Interactive White Boards’ Added Value in Special Education

Interactive Boards and their Function in Education

-In our accelerating world even education has become market-oriented. Learners have to acquire greater and greater amount of knowledge while the number of contact lessons, especially in higher education, become less and less. That is why giving particular information belonging to a certain topic should be raised – one method for this would be visualisation. This means that lectures would be str...

Iranian EFL Learners L2 Reading Comprehension: The Effect of Online Annotations via Interactive White Boards

This study explores the effect of online annotations via Interactive White Boards (IWBs) on reading comprehension of Iranian EFL learners. To this aim, 60 students from a language institute were selected as homogeneous based on their performance on Oxford Placement Test (2014).Then, they were randomly assigned to 3 experimental groups of 20, and subsequently exposed to the research treatment af...

Where is the Value in Value-Added Modeling? White Paper

Teacher heterogeneity , value added and education policy ∗

This study examines the theoretical and practical implications of ranking teachers with a one-dimensional metric when teacher effectiveness varies across subjects or student types. We document the empirical failure of standard value-added assumptions of teacher input homogeneity, but demonstrate that previously suggested teacher firing policies still improve student welfare, although they resul...

Value - Added Analysis and Education Policy

can provide valuable information for evaluating and compensating teachers. Education researchers have recently recognized that easily quantifiable characteristics— including postgraduate education, experience, college quality, certification, and even scores on standardized tests—do not capture much of the variation in the quality of instruction as measured by the contribution to learning. This ...