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PhD. Ailsa Peron University of Southampton 2007.

CONTEXT In education, tests are primarily used for assessment, thus permitting teachers to assess the efficacy of their curriculum and to assign grades. However, research in cognitive psychology has shown that tests can also directly affect learning by promoting better retention of information, a phenomenon known as the testing effect.

Kanu E.O. Nkanginieme, MD, FmCPaed., University of Port Harcourt Teaching Hospital, Port Harcourt, Nigeria

Simple explanation, using mammography as an example, of Bayes probability and frequency and why we get so confused.

not a medical education example and not necessarily perfect examples of application and higher but a nice illustration.

Reading is characterized by the successful coor- dination of a number of concurrent processing layers (Pressley & Afflerbach, 1995). Many pro- I cessing activities occur automatically for the ex- perienced reader, such as lexical access, anaphor resolution (deciding to whom the author refers), and proposition integration. Others require the allocation of conscious attention, for instance, when elaborating on text meaning or when generating bridging inferences to integrate meanings across paragraphs (Kintsch, 1993). Although reading requires a coordination between auto- matic and attention-demanding (control) processing activ- ities, existent models of reading provide at best only a partial understanding of how the two processing types interact.