As a part of a larger-scale research, the present study aimed to use the main tenets of sociocultural perspective; namely, mediation, internalization, zone of proximal development, and the activity theory, to analyze the novice and expert teachers’ professional development through personal practical theorizing as an awareness raising technique. Furthermore, the study attempted to identify the c...

Few beginners find learning to program easy. There are many factors at work in this phenomenon with some being simply inherent in the subject itself, while others have more to do with deficiencies in learning methods and resources. As a result, many programming environments, software applications, and learning tools have been developed to address the difficulties faced by novice programmers. Of...

Due to the large volume of data that spreadsheets can store, finding meaningful information can be a difficult task. Existing tools can be quite complex and difficult to master, especially for novice spreadsheet users. In the past Natural Language Interfaces have been used to improve the efficiency of using similar tools. This work aims to look at the use of a Natural Language Interface to prov...

We have explored educational methods for algorithmic thinking for novices and implemented a block programming editor and a simple learning management system. In this paper, we propose a program/algorithm complexity metric specified for novice learners. This metric is based on the variable usage in arithmetic and relational formulas in learner’s algorithms. To evaluate the applicability of this ...

Keyboarding skill is an important target for adult education programs due to the ubiquity of computers in modern work environments. A previous study showed that novice typists learned key locations quickly but that fluency took a relatively long time to develop. In the present study, novice typists achieved fluent performance in nearly half the time when words rather than jumbled characters wer...

A Virtual reality environment with hypermedia was designed to help undergraduates understand the structure and functioning of a turning lathe. Study 1 was carried out with 30 novice students and Study 2 involved 24 students attending a machining course. These studies demonstrated that the virtual lathe can foster the comprehension of some core machining concepts. Further, the studies suggest th...

Analysis of results of design protocols of novice and expert designers, although based on a limited number of designers, has shown that there are differences in the balance of cognitive actions between them. In this paper, we investigate the possible reasons for this imbalance in cognitive activity between the novice and expert designers in the rate of information processing driven by their rel...

the translator’s multilateral role as auser and processor of the source text as well as the producer of the targettext in today’s multi-cultural and multilingual communications has always drawnresearchers’ attention to examining translators’ actions and behavior includingthe translation process of  novicetranslators this study, outlined in the framework of descriptive translationstudies (dts), ...

Patterns are widely used in several domains and are rapidly growing in numbers as an effective way of communicating knowledge between designers (Erickson, 2000). Currently, there are hundreds of HCI (human-computer interaction) patterns that are published in books and on the Internet (HCI Patterns, 2003). The sheer number of HCI patterns and the lack of a delivery system can confuse and overwhe...