The practice of book reviews unfortunately has very few roots as yet in Portuguese academic circles. There have been many important works that have had no critical reviews at all. The realization that my recent book on Dom José was afforded a critical analysis less than a year after its publication, and what is more in a review written by António Hespanha, to whom I am connected by so many ties...

The Pram6na-vdrttika (hereafter PV) was the most extensive and ambitious work on epistemology to be written by Dharmakirti (ft. 7th centurY C.E.). It is a verse work divided into four chapters, to only one of which did the author write his own commentarY (svavrtti) in prose. The subject matter of the Pram~na-v~rttika-svavrtti (hereafter PVSV) is the process of drawing inferences (anum~na) for o...

Teacher: Can you solve this problem? (Gives student paper with 4 – 1 8 written at the top.) Student: (Writes 3 8 as answer). Three-eighths. I subtracted 1 from 4, and then kept the denominator, 8, the same. Teacher: Suppose you had four large brownies and you ate one eighth of one brownie. How many brownies would you have left? Student: (Pauses, then draws four rectangles, partitions one of the...

We present the first system developed for automated grading of high school essays written in Swedish. The system uses standard text quality indicators and is able to compare vocabulary and grammar to large reference corpora of blog posts and newspaper articles. The system is evaluated on a corpus of 1 702 essays, each graded independently by the student’s own teacher and also in a blind re-grad...

numerous and varied but which usually combine those of school psychologist, social worker and any other which may arise. The visiting teacher by the method of individual treatment offers an opportunity for the development of those phases of education which have been neglected. This book contains five case histories written from the point of view of the visiting teacher and they are good example...

This paper is about the millennial generation. Much has been written about the generation: their character; beliefs; motivations; values; and future potentialities. This literature has gained momentum as marketers, employers, and educators seek to understand the generation as they come of age and enter into positions of social responsibility. The purpose of this paper is to examine the claims m...

The growth of communication network technology enables people to take part in a distant lecture. We are developing a supporting system for a distant lecture named ACE (Automatic Camera control system for Education). The previous version of ACE captures the lecture focusing on the latest object written on a blackboard because a teacher frequently explains it. However, a teacher not always explai...

We developed AirTransNote, a computer-mediated classroom collaboration system. The system enables real-time note-sharing. AirTransNote manages notes written by students on paper and enables the teacher to browse through the notes or show them to the students. AirTransNote can analyze students’ answers, helping the teacher better understand their problems. The system is not meant to provide an a...