Semantic space of elementary teacher attitudes towards computer teaching assistant

Iranian Teacher Trainees’ Attitudes towards English as a Lingua Franca

The present research was an attempt to shed more enlightening light on the current wave of English as a Lingua Franca (ELF), which is gradually sweeping the traditional ideologies in the field of ELT. To that end, this study examined the Iranian teacher trainees’ attitude towards ELF. What makes the present research markedly different from the other language attitude studies is in the context o...

Attitudes Towards Teaching and Research

Student Teaching Practice in Two Elementary Teacher Preparation Programs

This study examines student teaching of elementary teacher preparation programs in the People’s Republic of China (PRC) and the United States of America (USA). Two programs comparable in program design, course requirements and goals were selected for exploration. The key aspects that were studied about student teaching include its unit ratio in a program, features of placements, written work by...

Towards teaching Computer Ethics

With the advent of the Information Age and global connectivity, the ethical use of Information and Communication Technologies (ICT) has become essential. As the drive towards the establishment of a so-called IT profession gains momentum, ethical conduct and codes of ethics have recently been formulated and introduced formally. Forerunners in this initiative are the ACM and the IEEE. Of particul...

Teaching Elementary Inference with Computer-based Simulations

The topics in most introductory statistics courses can be split into two categories: exploratory and confirmatory data analysis. Teachers usually introduce each data structure with graphical and tabular methods for examining and presenting a batch of such data (Exploratory Data Analysis). These EDA topics are followed by the idea that batches of values can be considered to be random samples fro...