Feedback is considered to be the bridge between what has been learned and what the student should know. Feedback can correct misconceptions, motivate learners, stimulate deep thinking, and guide future behavior. However, in the online environment instructors must rely upon technologies to deliver feedback to students. To better understand the prompts and processes for online delivery of feedbac...

• We created learning interactions with white instructors and black or white learners. • Instructors’ implicit bias predicted black, but not white, learner test performance. • This effect was mediated by coder-rated instructor anxiety and lesson quality. • New participants watched video of the cross-race lessons to test lesson quality. • Instructors’ implicit bias also predicted test performanc...

Utilization of adjunct nursing instructors to teach clinical courses is common in nursing programs. The purpose of this study was to examine the outcomes of a faculty development workshop on clinical evaluation for adjunct instructors. The results indicated instructors valued using a student-oriented learning outline, gained knowledge about assessment, and indicated they would engage in activit...

Abstract The role of internet technology in higher education and particularly teaching English as a Foreign language is increasingly prominent because the interest ways which can be applied to support students. automated evaluation scoring system typical demonstration application network writing. Many writing platforms have been developed used China, provide online instant corrective feedback o...

Burnout is an issue to be taken seriously in the workplaces where human interaction is salient and very important. The aim of the research is to investigate burnout among the instructors working at ESOGU preparatory school and find out what factors affect their levels of burnout. 28 instructors working in this institution participated in the study. The results of the study showed that the only ...

from Bruneau et al. Needle exchange programs (NEPs) are designed to prevent human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) transmission among injection drug users. Although most studies report beneficial effects in terms of behavior modification, a direct assessment of the effectiveness of NEPs in preventing HIV infection has been lacking. A cohort study was conducted to assess the association between risk...

The present study examines the achievement goals of university instructors, particularly the structure of such goals, and their relationship to biographic characteristics, other aspects of instructors' motivation, and teaching quality. Two hundred and fifty-one university instructors (184 without Ph.D., 97 with Ph.D., thereof 51 full professors; 146 males, 92 females) answered a questionnaire m...

In this study, we used a case study approach to obtain an in-depth understanding of the change process of two university instructors who were involved with redesigning a biology course. Given the hesitancy of many biology instructors to adopt evidence-based, learner-centered teaching methods, there is a critical need to understand how biology instructors transition from teacher-centered (i.e., ...

This paper presents a system that controls the behavior of a mobile robot. The system is based on situation calculus, the initial state is described and a goal is given, Prolog produces an answer to this goal and we use an interface in Visual Basic to interpret the answer given by it. After of interpreting the given actions in response we send commands to the mobile robot through a serial port ...