Teaching teachers about reflecting and ways of reflecting

the effect of efl teachers beliefs about teaching reading strategies on their students success and motivation in reading comprehension

previous studies regarding teachers’ beliefs have revealed that teachers’ beliefs have influence on their classroom practices. the current study aimed to investigate the effect of teachers’ beliefs about teaching reading strategies on students’ motivation and success in reading comprehension in the context of english teaching as a foreign language in high schools of mazandaran, iran. data were ...

Reflecting Critically On Our Efforts To Improve Teaching and Learning

Fuzzy Autoepistemic Logic: Reflecting about Knowledge of Truth Degrees

Autoepistemic logic is one of the principal formalisms for nonmonotonic reasoning. It extends propositional logic by offering the ability to reason about an agent’s (lack of) knowledge or beliefs. Moreover, it is well known to generalize the stable model semantics of answer set programming. Fuzzy logics on the other hand are multi-valued logics, which allow to model the intensity with which a p...

Reflecting with Standards - Novice Views on Teaching Practice

The purpose of this pilot study is to validate the effectiveness of embedding teaching standards in reflection prompts. Does this approach improve the quantity and depth of reflection commentary for novice pre-service teachers? What must be in place to ensure that novice teachers are effectively internalizing the teaching standards? These questions are paramount in the design of a webbased, ele...

Reflecting Uncertainty about Economic Theory when Estimating Consumer Demand

Economic theory provides a great deal of information about demand models. Specifically, theory can dictate many relationships that expenditure and price elasticities should fulfill. Unfortunately, analysts cannot be certain whether these relationships will hold exactly. Many analysts perform hypothesis tests to determine if the theory is correct. If the theory is accepted then the relationships...