Das DT kommt der Mensch-Computer-Interaktion (MCI) in der Ausbildung zugute, weil die im DT verwendeten Arbeitsweisen für gute Interaktionsdesigner grundlegend sind, meist aber nur an Design Fachbereichen gelehrt werden. Dabei wird insbesondere von dem selbst erarbeiteten praktischen Verständnis von Kontext, Benutzer und Problemstellung profitiert und der daraus resultierenden konsequenten Nutz...

Of the many dilemmas facing the assessment of literary competence, one is the extent to which language should constitute part of the target construct intended to be measured. Some argue for the construct-irrelevance of language and hence recommend that it be eliminated or minimized in favor of an exclusive focus on literary competence. In practice, this does not seem to be the case, as language...

At some point, language teachers need to be engaged in assessment their profession. Because is such a primary task for teachers, the field of testing encouraging research around knowledge, skills, and principles that are foundational sound assessment. In this paper, I provide definition Language Assessment Literacy (LAL), especially when it comes by reviewing existing models. then discuss ongoi...

We introduce a dual-use methodology for automating the maintenance and growth of two types of knowledge sources, which are crucial for natural language text understanding — background knowledge of the underlying domain and linguistic knowledge about the lexicon and the grammar of the underlying natural language. A particularity of this approach is that learning occurs simultaneously with the on...

Purpose – This paper sets out to present the concept of the value of information, review the descriptive, rational, social and behavioral approaches for assessing the value of information, and explain why user-centered rather than information-centered evaluations are the most relevant. Design/methodology/approach – The paper starts by highlighting the main facets and market characteristics whic...

This descriptive study was conducted to identify the factors affecting problematic internet usage and socialization level among hearing-impaired adolescents. The has been done with one hundred twenty six (97 males 29 females) students, aged between 14 21. data were collected using Turkish Sign Language, by researcher who received Language Interpretation Training. ‘The Problematic Internet Usage...

In the U.S., where the prevalence of type 2 diabetes has reached epidemic proportions, many patients with this disease are treated by primary care physicians in community-based systems, including accountable care organisations (ACOs). To address gaps in the quality of diabetes care, national quality measures have been established, including patient-centered measures adopted by the Centers for M...

Alternative assessment approaches received considerable attention soon after a discontent with traditional, one-shot testing. These approaches, however, have been used only to improve learners’ linguistic ability despite communicative models of language which pointed that knowledge of language also involves pragmatic ability (Bachman, 1990; Bachman & Palmer, 1996). The present study tries to ex...