Concentration-Controlled Trials: Basic Concepts, Design, and Implementation

Self-directed, open-ended projects can enable students to pursue their own interests and lead to deep learning. However, it can be difficult to incorporate these kinds of projects into a traditional curriculum in which all students must master a set of basic skills. In this chapter, the authors describe the design and implementation of Storytelling Alice, a programming environment that presents computer programming as a means to the end of creating animated stories. By studying the kinds of animated movies that students envision creating, the chapter’s authors were able to design the system such that typical student projects naturally motivate the set of basic concepts we want students to learn. The authors present a potential model for incorporating Storytelling Alice into a classroom setting using open-ended projects. The chapter concludes with a discussion of some directions for future work that may help to enable the use more open-ended projects in formal education.

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Design and Implementation of Scheduling Systems: Basic Concepts

Scheduling ◽

10.1007/978-0-387-78935-4_17 ◽

2008 ◽

pp. 455-479 ◽

Cited By ~ 1

Author(s):

Michael L. Pinedo

Keyword(s):

Design And Implementation ◽

Basic Concepts

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Randomized Controlled Trials: Design and Implementation for Community-Based Psychosocial Interventions. Phyllis Solomon, Mary M. Cavanaugh, and Jeffrey Draine. New York: Oxford University Press, 2009, 217 pages. ISBN 978-0-19-533319-0 $24.95 paperback

Social Work ◽

10.1093/sw/55.2.189 ◽

2010 ◽

Vol 55 (2) ◽

pp. 189-189

Author(s):

P. Osteen

Keyword(s):

New York ◽

Randomized Controlled Trials ◽

Psychosocial Interventions ◽

Controlled Trials ◽

Community Based ◽

Oxford University ◽

Design And Implementation ◽

Randomized Controlled ◽

Oxford University Press

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Using Biological Feedback to Promote Health Behavior Change in Adults: Protocol for a Scoping Review (Preprint)

10.2196/preprints.32579 ◽

2021 ◽

Author(s):

Kelli Marie Richardson ◽

Ahlam A Saleh ◽

Michelle R Jospe ◽

Yue Liao ◽

Susan Schembre

Keyword(s):

Health Behavior ◽

Behavior Change ◽

Scoping Review ◽

Health Behavior Change ◽

Controlled Trials ◽

Cochrane Central Register ◽

Biological Feedback ◽

Design And Implementation ◽

Behavior Change Interventions ◽

Wide Range

BACKGROUND Many health conditions can be prevented, managed, or improved through behavioral interventions. Biological feedback, as a component of health behavior change interventions, is of particular interest given recent advances in wearable biosensing technology, digital health apps, and personalized health and wellness. Yet, there is a paucity of literature to guide the design and implementation of interventions that incorporate biological feedback to motivate health behavior change. OBJECTIVE The goal of this scoping review is to deeply explore the use of biological feedback as a component of health behavior change interventions that target adults. Objectives of the review include: (1) mapping the domains of research that incorporate biological feedback and (2) describing the operational characteristics of using biological feedback in the context of health behavior change. METHODS A comprehensive list of search terms was developed to capture studies from a wide range of domains. Studies to be included are randomized controlled trials targeting adults ≥18 years old that use biological feedback to change a health-related behavior, and are published as primary research articles, theses, or dissertations. The following electronic databases were searched: Ovid MEDLINE, Embase.com Embase, Cochrane Central Register of Controlled Trials, EBSCOhost PsycINFO, and ProQuest Dissertations & Theses Global. The screening and data extraction process will be guided by the Joanna Briggs Institute Manual for Evidence Synthesis and conducted by trained reviewers. RESULTS Database searches were completed in June 2021. A total of 50,459 unique records were returned after the removal of 48,634 duplicate records. The scoping review is planned for completion in 2022. CONCLUSIONS To our knowledge, this will be the first scoping review to map the literature that uses biological feedback as a component of health behavior change interventions targeting adults. Findings will be used to develop a framework to guide the design and implementation of future health behavior change interventions that incorporate biological feedback. CLINICALTRIAL 10.17605/OSF.IO/YP5WA

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Possibilities design and implementation of quality improvement of self-realization and individual cooperation in the sports and educational environment

Tambov University Review Series Humanities ◽

10.20310/1810-0201-2019-24-183-91-101 ◽

2019 ◽

pp. 91-101

Author(s):

Natalya Logacheva ◽

Nikolay Kozyrev ◽

Olga Kozyreva

Keyword(s):

Quality Improvement ◽

Educational Environment ◽

Environment Design ◽

Design And Implementation ◽

Basic Concepts ◽

Definition Of ◽

The Individual ◽

Goals And Objectives ◽

Productive Solution

We identify features of the design and implementation of opportunities to improve the quality of self-realization and cooperation of the individual in the sports and educational environment. The sports and educational environment is determined by the model of realization of the productive solution of the tasks of development, self-realization and cooperation of the individual through “sports”, “education”, and “science”. We define the basic concepts and models that are connected with the functioning of the sports and educational environment, i. e. definition of the concepts of “sports educational environment”, “design and implementation of opportunities for quality improvement of self-realization and individual cooperation in the sports educational envi-ronment”, “models for quality improvement of self-realization and individual cooperation in the sports educational environment”, “functions for quality improvement of self-realization and indi-vidual cooperation in the sports and educational environment”, “principles of quality improvement of self-realization and individual cooperation in the sports and educational environment”, “technology to quality improve of self-realization and cooperation of the individual in the sports and educational environment”, “pedagogical conditions for quality improvement of self-realization and cooperation of the person in the sports and educational environment”; the models, functions, principles, goals and objectives of quality improvement of self-realization and individual cooperation in the sports and educational environment. We detail the practice of theorizing the quality improvement of self-realization and individual cooperation in the sports and educational environment. We highlight the pedagogical conditions for improvement the quality of self-realization and individual cooperation in the sports and educational environment. We prove the perspectives of studying and measuring the quality of the theorization of self-realization and individual cooperation in the sports and educational environment.

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