the quantitative relationship between higher education and economic growth in the tradition of “growth accounting equations” and also “neoclassical production function” approach have occupied a pride of place in economics of education, particularly the literature on more developed countries. however, production function type models that allow for isolating the “indirect” (external) effects of h...

The present paper organizes around the concept of didactic competence analyzed from the perspective of educational implementation of the new ICT tools. It presents the results of a large research regarding the development of certain general and specific didactic competencies, having as a support the virtual environment offered by the new technologies. Thus, the implications of the educational u...

This is a quite unique book, as the problem-based and project-organized models are not primarily reflected upon on the basis of educational theories, but rather upon the basis of the theories and methods of the various university programmes. Thus this book contains a profession-based approach to the further development of the problem-based and project-organized educational practice at the unive...

The Impact of Participation in Sports on Educational Attainment: New Evidence from Germany We analyze the impact of exercising sports during childhood and adolescence on educational attainment. The theoretical framework is based on models of allocation of time and educational productivity. Using the rich information from the German Socio-Economic Panel (GSOEP), we apply generalized ordered prob...

ii Preface The AIED'05 session of the SW-EL'05 workshop focuses on Semantic Web-based knowledge representation and engineering approaches and methods for the needs of intelligent learning systems and discusses issues related to their use for content and knowledge components specification, effective intelligent courseware construction and modelling the learner. The following topics are addressed...

Neighbourhood Effects on Migrant Youth’s Educational Commitments: An Enquiry into Personality Differences In the neighbourhood effects literature, the socialisation mechanism is usually investigated by looking at the association between neighbourhood characteristics and educational attainment. The step in between, that adolescents actually internalise educational norms held by residents, is oft...

Human memory has been thoroughly studied and modeled in psychology, but mainly in laboratory setting under simplified conditions. For application in practical adaptive educational systems we need simple and robust models which can cope with aspects like varied prior knowledge or multiplechoice questions. We discuss and evaluate several models of this type. We show that using the extensive data ...