Tasks were graded to become more difficult as the academic year progressed, moving from personal topics to more abstract topics that required students to give their opinion.
A hierarchical clustering from more abstract topics to more concrete topics based on time and conditions defined on aspect attributes has been described in [87].
Getting practice in your area of expertise will help you branch out to more abstract topics, like government, ethics, or religion.
Seen in this way, the logical notions are the end point of a chain of progressively more abstract, "formal," or topic-neutral notions defined by their invariance under progressively wider groups of transformations of a domain.[13] As an account of the distinctive generality of logic, then, permutation invariance has much to recommend it.
So the two TRs differed from the initial tests regarding the topic factor (topics became more abstract) and the prompt factor (they were given implicit feedback mostly).
For the second test, learners studied more speaking and writing (Table 2); did more speaking activities involving both everyday and abstract topics; and practiced more spontaneous speaking in response to prompts/questions.
Though the issue pertains to admission practices at academic institutions it could easily be extended to a wide variety of contexts, such as sports teams, corporations and even to more abstract scenarios such as topics of study in academic departments, like a department of religious studies.
For the second test, learners reported studying more speaking, writing and listening skills (medium-to-large effects); more speaking about both everyday and abstract topics (large effects); and more spontaneous speaking, though this difference was only close to significant (p = .0059).0059
When you see these kinds of hotspots, these crucibles, for people who get tortured for Facebook posts, or governments that spy on their own citizens where there are very real world repercussions, it's hopefully a reflection on those other places where these topics seem more abstract like.
After a year of study at Harvard Law School, the common sense notion that law is more than some abstract topic to be contemplated by stuffy academics has not yet abandoned me.
And Skip Bayless, the co-host of "First Take," ESPN2's flagship show, is known for his ability to formulate and deliver a strong opinion on just about any topic, the more abstract (this player's attitude; that team's heart) the better.
