This paper examines mastery motivation in infants from birth to 3 years of age and outlines critical areas for parent and teacher involvement in the development of motivation, including recommended activities at each level. It asserts that from birth, children have an innate desire to learn about their world, quickly learning that they can control various elements within the environment and str...

A standing question in the field of Intelligent Tutoring Systems and User Modeling in general is what is the appropriate level of model granularity (how many skills to model) and how is that granularity derived? In this paper we will explore varying levels of skill generality within 8 grade mathematics using models containing 1, 5, 39 and 106 skills. We will measure the accuracy of these models...

Learner modeling, a challenging and complex endeavor, is an important and oft-studied research theme in computer-supported education. From this perspective, Educational Data Mining (EDM) research has focused on modeling and comprehending various dimensions of learning in computer based learning environments (CBLE). Researchers and designers are actively attempting to improve learning systems by...

Sociocultural theory (SCT) is a powerful basis for exploring and guiding L2 (second/foreign language) learner development. For the most part, however, focus of classroom SCT-L2 has been on single activities, example, teacher mediation learners’ writing process or peer scaffolding. In this paper, we expand these studies, building Vygotsky’s (1997) metaphor as creator We propose how activities (1...

Biology is becoming more quantitative. If we are to support the future of quantitative biology, then next generation biologists must be prepared consistently integrate reasoning into subject matter that has traditionally been considered through a qualitative lens. We introduce framework and discuss importance modeling in biology. The includes Quantitative Act as for Modeling Interpretation. QM ...

In recent years, there has been an increasing amount of literature on genre-based approaches to writing instruction. However, scant attention has been paid to the use of genre-based scaffolding in the realm of academic writing. Hence, in an attempt to tackle the problems prevalent in academic writing, this study set out to investigate the effect of genre-based scaffolding through sentence start...

t v a a m u e t he concept behind mentoring has existed since as early as ancient Greece, when Odysseus placed is friend Mentor in charge of his son elemachus while he went off to fight n the Trojan War in the late 12th entury BC. Obviously, we’ve come a ong way since the days of Homer’s Odssey, but only recently have technologcal advances allowed for changes in he way mentoring is conducted, r...