TIMSS collects a vast amount of information aimed to provide a context to better understand education systems around the globe. This paper discusses how this background information can be reported using three real examples from the 1999 assessment. These examples illustrate the main concepts and steps involved in reporting background data, while presenting methods and statistical techniques tha...

The overall aim of the study has been to gain knowledge about computer games used in an educational context. In our research we have analyzed and interpreted the game`s characteristic interactive dramaturgy exposed in the interplay between the game and the gamer and integrated in the medium itself. We have looked specifically at the challenges that the educator faces in the didactic interaction...

Concern has arisen for the safety of children using the Internet to support their education outside the school context. Inappropriate material such as pornography, inflammatory and racist writings can be accessed both by accident and with deliberate intent to view. Children are also perceived to be at risk from approaches by strangers, particularly in web-based chat rooms. A survey of the inter...

This paper explores the development of educational technology research over last 50 years. is done by considering what has influenced this and are current trends. The issue further explored influence these trends have had on distance learning pedagogy, especially for education adults. Technology Enhanced Learning or (TEL) a relatively young area research. work technologists others involved in i...

this paper aims at considering formal documents of iranian philosophy of education in independent and comparative manners. the comparative review method was used to achieve this aim. finding of this research demonstrate that, these three documents are different in seven criteria. these seven criteria are: 1) philosophical coherency; 2) proportion with educational practices; 3) relating to islam...

Rule acquisition is one of the main purposes in the analysis of decision formal contexts. Up to now, there have existed several types of rules (e.g., the decision rules and the granular rules) in decision formal contexts. This study firstly proposes a new algorithm with less time complexity for deriving the non-redundant decision rules from a decision formal context. Then, we invesigate decisio...