 wk of observations and dissections of exemplars representing nine animal phyla, and a capstone phylogeny experience.
For the learning cycle, instead of hearing an introductory lecture by the GTA, students began class by using their observations from the preparatory lab activities to construct a diagram of a life cycle for the mystery organism.
In an introductory catalog essay, the critic Adam Gopnik describes him as an artist of charm, comedy, precise observation and a pensive sense of longing.
The six sections of the survey included two introductory demographic sections and four project-based sections, within which questions were designed based on observations made during the 2009 case study.
In his introductory letter, the German explorer offered to bring his host information about the astronomical and meteorological observations he had made in his travels, and the remains of prehistoric animals and pre-Columbian civilizations he had excavated.
