This study examined the reciprocal relationship between students’ perceptions of science learning environment, measured through promoting choice, interaction and mutual respect, teacher feedback, achievement goals mastery-approach performance-approach goals. A total 407 sixth eighth grade students participated in study. Canonical analysis showed that perceived environment variables approach goa...

The capability of estimating emotions is an important feature needed for intelligent systems to interact with humans. . In this paper, we propose a computational model to calculate a user’s desirability as one of the most important emotions, especially in Intelligent Tutoring Systems (ITS). The main purpose of this research is to find a relationship between personality and desirability in virtu...

Objective Self-awareness Theory (Duval & Wicklund, 1972) proposes that self-evaluation increases an individual’s awareness of any discrepancy between their current performance and an internal goal. In the current study we prompted self-evaluation throughout an intelligence test (Analysis-Synthesis Test – AST) using confidence ratings (CR). AST performance, the extent to which participants incid...

This research examined whether the tendency for girls to outperform boys in the classroom is due to differences in how girls and boys approach schoolwork. In 5th grade and then again in 7th grade, children (N=518) reported on how they approach schoolwork (i.e., achievement goals and classroom behavior), their learning strategies, and their self-efficacy in math; math grades and achievement test...

This paper presents the results of a six-week unit on seismology conducted in a fifth-grade classroom. The unique feature of the unit involved the use of classroom technology designed to support students' participation in an authentic seismological practice: the interpretation of seismograms to determine the epicenter and magnitude of earthquakes. The goals of the empirical study were (1) to ga...

A course generator provides personalized learning experiences by assembling structured sequences of learning objects that help learners to achieve their learning goals. They can be stored in a multitude of repositories and are selected by the course generator based on a set of pedagogical methods that take into account the learners’ goals and individual properties such as mastery. This pedagogi...

Value orientations play an important role in secondary physical education curriculum decision making by influencing the teacher's curriculum content priorities relative to student needs and interests, school context, and subject matter goals. Five value orientations mediating curricular decisions in middle and high school settings have been identified as disciplinary mastery, learning process, ...

An activities specialist, an instructional technologist, and an occupational therapist developed a videotape program for hospitalized adolescents. The goals of the program were to provide clients with an opportunity to use the videotape medium creatively, to promote communication between staff and clients, and to facilitate each client's mastery of some aspect of the health care experience. The...

We assert that tools for understanding and transforming legacy business applications should be built around logical data models, rather than the structure of source code artifacts or control flow. In this position paper, we argue that data centered tools are beneficial for a variety of frequently-occurring code understanding and transformation scenarios for legacy business applications, and out...