Abstract Acquiring complex oral presentation skills is cognitively demanding for students and demands intensive teacher guidance. The aim of this study was twofold: (a) to identify apply design guidelines in developing an effective formative assessment method during classroom practice, (b) develop compare two analytic rubric formats as part that method. Participants were first-year secondary sc...

Caroline Drury has qualifications in arts, linguistics and information technology. She is currently based at the University of Southern Queensland, Australia and is Senior Technical Officer on the RUBRIC Project – a Department of Education, Science and Training (DEST) initiative to encourage the use of institutional repository systems in small and regional universities in Australia and New Zeal...

Value to Marketing Educators As marketing courses often involve projects and those are usually done in groups, the intersection of creativity with social processes is fortunate. Professors can readily create an active learning environment wherein groups encourage creative collaboration through divergent thinking. The incorporation of these group sessions into regular courses, even if done as se...

Topological logics are formal systems for representing and manipulating information about the topological relationships between objects in space. Over the past two decades, these logics have been the subject of intensive research in Artificial Intelligence, under the general rubric of Qualitative Spatial Reasoning. This chapter sets out the mathematical foundations of topological logics, and su...