To compare the impact of a traditional case-based application exercise with a student question creation exercise on a) student exam performance, b) student perceptions of enjoyment, competence, understanding, effort, interest in continuing participation, and interest in the subject.
This instrument, The Minnesota Effective Practice Instructional Strategies Assessment (MEPISA), was developed using a four-step instrument development process, which included content domains, question creation, a review by a panel of experts, and a pilot.
The developed interface is superior to those simpler tools for managing the game as it simplifies question creation and editing, allows automated data collection, and produces usage reports.
The research team developed pre/post content knowledge tests using a systematic, iterative process of construct identification, question creation, and instrument review or validation (Wilson, 2005).
In between is a melange of subjects and themes, all of them loosely connected by the study of fossils and rocks and bearing on big questions: the creation of a world in which sight dominates the other senses; the actual workings of evolution; what fossils tell us about the formation of ancient oceans and continents.
Lomborg questions the creation of a global "honey pot" for the developing world to dip into for climate-change purposes.
Hunt also questions the creation of history.
One can easily understand why questions about creation might come to mind at the sight of the platypus.
One of the most popular names for the unexplainable is God: God is how we answer questions about creation and purpose that we can't answer in any other way.
It brings up questions of creation and privacy and choice: does the internet make us safer or more vulnerable, or paradoxically both at the same time?
