Promoting Conceptual Understanding of Matrices

This lesson presents an approach to teaching matrices that includes an emphasis on conceptual development. Too often, students view matrices as nothing more than abstract rows and columns with which they demonstrate their arithmetic skills. They need to go beyond these manipulations and acquire the knowledge needed to connect matrices with the real world. This lesson encourages students to understand what they are doing rather than follow steps leading to an answer that they do not understand.

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The Development of Looking Behavior in Infancy

Developmental Cascades ◽

10.1093/oso/9780195391893.003.0006 ◽

2019 ◽

pp. 123-143

Author(s):

Lisa M. Oakes ◽

David H. Rakison

Keyword(s):

Conceptual Understanding ◽

Real World ◽

Developmental Change ◽

Laboratory Setting ◽

The Real ◽

Multiple Processes ◽

Multiple Levels ◽

High Level

Chapter 6 illustrates how the developmental cascade framework can be used to understand the development of looking behavior in infancy. Historically, researchers have focused on one cue, feature, or mechanism to explain infants’ looking behavior in a variety of contexts, including experimental paradigms designed to assess high-level conceptual understanding. In this chapter, the authors argue that a cascade approach can provide a deeper understanding of the development of looking behavior both in the laboratory setting and in the real world. Three examples are presented that illustrate how a single behavior—attending to one’s mother, to an event, or to a novel stimulus—reflects multiple processes, and developmental change in this behavior reflects mechanisms that occur at multiple levels.

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An Experiential Learning Approach to Teaching Business Planning: Connecting Students to the Real World

Exploring Learning & Teaching in Higher Education - New Frontiers of Educational Research ◽

10.1007/978-3-642-55352-3_5 ◽

2014 ◽

pp. 123-144 ◽

Cited By ~ 3

Author(s):

Manisha Karia ◽

Hanoku Bathula ◽

Malcolm Abbott

Keyword(s):

Experiential Learning ◽

Real World ◽

Learning Approach ◽

Business Planning ◽

The Real ◽

Teaching Business ◽

Approach To Teaching

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Evaluating Mental Health Services; How Do Programs for Children “Work” in the Real World? Edited by Carol T. Nixon & Denine A. Northrup. Sage, Thousand Oaks CA, 1997. pp. 306. £16.60 (pb).

Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry ◽

10.1017/s0021963098222918 ◽

1998 ◽

Vol 39 (6) ◽

pp. 935-936

Author(s):

Anne Worrall-Davies

Keyword(s):

Mental Health ◽

Mental Health Services ◽

Health Services ◽

Real World ◽

The Real

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Current Issues: Evidence-Based Practice for the Real World: Thoughts on Clinical Education in Communication Disorders

Perspectives on Administration and Supervision ◽

10.1044/aas20.3.100 ◽

2010 ◽

Vol 20 (3) ◽

pp. 100-105 ◽

Cited By ~ 3

Author(s):

Anne K. Bothe

Keyword(s):

Clinical Education ◽

Real World ◽

Evidence Based Practice ◽

Communication Disorders ◽

University Faculty ◽

Evidence Based ◽

Speech Language Pathology ◽

Basic Principles ◽

The Real ◽

Language Pathology

This article presents some streamlined and intentionally oversimplified ideas about educating future communication disorders professionals to use some of the most basic principles of evidence-based practice. Working from a popular five-step approach, modifications are suggested that may make the ideas more accessible, and therefore more useful, for university faculty, other supervisors, and future professionals in speech-language pathology, audiology, and related fields.

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