The Symbolic Aspects of Educational Innovation

The Evaluation of Educational Innovation

This article presents a model for the evaluation of educational innovation in a context of transformation. The model incorporates formative, summative and illuminative evaluation goals and emphasizes the need to locate the innovation which is being evaluated within the context and policy framework of its operation. The evaluation framework provided by the model takes into account the full range...

the effect of self-confidence and educational motivation on oral translation quality

this thesis is about the effect of self-confidence and educational motivation on oral translation quality.

Educational Innovation and the Problem of Scale*

Theoretical Aspects of Symbolic Automata

Symbolic finite automata extend classical automata by allowing infinite alphabets given by Boolean algebras and having transitions labeled by predicates over such algebras. Symbolic automata have been intensively studied recently and they have proven useful in several applications. We study some theoretical aspects of symbolic automata. Especially, we study minterms of symbolic automata, that i...

Symbolic Aspects of Thalamic Pain

Pain associated with hemiplegia has been considered mainly in the context of the thalamic syndrome. Since the original observations by Dejerine' and Roussy,' many cases have been reported and all textbooks of neurology carry a description of it. The cardinal points have been the presence, on the side opposite the lesion, of spontaneous pain and an over-reaction to sensory stimuli. Most of the c...