Independent learning is self-directed learning (Mayer at al., 2008b). ... Also a good way of helping is not giving unclear advices as it may confuse students.The literature provides a variety of suggestions relating to how teachers can promote this kind of learning by using strategies such as scaffolding, providing students with opportunities to self-monitor, by offering models of behavior and developing a language for learning (Meyer et al., 2008a). ... Finally, as Christie et al. (2013) imply there are two main factors to be considered in the transition period from college to university, th...

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(Saecker et al., 2010, p.960) Attention-Deficit/Hyperactivity disorder is a condition that involves a learning impairment and behavioural problems, due to the fact that a child/ adolescent is unable to pay attention for a long period of time. ... (Fisher, Hawkridge, 2013, p.136) There is also a myth that states, ADHD only occurs in males, although that myth is false, ADD/ADHD occur more in males than in females (Saecker et al, 2010, p.970), it is a ratio of 2:1 in children and 1:6 in adults (American Psychiatric Association, 2013, p.63). 50% to 80% of the times ADHD will continue into a pa...

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According to Adler et al. (2015), hearing is the physiological ability to perceive the presence of sounds in the environment, while listening occurs when the brain reconstructs these electrochemical impulses into a representation of the original sound and then gives them meaning. ... Rapid thought is when someone's mind wanders while the speaker is talking due to extra "mental spare time" as Adler et al. (2015) likes to call it. ... Task-oriented listening, according to Adler et al. (2015), is "designed to secure information necessary to get a job done". ...

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Criticism However, going back actually to that first scenario of Kitty Genovese in 1964, Rachel Manning and her colleagues found that the story wasn't as clean as people thought (Manning et al. 2007). ... This is a combination of all the published research on the Bystander effect, and they concluded that the presence of bystanders does reduce helping responses (Fischer et al. 2011). ...

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Treisman et al presented a theory (with experiments to test their speculation) that said that only objects within 'focused attention' - which I take to be equivalent to the small cone of achievable detailed vision[1] - would be analysed first for 'correct perception' and that this analysis would then serve to 'fill-in' the understanding of the rest of the view in a top-down process. ...

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A Multistyle Approach To Foreign Language Education Studies show that matching teaching styles to learning styles can significantly enhance academic achievement, student attitudes, and student behavior specifically in foreign language instruction (Oxford et al. 1991). ...

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