Providing students in urban settings with quality teachers is important for student achievement. This study examined the differences in content knowledge, attitudes toward mathematics, and teacher efficacy among several different types of alternatively certified teachers in a sample from the New York City Teaching Fellows program in order to determine teacher quality. Findings revealed that hig...

We introduce the concept of Procedural Content Generation via Knowledge Transformation (PCG-KT), a new lens and framework for characterizing PCG methods approaches in which content generation is enabled by process knowledge transformation -- transforming derived from one domain order to apply it another. Our work motivated substantial number recent works that focus on generating novel repurposi...

the purpose of this study was to review and compare the views of two experts in the field of basic teaching knowledge and teachers knowledge, lee shulman and gary fenstermacher. shulman forms of teaching knowledge include: propositional knowledge (subject), strategic knowledge and strategic knowledge. shulman basic knowledge of teaching and teachers knowledge, including classes, such as: conten...

A recurring problem when teaching Business Process Orientation (BPO) is the difficulty students have connecting conceptual knowledge and procedural knowledge. Literature suggests that one solution is to combine different forms of learning, such as hand-on exposure to enterprise resource planning (ERP) together with traditional teaching. This article presents a three step teaching case designed ...

Current e-learning systems are focused on the transfer of static knowledge (definitions, descriptions, explanations, theories etc.), to the detriment of supporting the internalization of procedural knowledge, scenarios, and problem solving practices and to enabling students to construct heuristics. The fixed multimedia pages, used in learning management systems like WebCT, are not the most suit...

The Model Driven Architecture (MDA) separates the system business aspects from the system implementation aspects on a specific technology platform. MDA proposes a software development process in which the key notions are models and model transformation, where the input models are platform independent and the output models are platform specific and can be transformed into a format that is execut...

OBJECTIVE Training teachers and education professionals on diabetes is crucial for full-time monitoring of diabetic children in schools. The objective of this study was to assess the knowledge on diabetes in a group of school teachers in Turkey. METHODS Between November 2010 and November 2011, 1054 teachers from three regions of Ankara were given a questionnaire to assess their knowledge on d...