The main purpose of this study was to compare the strategies used by Chinesespeaking students when confronted with familiar versus unfamiliar topics in a multiplechoice format reading comprehension test. The focus was on describing what students do when they are taking reading comprehension tests by asking students to verbalize their thoughts. The strategies were further compared with participa...

Detection, prediction and mastery of complex situations are crucial to the competitiveness of networked businesses, the efficiency of internet of services and dynamic distributed infrastructures in manifold domains such as finance/banking, logistics, automotive, telecommunication, e-health and life sciences. Complex Event Processing (CEP) is an enabling technology to achieve actionable, situati...

In user studies, eye tracking is often used in combination with other recordings, such as think-aloud protocols. However, it is difficult to analyze the eye tracking data and transcribed recordings together because of missing data alignment and integration. We suggest the use of word-sized eye tracking visualizations to augment the transcript with important events that occurred concurrently to ...

e-Learning has become a platform for students to gain and expand their knowledge through mobile applications or web-based systems. Even though e-learning systems usually aim facilitate students' understanding of the subject, some fail convey underlying learning outcomes. These circumstances emerge as most methods tools attract engage in studies continuously. Therefore, overcome problem, Persuas...

the present study aims to investigate language learners’ cognitive processes in on-line esp courses. three modes of inquiry are used: think-aloud protocol analysis, screen capture analysis, and correlation analysis. the theoretical foundations for the evaluation of the cognitive aspect of ferdowsi univeristy of mashhad e-learning system are drawn from cognitive load theory, cognitive apprentice...

projects are encouraged to express freely their professional judgment. This paper, therefore, does not necessarily represent the positions or the policies of the Canadian government, and no official Almost every scholarly or scientific discipline is, in part, defined by the activities, including the methods and instruments, which systematically advance the teaching, research, and practice withi...

“Protocol analysis” or “think-alouds” or have been extensively employed in the fields of psychology and cognitive science as a verbal-report method of producing concurrent verbalization. Think-alouds require participants to tell researchers what they are thinking and doing while performing a task. The participants are usually instructed to keep thinking aloud, acting as if they are alone in the...

OBJECTIVES (1) To develop a prototype Continuity of Care Record (CCR) with context-specific links to electronic HIV information resources; and (2) to assess case managers' perceptions regarding the usability of the prototype. METHODS We integrated context-specific links to HIV case management information resources into a prototype CCR using the Infobutton Manager and Librarian Infobutton Tail...