A scientifically approved psychological finding of gift is usually not available to all schools. In order to obtain an accurate and early detection of mathematically gifted children, an intelligent expert system MathGift is proposed to assist teachers in making decision about a child's gift in mathematics in the fourth grade of elementary school. Besides mathematical competencies, the system in...

This study describes the use of concept mapping in regard to teachers' views on the meaning of knowledge, learning, and expertise of teachers, as produced by SConSAT (Standardized Concept Structuring Analysis Task) interviews with expert and novice teachers. The study is based on the assumption that concept maps are cognitive and meta-cognitive tools that make it possible to reveal covert and o...

In the 1980s new methods and findings from cognitive psychology began to influence research on teaching. The emerging literature on commonalities in expertise across different fields seemed pertinent to educational researchers because it appeared to describe characteristics of effective teachers. So without much theory to guide them, a few scholars began to explore expertise in teaching and thi...

In the previous chapter, I reviewed three major theories of expertise and their delineation of the characteristics of experts across skills and disciplines. In this chapter, I shall examine the characteristics of novice and expert teachers that have been identified in the literature on teaching expertise and see to what extent they share the characteristics of novices and experts in other profe...

Large-scale environmental epidemiologic studies often rely on exposure estimates based on linkage to residential addresses. This approach, however, is limited by the lack of residential histories typically available for study participants. Our objective was to evaluate the feasibility of using address data from LexisNexis (a division of RELX, Inc., Dayton, Ohio), a commercially available credit...

The paper is devoted to the problem of development expert thinking students. urgency this issues in changes functional duties teachers secondary general educational organizations and need develop competence. axiological aspect professional consciousness common pedagogical activity. It expressed adoption moral values definition actions that ensure quality learning upbringing process. In a practi...

We present data from a teacher professional development intervention, a work circle where researchers (expert in the domain of spatial reasoning) and teachers (expert in teaching in a classroom) worked together to develop spatial tools, based on lab evidence, which could be used in actual classroom lessons. We found that, although spatial anxiety was not directly addressed during work circle ac...

The recognition of teacher status is very high and this is followed by a requirement of a high competence level that a teacher has to have that the existence of teachers has to gain a serious attention, including also the beginning of prospective teachers preparation. Ganesha University of Education (Undiksha) as one of public universities in Indonesia is given authority by the government to tr...