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  2. Advancement Via Individual Determination - Wikipedia

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    Advancement Via Individual Determination (AVID) is a non-profit organization that provides professional learning for educators to close opportunity gaps and improve college and career readiness for elementary, middle and high school students, especially those traditionally underrepresented in higher education. AVID's College and Career ...

  3. Overjustification effect - Wikipedia

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    When the task is unattractive and intrinsic motivation is insufficient (e.g., household chores), then extrinsic rewards are useful to provide incentives for behavior. School programs that provide money or prizes for reading books have been criticized for their potential to reduce intrinsic motivation by overjustification.

  4. Dharma Initiative - Wikipedia

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    DHARMA-Houses. The Dharma Initiative and its origins are first explored in the episode "Orientation" by an orientation film in the Swan Station.Dr. Pierre Chang (Francois Chau), under the alias of Dr. Marvin Candle, explains that the project began in 1970, created by two doctoral candidates from the University of Michigan, Gerald and Karen DeGroot (Michael Gilday and Courtney Lavigne), and was ...

  5. Epistemic motivation - Wikipedia

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    Epistemic motivation derives from the broader theory of lay epistemics, which addresses the processes in which individuals form their knowledge in regards to varied topics, such as all possible contents of knowledge, including attitudes, beliefs, causal attributions, impressions, opinions, statistical inferences, and stereotypes.

  6. Forgetting curve - Wikipedia

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    Later research also suggested that, other than the two factors Ebbinghaus proposed, higher original learning would also produce slower forgetting. The more information was originally learned, the slower the forgetting rate would be. [7] Spending time each day to remember information will greatly decrease the effects of the forgetting curve.

  7. Template:Lost - Wikipedia

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    Add the new template to the table in the common documentation afterwards. Please consider reusing one of the other templates and please choose the color sensibly. If you find a table cell template that does not take a parameter and you want to be able to change the text in the cell, do not duplicate the template! Instead, edit the template and ...

  8. Larry Page - Wikipedia

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    A polymath who had jumped from project to project without settling on a thesis topic, he found the premise behind BackRub fascinating. "I talked to lots of research groups" around the school, Brin recalls, "and this was the most exciting project, both because it tackled the Web, which represents human knowledge, and because I liked Larry."" [46]

  9. David A. Thomas (academic) - Wikipedia

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    David Thomas set five strategic themes for the McDonough School of Business after he arrived in 2011. (1) Provide a transformational educational experience for students. (2) Be in service to business and society. (3) Embrace global in everything the school does. (4) Excellence in research to impact practice.