Time on task is an important predictor for how much students learn. However, students must be focused on their learning for the time invested to be productive. Unfortunately, students do not always try their hardest to solve problems presented by computer tutors. This paper explores student disengagement and proposes an approach, engagement tracing, for detecting whether a student is engaged in...

To find the current level of a student’s knowledge, we use a sequence of problems of increasing complexity; if a student can solve a problem, the system generates a more complex one; if a student cannot solve a problem, the system generates an easier one. To find a proper testing scheme, we must take into account that every time a student cannot solve a problem, he/she gets discouraged. To take...

A psychological archive of a university student is the basis for the psychological, ideological and moral education of a university, and the foundation for a student to develop his or her self-consciousness. In reality, there exist some unhealthy tendencies and practices that only attach importance to the serious psychological problems reflected in the psychological files and the simple corresp...

TERTIARY educators generally agree that student plagiarism is on the increase. Where disagreement occurs is over the cause. Recent commentaries, citing causes such as declining levels of honesty and intellectual integrity amongst students, the influence of post-modern relativism, and the Internet, miss the point. We argue that we must look more deeply at shifting societal and student attitudes ...

A N EFFECTIVE teacher is perhaps the most important factor in producing consistently high levels of student achievement. Thus the profession must see to it that teachers are continually learning throughout their careers, and that process begins with those newest to the profession. A new teacher induction program can acculturate those newcomers to the idea that professional learning must be a li...

O rienta tion fo r new members is one item on the agenda as Saint Mary s Board o f Regents meets today and tom orrow for the ir annual fall meeting. The hoard meets in fu ll tw ice a year, once each semester. The four new regents include this year's student regent, senior Sue Simonaitis. Having a student on the board each year is a requirement. The approval o f the College's new governance manu...