LEARNER-CENTERED TEACHING: WHAT MAKES IT EFFECTIVE

Adaptive Teaching: An Effective Approach for Learner-Centered Classrooms

In this paper, we discuss our approach on how to achieve adaptive teaching which leads to a more efficient learner-centered environment. Based on the Felder-Silverman learning styles model, there are four scales for the learning aptitude which are active/reflective learners, sensing/intuitive learners, visual/verbal learners, and sequential/global learners. The different conglomeration of these...

What Makes Performance Appraisals Effective?

What makes an effective executive.

An effective executive does not need to be a leader in the typical sense of the word. Peter Drucker, the author of more than two dozen HBR articles, says some of the best business and nonprofit CEOs he has worked with over his 65-year consulting career were not stereotypical leaders. They ranged from extroverted to nearly reclusive, from easygoing to controlling, from generous to parsimonious. ...

Echinacea: What Makes It Work?

Extrapolations from pharmacological research have led some authors to suggest restrictions or contraindications for the use of Echinacea. This article examines the known chemistry and pharmacology of the various Echinacea species and products, and challenges some of these popular concepts. In particular, the hypotheses that Echinacea is a T cell activator and that it will accelerate pathology i...

What makes software design effective?

Software design is a complex cognitive process in which decision making plays a major role, but our understanding of how decisions are made is limited, especially with regards to reasoning with design problems and formulation of design solutions. In this research, we have observed software designers at work and have analysed how they make decisions during design. We report on how factors such a...