While reading an 800-word passage, college students (N=55) received before or after every two paragraphs of text a common- word question, a number question, or no adjunct question of any kind. With ...respect to intentional learning, both types of inserted questions yielded equivalent recall regardless of their relative position in text. However, while number pre- and postquestions both produced greater recall than that of the control group, only common-word postquestions were significantly (p > .05) effective in this regard. Neither common-word nor number postquestions generated a significant (p <.05) degree of incidental learning. In fact, number postquestions produced a slight negative mathemagenic effect. The results are discussed in terms of the processes generated by these different types of adjunct questions.
College students (N=51) read a 600-word passage. Advance organizers (Ausubel) were either interspersed in the text contiguous with related paragraphs (part method) or were presented en masse before ...the entire passage (whole method). Additionally, a reading-only control group was employed. The whole and part method of presenting advance organizers yielded equivalent recall of passage information and neither experimental group exceeded the control group in this regard. However, both advance organizer groups produced significantly (p>.01) more recall than the control group of the organizers themselves. These results are similar to those commonly found with another type of reading aid, adjunct questions.
Office Investment Magnet Lerner, Michele
National Real Estate Investor,
06/2011, Letnik:
53, Številka:
5
Magazine Article, Trade Publication Article
According to Ernest Jarvis, senior vice president of First Potomac Realty Trust, the Washington, D.C. office market experienced a "phenomenal" year in 2010. CB Richard Ellis (CBRE) reports that 78% ...of the growth in 2010 came from the government sector, which occupies 40% of the city's office space. While that may be difficult to repeat, experts believe real estate fundamentals are in place to keep the local office market healthy for the remainder of 2011. Leasing activity was higher in the first three months of this year than in the first three months of any year since 2006. More than $1.5 billion of properties traded hands in the first three months of 2011 compared with a total of $2.6 billion for all of 2010. Certainly foreign investors have faith in the city.
"Originally built as for-sale condominiums, the property was unsuccessful in selling the units," says Bill Roohan, vice chairman, CB Richard Ellis, who heads the firm's Multi-Housing Group in the ...Washington, D.C.-Baltimore region. "Ultimately, a partnership between the FDIC and a private equity consortium, led by Starwood Capital Group, took over the loan and helped...
