Everyone can – with effort and persistence – learn the maths they need for everyday life and work.
Mr. Bloomberg's persistence in learning a language spoken by at least a quarter of all New Yorkers would not help him in another mayoral election; term limits prevent him from running again.
"E.T". is about the end of childhood and about its persistence, about learning to reckon with loss and to reciprocate love, about defying the adult world and coming to understand it, about returning home and escaping from home, about pedaling your bicycle furiously through the suburban streets and suddenly taking flight.
We extracted student clusters based on individual effectiveness, and compared instructional efficiency, mental effort, and persistence of learning.
Fewer sources of impact influenced monitoring and adjustment strategies or persistence with learning in the clinical context.
Confidence and persistence in learning to use the wheelchair were also linked to the psychological and affective predisposition of the individual.
Active learning itself expressed in various ways is widely recognized as enhancing motivation and depth and persistence of learning (Bonwell and Eison, 1991; Michael, 2006; see section on autonomy below).
Pearce & Hall's [ 22] theory of the control of learning by uncertainty suggests exactly this persistence of learning – and there is evidence from partial reinforcement schedules that the learning rate may be higher when there is more uncertainty associated with the reward.
She persisted, and learning about that persistence was exactly what I needed as I faced my own unknown.
But through experience and persistence, they learned to rise up and overcome setbacks and detours.
