Multiple conceptualizations of the interrelation between assessment and learning yield three notions of assessment: assessment of learning, assessment for learning, and assessment as learning. This paper aims at uncovering roles and obstacles of assessment for learning and assessment as learning in English language classrooms in Hong Kong. Grounded upon the theory of constructivism and the noti...

The Business-oriented Constraint Language (BCL) is proposed as a means of annotating diagrams in UML. BCL is grounded in the Object Constraint Language (OCL) but is designed particularly to address the needs of people who are concerned with enterprise application integration (EAI), although it may be more widely applicable. EAI often requires a loosely coupled event-based architecture in which ...

Goal-oriented and agent-oriented modelling provides an effective approach to the understanding of distributed information systems that need to operate in open, heterogeneous and evolving environments. Frameworks, firstly introduced more than ten years ago, have been extended along language variants, analysis methods and CASE tools, posing language semantics and tool interoperability issues. Amo...

In object –oriented development the Unified Modeling Language (UML) is the ISO/IEC standard for modeling language. In relational database development, entity-relationship models have traditionally been use for modeling such systems. Transforming from one notation to another notation is of great importance, prior assessment has been carried out on transforming UML class diagram models to object-...

The requirements of modern advanced driver assistance systems (ADAS) imply not only technical challenges but also create the need of a human centered development approach, which is necessary to create a unique and useful assistance. A human centered approach itself has high requirements for the technical systems in use, flexible functional development is necessary, features and concepts change ...

Implementations of language oriented programming (LOP) are typically either language workbenches, which facilitate the development of external domain speci c languages (DSLs) with projectional editors, or host languages for internal DSLs that are parsed. In this work, we present Cedalio a novel approach to LOP, along with a prototyped programming language and workbench implementing our approach...

Alternative assessments have evolved from an epistemological change in education. They see assessment and instruction as two sides on the same coin which go hand in hand. The traditional roles of both teachers and learners are, consequently, modified which is essential for better language development. In this line, the present study aimed at comparing the effects of portfolio and journal writin...

Researchers have historically noted the importance of Dynamic Assessment and its effect on students’ language learning. DA offers teachers and learners vast opportunities for language teaching and learning. The present article can be considered as part of the recent trend in the field of language teaching. It attempts to describe Dynamic Assessment and review the literature on the effect of DA ...