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Research, Analysis and Insight into National Standards (RAINS) Project Final Report: National Standards and the Damage Done
No full textThis is the final report of the Research Analysis and Insight into National Standards (RAINS) project, a three-year study of the enactment of the National Standards policy in six diverse primary and intermediate schools. This report provides an overview discussion of the pros and cons of the National Standards policy as experienced by staff, children and parents in the RAINS schools. It summarises the policy and methodological background to the research and the findings of the two previous RAINS reports. The report is also being accompanied by online case studies and other data files
Verbalization and problem solving: Insight and spatial factors
No full textThis is the author's accepted manuscript. The final published article is available from the link below. Copyright © The British Psychological Society 2010.Two groups of participants attempted eight examples of each of four different problem types formed by combining insight versus non-insight and verbal versus spatial factors. The groups were given different verbalization instructions viz., Silent (N = 40) or Direct Concurrent (N = 40). There were significant differences between insight and non-insight tasks and between spatial and verbal tasks in terms of solution rates and latencies. Significant interactions between the verbal versus spatial factor and verbalization condition on solution rates and latencies reflected a greater (negative) effect of verbalizing on spatial as against verbal problems. However, no significant interactions of the insight versus non-insight factor with verbalization condition on solution rates or latencies were found. These results favoured the ‘business as usual’ view of insight problem solving as against the ‘special process’ view which predicted larger effects of verbalization for insight problems as against non-insight problems.Economic and Social Research Counci
Posterior Beta and Anterior Gamma Oscillations Predict Cognitive Insight
No full textPioneering neuroimaging studies on insight have revealed neural correlates of the emotional “Aha!” component of the insight process, but neural substrates of the cognitive component, such as problem restructuring (a key to transformative reasoning), remain a mystery. Here, multivariate electroencephalogram signals were recorded from human participants while they solved verbal puzzles that could create a small-scale experience of cognitive insight. Individuals responded as soon as they reached a solution and provided a rating of subjective insight. For unsolved puzzles, hints were provided after 60 to 90 sec. Spatio-temporal signatures of brain oscillations were analyzed using Morlet wavelet transform followed by exploratory parallel-factor analysis. A consistent reduction in beta power (15–25 Hz) was found over the parieto-occipital and centro-temporal electrode regions on all four conditions—(a) correct (vs. incorrect) solutions, (b) solutions without (vs. with) external hint, (c) successful (vs. unsuccessful) utilization of the external hint, and d) self-reported high (vs. low) insight. Gamma band (30–70 Hz) power was increased in right fronto-central and frontal electrode regions for conditions (a) and (c). The effects occurred several (up to 8) seconds before the behavioral response. Our findings indicate that insight is represented by distinct spectral, spatial, and temporal patterns of neural activity related to presolution cognitive processes that are intrinsic to the problem itself but not exclusively to one's subjective assessment of insight
Research, Analysis and Insight into National Standards (RAINS) Project. First Report: Researching Schools’ Enactments of New Zealand’s National Standards Policy
No full textThis is the first report of the Research, Analysis and Insight into National Standards (RAINS) project, one year into a three-year study of the introduction of National Standards into New Zealand primary and intermediate schools
Ese Insight inspirado en vos
No full text¿Cómo hicieron ese spot que te identifica tanto? Se pregunta un navegante digital
ocasional ¡Observando y detectando INSIGHTS! Sí, sí: insights es la respuesta.
Y bien, ¿qué es eso? Nada más y nada menos que una de las principales razones
por la cuales uno siente conexión directa con un aviso o publicidad, y, por ende, con una
marca determinada, producto o servicio, del que luego podrá diferenciarlo y fidelizarlo.
El término insight proviene del inglés y viene a connotar “destello de la
conciencia”. Los insights son hábitos humanos que derivan de su pensamiento, y es de
eso de lo que se nutre la publicidad para decir “Te conozco, sé como pensás y actuás,
hasta sin darte cuenta incluso”. Esta naturaleza se basa en la observación constante y en
la interpretación de hábitos cotidianos
Facilitating insight into a simulation model using visualization and dynamic model previews
No full textThis paper shows how model simplification, by replacing iterative steps with unitary predictive equations, can enable dynamic interaction with a complex simulation process. Model previews extend the techniques of dynamic querying and query previews into the context of ad hoc simulation model exploration. A case study is presented within the domain of counter-current chromatography. The relatively novel method of insight evaluation was applied, given the exploratory nature of the task. The evaluation data show that the trade-off in accuracy is far outweighed by benefits of dynamic interaction. The number of insights gained using the enhanced interactive version of the computer model was more than six times higher than the number of insights gained using the basic version of the model. There was also a trend for dynamic interaction to facilitate insights of greater domain importance
Author, publisher and bookseller : a tripartite synergy in Nigerian book industry
No full textThis work is about the roles of Author, Publisher and Bookseller in Book development in
Nigeria. The paper started by delving into the history of Book Publishing in Nigeria after
which it proceeded by defining who an author, a publisher, and a bookseller is and
expatiated on the indispensable roles of these key actors in Nigerian Book Industry and in
the emerging Information Society. Furthermore, the various constraints to book
development were identified while the paper advised on how the Book Industry can be
further promoted in Nigeria. However, the paper concluded and made recommendations
on how the Book sector can help in enhancing scholarship in the country
Geomorphological insight into changing tectonic regime, Pasinler Basin, Turkey
No full textThe Pasinler Basin, in the East Anatolian Contractional Province, features a suite of
geomorphological zones, visible in the field, air photographs and Landsat and SRTM
DEM imagery. These zones reflect past and current tectonically influenced processes.
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Remnants of the Erzurum-Kars plateau representing Mio-Pliocene volcanism,
associated with transtensional tectonics, have been modified by two stages of drainage
development: an earlier, shallow valley network, which was modified following uplift and
tilting to form the present system characterised by deep narrow valleys that supply
alluvial fan complexes. These fans discharge onto the present, aggradation-dominated
basin floor. Initial normal faulting induced massive slope failures on the basin’s northern
margin. This extensional phase within the basin was reversed by the Late Pleistocene,
with thrust faults modifying and producing landforms, and affecting sediment sequences,
along both the north and south basin margins. The shift from a transtensional regime
and associated volcanism to normal faulting in the Pliocene-Early Pleistocene, and then
to the present compression-dominated regime appears to correspond with regional
tectonic changes resulting from collision of the Arabian microplate and the subsequent
westward movement of the Anatolian microplate
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