The influence of constructivism and the spread of information and communication technologies (ICT) in classrooms are both expected to change the role of the teacher in the classroom from the expert dispensing knowledge, to the facilitator of student learning (Dwyer, Ringstaff and Sandholtz 1991, Hadley and Sheingold 1993, Ravitz, Becker and Wong 2000). In such a studentcentred classroom the tea...

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Beginning writing skill is still a problem for children with Antention Deficit Hiperactive Disorders (ADHD) of disabilities. Creativa module beginning finger painting teqnique was the new breakthrough to answer this through research. The aims study were display development proces and validation creativa module. Type research used Research Development (RnD) Analysis, Design, Development, Impleme...

Different kinds of discussion methods have been developed to help students achieve different kinds of instructional objectives. The following discussion methods are analyzed from the perspective of the role demands that they make of students and teachers: (1) cooperative learning discussions; (2) the subject mastery discussion method; and (3) issues-oriented discussions. Developers of all three...

The need to personalize distance education courses stems from their ultimate goal: the need to serve an individual student independently of time, place, or any other restrictions. This means that a distance education system should be served by a data mining system (DMS) to monitor, intervene in, and counsel the teachingstudying-learning process. Compared to intelligent tutoring systems or adapt...

The teacher has very important roles in the classroom, particularly as manager of most resources for learning activities and in providing timely feedback that can enhance learning. But teachers need to be aware of students’ achievements and weaknesses to decide how to time feedback. We present MTFeedback, a system that harnesses the new affordances of interactive tabletops to generate automatic...

Currently, politicians, university representatives, scholars and leading NGOs share a strong belief in the ability of educational systems to generate positive attitudes to sustainable development (SD) among citizens, with the idea of Education for Sustainable Development (ESD) as perhaps the most apparent expression of this conviction. The aim of this paper is to investigate whether ESD might h...

Using data from North Carolina, Jesse Rothstein (2017) presents a comprehensive replication of Chetty, Friedman, and Rockoff’s [CFR] (2014a,b) results on teachers’ impacts. In addition, Rothstein presents new evidence that he argues raises concerns about three aspects of CFR’s methods and identification assumptions: their treatment of missing data, the validity of their quasi-experimental desig...

We describe a prototype advisor for students using Belvedere, an environment for conducting discussions about scientific controversies. The advisor has two strategic components, syntactic and consistency-based. Syntactic strategies are based on structural and categorical patterns in argument representations constructed by the students, and suggest ways in which students can continue their inqui...

I use the term “instructional example,” to refer to an example offered by a teacher within the context of learning a particular topic. The important role of instructional examples in learning mathematics stems firstly from the central role that examples play in mathematics and mathematical thinking. Examples are an integral part of mathematics and a significant element of expert knowledge (Riss...