Data Interpretation & Data Sufficiency


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How Students Learn


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How do you get a fourth-grader excited about history? How do you even begin to persuade high school students that mathematical functions are relevant to their everyday lives? In this volume, practical questions that confront every classroom teacher are addressed using the latest exciting research on cognition, teaching, and learning. How Students Learn: History, Mathematics, and Science in the Classroom builds on the discoveries detailed in the bestselling How People Learn. Now, these findings are presented in a way that teachers can use immediately, to revitalize their work in the classroom for even greater effectiveness. Organized for utility, the book explores how the principles of learning can be applied in teaching history, science, and math topics at three levels: elementary, middle, and high school. Leading educators explain in detail how they developed successful curricula and teaching approaches, presenting strategies that serve as models for curriculum development and classroom instruction. Their recounting of personal teaching experiences lends strength and warmth to this volume. The book explores the importance of balancing students' knowledge of historical fact against their understanding of concepts, such as change and cause, and their skills in assessing historical accounts. It discusses how to build straightforward science experiments into true understanding of scientific principles. And it shows how to overcome the difficulties in teaching math to generate real insight and reasoning in math students. It also features illustrated suggestions for classroom activities. How Students Learn offers a highly useful blend of principle and practice. It will be important not only to teachers, administrators, curriculum designers, and teacher educators, but also to parents and the larger community concerned about children's education.




How Children Learn the Meanings of Words


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How do children learn that the word "dog" refers not to all four-legged animals, and not just to Ralph, but to all members of a particular species? How do they learn the meanings of verbs like "think," adjectives like "good," and words for abstract entities such as "mortgage" and "story"? The acquisition of word meaning is one of the fundamental issues in the study of mind. According to Paul Bloom, children learn words through sophisticated cognitive abilities that exist for other purposes. These include the ability to infer others' intentions, the ability to acquire concepts, an appreciation of syntactic structure, and certain general learning and memory abilities. Although other researchers have associated word learning with some of these capacities, Bloom is the first to show how a complete explanation requires all of them. The acquisition of even simple nouns requires rich conceptual, social, and linguistic capacities interacting in complex ways. This book requires no background in psychology or linguistics and is written in a clear, engaging style. Topics include the effects of language on spatial reasoning, the origin of essentialist beliefs, and the young child's understanding of representational art. The book should appeal to general readers interested in language and cognition as well as to researchers in the field.




Objective Question Bank GENERAL SCIENCE


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The General Science section covering Physics, Chemistry, Biology and Computer Science has taken an important dimension in most of the competitive examinations like SSC, CDS, NDA, Assistant Commandant, CPO, UPSC and State Level PSC Exams and those lacking the basic General Science knowledge lag behind others in the long run. The present book will act as an Objective Question Bank for General Science. The book has been prepared keeping in mind the importance of the subject. This book has been divided into four sections namely Physics, Chemistry, Biology and Computer Science, each divided into number of chapters as per the syllabi of General Science section asked in various competitive exams. The Physics section covers Motion, Force & Laws of Motion, Gravitation, Work, Energy & Power, Simple Harmonic Motion, Wave Motion, Light-Ray Optics, Current Electricity & Its Effects, Nuclear Physics, Semiconductor, Communication, etc whereas the Chemistry section has been divided into Atomic Structure, Chemical Reactions, Chemical Bonding, Solutions & Colloids, Energetics & Kinetics, Electrochemistry, Metallurgy, Metals & Their Compounds, Flame & Fuel, Food Chemistry, etc. The Biology section in the book covers Biology & Its Branches, Cell: Structure & Functions, Cell Cycle & Cell Division, Plant Tissues, Animal Nutrition, Plant System, Reproduction in Organisms, Respiratory System, Excretory System, Reproductive System, Genetics, Biotechnology, Animal Husbandry, etc whereas the Computer Awareness section has been divided into Computer Organisation & Memory, Data Representation, Software, Data Communication Networking and Internet & Computer Security. The chapters in the book contain more than 100 tables which will help in better summarization of the important information. Each chapter in the book contains ample number of objective questions ample number of objective questions including questions asked in previous years’ exams which have been designed on the lines of questions asked in various competitive examinations. With a collection of more than 5000 highly useful questions, the content covered in the book tries to simplify the complexities of some of the topics so that non-science students feel no difficulty while studying general science. Also hints and solutions to the difficult questions have been provided in the book. As the book thoroughly covers the General Science section asked in a number of competitive examinations, it for sure will work as a preparation booster for various competitive examinations like UPSC & State Level PSCs Examinations, SSC, CDS, NDA, CISF and other general competitive & recruitment examinations.




Teaching For Quality Learning At University


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A bestselling book for higher education teachers and adminstrators interested in assuring effective teaching.










Descriptive English


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A number of national level examinations like IAS Mains, State PCS, IES, IFS, etc. check the English language aptitude of candidates with a compulsory English language paper. This book has been designed for such examinations which assess the English language abilities in detail.The present book covering English Language in descriptive nature has been divided into four parts namely Writing Skills, Comprehension Skills, Grammar Skills & Verbal Skills.Part A has been further divide into Essay Writing, Expansion Writing, Report Writing, Precis Writing and Letter Writing. The Verbal Skills section covers Paronyms & Homonyms, One Word Substitutions, Synonyms & Antonyms, Phrasel Verbs, etc. whereas the Grammar Skills section covers The Function of Tenses, Voice, Narration, Synthesis, Prepositions, etc. Each chapter in the book contains detailed theory including a number of sample examples in a simple & easier way to understand the topics well. Workbook Exercises have been provided in between the chapters for Part B, C & D to help aspirants practice the concepts discussed in each chapter. Answers for all the questions have been given at the end of the section. As the book covers varied aspects of English language, it for sure will help aspirants score high in the upcoming national and state level competitive and recruitment examinations.




General Intelligence and Test of Reasoning


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Test Prep for General Intelligence and Test of Reasoning