In this study, we evaluate the impact of rehearsing teaching skills in a mixed-reality classroom simulator on graduate assistants’ (GTAs) instructional practices as well undergraduate student learning outcomes. The training is intended to provide GTAs opportunities deliberately practice essential pedagogical that support active learning, specifically context combined tutorial and laboratory sec...

Twitter—a microblogging service that enables users to post messages (“tweets”) of up to 140 characters—supports a variety of communicative practices; participants use Twitter to converse with individuals, groups, and the public at large, so when conversations emerge, they are often experienced by broader audiences than just the interlocutors. This paper examines the practice of retweeting as a ...

Humans are a cultural species, constantly navigating a complex web of culturally bound practices, norms, and worldviews. This article provides a brief overview of the relatively young field of cultural psychology, which investigates the many ways psychology and culture interweave with one another. Highlighting the cultural nature of the human species, it draws upon research on cultural evolutio...

Twitter—a microblogging service that enables users to post messages (“tweets”) of up to 140 characters—supports a variety of communicative practices; participants use Twitter to converse with individuals, groups, and the public at large, so when conversations emerge, they are often experienced by broader audiences than just the interlocutors. This paper examines the practice of retweeting as a ...

We illustrate the utility of generative models for the purpose of stylometry – the science of author attribution. Though content words provide semantic handles and intuitively relate to author-styles, they are usually associated with a large vocabulary and are not consistent across corpora. On the contrary, stopwords are limited in number and do not suffer from the above mentioned issues and ye...