Acknowledgments It is my pleasure to thank Prof. Klaus Obermayer for an excellent supervision with numerous discussions and fruitful suggestions. I would also like to thank Matthias Burger, who was my collaborator in the work on which Chapter 4 and Chapter 5 are based. Both Matthias Burger and Ralf Herbrich proofread the manuscript and provided moral support. Also, I am indebted to Prof. Eckeha...

This paper describes a threshold concept-driven e-assessment system that supports teachers in writing effective formative multiple-choice questions, creating quizzes tailored to students’ learning pathways. The system, which has been co-designed with teachers, acts as the ‘bun’ on either side of an ‘eassessment burger’ pedagogically scaffolding quiz creation (the top of the bun), integrating th...

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At Eurospeech 97 we presented a perception experiment on identifying regional variants of High German from digit strings in telephone speech (Draxler, Burger 1997). This experiment has been modified as follows: i) use of high quality speech recordings from the RVG1 (Burger, Schiel, 1998) corpus instead of SpeechDat telephone speech, ii) a geographically precise dialect determination of the spea...

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