One area of study that has been gathering enthusiastic attention and interest is mathematical knowledge for teaching (MKT). How to research MKT, however, is still unsettled despite the plethora of unexamined areas of practice. As one of ways to unearth and measure MKT, this study uses interview prompts designed to providing written feedback, as a target area of practice. This study specifies in...

International comparison studies indicate that Chinese students outperform many of their peers in mathematics tests and competitions. Since teaching is a major determinant in students’ learning gains, it is reasonable to hypothesize that this learning gap is associated with their teachers. The development of teaching expertise has not received sufficient attention in research investigations in ...

This Research Topic sought to advance psychological understanding of expertise by drawing together lines of research from many different domains of expertise. The outcome is a collection of 35 articles in such diverse areas as chess, music, perception, teaching, intensive-care diagnosis, video-games, sports, dance, mathematics, climbing, and fingerprint analysis. The articles can be classed int...

This paper presents an approach and architecture for Dynamic Course Generation, based on applying AI planning techniques to a structured representation of the domain knowledge and allowing explicit representation of teaching expertise. An individual course is generated automatically for a given teaching goal and is dynamically adapted at run time to the student's individual progress and prefere...

the present paper seeks to investigate the cognitive abilities of expert efl teachers. to this aim, the existing literature was examined and ten cognitive themes were derived which were further investigated through interviews conducted with ten academics, teacher trainers and exemplary teachers of the field in the iranian context. the ten extracted themes were attested by interviewees’ comments...

BACKGROUND The objective of this study was to construct a framework of core competency indicators of medical doctors who teach in the clinical setting in Taiwan and to evaluate the relative importance of the indicators among these clinical teachers. METHODS The preliminary framework of the indicators was developed from an in-depth interview conducted with 12 clinical teachers who had previous...