...Behavioral Economics Matters for HIV Research: The Impact of Behavioral Biases on Adherence to Antiretrovirals (ARVs) Abstract Behavioral economics (BE) has been used to study a number of health behaviors such as smoking and drug use, but there is little knowledge of how these insights relate to HIV prevention and care. We present novel evidence on the prevalence of the common behavioral decision-making errors of present-bias, overoptimism, and information salience among 155 Ugandan HIV patients, and analyze their association with subsequent medication adherence. 36 % of study participants are classified as present-biased, 21 % as overoptimistic, and 34 % as having salient HIV information. Patients displaying present-bias were 13 % points (p = 0.006) less likely to have adherence rates above 90 %, overoptimistic clients were 9 % points (p = 0.04) less likely, and those not having salient HIV information were 17 % points (p\0.001) less likely. These findings indicate that BE may be used to screen for future adherence problems and to better design and target interventions addressing these behavioral biases and the associated suboptimal adherence The Importance of BE Biases for Chronic Health Behaviors We focus on three key behavioral biases that have been found to influence health behaviors for other chronic conditions [9] and that we hypothesize may also be important to components of ARV adherence: Present-Bias A key behavioral bias is present-bias, which is the tendency...
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...Education is necessary in today’s society; therefore, we should explore the effects of cheating and plagiarism among students. As enrollment increases for online classes, it also raises the question about academic honesty in distant learning classes. Distant learning has become popular over the past few years, but with the popularity comes cheating and plagiarism in the classes. Plagiarism has increased over the years due to technology and the ability to purchase term papers online. With the increase of cheating and plagiarism the faculty of many schools put policies and reprimands in place to bring the cheating to a halt. When a student is caught cheating a professor must make the decision of whether they want to follow policy procedure or handle the situation in class. One problem that comes from the professors handling the situation themselves is that the student feels they can still cheat without failing the class, as long as they can still walk away with a passing grade. Educational institutions have created policies that teacher’s are to include in the class syllabus so that the student is aware of the consequences from cheating. In most online classes the teachers will have the policies posted in the main forum for the students to reply that states they have read the rules. This is one way that the school insures that the student is aware that they can be expelled for committing plagiarism or cheating in any form. There are forms of minimizing academic dishonesty...
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...Shelby Cadwallader November 21, 2014 English Composition II Distance Learning or Traditional Learning We must neve abandon the right to distance or traditonal learning. Education is essential element of today's society. Distance learning and traditional learning, they both take careful planning. There are pros and cons of both learning. There are so many schools that after distance and traditional learning. How can you decide whether traditional or distnace learning is right for you, a future student. If you are a working adult, a full time parent or both and don't have the time to go to a classroom to attend a class, but you want to futher your education then distant learning is for you. Distance learning provides you with flexibility, convieniences and accessibility. It gives you the flexibility to complete your assignment and projects, as well to participate in online discussions. Distance learning saves you money. With distant learning the professor has to record the lecture by video, audio, and/or by computer technology. Distance learning encourages passive learning but it does not teach the student how to overcome barriers. Traditional learning you get the interaction with the professor, instant feedback from the professor, ask questions concerning their class and have study groups. Traditional learning you can stop by your professor's office, interactions with other students...
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...happening globally. Many Indian start-ups have come up to cater the need of education market like Digital Future of Education Pvt. Ltd, Talent Sprint Education Services Pvt. Ltd, Dezyre.com, NCS Pearson Inc, as its forecasted to be a market worth Rs.5.9 trillion in 2014-15. Start-up face the rigid ‘default’ behaviour and distribution channel problems. Another problem faced was the internet penetration rate itself, which although increasing, still impedes growth of digital education in many parts of India. To cater these problems E books can be used with Kindle E-reader as proposed media. Lingering Aakash project by former HRD minister does require restructuring and furthermore the objectives of Right to Education act (2009) also put emphasis on proposal as below: Educating via E-books * Enables to take the education out of the classrooms to reach masses. * Saves trees, eco-friendly. * Saves printing, distribution costs for books. * Avoid unhealthy weights for kids. * Solution for physically challenged students. * Content management is easy and dynamic. Efficient delivery without time lags. * Evolving a technologically literate generation. * Scalable option. | Kindle Serves the purpose * Dedicated E-book reader which is handy and easy to use. * Whispercast services to manage its Kindles and distribute Kindle content. * Caters to need of RTE act by enabling learning content to distant rural areas for K-12 schooling. * Amazon India is new to India and shall...
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...I remember a quote Aristotle says, the roots of education are bitter, but the fruits are sweet. I was so privileged that my parents sent me to school for my education, it is an opportunity that the youth today needs to enjoy and achieve. Education is a lot of struggles, peer pressures and stress at all especially to the college students yet I can say that is worth living. You learned to discipline yourself and use your time wisely and usefully. It is a continuous process until the end of our existence on earth. It is not only an instrument and preparation of our life but also education is the life itself. Our life that is not something discovered but it is something molded day by day. Education disparity or education gap as well is one of the main reasons and social issues of the young today. Recently, after the massive destruction of the typhoon Yolanda the Philippine government top priority is on education. The government prepared over P309 billion financial plans for the construction of classrooms and libraries and for the books and other services needed reported by the GMA news last January 27, 2014, was considered the biggest budget among all national government agencies this year. The major spending includes: * P44.6 billion for the construction, repair and rehabilitation of at least 43,000 kindergarten, elementary and secondary school buildings nationwide * P1.7 billion for the procurement of over 42 million learning modules and teaching guides to support of...
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...Effective use of instructional materials in the teaching of basic sciences CHAPTER ONE INTRODUCTION 1.1 Background to the study Education, according to Coombs (1970) consists of two components. He classified these two components into inputs and outputs. According to him, inputs consist of human and material resources and outputs are the goals and outcomes of the educational process. Both the inputs and outputs form a dynamic organic whole and if one wants to investigate and assess the educational system in order to improve its performance, effects of one component on the other must be examined. Instructional resources which are educational inputs are of vital importance to the teaching of any subject in the school curriculum. Wales (1975) was of the opinion that the use of instructional resources would make discovered facts glued firmly to the memory of students. Savoury (1958) also added that, a well-planned and imaginative use of visual aids in lessons should do much to banish apathy, supplement inadequacy of books as well as arouse student’s interest by giving them something practical to see and do, and at the same time helping to train them to think things out themselves. Savoury (1958) suggested a catalogue of useful visual aids that are good for teaching history i.e pictures, post cards, diagrams, maps, filmstrips and models. He said that selection of materials which are related to the basic contents of a course or a lesson, helps in-depth understanding of such a lesson...
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...Paige Walker Douglas Fisher ENGL 1120 November 30, 2012 Education and Technology Almost all aspects of our every day lives have come to revolve around all the new technologies that we are being introduced to day in and day out. There is nothing to new or too out of our leagues, from the newest, most hip social networking site to the next big piece of technology, this generation never faces anything we are to afraid to try. So, why not mix something so exciting and new with our old, bored learning styles to make them better. Implementing the use of social networking and mobile devices in education could have very positive impacts on our learning process, leading to a more satisfying and pleasing learning environment. With the literature presented, this essay will explore how these different forms of technologies should be implemented and how they would best supplement the education process today. This will all be used to support the claim that mobile technologies and social networking are both supplemental to the president day education system. In Hung and Yuen’s article “Educational Use of Social Networking Technology in Higher Education” they conduct an experiment studying how social networking could supplement a face to face course. They were looking to see if it would enhance the students’ sense of community and conclude that students had an overwhelmingly positive response when supplementing their face-to-face courses with the social networking site. They discuss...
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...5. Recommendations The recommendations noted below have been formulated after inviting experts to iLearn Delphi session. The findings were view to establishing sustainable education system at the greater extent to exploring any potential agenda for Swinburne 2020 plan. Reflecting on the expert’s views, it appears that most important purpose of undertaking higher education is the need for personal development through associating theory and practice, with social engagement aspect. Further, the core curriculum does not have the capability to deliver what might be considered professional development. In short, the message was that there are rooms for change. The expert’s response was to commence a sustainable learning and professional experience....
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...INTRODUCTION Fascinating, less known fact in the life of a student seeking college education in a city distant from home and parents in his experience as a room- and- board resident. He becomes a tenant of boarding house. Often without other student resident- boarders. His entire sojourn as a student- tenant is an interesting evocation of his life off- campus life and vivifies one other side of his transformation as a person. It is as much an essential part of his growth no less than the vistas of new knowledge he meets inside the classroom. Here, against the backdrop of a transition home- away- from- home, he encounters new human relationships, cultivates new friends and acquaintances, learns life’s many a struggle and sacrifice. His passage as a form dweller, in time, either makes him the better for it or none better. Past and present observations of student boarders in the city of Naga indicate that a significant majority come from distant towns of Camarines Sur and from even other provinces outside the Bicol region. Most of them seek board and lodging in which they pay a monthly rate, although quite a number pay for room or for bed space only without provisions for meals. City boarding-houses, not surprisingly, are located near school campuses. Thus, student- boarders often choose boarding places closer to their schools. The reason is economic; school short distance from boarding houses save time and transportation fare. Any savings are thus added values...
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...Distance Education Implementation Plan Ed5804-Uo2a1 Pamela A. Scallan Capella University Dr. Ann Armstrong Topic: My topic is the Implementation of a Distance Educational Plan using technology to enhance the existing distance education curriculum, Pre-K-Grade 3, using Audio/Video Media Technology to enhance the reading skills to globally diverse learners, using the Content Management System in a single-site environment. Overview: I am going to attempt to provide a brief overview of the Technologies and Media addressing the interactive/recorded audio and video along with the use of the Internet for transmission of the audio/video material. Print media is used extensively in Distance Education thru the use of study guides, textbooks, reproducible materials such as articles from journals or excerpts of chapters or perhaps entire chapters, course notes created by the instructor for students or pertinent student information related to the course via instructor or institution under which the program is delivered. I choose the various forms of Audio and Video Media by which I will implement my plan as a topic (one lesson), globally from a single-site. When thinking about media and technology (Moore, 2007) suggests answers to the following questions: 1. What are the characteristics of different communication technologies and media, and how can they be used in distance education? 2. Which communications’ media and technologies are the best for a...
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...Quality Education for Children Maya suggests that reading is interesting and essential to human life because it is exciting and enhances learning. The different arrangement of topics in different kind of books motivates the children that they can learn important life lesson from the books. The books that have pictures creates a wonderful and interesting picture of the world in their minds as the books about the geographical features brings the different images closer and makes distant areas looks well known to them. The pictures create a nice view that makes the children debates in their minds, which make them think in a wider perspective. A variety of books also indicates that anyone can write a book so long as you have the knowledge and mind to do it. The effect is that the children are able to acquire vital skills in life that enables them grow. Teaching reading is an indication to the children that it is possible to acquire life lessons using a soft. She affirms that reading is not merely a skill of set rules but it is a link to power and ability to realize oneself and to be competent in the world (Beasley, 2011). The reason why children understands integrated curriculum through their third grade Children always want to know everything and they are driven by the desire to grow both in competency and in self-sufficiency. Integrating for instance playing in their own world is not a waste of time but a method acting of mastering and understanding the real world. Children...
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...Bind them as sign on your hand and let them serve as a symbol on your forehead; inscribe them on the doorposts of your house and your gates.” (Deut 6:6-9) The Shemah is not the most authoritative text in Judaism by mere coincidence, it contains the corner stone of our faith which is the transmission of the wisdom and knowledge received at Mount Sinai. In the introduction to his book Rabbi Shlomo Wolbe writes on the necessity of adequate educational methods when transmitting the Torah to ensure its appreciation and its affect on the continuity of the Jewish people. In this essay I aim to analyse the world of Jewish education; its history, challenges and efficiency, I also seek to evaluate the dangers of using the classroom as a laboratory for kiruv experiments and its consequences in the lives of the students exposed to such professionals. Education for Life Brief history The Talmud attributes formal Jewish schooling to the first century sage Yehoshua ben Gamla, prior to this, parents taught their children informally. The methodology used according to Judah ben Tema was: …“at five years the child is ready for studying the Bible, at ten for studying the Mishnah, at thirteen for fulfilling the mitzvoth, at fifteen for studying the Talmud.” (Avot 5:21). Rabbi Meir Simcha of Dvinsk, in his book Meshech Chochma, observes an implicit mitzvah to teach Judaism in the following statement by G-d: "Abraham is blessed because he will instruct his children and his house after...
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...Being raised by an impoverished Hispanic family led to my parents desiring the very best for me. A preconception that friends were distractions and that education was the first priority was instilled within me from a very young age. At first, throughout my years in Meadowbrook Elementary and Seminole Middle school, I was able to keep up with all of my academics by myself. Soon, however, this concept of a free for all environment within a high school setting was, in hindsight, a disadvantage in the long run. By not creating those ever-lasting connections with other students from an early age, I entered high school as a lone wolf, which resulted in carrying all of my academics on my own shoulder compared to others who worked amongst each other to be more...
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...before them did but don’t focus on things that do not directly affect their life like the newspaper. I believe that youth are indifferent to news and politics unless they are influenced through peers and media, family upbringing or if they are concerned with social change. Youth that are aware of news and politics at an early age may take an interest in them as a career choice or a desire to make a difference in society. Author David T. Z. Mindich believes that, “the linkage between an informed citizenry and political and civic engagement has been broken in contemporary society” (p.351). He also says that our democracy will pay the price for this. I believe the main reason behind the problem of lack of engagement is “some feel that the education system has failed to produce appropriate levels of civic knowledge” (p. 352). This is true in schools everywhere because most teachers are not allowed to share their personal views on their political position to students and therefore neglect to inform their students of the vital information about how to make their own educated political position. So the linkage between news and citizen engagement is broken because it was never even established in the first place. Sometimes world changing events and very influential politicians targeting the younger voters puts hard pressed issues in front of them. Involvement in news and politics mostly takes positive influences from older generations. Mindich also believes a strong involvement is needed...
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...Erikson’s Psycho-Social Stages Ashley Haslam National University Erikson’s Psycho-Social Stages Erik Erikson’s seven stages of personal and social development describes a series of psychosocial crises that shape personality (Slaven, 2015). These social crises deal with a person’s personality as well as their relationships with other people (Slaven, 2015). Personal Stage The sixth stage of Erikson’s theory occurs sometime during young adulthood. It is during this stage that an adult either finds happiness in their relationships (both sexual and non-sexual) or becomes distant and standoffish which eventually leads to isolation (Slaven, 2015). Myself, I would fall into this, the Intimacy vs. Isolation Stage, as I am thirty years old. Throughout life it is necessary to form healthy bonds and relationships with other people in order to avoid isolation and loneliness. According to Slaven (2015), a relationship is healthy if all parties involved are enhanced without stifling the growth of each other. As an educator, being able to form meaningful relationships with students, parents, and coworkers. A teacher who is in this stage of development will be able to connect with the students and their families thus create a healthy, trusting relationship. A teacher who lacks the ability to bond with a student, will have a much more difficult time reaching the children on an academic level. Stages in the Classroom Building self-confidence and a sense of industry is the main goal...
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