The effects of consistency and inconsistency between attentional focus and task objective in learning a golf putting task

Converging evidence has demonstrated learning advantages when an individual is instructed to focus their attention externally. However, many of the motor tasks utilized in past research had clear external objectives (i.e., putting accuracy), creating a compatible relationship between an external focus of attention (i.e., outcome) and an external task objective (i.e., putting accuracy). The present study examined whether or not the consistency of instructions and task objective would differentially impact the acquisition of a golf putting task. Participants performed a putting task in a control condition or in one of four experimental conditions resulting from the factorial interaction of task instructions (internal or external) and task objective (internal or external). The retention and transfer data revealed that participants who received an external task objective demonstrated superior outcome scores. Participants who received technique information paired with outcome information demonstrated superior technique scores.

Examining peer-controlled KR schedules during the learning of a movement-timing task as a function of task experience.

Learners can be provided with feedback in the form of knowledge of results (KR), under self-controlled and peer-controlled schedules. Recently, McRae, Hansen, and Patterson (2015), identified that inexperienced peers can provide KR that can facilitate motor skill acquisition. However, it is currently unknown whether previous task experience differentially impacts how peers present learners with KR and whether this KR impacts motor skill acquisition. In the present study, participants were randomly assigned to become inexperienced peer facilitators, learners with an inexperienced peer, learners with self-control who later became experienced peers, learners with an experienced peer, or learners in a control group. During acquisition learners completed a serial-timing task with a goal of 2500ms and returned approximately twenty four hours later for a delayed retention, time transfer, and pattern transfer test. We predicted that during the delayed tests, learners with self-control would outperform all other groups. Furthermore, we predicted that learners who received KR from experienced peers would outperform learners who received KR from inexperienced peers. However, our results indicated that participants who received peer-controlled and self-controlled KR schedules learned the task in an equivalent manner. Thus, our results are novel as they identify that inexperienced peers can provide KR that is as effective as KR provided by experienced peers and KR requested under self-controlled conditions.

Task-Level Robot Learning

We are investigating how to program robots so that they learn from experience. Our goal is to develop principled methods of learning that can improve a robot's performance of a wide range of dynamic tasks. We have developed task-level learning that successfully improves a robot's performance of two complex tasks, ball-throwing and juggling. With task- level learning, a robot practices a task, monitors its own performance, and uses that experience to adjust its task-level commands. This learning method serves to complement other approaches, such as model calibration, for improving robot performance.

English vocabulary teaching and learning strategies in Secondary Education

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Info 2009- Group 3 -Interactive Flash Learning Tool

A flash learning resource that educates users about Web Accessibility.

Models of Learning and Motivation

A brief skim through educational theory intended for students registered on a single module in Technology Enhanced Learning. Startes with Blooms taxonomy, travles through instructivism and constructivism and on to theories of motivation/

Motivation, the Engine of Learning

This essay centers in motivation as a fundamental aspect of learning and in the double way sense that this relation must have. It defines the word “motivation��� and the manner how relationship between students and teachers come about in the game of helping out or reduce motivation, and thus learning. It also defines the reason why teachers must help build up the so called “intrinsic motivation���, ending with the importance this has and how it can be achieved.

El Outsourcing en la dinámica de sistemas hacia mercados extranjeros

Este trabajo recopila literatura académica relevante sobre estrategias de entrada y metodologías para la toma de decisión sobre la contratación de servicios de Outsourcing para el caso de empresas que planean expandirse hacia mercados extranjeros. La manera en que una empresa planifica su entrada a un mercado extranjero, y realiza la consideración y evaluación de información relevante y el diseño de la estrategia, determina el éxito o no de la misma. De otro lado, las metodologías consideradas se concentran en el nivel estratégico de la pirámide organizacional. Se parte de métodos simples para llegar a aquellos basados en la Teoría de Decisión Multicriterio, tanto individuales como híbridos. Finalmente, se presenta la Dinámica de Sistemas como herramienta valiosa en el proceso, por cuanto puede combinarse con métodos multicriterio.

Learning English.

Programa para Windows con actividades de inglés para ciclo medio y superior de educación primaria. Ofrece actividades sobre temas variados. Es parte de la unidad didáctica con el mismo nombre que se encuentra en el mismo Cd. Permite instalar o copiar el programa en un disquete.

Teaching and learning vocabulary : an introduction for English students. 'Enseñar y aprender vocabulario : una introducción para estudiantes de inglés'.

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The interactive English workbook. 'Cuaderno de trabajo interactivo de inglés'.

Trabajo al que se le concedió una ayuda para la creación de materiales curriculares interactivos en el año 2001

Vaidity od assessments for english languaje learning students in National International Context. 'Validez de las evaluaciones en los estudiantes de la lengua inglesa en un contexto nacional e internacional'.

Resumen tomado del autor

Children learning English : a guidebook for English language teachers.

Manual práctico que proporciona nuevas ideas y nuevos conocimientos a los profesores de primaria para la enseñanza del inglés. Muchos de los ejemplos citados en este libro han sido tomados de clases reales.

Learning to teach English in the secondary school : a companion to school experience.

Esta publicación combina teoría y práctica para la enseñanza del inglés en la escuela secundaria. Escrito pensando en el profesor, ofrece principios y ejemplos prácticos de la enseñanza y el aprendizaje dentro de un contexto del siglo veintiuno. El texto también aborda preguntas sobre la naturaleza de la preparación inicial del profesorado y plantea cuestiones relativas a su formación, la tutoría en las escuelas y la supervisión del desarrollo de un profesor en prácticas.

Teaching and learning english : a guide to recent research and its applications.

Es una síntesis de investigaciones recientes sobre la enseñanza y el aprendizaje del inglés en la enseñanza primaria y secundaria en Gran Bretaña. Incluye un capítulo sobre el significado de la lengua inglesa en la escuela contemporánea, además de otros capítulos sobre conversación y comprensión, escritura, lectura, enseñanza de la literatura, la relación del lenguaje verbal con las imágenes fijas y en movimiento, y tecnologías de la información y la comunicación (ICT) e inglés y alfabetización.