Explores the extent to which computer-assisted teaching facilitates the learning of basic mathematical concepts and skills in children with Down Syndrome (DS). Two groups of DS children were trained in the teaching of counting and cardinality abilities and concepts on the same material. One, taught by using mathematical multimedia software, the other learned using pencil-paper-based tasks. Both...

In 1997 the Ministry of Education launched a Programme for the Development of Educational Technologies (PSTD) having as its main stated goals: the provision of infrastructures to schools (PCs, internet connections, etc.); the improvement of teachers’ professional skills in using ICT; the improvement of effectiveness of learning and teaching methods and content; and the promotion of the use of I...

Many people reason poorly, by almost any measure of reasoning. Although there is evidence that people can be taught to think critically, educators don’t really know how. They don’t know what works, what doesn’t, or why. This report describes the Monash Critical Thinking Study – a three year project to investigate the effectiveness of a number of teaching methods for improving critical thinking....

This paper provides a brief overview of an implicit training method used for teaching autonomous agents to represent humans in 3D Virtual Worlds without any explicit training efforts being required.

A hierarchical framework is proposed to address the issues of modeling different type of words in keyword spotting (KWS). Keyword models are built at various levels according to the availability of training set resources for each individual word. The proposed approach improves the performance of KWS even when no training speech is available for the keywords. It also suggests an easier way to co...

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introduction: the conventional method of teaching endodontics has some drawbacks. due to the small size of the oral cavity, students cannot closely observe the clinical procedure. use of new teaching modalities such as the intraoral camera may obviate this problem. this study assessed the effect of video-assisted clinical instruction in dentistry (vacid) on dental student’s knowledge and perfor...

remedial teaching methods pdf The curriculum of remedial teaching was for children to like learning English.Community College Research Center, Teachers College, Columbia University. remedial teaching in english pdf Remedial or developmental courses are the most common policy instruments.students, the lack of prior knowledge is too large and remedial teaching before entering a programme is neces...