Best practice? Advice provided to teachers about the use of Brain Gym® in Australian schools

J Stephenson - Australian Journal of Education, 2009 - journals.sagepub.com
Perceptual motor programs continue to be used in Australian schools despite evidence
showing they do not influence academic learning. Brain Gym® is one perceptual motor …

Reported prevalence by Australian special educators of evidence-based instructional practices

M Carter, J Stephenson, I Strnadová - Australasian Journal of Special …, 2011 - cambridge.org
This research examined the reported level of implementation of eight practices in a national
sample of Australian special education teachers, replicating the North American study of …

[PDF][PDF] The effectiveness of brain gym and brain training intervention on working memory performance of student with learning disability

B Abduh, MM Tahar - Journal of ICSAR, 2018 - core.ac.uk
Learning disability is commonly associated with a weak working memory function of a
student that impacts his or her performance in school. This study aims to identify the effective …

Bioarchaeology and the skeletons of the pre-Columbian Maya

AK Scherer - Journal of Archaeological Research, 2017 - Springer
This review explores the past two decades of research on ancient Maya skeletons. The
focus is on how this work has contributed to our understanding of health, diet, social change …

Why can'ta teacher be more like a scientist? Science, pseudoscience and the art of teaching

M Carter, K Wheldall - Australasian Journal of Special Education, 2008 - cambridge.org
In this article, the authors argue the case for scientific evidenced‐based practice in
education. They consider what differentiates science from pseudoscience and what sources …

Crossing the peninsula: The role of N oh B ec, Yucatán, in ancient M aya C lassic Period population dynamics from an analysis of dental morphology and S r isotopes

A Cucina, TD Price, E Magaña Peralta… - American Journal of …, 2015 - Wiley Online Library
Objectives This article aims to infer population dynamics in the Noh Bec region (Yucatán
Peninsula, México) during the Maya Classic period (AD 350–800), based on a combined …

Population movements and identity in Postclassic Yucatan. Bioarchaeological analysis of human remains from the East Coast of the Yucatan peninsula

A Ortega-Muñoz, TD Price, JH Burton… - Journal of Archaeological …, 2019 - Elsevier
Different hypotheses exist to explain population development and replacement on the East
Coast of the Yucatan Peninsula after the so-called Maya collapse, a period of dynamic …

Population dynamics during the Classic and Postclassic period Maya in the northern Maya Lowlands: The analysis of dental morphological traits

A Cucina - … and bioarchaeology of population movement among …, 2015 - Springer
This chapter uses dental morphology to reconstruct population dynamics, biodistance and
populations' inner variability in 18 human dental collections from Classic and Postclassic …

Effectiveness of brain gym activities in enhancing writing performance of grade I pupils

JM Ocampo Jr, LP Varela, LV Ocampo - Sosiohumanika, 2017 - journals.mindamas.com
There are many factors that influence academic performance of students. Some of these are
related to personological, sociological, and psychological factors. In recent years, academic …

Does vision therapy for visual information processing improve academic performance? A randomised clinical trial

TR Fricke, AB Metha, DP Anderson… - Ophthalmic and …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Purpose To determine whether a typical vision therapy (VT) programme designed to
improve visual information processing (VIP) skills is effective in improving these skills and/or …