Learner reflection has been found important and valuable, especially in cognitively intensive tasks, such as learning programming. This paper presents, K-Assess, a programming education system that facilitates student self-evaluation and promotes learner reflection. It is built on top of an existing conventional programming teaching system by adding a pragmatic knowledge layer. Our evaluations ...

ACTFL generic proficiency guidelines describe what learners are able to perform at various proficiency levels. These guidelines, in particular the oral proficiency guidelines (OPG), have been widely used to assess learners’ proficiency across institutions – via the oral proficiency interview (OPI) technique – irrespective of curriculum, teaching methods, and materials. Many institutions and org...

This article aims to identify the most efficient ways to teach and learn the professional competencies required in clinical psychology. There are a wide variety of influences on clinical psychology curricula that leads to a lack of coherence in aims and methods. When clinical psychology trainees come face-to-face with their first client, they are challenged to integrate their existing declarati...

Textbooks play a crucial role in English language teaching and learning. One of the methods for selecting the most appropriate textbook for a particular educational purpose is comparing two or several similar textbooks with each other. Textbook evaluation can provide useful information about the strengths and weaknesses of textbooks and can lead to the selection of the most suitable materials f...

The development of innovative strategies to teach key stereochemical concepts has been an ongoing, evolutionary process at our University. Initially, the ALCHEMY molecular modeling program was used to give demonstrations within the lecture hall setting. While successful, these demonstrations did not allow student active learning. Thus, a more interactive approach was sought. To this end, a tuto...

Communication has a role of heart in all kinds of educational interactions, with the popularization of computer technology for home and office use, teaching methods have changed communication styles from plain lectures to multimedia presentations. These new trends in education are in their infancy, online learning or E-learning, and are quickly becoming an important aspect of education in our f...