We are developing Ask-Elle, a programming tutor that supports students practising functional programming exercises in Haskell. Ask-Elle supports the stepwise construction of a program, can give hints and worked-out solutions at any time, and can check whether or not a student is developing a program similar to one of the model solutions for a problem. An important goal of Ask-Elle is to allow a...

Teacher-Student Interaction in Primary Schools Succeeding and Failing in PIRLS 2006 and TIMSS 2007 S. Aghdasi A.R. Kiamanesh, Ph.D. M. MahdaviHezaaveh M. Safarkhaani To evaluate the student-teacher interactions in the classroom along the psychological and moral dimensions, and deduce any relationship between such interactions and the students' performance on PIRLS, a sa...

The bulk of research within the interactionist framework seems to be consensually pointing to the beneficial effects of interaction in SLA. However, few studies have investigated the role of training in providing and perceiving interactional feedback, especially among young learners. This study probed the effects of training prior to engagement in interaction in case of young learners acquiring...

This study examines the theoretical and practical implications of ranking teachers with a one-dimensional metric when teacher effectiveness varies across subjects or student types. We document the empirical failure of standard value-added assumptions of teacher input homogeneity, but demonstrate that previously suggested teacher firing policies still improve student welfare, although they resul...

The provision of feedback is widely practised as part formative assessment. However, studies that examine the impact are usually from teachers’ perspective, focusing on why and how they provide feedback. Fewer students’ especially in way experience, make sense take up their This paper provides empirical evidence student engagement with different patterns teacher written essays. Data were gather...