Several researchers stress the fact that students focus their learning according to the content in the assessment and to how this is carried out. Assessment in this particular study is not in a “usual” formal situation. Instead it refers to assessment which can be found in the interaction between teacher and pupil during hands-on work in mathematics. The analytical tools are derived from resear...

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Metamaterials have become one of the hottest fields of photonics since the pioneering work of John Pendry on negative refractive index, invisibility cloaking, and perfect lensing. For practical applications, three-dimensional metamaterials are required. Here, coupling effects between individual constituents play a dominant role for the optical and electronic properties. Metamaterials can offer ...

In order to improve science education in the formative grammar school years, we combined the principles of constructivist teaching with the natural curiosity of the students in an engineering-based curriculum. This curriculum allows the students to take apart and discover for themselves how various objects work. By capitalizing on the natural curiosity of the students, and by emphasizing group,...

This paper summarizes the findings of a five-year study aimed at improving the retention rates of female students pursuing careers in engineering. The study analyzed a series of programs implemented at the University of Toledo. The programs involve hands-on design projects, research experiences, communication tools geared towards females, mentoring programs, and on-the-job rotations aimed at sp...

This paper presents the design of the visualisation and interaction in Topolor 2, an online learning system that supports social e-learning using adaptation and personalisation techniques. The main goal of this study is to investigate if and how the visualisation and interaction design based on selfdetermination theory (SDT) can improve the learning experience and learning efficiency. The goal ...

Process mining is an emerging technology in the context of Business Process Management with the goal to derive process models from observed system behavior. The global goals are: to detect previously unknown process structures, to implement consistent process controlling which may involve computation of realistic cycle times and frequency of occurrence of process pathways, or to quantify the co...

This paper presents a Collaborative Project Based Learning model using Tablet PCs to enhance the design components in engineering classroom instruction. The core of our proposed model is to incorporate small in-class Tablet PC-based collaborative design projects to reinforce theory with design examples and to guide students through the design process. This PBL model has been implementation in t...

This study examined the code-switching patterns in the speech of immigrant Spanish-speaking children. Sevenand 10-year-old boys and girls from bilingual classrooms were each paired with a mutually selected friend, and their speech was collected in two contexts: while the children waited for an expected science experiment and when they worked together to follow an instruction worksheet about han...