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Robinson's text, Effective Study (1946) outlined the SQ3R and emphasized higher level study skills. Additionally, the How-to-study program, provided assistance in "attacking the other problem areas which may be distracting a student in his university work; namely, vocational planning, social or personal problems, health problems, or lack of ...
SQRRR or SQ3R is a reading comprehension method named for its five steps: survey, question, read, recite, and review.The method was introduced by Francis P. Robinson in his 1941 book Effective Study.
James Harvey Robinson (June 29, 1863 – February 16, 1936) [1] was an American scholar of history who, with Charles Austin Beard, founded New History, [a] a disciplinary approach that attempts to use history to understand contemporary problems, which greatly broadened the scope of historical scholarship in relation to the social sciences.
Calculation of effective stress, the theory of which is an effective theory. In mathematics and logic, effective is used to describe metalogical methods that fit the criteria of an effective procedure. In group theory, a group element acts effectively (or faithfully) on a point, if that point is not fixed by the action.
The Centre for Effective Altruism (CEA) is an Oxford-based organisation that builds and supports the effective altruism community. It was founded in 2012 by William MacAskill and Toby Ord, both philosophers at the University of Oxford. [1] [2] CEA is part of Effective Ventures, a federation of projects working to have a large positive impact in ...
Robinson projection of the world The Robinson projection with Tissot's indicatrix of deformation Map of the world created by the Central Intelligence Agency, with standard parallels 38°N and 38°S. The Robinson projection is a map projection of a world map that shows the entire world at once. It was specifically created in an attempt to find a ...
Robinson was writing in a time where academic economics was beginning to revisit questions of macroeconomics and long terms systems of capitalism. English economists such as Alfred Marshall had concentrated on ideas of cost production, supply and demand and the marginal utility of money in his famous textbook Principles of Economics.
"The Imperialism of Free Trade" is an academic article by John Gallagher and Ronald Robinson first published in The Economic History Review in 1953. [1] It argued that the New Imperialism could be best characterised as a continuation of a longer-term policy begun in the 1850s in which informal empire, based on the principles of free trade, was favoured over formal imperial control unless ...