A key debate in higher education is how assessment and feedback can be constructed to maximize opportunities for meaningful student learning. In this paper, we explore a learning-focused model of feedback, teacher-student dialogic feed-forward, enacted practice, exposing many affordances but also some challenges. Adopting small-scale intensive approach, trace the learning journeys four students...

This preface reviews the importance of and approaches for arriving at an assessment and evaluation of open source projects. It then proposes a solution based on an analysis of their growth rates in several aspects. These include: code base, developer number, bug reports, and downloads. Based on this analysis and assessment, a well-known portfolio planning method, the BCG matrix, is employed for...

Abstract Recent interest in teaching thinking has lead different researchers to examine different approaches in education to find effective methods and approaches for teaching thinking. Through a qualitative case analysis, this study attempted to identify the effects of the infusion model of teaching thinking implemented through a dialogic approach on a PhD candidate’s critical thinking skills....

The beneficial impacts of peer assessment to improve students’ writing have been frequently reported. While engagement in the process has highlighted as a critical factor enhance learning, few studies reported how engage students. Although interaction advocated let students participate it was found that previous only provided very limited opportunities for directly interact with each other. In ...

In this paper, we propose to arrive at an assessment and evaluation of open source projects based on an analysis of their growth rates in several aspects. These include code base, developer number, bug reports and downloads. Based on this analysis and assessment, a well-known portfolio planning method, the BCG matrix, is employed for arriving at a very broad classification of open source projec...

This preface reviews the importance of and approaches for arriving at an assessment and evaluation of open source projects. It then proposes a solution based on an analysis of their growth rates in several aspects. These include: code base, developer number, bug reports, and downloads. Based on this analysis and assessment, a well-known portfolio planning method, the BCG matrix, is employed for...

The present study investigated the effects of a special interactive dialogic reading method developed by Whitehurst et al. (1988) on deaf and hard-of-hearing children in Hong Kong. Twenty-eight deaf and hard-of-hearing children in kindergarten, first, or second grade were pretested on a receptive vocabulary test and assigned to one of three conditions, dialogic reading, typical reading, and con...

The students of the university of teacher education St.Gallen (PHSG, Switzerland) document aspects of their learning process affiliated with their first experiences in a practical training class during their first academic year linked with an E-Portfolio (Weblog). The first presented study reports findings (n= 129; questionnaire; Man Withney UTests; Wilcoxon Signed Rank Tests) concerning the at...

BACKGROUND The assessment of the anesthesia course in our university comprises Objective Structured Clinical Examinations (OSCEs), in conjunction with portfolio and multiple-choice questions (MCQ). The objective of this study was to evaluate the outcome of different forms of anesthesia course assessment among 5(th) year medical students in our university, as well as study the influence of gende...