It also found that attention levels soared - with 92% of the class paying attention during 3D lessons compared to 46% in the traditional learning environment.
Mr Young, who teaches physics to 16-year-olds at a school in Quebec, Canada, has turned to video games in a bid to make the children in his class pay more attention.
But instead of training youngsters to use some mystical force, the gadget teaches them to pay attention in class.
Teachers paid the youngsters more attention in class than they did to dozier students and arranged extension activities for them.
And while textbooks may not make kids smarter, the promise of engaging, interactive textbooks may make them pay more attention in class.
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These games do not provide learning per se but create a set of competitive games where you do better if you have paid attention in class.
Patel saw his parents work hard to attain their middle class status and focus their attention on helping he and his siblings aspire to the great American Dream of building and owning your own business.
They used to lament that the MBAs never paid attention to them in class.
Demographics have focused the attention of the political class on the long run.
Bankers say they are also paying more attention to a growing class of professional affluent and high-net-worth overseas Indian professionals like doctors, lawyers and senior bankers.
"All profiles must be uploaded and the failure is not acceptable for a world-class DNA lab that prides itself on accuracy and attention to detail, " the lab said.
His mainly lower-middle-class, middle-aged audience listens with rapt attention.
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He scored 1, 242 first-class runs in the 2009 season and his form attracted the attention of the England hierarchy, who fast-tracked him into the Performance Programme even though he does not qualify to play until February 2010.
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"It's really good because when you're in class doing maths, you don't really want to pay attention because the teacher's right in front to you, " says Aliyyah.
Suddenly, a school with an enrollment of about 12, 000, whose first graduating class wore the caps and gowns in 2001, is getting national attention because of a basketball team loaded with players whose best recruiting offers were from conferences like the Atlantic 10 and Missouri Valley.
Attention all you drivers of SUVs, pilots of cabin-class twins, captains of Cigarette boats: Now is not the time to go slack.
Their aim is to devise a tool that measures the attention of students, taking into account how they rate the class and how alert they are.
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His own beliefs, whether the monetarism that won him his Nobel in 1976 or the positions on taxes, regulation and social programs that won him wider attention and acclaim, made him more influential among the business class of the world than any other contemporary thinker.
MPs would like a bit more public spending and a bit more attention paid to the concerns of the party's traditional working-class supporters.
Much like the forgotten American middle class, small businesses are the backbone of America, and they receive far less government attention than big business, despite the fact that they actually employ more people.
But Mr Montgomery's grand plans have failed to distract investors' attention from the decline of the Mirror, once Britain's great working-class paper, which sold 5.3m copies at its peak 30 years ago and now sells only 2.3m.
If class no longer describes a clear social, economic or even political status, is it worth paying any attention to?
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