scholarly journals How Reading Motivation and Engagement Enable Reading Achievement: Policy Implications

2020 ◽  
Vol 7 (1) ◽  
pp. 27-34 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ana Taboada Barber ◽  
Susan Lutz Klauda
Keyword(s):  
Reading Achievement ◽  
Cognitive Skills ◽  
School Administrators ◽  
Reading Motivation ◽  
Policy Implications ◽  
Policy Recommendations ◽  
Middle Grade ◽  
Multiple Dimensions ◽  
Motivation And Engagement ◽  
Complex Cognitive Skills

Successful reading comprehension demands complex cognitive skills, and, consequently, motivation to make meaning from text. Research on reading motivation and engagement can inform policy aimed at improving reading achievement. Multiple dimensions of reading motivation and engagement—and instructional practices for bolstering each one—draw on interventions for students of diverse language and ethnic backgrounds in elementary and middle grade classrooms. The article concludes with policy recommendations centering on (a) the need for school administrators and teachers to learn principles of reading motivation and engagement and (b) the importance of devoting time to planning, in collaboration with researchers, how to apply these principles with particular students in particular classrooms.

Training Development for Complex Cognitive Tasks

1987 ◽  
Vol 31 (11) ◽  
pp. 1261-1265 ◽  
Author(s):  
Joan M. Ryder ◽  
Richard E. Redding ◽  
Peter F. Beckschi
Keyword(s):  
Cognitive Skills ◽  
Task Analysis ◽  
Cognitive Task ◽  
Cost Effective ◽  
Cognitive Task Analysis ◽  
Instructional Systems ◽  
Training Development ◽  
Recent Developments ◽  
Training Methodologies ◽  
Complex Cognitive Skills

This study evaluated current training methodologies, particularly Instructional Systems Development (ISD), and recent developments in cognitive science to determine how training procedures should be modified to support training for tasks which require complex cognitive skills. We contend that ISD is still viable if procedures are developed for the training of cognitive skills. An important component of ISD which needs to be modified to support training of cognitive skills is the task analysis. We discuss the need for integrating efficient and cost-effective cognitive task analysis methodologies with traditional analysis methods.

scholarly journals Case Studies in Game-Based Complex Learning

2021 ◽  
Vol 5 (12) ◽  
pp. 72
Author(s):  
Josh Aaron Miller ◽  
Seth Cooper
Keyword(s):  
Case Studies ◽  
Game Design ◽  
Cognitive Skills ◽  
Formal Education ◽  
Computational Thinking ◽  
Game Based Learning ◽  
Complex Learning ◽  
Critical Success ◽  
Teaching Routine ◽  
Complex Cognitive Skills

Despite the prevalence of game-based learning (GBL), most applications of GBL focus on teaching routine skills that are easily teachable, drill-able, and testable. Much less work has examined complex cognitive skills such as computational thinking, and even fewer are projects that have demonstrated commercial or critical success with complex learning in game contexts. Yet, recent successes in the games industry have provided examples of success in game-based complex learning. This article represents a series of case studies on those successes. We interviewed game designers Zach Gage and Jack Schlesinger, creators of Good Sudoku, and Zach Barth, creator of Zachtronics games, using reflexive thematic analysis to thematize findings. We additionally conducted a close play of Duolingo following Bizzocchi and Tanenbaum’s adaptation of close reading. Several insights result from these case studies, including the practice of game design as instructional design, the use of constructionist environments, the tensions between formal education and informal learning, and the importance of entrepreneurialism. Specific recommendations for GBL designers are provided.

scholarly journals Trade Deficit of Bangladesh with China: Patterns, Propensity and Policy Implications

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ekram Hossain ◽  
HUANG Dechun ◽  
Changzheng ZHANG ◽  
Ebenezer Nickson Neequaye ◽  
Vu Thi Van ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Bilateral Trade ◽  
Trade Deficit ◽  
Policy Implications ◽  
Trade Intensity ◽  
Policy Recommendations ◽  
Policy Recommendation ◽  
Industry Trade ◽  
Export Specialization ◽  
Import Intensity

This paper aims to examine export, import and trade intensity, export specialization index, Herfindahl-Hirschman index for bilateral concentration and diversification indices to analyze the specializations, structure and trends of deficit in bilateral trade between Bangladesh and China from 1995 to 2018 and policy recommendations in this regard. The results reveal that the gap of export and import intensity between Bangladesh and China is widening rapidly perennial. The export specialization indices expose very significant outcomes where among the analyzed 16 sectors; 6 sectors exhibit high specialization, 3 sectors demonstrate medium, 3 sectors exhibit low and the rest of the 4 sectors disclose no specialization for Bangladesh’s export to China. The findings of the Herfindahl-Hirschman Index (HHI) reveal that from 1995 to 2010 the export of Bangladesh to China concentrated within few sectors but from the year 2011 to 2018 the export has been reclassifying steadily into diversification. The overall analysis of the indices suggests the necessity to be improved of the level of intra-industry trade between China and Bangladesh. Moreover, emphasis should be given to the sectors having a high specialization that endure the capacity to narrow the trade deficit. Furthermore, the export baskets of Bangladesh to China require to be diversified. Hereafter, various measures and implications are also suggested in the policy recommendation for further improvement.

Working Memory in the Acquisition of Complex Cognitive Skills

1988 ◽  
pp. 361-377 ◽  
Author(s):  
Robert Logie ◽  
Alan Baddeley ◽  
Amir Mane ◽  
Emanuel Donchin ◽  
Russell Sheptak
Keyword(s):  
Working Memory ◽  
Cognitive Skills ◽  
Complex Cognitive Skills

Conclusions and Policy Implications

2018 ◽  
pp. 138-150
Author(s):  
Bruce E. Bechtol
Keyword(s):  
General Public ◽  
Policy Implications ◽  
Policy Recommendations ◽  
Policy Makers ◽  
Terrorist Groups ◽  
Weapons Systems

This chapter addresses policy recommendations and also summarizes and assesses the results of the research presented in this book, results that have the potential to be useful to policy makers, the general public, and academics and specialists who have an interest in the region. By providing details on what types of weapons systems and how much money is generated by illicit deals with other rogue nations such as Iran and Syria (as well as terrorist groups such as Hezbollah and Hamas) as well numerous states in Africa, this work contributes to more than just the scholarship—it contributes to the evidence chain. This evidence will be entirely unclassified and thus also releasable to an often uniformed or underinformed public.

False Starts

2021 ◽  
pp. 19-62
Author(s):  
Joseph Heath
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
Environmental Ethics ◽  
Policy Implications ◽  
Policy Recommendations ◽  
Policy Options ◽  
Philosophical Literature ◽  
Specific Policy ◽  
Trade Offs ◽  
Normative Dimension ◽  
Second Wave

Despite the fact that there is an obvious normative dimension to the problem of anthropogenic climate change, environmental ethicists have so far not had much influence on policy deliberations. This is primarily because mainstream views in the philosophical literature have policy implications that are implausibly extreme. This chapter begins by considering the case of traditional environmental ethics, and the debate over anthropocentrism that has dominated this literature. Far from generating specific policy recommendations, this perspective has tended rather to generate only pluralism, if not outright skepticism about value. These difficulties led to the emergence of a second wave of environmental philosophers, who have attempted to grapple with the issues raised by climate change using the tools of normative political philosophy. Many of these frameworks have also failed to make a productive contribution because their deontological structure makes them poorly tailored to consideration of the trade-offs involved in different policy options.

Research on the optimal equity of duo-ou enterprise based on data analysis

2020 ◽  
Vol 33 (6) ◽  
pp. 1201-1221
Author(s):  
TianLong Ma ◽  
Huiping Zhang
Keyword(s):  
Design Methodology ◽  
Policy Implications ◽  
Policy Recommendations ◽  
Corporate Ownership ◽  
Wage Level ◽  
Specific Level ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Employee Stock Ownership ◽  
Research Findings ◽  
Ownership Reform

PurposeThis study aims to disclose how the nature of corporate ownership, stock efficiency and wage level affect the optimal proportion of employee stock.Design/methodology/approachThis paper studies three duopoly markets: two private enterprises, two state-owned enterprises (SOEs) and a private enterprise and an SOE. The competitions between the two parties are taken as a two-stage dynamic sequential game and studied through back-induction.FindingsThe results reveal that the enterprise ownership has a directly bearing on the optimal proportion of employee stock and determines whether to implement the employee stock ownership plan (ESOP) and the specific level of the plan. The optimal proportion of employee stock is positively correlated with its contribution to enterprise efficiency. There are many influencing factors on the effect of wage level on the optimal proportion of employee stock, namely, the ownership nature of ESOP implementer and efficiency difference of different nature stocks.Social implicationsThe results of this study provide policy recommendations for companies preparing to implement ESOP.Originality/valueThe research findings provide policy implications for enterprises to prepare a suitable ESOP and the reform of national equities, especially the mixed-ownership reform in China.

Creativity or mental illness: Possible errors of relational priming in neural networks of the brain

2008 ◽  
Vol 31 (4) ◽  
pp. 398-399
Author(s):  
James E. Swain ◽  
John D. Swain
Keyword(s):  
Mental Illness ◽  
Cognitive Skills ◽  
Computational Models ◽  
Brain Activity ◽  
Childhood Onset ◽  
Hyperactivity Disorder ◽  
Depression Disorders ◽  
Complex Cognitive Skills ◽  
The Brain ◽  
Relational Priming

AbstractIf connectionist computational models explain the acquisition of complex cognitive skills, errors in such models would also help explain unusual brain activity such as in creativity – as well as in mental illness, including childhood onset problems with social behaviors in autism, the inability to maintain focus in attention deficit and hyperactivity disorder (ADHD), and the lack of motivation of depression disorders.

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