This chapter describes an educational system with a tele‐operated android robot, named SAYA, that can express human‐like facial expressions and perform some communicative functions with its head and eye movements, and it is utilized as a role of a teacher. Two kinds of field experiments were conducted to investigate effectiveness of this educational system in ...

We tend to measure educational performance by students’ attainment in course work or examinations. In the case of professional education, the impact of the educational programme on the students’ own capacities to enhance their work practices, and the wider organizational effects of the students’ education and training, are also key ‘products’ of the educational process. This is particularly imp...

OBJECTIVE The aim of this study was to assess whether balanced educational supervision was being provided for occupational medicine (OM) specialist registrars (SpRs) in the Armed Forces and to consider the effectiveness of current supervision. METHODS Anonymized postal questionnaires, using Likert five-point response scales, were sent to Service OM SpRs and their educational supervisors (Ed S...

Citation: Totsika V, Mandair S and Lindsay G (2017) Comparing the Effectiveness of Evidence-Based Parenting Programs on Families of children with and without Special Educational Needs: Short-term and Long-term Gains. Front. Educ. 2:7. doi: 10.3389/feduc.2017.00007 comparing the effectiveness of evidence-Based Parenting Programs on Families of children with and without special educational needs:...

The Community Preventive Services Task Force recommends early childhood education programs based on strong evidence of effectiveness in improving educational outcomes associated with long-term health and sufficient evidence of effectiveness in improving social- and health-related outcomes. When provided to low-income or racial and ethnic minority communities, early childhood education programs ...

This study presents a comprehensive picture of educational governance in California and describes how that structure affects decision making. The questions it explores include: 1. What analytic framework can help policymakers to better understand California’s complex education governance system? 2. Are there specific indicators of effectiveness that can be used to evaluate the governance system...

We describe preliminary research on devising intelligent agents that can improve the educational effectiveness of collaborative, educational computer games. We illustrate how these agents can overcome some of the shortcomings of educational games by explicitly monitoring how students interact with the games, by modeling both the students’ cognitive and emotional states, and by generating calibr...

The purpose of this study is to analyze the impact of organizational stress, knowledge management, and organizational change on organizational effectiveness. A valid questionnaire was distributed to administrative staff and faculty members of different educational institutes. 100 questionnaires were distributed in public and private educational sectors. 75 complete questionnaires were received ...

We describe preliminary research on devising intelligent agents that can improve the educational effectiveness of collaborative, educational computer games. We illustrate how these agents can overcome some of the shortcomings of educational games by explicitly monitoring how students interact with the games, by modeling both the students’ cognitive and emotional states, and by generating calibr...