Our understanding of the nature of student ideas informs our instructional and research agendas. In this paper, I characterize student ideas in terms of five observable properties (determinacy, coherence, context-dependence, variability, and malleability) and describe how those observable properties correspond to the “misconceptions” and “pieces” models of student reasoning. I then analyze inst...

The success of any learning environment is determined by the degree to which there is adequate alignment among eight critical factors: 1) goals, 2) content, 3) instructional design, 4) learner tasks, 5) instructor roles, 6) student roles, 7) technological affordances, and 8) assessment. Evaluations of traditional, online, and blended approaches to higher education teaching indicate that the mos...

the aim of the current study was examine the effectiveness of  cognitive behavioral therapy on affective maturity and happiness in psychology student of azad university of bojnoutd.40 person were selecting by employing simple random sampling . they completed effective maturity scale (ems) for assessment of effective maturity and oxford happiness questionnaire for the assessment of happiness. an...

Students' perceptions of instructional quality are among the most important criteria for evaluating teaching effectiveness. The present study evaluates different latent variable modeling approaches (confirmatory factor analysis, exploratory structural equation modeling, and bifactor modeling), which are used to describe these individual perceptions with respect to their factor structure, measur...

Innovations to increase learning outcomes for STEM/ICT disciplines are urgently being sought. At the same time, enrollment increases of students with more varied skill backgrounds present new challenges. As enrollments increase, instructional tasks of faculty and GTAs also increase proportionally. Thus, an approach is sought to maintain and increase learning outcomes, while refocusing tasks of ...

Nowadays, in line with trends in language teaching that follow the use of student-centered teaching/testing activities, there is growing consensus that students differ in their multiple intelligences. Furthermore, self-efficacy is one of the determining factors of success for people almost in any context. Assuming that the multiple intelligences profiles in tandem with self-efficacy of teachers...

In this paper we apply natural language understanding and topic modeling methods to create an instructional tool for assessing science discourse in interactive multimedia presentations that are created, shared and discussed by students. The resulting assessment prototype will enable teachers to follow student discourse in real time, to understand gaps in student learning, and to improve teachin...

Computer-based adaptive teaching can enhance individual learning effectiveness. Several researches have defined the concepts of Intelligent Coaching Systems and adaptive teaching in the past. However, empirical findings are limited to anecdotal evidence guiding the design of these systems. A prototype system based on the idea of adaptive teaching is built in Knowledge Pro which monitors a learn...

Instructional objectives provide a student with a “blueprint” of what is considered important in a given course and create a common understanding between the teacher and student as to what information will be provided by the teacher as well as what is expected of the student. Thus, instructional objectives serve as the basis for a valid and purposeful evaluation of the instructional process and...