The purpose of the study was to investigate the effect of mediation on the development of a novice teacher and in turn the effect of transformation of the teacher on the behaviors and emotions of the learners using Vygotskian sociocultural view of learning. For this purpose, a novice teacher teaching the general English course at an Iranian university was selected. To develop an understanding o...

Computer-assisted language learning is by now so common around the world as to be something of a default, and the teaching of the indigenous languages of the Americas is already benefiting from the new technology. Intelligent computer-assisted language learning relies on software that has relatively sophisticated models of the target language and/or the learner. An example is the use of a progr...

As a new faculty member, I find it very clear what the senior faculty in my department think I should be doing with my time: the activities necessary to earn tenure. And if something doesn’t contribute to earning tenure, I shouldn’t be doing it. We have tenure criteria that are much more clear and explicit than many departments seem to have. In many respects, this is very positive. I know exact...

In this paper, we investigate a sensory-motor architecture allowing a robot to learn to recognize postures. The learning is performed without a teaching signal that associates a specific posture with the robot’s motor internal state. Our architecture assumes that the robot initially performs postures, then the human imitates them. An on-line learning scheme without an explicit reward or ad-hoc ...

This study investigated early intervention occupational therapists' use of strategies to teach caregivers. A sample of 40 videotapes made by early intervention occupational therapists was randomly selected from an archival videotape data set of provider home visits. The sample included 20 videotapes illustrating traditional services and 20 videotapes illustrating therapists providing participat...

Feedback is a type of formative assessment used to inform instruction and advance learning. Feedback serves as a mechanism to connect teaching and learning at the student level. Learners receive feedback, formally or informally, as they engage in learning experiences. Within the Leadership Institute for Teachers, a National Science Foundation funded research project, we are exploring feedback a...

Roles of variables [6] are a new concept that can be utilized, e.g., in teaching programming to novices. Roles represent programming knowledge on a higher level than simple programming language knowledge. Role knowledge has traditionally been tacit but it can be made explicit and thus help students to understand the ways variables are used in programs. Roles are easy to adopt in teaching, too: ...