Increased independent student work The proportion of independent student work has increased, which requires more work from teachers in the preparation of tasks and giving feedback.
/…/they didn't achieve a high place, they didn't come… and they were among the highest eight, but they didn't come first or second or third and you just do/…/ (VET teacher of food processing) Increased independent student work The proportion of independent student work has increased, which requires more work from teachers in the preparation of tasks and giving feedback.
However, to date, no study has directly tested the possibility that environmental stimuli are processed in a flexible manner, all the way up to the preparation of task-relevant responses.
Finally, these differences between measures of global and response-specific preparation indicate that different levels of preparation are at least partly dissociable, with effective preparation of task-related actions providing no guarantee of task performance that is efficient and shielded from interference from competing tasks.
In summary, our study investigated whether between-task competition influences the formation of intentions and the preparation of tasks in voluntary switching.
In the process of preparation for task execution, whether self-generated or in the context of a reaction time task, structures and circuits along the motor pathway from cortex to alpha motoneurons that are involved in the execution of the required task have to reach a critical level of excitability enhancement just preceding the release of the motor programme.
In sum, it is clear now that the processing of subliminally presented primes is not restricted to early visual areas but extends up to include the preparation of a task-appropriate motor response.
Thus, our findings indicate that preparation for shape repetitions was less cognitively demanding than preparation for task switches or for repetitions of the stronger task.
Taken with the finding that CNV amplitude in our study tended to be increased on trials with faster RTs (cf. Lavric et al. 2008), these results suggest that the CNV provides an index of active intentional control and that advance preparation of the stronger task requires more intentional control than advance preparation of the weaker task.
This attenuation is likely not to be due to an attenuation of lateralised motor and attention-directing responses though, which have been found to be comparable for imagination and execution if pre-cues allow only the selection of response hand but not the preparation of a particular task [14], [15].
