Testing in school is usually done for purposes of assessment, to assign students grades (from tests in classrooms) or rank them in terms of abilities (in standardized tests). Yet tests can serve other purposes in educational settings that greatly improve performance; this chapter reviews 10 other benefits of testing. Retrieval practice occurring during tests can greatly enhance retention of the...

Software development is currently experiencing significant growth, and the need to improve user interfaces is an important factor. Given this situation, interface design patterns have emerged as a new means of improving the user experience. However, their use has not been adequately studied for use in specific domains such as education. For this reason, it is necessary to analyze design pattern...

Augmented Reality (AR) is a technology that has drawn the attention of educators in the recent years. The technology combines virtual worlds with the real environment, creating an immersive and interactive experience for the students and trainees. Several experimental works have shown that the use of AR for learning and training purposes provides good results. However, there is no common method...

Mathematical technology is a term referring to the interdisciplinary area combining applied mathematics, engineering and computer science. Computational technology has made sophisticated mathematical methods viable for practical applications. There is a window of opportunity for mutually beneficial two-way knowledge transfer between academia and industry. This also means a challenge for the uni...

Educational metadata are attracting increasing attention, since they can facilitate the description, indexing, searching and retrieving on-line learning objects and educational resources. This paper describes the difficulties raised in retrieving educational resources from the Web, and discusses the current state-of-theart in educational metadata technologies and the advantages of their use. Th...

Educational data mining is an emerging trend, concerned with developing methods for exploring the huge data that come from the educational system. This data is used to derive the knowledge which is useful in decision making. EDM methods are useful to measure the performance of students, assessment of students and study students’ behavior etc. In recent years, Educational data mining has proven ...

Data mining has wide and diverse applications. In this paper we attempt to examine data mining from an educational perspective. Inquiry learning is an educational approach most commonly used by educational practitioners. Based on technologies of knowledge discovery from data mining, we present a practical approach of an inquiry learning model that aids efficient learning. The approach may be us...