dynamic assessment (da) which is rooted in vygotsky’s (1978) sociocultural theory involves the integration of instruction and assessment in a dialectical way to achieve two main purposes: enhancing learners' development and understanding about their learning potential. however, the feasibility and appropriateness of mediation are two main concerns of da. the former is concerned with the applica...

Introduction It is an undisputed fact that the abolition of primary school fees has led to vast enrollment gains in several countries. After fees were abolished in Malawi in 1994 and in Uganda in 1997, enrollment in both countries grew by 68 percent (Avenstrup, Liang & Nellemann, 2004). Lesotho’s graduated abolition of fees, beginning in 2000, led to a Grade 1 enrollment increase of 75 percent,...

CTER OnLine is a master of education program developed in 1998 at the College of Education, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, aimed at precollege teachers interested in issues concerning curriculum, technology, and education reform. The first set of 26 students graduated in May 2000. This paper presents an evaluation of CTER OnLine over its first two years, describing the initial stakeh...

This paper presents the need for specific curricula in order to address the training of specialists in the area of Interactive Critical Systems. Indeed, while curricula are usually built in order to produce specialists in one discipline (e.g. computer science) dealing with systems or products requires training in multiple disciplines. The area of Interactive Critical Systems requires deep knowl...

Malpighi was born in 1628 in Crevalcore, Bologna, Italy, and he was baptized 10 March of that year. His parents were Maria Cremonini and Marcantonio Malpighi. He entered the University of Bologna [5] in Bologna in 1646, and his tutor Francesco Natali encouraged him to study medicine, which he began in 1649. While in medical school he was one of only a few students permitted to attend vivisectio...

Copyright is held by the author/owner(s). Workshop on designing the future of mobile healthcare support MobileHCI, September 23 -26, 2014, Toronto, Canada. Abstract One of the challenges when designing an electronic health record is the generational difference between general practitioners (GPs), which is especially noticeable when working with mobile devices. We discuss a paradigm shift we dis...

Research in nanoscience and nanotechnology has grown rapidly in recent years and has provided numerous scientific and technological breakthroughs. The field has also, in some sense, changed the way in which a research topic can be tackled, unconstrained by traditional scientific disciplines. However, what effect have the developments in research had on the curriculum being taught in universitie...

The aim of this article is to describe the development and implementation of a case completion curriculum as a new clinical education model for the predoctoral program at Harvard School of Dental Medicine. In this innovative model, students conduct patient-based comprehensive care and complete assigned patient cases on which their performance is assessed, in contrast with a traditional model ba...