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Embedding a culture of retrieval in Psychology

A Psychology Teacher Writes

In Psychology (for our specification at least) students typically study material for paper 1 in year 12 and then paper 2 content in year 13. Then I mapped out year 1 topics from the specification (Edexcel Psychology in this case) across the weeks, to have covered all the major areas in the time available.

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The Art and Science of Leadership

A Principal's Reflections

Tanveer Nasser shares this perspective: Unlike science, art allows for a more subjective interpretation of ideas or concepts; that there’s no need for a singular, fixed answer or definition to understand it. It is hard to say definitively that there is one style or technique that works best when all the variables are taken into consideration.

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What Is Learned Helplessness?

TeachThought

Definition Learned helplessness is a psychological condition in which a person, after repeated failures or negative experiences, believes they have no control over situations’ outcomes and stops trying to improve or change them. Girls have a cultural pressure not to be angry, not to use their voices. Instructor: Exactly.

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20 Types Of Questions For Teaching Critical Thinking

TeachThought

For example, the column on the left can have words and the column on the right can have definitions. The Definition of Factual Questions: Questions with unambiguous, more or less universally accepted objective answers based on knowledge. A variation of the Matching Question has one column holding more items than the other.

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Educators are Disengaged and Distracted. Better Workplace Culture Could Win Them Back.

ED Surge

And my colleagues and I have written extensively on definitions and measurement and overlapping variables. McClure: Maybe you could put your professor hat on and talk a little bit about definitions because, obviously, we're seeing a lot of articles coming out using terms that you're probably very, very familiar with.

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Society - A preliminary idea

Anthropology for Beginners

In classical sense society refers to a group of people who share a common ‘culture’, occupy a particular territorial area and feel themselves to constitute a unified and distinct entity (Frisby and Sayer 1986). In this sense, society may denote the group’s population, its institutions and relations, or its culture and ideology.

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PROOF POINTS: The number of college graduates in the humanities drops for the eighth consecutive year

The Hechinger Report

That’s using a broad definition of humanities that includes “communications,” a popular major that now makes up more than a quarter of all humanities graduates. These humanities fields are down to unprecedented levels,” said Rob Townsend, director of humanities, arts and culture programs at the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.