The authors made a differentiation between availability (the knowledge itself) and accessibility of semantic word knowledge, which tapped students' word association ability in relation to context-independent vs. context-dependent word meanings.
The open-ended item, which tapped students' impressions of the purpose of the module (Table 1), indicated that the experience enhanced students' understanding of experimental methodology and design, data analysis, and writing skills as well as content.
The company has launched a slick new website – where Mr Cohen promises the firm "acts with integrity and professionalism and sets the standard for ethical behaviour" – and has started running a graduate recruitment programme tapping students coming out of university in the UK.
We also developed a problem-solving assessment to tap students' understanding of graphs and equations and the links between them.
In addition to the eight translation items, there were two additional items at each test that were intended to tap students' more general, conceptual understanding of slope and intercept and how they are represented in equations and graphs.
The two remaining items on the problem-solving test were intended to tap students' more general, conceptual understanding of slope and intercept and how they are represented in equations and graphs.
Competence was measured using seven items tapping students' feelings of having the capacity to succeed in the garden-based activities (e.g., "I can do good work in the garden"; "I just can't seem to do the right thing in the garden," reverse-coded).
Relatedness was measured using six items tapping students' feelings of belonging (Osterman 2000) and acceptance in the garden (e.g., "I feel like a real part of the garden"; "Sometimes I feel like I don't belong in the garden," reverse-coded).
This time, the mayor tapped six students from Newcomers High School in Long Island City, Queens, all immigrants, to preside over the ceremonies.
What's more, when Reed turned to its waiting list this year, it tapped only students who could pay their way.
To capture students' motivational experiences while participating in SciLG activities, this study relies on a set of theoretically guided survey measures based on SDT (Connell and Wellborn 1991; Saxton et al. 2014) that tap students' self-system perceptions, engagement, and coping/persistence in garden activities (Skinner et al. 2012, in press).
